Chapter 33

Since this bicycle has a serial number stamped on it, there's no way to deny it. Hu Jinbu could only nod and say, "It's mine."

"Alright, admitting it is enough."

After Li Xuewu finished speaking, he turned his head and signaled for Han Yating to search him.

"Search and see what's inside."

Han Yating replied "Yes," and began to reach her hands into the sawdust bags.

Because the sawdust was packed tightly, it took a great deal of effort to pull out seventeen or eighteen palm-sized purple copper workpieces from inside.

The other sack was the same.

Seeing Han Yating go to search the sacks, Hu Jinbu panicked and began praying incessantly to all the gods and Buddhas in the sky.

But it was useless; wasn't he just making things difficult for the gods and Buddhas?

When people do a little good, they always want the gods to protect them so the whole world knows.

When they do a little bad, they always want the gods to protect them so no one else knows; this makes it too difficult for the gods.

From the moment Han Yating pulled out the first part, Hu Jinbu collapsed onto the ground.

After everything was pulled out, his eyes went blank. It wasn't until Liu Fusheng dragged him toward the office building that he looked back at the bicycle and saw the security guards who had been at the entrance with him running toward the duty room, which finally gave him a glimmer of hope.

Li Xuewu pushed the bicycle behind them, Han Yating carried the copper parts strung together with a rope, and Liu Fusheng and Xu Ning escorted the man back to the office building.

As soon as they entered the building, Liu Fusheng locked Hu Jinbu in the detention room, while Li Xuewu wrote a statement of the situation and had Xu Ning ride the bicycle to the police station to get a summons, and Han Yating went to verify the source and value of the copper parts.

By the time the few of them finished, an hour had already passed.

He arranged for Han Yating and Xu Ning to be on duty.

He led Liu Fusheng and Wei Tong down from the second floor and arrived at the detention room at the end of the first floor.

In the detention room, a very arrogant young man was lying on the bed, his legs propped up on the headboard, swaying back and forth.

Li Xuewu looked through the window on the door; he was actually quite relaxed, even more comfortable than sleeping at home.

"Is this a detention room? If you didn't know better, you'd think it was a hotel."

Li Xuewu ignored their embarrassment: "Open the door."

Wei Tong took out the key and opened the door, and Li Xuewu stepped inside.

The young man inside stopped swaying his legs and switched to pretending to sleep, even snoring.

Li Xuewu lowered his head and looked at this person carefully; he didn't look bad, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, but his shirt wasn't fully buttoned, and he was wearing a white shirt and a cyan sweater underneath.

"Are you Hu Jinbu?"

The answer to Li Xuewu was still the long snoring sound, which actually had quite a rhythm.

"Alright, sleeping quite soundly; looks like a good person."

The rhythm of the snoring was suddenly disrupted for a moment.

Li Xuewu took out the handcuffs Liu Fusheng had tucked into his waist, and with a "Click!", he cuffed Hu Jinbu's wrists, then suddenly yanked the other end.

Hu Jinbu let out an "Ouch" and sat up with it.

Li Xuewu pulled the handcuffs and dragged Hu Jinbu a few steps to the door, raised his hand, and cuffed him to the iron bars of the ventilation window on the wall.

Hu Jinbu's tiptoes could just barely touch the ground, and his whole body was hanging diagonally on the wall.

If Hu Jinbu wanted to let his feet touch the ground to relieve his fatigue, the handcuffs on his wrists would tighten, so he could only try his best to stand on tiptoe to support himself.

Li Xuewu patted Hu Jinbu's angry face and said, "There are two hours and fifteen minutes left until we get off work. If you don't confess before we get off work today, then we'll have to wait until tomorrow."

Hu Jinbu looked at the scarred man in front of him, having to look up even while standing on tiptoe, but he said with a fierce expression: "Who the hell are you? Wanting to learn from Hongyadong to persecute workers? I'm going to report you."

Li Xuewu took out a cigarette and lit it, blowing the smoke toward the ventilation window; the cold wind blowing in instantly scattered the smoke.

