Chapter 553: Why Are You Here!

"Look at you, just look at you. You've made us lose all our face."

Li Xuewu shot Ji Wang Weidong a look of disdain, then smiled and explained to Hu Huisheng, "I'm truly sorry. He's been busy all night; it's only natural he'd be hungry."

After saying this, he put his gun away with a serious air and patted Ji Wang Weidong on the back, as if concerned he might choke.

But Ji Wang Weidong hadn't choked during his performance; it was Li Xuewu's hand touching his back that startled him so much he sprayed a mouthful of biscuit crumbs everywhere.

Li Xuewu was truly disgusted now. With a grimace and a furrowed brow, he pulled his hand back and asked the couple, whose faces were dark enough to wring water from, "Can we get a bowl of water to drink?"

Watching Li Xuewu and Ji Wang Weidong's shameless display, Zhong Huilian truly regretted not having rat poison in the house.

Hu Huisheng, however, had calmed down. He signaled to his beloved wife, then looked at Li Xuewu and said, "The Steel City activities have been going on for so many days; I understand you both very well."

As he spoke, he crossed his legs and comforted them with a pretentious air, "Young people, it's normal to encounter difficulties and failures in work and life!"

"Thanks."

Ji Wang Weidong put down the biscuit box in his hand and took the cup of water Zhong Huilian handed him. He didn't know if the "thanks" was for Zhong Huilian or for the incessantly chattering Hu Huisheng.

Zhong Huilian ignored Ji Wang Weidong, pulled the child who was about to snatch Ji Wang Weidong's biscuits, and sat back down.

But this time, she was clearly much more relaxed than before, because she sat one seat away from her husband.

"As your host, if you encounter difficulties in your work, you can come to me."

Hu Huisheng spread his hands, gesturing to the biscuits and hot water on the coffee table, and said, "Just like now, if you're thirsty or hungry, you can absolutely come to me for relief."

"Cough, cough."

Ji Wang Weidong squinted at Hu Huisheng. Being criticized as if he were a beggar really made him want to thank this generous host.

Li Xuewu, however, didn't mind; after all, he hadn't been the one criticized.

Anyway, he hadn't touched that box of biscuits or that cup of hot water; these words had nothing to do with him.

"However."

Hu Huisheng changed to a dissatisfied attitude, pointing his finger at Li Xuewu and his companion to criticize them, "In the middle of the night, running into my house to cause trouble—do you have any regard for your positions and responsibilities? This is absurd!"

Li Xuewu blinked his eyes, not the least bit intimidated. Instead, he laughed quite uncooperatively.

He hadn't been able to escape this kind of bluster and pretension even after hiding all the way in Steel City; it had still hit him right in the face.

What do you call this?

Can dodge the first day, but can't dodge the two-hundred-fifty?

"'Causing trouble' isn't quite appropriate."

Li Xuewu chuckled, then rubbed his fingers and said, "We're looking for someone, but we can't find him. We figured you must know where he is, so we headed straight to your house."

As he spoke, he gestured toward Zhong Huilian and said, "Our methods were a bit intense, but you have to understand—after all, his wife and child are waiting for him to come home."

Hearing Li Xuewu say this, Hu Huisheng's eyes narrowed instantly, and his words seemed to hit a gate, becoming cautious.

"I don't know what you're talking about. You can see for yourself; there's no one else here."

"Of course."

Li Xuewu nodded very earnestly and said, "We never suspected you were hiding him. After all, carrying a woman and several trunks of luggage, your place..."

Li Xuewu looked around and said, "It wouldn't fit him, would it? You have enough luggage of your own."

"What do you mean?!"

Hu Huisheng asked stiffly, "Speak clearly, or I'll have to ask you to leave, or I'll call..."

"Call who?"

Li Xuewu cut Hu Huisheng off, tilting his head curiously, "Call who? Tell me. We'd actually like to pay a visit; maybe we could even snag some breakfast."

Ji Wang Weidong looked at Li Xuewu in surprise. He had thought he'd already seen the bottom of Li Xuewu's shamelessness, but he was wrong.

"Actually, it doesn't matter who you call."

