Chapter 1658: The truth comes out

December 30th, in Steel City, just got off the plane.

It was only 4:15 PM, the sky was dark and hard to see each other, the sky was full of flying snow, and white covered the field of vision.

Qi Yan carried two pieces of luggage and walked quickly toward the car; a driver helped put the luggage away, and he got into the driver's seat.

"Has it been found out? How did he die?"

Li Xuewu's leather shoes crunched on the accumulated snow; Zhang Enyuan took the umbrella from the staff member who came to pick them up and held it for him.

Office Director Zhang Jing didn't pay attention to this; he reported quickly with a layer of light white snow on his shoulders: "Not yet, the joint investigation team is handling this matter."

"You didn't participate?"

Li Xuewu, who was about to get in the car, suddenly stopped, turned his head to look at Zhang Jing on the side, and asked, "What about the Security Division?"

"The opinion of Team Leader Liu of the joint investigation team," Zhang Jing's face was serious and embarrassed, "She said she would handle this matter."

"But I haven't gotten an answer yet."

Li Xuewu looked deeply at Zhang Jing, then bent over and got into the car.

Zhang Jing knew that the leader was dissatisfied with his work, but he still closed the car door first and went around to the other side.

He still had a chance to explain; from the airport to the office, he had to report clearly why Jia Yun died in a short time.

Zhang Enyuan stood by the car door and communicated briefly with the others who came to pick them up, then waved his hand and got into the passenger seat.

And the others ran quickly to the front and back cars; the driver started instantly and left quickly.

The snow was getting heavier and heavier; the airport ground crew was already responding to the emergency response procedure, sending more people to deal with the accumulated snow.

But looking at the state of no wind and no waves tonight, it seemed it would snow for the whole night.

That's right, the bitter winter had arrived, and no matter how heavy the snow was, it was reasonable; moreover, this land also needed a heavy snow to decorate the peace.

Today was Monday, which was the day Li Xuewu returned to Steel City, but because of the sudden news, anxiety was added.

Li Huai De was somewhat reluctant to let him go; he had originally planned to hold another small meeting in the morning, but suddenly received a call from Steel City that Jia Yun, who was under investigation, had died, and he had to let Li Xuewu rush back to extinguish the fire.

Zhou Xiaoling had long seen his flight plan and took the initiative to adjust the flight shift, but didn't expect to catch up with this situation; she hadn't been able to get a word in during the whole flight.

On the plane, he held a meeting with the accompanying cadres to discuss, and his eyebrows hadn't relaxed.

Until she watched the motorcade leave.

The snow was still falling, obscuring the road ahead; the motorcade couldn't pick up speed, especially after leaving the airport.

There were no street lights on both sides of the road, only the lights of the front and back cars; the light in the carriage was bright and dark, shaking on Li Xuewu's face, making Zhang Jing's heart tighten.

"At 10:00 AM, the situation discovered during the joint investigation team's routine inspection; the person was already gone at that time."

Zhang Jing tried to calm his tone and reported: "We received the news around 10:10."

"What's the situation with Sun Ming?"

Li Xuewu didn't get angry, because anger couldn't solve the problem, but his tone was hard to hide his gloom.

Just like the weather outside the window, Zhang Jing had already felt it.

"He was the first one I thought of too." Zhang Jing turned slightly and reported: "When we rushed to the Tuanjie Hotel, he had already been transferred."

"He knew something happened?" Li Xuewu frowned and asked, "Did he see it, or hear about it?"

"Not sure, the situation was very chaotic at the time."

Zhang Jing explained embarrassedly: "The comrades of the joint investigation team refused our further reaction."

"In other words, they are still responsible for this matter until now?" Li Xuewu's cheeks moved; he was clearly furious, "Is it because they need time to cover it up or what?"

"I'm afraid it's to prevent further changes." Zhang Jing was still rational and tried to explain for the investigation team.

Li Xuewu also knew his words made sense, but still said angrily: "People could have an accident right under their noses, and it was the Group Security Division's people executing the security work."

He turned his eyes to look at Zhang Jing and asked, "Are there any trusted comrades in the Steel City Security Division?"

"What do you mean...?"

Zhang Jing looked at him hesitantly, then reported: "I still know a few comrades who are reliable."

