Chapter 70: I Really Want to Tear Your Mouth Apart (Seeking Collections, Monthly Tickets, and Recommendations)

Hong Zhiyou returned to the station.

Wu Jingzhong paced back and forth in his office, hands behind his back, filled with anxiety.

He was truly afraid of Boss Dai.

All that talk of "trusted confidants" and "favored generals" was fake.

Boss Dai was notoriously cold and ruthless; he flipped his stance faster than one could flip a book.

Yu Lexing was a living example.

A former veteran of the Juntong Bureau, a man whom Dai Li and Shen Zui both revered as a teacher, and a great talent highly valued by the Chairman.

And what was the result?

Once Dai Li turned against him, the old man nearly lost his life, and he was still "recuperating" in the Juntong Bureau hospital.

"Zhiyou, how did it go?"

"She, what did she say?"

As soon as they met, Wu Jingzhong asked impatiently.

"This student did not fail your mission."

"Miss Hu's anger has subsided; she said the Juntong station reeks too strongly of blood, so she accepts your gesture but will not be meeting."

"She is taking the ten o'clock flight back to Shanghai."

Hong Zhiyou said with a relaxed smile.

"Are, are you sure?" Wu Jingzhong was still somewhat uneasy.

"Teacher, you can wait for the phone call," Hong Zhiyou nodded and said.

Sure enough.

Before long, the call from Boss Dai arrived.

After a round of cursing, it still boiled down to four words: Do not let it happen again!

"Do not let it happen again!"

"Zhiyou, you have done me a huge favor." Wu Jingzhong hung up the phone and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Station Chief, you are too kind."

"Isn't it my job, along with Section Chief Yu, to help you resolve your worries and share your burdens?"

Hong Zhiyou said with a humble smile.

"Good, good." Wu Jingzhong was all smiles as he began to sip his tea.

"Station Chief, this, what exactly is going on?"

"Setting aside the fact that I was labeled a Red agent."

"How did the Madam and Miss Hu also end up as Red agents?"

Seeing that his mood had improved, Yu Zecheng, who was standing to the side, asked cautiously.

"How did it happen? You'll have to ask Ma Kui."

Just as Wu Jingzhong was about to flare up, Lu Qiaoshan walked in clutching a folder.

"Have those idiots under Li Hanyuan been caught?" Wu Jingzhong asked right off the bat.

He had spent the whole night in the station, anxious and fearful.

These people hadn't even managed to find a shadow of the suspects.

It was simply outrageous!

"My men just caught them."

"Detective Huang went to the Tanggu branch to solve a case last night, and his men don't have housing from the bureau; the places they rented in the city are all a mess."

"They are all rounded up now, just waiting for your personal orders."

Lu Qiaoshan adjusted his glasses, seeking credit.

"Good work."

"Where is Ma Kui?" Wu Jingzhong nodded with satisfaction.

"Captain Ma is nowhere to be found. I called his home, and Mrs. Ma said he didn't come home all night."

"He probably went to the Xiuchun Pavilion again."

Lu Qiaoshan added coldly.

"He deserves to be hacked to pieces." Wu Jingzhong said furiously.

"Let's go, to the interrogation room."

"We must straighten things out today, otherwise, no one in the Jinhai station will know who is in charge!"

Wu Jingzhong tugged at the hem of his jacket and marched out, radiating murderous intent.

Just as he reached the corridor, Ma Kui walked toward him.

He reeked of the perfumes and powders of the Xiuchun Pavilion.

Old Lu was watching him very closely!

"Station Chief, you've come at the right time. Let's go straight to the Shuitun Prison to pick up the suspects; it's time to close the net." Ma Kui took off his hat and said in a stiff tone.

"Close what net?"

"Take your brain out, wash it in the Haihe River, and then come back to talk."

"Disarm him."

Wu Jingzhong ordered coldly.

Lu Qiaoshan waved his hand, and security guards immediately stepped forward to restrain Ma Kui and seize his service weapon.

"Station Chief, what is the meaning of this?" Ma Kui shouted in confusion.

"Captain Ma, don't you know what good deeds you've done yourself?" Lu Qiaoshan sneered.

"Lu Qiaoshan, what kind of dirty water are you trying to dump on me this time!" Ma Kui sensed something was wrong and roared.

"Take him away!"

They arrived at the interrogation room.

Huang Zhong stood to the side, handcuffed, looking exhausted and dejected.

"Station Chief Wu."

Li Hanyuan stood up.

"Director Li, please sit."

"Section Chief Lu, I don't feel like talking to him; you ask the questions."

Wu Jingzhong gestured for Li Hanyuan to sit and handed the heavy responsibility of interrogating Ma Kui to Lu Qiaoshan.

Hong Zhiyou, showing great situational awareness, served fine tea to the two big bosses, as well as to Mrs. Wu and Sister Mei, who were on the side.

"Ma Kui, do you know your crimes?" Lu Qiaoshan, shouldering the responsibility, asked with a triumphant smile.

"What crimes?"

"I don't know." Ma Kui tilted his chin, looking very displeased.

"This is your list of Red agent suspects."

"One is a stinky tofu vendor on the street."

"One is Zhang Tinge's butler."