Li Xuewu's attitude was as kind as ever. He mimicked Hu Huisheng, crossing his legs and leaning back on the sofa, which made Hu Huisheng very uncomfortable, as if looking into a mirror.

"I think if I ask you where Comrade Guandong went, you'll definitely say you don't know, right?"

Li Xuewu ignored Hu Huisheng's reaction and continued, "Then if I ask you where Nie Liansheng went, you have to give me an answer, right?"

"I don't know what you're talking about."

Hu Huisheng seemed not to see his wife's suddenly changing expression and kept staring at Li Xuewu, denying it.

"I'm asking you to leave now. Don't disturb my rest, or I guarantee that no matter what connections or background you have, I will fight you to the end."

"Good, very good."

Li Xuewu nodded and asked, "Then go ahead and say it now."

"Say what?"

Hu Huisheng opened his mouth, looked at Li Xuewu, and said, "I said I..."

"Exactly."

Li Xuewu nodded, "I've already agreed to fight you to the end, so let's talk about Comrade Nie Liansheng's matter."

Hu Huisheng couldn't catch his breath and almost suffocated; the person across from him didn't play by the rules at all.

"I said I don't know what you're talking about."

Hu Huisheng squinted and said word by word, "I don't know the person you're talking about. If you have any questions, please come to my office tomorrow."

"Sorry."

Li Xuewu blinked his left eye and said, "If you can't give me a satisfactory answer, I'll have to invite Comrade Zhong Huilian to go back and assist with the investigation."

"You!"

Hu Huisheng clenched his fists in anger. He could see his body starting to tremble, and he glared at Li Xuewu through gritted teeth.

He hated these fly-like people like Li Xuewu—annoying, numerous, impossible to swat, yet constantly pestering you.

Hu Huisheng was now certain that Li Xuewu knew some things that couldn't be told to outsiders and was deliberately provoking him.

Even though he knew it was a trap, he couldn't suppress his anger.

Li Xuewu spread his hands innocently and said, "Please restrain your anger. Just like Comrade Guandong, Nie Liansheng's wife and child are waiting for him to return."

"Oh, right."

After saying this, Li Xuewu patted his forehead as if he'd forgotten something and asked Hu Huisheng, "You don't know yet, do you?"

Without waiting for Hu Huisheng to react, Li Xuewu continued, "Comrade Guandong's wife and child are hidden away, and Nie Liansheng's son is actually the same. How strange."

Ji Wang Weidong looked at Li Xuewu and really wanted to give him an electric shock; watching him was just too infuriating.

But he knew which side he was on, so he sat to the side and assisted, "Are you stupid? Asking such a simple question? Let me tell you."

As he spoke, he pointed at the little boy across from them and said, "For example, I'm just saying for example, this child isn't his..."

"Shut up!"

Before Ji Wang Weidong could finish, Hu Huisheng had already cursed.

Then, clenching his fists, he looked at Li Xuewu and his companion and said, "I'll go back with you, is that okay? Come on, do you want to put handcuffs on me? Huh!?"

"Hey~"

Li Xuewu waved his hand, not looking at the hands he'd excitedly reached out, and said, "Why are you in such a rush? We follow procedure. Look, a person is missing, so we look for them. How do we look? Naturally, we look for the person who had the most contact with the target. Or are you admitting you're very close to Nie Liansheng or Guandong?"

"Maybe so."

Ji Wang Weidong muttered, his eyes burning as he stared at the little boy hiding in his mother's arms, as if his eyes were DNA testing equipment, wanting to do a paternity test on the child.

"I'll go with you."

Just when Hu Huisheng didn't know how to answer Li Xuewu, Zhong Huilian spoke up.

"You want to ask about Nie Liansheng, right? I know. I'll go with you."

"Mom!"

Before Li Xuewu could speak, the child beside Zhong Huilian spoke first. An eight or nine-year-old child already understood quite a bit—at least he understood that the people his parents were worried about at night were now taking his mother away.

"Waaah~ Don't take my mom~ Mom~"

The child cried, Zhong Huilian whispered to comfort him, and Hu Huisheng looked at Li Xuewu with a livid face.

"Have you thought about the consequences of doing this?"

"What consequences?"

