Chapter 270: I Still Like Your Unruly Appearance

"Just for this!"

Li Xuewu nodded affirmatively: "I have to be responsible for my territory."

"In these two neighborhoods, I don't allow anyone more arrogant than me to exist. If you're a dragon, you have to coil; if you're a tiger, you have to lie down, including you unruly people."

"Hehe, aren't you going too far? You're so arrogant you have no boundaries."

Seeing Wei Guo raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Xuewu with a mocking expression.

Li Xuewu pointed at Seeing Wei Guo's handcuffs and said: "This is my determination. You can play around here, but you have to follow the rules. Once you go too far, I'm going to take heads."

"You are the first case I'm going to handle, so this matter will be very sensational and will become a typical case for our station to use for propaganda."

"Typical?"

Li Xuewu smiled at the frowning Seeing Wei Guo and said: "I just want to use you as a typical case to dampen the arrogance of you 'heaven's pride' types. In other words, you're going to be famous."

Seeing Wei Guo fell silent, because Li Xuewu's words made him feel terror and fear.

He was young and full of hot blood, so he wasn't afraid of Li Xuewu beating or retaliating against him.

He also wasn't afraid of being taken out to eat a bullet, because he had indeed made a principled mistake.

But he was afraid of ruining his reputation, afraid of the things Li Xuewu had mentioned.

They were all neighbors living together; good things never spread, but bad things spread fast. Seeing Wei Guo didn't want his parents to be unable to hold their heads up in front of neighbors because of him.

Although he had done many reckless things, Seeing Wei Guo dared to say he had never bullied the weak or done anything shameful.

"Are you trying to kill the chicken to warn the monkeys?"

"Yes, and not just that."

Li Xuewu nodded: "Not just the Steel Mill. Most of the security personnel from the Light Industry Department and the Handicraft Department live in this area, and your compound is relatively close to here, so you treat this place as your backyard."

Seeing Wei Guo shook his head: "The atmosphere here wasn't ruined by us. The 'wan-zhu' (tough guys) here play even wilder than we do."

"Mm-hmm, I know."

Li Xuewu crossed his arms and nodded, acknowledging that what Seeing Wei Guo said was the truth.

"That's what I meant by 'not just that'."

Looking at Seeing Wei Guo's expression, he probably didn't understand his meaning, so Li Xuewu explained: "The scope of Jiaodaokou is big enough, and now it involves Beixinqiao. We don't have that much energy to manage it, so for those above and below, I have to catch a typical case and handle it to death, just to make these people afraid."

Seeing Wei Guo stared at Li Xuewu for a while, then said: "I always thought you were retaliating against me. I didn't expect you to be more sinister and ruthless than I thought."

"Hahahaha."

Li Xuewu chuckled for a while, then said: "I don't care if it's a 'wan-zhu' or whose relative it is. Any unstable factor is within the scope of my clearance."

"Just like you said, I just need a chicken. I don't care if it's a big rooster or a second rooster; as long as it can be killed to deter the petty ones, it's a good chicken."

Seeing Wei Guo understood what Li Xuewu meant, but it also made him hesitate.

Li Xuewu wouldn't miss this opportunity to add pressure, pointing at Seeing Wei Guo and saying: "This is what I thought before."

In Seeing Wei Guo's surprised eyes, Li Xuewu said: "Your situation is different from your brother's, but the problems are not small, enough for us to punish and deter you. But your brother..."

"What your family did to Zheng Minhua has already touched our bottom line."

Seeing Wei Guo looked at Li Xuewu's ruthless expression and stammered: "That's two lives, how could I possibly..."

Li Xuewu ignored Seeing Wei Guo's words and raised his voice: "I don't care about other places, but here, I absolutely do not allow any gray areas. In our eyes, it's either white or black."

"Especially toward women, I don't allow such despicable things to happen, nor do I allow this matter to be handled like this."

"Hehe... hehe..."

Seeing Wei Guo lowered his head, repeating Li Xuewu's words, nodding continuously, laughing and crying at the same time.

"Click."

The door to the interrogation room was pushed open from the outside, and Shen Fang walked in with Xiao Mi.

Looking at the person squatting by the radiator, Shen Fang said to Li Xuewu: "The person has been found, and they are still living over there."

