Siheyuan: I am Banggeng's uncle

Chapter 775 The truth will soon be revealed!

After groping around on the floor tiles for a while, Peng Xinnian quickly discovered the entrance to the underground secret room. He couldn't help but say with relief, "Captain Jia! I never expected that there would be an underground secret room hidden under the cabinets in this room. If you hadn't insisted on going back to the crime scene to take another look, we probably would have missed this underground secret room."

Jia Dongming had already discovered the underground secret room when he first came here. At that time, he had overlooked the existence of the underground secret room because of the phone call from the Municipal Bureau. It was not until he was discussing the case with Peng Xinnian that he remembered the underground secret room.

Upon hearing Peng Xinnian's words and seeing the relieved look on his face, Jia Dongming said to Peng Xinnian, "The location of this underground secret room is right at the base of the wall of this house, and there is such a large wardrobe at the entrance. It is only natural that it would be overlooked."

As they were talking, Jia Dongming glanced around the room and quickly spotted a flashlight in a drawer. He then stood up from the entrance to the secret room, pretending to look for something in a cabinet. He then took the flashlight out of the drawer and said to Peng Xinnian with a smile, "Captain Peng! Let's go down and take a look at what's hidden in this underground secret room."

Soon the two of them went up the wooden stairs to the underground secret room. Peng Xinnian held a flashlight in his hand and looked at the boxes and some bottles and jars in the secret room. Although they had not yet opened the boxes to check what was inside, Peng Xinnian was already excitedly saying to Jia Dongming, "Captain Jia! It seems that everything really was right! The fire back then was not an accident, but was caused by arson, and the purpose was to get these things."

Upon hearing Peng Xinnian's words, Jia Dongming used his Eagle Eye skill to glance at the items placed in the basement. He quickly discovered an account book inside a blue-and-white porcelain vase in the corner.

This discovery immediately brightened Jia Dongming's eyes, but he did not immediately take the ledger out of the porcelain bottle. Instead, he said to Peng Xinnian, "Captain Peng! I'll guard this place for now. You go to the police station and call the bureau to have some people come over and move everything here to the yard. Let's see if we can find any valuable clues."

Upon hearing Jia Dongming's instructions, Peng Xinnian immediately nodded and said to Jia Dongming, "Captain Jia! You stay here and guard this place. I'll go to the police station right away and call a few comrades to come and move everything here to the yard."

Seeing Peng Xinnian head towards the exit of the secret room, Jia Dongming followed closely behind and exited the underground chamber. He reminded Peng Xinnian, "Captain Peng! It's not far from the hardware factory. To avoid alerting them, remember to tell the comrades to come here in batches."

Upon hearing Jia Dongming's instructions, Peng Xinnian, thinking of Song Guangzhong's small courtyard which was only separated from the hardware factory by a wall, immediately nodded and replied, "Captain Jia! I understand what you mean. When I call the bureau later, I will personally instruct them to come here in batches."

Over the years, Jia Dongming used the system space to find many unclaimed valuables and cultural relics in some abandoned courtyards in Beijing. All of these cultural relics were stored in the system space by Jia Dongming. As for the large and small yellow croakers, Jia Dongming exchanged them for cash through banks in Hong Kong and used the cash to buy a large amount of land in Hong Kong for real estate development.

Although Song Guangzhong's secret room contained a large number of cultural relics, Jia Dongming was not interested in them. Instead, he went directly to the blue-and-white porcelain vase where the account book was hidden, took it out, and returned to the courtyard to examine its contents. Everything was as Jia Dongming had predicted. Back then, the security department of the hardware factory had raided the homes of many unscrupulous capitalists, finding a large amount of valuables and cultural relics. Several powerful figures in the hardware factory, greedy for money, secretly conspired to divide the valuables among themselves, and this account book recorded the list of those involved, as well as the amount of valuables and cultural relics each person received.

After reading the contents of the ledger, Jia Dongming realized that although he hadn't yet determined whether Guo Yongkang and Liu Zhijun had died in an accident or were murdered, with this ledger, none of the corrupt officials in the hardware factory would be able to escape the severe punishment of the law.

"Captain Jia! I'm back. I've already arranged for the comrades from the detachment to come over in batches." Peng Xinnian walked into the courtyard, covered in sweat, and immediately introduced himself to Jia Dongming, who was sitting in the courtyard with an account book in his hand.

Upon hearing Peng Xinnian's words and seeing his sweat-drenched appearance, Jia Dongming handed the ledger to Peng Xinnian and said with a smile, "Captain Peng! This is the ledger I just found in the underground secret room. Take a look!"

Upon hearing Jia Dongming's words, Peng Xinnian first wiped the sweat from his face with his sleeve before reaching out to take the ledger and opening it to read.

A few minutes later, Peng Xinnian excitedly closed the ledger and said to Jia Dongming, "Captain Jia! It seems you really predicted everything. The fire at the hardware factory was not an accident, but arson. Now, the only thing we need to investigate is the cause of death of Guo Yongkang and Liu Zhijun. Who do you think we should start with?"

After reviewing the ledgers, Jia Dongming had been pondering this question. When Peng Xinnian asked him, Jia Dongming answered without hesitation, "Captain Peng! I think the most suitable breakthrough point is Zheng Haifeng, the deputy head of the security section who was injured by bricks when the tenement building collapsed."

“Zheng Haifeng!” Upon hearing the name mentioned by Jia Dongming, Peng Xinnian immediately recalled Zheng Haifeng’s information in his mind and muttered to himself, “Zheng Haifeng! Back when the hardware factory warehouse caught fire, he was just a security guard. Later, he was promoted to deputy head of the security department. If I’m not mistaken, Zheng Haifeng must have been involved in the warehouse arson case and knows a lot of inside information. Using this person as a breakthrough point is indeed very appropriate.”

Upon hearing Peng Xinnian's reply and recalling the arrest plan he had already devised, Jia Dongming said to Peng Xinnian with a half-smile, "Captain Peng! After everything here is transported back to the branch office, arrange for someone to go to the hospital and then carry out a secret arrest of Zheng Haifeng."

"As for the other people on the list, I need to assign people to secretly monitor them. Once Zheng Haifeng's interrogation results are out, we need to arrest them immediately."

(End of this chapter)