Li Xuewu's kind expression instantly turned into mockery. He raised an eyebrow and asked, "Is it going up, or going down? Or are you going to tell me I won't be able to walk out of your house, or won't be able to walk out of Steel City?"

"I admit, you are very responsible."

Hu Huisheng pinched his fingers and said, "But coming thousands of miles, you three parties in Steel City are working so hard—what exactly is it for? You can tell me; maybe I can help you solve it."

"Hard tactics don't work, so you're trying soft ones?"

Li Xuewu gestured to the window with his chin and mocked, "Didn't you and your wife say you were going to go with us? I've already prepared two cars outside the window, and I even brought the detention personnel. I guarantee we'll receive you with gongs and drums."

"Oh, right."

After saying this, Li Xuewu waved his hand and emphasized, "I forgot to find a reporter, but that's okay. I can write the news report myself. I'll definitely write you, the protagonist, very profoundly, enough to make people reflect."

Hu Huisheng looked at the unyielding Li Xuewu, doing nothing but squinting and pinching his fingers.

In the past, he would have handed someone as reckless as Li Xuewu over to Guandong to handle, because Guandong was even more capable.

Moreover, he had rarely encountered such a difficult opponent before, one who was so willing to risk it all.

If you ask if he was afraid, what Hu Huisheng feared wasn't the gongs and drums Li Xuewu mentioned, but rather people kicking him while he was down.

As long as you walk the wrong path, there will always be people walking the right path to talk about you and manage you.

And if you want to continue walking that path, you have to clear those people out and make them shut up.

But when you are being investigated, whether it's those who stood by and watched the show or those you once dealt with, they will all stand up.

Just like Li Xuewu now, sitting on his sofa so confidently, challenging him and pointing at his nose to list all his crimes.

What do they call it? When the tree falls, the monkeys scatter; when the wall falls, everyone pushes.

Hu Huisheng didn't dare to gamble with Li Xuewu. Saying he wanted Li Xuewu to take him away just now was entirely out of a desire to threaten.

But clearly, this scarred young man who appeared last was the core figure investigating them.

"I... we can talk."

Hu Huisheng closed his eyes, his fingers pinched until they were slightly blue, and he said to Li Xuewu with a trembling voice, "But I need time."

"What a pity."

Li Xuewu also sighed and said helplessly to the two, "Right now, what I need most is time."

As he spoke, he checked the time on his watch and said to Hu Huisheng, "Before dawn, I need to locate Guandong's position. Eight o'clock is my deadline to catch him, but that doesn't include the situation where he might run away."

"Heh."

Hu Huisheng let out a long breath and said hesitantly, "I... I for a moment..."

"Ms. Zhong."

Li Xuewu didn't wait for Hu Huisheng to stutter it out. He turned to look at Zhong Huilian, who was still standing, and said, "If you can help your husband make this decision, I think you should do it. Give him, and yourself, a chance."

After saying this, he looked at the child in her arms and said, "We aren't bad people; you should know that. So, let my colleague take the child into the room for a while, and we'll have a good talk."

Zhong Huilian looked at Hu Huisheng, then lowered her head to look at her son.

Ji Wang Weidong was sitting to the side, watching the show with an old-gods-like air, but he was stunned when Li Xuewu's gaze shifted over.

He immediately understood that the colleague Li Xuewu mentioned to watch the Hu family's child was him.

"?"

Ji Wang Weidong widened his eyes and said urgently in a low voice, "I've never watched a child! You should let your driver go!"

"Has he watched one?"

Li Xuewu rolled his eyes and urged, "Go on, I believe you can do it. Leave this to me. We're the best partners, after all."

Ji Wang Weidong gritted his teeth and glared at Li Xuewu, saying, "Then why isn't it me staying here and you going in to watch the child?"

"Fine, let the child choose himself."

Seeing that Zhong Huilian had already comforted her son, Li Xuewu smiled at the little boy and said, "You can choose an uncle to keep you company. Both he and I are fine, or that uncle at the door."

The little boy didn't make the choice first; instead, he timidly grabbed his mother's clothes and asked Li Xuewu, "If I go into the room, will you take my mom away?"

"I promise."

