That is indeed the case.
After the accident, Tian Qing, a police officer from the Second Detachment of the County Traffic Police Brigade, who was closest to the scene, was the first to arrive. After a preliminary investigation, he called for emergency medical assistance. This process took about five minutes. When the county hospital ambulance arrived, the attending physician, Xing Yufen, diagnosed the injured person as deceased after examining them.
In fact, Cheng Jinchang and his wife were not yet dead at that time.
If first aid had been administered immediately and the two had been rushed to the hospital, they might not have died.
When the ghosts of Cheng Jinchang and his wife could no longer remain in their bodies and drifted away, they, who had been in a coma, were unaware that... they shouldn't have died.
...
This is the truth!
Xu Zhengyang held the clean white jade county record and sat blankly on the edge of the bed.
After receiving Zhong Shan's urging and requesting call, Xu Zhengyang didn't first check the details of the accident that day. Instead, he looked into who Hao Peng and Zhu Fenjin had been in contact with and what they had said in the past few days. Of course, his main purpose was to find out who the drug traffickers in the county were connected with Hao Peng and Zhu Fenjin, so as to provide Zhong Shan with more clues and assistance.
I never expected to uncover such a shocking secret behind the scenes.
To silence them and kill these two innocent people, they went to great lengths and planned such a meticulous and thorough scheme.
Further investigation revealed that the traffic police officer, Tian Qing, was 31 years old; and the attending physician at the county hospital, Xing Yufen, was 30 years old. They turned out to be a married couple.
Moreover, this couple was actually in cahoots with Hao Peng.
Unlike most of the drug traffickers, this couple only had contact with Hao Peng; no one else knew they were also members. Furthermore, Xing Yufen was the daughter of Hao Peng's maternal uncle. Because Hao Peng lost both his parents at a young age and grew up in his uncle's home, his relationship with his cousin Xing Yufen was like that of siblings.
This is why Tian Qing and Xing Yufen were not known to the other members of the gang when they were engaged in drug trafficking for profit.
Because Hao Peng wanted to protect his cousin and her husband from the root, he ensured that while they made money, they would never take any risks. He only allowed them to occasionally use their connections and various excuses to handle the turnover of goods within the county, without directly engaging in sales activities.
Hao Peng was undoubtedly a shrewd man. He used long-distance freight transport to conceal drugs among normal goods. After arriving in Cixian County, Xing Yufen and her husband took over the shipment, which was then transshipped to another location before leaving. Hao Peng then instructed Zhu Fenjin to collect the drugs and distribute them to other places, strictly requiring that they not be sold locally. This created several additional nodes in the drug trafficking route, allowing him to quickly sever ties if problems arose in any of them and extricate himself from the situation.
Upon careful calculation, Hao Peng's drug trafficking gang only had five members within Cixian County.
Another young man named Ma Liang, 27 years old, was from the same village as Hao Peng. He was an apprentice driver when Zhu Fenjin and Hao Peng partnered to run long-distance freight. Now, he worked with Hao Peng as a henchman for transporting goods from Cixian County. Before Cheng Jinchang and his wife had the car accident, he was responsible for monitoring and tracking their whereabouts and choosing opportune moments.
...
Damn it, relationships are never easy!
Xu Zhengyang spat in annoyance. With such a shrewd mind, he could make a fortune doing something else. Why did he have to make a living like this? Oh, damn it, this line of work is indeed too lucrative, the temptation of money! But... it's so damn immoral!
I learned the whole truth about this on the sixth day after returning from the capital.
Without any hesitation, Xu Zhengyang called Zhong Shan and then drove his motorcycle to Cixian County, where Zhong Shan was now working at the county public security bureau.
County Public Security Bureau Chief Zhao Qing trusted Zhong Shan implicitly. Apart from nominally leading the special task force and occasionally inquiring about the case, he delegated everything else to Zhong Shan. The special task force consisted of eight main members, all of whom were elite police officers from the county public security bureau and the criminal investigation team.
Besides feeling grateful to Zhao Qing, Zhong Shan also felt a little uneasy.
After all, he had spoken with absolute certainty about the case, and Zhao Qing trusted him completely, without a shred of doubt. But ultimately, all the clues he knew about the case came from Xu Zhengyang. Although his secret investigation confirmed that Hao Peng and Zhu Fenjin were real people, and as Xu Zhengyang had stated, both worked in the freight industry, and the deceased Cheng Jinchang had indeed previously worked as Hao Peng's driver, this further proved the credibility of Xu Zhengyang's words. How could Xu Zhengyang know several seemingly unrelated people in the south of Cixian County if it weren't for a dream from the local earth god?
But... this is no small case! The county public security bureau has gone all out, determined to go all out, and is resolved to proceed steadily and patiently, waging a protracted war until victory is assured. What if something goes wrong? How will things end then?
