Reborn in the 60s, I hunt to support my family and even seduce the village beauty.

Director Wang had been waiting for a while at the entrance of the grain station.

"Xiao Kun is here. Come on, let's go inside and talk."

In the grain depot's reception room, the gatekeeper took Director Wang's work ID, examined it closely, and scoffed, "What, the higher-ups haven't had enough of causing trouble, now the neighborhood committee has to get involved too?"

Director Wang was a little surprised. How could a security guard be so arrogant?

On second thought, it makes sense. These days, grain depots are the most important departments, and so many people are begging for their services, which gives them the right to be arrogant!

"Comrade, the higher-ups are here to investigate a case, how can you call it making a scene?" Director Wang suppressed his temper and patiently spoke to the gatekeeper.

"Oh dear, you have no idea, that commissioner from higher up arrests anyone he sees, causing panic throughout the grain station."

The gatekeeper grumbled under his breath as he slowly opened the gate.

Upon hearing this, Chang Kun was no longer in a hurry to follow Director Wang inside, and offered him a cigarette.

"Sir, the commissioner is arresting anyone he can find? What does that mean?"

The gatekeeper took the cigarette and said, "Oh, it's Daqianmen again."

Without responding to Chang Kun's words, he lit a cigarette and took a satisfying puff.

He smoked half a cigarette in one go before slowly speaking.

"Hey, the commissioner from above couldn't find any grain coupons, so he's been arresting people in the factory every day. Once he catches someone, he interrogates them. In his words, it's like saying, 'Better to arrest the wrong person than let one go!'"

After saying that, the gatekeeper puffed out smoke and spat hard on the ground.

"Pah! Tell me, what kind of mess is this?!"

Chang Kun and Director Wang looked at each other in disbelief, not expecting the envoy sent from above to do things this way.

As Chang Kun entered the grain station, he sensed many red-spotted prey.

Tsk tsk, it seems there are quite a few rats in the grain depot.

Even without the loss of 50,000 jin of national grain coupons this time, petty theft would still be common.

After all, it was a characteristic of that era; some things that belonged to the public were considered ours.

It's like the rice, flour, and cooking oil at the grain depot. If you take some home and I don't, wouldn't I be at a disadvantage?

However, these things are none of Chang Kun's business. Too many departments do this, and it's impossible to catch them all.

Even Liu Meifen's supply and marketing cooperative treated good quality cloth as substandard products and sold a lot of it to their own people.

"Aunt Wang, let's take a walk around the station first."

Director Wang had no objections; she was only there to accompany him and was also curious about Chang Kun's detective skills.

Chang Kun began inspecting along the grain station's perimeter wall. He had the skill of locating valuables and wanted to see if he could directly find the location of the grain coupons.

The grain depot's wall was made of bricks and was 2.5 meters high. The top was fixed with sharp iron nails, with the nails pointing upwards, making it difficult for thieves to enter or leave.

I believe the specialist from higher up had already searched the perimeter of the building and found no clues, which is why they started targeting the staff inside the station.

Chang Kun had just learned from Director Wang that the missing grain coupons were all ten jin each, totaling five thousand coupons.

These grain coupons weighed twenty or thirty pounds, requiring at least a backpack to hold them all.

It's impossible to slip out of the main gate with such a backpack without attracting attention, right under the guard's nose.

"Xiao Kun, it's impossible for you to climb over the wall with a backpack on your back."

Director Wang tried to climb it, but he couldn't reach the top of the wall at all. Even if someone in good physical condition could climb up the wall, those sharp iron nails were no joke.

Chang Kun nodded. The grain station must have considered all sorts of situations when building the wall, and there would be no loopholes for thieves.

As I walked behind the grain station, I suddenly smelled a foul odor—the steamy smell of the dry toilets in the summer.

"This grain depot doesn't even bother to keep its outhouses clean!"

Director Wang held his breath, took a few quick steps, and moved to the upwind side.

Chang Kun stood still, and in his line of sight, something in the outhouse was gleaming with golden light.

This is the positioning of assets.

When they see something valuable, it will gleam with gold.

What valuable items in the grain depot would be hidden in the latrine? Undoubtedly, it would be the lost grain coupons.

That thief is really good at hiding things. When the stolen goods are recovered, I wonder who will be sent to search through the shit...

Director Wang hesitated for a moment, then walked to Chang Kun's side: "Xiao Kun, something's wrong with this outhouse?"

"Something does seem off. Let's go find a specialist to check the situation."

The two walked along the wall to the director's office. The director, Yan Luji, was under house arrest, and the office had been occupied by a superior commissioner and converted into a temporary interrogation room.

Before even getting close to the office, I could hear shouts of beatings and cursing coming from inside, along with even louder, more pitiful screams.

"Station Chief Liang, what's this?"

Director Wang encountered the grain station manager, who was covered in sweat, outside his office.

"Director Wang is here! This isn't... they can't find the food coupons, so they're arresting people!"

At this point, Station Chief Liang looked around to make sure no one was watching before whispering, "They arrest people and then beat them up, just like in the old days!"

Director Wang and Chang Kun looked at each other in bewilderment. They had initially thought the security guard was just spouting nonsense, but they hadn't expected the special envoy to be so domineering.

"Would beating someone up even work?" Director Wang and Station Chief Liang left the office to slowly understand the situation.

"What's the point! We didn't get anything out of them; it's just pure nonsense!"

Station Master Liang cursed, watching helplessly as his employee was beaten, feeling utterly pathetic.

He tried to mediate, but the commissioner said that it was all for the sake of recovering state property, and someone had to suffer some injustice.

"The grain coupons were lost in this director's office?"

"That's right. If it had been lost in the stationmaster's office, I, Liang, would be the one locked up at home right now."

"So this specialist didn't find a single clue?"

It's been two or three days already; even if you dig three feet into the ground, there should be some clues by now.

"Sigh, no matter how much we dig, it's all just trivial matters. This person took a handful of rice from the public treasury, and that person filled a bag with public flour."

Station Chief Liang dismissed such matters. As staff members of the grain station, it was simply unrealistic to expect them not to take anything.

Moreover, when it comes to taking bribes, the leaders set an example by taking the most.

"Xiao Kun, what do you think?" Director Wang looked at Chang Kun and asked him to make a decision.

"Aunt Wang, let's go and meet this commissioner."

The two entered the director's office, which had been converted into a temporary interrogation room.

On the radiator against the wall, a short young man was handcuffed, his face bruised and swollen, looking quite pitiful.

Two burly men in civilian clothes with menacing faces were standing nearby, putting brass knuckles on their hands.

In front of the desk, a middle-aged man dressed in a Zhongshan suit sat leisurely in a grand chair, a cigarette between his fingers, his hair neatly combed.

Upon seeing that Director Wang, who entered the room, possessed an extraordinary demeanor and resembled a leader, the middle-aged man stood up.

"Who are you?"

"Hello, I'm Wang, the director of Gulou Subdistrict Office. I'm here to check on the progress of the case."

"Haha, welcome Director Wang, my surname is Geng." Commissioner Geng chuckled. Since he arrived at the grain station two or three days ago, there had been no progress in the case.

Firmly believing the thief was an inside man, he sent his men to search the grain station and had the employees report on each other.

He also announced regulations stipulating that those who knowingly fail to report crimes will be treated as accomplices, while those whose reports are verified will be rewarded after the case is solved.

This Commissioner Geng is not yet showing his true power, but when the winds rise, he will definitely be a master at stirring up trouble...