Li Xuewu smiled, half-raised his hands, and gave a French military salute, saying, "As long as you're good and obedient in the room, I promise that when you come out, your mother will still be sitting here."

The little boy looked at Li Xuewu hesitantly, as if trying to see the truth or falsehood of these words on Li Xuewu's face.

But he had no choice. Seeing Li Xuewu's expression gradually turn cold, he had no choice but to point his little hand at Ji Wang Weidong.

A fool who sprayed biscuit crumbs when he talked was less dangerous than an uncle with a scar on his face who looked scary when he smiled.

"Hey! Little brat!"

Ji Wang Weidong deliberately scared him, "I'm very fierce!"

The little boy's little hand tried to hesitate toward Li Xuewu, but in the end, he didn't let go of pointing at Ji Wang Weidong.

Ji Wang Weidong said angrily to Li Xuewu, "I think best-of-three is better. This box of biscuits influenced his choice."

"Then do you want me to invite a referee?"

Li Xuewu squinted at Ji Wang Weidong and said, "Or should I build a stadium, invite eight thousand people to watch, and also invite Yuxiu and Xiao Han to see how manly you are?"

"Damn it!"

Ji Wang Weidong stood up with a start, waved at the little boy, and said, "Hurry up, I have to let you know the dangers of the world. You can't just point at people..."

Watching Ji Wang Weidong acting like a mental patient, Hu Huisheng and Zhong Huilian were both a bit worried.

The little boy, however, was quite brave. He grabbed the biscuit box from the coffee table and followed Ji Wang Weidong into the inner room.

Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows and said to the two sitting together, "I've done my best to give you the decency you deserve. Look, the car is still downstairs, and someone is taking care of the child. Now you should give me enough face, right?"

Hu Huisheng looked in the direction his son had gone into the inner room, lost in thought. Zhong Huilian looked at her husband with worry. After Li Xuewu finished this sentence, she grabbed Hu Huisheng's hand.

Feeling his wife's comfort, Hu Huisheng stared at his wife for a while, then turned to look at Li Xuewu and asked, "What will my outcome be?"

After asking this, he felt he hadn't expressed it clearly enough and added, "I mean from you, not the normal... the normal..."

Li Xuewu naturally knew what Hu Huisheng was asking. It was nothing more than fearing that Li Xuewu and his people would pin more things on him to expand their results.

People like them should have figured out their own escape routes and the consequences of being caught long ago.

What they feared were people like Li Xuewu, who didn't play by the rules or had no bottom line.

"What do you mean by 'not normal'?"

Li Xuewu smiled and said, "We are all normal, very normal. You're overthinking it. We won't even take you back to the capital."

"Then..."

Hu Huisheng was clearly easier to break than Li Xuewu had expected, because this type of cultural cadre naturally carried fatal weaknesses.

That was being indecisive and hesitant. If everyone were like Guandong, leaving escape routes everywhere and digging tunnels at the first sign of trouble, then Xiang Yunian's work wouldn't be easy to do.

"Let me ask you something first."

Li Xuewu interrupted Hu Huisheng's hesitation and asked, "Do you know the source of Guandong's goods?"

"What do you mean?"

Hu Huisheng thought about Li Xuewu's words but didn't quite understand. This wasn't a very difficult question, so the answer didn't seem to be what he had in mind.

Li Xuewu smiled slightly and said, "I don't believe you just took the money without asking about the road. You know very well in your heart who is walking on the road. We have already secured the path."

As he spoke, he pointed to the north and said very confidently, "In order to connect the chain of evidence, I just want to ask: do you want to let Guandong go and be the anchor point yourself, or help me dig Guandong out and let him be it?"

Right before their eyes, the hand Hu Huisheng was holding with Zhong Huilian clenched tightly, and Zhong Huilian also felt her husband's tension.

"You suspect me, thinking I'm bluffing you."

Li Xuewu squinted his left eye and smiled, "Actually, you know everything. I dared to break into your house, so I don't need to bluff anymore. After all, catching you is the same as catching him; I'll get what I want anyway."

"So..."

Hu Huisheng looked at Li Xuewu and asked guiltily, "Will I be... by the Discipline Inspection..."

"Yes."