Li Xuewu nodded, then said to Seeing Wei Guo: "I've said what I can say to you, and I've told you everything I should. Now I'll tell you one more thing: we've already found Zheng Minhua."

Shen Fang looked at Seeing Wei Guo with a frown, then asked Li Xuewu: "Is this the one who pushed the person down the stairs?"

Li Xuewu didn't answer Shen Fang's question but looked at Seeing Wei Guo, who had been keeping his head down.

Shen Fang didn't get an answer from Li Xuewu, so he turned to ask Seeing Wei Guo: "How could you have the heart to push a pregnant woman down the stairs? Huh? Are you even human?"

Shen Fang scolded sternly: "Zheng Minhua almost died on the operating table. Don't you feel remorse for the mistake you made? Wasn't the child yours? You've lost your conscience. Now the person's two legs are crippled, and she has no sensation in her lower limbs. A perfectly good young lady has been ruined like this by you. Executing you would be too light."

"I didn't!"

Seeing Shen Fang's scolding getting harsher with every sentence, especially hearing Shen Fang describe Zheng Minhua's current state, Seeing Wei Guo's psychological defense was shattered.

"It wasn't me!"

Seeing Wei Guo shed tears, looked at Li Xuewu, emphasized it again, and then said with a crying voice: "I'm not afraid of death, but I don't want to die with this reputation."

"Sigh~"

Li Xuewu sighed and said: "If I interrogate you, you'll have psychological burdens. I'll recuse myself and let my comrade interrogate you. You only have this one chance. If you have anything to say, tell him, and it'll be fine once it's clear."

After finishing speaking to Seeing Wei Guo, Li Xuewu stood up straight and walked out. At the door, he turned back to Seeing Wei Guo, who was looking at him:

"As for the gun possession, I'll give you a guarantee. As long as you cooperate, it can be handled leniently. If it goes fast, you can go home in two or three days."

After saying this, Li Xuewu opened the door and walked out.

Shen Fang looked at the stunned Seeing Wei Guo, gestured to Xiao Mi, and then sat behind the interrogation table.

Xiao Mi unlocked Seeing Wei Guo's cuffs, pulled Seeing Wei Guo to the interrogation chair, pressed him down, and cuffed him again.

Watching Xiao Mi return to his side and open the interrogation record book, Shen Fang knew it was his turn to take the stage.

Li Xuewu had already gone through most of the interrogation procedure; now he just needed to ask.

"I am Shen Fang, the station chief of the Jiaodaokou Station."

Shen Fang first introduced himself, then laughed "hehe" twice and said: "I didn't expect you guys to have such big faces, needing three station chiefs to interrogate you."

Seeing Wei Guo sat in the interrogation chair, looking at this unfamiliar policeman, and felt more relaxed inside; some things weren't as hard to say anymore.

"I'm different from Station Chief Li. I don't have time to reason with you, nor will I talk to you about underworld loyalty. I'm giving you one chance to confess today, so you'd better cherish it."

There's a good cop and a bad cop; Shen Fang was now being strict, putting on the airs of a station chief and saying: "Speak."

Seeing Wei Guo looked at Shen Fang, then at Xiao Mi, swallowed his saliva, and began: "Zheng Minhua is from the art troupe of the Textile Third Factory..."

Knowing Seeing Wei Guo would talk, Li Xuewu didn't waste time in the room. Although Seeing Wei Guo would have talked if he had interrogated him, he ultimately didn't want to be inside, so it was better to hand Seeing Wei Guo over to Shen Fang.

Li Xuewu was very reassured about Shen Fang; his interrogation level wasn't low.

Unlike the average station policeman, Shen Fang had a relatively high level of education.

Don't laugh; at that time, Shen Fang's middle school education was truly impressive. The middle school entrance exam back then wasn't much easier than the college entrance exam of later generations.

How else could he have been promoted to station chief before the age of thirty?

Shen Fang knew how to keep pace with the times; when facing criminals, he didn't just resort to beating, scolding, and intimidation.

In this respect, Shen Fang was similar to Li Xuewu.

Li Xuewu felt he was someone who followed the law, enforced it strictly, and investigated violations thoroughly.

Pushing open the door to the interrogation room where Weimin was, he saw Weimin, like Seeing Wei Guo, struggling with the radiator pipe.

"Finally showing your face? I thought you were going to keep hiding in the back and playing dirty tricks."