Moreover, during this urgent investigation, the investigators discovered that Hao Peng and Zhu Fenjin seemed to have stopped their freight work and were resting at home. Unless they could be caught red-handed, they absolutely could not act rashly and alert the suspects.
Could it be that some information has been leaked? Or perhaps... the two of them are planning to retire from their criminal activities?
That would be a real disaster.
Logically speaking, criminal investigators should be mentally prepared beforehand when investigating such cases and have enough patience to wait for the criminals to commit their crimes.
But Zhong Shan is different; he's under immense pressure right now. Lately, he's become accustomed to getting concrete leads from Xu Zhengyang, easily solving cases, apprehending suspects, and gathering evidence. Especially now that he's about to be promoted to head of the county's criminal investigation team, how can he not achieve something?
So today he finally lost his patience and shamelessly urged Xu Zhengyang to quickly investigate all the members of Hao Peng's drug trafficking gang and obtain more valuable clues.
Even without him saying so, Xu Zhengyang would have kept an eye out for relevant clues; it was only a matter of time.
However, after handing the case over to Zhong Shan and moving it into the normalized process, Xu Zhengyang wasn't too busy worrying about it anymore. Because if he were to thoroughly investigate Hao Peng and Zhu Fenjin's affairs, how long would that take? It would be like having Xu Zhengyang sitting in a room with the county records, meticulously reviewing the surveillance footage, retrieving all of Hao Peng and Zhu Fenjin's actions, everyone they contacted, and everything they said during those days…
This is really tiring work. Xu Zhengyang has other things to do!
There's been a lot of trouble at the antique shops in Fuhe City these past few days. Every day, people keep coming to "Guxiangxuan" claiming they want to buy or sell antiques, but they're really just causing trouble. Some bring fakes and make a scene, saying Yao Chushun has no taste, doesn't know anything, and is talking nonsense; others bring genuine items and say Yao Chushun's prices are too low; still others come to buy antiques, picking and choosing, complaining about this and that, saying they're fake or too expensive... In short, you can't have any peace in the shop. There are always a few people gathered inside and outside, gossiping and talking nonsense.
It's no surprise that this was a dirty trick played by Zou Mingyuan.
Xu Zhengyang didn't bother with this matter for the time being; it was a minor issue. If Yao Chushun couldn't handle it properly, then it would be his problem. Xu Zhengyang was busy studying diligently, learning new knowledge, and figuring out how to preserve the souls of Cheng Jinchang and his wife from being scattered. He didn't hold out any hope of contacting higher-ups and having them make arrangements.
Sigh, all business matters and other things can be put aside for now, but the matter of Cheng Jinchang and Cui Yao must be taken as the top priority.
Human life is at stake! Besides, the couple are really nice people and had helped me before.
We must be righteous as human beings. Even if we become gods, we are still human beings, and we must be even more righteous!
Just as he had figured out a potentially effective method, before he even thought about trying it out, Zhong Shan called, anxiously urging Xu Zhengyang to find a way to get more clues. The case was urgent, and they were expending manpower, resources, and money every day. Everyone was hoping to solve the case as soon as possible.
Xu Zhengyang had no choice but to put aside the experiment to save Cheng Jinchang and his wife's souls for the time being, and spent the entire morning in the room holding the county records, looking for clues and analyzing the situation.
They dug up every single thing Hao Peng and Zhu Fenjin did during those days, even bringing up the fact that Hao Peng had diarrhea on the day Cheng Jinchang and his wife met their tragic end.
Heaven rewards those who persevere, and Xu Zhengyang finally found quite a few clues.
In particular, there are some deeper secrets hidden behind the car accident that killed Cheng Jinchang and his wife.
At the same time, Xu Zhengyang finally vaguely understood why Cheng Jinchang and his wife became ghosts whose lifespans had not yet ended after their deaths.
Having learned of these clues, Xu Zhengyang naturally didn't delay and hurriedly headed to the county.
Along the way, Xu Zhengyang pondered that some of his previous thoughts and decisions might need to be temporarily changed. Hmm, how could he do it without divine power? How long would it take to solve this case by following normal human procedures? What was that famous saying again? Oh, wasting time is wasting life!
The sooner this case is resolved, the less trouble it will cause, and the more at ease Cheng Jinchang and his wife will be. Otherwise, if the experiment fails before Hao Peng and Zhu Fenjin have solved it, wouldn't Cheng Jinchang and his wife die with regrets? Xu Zhengyang himself would feel guilty for the rest of his life!
As the saying goes, you can't do two things at once. Trying to do several things at the same time is a waste of time and you won't be able to do them well. It's better to do them one by one. Anyway... as long as Xu Zhengyang is willing to use his divine authority and divine power to do these things, he will definitely overcome all obstacles.
