Reborn in 97, I solved a cold case at the Municipal Bureau

Chapter 284 Everyone dies since ancient times

Zhou Yi and Shi Tao pretended to be customers, while He Bin and several others loitered nearby, ready to surround and provide support at any time.

Shi Tao had seen the layout of the market; it only had two entrances and exits, and with several layers of enclosure, it would be difficult for him to escape.

However, Zhou Yi reminded Shi Tao that the food stalls had knives, and he had to be careful to prevent innocent people from being injured or to take hostages.

Shi Tao nodded and said that if necessary, he would simply draw his gun to intimidate the enemy.

The two arrived at the stall. It was rush hour, and many people were passing by the market to buy vegetables after work.

There were two customers waiting in front of the food stall, and two people inside: a middle-aged, overweight man wearing an apron, cutting pig ears with a knife, and a thin old man helping him.

Zhou Yi and Shi Tao exchanged a glance, and Shi Tao nodded. Although the middle-aged man was indeed very fat, he could not escape the eyes of the two criminal police officers.

Most importantly, the middle finger of this middle-aged fat man was clearly missing half a joint.

With such clear and distinct features, there's no doubt that this person is Li Yong, the fugitive wanted in connection with the Luohe Gold Shop robbery!

"What would you like to order?" the fat man asked, glancing at the two of them.

"I heard your braised pig's head is really delicious. Give me two pounds," Shi Tao said.

The fat man didn't say anything, cut off a piece of pig's head meat, picked up the scale and weighed it. "Two jin and a little over two liang, let's say two jin."

"Okay, cut it for me."

The fat man picked up the pig's head meat, placed it on the cutting board, and began to cut it.

The old man took out a bag and said with a smile, "Everyone says our pig's head meat is delicious. Come back after you've finished eating."

Shi Tao had been staring at the fat man's hands, then suddenly frowned and said, "There's something dirty in your pig's head meat."

The fat man was taken aback for a moment, and instinctively replied, "No."

“I saw it all, right there, right there,” Shi Tao said, pointing forward with his finger.

Zhou Yi knew that Shi Tao was about to make a move, so he quietly moved his right hand back and touched the holster on his waist.

"I'll show you," Shi Tao said, leaning closer.

Suddenly, the fat man seemed to realize something, his eyes changed instantly, and he was about to raise the kitchen knife in his hand.

But Shi Tao was faster. His fingers, which were originally aimed at the pig's head, suddenly turned into claws and grabbed the fat man's wrist holding the knife, holding it down tightly.

All of this happened so suddenly that no one around could react.

Only Zhou Yi reacted immediately, drawing his gun and pointing it at the fat man's head, shouting, "Police! Don't move! Drop your weapon, you're under arrest, Li Yong!"

The dark muzzle of a gun was pointed at his forehead. The fat man, who had originally wanted to resist, was dumbfounded, and the kitchen knife in his hand clattered to the ground.

The old man standing nearby finally realized what was happening and anxiously exclaimed, "What... what's going on? Dazhuang, why are they arresting you?"

The surrounding vendors and customers were immediately in an uproar. He Bin, who was standing to the side, immediately took out his ID and loudly advised everyone not to be afraid, that the police were carrying out a mission.

Amidst the sirens of police cars, Li Yong was escorted into a police car, and the old man, as a person connected to the case, was also taken back.

Soon, the market returned to normal, as if nothing had happened, except for an empty cooked food stall where the surrounding vendors were having a heated discussion about what had happened.

Since Zhou Yi had already agreed with Shi Tao that he wouldn't be deeply involved in the case, and since all the relevant information had already been shared with Shi Tao, he wouldn't interfere with Li Yong's subsequent interrogation after Li Yong was brought back to the Municipal Bureau.

However, he still remembered to call Lu Zhengfeng and tell him that Li Yong, whom they had wanted in Luohe, had been caught and was involved in some cases here. So Hongcheng would have to handle the case first. As for how the two sides would divide the case afterward, he couldn't care less, because this case was solved by our second team.

Lu Zhengfeng was stunned. "Luo He was wanted for two years, and you Hongcheng arrested him after only two or three days of questioning?"

“Zhou Yi, why don’t you transfer Luo He here?” Lu Zhengfeng said.

"What?"

"With your skill level, you could easily be our team captain."

"Don't joke with me. I already said that Li Yong was arrested by Captain Shi of our Second Brigade. It has nothing to do with me. I'm just here to let you know."

"Thank you, thank you. Hongcheng is truly full of talented people. I will report this to my superiors right away."

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yi stretched and then got up to leave work.

When he went out, he ran into Gu Changhai again. He greeted him and Gu Changhai asked him, "Aren't you going to participate in the interrogation?"
Zhou Yi laughed and said, "How could I possibly get involved in your team's case?"

Gu Changhai understood instantly and nodded with a smile.

Zhou Yi first went to his parents' house, mainly to ask his father how the steel coil matter was going, and also to freeload a meal.

The good news is that my mother agreed to pay for the steel coils out of her own pocket.

The bad news is that Zhou Jianguo will be penniless until the money he advanced is returned.

“Zhou Jianguo, let me tell you, I’m willing to spend this 10,000 yuan, but it’s not for you.” Zhang Qiuxia, who was adding food to Zhou Yi’s plate in the kitchen, said, “It’s for Jianye, you know? Jianye is capable, and I, as his sister-in-law, trust him.”

