Chapter 183: Is There Such a Medicine in This World?

"Let's just get straight to business."

Yu Dazhang wasn't in the mood for polite small talk with him.

If it weren't for Qu Tuotuo, he couldn't even be bothered to meet with Qu Wannian.

"Are you serious about Tuotuo?" Qu Wannian stared at him and asked.

"For now, yes." Yu Dazhang said it without any concealment.

"For now?" Qu Wannian's eyes went wide:

"Are you toying with my daughter's feelings?"

Old Qu really knows how to play dumb... Yu Dazhang knew he could understand what he was saying.

The only reason for playing dumb was to confirm things further.

"Who can say for certain about the future." Since he wanted to hear it, Yu Dazhang simply laid it out plainly:

"If two people getting married counts as serious, then what about all those who get divorced?"

"You've been through this yourself, you should know that feelings fear time and distance the most."

"Maybe tomorrow Tuotuo will fall for someone else and dump me."

He didn't think Qu Wannian had called him here for a promise.

If Old Qu were a sentimental person, he couldn't have managed such a large group company.

"That's the truth." Qu Wannian said with a grave expression:

"But it's too rational."

"Someone like you has a sense of responsibility, but won't throw yourself completely into a relationship."

"I'm afraid Tuotuo won't be able to hold onto you."

You're reading my fortune for me here... Yu Dazhang stared at him, saying nothing.

He found Old Qu far too roundabout—several lines of conversation in, and the main topic still hadn't been touched.

Seeing that Yu Dazhang showed no reaction, Qu Wannian simply shifted the topic:

"The reason I called you here today is to tell you to your face that I agree to you two dating."

"You should have guessed it too—I chose to meet you in the company office to show a certain attitude."

"From today on, I, Qu Wannian, will treat you as a son-in-law."

Yu Dazhang:????

Did Old Qu have too much to drink at lunch?

Since the last time he went to their house for a meal, he hadn't crossed paths with Qu Wannian again.

So why would he suddenly change his view and attitude toward him?

Or rather, what could shake Qu Wannian, the chairman of this group?

Yu Dazhang's mind turned, and he immediately guessed the other's intention.

Official career!

"You investigated me?"

Yu Dazhang narrowed his eyes at Qu Wannian, his voice low, his tone somewhat displeased.

Qu Wannian glared back at him:

"As a father, looking into my daughter's boyfriend—should I not?"

Yu Dazhang:...

Well, there was no fault to find with that.

"You have connections at the Ministry of Public Security?" Yu Dazhang asked back.

"How did you know?!" Now it was Qu Wannian's turn to be shocked:

"I haven't told anyone—don't tell me you guessed it."

He really had guessed it... For him, this didn't even require thinking.

Before the commendation ceremony, Qu Wannian had already told Qu Tuotuo he wanted to meet with him.

Then just a few days later, he received an individual first-class merit.

Being able to get such news in advance—even the bureau leaders couldn't manage that.

An individual first-class merit is reviewed and issued by the Ministry of Public Security; unless you have connections inside the Ministry, there's no way to know in advance.

Old Qu's connections are pretty solid... Yu Dazhang wasn't pleased at all, and was instead a bit worried.

When businessmen associate with officials, few of them do so with pure intentions.

Yu Dazhang directly ignored his question and pulled the topic back:

"There's one thing you can rest assured of—I won't do anything to let Tuotuo down."

Qu Wannian fell silent.

He could tell—this was an answer, an answer to him as a father.

After a moment, he placed a bank card on the table and pushed it toward Yu Dazhang:

"Take this. Treat my daughter well."

Yu Dazhang stood up, didn't even look at the bank card on the table, his tone calm:

"I'll treat her well in my own way."

Turning and walking to the door, he placed his hand on the handle, and before pulling it open, turned back and added:

"In my eyes, you are you, she is she."

Yu Dazhang believed Qu Wannian could understand. The subtext of this sentence was:

My dating your daughter has nothing to do with you—even if one day you end up broke and destitute, it won't affect my feelings for Tuotuo.

In the blink of an eye, two days had passed.

Ma Jian and Liu Miao had not sent any news.

During those two days, Yu Dazhang had not even seen them around the squad.

But that was exactly what he had hoped to see.

The more it was like this, the more it showed that Ma Jian and the others were investigating carefully.

Yu Dazhang had not been idle these two days either.

His notebook was already filled with the names of various people, with annotations after each name and notes on points worth suspecting.

On the very last page of the notebook, various points of doubt filled the page.

The drugs had been swapped — why was there no sign of poisoning in Liu Zhengyang?

This was the question he had thought about most over the past two days.

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Apart from the two medicines Liu Zhengyang often took, the forensic examiner found no other drug components in his body.

What kind of medicine could the killer have swapped in for Liu Zhengyang?

Something that could fool the forensic examiner, yet still cause Liu Zhengyang to die of a sudden heart attack.

Does such a medicine exist in this world?

That day, Yu Dazhang sat idle in the detachment all morning, his eyes almost never leaving the notebook on the desk.

Not until lunchtime arrived did he leave his seat and head to the canteen.

In a daze, he got his food and found an empty spot to sit down.

He ate while his mind kept turning over the case.

The killer must have had some knowledge of drugs, otherwise he could not have pulled it off to this degree.

There was another possibility…

The killer knew an expert in that field and, with the expert's help, produced a drug that could fool the forensic examiner.

At that thought, a notion suddenly flashed through his mind.

Damn, I really am a pig-brain!

He could go find an expert himself.

Rather than fumbling around alone in the squad, it was better to go consult a heart-disease expert.

After lunch, Yu Dazhang called Qu Tuotuo and asked her to help book an expert appointment in the cardiology department at the hospital.

When he had previously helped Xiao Liu Ying's family, he already knew Qu Tuotuo had connections at the hospital.

A ready-made network of contacts — use it if you can.

Why not go find the doctor who had previously treated Liu Zhengyang?

Because Yu Dazhang did not want to reveal his intentions.

Just like with Qu Tuotuo, the Liu family surely had connections at the hospital too.

If that doctor tipped them off and leaked the fact that he was investigating, it would amount to alerting the enemy.

Besides, what Yu Dazhang wanted to consult about was something any heart-disease expert could answer.

Driving to the hospital, Yu Dazhang picked up his registration slip and headed straight to the cardiology department on the third floor.

Seeing the expert he had booked in advance, he could not help but pause in surprise.

Quite young.

Before him was a male doctor in his early thirties, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, scholarly yet with a streak of shrewd competence, giving off a very approachable air.

Yu Dazhang could not escape the common mindset either — the moment he thought of an expert, he subconsciously assumed someone older.

"Hello, Physician."

He greeted with a smile, then sat down beside the doctor's desk.

"Tell me your symptoms first." The male doctor quickly got into work mode.

As he spoke, he reached for the blood-pressure monitor on the desk and gestured for Yu Dazhang to extend his arm.

"Don't bother, Physician." Yu Dazhang quickly raised his hand to stop him:

"I'm not here to see a doctor — I came to consult you about something."

"Consult?" The male doctor paused slightly, sizing up Yu Dazhang's build once more:

"Are you sure you don't have heart disease? Your build puts extra load on the heart. Do you usually have symptoms like chest tightness or shortness of breath?"

Quite responsible, actually… Yu Dazhang denied it:

"No, no, my heart is absolutely fine."

As he spoke, he took the two evidence bags containing the medicine bottles out of the bag he carried with him and set them on the desk.

"I have a few questions I'd like to consult about regarding these two medicines."

(End of this chapter)