Chapter 44: Investigation

 Zhang Yuandong still felt that the clothes he had chosen were very good, after all, in this era, most of the fabrics on the market were blue, green, and gray, these durable colors, pink clothes were very difficult to buy even if you had money.

    He foolishly scratched the back of his head and took out two boxes: “These two are from my comrades, see if you like them.”

    Lin Yue took the two boxes, she opened them and saw that one contained two boxes of clam oil, and the other box contained a box of Friendship Snow Cream.

    There were no women who didn’t love beauty, she was still using the skin care products she made herself, which could only moisturize.

    The skin care products Zhang Yuandong sent were right up her alley.

    But although she liked them, they weren’t really a couple after all, he was giving her gifts and skin care products, it felt strangely hot in her hands.

    She put the boxes on the kang and smiled, “It’s not easy for you to come back, you still brought me so many things, you’re so thoughtful.

    Actually, you don’t have to buy me anything, I don’t need these things in the village.”

    “I didn’t think that much, I just think you’re good to me and the children, I wanted to buy you some things.

    I also brought some for the two children, look!” Zhang Yuandong said as he rummaged through his bag and pulled out a bunch of things, he pointed them out to Lin Yue and introduced them: “This doll is for Lingling, and this set of zodiac toys is for Wanli, I heard that every child has a frog like this now, they can both play with this one.”

    Lin Yue thought to herself, he’s been back for a few days, hasn’t he noticed that his son is the one who sleeps with the rabbit doll every night?

    Sure enough, little Lingling wasn’t interested in the exquisite doll, as soon as her father left, she grabbed the most common iron frog, as for Wanli, he was very fond of the set of twelve zodiac animals.

    The doll was lying there all alone, no one was paying attention to it, Lin Yue felt sorry for it, so she simply put it next to the rabbit doll.

    The county Public Security Bureau had three new employees today, one male and two female, they were all fresh graduates from the police academy, they were twenty-three or four years old.

    The male was ordinary looking, of average height, a little overweight, he didn’t have any memorable features, but his personality was quite outgoing.

    The two female ones, one had a round face, two black and shiny pigtails hung down to her chest, she wasn’t tall, she was chubby, and she looked very likable.

    The other female had a neat short haircut, she had a pair of beautiful big eyes, she was very tall and slender, the belt outside her police uniform tightened her small waist, making her look both charming and capable.

    Liu, who was in charge of logistics, brought them to each department to familiarize themselves with the environment early in the morning.

    When she saw Zhang Yuandong enter, Liu went up to greet him.

    Zhang Yuandong greeted her, but he didn’t pay much attention to the three of them, he went straight into his office.

    Liu vaguely knew some inside information, she knew that his identity was not that simple, she didn’t look down on him just because he was now just a small policeman, she was always polite when she met him.

    The new male was curious and asked Liu, “Sister Liu, that person just now looked very imposing, he even came to work on a sidecar, is he a leader from the Bureau?” The two female ones behind him also pricked up their ears.

    Liu smiled, “His name is Zhang Yuandong, he just transferred from the army, he came a few days earlier than you, he’s also a police officer.

    His home is quite far from the unit, the Bureau specially approved a sidecar for him, to make it easier for him to commute.” There was only one sidecar in the county Public Security Bureau, since Zhang Yuandong came back, he had been driving it.

    Zhang Yuandong’s position in the army was a company commander, but his administrative level was actually level 18, equivalent to a deputy battalion commander, if he really transferred back, he should at least be a section-level cadre.

    Moreover, he had a special mission, so no one could say anything about giving him a sidecar.

    Therefore, although his identity was not public, through this incident, anyone with eyes could see that he was not just a small policeman.

    But there were also those who couldn’t see it, the male carefully recalled, Zhang Yuandong was wearing ordinary collar insignia, he didn’t have a military rank, and his home was far from the unit, he either lived in the city or in the countryside.

    Their small county was too far from the city, he guessed it was the latter.

    He curled his lips, he instantly lost interest in this rural-born person with no background, he was even resentful, why could this small policeman with no identity or background ride the Bureau’s sidecar!

    At this time, social security was very good, the status of the police was high in the people’s minds, and their treatment was also good, it was a job that many young people dreamed of.

    People who could work in the Public Security Bureau, besides those who had transferred from the army, were generally not from ordinary families.

    Liu was originally going to be nice and remind him, but she didn’t know what she thought of, she just smiled and didn’t say anything.

    The female with short hair was actually very curious about Zhang Yuandong, she looked back at the direction he was going several times.

    Each office in the Bureau usually had four people, they sat on the four sides of a large table.

    The male and the female with short hair were assigned to Zhang Yuandong’s office, the female with a round face was assigned to another office.

    After the arrangements were made, the male kept pestering.

 The female with short hair kept chatting with the other new female, she didn’t want to pay any attention to Zhang Yuandong, who was in the same office.

