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

Yang Dalin first had Director Wang brought in.

During Yang Dalin's interrogation, Company Commander Li and his political instructor took notes.

Neither of these two people were locals, but Yang Dalin trusted them quite a bit.

Letting them in is also a way of bearing witness.

Yang Dalin quickly interrogated the pampered Director Wang.

Yang Dalin didn't use the Natural Memory Recovery Technique much.

I simply used a lighter to burn some bird feathers.

Without even hitting Director Wang, he confessed.

His backer was indeed Zhang Xiaotian's father, Zhang Weichen.

Zhang Weichen had previously fought as a guerrilla in this area before liberation, following the top official in the city. After liberation, that top official quickly rose from the top official in Jun County to become the top official in the city government.

Zhang Weichen was working with that person.

He had that person's trust.

Zhang Weichen had been secretly arrested before the liberation.

The enemy's threat was to use his son, Zhang Xiaotian, to force him to utter words.

Zhang Xiaotian suffered a lot when he was a child.

Zhang Weichen only agreed to secretly seek refuge with them in order to save his son's life.

After he was liberated, strangely enough, no one contacted him.

It's estimated that his superior died in an accident.

He might not have had time to give out his contact information when he went online.

Seeing that no one had contacted him for several years, he felt safe and began to climb higher.

Now that the family has power and influence, they feel guilty towards their son and thus indulge him even more.

And this Director Wang Changkui happened to be a puppet soldier who knew that Zhang Weichen had been secretly arrested.

He was the one who arrested Zhang Weichen's son back then.

Zhang Weichen knew nothing about this, and Director Wang Changkui dared not say anything, otherwise Zhang Weichen would surely kill him.

Wang Changkui first surrendered to the People's Liberation Army, and later, after being slightly wounded, he returned to his hometown and farmed for a year.

Of course, such people can't farm for long. Having been in the puppet army for so long, they're not willing to do this hard work.

You can work yourself to the bone and not earn much money.

He came up with a good idea: he took out some money he had hidden before liberation and gave Zhang Weichen's son a lot of nice things.

Through Zhang Xiaotian, he also ingratiated himself with Zhang Weichen, who then recruited him into the police station under the pretense of having been a member of the People's Liberation Army.

He rose from a lowly policeman to squad leader, battalion commander, and deputy director in a short time. During the major disasters a few years ago, he used his power to confiscate a lot of grain from the black market to make money.

A considerable amount of this money was given to Young Master Zhang and Zhang Weichen.

Seeing that this kid was really getting the hang of things, Zhang Weichen arranged for him to become the bureau chief again.

Wang Changkui revealed the records of gifts he gave and the locations where he hid the money he obtained.

Yang Dalin immediately arranged for people to search the places he mentioned.

Unexpectedly, in their attempt to target corrupt officials, they also uncovered a spy.

Although he was a spy who had lost his connection.

However, we must be wary.

Zhang Weichen betrayed a great deal of information about the current top official in the city for the sake of his and his son's lives.

Who knows, that person might also be dragged into this mess.

Yang Dalin asked Company Commander Li Weiguo and Political Instructor to go out first.

He used Wang Changkui's phone to call Director Hou to report.

Upon hearing this, Director Hou thought, "Damn it, I thought it was corrupt officials, but it turns out it involves spies."

That means a special department has to take the lead in this matter.

With Yang Dalin joining, no one else had anything to say.

Since Yang Dalin is a member of a special department, investigating spies is reasonable and compliant with regulations.

Director Hou arranged for him to participate in the entire process and investigate thoroughly.

No need to worry about anyone's feelings.

He will immediately arrange for someone to come and support him.

Yang Dalin also said that this interest group is very large.

With just Li Lianchang's hundred or so men, it might not be enough.

Director Hou told him that he would send a battalion from the city to help him.

They would all obey his orders.

Seeing that Director Hou trusted him so much and gave him such great authority, Yang Dalin immediately stood at attention and said, "Yes, I guarantee I will complete the mission."

Yang Dalin then had Zhang Xiaotian brought in.

Zhang Xiaotian, this second-generation rich kid, is even more cowardly.

He's even worse than Wang Changkui.

He confessed after only a few moments of tidying up.

Because Yang Dalin immediately chopped off one of his fingers that had been pointing at Sister Yan's hand.

He wouldn't dare not back down.

He couldn't wait for his father to come back and save him.

Because his father might not have had a chance to enter the venue, he was arrested by the city's public security forces as he entered the city.

This was also arranged directly by Director Hou.

They were secretly arrested and interrogated rigorously.

How could we possibly let him attend any meetings?

The meeting itself was just a ploy to lure them out of the county town and prevent them from obstructing the investigation.

Yang Dalin asked where the evidence of Zhang Weichen's embezzlement and bribery was.

They sent people directly to Zhang Weichen's house to arrest his wife, who was also Zhang Xiaotian's biological mother.

Evidence was found.

These corrupt officials, for some reason, all like to keep accounts.

I guess they were afraid of forgetting who gave them gifts and who didn't.

That makes things easier; we can just go through the ledgers one by one.

The family members of the second-in-command, as well as the families of several county leaders, were arrested.

Their home was also searched.

Next came some of the bureau chiefs.

Before the city's disciplinary officials arrived.

The police station and Company Commander Li's residence were already crammed with prisoners.

The corruption and crime in my hometown county is absolutely rampant.

I didn't expect it to be this serious.

There's no way around it; a bad leader will have a bad army.

In the county town, the top two leaders are like this. Below them, there are bureau chiefs and the top two leaders of the commune. How many good people are there?

Right now, Yang Dalin doesn't even have time to arrest the leaders of the communes below.

Of course, evidence of Zhang Weichen giving gifts to the city government was also found.

Yang Dalin did not alert the enemy.

Instead, they waited for the city's public security forces to interrogate Zhang Weichen and get the results before deciding whether to report to Director Hou.

At first, Zhang Weichen refused to confess.

The city's public security and military forces are really not good at handling cases, and they dare not directly interrogate people.

Zhang Weichen was still very arrogant.

As a result, Yang Dalin called him, threatened him with his son, and told the city's public security and military leaders that if he didn't obey, they could just deal with him without worry, because they had already found out he was a spy.

Once the top official in the city was in charge, Yang Dalin could no longer directly go to his door to make arrests.

We have to give face to certain people in the province.

But giving them face doesn't mean we won't arrest them.

Instead, they would arrest them and let them know.

It can't be like this: a lot of people have been arrested, and the higher-ups don't even know.

After all, these are the top officials at the municipal level, who affect one or two million ordinary people. Taking action against them would be done without the province knowing at all.

It's so ugly.

The provincial government should also send someone to replace this person.

We can't afford to get arrested and then be unable to find anyone to do the work.

Following Yang Dalin's advice, the city's public security forces interrogated Zhang Weichen much faster.

Nowadays, there's no emphasis on civilized law enforcement; it's mostly about memory recovery techniques.

Moreover, he knew that his house had been searched.

Evidence was also found.

He had no choice but to speak up; his son had been arrested by Yang Dalin again. A man who cared for his son wouldn't keep quiet just to protect his superior.