Li Xuewu nodded and said, "I'm not afraid to tell you the truth: starting from Guandong's level, the ones above belong to Xiang Yunian. I won't introduce this person to you."

Li Xuewu gestured with his hand and said, "The ones below belong to the Investigation Department and me."

After finishing, he made a chopping gesture and said, "After the case is over, the ones on the left, the people, belong to Xiang Yunian; the others belong to the Investigation Department and me. Do you understand?"

Zhong Huilian didn't know why Li Xuewu asked if she understood after he finished explaining.

And her husband's hand moved involuntarily, as if he had heard something.

Hu Huisheng naturally understood. Those with status would undergo normal investigation procedures, and those social elements and enterprise personnel who committed crimes would have their interests stripped...

Just as he asked just now, coming thousands of miles, these people aren't justice pioneers, so why would they meddle in other people's business?

And didn't he have anything Li Xuewu valued?

Of course not. There were things in this room, and there were things in other places. If he wanted a better result, he could only cooperate.

"Can I ask, who are you?"

Hu Huisheng thought hard for a while before asking Li Xuewu this question, which seemed stubborn but was actually deflated.

Li Xuewu also smiled, without the arrogance of a winner, and introduced himself very modestly, "Just an ordinary security cadre from the capital's Steel Mill, who happens to fall under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Bureau. I came to Steel City to inspect work, and was arranged by the leadership to do this job in passing. It was truly helpless; I had to contribute some effort."

"Understood."

Hu Huisheng nodded, let go of his wife's hand, patted it, gestured toward the inner room, and said, "Go on, go see the child. In the future... in the future, live well and educate the child well."

After saying this, without waiting for his wife to refuse, he said to Li Xuewu, "Is that okay? She doesn't know anything, and you don't need that Investigation Department person to fish for information from my child."

Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows and nodded, without the slightest embarrassment or awkwardness at having his performance exposed.

"I only want the result. Who knows what, who doesn't know—it doesn't matter, as long as it doesn't affect the result I want."

"Huisheng~"

Zhong Huilian finally knew the consequences after her husband made the decision. She grabbed her husband's hand tightly, her voice trembling.

"I know, I know everything."

Hu Huisheng was calm now. Although his smile was bitter, he could still smile to comfort his wife.

He forcefully pried his wife's hand away and instructed, "Take good care of the child, don't come out, don't come to see me off, live well."

Li Xuewu couldn't stand such scenes of parting. He pointed at his watch with his finger and said, "I'm sorry, I'm in a rush."

Zhong Huilian wiped away her tears. She understood her husband's words; he knew everything she had done.

But between life and death at the edge of the cliff, her husband had pushed her back to a safe position, bearing everything alone.

Ji Wang Weidong heard the conversation in the living room. He was already standing at the door of the inner room, where the little boy was still looking out.

Zhong Huilian knew that if she didn't go in, she would cause trouble for her husband and delay Li Xuewu's time.

So, she walked toward the inner room, looking back every step of the way, her eyes full of tears.

Perhaps the child in the inner room understood what this moment represented, and he rushed out suddenly.

"Dad!"

Zhong Huilian hugged her son tightly, walked into the inner room, and despite the child's struggling, she didn't let go of her hand.

Ji Wang Weidong closed the inner room door and shook his head slightly at Li Xuewu, who was looking over.

Li Xuewu didn't mind. The tacit understanding between the two was natural. Ji Wang Weidong and Li Xuewu naturally wouldn't joke around when working; it was more likely they'd be cunning.

"Let's go."

Hu Huisheng stood up, leaning on the sofa armrest, trying hard to straighten his back, and said to Li Xuewu and the others, "I'll take you to find Guandong."

Li Xuewu looked at the hands he reached out and smiled, "I was telling the truth."

During Hu Huisheng's brief moment of hesitation, Li Xuewu turned around, took the lead, and walked toward the door. As he walked, he said, "We came to find you, really just wanting to find Guandong, and as for you..."

Li Xuewu stood at the door Han Jiankun had opened, turned around, and said to Hu Huisheng, "I will leave you time to go turn yourself in."

"Tha, thanks."

Hu Huisheng swallowed his saliva, put down his hands, and walked with difficulty, listening to the crying of his wife and child in the inner room, following Li Xuewu out the door.