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"Want to report me? Heh heh, you'll have to get out of here first. I'm the one in charge here. The wind is quite cool here; you can just sober up properly here. Think clearly about whether it's better to admit your mistake and pay a fine, or to refuse to admit it and wait for me to send you to the bureau and have you expelled."

Hu Jinbu rolled his eyes: "Trying to trap me? Daydreaming! Even if you beat me to death, I won't admit it! That was someone else framing me! Also, my uncle is the director of the factory logistics warehouse. I won't be here until we get off work; you'll have to invite me out. Once I get out, if I don't beat the green shit out of you, I'll count it as you never having eaten chives!"

Li Xuewu twisted his mouth and gave a mocking laugh: "What other powerful connections do you have? Say them out, let me see how strong your backing is."

Hu Jinbu stopped looking at him and turned his head to look at the ventilation window.

The breath from his nostrils and mouth was quickly scattered by the cold wind.

Li Xuewu didn't care, waved his hand at Liu Fusheng and the other man, and led them out the door.

"Fusheng, lock the door tight. No matter who tells you to open it, don't, unless it's my order. You and Wei Tong stay here and take turns on duty. Don't pay any attention to this kid unless he calls you Grandpa."

Both Liu Fusheng and the other man shouted: "Yes!"

Hu Jinbu shouted from inside at this time: "Fuck your grandpa, I, Hu Jinbu, am your grandpa!"

Li Xuewu ignored him, went back to the second floor, took the factory guard roster, and went to the guard dormitory.

The dormitory was right next to the guard room, and Li Xuewu didn't knock, opening the door directly.

"Whoa~~!"

It was just like entering a biochemical training room.

The smell of smoke, the stench of quilts, the smell of stove smoke, the smell of dirty clothes, the smell of stinky feet.

Li Xuewu took a step back, watching the smoke drifting out of the room.

Great Sage, put away your supernatural powers~~~

The people inside saw the door open but no one came in, and they shouted: "Who's at the door? If you're not coming in, close the door!"

Li Xuewu saw that the smoke wasn't as thick, so he walked in. As soon as he entered, there was a long corridor, with a heated brick bed on each side, and two stoves on both sides of the entrance for heating the beds.

People were standing, lying down, snoring, smoking, and playing cards in the room—a lively scene.

This is what you call a guard team? The Nationalist Army back then was probably more standardized than this; this is the standard of a local security regiment.

They didn't recognize Li Xuewu, but they recognized the public security uniform. But when did a new public security officer come to the factory? And why come here?

A blockhead sitting on the edge of the bed, leaning on his knees and smoking, tilted his head and asked: "What for? Who are you looking for?"

Li Xuewu looked at him, turned his head toward everyone in the room, held up the roster, and said: "I am the newly appointed chief of the security section of the factory security department, the militia company commander, and also the guard team captain."

Li Xuewu saw that this group of people was still indifferent, so he clapped his hands with the roster.

"You have three minutes to get dressed, get off the bed, and stand in front of your own bed."

Li Xuewu said this while staring at the wall clock at the end of the corridor.

A group of people suspiciously put on their clothes and got off the bed; some poked their sleeping companions awake, and regardless of what they were doing, they all got off the bed and stood crookedly in front of the bed.

Li Xuewu didn't close the door behind him, and those who were slow to put on their clothes could already feel the cold wind making them shiver.

When the time was up, he saw them standing there looking at him, one by one, looking like crooked melons and cracked dates.

There was still one person lying on the bed sleeping. This person was poked awake by a companion, but he shouted: "I don't care what kind of bullshit captain he is; I only recognize Section Chief Wang as the captain." After saying this, he covered himself with the quilt and continued to sleep.

Li Xuewu stepped forward, walking step by step into the room, carefully sizing up the team members on both sides; those being sized up couldn't help but lower their heads to tidy up their appearance.

He walked to the end and walked back, arriving at the position of the person sleeping under the quilt.