"You arrange it," Li Xuewu thought for a while and instructed, "This matter can't be kept at arm's length anymore."

"But..." Zhang Jing asked hesitantly, "Doesn't the joint investigation team have work discipline and requirements?"

"At a time like this—"

Li Xuewu looked at him, tapped his finger, and emphasized, "Are you sure they still want to insist on discipline and requirements?"

"Director Zhang might be considering the responsibility involved." At this time, Zhang Enyuan in the passenger seat opened his mouth and said: "After all, our sudden intervention at this time will inevitably attract suspicion."

Zhang Jing was very grateful for Zhang Enyuan's explanation, but his eyes were always on Li Xuewu's face; he didn't dare to miss even a moment of the leader's expression change.

Li Xuewu, however, fell silent, his tightly furrowed eyebrows considering the pros and cons.

If standing from the secretary's perspective, Zhang Enyuan had broken the rules today; he shouldn't have spoken at this time.

But there were only a few of them in the car; besides the driver Qi Yan, Zhang Jing was the director of the office of the group's industrial leadership group stationed in Liaodong, and Zhang Enyuan had another identity, which was the deputy director of this office.

So Li Xuewu didn't care about his statement, but changed his thinking, considering this problem from the surface in reverse.

"Was Comrade Liu Wei at the scene?"

When the motorcade was about to enter the industrial zone, they could already see the signs on the side of the road.

Li Xuewu asked, "Did she report any work arrangements to you next?"

"I took the initiative to contact him at 2:00 PM, right after reporting to the group company."

Zhang Jing introduced: "The situation she reported to me was that the security personnel responsible for guarding, the security cadres, and the investigation team cadres who had been in contact with the target these days were all undergoing review."

"It's not necessarily that the crime was committed that day," Li Xuewu thought and asked, "It's just that it can be preliminarily judged that Jia Yun died of poisoning? Is that what it means?"

"She didn't say, but I guess so."

Zhang Jing hesitated, then looked at him and reported: "I think Team Leader Liu also made this decision out of a protective attitude."

"You mean she took the initiative to isolate them, so she could circle the problem in a small circle?"

Li Xuewu said faintly: "This is departmentalism; encountering problems is too blind and too confident."

Seeing that the motorcade was about to reach the office building, Zhang Jing still reminded him: "We could have stayed out of it."

"No, you're wrong." Li Xuewu looked at him, his eyes sharp in the light of the street lamps, and emphasized: "We cannot stay out of it."

Liu Wei had been busy for a whole day; she had returned to Steel City from Yingcheng yesterday afternoon, originally thinking she could have a good rest, but didn't expect...

The comrades of the working group reported that Li Xuewu, Secretary-General of the Red Steel Group, had returned and was in the comprehensive office building of the Metallurgical Plant.

The joint investigation team's office wasn't placed in the location provided by the Metallurgical Plant, but chose the Tuanjie Hotel nearby.

This was also the habit of monitoring and handling cases, and there were conditions for working overtime.

When Liu Wei received the news, Li Xuewu was convening the leadership team members of the Metallurgical Plant for a meeting; he had told Zhang Jing that Jia Yun's death couldn't be kept at arm's length.

Executive Deputy Factory Director Zhang Minghua had been in office for more than ten days; although he was still in the stage of familiarizing himself with the work, he couldn't escape the responsibility either.

"We didn't participate in this case from beginning to end, and now asking us for opinions, I feel it's a bit difficult for us."

Li Haiyang was the first to speak; he was blunt and spread his hands, saying: "Before the accident, what the joint investigation team was guarding against was us."

He scanned the room and said, "Who among those present has seen Jia Yun and Sun Ming again? We haven't even been to the third floor of the Tuanjie Hotel, right?"

"Get to the point." Li Xuewu glanced at him and reminded: "I'm not asking for accountability, but asking for clarity."

He looked at everyone in the conference room and tapped the conference table with his finger, emphasizing: "Before meeting with the joint investigation team, at least I have to determine one point, and that is who did it."

This sentence was sonorous and powerful, making everyone present feel tense; it wasn't hard to understand this suspicion, but there was also some grievance.

"If you want to shirk responsibility, I tell you, some responsibilities don't need to be shirked, because they don't exist at all."