He knew Li Xuewu had already given him plenty of space and time; eight o'clock tomorrow morning was the deadline for the Discipline Inspection to close the net.

Now that he could perform meritorious service and turn himself in voluntarily, the result would definitely be much better than others.

Once the facts were accepted, the subsequent matters followed logically.

"How much longer do we have to wait?"

"It's too cold."

"If I'd known, I would have worn another layer of clothes when I came out."

The woman muttered incessantly. The driver in the car only glanced at the distant lights and didn't pick up the conversation.

If you want to talk about cold, the Northeast is truly cold at this time.

Although you could wear short sleeves during the day, in the early morning, especially before dawn, if you didn't wear something thick, you really couldn't stand it.

Especially by the river; the water vapor here was too thick, forming a film of water on people's bodies and absorbing the heat that was already dissipating rapidly.

The woman sitting in the back of the car couldn't stand it anymore, and her muttering turned into complaints.

"Xiao Zhong, what time is the boat coming?"

"I don't know."

The driver touched his face, looking at the empty embankment and the pitch-black river surface. There was only the sound of rushing water, but no sign of the boat they were waiting for.

"Brother Guan said to wait here, but he didn't tell me the specific time."

"Seriously!"

The woman in the back seat rubbed her arms and shivered, feeling even colder.

When she left home, she thought about bringing a few pieces of fur, but there was truly too much luggage, and she couldn't fit the large items.

Even what the two of them brought out was as convenient as possible, especially the clothes.

Right now, the woman was wearing her most cherished silk shirt, which, along with her fine cloth trousers, wrapped her figure perfectly.

Although time had passed, the woman who had always cherished and maintained herself still retained the colors of youth, especially the temperament left by the sedimentation of time, making her look even more beautiful and moving.

Guandong wouldn't treat himself poorly; everything was the same.

This also made the driver, Xiao Zhong, stare fixedly ahead, not daring to look back even once.

He was afraid—afraid that if he looked back, he wouldn't be able to stop himself from thinking about those things.

And he was even more afraid of this woman; she had hooks on her body.

"Leaving me here, he doesn't know where he ran off to, and that child is nowhere to be seen either. I'm freezing to death."

Xiao Zhong listened to the gasping and complaining behind him, his heart pounding uncontrollably.

He was a hot-blooded youth, at the age of being full of vigor; how could he endure such a soul-snatching woman and such a delicate voice?

"That..."

Xiao Zhong didn't dare look back either. He took off his coat and handed it back behind him with his hands behind his back.

"Please wear my clothes first."

The woman looked at the cotton work clothes with some disdain, but she was truly cold, so she had no choice but to take them and drape them over her shoulders.

"Thank you, Xiao Zhong. My clothes got dirty when I came out, so I didn't have any others to change into."

For the sake of face, the woman explained, and looking at the young man in front who didn't dare look back, she smiled and said, "When things settle down, I'll make it up to you with a good one."

"No... no problem."

The woman looked at the driver's back, listened to his nervous and embarrassed voice, and felt the warmth still on the clothes. She didn't feel cold anymore; instead, the atmosphere in the car began to become ambiguous.

In such matters, as long as the woman is willing, there is no man who cannot identify the scent.

However, at this time, it was estimated that no matter how big a heart someone had, they wouldn't dare to cross the line.

The black car body was hidden in the pitch-black night, carrying two beating hearts. The car windows could not withstand the cold water vapor, yet it transformed this stirring emotion and the hot breath exhaled from their mouths into mist, spraying it onto the glass windows.

A few noises came from afar, and the atmosphere in the car froze. The woman asked, "Is that him?"

"It... it doesn't seem like it."

The driver pricked up his ears to listen, then wiped the mist off the glass with his hand to look outside.

The night was still that night, the river was still that river; apart from the distant flickering lights, there seemed to be nothing.

"There's nothing. We might have to wait a bit longer."

"I... I'm a bit scared. Can you come sit in the back..."

"Click."

"Damn it, be gentle."

Li Xuewu gave Ji Wang Weidong a poke and cursed in a low voice, "If the cooked duck flies into the water, you go into the river and chase it yourself."

