Siheyuan: I am Banggeng's uncle

Chapter 725: Sit back and wait!

Jia Dongming and his men, who were lying in ambush near the consignment shop, saw Chen Tong come out of the consignment shop. Jia Dongming, who knew the layout of the consignment shop like the back of his hand, immediately said to Chen Weiguo standing next to him, "Captain Chen! You take charge of the front door, and I'll take charge of the back door. Let's trap Shen Zhongqing like a turtle in a jar."

Inside the consignment shop, Shen Zhongqing, who was chatting with Wang Kai, felt a sense of foreboding after seeing Chen Tong walk out. He looked outside and saw several strangers walking quickly towards the consignment shop from three directions.

When Shen Zhongqing saw the strangers walking towards the consignment shop and noticed their serious expressions, his face changed drastically. He immediately instructed the sales clerk standing beside him, "Ye Tian! You wait here with this comrade for a while. I'm going to the restroom and will be right back."

Wang Kai, who was leaning against the counter chatting with Shen Zhongqing, noticed the change in Shen Zhongqing's facial expression and immediately realized that Shen Zhongqing must have discovered his colleagues who came to arrest him. Wang Kai overheard what Shen Zhongqing was saying to the sales clerk and saw Shen Zhongqing hurriedly walking towards the backyard.

Seeing Shen Zhongqing's retreating figure, Wang Kai placed his hands on the counter, instinctively leaping over it and running after him, shouting, "Shen Zhongqing! You stop right there!"

Shen Zhongqing, who had already run to the backyard, heard the young man who had been chatting and laughing with him call out his name directly, which was tantamount to confirming his guess. He quickly quickened his pace and ran towards the consignment shop's warehouse.

Wang Kai, who had just run to the backyard, was surprised to see that Shen Zhongqing had not run towards the back door of the consignment shop, but instead ran into the warehouse. At this moment, Wang Kai did not have the mind to think about why Shen Zhongqing would hide in the warehouse. He then quickened his pace and ran towards the warehouse.

Soon Wang Kai ran to the warehouse entrance. Just as he was about to run into the warehouse, he suddenly heard a sound of things collapsing. He instinctively stopped and looked in the direction of the sound. He saw a large pile of wooden crates falling down on his head from above.

Upon seeing the wooden crates hurtling towards his head, Wang Kai's expression changed drastically. He instinctively raised his hands to protect his head, but there were simply too many crates, and Wang Kai's figure was quickly obscured by them.

When Shen Zhongqing saw Wang Kai buried under the wooden crate, a look of triumph immediately appeared on his face. He then quickly ran to the wall of the warehouse, picked up a wooden ladder, and placed it against the window, attempting to escape by climbing out of the window.

Shen Zhongqing quickly climbed to the window, stepped over the windowsill, and pulled up the wooden ladder as well. He then climbed out of the window, using the ladder as a stepping stone to escape along the route he had planned.

Shen Zhongqing stepped over the wall of the house and quickly ran to a big tree. He turned his head and glanced at the warehouse window not far away, a smug smile on his face. Then, using the tree in front of him, he climbed down to the ground.

"Captain Jia! Before, you said you'd bring me here to wait for the rabbit to run into the tree stump. I was wondering why you'd chosen this place since it's not the back entrance of the consignment shop. Now that I've seen this guy, I finally understand why you chose this place." Shen Zhongqing hugged the tree trunk with both hands and skillfully climbed down the tree. But just as his feet touched the ground, a worshipful voice suddenly came from behind him.

Hearing the voices behind him, Shen Zhongqing's heart skipped a beat. He turned around and saw two unfamiliar men looking at him with mocking expressions. Hearing Lu Qiang's admiring compliment and seeing Shen Zhongqing's astonished expression, Jia Dongming pulled a pair of handcuffs from his pocket and said slowly to Lu Qiang, "Comrade Lu Qiang! I told you before that a cunning rabbit has three burrows. If we want to catch this cunning rabbit, we absolutely can't think about things with normal logic. See, I'm right?"

Having said that, Jia Dongming threw the handcuffs in his hand in front of Shen Zhongqing and asked him in a cold tone, "Shen Zhongqing! Are you planning to handcuff yourself, or do you want us to do it for you?"

Yesterday, after Shen Zhongqing learned that Gui Laoqi and Jiang He had been arrested, the person behind him arranged for someone to contact Shen Zhongqing, telling him to leave Beijing immediately and go to Hong Kong to reunite with his family.

However, in Shen Zhongqing's subconscious, both Gui Laoqi and Jiang He were his most loyal subordinates. Even if they fell into the hands of the police, they would not easily betray him. In addition, the small building where Shen Zhongqing usually met with the two was just a cover address. Even if the two betrayed him, the police would never be able to catch him.

Another crucial point is that the Shen family still had a lot of assets to transfer, so he took a chance and hid at the consignment shop. However, to his surprise, Gui Laoqi and Jiang He betrayed him after only one day of being arrested. Even more unexpectedly, the police knew his hiding place and waited for him to walk into their trap halfway through his escape.

Seeing the handcuffs Jia Dongming had thrown in front of him, and recalling what Lu Qiang had just said to Jia Dongming, Shen Zhongqing felt both resentful and puzzled. He asked Jia Dongming and Lu Qiang, "Officers! Gui Laoqi and Jiang He had no idea that this consignment shop was related to me. How did you know I was hiding here? And how did you know my escape route?"

The reason Jia Dongming knew Shen Zhongqing would escape in this direction was not because he could predict Shen Zhongqing's escape route, but because he had seen everything Shen Zhongqing did in the consignment shop. When he saw that Shen Zhongqing did not choose to go through the back door of the consignment shop, nor did he choose the tunnel in the consignment shop's warehouse, but instead chose to escape by climbing out of the window, he led Lu Qiang to this tree to wait for Shen Zhongqing to escape.

Faced with Shen Zhongqing's question and seeing the unwilling expression on his face, Jia Dongming naturally couldn't tell Shen Zhongqing that he could see through everything happening in the consignment shop. Instead, he said to Shen Zhongqing with a mysterious expression, "Shen Zhongqing! You're right. Jiang He and the others only know about the small building you live in. As for the consignment shop across the street, that's where you're really hiding. They have no idea."

"So before we arrested you, we conducted a very detailed investigation and found that this consignment shop used to belong to your Shen family. And this consignment shop just happened to be right in front of your Shen family's small building. So we started to think from your perspective and finally deduced that the consignment shop was your real hiding place."

"As for why we know you didn't choose to escape through the back door of the consignment shop but instead chose to climb over the wall, it's for the same reason. Now I advise you not to put up any futile resistance, but to obediently pick up the handcuffs on the ground and put them on yourself."

Upon hearing the information revealed by Jia Dongming, Shen Zhongqing's face showed an incredulous expression, and he blurted out, "How is that possible? Do you think you can predict the future?"

(End of this chapter)