Jiang Xinyu sat in the car and stared in the direction of the city gate from a distance. Today, he took Sun Jie and a group of people to the east gate on the pretext of investigating a case.
An ox cart approached from far away, approaching the city gate guard.
The driver was a man in his forties, with a white towel wrapped around his head and a cigarette pouch on his waist, with an eye-catching red thread tied to the pipe rod.
"Stop, what are you doing?" A policeman stepped forward and blocked the way.
"Uu——"
The driver jumped out of the car, nodded and bowed and said, "The one who collects swill."
"Where are you from?"
"From Xinjiadian."
There was an oval-shaped swill bucket surrounded by iron sheets on the car, and there was still half a bucket of swill inside. The driver explained: "I collected some from a restaurant in the outer city."
Yanjin is bounded by the city wall and is divided into an inner city and an outer city. The Dagu Fort, Xiyingmen Ferry, and half of the Dagu District belong to the outer city.
The policeman turned around and said to his companion: "Bring me a stick!"
Nowadays, the black market business is booming, and the methods of concealing contraband are also various and strange.
This policeman once found a large bag of cigarettes in a dung truck. Having tasted the sweetness, he naturally refused to let go of any suspicious vehicles.
The policeman walked towards the bullock cart with a stick in his hand. No matter whether he had hidden contraband or not, he would still be hit with two sticks if he had dates or not.
Judging from his posture, he planned to stab the swill a few times with a stick.
Jiang Xinyu knew that it was his turn to take action. He was about to drive over, ready to find any reason to let the cart go.
At this moment, a police sergeant came over with his hands behind his back and said to the policeman: "What's wrong?"
The policeman bowed and said, "Oh, it's nothing. Let's check this swill truck."
The police chief said with a straight face: "What's the point of investigating the swill? Why don't you blind him? It will take time and let him go!"
The immediate superior had spoken, but the police did not dare to disobey and waved their hands for the bullock cart to pass.
Seeing that the sewage truck successfully passed the inspection, the expression on Jiang Xinyu's face became more solemn.
As soon as the car door rang, Sun Jie opened the door and got in, saying, "Captain, we have checked all the nearby hotels and found no suspicious persons."
Jiang Xinyu raised his wrist and glanced at his watch and said, "It's already noon, let's close the team."
Sun Jie agreed and was about to get off the car.
Jiang Xinyu stopped him and said, "It's too late to go back to the station to eat. You take them to find a restaurant nearby and have a bite."
Sun Jie said: "Aren't you going?"
Jiang Xinyu lit a cigarette, took a deep breath, then blew out a string of stacked smoke rings, and said: "I have something else to do, you go ahead... By the way, remember to ask for the receipt, and we will unify it at the end of the month.
to reimburse."
"I can't forget...Captain, you are a good smoke ring." Sun Jie said with a smile.
"What's the level?"
“A circle within a circle, a circle within a circle.”
"Thinking around each other..."
Jiang Xinyu repeated this sentence, with a big question mark already drawn in his heart.
Analyzing the behavior of the police chief just now, from a reverse thinking perspective, it was somewhat strange. It was a normal routine inspection. Why did he need to stop it?
…………
One week later.
evening.
Yanjin Girls' Middle School.
It was time for school to end now. Students were walking out of the school in groups, and Xu Li was among them carrying his briefcase.
"Teacher Xu, see you tomorrow." A female student said hello.
Xu Li smiled and said, "See you tomorrow."
A teacher pushed a bicycle and passed by Xu Li and said, "Teacher Xu, are you going to my house for a drink tonight?"
"Oh, no, I have to prepare lessons when I get back, let's wait another day." Xu Li said politely.
"Then it's agreed that I'll reward you some other time."
"sure."
Watching the teacher ride away, Xu Li walked towards the tram stop.
Jiang Xinyu sat in the car and looked around for a while. Although there were good reasons for the two to meet, it was best to try not to let acquaintances see it.
Jiang Xinyu drove past Xu Li and stopped about ten meters away. He stuck his head out of the car window and said, "Hello, Mr. Xu."
Xu Li took a few steps and came to Jiang Xinyu's car window and said, "Mr. Jiang, what a coincidence?"
He knew very well that if Jiang Xinyu suddenly came to see him, there must be something urgent.
"Oh, I'm going to do something in front of you, what are you..."
"I just got off work."
"Oh...yes, yes, look at my brain. I only know that you are a teacher. It turns out that you are a teacher at a girls' middle school."
"yes."
"where is your house?"
"Not far, two stops away."
"Get in the car, I'll just drop you off on the way."
Pedestrians were constantly passing by, and no one knew which one was the spy. There must be no flaws in the conversation between the two.
The car merged into the traffic flow and drove slowly along the street.
"What's so urgent?" Xu Li asked.
Jiang Xinyu held the steering wheel, glanced at the rearview mirror from time to time, and said: "The pharmaceutical factory plan must be stopped."
"What happened?"
"If my guess is correct, this plan has been exposed."
"Exposed?"
"On the 28th, the police sergeant on duty at the east gate was named Liu Cheng. The police originally wanted to inspect the swill truck, but Liu Cheng stopped him."
"This Liu Cheng..."
"I investigated secretly through my connections at the police station and found out that Zhou Junchen had gone to find him."
"Zhou Junchen... Director of the Confidential Office of Yanjin Station?"
"Yes, that's him."
Xu Li thought quickly and thought for a while before saying, "You mean to say that Zhou Junchen already knows about the explosives hidden in the swill truck?"
Jiang Xinyu nodded and said, "I think so."
"Then why didn't he arrest the people instead of letting the swill truck go?"
"I guess they want to catch them all in one go!"
"Oh, what did Cao Yunfei do? He was so careless..." Xu Li sighed sadly.
Jiang Xinyu said: "There are only two possibilities. One is that the comrade responsible for delivering the explosives was exposed on the way here, and the other is that there is a spy within the Dagu detachment!"
After a pause, Jiang Xinyu asked: "Where did the swill truck come from?"
"Xinjiadian, the comrade who drives the truck is from Xinjiadian, and the swill truck has also been waiting in Xinjiadian."
"Oh, so the explosives were sent from Huanggang to Xinjiadian."
"Yes, it's mainly for safety reasons. Otherwise, a swill truck coming from Huanggang not that far away would be too suspicious."
"Xinjiadian is very close to Yanjin, so it is unlikely that something will go wrong..." Jiang Xinyu said thoughtfully.
Xu Li frowned, thought for a long time, and said slowly: "According to your inference, there is a problem in the Dagu detachment... However, I heard that Bao Changyi is a very cautious person. For such an important matter,
How could it be leaked?"
Jiang Xinyu said: "We will talk about these things later. The most important thing is to solve the current problem first."