Li Xuewu hadn't expected Weimin's perseverance to be so strong.

Looking at the time, it was already noon. He had been hanging there for over twenty hours, and he still had the energy to talk to him calmly.

"You know me?"

"No."

Weimin said proudly: "I remember seeing you at the roast duck restaurant. This is the third time."

Li Xuewu knew that the second time Weimin skipped over was the time he had beaten him.

"Then how did you know I would hide in the back and play dirty tricks?"

Looking at the wound on Weimin's forehead, it had already scabbed over. The blood on his face had probably been cleaned up by the comrades at the station; he looked somewhat human now.

That day, Li Xuewu had also used great force. The collision between Weimin's forehead and the engine cover had almost cost Weimin half his life.

Seeing Li Xuewu checking his wound, Weimin didn't dodge, because he couldn't.

His hands were cuffed to the radiator pipe, his whole body was hanging, and he was already somewhat exhausted.

"Do you think you're very powerful, thinking that catching me counts as ruining my face, just to go and claim credit in front of Gu Ning?"

Li Xuewu looked at Weimin with narrowed eyes as he spoke, neither refuting nor interrupting.

"Hehe, stop looking. It's an external injury, no big deal. I just fainted for a night and was dizzy; I just woke up this morning."

Li Xuewu nodded and said: "So you know my identity?"

Weimin shook the cuffs on his hands and said: "Now that I'm cuffed, but you can walk in and talk to me, if I still couldn't figure it out, I'd be an idiot."

At the beginning, both were testing each other with random questions, but now they had finally started talking normally.

"You are security; we shouldn't be detaining you."

"Hehe."

Weimin sneered at Li Xuewu twice, then said: "It's fine. This time I've fallen into your hands. Hand me over to the Textile Factory."

Seeing Li Xuewu staring at him with a frown, Weimin laughed: "What? Still want to hit me a couple of times?"

"Sure, come on."

Weimin straightened his neck and said to Li Xuewu: "But let's be clear: if you hit me too hard and the Textile Factory notices, then I'll tell the truth."

"You really aren't as open as your brother. Whether you say it or not, your brother is at least a character. As for you, hehe."

Li Xuewu sneered and mocked Weimin, then pulled out the M1911 from his chest and turned it in his hand.

"What I meant to say just now was that we originally intended to send you to the Textile Factory for handling, but your mother blocked it, saying it should be handled at the station."

Watching Li Xuewu holding the gun upside down, like a small hammer, standing in front of him, Weimin's face turned pale, whiter than when he fainted yesterday.

"My mom came? It's useless for her to block it. I'm security for the Textile Factory; you don't have the right to dispose of me."

"Mm-hmm."

Li Xuewu nodded and said: "We don't have the right to dispose of you, and we didn't intend to dispose of you in the first place."

He tapped the radiator pipe with the "small hammer," and the sound was quite crisp.

"But there's a case that needs your cooperation, so the Textile Factory you want to go to is temporarily off-limits."

Weimin knew Li Xuewu was scaring him, using the gun to tap the radiator pipe to apply psychological pressure, and concluded that Li Xuewu wouldn't dare hit him.

"I admit my mistake, I surrender. Go tell Gu Ning I apologize, and I'll pay whatever compensation is needed. You guys wouldn't arrest me just because I wanted to talk to an acquaintance, would you?"

"Hahahaha, you're thinking quite beautifully."

Li Xuewu pulled up a chair and sat in front of Weimin, sneering: "It seems your mind isn't very clean; you're always thinking about ruining young girls."

"Don't spit blood!"

Weimin raised his head and glared at Li Xuewu: "I said I surrendered. Don't you know what's going on? Isn't it just that you want to curry favor with Gu Ning's family? It's enough to teach me a lesson; there's no need to splash dirty water on me, right?"

Li Xuewu leaned back, crossed his legs, and said with narrowed eyes: "First of all, I didn't catch you because that person was Gu Ning. If it were someone else, I'd still handle you. I've never seen someone so stubborn."

"Secondly, I have no grudge against you, and you don't need to think about my relationship with Gu Ning. We have no relationship. I'm just strictly enforcing the law. I told your brother too: as long as you break the law with me, I'll catch you."

"Forget it. Who are you catching? Me? You can't catch me."