Li Xuewu said straightforwardly: "And some responsibilities exist, you can't shirk them, you must take them on."

"Now who can tell me, you are sure you have nothing to do with this matter."

He scanned the two sides of the conference table and emphasized: "If the investigation finds out later that there was a situation in our team, then it won't be something that can be handled with just an explanation."

"There's really no way to say."

Deputy Factory Director Luo Zhongkang, who was in charge of the comprehensive management division, explained hesitantly: "Although the security work is the responsibility of the group, and the investigation work is the responsibility of the working group, the logistics service is our responsibility."

He spread his hands toward Li Xuewu and said: "Especially the situation of poisoning, without knowing the path and source, how to judge who is right and who is wrong?"

"The joint investigation team reported a situation, this was said before."

Zhang Jing first glanced at Luo Zhongkang, who had just spoken, then looked at Li Xuewu and reported: "The diet of the supervised personnel is aligned with the security personnel."

"In other words, theoretically, the meals eaten by the supervised personnel are no different from the security personnel; they all come from the same pot."

"They eat big-pot rice." Luo Zhongkang came to his senses after hearing him say this, sat up straight, looked at Li Xuewu, and reported: "The cadres of the capital security team are very cautious; they all go to the canteen to get meals."

"In other words—" Li Haiyang frowned and asked, "Unless there was a situation of poisoning during this process, it has nothing to do with the meal itself?"

"I can at least be sure of this point." Luo Zhongkang nodded and reported: "At least we haven't received any situation of food poisoning yet."

"Then investigate carefully from the process."

Li Xuewu turned slightly, his right hand rested on the table, and the pencil in his hand tapped, emphasizing: "Old Luo, you all summarize a report on the canteen management situation of the previous week according to this case."

"The report should note the personnel involved in the entire process from ingredient procurement to window meal service for this week."

He said this, then tapped Luo Zhongkang with his pencil and said: "You watch it yourself, Zhang Jing cooperates with you, use the power of the Security Division to investigate clearly whether there are any idlers entering or leaving the canteen; this matter is very important."

"Okay, I'll do it as soon as I go down." Luo Zhongkang knew that this was helping him get rid of trouble; now the joint investigation team's eyes must be staring at them.

At the first moment of the accident, the joint investigation team sealed the Tuanjie Hotel; fortunately, there had been no activities recently, and there were no outsiders staying there.

But even so, as the only reception center in the industrial zone, there were quite a few family members or relatives of workers living here.

The working group was organizing a special team to investigate and clean up, lifting the blockade in batches and excluding suspects.

"Comrade Zhijun, you still have to connect with the group on this side."

Li Xuewu pointed to Chief Engineer Wang Zhijun, who was in charge of security work, "Security work is a system in itself; you can't stand by and watch the fun at this time."

The pencil in his hand fell on the notebook; he straightened up and emphasized: "It doesn't necessarily have to intervene in the investigation of the case; providing necessary support and help can also save the investigation team energy and manpower, right?"

"I understand, leader." Wang Zhijun nodded and said: "I haven't taken any action on this side, just waiting for your arrangement."

"I'll connect with the working group as soon as I go down, and connect with the group's Security Division."

He looked at Zhang Jing and said: "I also need Director Zhang's assistance; I'm not very familiar with the working group, and I've been avoiding suspicion before."

"This time they've learned their lesson." Li Haiyang hummed somewhat dissatisfiedly: "Self-righteous copper walls and iron bastions, and they ended up playing themselves out."

He tilted the corner of his mouth and looked at Li Xuewu mockingly, saying: "Perhaps at this time, that Team Leader Liu from Steel City is already overwhelmed."

"Fairly speaking, Team Leader Liu Wei is still leaning toward us." Zhang Jing opened his mouth at this time: "There's no need to make some things too clear, right?"

He looked at Li Xuewu again, then continued to look at Li Haiyang and said: "Back then, the Secretary-General called Liaodong to say hello, also for the sake of fairness."

"To put it bluntly, Team Leader Liu Wei brought a team here to escort us; it's not good to make sarcastic remarks at this time."

"I'm not making sarcastic remarks."

Li Haiyang tapped the conference table with his finger, raised his eyebrows, and said: "When they were guarding against us before, I didn't say anything, right?"

