Chapter 61 - 2#
Wei Xiangjin was thoughtful: “Is this place really related to He Hailou?”
Gu Chenzhou thought of the matter in Qingxiang County—the plan and the result were also far apart. He said: “Who knows, everyone says He Hailou crossed the line and is involved in the underworld… but no one has found any evidence, right? This time, it’s mainly about you getting credit,” he thought about it and asked, “When will you act?”
“Tomorrow night.” Wei Xiangjin said.
Gu Chenzhou frowned and wanted to suggest Wei Xiangjin to change the action time, but he swallowed the words when they reached his mouth—it’s fine for a parachutist to come and get credit, but if he intervenes at will, it won’t be in line with the rules of officialdom.
“Let’s go to a dinner party at noon?” Wei Xiangjin said, “It’s a welcome banquet. By the way, will you join me in the action tomorrow night?”
“I didn’t plan to.” Gu Chenzhou said.
“What are you doing here if you didn’t plan to?” Wei Xiangjin said, and asked about the word in Gu Chenzhou’s words, “Originally?”
“Well, now, I plan to take another look.” Gu Chenzhou said.
“I don’t understand your words anymore…” Wei Xiangjin said.
At the welcome banquet at noon, in addition to the personnel from the police system, even the county magistrate of Dechang County came over to drink a glass of wine and show his face.
Sitting at the same table with Wei Xiangjin, as a companion of Wei Xiangjin with only a surname, Gu Chenzhou got a rare experience of being ignored at a banquet—this coincided with his plan. Throughout the welcome banquet where cups were exchanged, Gu Chenzhou kept a faint smile on his face and sat next to Wei Xiangjin to observe secretly, and really noticed a person.
Things in officialdom have always been very particular, but after watching, listening, and sitting for more than ten years, anyone will get used to it.
After the banquet, Wei Xiangjin and Gu Chenzhou walked on the streets of Dechang County.
The cold wind had been blowing since morning, and it didn’t mean to stop in the afternoon.
Gu Chenzhou put up his hood again and shrank his neck.
Wei Xiangjin didn’t feel cold after drinking. He chatted with Gu Chenzhou next to him, until the other party suddenly said:
“Advance the action tomorrow night by one day!”
Wei Xiangjin was stunned: “What’s wrong?”
Gu Chenzhou said: “I feel something is wrong. The look in the eyes of the director named Lin at the banquet just now was not particularly gentle when he looked at you.”
Wei Xiangjin pondered: “You found out? I noticed it just now. Maybe it’s because I parachuted down to take credit directly?”
Gu Chenzhou neither nodded nor shook his head: “Since the clues and evidence are ready and we are just waiting to arrest people, there is not much difference between tonight and tomorrow night.”
Wei Xiangjin didn’t hesitate for too long, and soon nodded—it’s indeed not good for a parachutist to intervene in specific matters besides taking credit, but it doesn’t mean he can’t intervene. After all, being able to parachute down is proof of a strong background. Since the background is strong, what does it matter if he intervenes in one or two things?
At two o’clock in the morning, Shanjin Road.
When Gu Chenzhou arrived at the agreed location, it was exactly two o’clock. Ten minutes ago, Wei Xiangjin and people from other police departments had arrived. Seeing Gu Chenzhou, he opened the car door to let him in, and said to the driver: “Go.”
Gu Chenzhou got into the car and looked at the other cars. When he saw a dog lying in the window of one of the cars, he said to Wei Xiangjin: “Drug sniffing dog?”
“It’s the border, they must bring it.” Wei Xiangjin said softly, “This is not a foreign country, where can we sweep out large quantities of guns? There are few records in the army! But smuggling and drug trafficking are very likely. Hmm, there are also counterfeit money cases, but these are actually not under the control of our army, at most the armed police will check.”
Gu Chenzhou nodded.
There was no word all the way. When they drove to a street outside the location, people from the police system ran over to discuss the action steps with Wei Xiangjin.
“I have no opinion, just follow the captain’s idea and go in directly.” Wei Xiangjin said concisely.
The person in charge who came to discuss smiled: “Okay, then proceed as planned.” Then he turned and left.
A moment later, instructions came from the command vehicle. Several cars suddenly accelerated and rampaged into the industrial park ahead. The guard of the industrial park just ran out, and the police who got off the car showed their guns and identities, and said sternly: “Police handling a case, no one is allowed to leave the scene!”
At the same time, the doors of several cars opened, and the drug sniffing dogs and the police holding the dogs got off together. Several drug sniffing dogs sniffed their noses, and then ran forward with small steps.
Gu Chenzhou and Wei Xiangjin also got off the car. Wei Xiangjin said: “Let’s go together later and see what we can find out.”
As soon as the voice fell, loud barking was heard in front.
The two looked at each other. Wei Xiangjin was not the real commander here after all, and he didn’t intervene too much. Instead, he handed it over to the people from the police system, and he and Gu Chenzhou led people to follow the main force.
There didn’t seem to be many people in the industrial park in the middle of the night. Several buildings were dark, and there were not many street lights around. Except for the moonlight, most of the light came from the flashlights in the hands of the action team members.
The barking of the drug sniffing dogs came from far away in the dark night. Because the surroundings were too quiet, it was very loud, almost shrill.
Gu Chenzhou ran forward with Wei Xiangjin while observing the surroundings: This is a dilapidated and somewhat small industrial park. There are only a few lonely low factory buildings. A four-story building similar to a teaching building is probably the leadership office building or something. Apart from that, there are all factory buildings with only one floor but very high ceilings. There are no staff dormitories with clothes drying, so are there no other human voices…?