Weimin raised his head and looked at Li Xuewu disdainfully: "Retaliation is retaliation. Trying to make a beauty smile isn't a shameful thing. You don't need to talk to me so righteously. Besides, you can't handle me."

After mocking Li Xuewu, Weimin tilted his head and gestured for Li Xuewu to look at the wound on his head, saying: "You gave me such a big wound and sent me to the Textile Factory. That's enough for you to report to the Gu family, right? What now? You want to kill me? Does Gu Can even have the guts for that?"

"So you're convinced I'm retaliating against you for Gu Ning's sake?"

Li Xuewu laughed "Hehe" at Weimin, then quickly changed his expression and asked ruthlessly: "I said you ruined a young girl; can't you remember what you've done?"

Weimin, who was already pale-faced, was stunned for a moment, and the "girl" from the depths of his memory surfaced in his mind.

"You!"

Weimin said in surprise, then closed his mouth, because he knew the more he said, the more he would be wrong.

But only his family knew about this. Who told him?

"Wondering how I know? Wondering who told me?"

Li Xuewu leaned forward and whispered: "Who knows about this? Remove the impossible, and what remains is the person who reported you."

"Impossible!"

"Absolutely impossible!"

Weimin shook his head and shouted: "Where did you find out? Was it that woman?"

"You already have the answer in your heart. Why don't you dare to face this answer?"

Li Xuewu looked at the silent Weimin and said: "That woman is already paralyzed and can't even get out of bed. How could she report you?"

Weimin looked up and stared into Li Xuewu's eyes, trying to see if Li Xuewu was telling the truth or a lie.

Li Xuewu also stared back at Weimin, saying slowly: "You ruined a person, not just a young body, but also her soul."

The exploration and suspicion in Weimin's gaze toward Li Xuewu faded, and he slowly began to avoid Li Xuewu's eyes.

"Your family has power, and your family has money. When she became paralyzed, your family arranged a job at the Textile Third Factory for her younger brother and gave her father money. Have you ever thought about her? Have you ever thought about the child she was carrying for you?"

"You don't need to trick me. I won't say anything. Either you do it, or you send me to the Textile Factory."

Weimin lowered his head and replied to Li Xuewu, then fell silent.

Li Xuewu narrowed his eyes and said: "This is what I meant when I said your brother is more responsible than you. He's at least a man, not a deserter, coward, and scum like you."

No matter how Li Xuewu insulted him, Weimin just kept his head down and didn't speak.

Because as long as he didn't admit it, Li Xuewu couldn't do anything to him, because the local station didn't have the authority to try him.

Li Xuewu tapped the stool leg with the gun and said: "You said I was handling you for the Gu family, but you don't think about it: if Gu Can knew about your character, do you think you'd still be able to get anywhere near Gu Ning?"

"I'll give you a chance. As long as you confess your criminal facts clearly, I'll give you a chance to make amends."

Weimin suddenly looked up at Li Xuewu.

Li Xuewu stared into Weimin's eyes and said: "I'll let you see Zheng Minhua."

Weimin looked at Li Xuewu with hanging eyes, showing a disdainful expression.

Li Xuewu leaned close to Weimin and said slowly: "Admit your mistake to her and get her forgiveness. I don't think you'll have to eat a bullet."

"Hehe, save it. Keep your kindness. If you want to hit me, hit me. If you don't, leave. Either send me away, don't waste time with me here."

Li Xuewu looked at the arrogant Weimin and said slowly: "You're waiting for your parents to save you, right? Hahahaha."

Li Xuewu stood up, and in Weimin's surprised eyes, he swung the handgun and smashed it hard against his cuffed hands.

"Mmm~~~"

Weimin gritted his teeth, his face tense, while his eyes glared at Li Xuewu. He didn't let out a scream, just a pained groan from his nasal cavity.

Li Xuewu looked at the finger he had smashed, then looked at Weimin's resentful eyes, and swung it down again.

"F*ck your mother!"

Weimin was in severe pain from Li Xuewu's second blow, and he started cursing directly.

Li Xuewu ignored Weimin's cursing and swung the handgun for a third blow.

"Ah! ~~~"

Weimin couldn't help but roar. He didn't have the energy to curse anymore; now there was only pain.

This Li Xuewu was too vicious; every time he smashed a finger.