"Now that something happened, they think of us; shouldn't there be the most basic trust and attitude toward this matter."

He looked at Li Xuewu and emphasized: "Today, we haven't received any notification from the joint investigation team."

"If it weren't for Director Zhang constantly coordinating and asking, I'm afraid people would have died, and we would still be kept in the dark."

"Not necessarily." Zhang Jing eased his tone and explained: "They were also very panicked at the first moment of the accident, but they still called me."

He looked at everyone and explained: "It was me who controlled the spread of the news in order to avoid expanding the impact."

"Of course, I'm not speaking for anyone, just stating a fact." Zhang Jing spread his hands and said: "At this time, unity is more important than internal infighting, right?"

Just as everyone was discussing, Zhang Enyuan pushed open the conference room door and walked in; he ignored the gazes of others, walked behind Li Xuewu, and reported in a low voice: "Secretary-General, Team Leader Liu of the joint investigation team is here."

"Actually, Jia Yun is not a key figure."

In Li Xuewu's office, Liu Wei sat on the chair in front of the desk, her eyebrows tightly furrowed, holding a teacup and speaking.

Outside the window, the heavy snow was filling the air, rustling in the ears.

Perhaps it was too quiet, and there was a gap of thinking time between the two people's conversation, so that the sound of snow falling could be heard.

"This is to deter and threaten Sun Ming."

Li Xuewu stood by the window with his arms crossed, looking at the dark night outside and saying: "They grasped the timing very subtly."

"I'm talking about responsibility now, it seems a bit too late." Liu Wei sighed long and said: "But I was indeed carried away."

Seeing Li Xuewu turn his head to look over, she pursed her lips and explained: "Team Leader Fang reminded me, but I didn't realize the danger."

"What's the situation with Sun Ming?" Li Xuewu didn't want to argue with her about responsibility, because it was too early to talk about that now.

Just Li Kezhang Jing said, Liu Wei was invited by him to escort the Metallurgical Plant, and if there was a problem, it couldn't be pushed away.

Even if it was to be handled according to organizational procedures for her work mistakes, it had to wait until they finished handling this matter.

"He has been affected." Liu Wei thought for a while, looked at him, and said: "I've talked to him, he looks a bit silent."

"Hmm, Jia Yun is his uncle." Li Xuewu nodded slowly and walked back behind the desk from the window, "This kind of deterrence is too direct."

"It will cause a blow psychologically."

He looked at Liu Wei opposite and reminded: "You have to pay attention to Sun Ming's psychological dynamics; people can collapse in an instant."

"I've already arranged for someone to accompany him without leaving his side." Liu Wei thought for a while and said hesitantly: "I have an idea, I don't know if it's okay."

"If he can meet his family..."

It could be seen from her tone that this idea wasn't mature in her mind, so she spoke very slowly.

"Meet his parents?" Li Xuewu sat down, shook his head slightly, and said: "I don't suggest it, because he will have a sense of guilt."

"However, I heard he is married."

"You mean—" Liu Wei's eyes widened, looking at him and asking: "Arrange for him to meet his wife?"

"Hmm, it's more appropriate than arranging for him to meet his parents." Li Xuewu pursed his lips and said: "This is a suggestion of mine."

"An adult's psychological defense line is sometimes very solid, and sometimes very fragile."

He thought for a while and explained: "In front of parents, one always wants to show a mature side; only in front of a spouse will one rarely reveal their true heart."

"You are an expert in psychology," Liu Wei nodded and said: "I'll arrange for someone to pick up his wife in a while."

"Don't stay overnight, don't make the time too long." Li Xuewu tapped his finger on the table and emphasized to her: "Tell Sun Ming not to be afraid."

"Since he can meet his family at this time, it gives him hope to live, and also gives him a channel to vent."

"Hmm, he is a bit nervous."

Liu Wei nodded in agreement, acted as soon as she said it, picked up the phone on the desk, asked for the Tuanjie Hotel, and arranged this task.

After putting down the phone, she asked hesitantly: "Can you preside over the investigation of this case? I'm not a professional after all."

"And," Liu Wei clenched her fists, looked at him, and explained straightforwardly: "I don't trust anyone now."

