Chapter 52 - 1#
Chapter 52: Four Roads to Victory, Who Will Chase the Deer?
After receiving that call, Gu Chenzhou did not immediately rush to the police station. He followed his original plan, finished washing up half an hour later, and went to bed. After a good night’s sleep, he first returned to Zhengde Garden the next day before heading to the Beijing Public Security Bureau branch at three in the afternoon.
The police at the branch had been instructed in advance. As soon as they saw Gu Chenzhou’s car, they hurriedly notified the director.
By the time Gu Chenzhou parked his car, Director Chen personally came out to greet him.
“Young Master Gu, I’ve finally been waiting for you. I’m always a little uneasy when you’re not here.” As soon as they met, Director Chen shook Gu Chenzhou’s hand vigorously and said half-jokingly.
Gu Chenzhou thought to himself that although the other party started acting without a second word after receiving the news, he still felt that this was a hot potato.
He walked inside with Director Chen, asking as he went, “How is the other party?”
“Not bad,” Director Chen understood, “He just said he has something to report.”
The police along the way all greeted Director Chen. Director Chen nodded with a serious expression and said to Gu Chenzhou, “I took a quick look and felt it was very important, so I reported it to Minister Gu,” he said vaguely, “It’s about some other things concerning Zhao Xianyang.”
At this point, Zhao Xianyang’s only way to save his life was to go after the deeper background of this matter—of course, this might also make him die faster—in this struggle for the change of term, Zhao Xianyang’s side was the Yu faction, and the other side could only be the Wang faction.
The Wang faction is being dragged in again?
To be honest, Gu Chenzhou didn’t feel particularly surprised. He said to Director Chen, “Where is Zhao Xianyang now?”
“He has been taken to the interrogation room.” Director Chen said, “Shall we go over now?”
“No, let’s go to the video room first.” Gu Chenzhou said, “And show me what Zhao Xianyang took out.”
Director Chen nodded: “Okay, Young Master Gu, I’ll have someone take you to the video room. I have those things locked up, I’ll go get them for you now.” He waved to a policeman next to him and instructed him to take Gu Chenzhou to video room No. 1.
The policeman who was temporarily drafted was suddenly nervous. He unconsciously straightened his back and said, “Young Master Gu, I’ll take you there!”
Gu Chenzhou nodded and followed the policeman forward.
There wasn’t much to do today. There was only one staff member in interrogation room No. 1. Besides doing some interrogation video work, he also had time to drink tea and read the newspaper. Hearing the door behind him open, he turned his head and saw a newly recruited policeman walking in with a person in plain clothes.
What’s this for? The staff member thought, and was about to frown and speak when he heard the policeman who came in speak first:
“This is a guest that Director Chen personally instructed me to bring over.”
The staff member was startled, thinking to himself that it was a good thing he hadn’t spoken too quickly: “Please sit, please sit!” He quickly packed up the newspaper on his desk and threw it into the drawer, and then moved a chair over from the side.
“Enlarge the camera of Zhao Xianyang’s interrogation room to the entire screen.” Gu Chenzhou said to the staff member.
The staff member said okay, found Zhao Xianyang’s room, made a setting, and the large screen in front of him, which was divided into several blocks to monitor different interrogation rooms, was now only showing the image of Zhao Xianyang’s interrogation room.
Gu Chenzhou moved the chair back slightly and looked up at the person on the screen.
Bald, slightly fat, and his expression was still calm.
Zhao Xianyang and Wang Boyuan were from the same compound. They also started working together back then. His age was also similar to Wang Boyuan’s, both in their sixties.
There were no police officers in the interrogation room, but Zhao Xianyang, who was sitting inside, still raised his hand from time to time to wipe the sweat from his forehead. Obviously, his heart was not as calm as it appeared on the surface.
Gu Chenzhou stared at the large screen without blinking.
The staff member next to him poured a cup of tea for Gu Chenzhou. Just as he put it by the other’s hand, he saw Director Chen walk into the video room. He was about to remind the person sitting in the chair, but saw that Director Chen didn’t make a sound at all, just waved his hand to let him go out.
My goodness, so the director also has to flatter this young man. He clicked his tongue in his heart, poured a cup of tea for the director, and then walked out of the video room lightly.
“Director Chen.” Gu Chenzhou also noticed the other party at this time. He withdrew his gaze and nodded to the person who came in.
“Young Master Gu, the information is here.” Director Chen handed the things in his hand to Gu Chenzhou, and then sat down on a chair on the side.
Gu Chenzhou took it and looked at it for a few moments, then frowned: “There’s no evidence at all, just empty words saying that the Wang faction framed him?”
Director Chen said, “Zhao Xianyang means that he will wait for Minister Gu to come and show it to Minister Gu personally.”
Gu Chenzhou said, “Does Director Chen think Zhao Xianyang really has this evidence?”