He smashed the swollen part, let it swell again, and smashed it again.

Now Weimin's brain was throbbing with pain. Ten fingers are connected to the heart; looking at that finger, it was as thick as a small rolling pin. How could it not hurt?

"Hahahahaha."

Li Xuewu chuckled at that finger for a while, then poked it with the gun butt and said to Weimin, who was sweating on his forehead: "You're not as tough as you look, and you're not as fearless as you say."

He tapped that purple-swollen finger lightly with the gun butt again, drawing a "hissing" sound from Weimin.

"I still like your unruly appearance. Recover a bit."

Weimin ignored Li Xuewu's teasing, just staring at Li Xuewu with bloodshot eyes.

"Hahahaha."

Li Xuewu smiled and swung his beloved "small hammer" to knock Weimin's second finger, but was blocked by Weimin struggling with his body.

"Are you f*cking sick!"

"How did you know?"

Li Xuewu looked at Weimin in surprise, seeing Weimin also looking at him in astonishment.

Then he understood and said: "Oh, oh, oh, you heard it in the car that day, right? That doesn't count."

Li Xuewu waved his hand and said: "Gu Ning is a surgeon; how could she diagnose me with a mental illness?"

"You f*cking!!!"

Weimin's look at Li Xuewu changed. Falling into the hands of a mental patient, that finger was worth it.

This thought came from his brain, because if Li Xuewu had smashed his head instead...

"You have ten fingers. Just try and see if I smash all your fingers into rolling pins, and see if your mother or father can come to save you."

"F*ck your grandfather! Letting a mental patient in! Someone help!"

"Stop shouting."

Li Xuewu looked at Weimin with a frown and said: "I was just teasing you. I didn't expect you to take it seriously."

Weimin looked at his fingers, then at Li Xuewu, who had a "just kidding" expression, and was truly on the verge of tears.

Li Xuewu put the handgun back into his chest and said with disdain: "Don't look at me smashing your fingers; I'm not a bad person. I'm just a bit serious."

Weimin backed his body away, very afraid that Li Xuewu would do something else to him.

"You were so arrogant, so of course I had to give you a chance to see if you were really firm and unyielding, but I'm very disappointed."

Li Xuewu sat back in the chair, shook his head, and said: "You disappoint me. Look at yourself; what do you look like now?"

Weimin wanted to say, "You squat here and let me smash you, and see if you're as tough as I am."

The words reached his lips, but he didn't dare say them.

Li Xuewu pointed at Weimin and said: "Actually, you don't need to say anything. You don't need to say anything at all. Once your brother confesses the facts, we'll start the procedure. Believe me, you don't need to say anything, because by then, whatever you say will be useless."

"My brother won't talk. He won't betray me."

Weimin shook his head, looking incredulous, but the more he emphasized it, the more uncertain Weimin felt inside.

Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows and said: "He wouldn't have betrayed you originally, but you betrayed him first."

"No. Since I woke up in the middle of the night, I haven't said a word."

"But someone else spoke for you."

"Who?"

Li Xuewu didn't rush to answer Weimin, but stood up and buttoned his jacket, deliberately teasing Weimin: "Guess."

Weimin shouted at Li Xuewu, then seeing Li Xuewu turn around, asked hesitantly: "Can I get out if my brother takes all the blame?"

"Dream on."

Li Xuewu sneered.

Seeing Weimin become angry from embarrassment, he used even more sarcastic words: "Do you think we're blind or stupid? The fact that you harassed a woman on the street is clear, and the fact that you and your brother used weapons to threaten us is also clear. Can you run away?"

Weimin asked angrily: "Then what did you mean by what you said about my brother?"

Li Xuewu stood at the door and said with disdain: "Even now, you still don't admit the answer in your heart? You still want your brother to take the blame for you, right?"

"No."

Weimin shook his head: "I said this morning that I'm security for the Textile Factory, which means I'm going to take responsibility myself. I don't need Qin Laoer to take the blame for me."

"But your mother doesn't think so, so we can only interrogate your brother. By then, you two brothers can keep each other company."

Li Xuewu turned around and pulled the door open. Although this was some distance from the hall, he could still hear Madam Wei's voice.

"Listen, that's your mother's voice, right? Even now, she's still defending you, helping you be a deserter one more time. Last time you ran away and caused your child's death; this time, you're planning to use your brother's life as a cushion? Hahahaha."

