Fu Yuanshan still smiled and said, "Mr. Zhou, I'm really sorry, but you've reached a conclusion on the handling of the car accident and the compensation issue today. If it's convenient for you, Mr. Zhou, would you please come to our branch office?"
Zhou Xuan was taken aback. He truly hadn't expected Fu Yuanshan to handle things so quickly. It had only been a few hours! If it were anyone else, even if they were fast, it would probably have taken them two or three days. It was all done in just a few hours—such efficiency was truly rare!
Originally, Zhou Xuan didn't want to have anything to do with these police officers anymore. With someone like Li Lei behind them, Wu Jianguo and He Guangwei were sure to suffer a terrible fate, at least ten times worse. Perhaps He Guangwei's career path would be cut off from now on!
But Zhou Xuan was currently being bothered by three beautiful women, and was quite annoyed. When Fu Yuanshan called, he thought he might as well take this opportunity to avoid them, and immediately replied, "Okay, Director Fu, I'll be right there."
After finishing his sentence, Zhou Xuan said to Shangguan Ming'er, "Excuse me, I have to go urgently. You can continue!"
Shangguan Mingyue didn't know what Zhou Xuan was talking about, but it didn't sound like he was lying. After Zhou Xuan finished speaking, he got up and left without paying any attention to Wang Nina and An Chen.
Wei Xiaoqing paused for a moment, then called out, "Zhou Xuan, what's wrong?"
Zhou Xuan didn't even turn his head, just waved his hand behind him, looking very dashing.
Wei Xiaoqing stood there for a moment, then said to Wei Xiaoyu, "Sister, I'm going to go now. You can go back by yourself later, don't wait for me." With that, she hurriedly followed Zhou Xuan out. Wei Xiaoyu was very angry, chasing after him while calling out, "Xiaoqing, Xiaoqing!"
Shangguan Mingyue was also angry. Although Zhou Xuan did not say that they were not in a real romantic relationship, he did not give her much face from beginning to end. At first, he pretended to be a very rustic countryman, and then two amazingly beautiful girls appeared out of nowhere. Moreover, they obviously had some kind of close relationship with Zhou Xuan.
Zhou Xuan abandoned her and left. The Wei sisters followed closely behind. Shangguan Mingyue thought for a moment and said to Wang Nina, "Nina, I'm leaving first. Best wishes to you both." Then she also chased after him.
From the moment she entered until the Wei Xiaocai sisters appeared, the three prettiest girls had become the center of attention. It was supposed to be Wang Nina and An Chen's engagement party, and they should have been the focus, but the three of them had completely stolen the spotlight. Now, their sudden departure had drawn almost everyone's attention away. Wang Nina was furious and looked at An Chen. Seeing him staring blankly out of the hall, she couldn't help but stomp on his foot.
An Chen cried out in pain, "Ouch!" Everyone turned to look at him. An Chen immediately felt embarrassed, but in his heart he was thinking, who exactly is this Zhou Xuan? To be favored by Shangguan Mingyue, and seemingly having a deep connection with the Wei sisters, this person is definitely not as simple as he initially thought. An Chen now thought that the vulgarity of that country bumpkin was purely a pretense to make him look foolish!
Zhou Xuan slipped out of the lobby under some pretext, hailed a taxi as soon as he left the hotel, and told the driver he was going to the Dongcheng Public Security Bureau. The driver nodded and drove off.
Zhou Xuan heard Wei Xiaoqing calling after him from behind. Looking in the rearview mirror, he saw Wei Xiaoyu driving up quickly from the parking lot. After getting in her car, Wei Xiaoqing quickly chased after the taxi Zhou Xuan was in.
Shangguan Mingyue followed closely behind in her red Porsche. Zhou Xuan frowned. If these three girls followed him to the Public Security Bureau, they would only cause trouble for him. With them around, they would probably cause trouble. He couldn't go back either. After thinking for a while, he came up with an idea!
As Shangguan Mingyue drove, she was thinking about what to say and do when she faced the Wei sisters again, when suddenly her Porsche stalled and came to a stop. She was puzzled as to why it had suddenly stalled. The last time there was a problem, the tire came off for no reason, and it had just been replaced by the manufacturer, but now it was malfunctioning again!
