Chapter 20#

Chapter 20 Action

He Hailou’s pupils shrank slightly.

This time, the person applauding changed: “Eldest Young Master Gu lives up to his reputation. I am showing off my slight skill before an expert, playing with a big sword in front of Guan Gong.”

“If I remember correctly, I hadn’t met Young Master He three years ago, and I have no enmity with Young Master He…”

“But Eldest Young Master Gu’s reputation is too loud,” He Hailou continued with a smile, “I have admired your name for a long time.”

It is unknown whether this answer was beyond Gu Chenzhou’s expectations. Anyway, there was no different expression on Gu Chenzhou’s face. He took another sip of wine from his glass before saying: “And then?”

He Hailou raised his eyebrows: “What does Young Master Gu mean?”

“Young Master He is pretending to be confused while understanding clearly,” Gu Chenzhou said lightly, “In the past month or so, Young Master He has also checked my information, right? Did you find anything—” He looked at He Hailou with a faint smile, “That can bring me trouble? Just like three years ago?”

“Not yet.” He Hailou smiled calmly, “Young Master Gu has caused me a lot of trouble.”

“But does Young Master He take it to heart?” Gu Chenzhou said, “This kind of playing house confrontation, once or twice occasionally is fine. Hasn’t Young Master He gotten tired of playing in this month or so?”

He Hailou had to admit that his interest was aroused by the other party: “Young Master Gu doesn’t mind elaborating, right?”

The corner of Gu Chenzhou’s lips curved slightly:

“I think this plan will suit Young Master He’s wishes.”

The sky outside the window curtain changed from azure to orange-red, from orange-red to dark gray, and finally was covered by layers of dark blue, the color close to black.

The actual conversation time between the two was not too long. In less than an hour, Gu Chenzhou got up to leave, and at the same time asked someone to bring up the girl who should have been waiting here obediently an hour ago.

The room with complete tools finally waited for its main customer. He Hailou sat on the piano bench in front of the piano, his left hand sliding all the way on the cold keys, and the ding-dong sound was as clear as spring water falling on stones.

He didn’t turn his head, and said casually to the girl standing far away: “Come here.”

For any normal person, the pressure in this room was unusually great. The face of the girl standing at the entrance was gray, and she couldn’t walk at all.

He Hailou didn’t say it a second time. Having played with so many men and women of the same type over the years, he could simulate similar faces one by one with his eyes closed: pure faces, panicked expressions, and fear and disgust in their eyes…

His left hand fingers suddenly exerted force, and heavy syllables jumped out from his fingertips one by one.

The silver whip was still on the piano body. The contrast between black and white was like the two people who entered this room one after another, so distinct that it was dazzling.

He Hailou stopped the tuneless playing, took out two stacks of money from the bedside casually and threw them at the girl standing at the door rooted to the spot, saying lazily: “Forget it, get out.” As soon as the voice fell, the girl in the long dress panicked and picked up the money falling at her feet, turned around and pressed the elevator button desperately.

The elevator dinged, and the girl who finally had some color on her face dodged in. He Hailou stood leaning against the place where Gu Chenzhou leaned just now—he understood why Gu Chenzhou chose here just now. Isn’t this the only place in this room that is good to lean on and can see the entrance clearly?

He took out a cigarette from his pocket, watching the slowly closing metal door of the elevator, and felt a deep dullness about his choice for the first time.

—These inherently bland white butterflies, without even needing the pursuer to close his palms, abandon their only beauty, or fall weakly, or churn in the mud, and are still complacent.

“Find me a more obedient one casually.” He Hailou took out his mobile phone and dialed a number to say to the other party, but before the voice completely fell, he overturned his idea, “No, forget it…” After filtering through various candidates in his mind, his voice became a bit slow, “…Help me make an appointment with Zhou Xing.”

Whatever was said on the other end of the phone, He Hailou laughed softly: “Can’t make an appointment? How do you know? —How did he climb into Sun Peiming’s bed back then? …Gu Chenzhou? Don’t worry,” his expression was a little bit casual, “He doesn’t have the leisure to care about such trivial matters. You don’t have to worry about causing trouble for the old man—” He dragged out his voice, “I want to play with Gu Chenzhou, do I still need someone he threw away three years ago? You use business matters to make an appointment with him, and he will come out. He is…”

He Hailou’s expression became a bit strange, a bit bored and a bit interested, entangled and finally turned into a little expectation:

“That kind of smart person who knows the situation and interests.”

Coming out of He Hailou’s room with special taste, Gu Chenzhou sent the two veterans to the car to the airport according to the previous plan—regardless of whether He Hailou planned to use these two to vent his anger later, anyway, the people had been sent out by him. Even if He Hailou was bored again, he couldn’t spend a lot of energy to go abroad to find two people who actually didn’t do anything to him.

Of course, whether He Hailou wanted to fix the other party was one thing. If Gu Chenzhou wanted to protect these two people, he could protect them. But why bother? In the final analysis, he didn’t have so much energy to waste on such trivial matters, nor was he so bored to set up targets for himself casually.

“Young Master Gu, I have confirmed the things you ordered just now.”

As soon as the car carrying the two veterans left, Lin Fang, who was following Gu Chenzhou, took over the conversation. But this sentence did not get a response from Gu Chenzhou. He looked at Gu Chenzhou a little strangely and found that the other party’s face was more than a little gloomy.

What happened? Was the conversation not smooth after going in just now? Lin Fang guessed secretly, seeing Gu Chenzhou take out a handkerchief from his pocket, wipe his hands and throw it into the trash can by the road: “Is there any progress?”