    Zhang Yuandong didn’t care, he was going out with another colleague to do youth propaganda today, he didn’t pay any attention to the two of them whispering, he just lowered his head and organized his materials.

    There was a dragging sound of footsteps outside the door, and then a lazy young man about 1.8 meters tall, with fair skin, walked in.

    He saw that there were two new people in his office, he yawned and said, “Oh, there are new people again.”

    Zhang Yuandong didn’t look up, he didn’t stop working, he introduced, “The male is named Zhou Quan’an, and the female is named Miao Mianmian.

    Sister Liu said you should take them under your wing.”

    Zhou Quan’an and Miao Mianmian quickly stood up and greeted the young man politely.

    The young man’s name was Liu Qingjun, he lazily greeted the two of them, and then ignored them, he instead went over to look at the materials Zhang Yuandong was organizing, he joked, “You’re going out to do propaganda today, how about we switch, I’ll go for you.”

    Zhang Yuandong looked up at him, as if he thought of something, he suddenly smiled, “No, it’s Wednesday today, Aunt Li will be here soon, she specifically asked for you, if you go out at this time, she’ll have to make a trip for nothing!”

    Liu Qingjun’s face instantly fell, “Are you not a brother anymore, you’re just going to watch your brother fall into hot water and do nothing? Now you just need to lend me a hand and I can be free for a day, are you going to be so heartless and not help me?”

    Yang Wen, from the office next door, stood at the door and laughed, “What’s there to be heartless about, Aunt Li wants to introduce her daughter to you, what a great opportunity, why are you still hesitating, just go ahead and take it!” He waved to Zhang Yuandong, “Let’s go!”

    Liu Qingjun cursed, “You’re a good one, Yang Wen, you want this good thing to go to you, do you? Don’t leave, take me with you!”

    Yang Wen laughed, “That’s not necessary, I can’t ruin your great opportunity!” He said, and went out with Zhang Yuandong, one behind the other.

    The two new colleagues didn’t say anything, they quietly listened to the three of them bickering.

    Miao Mianmian suddenly said, “Brother Liu, can I follow them out to learn a little bit?”

    Liu Qingjun carefully looked at the female, she wasn’t old, she was very beautiful, her big eyes were rolling around, she was clearly a thoughtful person.

    He lazily leaned back on the chair and smiled, “You’re a little girl who just graduated from college, what are you going to do following those two old men?

    They’re the most boring, all they talk about is children, you’re on your first day of work, listening to them talk about this will bore you to death.

    Come on, Brother Liu will find you two interesting things to do.”

    Of the whole Bureau, Yang Wen was the one who knew Zhang Yuandong’s identity best.

    During this time, the two of them had walked all over the streets and alleys of the county under the guise of propaganda, and they had secretly found some useful information.

    In recent years, the higher-ups have been intentionally developing “Third Line” construction, although it is still in the planning stage, but many people who are well-informed have heard the news, they know that it should be fully launched no later than next year.

    Don’t look down on this small county, but the county itself has an arms factory, and its geographical location is special, this time, it will definitely be included in the plan.

    In recent years, Chiang Kai-shek’s actions haven’t been too outrageous, the higher-ups have cracked down on them once, but they haven’t been too strict.

    But this time, it involves national defense economic construction, it is absolutely not allowed to make mistakes, this is why there was the action last time.

    Last time, Zhang Yuandong led a team of ten people to cooperate with the Investigation Department, they thought it was just a normal arrest mission, but they didn’t know that the people’s influence had grown so large, from government officials to street thugs, they all had their informants, even the Investigation Department had an inside man, and what they didn’t expect was that those people had hot weapons.

    A group of thugs with lethal weapons, you can imagine how inflated their hearts would be.

    They were caught off guard, the brothers from the Investigation Department and the ten people in his squad were all killed here.

    Zhang Yuandong brought out a piece of intelligence at that time, which directly pointed to several high-level cadres in the county.

    The other side was badly injured, the higher-ups were afraid that those enemy agents would hide again, and it would be even more difficult to find them, so they sent Zhang Yuandong, the only survivor, who had made great contributions, to be the bait, hoping to make the other side move.

    Actually, Zhang Yuandong’s main task was to cooperate with the Investigation Department’s actions, but he wanted to avenge his fallen comrades, so he and Yang Wen investigated privately under the guise of work.

    As they passed the county hospital, Zhang Yuandong suddenly saw Zhang Xiaohui and a disreputable young man enter a small alley near the hospital.

    Zhang Yuandong had seen Zhang Xiaohui once at the old house, and he had taken a liking to her.

    He had deliberately inquired, Zhang Xiaohui worked as a temporary worker in the county, shouldn’t she be at the factory at this time, why was she here?

    Besides the department store, the most densely populated and least noticeable place in the county was near the hospital, the young man with Zhang Xiaohui was clearly a thug, the two of them together, he couldn’t help but be concerned.

    He greeted Yang Wen and asked him to meet him at the entrance of the alley, he followed the two of them into the alley.