Zhou Yi was taken aback: "Ten thousand? Mom won't use it..."

Before he could finish speaking, his father covered his mouth, and Zhou Jianguo's face was filled with terror.

Zhou Yi instantly realized that his father was falsifying the accounts.

"What did you just say?" Zhang Qiuxia asked, sticking her head out.

With his back to her, Zhou Jianguo quickly let go of her hand and winked at his son.

Zhou Yi thought to himself, "I can't believe it. I never thought my father, with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, would do something like this." "No...nothing. I just said I wanted some fried eggs, Mom, could you make me two?"

"Okay, it'll be ready in a bit."

Zhou Yi grinned mischievously and pointed at his father, saying, "Dad, I didn't know you had this talent."

Zhou Jianguo lowered his voice and said, "Keep your voice down, don't let your mother hear."

Zhou Yi beckoned, and Zhou Jianguo came closer. "Dad, didn't you think about this when you were embezzling?"

"What?"

“You’ve taken 10,000 yuan from Mom now. When the loan comes in, won’t you have to pay 10,000 yuan back? You can’t keep the extra few hundred yuan you reported.”

After Zhou Yi finished speaking, he got up and went to the restroom.

Zhou Jianguo was left sitting there, looking completely bewildered.

"Oh no, how could I not have thought of that?"

Later, Zhou Jianguo told Zhou Yi that after the money was advanced to the factory, the factory manager approved it, and the warehouse could ship the goods the next day.

Huang Xiaomao is all ready and will set off early tomorrow morning. Zhou Jianguo gave him Zhou Jianye's phone number and told him to contact Zhou Jianye after he arrives and follow his instructions.

“Zhou Yi, your dad has lived a life as bland as plain water for most of his life, but the experiences of the past two days have made me feel like… I’ve come back to life.”

Zhou Yi was eating his rice; the others had finished long ago, so he was the only one eating.

Before he could speak, Zhang Qiuxia, who was watching TV on the sofa, said, "Come on, he came back to life? What, was the person I've been with all these years a dead man?"

"Hey, why are you such a spoilsport? I was talking about a feeling, a feeling, you know?"

"You don't understand? I just knew that if you don't get this money back, you'll see how I deal with you."

Zhou Yi smiled and continued eating.

He felt a warm feeling listening to his parents bickering.

Because after her father passed away in her previous life, her mother became much quieter and more withdrawn.

When talking to his son, he would always inadvertently mention things like, "Your dad used to be like this and that."

Everyone dies. As the saying goes, "Since ancient times, no one has escaped death," but there are different kinds of deaths.

This is why having many children and grandchildren and dying peacefully in one's old age are considered a good thing, because it is probably the best ending that many people can imagine.

Zhou Yi told his parents that they were going out for dinner on Saturday night. When they heard that someone would be picking them up and that the place to eat was in the Hongcheng Baodi Villa District, Zhou Jianguo stood up excitedly.

"Son, you can't make mistakes."

Zhou Yi was taken aback: "It's just a meal, isn't it?"

"In what I see on TV, people only start to become corrupt after associating with rich people."

"...Dad, you should watch less TV, just like Mom."

……

The next day, when Zhou Yi arrived at the bureau, he found a stack of photocopies of transcripts on his desk.

Upon picking it up, I discovered it was a record of Li Yong's interrogation last night.

"This team leader Shi is really something."

Zhou Yi went to the second team's office to check, but there was only one person there; Shi Tao, Gu Changhai, and He Bin were nowhere to be seen.

When asked, they said that Shi Tao and Gu Changhai had interrogated Li Yong until late last night, so they hadn't arrived yet, while He Bin had led people to search for Wang Ronghai early this morning.

Zhou Yi nodded. It seemed that Li Yong was not easy to deal with, keeping Shi Tao and the others occupied until the early hours of the morning.

However, He Bin led his men to arrest people today, which means that the interrogation must have yielded results.

Zhou Yi returned to the Third Brigade's office, poured himself a glass of water, and began reviewing the transcripts.

At the start of the interrogation, Li Yong tried to deny it, saying that his name was Liu Dazhuang, that he was the old man's nephew, and that he was not Li Yong at all.

But Shi Tao quickly saw through his lie. When Shi Tao asked for his ID card, he lied and said he had lost it. When asked for his ID number, he said he couldn't remember it. Finally, when asked for his hometown address, Shi Tao immediately checked his household registration information in front of him, and he fell silent.

Li Yong sighed and said he accepted his defeat.

He quickly recounted his experiences after escaping from the Luo River.

He said that at first he wanted to go to other provinces because Luohe is closer to other provinces and it would be more convenient to travel there.

He had already bought a ticket to another province, and just as he was about to board the train, he suddenly realized that the police would definitely think he was running away from the province.

In an attempt to mislead the police, he not only didn't get on the bus, but also turned around and bought a ticket to Hongcheng.

The reason he came to Hongcheng was because he had come to Hongcheng with others when he was young, and it was the only city in the province he was familiar with.

He originally intended to seek refuge with an old acquaintance. However, upon arriving and inquiring, he learned that his friend had been hacked to death in a fight ten years prior, and the grass on his grave was already several meters tall.

Helpless, he decided to leave. But when he got to the station and was about to buy a ticket, he found his own wanted poster on the wall. His legs went weak with fear, and he forced himself to remain calm and left the station.

(End of this chapter)