Facing Li Xuewu's sneer, Weimin lowered his head and didn't speak.

Li Xuewu didn't look at Weimin anymore, walked out, and whispered: "Like father, like son, raising a coward."

When Li Xuewu walked out the door, Weimin hadn't reacted.

Just as the door made a creaking sound, just as Li Xuewu was about to close it tightly.

Weimin suddenly raised his head and said: "Don't make things difficult for Qin Laoer. I admit it was me."

Li Xuewu gripped the door handle, looked at Shen Fang, who had walked up to him, and asked: "You admit you did what?"

Only Weimin's hoarse voice came from the interrogation room: "I pushed Zheng Minhua down by accident. It wasn't Qin Laoer, and it wasn't my mother."

"One person does the deed, one person takes the responsibility. Let my mother go back."

Li Xuewu snorted coldly and said: "Still count as a man. Wait!"

"Bang!"

Li Xuewu slammed the door to the interrogation room shut, gestured for Shen Fang to be quiet, and pulled Shen Fang away.

"Finished interrogating?"

"Finished."

Shen Fang nodded and said: "You've already handled the case to this point; it didn't take long to get the confession."

Li Xuewu nodded, took the interrogation record from Xiao Mi's hand, looked at it, and signed his name in the interrogation personnel position at the bottom.

Shen Fang explained Li Xuewu's actions: "It's the same as what Zheng Minhua said. Except for some ambiguity in the timing, there's no difference."

"Is Zuo Jie's statement finished?"

Xiao Mi pointed to the rack in Li Xuewu's hand and said: "It's underneath."

Li Xuewu flipped it over and signed his name in the interrogation position as well.

Now these two interrogation records had both Shen Fang's and Li Xuewu's names, which meant something different.

"Remember to have your Station Chief Duan sign it later."

Seeing Li Xuewu's instructions, Xiao Mi nodded, then looked at Li Xuewu with admiration.

After speaking to Xiao Mi, Li Xuewu said to Shen Fang: "Have you controlled Zheng Minhua's family?"

This was something Li Xuewu had specifically instructed Shen Fang in the note.

"Controlled. They've all been detained."

Li Xuewu nodded, pointed to Weimin's interrogation room, and said: "You've worked hard. Interrogate him first. Let's finish handling this before we eat."

Shen Fang nodded: "Don't let this momentum die. The sooner we finish interrogating, the sooner we can rest. We can eat anytime; we're used to it."

"Mm, go ahead. I'll go see Old Duan. He seems to be unable to hold on. Why do I hear the sound of enemy artillery? Is Old Duan a dud?"

After saying that, Li Xuewu pulled Shen Fang aside again and whispered: "Help me get a license plate later. That car at the recycling station needs a new plate."

Shen Fang asked in surprise: "I was just about to ask you why you got that plate, but why change it now?"

"No, no."

Li Xuewu shook his head: "One, I'm not in my previous position, and two, that car isn't in its previous position. It shouldn't use that kind of plate. Besides, the meaning represented by that plate doesn't suit me. Better change it."

"Hahahaha."

Shen Fang laughed, admiring Li Xuewu's reasonableness in his heart, but teased him: "Are you afraid of being investigated for something? Hahahaha."

Passing by Shen Fang, watching Shen Fang and Xiao Mi enter the interrogation room, Li Xuewu lit a cigarette and walked toward the hall.

As soon as he passed the corner, he saw Madam Wei pushing Old Song, wanting to enter the duty room.

"You won't release the person, but can't I at least make a phone call? You won't even let me make a call?"

Old Song looked at Duan Youting, embarrassed, blocking the door to the duty room. Duan Youting was looking at Madam Wei with a frown.

Seeing Li Xuewu come out of the corridor and wave at him to let Old Song step aside, Duan Youting immediately relaxed his frown.

"Let her call. We are here to serve the people. If she wants to call, let her call."

Madam Wei, seeing Old Song no longer blocking her, looked at Duan Youting blankly, then saw Li Xuewu walking out without paying attention to anyone, and knew something was wrong.

"Who exactly are you?"

Li Xuewu stopped, looked at the woman standing in the duty room staring at him, and laughed: "Why are you still asking? I really am a maintenance worker. I just went in to nail a few nails."