While Wei Xiaoyu was driving, the car suddenly stalled. She tried turning the key a few times, but it wouldn't start. With a final push, the steering wheel snapped off with a "crack!" To find out what happens next, please log in to Xiongba for more chapters, support the author, and support genuine reading!
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Volume 1, Chapter 254: The White Jade Tiger and the Bloodstained Scene
Seeing that Wei Xiaoqing's sister's and Shangguan Mingyue's cars were all stopped and unable to move, Zhou Xuan felt a little relieved. After stopping at the police station's main intersection, Zhou Xuan paid the fare and got out of the car.
The gatekeeper opened the gate to let the vehicles in while also having people register before entering. Zhou Xuan registered and then went inside.
After entering through the main gate, there was a spacious square. To the left, next to the dormitory area, was a parking lot filled with countless police vehicles of all sizes. To the right was a branch office building that was more than ten stories high. After Zhou Xuan entered the office building, there were several reception windows in the lobby, where several pretty female receptionists were chatting.
Zhou Xuan leaned over to window number two and asked, "Hello, I have an appointment with Director Fu. My surname is Zhou. May I ask which floor Director Fu's office is on?"
The female duty officer immediately stopped chatting and turned back to Zhou Xuan, saying, "Please wait a moment!" Then she dialed the director's office hotline: "Director, a Mr. Zhou is looking for you." "Quickly invite him in..." Fu Yuanshan interrupted her immediately and ordered her to invite him in.
The female staff member on duty immediately said respectfully to Zhou Xuan, "Mr. Zhou, hello. The director's office is on the sixteenth floor. Please take the elevator up."
Among the police officers coming and going, Zhou Xuan entered the elevator with six or seven other officers. When pressing the elevator floor buttons, Zhou Xuan noticed that one officer pressed the sixteenth floor, while the rest pressed floors below the sixteenth. But since someone had pressed the sixteenth floor, he didn't bother pressing it anymore.
One by one, the police officers exited the elevator, leaving only Zhou Xuan and a middle-aged police officer in his forties inside. When the elevator stopped, the police officer looked at Zhou Xuan as he stepped out of the elevator with him and felt somewhat surprised, because this floor only contained the director's office and some emergency response teams for handling major incidents.
He clearly hadn't seen Zhou Xuan before, so how did he end up on this floor? The policeman kept staring at him as he walked forward.
Zhou Shi looked around and saw a sign that read "Director's Office" on the door of a room at the end of the alley. He went straight there, just as the policeman was heading in the same direction.
When Zhou Shi arrived at the door, he knocked. Someone inside answered and asked, "Who is it?"
"It's me, Zhou Xuan!" As soon as Zhou Xuan answered, hurried footsteps echoed in the room. Fu Yuanshan stepped forward, opened the office door, and shook hands with Zhou Xuan with a smile, saying, "Mr. Zhou, please come in. I was going to go downstairs to greet you, but I just received a phone call, so I was delayed!"
As Fu Yuanshan invited Zhou Xuan inside, he glanced at the middle-aged policeman in his forties beside him and asked, "Zhou Hong, come in and sit down and wait a moment!"
Fu Yuanshan's office was spacious and bright, with two floor-to-ceiling windows, befitting a bureau chief's office.
After sitting down at the coffee table, Fu Yuanshan awkwardly took out a tea canister to prepare to brew tea. Zhou Xuan waved his hand and said, "Director Fu, I'm not thirsty, so there's no need to brew tea. Just tell me the results of your investigation!"
Fu Yuanshan chuckled and took the opportunity to put down the tea canister, saying, "Mr. Zhou, don't worry, this is just a preliminary decision, and we will continue to follow up later."
Sitting next to him, Zhou Hong was somewhat surprised. Who was this young Mr. Zhou? He seemed to have no sense of hierarchy in front of Fu Yuanshan. Moreover, their Director Fu disliked being called "Director Fu" the most, but this Mr. Zhou called him "Director Fu" directly, and Fu Yuanshan did not seem to be unhappy at all.
"Mr. Zhou, based on our preliminary decision, the outcome of the traffic accident is as follows: First, Wu Jianguo will bear full responsibility and will compensate for all repair costs of the Audi. Second, Wu Jianguo will apologize to Ms. Zhou Ying in person and pay 100,000 yuan in compensation for emotional distress. Third, all eleven traffic police officers and police officers involved in handling your dispute will be held accountable and have already been suspended from duty. Finally, I would like to apologize to Mr. Zhou again. As the bureau chief, I bear a great responsibility for this incident in Dongcheng!"