"No need for that." Li Xuewu leaned back in his chair, looked at her, and said: "The more at this time, the more you need to stay calm."

"You have to believe that most comrades are good; as long as you can unite the majority, you will definitely be able to catch this mouse."

"But I don't have time." Liu Wei frowned and said: "News from the capital says that Sanhe's Gucang Ping'er has confessed everything."

"Including providing cars, funds, and other support to Su Weide, as well as internal information about the preliminary negotiations with the Red Steel Group."

She looked into Li Xuewu's eyes and said: "Upgrading the investigation of this case is a matter of time; I'm afraid I won't have a chance by then..."

She didn't say the following words, but Li Xuewu understood.

It was nothing more than the case being beyond her control, and after the investigation was upgraded, she would lose the opportunity to make up for her work mistakes.

By then, it would be good if merits and demerits balanced out; she was afraid that demerits would outweigh merits, and she would end up with no thanks for her hard work.

"Perhaps you already know."

Liu Wei explained cautiously: "We found some situations in the Yingcheng shipping investigation; there are also Su Weide's problems here."

"About the warships, right?" Li Xuewu nodded slowly and said: "I heard."

"My investigation direction is warships, and Team Leader Fang's investigation direction is the source and destination of funds." Liu Wei explained: "Our investigations have all encountered resistance."

"The source is unclear, but we can clearly feel the pressure when communicating."

She thought for a while, then continued to explain: "Team Leader Fang got the information from my side and found some fund flows."

"Sanhe Corporation has a problem."

"What problem?" Li Xuewu narrowed his eyes slightly and asked: "Are they involved in funds?"

"Hmm, some funds went through their accounts." Liu Wei introduced: "According to the situation confessed by Sun Ming, in the process of using this channel for smuggling, every transaction needs to pay a certain percentage of the proceeds."

"These proceeds were remitted to Sanhe Corporation."

She took out a document from her briefcase and handed it to Li Xuewu, signaling: "And we contacted the Oriental Times Bank in Hong Kong with the help of the Joint Savings Bank and got this transaction record."

"The record shows that every time Sanhe has an income, their account at the Oriental Times Bank will remit a sum of money to a foundation's account."

Liu Wei pointed to the information marked on the material and said: "And some of the funds were left in the country, a small part of which flowed to Yingcheng Shipping."

"Of course, we have verified that Yingcheng Shipping received the order and carried out demonstration and design according to the procedures; there is no problem with this money."

After emphasizing, she signaled the list listed on the material and explained: "The account of this foundation in Hong Kong is a bit complicated; the consumption records include luxury cars, motorcycles, watches, leather bags, clothes, etc."

Speaking of this, she paused, looked at Li Xuewu opposite, and asked: "You already know what I'm going to say, right?"

Li Xuewu still refused Liu Wei and didn't take over the investigation of the Jia Yun poisoning case, but he didn't let go either.

The reason he didn't participate directly was because he was worried that going too far would be as bad as not going far enough, and the influence of his identity would bring bias to the case.

However, he got all the interrogation records, as well as the records of the residents and visitors of the Tuanjie Hotel.

Finding clues from the records was a huge and complicated process; if it were Li Xuewu's current rank, he wouldn't need to be so hard-working.

If even this kind of basic work required him to be responsible, then what were the investigators of the Security Division for?

However, he had to buy time for Liu Wei to solve the case as soon as possible, so he had to do it himself and stay up all night reading the materials.

Reading materials didn't necessarily mean finding suspects, but in a tense atmosphere, it would definitely make the other party show their feet.

So, right after his conversation with Liu Wei ended, he made a call to Hu Ke.

Hu Ke didn't ask about Liu Wei's responsibility in it, only said he would wait for his news and hung up the phone.

Liu Wei was from Steel City and didn't belong to Hu Ke, but on this matter, they were their own people.

And the reason Liu Wei participated in the joint investigation team was ultimately the relationship between Li Xuewu and Hu Ke.

So very quickly, when Sun Ming's wife came to the Metallurgical Plant, the small building where Sun Ming was located had already been surrounded.

The people on guard were no longer the security of the Red Steel Group; not only Sun Ming was supervised in this small building, but also the personnel under review.

Especially the investigation and security personnel involved in Jia Yun were also among them, and the joint investigation team couldn't reach them.