"Who are you lying to? Can a maintenance worker command a station chief?"

Madam Wei glared at Li Xuewu, then turned and walked into the duty room, saying as she walked: "I don't care who you are; today I must take Weimin away."

As she spoke, she picked up the phone on the table and said into the receiver: "Help me get the Textile Factory. Hello? Hello?..."

Li Xuewu ignored the woman, pulled Duan Youting toward the office area, and said: "Everything is ready, we just need the east wind. You have to hold on."

Duan Youting looked at Li Xuewu and said: "What's there to not hold on to? Didn't you tell me to unplug the phone? No one can reach me now."

No wonder Madam Wei was saying "hello" in there; it turned out Li Xuewu had called Duan Youting and told him to cut the phone line.

Duan Youting was also very obedient, directly cutting the main line. Now, no one could get through to the station.

Madam Wei, coming out of the duty room, pointed angrily at Duan Youting and Li Xuewu: "You guys are truly ruthless, cutting my phone line. Fine, I'll go out and call, is that okay?"

As she spoke, she walked out of the hall, got into the Volga parked in the courtyard, and went out to make a call.

Li Xuewu and Duan Youting watched the car in the courtyard drive out, looked at each other, and both laughed.

Duan Youting looked at his watch and said to Li Xuewu: "It's past one o'clock. Let's go, let's try the craftsmanship of our station's chef."

"Old Shen hasn't eaten yet. It's not very good for us two to eat first, is it?"

Duan Youting looked at Li Xuewu's hypocritical appearance, raised his eyebrows, and said: "Then you go replace Old Shen, and we'll go eat."

"Let's go, let's go, let's hurry up and eat. I'm hungry."

Li Xuewu didn't mention Shen Fang, who hadn't eaten yet, and pushed Duan Youting toward the cafeteria.

It was called a cafeteria, but the station's building was from the previous dynasty, so you could imagine how simple the cafeteria was.

The person cooking was an old man in his fifties, and the food was very simple: steamed buns and stewed Chinese cabbage.

Because soy sauce was added, the color of the cabbage looked very appetizing.

Li Xuewu borrowed a bowl, didn't stand on ceremony, scooped a ladle of cabbage, took a bun, and went to the table to eat.

Because his meal rations weren't here, he was eating the station's food, so Li Xuewu only ate one bun, just enough not to be hungry.

Duan Youting saw Li Xuewu scoop so little, picked up the ladle, added another ladle of cabbage for Li Xuewu, and gave him another bun.

Before Li Xuewu could decline, Duan Youting smiled at the old man in the cafeteria: "Don't feel bad about feeding this guy. These two buns today definitely won't be a loss; they can be exchanged for many things."

"Hahahaha."

The old man in the cafeteria sat to one side and just chuckled, knowing the station chief was joking with him. Someone who could joke with the station chief couldn't be a simple person.

"He's the station chief of Jiaodaokou. I know. His driver said so when he came in to eat earlier."

"Yo!"

Duan Youting was surprised, then said to Li Xuewu: "Your driver is even less polite than you."

Li Xuewu looked up at the door, turned back to the old man in the cafeteria, and said: "I'll give you the meal tickets in a moment."

"Are you slapping my face?"

Duan Youting said with dissatisfaction: "You treated me to dinner yesterday. If I accepted your meal tickets today when you came to my place, what would that make me?"

At this time, the old man sitting over there hurriedly explained: "He gave them. That driver gave the meal tickets."

Li Xuewu smiled and said: "That settles it."

After saying that, he said to Duan Youting: "Don't be stingy. This meal doesn't count. Steamed buns and cabbage can't compare to last night's big meal. You have to treat me another time."

"Fine, fine, fine."

Duan Youting carried his rice basin and sat opposite Li Xuewu, looking at Li Xuewu and saying: "As long as this case can be closed, I'll treat you to mutton hot pot."

"That's more like it."

Li Xuewu lowered his head to eat and gnaw on the bun. Although it was a bit cold, it was still edible with the cabbage soup.

The old man in the cafeteria brought them two bowls of hot water and said: "Everyone in the station has finished eating. I'm keeping these in the box to keep them warm. The buns are cold; they've been sitting too long."

"It's alright."

Li Xuewu nodded and thanked him as he took the hot water.