"Grass."

Ji Wang Weidong kicked the dry firewood on the ground and whispered, "It's pitch black, what can I see? You walk in front, and I'll follow you."

Pazile, who was behind them, also grimaced as he watched the two bickering in front.

This guy named Ji Wang Weidong seemed to have a very good relationship with the platoon leader; they bickered non-stop even while executing a mission, yet sometimes they had great tacit understanding.

The key was that both of them were very confident when handling cases, as if it were very easy. It was clearly an arrest mission, but they made it look like a spring outing.

Li Xuewu gave Ji Wang Weidong a push and took the lead in walking forward.

According to Hu Huisheng, Guandong had a boat at this pier, but it was rarely used, and the location was very hidden.

Li Xuewu had compared it, and this was the only pier that hadn't been cleared or located, so there was a high probability that Guandong would leave from here.

However, Hu Huisheng also said they had come suddenly. Although he knew Nie Liansheng had been caught, he thought the operation couldn't be that fast, and he planned to see the situation tomorrow before taking a car to leave Steel City.

Driving at night was a bit dangerous at this time because for long-distance running, fuel was a big problem, unless you could find a place to refuel at night.

So, daytime was Li Xuewu's final deadline to close the net, so he had to find Guandong before dawn.

Otherwise, Xiang Yunian and the others' actions would be affected.

Li Xuewu's eyes were very good; he could see very far even at night, thanks to the help of the moon tonight.

"Look."

Li Xuewu pointed to a black shadow on the embankment for Ji Wang Weidong.

Ji Wang Weidong squinted and looked, saying, "It seems to be. Can you see it?"

Li Xuewu pinched Ji Wang Weidong's neck and said, "Go get some cod liver oil to eat later." After saying this, he waved his hand at the people behind him and went to surround the embankment.

Ji Wang Weidong stood in place and looked again, then muttered, "Damn, can cod liver oil make eyes into telescopes? I'm not night-blind either."

Only those with malnutrition were night-blind. Ji Wang Weidong hadn't been someone who suffered since he was a child; how could he be lacking in nutrition?

Seeing Li Xuewu sliding forward along the base of the embankment, he also went down to the road and followed him forward.

"That's not right."

Ji Wang Weidong caught up with Li Xuewu below the embankment where the target was, and followed him up little by little, muttering to Li Xuewu, "Look at that car, it's clearly with the engine off, how can it be moving?"

Li Xuewu turned his head and glanced at this innocent child without explaining, but he felt a bit cold in his heart.

The target was very likely not here, because Guandong was a cunning person; it was impossible for him to have the leisure to have a go while waiting for a boat here.

After all, he was already over forty years old; it was impossible for an old man to act like a youth, and even if he were crazy, he couldn't be acting wildly here in the middle of the night.

When Li Xuewu led Ji Wang Weidong to the side of the car, Ji Wang Weidong was dumbfounded as he watched the shaking car body and the sounds of debauchery inside.

This child had probably racked his brains and never imagined that such things could be done in a car, and that such things could be played inside a car.

Li Xuewu ignored Ji Wang Weidong, who was winking at him, and reached out to look into the car window.

Seeing Li Xuewu do this, Ji Wang Weidong followed suit, ran to the other side, and covered his eyes to look inside.

The dry firewood and fierce fire in the car were all he cared about; he only felt a bit cold, so he pulled his clothes up with his hand.

"Watch out, don't let him come..."

"No... it won't happen."

The driver was working a part-time job, muttering, "If a car comes, it will flash its headlights. I'm watching."

"Besides."

The driver lowered his head to look at the woman and smiled, "I'm doing a good deed by helping others. If you don't say anything, Brother Guan will forgive me, and he will also excuse me."

The woman lying on the seat rolled her eyes. She had thought this young man was a bit green, but she hadn't expected that she only had to crook her finger for him to reveal his true nature.

Especially this oily-mouthed and slippery-tongued manner, which made her very uncomfortable.

However, she was truly nervous and uncomfortable, and it was too cold. Moreover, her dissatisfaction with Guandong for not being able to maintain their current life caused her dissatisfaction with him.