"One is an adjutant to Division Commander Liu of the 94th Army."

"These aren't even the important ones. Do you know who they are?"

"Miss Hu, Hu Die."

"Mrs. Qin, the Station Chief's wife."

"Mrs. Zhang, the wife of Wu Taixun."

"Do you think the station has too much money for tea, or that the Station Chief's reception room is too empty?"

Lu Qiaoshan pointed at the names on the list and sneered.

"No, it's not..."

"How is this possible?"

"The police bureau must have arrested the wrong people."

Ma Kui was also stunned.

"I really want to tear your mouth apart!"

Lu Qiaoshan cursed viciously, then turned to look at Huang Zhong:

"Detective Huang, you were the one who arrested them, you tell us."

"Station Chief Wu, Section Chief Lu, I swear to the Party flag and to the Chairman, I really arrested the people based on the addresses on the list." Huang Zhong shouted with a look of grievance.

"When you were arresting people, were your dog eyes blinded too?"

"For someone who has been in Jinhai for so many years, never mind Miss Hu Die, don't you even recognize the two Madams?"

Li Hanyuan, sitting at the head of the table, slammed the table and scolded.

"Station Chief, Director."

"I wasn't present when the arrests were made; the team was led by Little Li."

"They aren't from this circle, so how would they recognize the three ladies?"

Huang Zhong explained with a naive and honest expression.

Sure enough, when something goes wrong, it's always the temp workers who take the fall... Hong Zhiyou thought to himself.

"Nonsense, I stated my identity repeatedly at the time, but they wouldn't listen at all." Zhu Jiu, sitting on the other side, stood up to retort.

"Mrs. Wu."

"This can't be blamed on them; Captain Ma made three phone calls in a row, saying that if he couldn't catch the person, he would have our heads."

"My subordinates dared not disobey."

Huang Zhong cried out in grievance with an innocent look on his face.

"Ma Kui, do you dare say you didn't? I request to apply for the phone records." He pointed at Ma Kui with red eyes, full of hatred.

Ma Kui turned his head away, though he remained stubborn: "That's right, I did make the calls."

"Ma Kui, if I remember correctly, you aren't the Chief of the Police Department, are you?"

"What qualifications do you have to mobilize the police?"

Lu Qiaoshan was extremely angry at Ma Kui's overstepping of authority.

"It was the Station Chief who told me to catch the Red Agent, I was acting under orders," Ma Kui said.

"Ma Kui, don't be ungrateful."

"The Station Chief's original words were for you to take men and act immediately, with Director Li assisting; he didn't say you could command the Police Department's operations, did he?"

"Did you ask for my permission, or ask the Station Chief or Director Li?"

Lu Qiaoshan leaned into Ma Kui's face, his voice rising by eight degrees.

"I... Station Chief, this is a trick by the Red Agent."

"This person, he is a Red Agent, he must be..."

Ma Kui wiped the spit from his face, intending to point out Yu Zecheng again, but thought better of it and swallowed his words, choosing only to bite down hard on Shopkeeper Qiu.

"Red Agent?"

"It's Red Agent again."

"My ears are almost calloused from hearing it."

Lu Qiaoshan found it ridiculous.

"Don't you know clearly in your heart what you're trying to do by staring at a broken pharmacy all day?"

"Isn't it just because you're dissatisfied that the station has been slow to appoint a Deputy Station Chief?"

"Are you trying to borrow a knife to kill, using Hu Die to drag the Station Chief and Director Li into the water?"

Lu Qiaoshan spoke without hesitation, pinning a massive blame on him.

"You!"

"Lu Qiaoshan, don't you dare spit blood on me." Ma Kui's cheeks tightened as he struggled excitedly.

The guards on the side pressed him down firmly.

Hong Zhiyou stood to the side, secretly alarmed.

Old Lu's move was poisonous.

Clearly, he wanted to be the Deputy Station Chief, but was too embarrassed to ask the Station Chief.

He cleverly used Ma Kui's affair to point it out to Wu Jingzhong.

Especially the phrase "borrow a knife to kill."

It almost sentenced Ma Kui to death.

As for Wu Jingzhong, he kept playing dead, neither expressing an opinion nor making a sound.

Ma Kui used to be an adjutant to Mao Renfeng.

This matter involved Boss Dai; if he interrogated him, Mao Renfeng would mistakenly think it was targeted at him.

Lu Qiaoshan was different.

Zheng Jiemin, one of the Son of Heaven's Thirteen Guardians, was a key official in the Ministry of National Defense.

He had always been at odds with Dai Li.

He also had enough standing to go toe-to-toe; Mao Renfeng wouldn't dare make a peep.

They were all a bunch of old foxes.

This gossip was just right.

"Station Chief, you have to believe me."

"This person really is a Red Agent, this is all a setup." Ma Kui struggled and shouted like a madman.

"A setup?"

"Are you implying that the Station Chief, Director Li, the Lady, and Miss Hu teamed up to frame you?"

"You're nothing but a fart!"

Lu Qiaoshan spat heavily onto Ma Kui's face.

"Are you a Red Agent?" Wu Jingzhong, who had been watching the show for a long time, finally spoke with a cold sneer.

He was asking... Shopkeeper Qiu.

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