While speaking, he had already got into the car, and Lin Fang hurried to follow: “Not much progress. Although the background of the driver has been found out, the other party’s mouth is very hard, and the clues traced are always insufficient…”

“Go to the police station.” Gu Chenzhou ordered directly without waiting for the other party to finish.

Lin Fang also quieted down at the right time and sat in the car to the police station with Gu Chenzhou—he could see that Gu Chenzhou’s mood was not very good after coming out of He Hailou’s place. Even when closing his eyes to rest, the expression on his face seemed a bit cold.

In the power center of a country, although the saying ‘a stone falling from the sky hits three people, two of whom are government officials’ is a bit exaggerated, it also reflects from the side that it is impossible to completely follow the rules here—at least no one dared to stop Gu Chenzhou from coming to the police station to see the suspect of a major case. Not only did no one dare to stop him, but the efficiency of the police station was also much higher than usual. In just five minutes, Gu Chenzhou and the driver who was shot twice by him sat in the same room.

The incandescent lamp in the interrogation room was a bit too bright.

Letting the accompanying police go out first, Gu Chenzhou sat behind the table and read the driver’s file and confession in front of him. He read very carefully, as if seeing these for the first time today. Gu Chenzhou spent fully fifteen minutes reading a thin document of no more than three A4 pages.

Then he gently threw these three pieces of paper on the table.

Compared to the not very pleasant, hasty first meeting in the dim wilderness two months ago, this time Gu Chenzhou sat in the bright interrogation room and had enough time to carefully examine the person who drove into Wei Xiangjin.

The other party was a man about thirty years old.

He looked very thin and weak, not knowing whether it was because of the previous gunshot wound or the recent continuous surveillance and interrogation. His hair was messy, with a large patch of gray hair mixed in the black hair. His eyes were unfocused, staring at a place for a long time, and he was very easily startled by outside sounds—Gu Chenzhou’s action of throwing down those three pieces of paper just now made his whole body tremble.

“Peng Youchun.” Gu Chenzhou read the name slowly.

“Not instigated by anyone, unaware, fatigue driving caused excessive speed, made evasive actions after waking up… all your testimonies.” Gu Chenzhou smiled, looked at the file on the table and said, “Born in 1977, graduated from technical secondary school in 1998, joined the Red Tripod Gang in 2000, imprisoned for three years in 2002 for participating in fighting and gambling, released in 2005, found a job as a truck driver two months later, and has been doing it until now.”

“No wife and no fixed girlfriend,” Gu Chenzhou flipped through the few pieces of paper on the table casually, “I don’t know how to interrogate, and I don’t have any clues or evidence to correct you. I just ask you one question. If you die like this, who will provide for your old mother and send her off?”

“…I didn’t mean to.” After a long while, Peng Youchun’s voice rang out, low and hoarse. Just listening to it, one could know the owner’s decadence and despair.

Gu Chenzhou shook his head: “Do you really believe what you said? Even if you coaxed yourself into believing it—others don’t believe it either. This matter is not without witnesses. Sitting in front of you now, do you think my memory is so bad that I forgot the scene of that night in just two months?”

The other party stared at the corner of the table with dazed eyes.

Gu Chenzhou waited for a while and said with a smile: “Do you know who you hit?”

A trace of confusion flashed in the eyes of the man with his head down.

Gu Chenzhou did not ignore this detail. He said slowly: “It doesn’t matter if you don’t know, I can tell you. You hit him, whether you hit him or not—I guess you bet on this—there are plenty of people who want to crush you to death, and plenty of people who can crush you to death.”

“I shot at you two months ago,” Gu Chenzhou smiled faintly, “Look now, has anyone asked you a word about this matter?”

Peng Youchun seemed to move his body uncomfortably.

Gu Chenzhou waited for a while but didn’t hear any sound. He sighed regretfully: “It seems that you are determined to sell your life to someone… Aren’t you afraid of death? —Even if you are not afraid of death,” from returning until now, Gu Xinjun, Wei Xiangjin, Zheng Yuelin, Zhou Xing, Gu Zhengjia, He Hailou, close and not close, allies and opponents, in this room illuminated as pale as snow by bright incandescent lamps, he showed his coldness for the first time, “Aren’t you afraid that your mother will be uneasy for a lifetime because of you, a scumbag?”

Today’s police station was as orderly as usual.

A middle-aged criminal police officer who walked in from the corridor outside took a glass with tea leaves to the water dispenser to get hot water, and asked his colleague sitting in the office at the same time: “Why is the light in Interrogation Room 1 still on at this time?”

“It was opened temporarily, Captain Wang,” The police officer sitting closest to the door answered, “Young Master Gu came personally fifteen minutes ago to see the driver temporarily detained here.”

Logically speaking, people here wouldn’t know the few young masters in the capital, but because Gu Chenzhou had been inquiring about the progress of this case, although the main contact was his assistant, the police officers responsible for this matter almost all knew that there was such a big shot.

Captain Wang frowned slightly, not because Gu Chenzhou’s behavior obviously didn’t comply with relevant regulations, but because he felt in his heart that this playboy was too concerned about this case.

Although he had a good relationship with the victim, neither the victim nor the victim’s immediate family members paid such attention… Thinking of the suspicious points in the confession of Gu Chenzhou, the party involved, the old criminal police officer with many years of criminal investigation experience felt some murmurs in his heart. He sat in his seat and asked casually:

“Is the camera turned off?”

This question made the police officer look strange: “This is not, and that young master also said, let us cooperate…”