Director Chen said, “That’s hard to say. If you say he has it, the status of the two is too different; if you say he doesn’t, the Zhao family still has some strength, and Zhao Xianyang did indeed work with Secretary Wang decades ago.” At this point, Director Chen paused, “Does Young Master Gu want to meet the other party?”
Gu Chenzhou did not answer immediately. He looked through the thin confession record in his hand again.
There wasn’t much content on it. The main point was that the Wang faction also participated in the attack. As mentioned before, Gu Chenzhou was not too surprised by this.
The Yu faction can create an attack to frame the Wang faction and destroy the Gu family’s good impression of the Wang faction; why can’t the Wang faction push the boat with the current, facilitate this attack, and then expose the conspiracy, so that the Gu family, who is angry with the Yu faction, will completely turn to the Wang faction?
Perhaps because Gu Chenzhou paused for too long, Director Chen on the side said again, “Young Master Gu, if Zhao Xianyang has no evidence at all, I wouldn’t dare to notify Minister Gu like this…”
This means that Zhao Xianyang really has evidence.
Gu Chenzhou was really surprised this time: “Oh? If there is evidence, why didn’t Director Chen mention it just now?”
“But this evidence, legally speaking, is not legally effective.” Director Chen said, “And this evidence is not about the Wang faction, it’s about himself.”
“Tell me in detail?” Gu Chenzhou said with interest.
Looking at Gu Chenzhou like this, Director Chen began to ponder in his heart: This young master of the Gu family doesn’t seem to attach much importance to Zhao Xianyang. I remember in the Wei family’s case, the Wei family had exhausted the criminal driver’s mouth to the point where he couldn’t speak anymore, but this one still wanted to come again and watch again. And now that it’s about himself, it seems that he’s not even interested in meeting Zhao Xianyang? Does the Gu family already have conclusive evidence, or do they have other plans…?
Despite his thoughts, Director Chen didn’t stop talking: “This evidence is about Wang Chang, who led the attack on Young Master Gu this time!”
Gu Chenzhou raised an eyebrow.
“This is a recording of a quarrel between Zhao Xianyang and Wang Chang.” Director Chen said, “Zhao Xianyang did have some friendship with Wang Chang before, but they had a falling out several years ago. The reason was precisely because Wang Chang latched onto Secretary Wang’s nephew, Wang Rongze, and kicked out his old leader who had promoted Wang Chang at the very beginning and had some grudges with the Wang faction from public to private.”
Gu Chenzhou thought to himself that this sentence had too much content: “The Wang faction is also at ease using such a person?”
Director Chen chuckled: “Young Master Gu probably doesn’t know, but this young master Wang Rongze was quite high-profile when he was in Chunqing City. All departments opened the convenient door for him.”
This was said with art. Director Chen didn’t say anything about Wang Chang, but focused on the root of the matter, Wang Rongze. This Wang Rongze, even as the number one crown prince, was obviously a bit too high-profile, causing the senior officials in Chunqing to only let their subordinates flatter him and not want to get involved themselves. The low-level officials, probably the crown prince didn’t look up to them either. After a while, only Wang Chang was relatively presentable.
If that’s the case, I’m afraid that whether it’s Wang Boyuan or Wang Rongze, they probably just have the idea of accepting whoever comes to their door…
Director Chen returned to the recording: “When Zhao Xianyang took out this recording yesterday, I sent it for appraisal. There are no signs of cutting or synthesis, but it cannot be said that Zhao Xianyang did not participate in this matter.” He took a breath and said, “According to Zhao Xianyang, he and Wang Chang had teamed up and done some illegal things. This recording was specially left by him when he had a falling out with Wang Chang, just in case. As for the text message records in the evidence, Zhao Xianyang said that he did buy this number, but he hadn’t used it for a while and didn’t know anything about the text messages. I have arranged for people to investigate this matter, but the time is too short now and there are no clues. I hope that the interrogation of Wang Chang later can have some breakthroughs…”
Before he could finish his sentence, the phone in his trouser pocket rang.
Director Chen frowned and was about to press it off when he saw Gu Chenzhou, who had been listening to him quietly, make a gesture, signaling him to answer the phone.
Director Chen apologized, stood up and walked a few steps out, answered the phone, and after a few words with the other end, he cried out in a lost voice: “What? —Wang Chang committed suicide!?”
“Yes, Director Chen,” the person on the other end of the phone said, “Twenty minutes ago, Wang Chang stabbed the escort personnel with a dagger on the way from the army to the police station, jumped out of the car and fell to his death.”
Holding the phone in his hand, Director Chen’s face changed several times, and he didn’t answer for a moment.
The other end of the phone said again: “We still have some things to deal with here. Wang Chang’s body will be handed over to the police. Goodbye, Director Chen!”