The trip to the farm led by Li Dongxue was more of a premeditated hunt than a police arrest.
They deliberately spread the news to lure Li Dongxue into taking the bait and kill him in a cruel way. Just because a month before that, he had just made meritorious service for anti-smuggling.
This behavior of the smuggling gang was undoubtedly a provocation to the police. The Jishan City Public Security Bureau set up a special task force to investigate the case. However, because there were too few clues, many traces were destroyed at the scene due to serial explosions. After three months of investigation, it was still impossible.
No results were found, and the case was eventually classified as unsolved.
Cui Yinghua started with her husband's sacrifice and then said that the subsequent investigation encountered resistance and the task force was disbanded. Although she did not participate in this process, she has been paying attention to it. Even if it became an unsolved case, she did not give up.
Over the years, she has been looking for clues about the smuggling gang, and was transferred to the Jishan City Public Security Bureau. During this period, she felt that she was close to them many times, but unfortunately she always lost track of them at the last step.
She didn't realize the problem until she escorted the suspect to escape. So after she got new clues, she didn't report it to her superiors or mention it to her colleagues, but embarked on the pursuit alone.
Cui Yinghua narrated without much fluctuation in her voice, as if she was telling someone else's story. But from the slightly red corners of her eyes, it could be seen that her heart was not peaceful.
She took the water Duanmo handed her, took a sip, and continued: "I used to think it was a smuggling gang operating in the Jishan area, but later I found out that it was not the case. There is a larger organization above this gang, or maybe it can
Call it a group."
"This organization is not only involved in smuggling, but also in many aspects. They only use the geographical location of Jishan. For them, smuggling may be like a business within the group company."
Although she had been to the city of Liancheng, she was not familiar with it, so the investigation progress was slow. It was precisely because of this that she had to seek help from Duan Mo and Lu Wuchuan.
Hearing this, Duanmo felt even more alarmed: "You mean, the core of this organization is in Liancheng?"
"At least one of the core." Cui Yinghua nodded, "As far as I know, Jishan is taking orders from someone or some people here."
She took out a notepad from the backpack she brought with her, turned to the last few pages, and began to talk about the clues she had found in the past few days since arriving in Liancheng.
During this process, Lu Wuchuan and Duan Mo listened carefully, occasionally asked a question or two, and would supplement some of the information they knew.
Duanmo took notes and took photos of the contents in Cui Yinghua's notepad.
The conversation lasted until past nine o'clock. Despite Duan Mo's repeated attempts to stay, Cui Yinghua still insisted on leaving. But she promised to keep in touch with them at least once every two days.
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After the investigation team was established, Lei Qiushi ran in both directions, and Zhang Minsheng simply moved to the special case team to work. Originally, Lu Wuchuan planned to get him a desk, but he didn't want it, so he directly placed his own office on the conference table.
It's called this table that's big enough to bounce around vigorously.
Zhang Minsheng graduated from the police academy three years ago and joined the Liancheng City Public Security Bureau. He is smart, studious, and knows how to advance and retreat.
Lei Qiushi found it pleasing to the eye and took it personally. After three years of training, Zhang Minsheng has become his most capable assistant, which is also the main reason why he arranged for him to come here.
With the addition of these two people, the case quickly made new progress.
A considerable part of the antique calligraphy and paintings that Baorui Ge earns and sells are worth far less than the transaction amount. An ordinary painting is only worth a few thousand yuan on the market, but it can be sold here for tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.
Even millions.
Fu Hongbin was not among those who had financial dealings with Baorui Pavilion, but Liu Xintao's name unexpectedly appeared.
In the past four years, she has entrusted Baorui Pavilion three times to sell two calligraphy and paintings and an inkstone.
The first time was an inkstone, the second time was a landscape painting, and the most recent time, at the end of last year, was a fine brushwork painting. Each of these three items was more expensive than the last, with the total transaction volume exceeding 2 million.
It is said that art is priceless. Whether it is a collection or a painting, how much it can be sold depends entirely on its value in the mind of the buyer.
The key issue is Liu Xintao's identity.
If she had such a valuable thing in her hand, why did she and her husband survive by setting up a stall outside after being laid off, and later went to work as a nanny at a relative's house?
Liu Xintao was summoned to the Municipal Public Security Bureau and sat in the interrogation room. She looked nervous and kept holding the corners of her clothes with both hands.
The people who questioned her this time were Yan Yishuai and Zhang Minsheng.
After sitting down at the table, Yan Yishuai was the first to speak: "Liu Xintao, do you know why I called you here today?"
Liu Xintao glanced at him quickly, lowered her eyes and shook her head.
Yan Yishuai did not mention the money, but asked: "How many years have you been at Fu Hongbin's house?"
"Seven...more than seven years." Liu Xintao still didn't look up.
"Are they good to you?"
"fine."
"Tell me more specifically, what's a good way to do it?"
"They... they are very polite to me... they don't treat the nanny as a servant like some people say. I eat at the same table with them, and during the New Year, they give me
There are quite a lot of things, not because I can’t eat them because I’m afraid they will spoil, but they are all given to me before the holidays. Xiaoyi and I are very close, he told his classmates that I am his aunt. Jingzhi and his wife will not treat me badly either.
They called me here and there, saying thank you for whatever I was asked to do. Two years ago, my husband was sick and hospitalized. They helped find a doctor and gave me half a month's leave to take care of my husband. Not only did they not deduct a penny, but they also paid more
I gave him a thousand yuan."
Liu Xintao spoke intermittently, but it was not difficult to tell that the Fu family treated her well.
"You mean the Fu family treats you like one of their own family members?" Yan Yishuai asked.
Liu Xintao nodded.
He asked again: "What about you?"
"They are so kind to me, so of course I treat them as my own family, and I care even more about their family than my own."
"You two trust each other and get along like a family. So when Fu Hongbin asks you to do something, you won't refuse, right?"
Liu Xintao did not answer the question directly, but said: "Besides housework, he never asked me to do anything else."
Although she tried her best to behave naturally, her voice was lower than before and her eyes were evasive.
After receiving Yan Yishuai's signal, Zhang Minsheng placed a record printed by the bank in front of her.
"Can you explain what's going on with this bank card?"
Liu Xintao hadn't read the contents of the piece of paper clearly yet, just hearing the three words "bank card" made her body visibly tremble.