Everyone moved forward quickly and had run through most of the industrial park. They were about to approach the warehouse in the last part when a voice suddenly came from the walkie-talkie of the police team leader:
“Captain, report on the situation! The dogs suddenly scattered and barked for some reason, and we can’t hold them back! We haven’t found anything for the time being!”
“Understood, continue searching!” The police team leader said to the walkie-talkie.
Wei Xiangjin and Gu Chenzhou standing next to him looked at each other, and there was a vague understanding in their eyes.
“Where do you think the other party’s trap is?” Wei Xiangjin whispered to Gu Chenzhou.
“I guess—” Gu Chenzhou just said two words when a scream suddenly sounded in the dark night—this time it was a human scream.
“Everyone move forward quickly!” The police team leader said sternly, pulled out the pistol from his waist, and continued to move forward in the direction where the sound came from—which was the direction where the drug sniffing dogs ran at the beginning.
The remaining distance was actually only thirty or fifty steps. Just as everyone rushed into the warehouse with people, they saw the team member who had previously pulled the drug sniffing dog here bandaging a man who was shot lying on the ground. The team member next to him controlled the drug sniffing dog barking everywhere and quickly reported to the police team leader: “Captain, we just found this person. We were about to control him, but he pulled out a gun and rushed up, so we shot…”
Before the team member finished speaking, the police team leader interrupted him angrily: “He pulled out a fucking water gun! Are your eyes growing on your head!?” In just a short encounter, the sharp eyes trained by years of police career had allowed him to see clearly the person lying on the ground:
First of all, he is not the target of this arrest.
Secondly, what was knocked to the ground was obviously the “gun” that those team members said. It was not a real gun, but a water gun! It was made quite crudely. I don’t know how these people mistook this kind of thing for a real gun.
Gu Chenzhou and Wei Xiangjin looked at each other.
This action has been a bit unsmooth from the beginning to now.
The police team leader couldn’t suppress his anger. After scolding the person who shot for a while, he instructed several team members to drag the person aside.
“Do you want to call an ambulance?” A team member saw that the person on the ground was not in good condition and asked.
The person in charge got angry again: “Do you want to simply put this action on the newspaper and broadcast it on the radio to advertise it? You all said that he rushed out by himself. It is obstructing official duties. He was accidentally injured while obstructing official duties. Even if it goes to court, it has nothing to do with us police!” He squeezed a sentence out of his teeth, “Leave someone here to bandage and guard him. Seize the time and see if you can get anything out of his mouth—others continue to search!”
After speaking, he turned to Wei Xiangjin and said: “Major Wei, let’s continue. The manpower outside…?”
“It’s all arranged.” Wei Xiangjin nodded and said, “In addition to being guarded by armed police at each entrance and exit, there are snipers on standby at any time.”
“Sorry to trouble the armed police brothers.” The person in charge said politely and waved his hand. Several police officers who raised dogs dragged the drug sniffing dogs that kept barking but didn’t find anything, and everyone continued to move forward.
“Are there any clues?” Gu Chenzhou followed all the time and asked Wei Xiangjin in a low voice.
Wei Xiangjin explained: “If drug enforcement and anti-smuggling rely only on a few police dogs, then it’s really over. The border is chaotic, and generally no one cares too much about these things. This raid has two purposes. One is to get a large amount of stolen goods, and the other is to arrest people. We came here just now to get the stolen goods first, but now we haven’t found any stolen goods at once, so we should arrest people first—when we rushed in just now, I’m afraid the other party has already found out that it’s bad.”
Speaking of this, Wei Xiangjin walked out of the warehouse and looked at the sky: “Let’s continue to move forward. The people running in front should have controlled the people in this industrial park.”
Gu Chenzhou also looked at the sky. He didn’t see the moon, but there were quite a few stars. Although Dechang County is at the foot of the mountain, compared with the capital, it is undoubtedly high altitude. It seems that precisely because of this, looking at the sky here, even the sky is closer.
Coming out of the warehouse, because they had to search for suspects, the police team leader divided the police officers into teams and dispersed them. Each team went to search in the established direction—here the role of Wei Xiangjin, the parachutist, was seen.
He was assigned two policemen, and then the police team leader politely told him that Young Master Wei needed to sit in the center and control the overall situation. The frontline activities were left to them. They promised to follow Young Master Wei’s instructions and bring the people back to perfectly complete this major border operation.
To put it bluntly: Young Master Wei, you just take the credit properly, stay safe and sound, and don’t cause trouble for us tonight!
Just like Gu Chenzhou was ignored at the banquet in the afternoon, Wei Xiangjin didn’t say it was the first time he encountered such a thing, but he definitely didn’t get used to it. He didn’t even bother to give the other party a smile, and just nodded casually to agree.
When the people went far away, Gu Chenzhou teased Wei Xiangjin with a smile: “Young Master Wei doesn’t often encounter such things, right?”
Wei Xiangjin tsked twice and said to Gu Chenzhou: “I had it when I first joined the army, but now—but forget it this time, who let me indeed come to get credit?” He didn’t care about the two policemen following him at all.
In fact, the people talking to each other at this moment were not Wei Xiangjin and Gu Chenzhou.
Gu and Wei were talking about the people in the police team here, and the people in the police team here were naturally talking about Gu Chenzhou and Wei Xiangjin.
“What is the background of the person leading the team today? He changed our action time as soon as he came.”
“I heard he came down from the army.”
“What is the young master who came to get credit tossing about? Afraid of having no sense of existence? And bringing a friend!” The policeman who spoke was about to roll his eyes, “Does he think this is filming a police movie? Let’s see where he cries if something goes wrong.”
“If something really goes wrong, the board may not necessarily hit him, but we will definitely be unlucky.”
The voices were gradually covered by the dark night.