Zhou Shi smiled faintly. As a branch bureau chief, it was indeed not easy for him to do this. He had no intention or energy to ask Fu Yuanshan to rectify the malpractices in officialdom. That was none of his business. He just needed to handle the matter of Wu Jianguo beating his sister to their satisfaction. There were many such cases, and it was not his place to worry about them.
"I think this outcome is acceptable. I'm sure Director Fu understands that I don't want to interfere in your unit's affairs, as they are none of our business. All I want is a reasonable explanation for the harm my sister suffered!" Zhou Xuan expressed his thoughts. To be honest, he didn't want to offend Fu Yuanshan. It wasn't a matter of fear; after all, even a local official is more powerful than a distant one. Having another option is much better than blocking one.
Fu Yuanshan breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this. After Zhou Xuan and Li Lei left, Director Chen had been in a terrible temper, infuriating them and then urging them to handle the matter immediately, and to severely punish any staff members who had violated regulations, using this incident as a warning. Later, Secretary Wei's secretary, Xiao Yang, also subtly expressed Secretary Wei's opinion. Although he didn't say anything explicitly, Fu Yuanshan, being the person he was, naturally understood the implication. This top official in Beijing had a close relationship with Li Lei. Fu Yuanshan, a veteran police officer, investigated the Wei and Li families and discovered that the two families' patriarchs were former superiors and subordinates in the same military unit.
Fu Yuanshan further investigated the recent situation of the Wei and Li families. Li Lei was the deputy commander of the South China Military Region and an only child, but he had three sons. The eldest son was the party secretary of a medium-sized city in the north, a full-fledged provincial-level cadre. The second son was in the army, currently at the regimental level. The third son was unemployed and was Li Wei, the playboy involved in the car accident. The Wei family was even more astonishing. Old Master Wei had three sons: the eldest son, Wei Haifeng, was the commander of the Navy; the second son, Wei Haihe, was the party secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee; only the third son, Wei Haihong, was less successful, a playboy, but unlike Li Wei, Wei Haihong was a businessman with assets exceeding one billion!
Fu Yuanshan was taken aback when he saw the documents, but he was even more astonished when he saw Zhou Xuan's report. Zhou Xuan's family's identities were utterly ordinary, but the details of their transfer to Beijing surprised him even more. The transfer was a perfectly ordinary matter, but the person overseeing it was someone from the highest echelons of society. For Fu Yuanshan, transferring household registration was nothing special; even a local police officer could do it. But this favor came from a level of power he couldn't even imagine. Although Zhou Xuan appeared ordinary on the surface, he was definitely hiding something extraordinary.
Therefore, Fu Yuanshan valued Zhou Xuan's opinion on the handling of the traffic accident. From Zhou Xuan and Li Wei's words, he learned that Zhou Xuan and Li Lei's side did not actually care about the handling and compensation of the traffic accident. They didn't care how it was handled. What they cared about most was the issue of Wu Jianguo hitting Zhou Ying.
Fu Yuanshan was furious. It was all Wu Jianguo's fault that he caused trouble, and He Guangwei would also be implicated if the investigation were conducted. Although he temporarily shifted the blame onto his wife, Fu Yuanshan sternly ordered a thorough investigation. He also wanted to take this opportunity to investigate the children of all the leaders in the branch office and strictly prevent such incidents from happening again! Then Fu Yuanshan handed the document of the handling results to Zhou Xuan for review, and Zhou Xuan slowly read it.
At this moment, the policeman named Zhou Hong had time to report to Fu Yuanshan, "Chief, the theft case in Huaishan Ningzhuang on the outskirts of the city is becoming increasingly perplexing. Today..."
Zhou Hong stopped talking when he glanced at Zhou Xuan, who was looking down at the conclusion document opposite him.
Fu Yuanshan understood what he meant and immediately waved his hand, saying, "It's alright, go ahead and speak!"
Seeing that the director had given the instructions, Zhou Hong continued, "Director, based on the information from our informant, we intercepted an item during an underground transaction today. Since we don't know much about cultural relics, we need to have it appraised by an expert before we can draw a conclusion!"
Fu Yuanshan was taken aback, then exclaimed with delight, "What? You caught him? Did you manage to capture him? This notorious art thief has been giving us a real headache!"