The Life of a Son-in-Law in a Courtyard House

Captain Yang, with a gun pointed at his head, was clearly a bit dazed and frightened.

He wasn't a soldier; he only got his position by flattering the brother-in-law of the thief who had just been shouting.

He was definitely concerned about his own life, and he thought he understood what his brother-in-law's brother-in-law meant.

He quickly shouted, "Okay, okay, everyone listen to my command and put down your guns."

Back off, back off.

The police officers on the other side exchanged glances, somewhat unwilling, and still hesitant.

Yang Dalin noticed that several of the opposing team members were very disciplined in their tactical movements, suggesting they were from the military.

Yang Dalin first covered Captain Yang's mouth before shouting loudly, "Comrades of the opposing side."

Don't worry, our identities are not in question. You've already heard what happened today; it's clear that your captain is trying to distort the truth with this thief.

Our captain will contact our superiors immediately. You can put down your guns. We won't leave; we'll just wait in the yard for our superiors to handle this.

So just put down your guns and wait for your superiors to arrive. The truth will be cleared up once the higher-ups come and investigate. You're just following orders, so there won't be any problems.

Otherwise, if we continue like this, something might accidentally go wrong, and we'd be terribly wronged.

When the soldiers on the other side heard that they wouldn't leave the compound anyway and would notify their superiors to handle the situation, they lowered their guns.

He slowly took a few steps back.

However, they only retreated to the entrance of the courtyard, still blocking the entrance.

Seeing that the other party had temporarily withdrawn, Yang Dalin said to the captain next to him, "Captain, go and make a call to Station Chief Qi. It would be best if he could contact the nearby troops of our unit, the public security bureau of our unit, and the local higher-level departments. I suspect there are serious problems with the local leaders here."

That kid probably has some connections.

(The Ministry of Railways had its own security forces, as did the public security departments, hospitals, and schools.)

The team leader nodded: "Okay, I understand. Put them in separate rooms."

Bring all the other gangs of thieves into the house, tie them all up, gag them, and then interrogate them one by one, making sure to record their statements. Only with confessions and solid evidence will we have more confidence.

Two men were left behind to guard our truck with guns.

The others retreated to the room.

Yang Dalin tied up the so-called Captain Yang, gagged him, and took him to the room.

Then he was handed over to a colleague for interrogation.

Yang Dalin went to the next room and dragged the brat who had been shouting so loudly to him.

Yang Dalin sized up the man, who looked quite young, probably in his early twenties, not yet thirty.

He had delicate skin and a traitorous, parted hairstyle.

He was glaring fiercely at Yang Dalin.

Yang Dalin wouldn't tolerate that; he punched the other man in the stomach.

The other person's mouth was gagged, so they couldn't shout, but their face turned bright red.

It was making soft, whimpering noises.

Yang Dalin hadn't used his full strength yet, otherwise one punch would have sent the opponent to his grandmother's house.

Yang Dalin grabbed the other man's hair and slammed his head against the wall, saying, "Kid, you're pretty tough."

"They're clearly here to steal, yet they claim to be from the security patrol. What, do they have connections? Tell me, tell me!"

The other person was in so much pain that they couldn't even whimper, so Yang Dalin ripped the cloth off their mouth.

Ignoring the pain, the other party began to threaten: "You...you...just wait."

My brother-in-law... will kill you all.

Yang Dalin said dismissively, "Really? Tell me who your brother-in-law is, acting so arrogantly."

Let me hear what happened.

"Your brother-in-law isn't named Li Gang, is he? Or Li Jiang? That's incredibly powerful!"

The other party grinned and said, "Hmph, my brother-in-law is an old song title (you know what I mean), he's now the deputy secretary of the prefectural committee, and he has many comrades-in-arms. You can just wait to die."

Yang Dalin wasn't going to put up with him. What was there to be afraid of? No matter how many comrades he had, he still had the system's boss protecting him.

The first commander was Wang Dahuzi, and the second commander was also the chief of staff.

What's there to be afraid of?

Although this matter may not reach the commander of the department, as long as our side is in the right, and it is a battle between the city of Beijing and the local authorities, there is nothing to fear.

It's not like the early 1980s when General Yang's son-in-law went to visit relatives in the countryside, when things were so chaotic. No matter how powerful the local authorities were, a single ideological issue could bring you down.

Yang Dalin continued to beat the other man without caring, and the kid became obedient after only a few blows.

Putting aside everything else, I did talk about his sister.

A woman in her twenties married a man in his forties.

The old song title also mentions abandoning his first wife and marrying this woman.

He was also someone who abandoned his wife and children. He was probably alright before liberation, but he quickly degenerated after liberation.

Given how much he takes care of his brother-in-law, he's probably done quite a few bad things.

That would be terrible. Not only would his brother-in-law be implicated, but he himself would also have a hard time escaping unscathed.

This kid is actually quite clever. He knows he can't talk about the illegal things he's done, or he'll be in big trouble. He just talks about how awesome his brother-in-law is and how much his brother-in-law listens to his sister.

His sister dotes on him so much, yet she's another indiscriminate Voldemort.

Yang Dalin let him go for the time being, then gathered evidence from others and interrogated him again later.

The kid couldn't hold on much longer because of the testimony from other people.

There's no way to escape it.

It's impossible to deny it now.

And the hotel doorman was also bribed by this kid to deliberately get away.

……

……

When Qi Desheng received the call in Sijiucheng, he immediately reported it to his superiors despite it being the middle of the night.

The higher-ups immediately contacted the nearest public security bureau and security forces within the ministry to provide assistance.

Then they directly notified a leader in their province, who in turn notified the local prefectural party committee leader.

The head of the prefectural committee and his brother-in-law, the deputy secretary, didn't get along to begin with, so why would they notify him?

As it turned out, the boy's brother-in-law had no idea about the news.

A few days later, after being arrested, he banged his head against the wall and said, "What a lousy brother-in-law!"

That night, before dawn, Yang Dalin handed over all the people, confessions, and weapons that had been seized to a working group jointly formed by the Ministry's Public Security Bureau and the local Party Committee's Public Security Bureau.

The police officers outside were also taken away for investigation.

There must be a lot going on here.

A group of thieves, armed with guns, stole items and claimed to be members of the security patrol.

How many issues are there in this?

That Captain Yang doesn't even deserve the surname Yang.

I reckon he'll at least have to shoot targets now.

How could someone who dares to directly order an attack on a Ministry of Railways convoy without any investigation be any good?

Moreover, in this small county, there are many of that deputy secretary of the prefectural committee's subordinates, and there are bound to be many people protecting that brother-in-law.

These people won't escape either; there's likely to be a major upheaval in the local government.

Back then, two young revolutionaries from Tianjin were executed. What is this brother-in-law compared to them?

The hotel's security guard and manager were also taken away, because this must have happened more than once, and the hotel manager must have covered it up and protected this brother-in-law several times.

Neither he nor the gatekeeper could escape.

That's a story for another time.

Yang Dalin didn't bother with it, but he didn't sleep well. By the time the others had finished picking them up, it was almost dawn.