Then who would investigate the case next?

Hu Ke provided a plan according to Li Xuewu's request; the criminal investigation backbone he randomly drew from the local area had rushed to Steel City overnight.

Li Xuewu would act as the brain behind the scenes, providing them with a landing point to quickly intervene in the case before they arrived.

Just when the case was in a dilemma, Li Xuewu's return brought new ideas and solutions to Liu Wei.

This machine was restarted; Liu Wei went back to reorganize morale, completely gave up the investigation of the case, and turned to focus on the warship case.

She admitted that Li Xuewu's analysis was very correct.

The target the other party wanted to assassinate was actually the key figure Sun Ming; it was precisely because their protection of Sun Ming was too strict that they couldn't start, so they passively chose Sun Ming's uncle Jia Yun.

And for Sun Ming, the death of his uncle was also a warning.

Now Liu Wei had to race against time with her opponent, while encouraging Sun Ming, she also had to encourage the team to rush up despite the difficulties.

It was the other party who was afraid, afraid that they would find out the truth, so they had to choose the most direct method that was also the easiest to leave a trail: killing to silence.

Killing is easy, cleaning up is hard.

This case was enough to attract the attention of those above, and adding a life meant the other party couldn't help but jump over the wall like a dog.

Just like Li Xuewu said, the more at this time, the more you need to stay calm, unite all forces that can be united; she must believe in the majority.

The restarted plan made the two office buildings of the Metallurgical Plant brightly lit, and the canteen even activated an emergency plan to prepare special late-night snacks.

After 1:00 AM, Zhang Enyuan walked in with a lunch box covered by a coat and reminded Li Xuewu, who was still reading the materials, in a low voice: "Leader, drink some millet porridge, warm your stomach, and take a rest."

In public, or when outsiders were present, he called him Secretary-General, but in private, he called Li Xuewu 'Leader'.

Li Xuewu nodded slowly, put down the materials, rubbed his eyelids, and asked with difficulty hiding his fatigue: "Is the canteen still open?"

"It was arranged by Director Zhang." Zhang Enyuan set the lunch box on the large desk, which was used for stacking documents or looking at drawings.

Li Xuewu's desk was already piled with case materials, and there was no place to put the lunch box.

"The master chef boiled a pot of millet porridge and steamed white flour buns."

Zhang Enyuan introduced while setting the lunch box: "They all said tonight's pickles were refreshing, so I gave you a bit more, try it."

"Okay." Li Xuewu first went to the door to wash his face and hands, which restored some spirit, and came to the desk to look at the green pickles, which gave him an appetite.

The case seemed to be in a deadlock, at least he couldn't see any clues from the interrogation records.

The team he brought out, the security personnel from the capital, were absolutely elite, and wouldn't overturn in some small problems and details.

The documents sent by Liu Wei were the first things he read, which were the work records provided by the Security Division, to determine where the defense loopholes existed.

He was very familiar with the third floor of the Tuanjie Hotel, and combined with the record analysis, there shouldn't be a situation where outsiders could contact Jia Yun.

First exclude the external defense loopholes, then find the reason from the inside; the channels for poisoning could be roughly divided into three types: food, water, and air.

Because Jia Yun's room wasn't closed, and there were no facilities like vents to place poisonous gas, they could exclude air media first.

The rest were food and water, and they could also exclude the water problem.

He looked at the water supply, which had too many uncertainties, unless the security guarding Jia Yun did it themselves, otherwise there was no way to accurately send the poisonous water to Jia Yun's room.

And in order to prevent the supervised personnel from committing suicide, their actions were limited, and their daily life required the help of security personnel.

Security wasn't just these few people 24 hours a day; the shift rotation system was enough to make the other party's plan have many uncertainties.

The Red Steel Group's security personnel must have a clean background, this went without saying, and the training and cultivation were also systematic and professional.

Even if someone could determine the personal information of the security outside Jia Yun's room through special relationships, they couldn't contact them directly.

From the beginning of this mission, their lives were closed, just like Jia Yun and these people.

And the security wasn't always these few people, the shift rotation system was enough to make the other party's plan have many uncertainties.

Li Xuewu had already requested the hospital to speed up the autopsy and toxin analysis of Jia Yun's body, looking forward to finding clues from this channel.