There was no nervousness or resentment that couldn't be solved by a thrilling game, and looking at this young man, two rounds wouldn't be a problem either.

"Slap!"

The woman slapped the driver on the chest and scolded, "He will kill you!"

"Dong dong."

Just as the two were entering the best part, the car window was knocked on. The two were like frozen shrimp, fixed in the back seat of the car, unable to move.

Li Xuewu grabbed the car door open and smiled at the wild mandarin ducks who were looking at him in horror, "We're going to see everything~"

"Ah!"

"!"

"Hiss!"

Ji Wang Weidong looked at the chaos in the car, straightened his body, glared at Li Xuewu on the other side of the car, and said, "You're really impolite and immoral. How can you disturb other people's good deeds?"

Li Xuewu rolled his eyes. Seeing Pazile open the front passenger door and take away the clothes of the two in the car, he straightened up and said to Ji Wang Weidong, "How can you have such a thick face to exclude your own voyeuristic behavior?"

"I'm happy to."

Ji Wang Weidong pulled open the car door on the opposite side. The cold air rushed into the carriage, causing the two inside to immediately embrace each other.

"Hiss!"

Ji Wang Weidong revealed a mouthful of white teeth, smiling as he looked at the two inside, and asked, "Excuse me, let me ask you about someone. Do you know Guandong? Where is he?"

The driver and the woman were already scared silly. At this moment, looking at the gun barrels pointing in from the four car doors, they didn't even dare to move.

Especially Ji Wang Weidong's ill-intentioned inspection, which made both of them feel a burning sensation all over.

"You don't know?"

Ji Wang Weidong was also vicious; he reached out and grabbed the woman, pulling hard on the clothes that were originally used for padding and were now being used for cover.

"I don't want to be like this, but if you don't tell me where Guandong is, it's very difficult for me. I can only search these clothes to see if Guandong is inside."

"Ah!"

The woman's clothes were torn off, and she let out a scream, causing Li Xuewu, who had hidden far away early on, to turn his head back to look.

Just after opening the car door and confirming Guandong wasn't there, Li Xuewu signaled to the car team in the distance and simultaneously had people search the pier.

Although under these circumstances, he could confirm Guandong wasn't there, he couldn't let go of a single clue.

Having no clues was also a clue.

Watching Ji Wang Weidong tearing at the clothes there, Li Xuewu grimaced; this child always had some mischievous, wicked interests.

It was also possible that his trip to the border had opened his mind; at least the commotion in the car was very filled with an atmosphere of terror.

At this time, many clues could be asked.

When the car team in the distance arrived, Ji Wang Weidong had also completed the preliminary questioning.

"He's not here. After they escaped, Guandong left alone."

"What about the things?"

Li Xuewu raised his eyebrows. Quite a few scattered good things had been seen in Guandong's house; it was impossible he hadn't brought them with him.

"All in the trunk."

Ji Wang Weidong reached out and opened the trunk. Inside were several suitcases. Opening one, gold, silver, jewelry, and other items were scattered inside.

"What should we do?"

Ji Wang Weidong closed the box. There was nothing good to look at; they were all items from years ago.

Li Xuewu frowned and didn't answer him, gesturing to the several boxes and saying, "Open them and see if there are any gold bars."

Ji Wang Weidong's eyes narrowed, and he also thought of something, then began to check the items in the boxes one by one.

They waited until Hu Huisheng got off the car before he turned to look at Li Xuewu and shook his head.

"Not here?"

Hu Huisheng wasn't handcuffed, just followed by two special agents.

At this moment, seeing Li Xuewu and his companion frowning, and then looking at the car, he heard why there was a woman's crying inside.

Li Xuewu gritted his teeth, squinting at the several boxes of things in the trunk, and said, "It seems this is another trick. He's really willing to let go."

Hu Huisheng walked toward the car. Borrowing the light from the flashlight in the special agent's hand, he saw a scene that stung his eyes.

This... this isn't...

His shock was no less than the shock of the woman in the car seeing him.

"Why are you here?! Where is Guandong?!"

"Why are you here! Where is Guandong?!"

The woman saw a familiar person and also reacted. How could she follow the person who caught... her? ===== CHAPTER 554 =====

If they were together with their own people, what else could it be for?