It was nearly two o'clock when they finished eating, so they walked toward the hall while talking, wanting to return to Duan Youting's office to sit for a while.

But as soon as they reached the courtyard, they saw the Volga that had just gone out return, followed by a jeep.

Li Xuewu and Duan Youting looked at each other, knowing that the reinforcements Madam Wei had brought were here.

With a series of "bang, bang, bang" sounds of car doors closing, four people got out of the cars.

Madam Wei, who got out first, stood beside a middle-aged man, looking at Li Xuewu and the other with arrogance.

Li Xuewu sized up this thin, tall middle-aged man.

Parted hair, gaunt face, gray Zhongshan suit, upright posture, carrying a sharp aura.

Looking at the jeep, Li Xuewu recognized the two people who got out; they were Station Chief Zheng and his clerk whom he had met at Red Star Village that day.

Station Chief Zheng walked up to Duan Youting and Li Xuewu and asked with a frown: "What's going on? Why couldn't I get through on the phone?"

Duan Youting twitched the corner of his mouth and said: "We just discovered it too. We don't know what animal bit the phone line outside the wall. Maybe a wild cat or something."

Station Chief Zheng looked at Duan Youting, who wouldn't lie, and then at Li Xuewu, who was rolling his eyes to the side.

"What a coincidence."

After saying that, he continued to ask: "What's going on with the case?"

Duan Youting looked at the couple by the car and explained to Station Chief Zheng in a low voice: "It's Station Chief Li. Yesterday, he ran into a criminal harassing a young lady on the street, so he stepped in to save her. It just so happened that Old Song and Xiao Mi from our station were passing by, so they brought everyone back together. We're in the middle of interrogating them."

"Nonsense!"

Madam Wei heard Duan Youting's explanation and denied it, but as soon as she opened her mouth, she was pulled back by the middle-aged man.

The man walked over, looked at Li Xuewu, then at Duan Youting, and said: "I believe my son wouldn't do such a thing. Maybe there's some misunderstanding, and that young lady knows my son."

Li Xuewu looked at this man who spoke slowly and methodically; he didn't expect the difference between his speech and appearance to be so great.

"You were the one who caught Weimin, right?"

Father Wei looked at Li Xuewu, his eyes not showing any severe expression, just saying: "Maybe you misunderstood, and your methods were a bit excessive, which is why Seeing Wei Guo took the gun and told you to let go."

After talking about Li Xuewu, he said to Station Chief Zheng: "The child is unruly and stole my gun to go out, which was indeed a mistake. You can punish him however you see fit, and his mother and I will educate him when we go back."

Hey!

What is called turning black into white? What is called being old and cunning?

With Father Wei saying it like this, it turned into Li Xuewu being overly defensive, and at most, it counted as Seeing Wei Guo violating gun possession rules. ===== CHAPTER 271 =====

Seeing Seeing Wei Guo was about to settle old scores, Li Xuewu knew he wasn't reconciled to being the scapegoat for his brother, so he didn't interrupt Seeing Wei Guo and let him continue.

"At that time, my brother was going to the frontier with Mr. Wang, but Zheng Minhua came to our house with a big belly. My mother wouldn't accept her, so she wanted to push her out and not let her enter the door."

"Sigh~"

At this point, Seeing Wei Guo couldn't go on, and the rest of his words turned into a sigh.

"So you pushed her down the stairs?"

Seeing Li Xuewu looking at him with contempt, Seeing Wei Guo laughed twice and said: "I've never laid a hand on a woman in my life. How could I touch a pregnant woman?"

Li Xuewu shook his head and said: "But your brother said Zheng Minhua was your girlfriend, that you got her pregnant. He said he tried to persuade you, but you wouldn't listen, and it was you who, in a fit of rage, dealt with her."

"Hahahaha, whatever he says, he says."

Seeing Seeing Wei Guo about to give up on himself, Li Xuewu also sighed and said: "Harassing a woman on the street is already not a good thing to hear, and now you're carrying such a reputation. If you eat a bullet, you'll just leave behind a reputation of being cursed after death, while your brother continues to be carefree."

Seeing Seeing Wei Guo lower his head, Li Xuewu continued: "But what if you don't eat a bullet?"

Seeing Wei Guo's body stiffened; he clearly thought of the consequences of such a situation.