At the same time, he placed his sight on food, the last medium.

The Metallurgical Plant's service system had already started self-inspection and self-correction, but from the perspective of big-pot rice, the production process shouldn't have any problems.

Li Xuewu didn't eat the bun, but while drinking millet porridge in small sips, he thought about the clues.

His super memory and work ability allowed him to put the materials sent by Liu Wei into his brain at a glance.

Now, under his brainstorming, the clues were broken into pieces and recombined to form new clues.

But these clues were unordered and needed an opportunity to connect them together; this was what gave Li Xuewu a headache.

Zhang Enyuan was right; millet porridge really warmed the stomach on a night like this, and he could even feel a cold breath coming up when he burped.

Clearly the office was warm, he was wearing slippers to work, and he was only wearing a shirt, with a thin wool cover on the outside.

Perhaps the cold in his stomach came from his whole body, reminding him to pay attention to rest and not stay up late.

If he could, who would want to stay up late?

Li Xuewu finished the millet porridge and ate most of the pickles; just as he was thinking about whether to eat a little more and not waste food, he froze.

Zhang Enyuan was the first to discover the situation; seeing the leader staring at the pickles with a frown, he thought there was a problem with the food.

"Leader, these pickles..."

"No, no, that's not right!" Li Xuewu suddenly stood up, walked back to the desk, and found the interrogation record he wanted.

The rapidly flipped paper rustled, until he found the page in his memory.

Zhang Enyuan was a bit confused and worried, walked over, and asked: "Did something happen?"

"I seem to have found the key clue."

Li Xuewu once again carefully examined the interrogation record in his hand, then looked at Zhang Enyuan and asked: "Is the joint investigation team still working?"

"That should be the case." Zhang Enyuan explained quickly: "I even met their people when I came back with the meal."

"Hmm, you go clean up first."

Li Xuewu picked up the phone and asked for Liu Wei's temporary office; the phone was connected in a while.

"Comrade Liu Wei, this is Li Xuewu."

He said on the phone: "Is it convenient for you to talk now?"

"Convenient, please speak." Liu Wei seemed to know what he was going to say and asked excitedly: "Did you find—"

"Hmm, there's someone named Song Shiyun, right?"

Li Xuewu asked first, and after hearing the affirmative answer from the opposite side, he said: "He touched Jia Yun's lunch box."

"Lunch box?" Liu Wei didn't seem to understand, then reacted immediately, surprised: "You mean—"

"Hmm, if I'm not mistaken."

Li Xuewu explained calmly: "We thought wrong; we shouldn't have started calculating the whole process from the canteen, but from the cleaning of the lunch box."

In the interrogation record, the working group's Song Shiyun was the person in charge of supervising Jia Yun, and also the person in charge of directly connecting with security.

Jia Yun's daily life required their joint cooperation, which included the most detailed part, the cleaning of the lunch box.

Previously, considering Jia Yun was poisoned by food, they had been thinking about poison in the food, habitually thinking from the canteen to Jia Yun's mouth.

This process was checked over and over again, and no situation of acting alone or room for manipulation was found.

Only the lunch box wasn't thought of, whether it was poisoned before holding the food.

The food was supervised, the cleaning of the lunch box was in the bathroom, the leftovers were poured away directly, and the cleaned lunch box was placed in Jia Yun's room.

During this period, no one would notice what was in the empty lunch box, only the person responsible for washing the lunch box.

"I know, thank you!"

Liu Wei said excitedly: "I'll arrange for someone to take action against him now."

"Wait a moment." Li Xuewu said faintly: "The people arranged by Director Hu should arrive before dawn; it's not a matter of this moment."

He relaxed his nerves, sleepiness rose, he yawned, and said: "He shouldn't be able to sleep at this time; prolong the time and increase his psychological pressure."

"Understood." Liu Wei nodded and said: "I'm sorry, I've caused you trouble."

"No need to say such things, we are our own people."

Li Xuewu smiled and said: "Fortunately, this person isn't from your Liaodong, nor from our Red Steel Group."

"It's my fault for not managing well."

Liu Wei also breathed a sigh of relief and said: "After this matter is over, I will personally request punishment from the organization." ===== CHAPTER 1659 =====