At least within Cixian County, when dealing with people who belong to Cixian County, the clerk is absolutely one of two!
There are at most two!
As for whether God should interfere in human affairs... I'll think about that for now.
Besides, Xu Zhengyang is still a human being. He hasn't married, hasn't had children, and hasn't... experienced any kind of pleasurable and intoxicating pleasure between men and women. In this respect, only a bastard would want to become a god who has severed all emotions and desires and is detached from worldly affairs.
On National Highway 107, a gleaming black Yamaha 250 motorcycle roared as it sped south.
Xu Zhengyang, dressed in an unnumbered police uniform and wearing sunglasses, looked imposing!
Volume Two, Gong Cao, Chapter 65: I want to talk to them alone.
If this were in the countryside, in a village, Xu Zhengyang wearing this police uniform without a number would be enough to fool most people, earning them some envy and some respect.
But once they entered the county public security bureau, the purest police den, their true colors were revealed.
Therefore, Xu Zhengyang could sense the slightly disdainful and mocking looks in the eyes of the police officers here. Well, some of them found it amusing, while others' eyes revealed obvious disgust.
Xu Zhengyang didn't care about any of that; for him now, whether he wore the police uniform or not was irrelevant. However, since he was coming to the county public security bureau today, Xu Zhengyang still followed his habit of dressing formally when reporting to the police station—after all, even a "puppet soldier" was still a soldier.
Police officer Su Lu led Xu Zhengyang up to the third floor, wondering to himself why Captain Zhong wanted such a young man.
They were even wearing "police uniforms," and Sulu had a look of bewilderment on his face.
Oh, it seems he's one of the auxiliary police officers under Captain Zhong when he was at Huaxiang Police Station. So what? Even if he were a regular police officer at the station, there's no need to send him here! You see, this isn't an ordinary case. It's been taken over by the Criminal Investigation Brigade, and the bureau has directly established a special task force to handle the investigation. Everyone on that task force is an elite among elites. Right now, it's the early stages of the investigation, so it's best to avoid irrelevant people as much as possible.
Could it be that Captain Zhong feels he doesn't have enough prestige within the group and that he's difficult to manage, so he wants to transfer a trusted confidant over?
That's not right either. You should at least bring over a qualified and experienced police officer.
An informant? This kid has a lead? Possibly. Thinking of the expression on Captain Zhong's face when he hung up the phone and told him to come downstairs to pick someone up, Su Lu made a rough guess in his mind.
Police officers were constantly coming and going on the third floor. They would nod to Su Lu and hurry past. Of course, they would glance at Xu Zhengyang with some surprise, and then stop paying attention to the young man.
As they reached the door of the easternmost office, the door opposite opened, and three police officers emerged. They greeted Su Lu with smiles, and one of them looked at Xu Zhengyang with surprise, saying, "Su Lu, who is he? Why did you bring him from the third floor?"
"Oh, the people Captain Zhong called."
Xu Zhengyang smiled and nodded to the police officers.
The three policemen glanced at Xu Zhengyang, who had no identification number on his chest, and looked at him with suspicion and disdain. "Idiot, does he think this is a rural police station? What's he doing here, acting all high and mighty?" So the three policemen ignored Xu Zhengyang's politeness, adopting the cold, rigid expressions they wore when dealing with criminal suspects, and turned to walk west. The last officer gave Xu Zhengyang a disdainful, condescending look.
Xu Zhengyang ignored him and turned his head away as if he hadn't seen anything.
Seeing his three colleagues leave, Sulu turned back to knock on the door, but before he could even knock, the door opened.
Zhong Shan, a burly man resembling an iron tower, strode out with a delighted smile on his dark face. He patted Xu Zhengyang on the shoulder and said, "You're here pretty fast, kid. Come on in..."
Xu Zhengyang was dragged into the office as if Zhong Shan had forcibly put his arm around his shoulder.
Sulu stood at the door, stunned. He turned his head and saw the three police officers who hadn't even taken a few steps out also staring blankly at the scene that had just happened.
Team Leader Zhong... is being incredibly enthusiastic towards this young man! A little too enthusiastic, actually.
Everyone knew that their new superior, Zhong Shan, was formerly the director of Huaxiang Police Station. He and Director Zhao were old comrades-in-arms with an extraordinary relationship, and he was about to be promoted to head of the county's criminal investigation team. A few days ago, he was suddenly transferred to be the deputy leader of the special task force for this major drug trafficking case, fully in charge of the case. Since Zhong Shan arrived, he's always had a stern, dark face, as if every officer in the team owed him several hundred yuan. Yes, that's his personality; whatever he asks his subordinates to do, they have to do it immediately and complete it in the shortest possible time… incredibly strict.
I don't know if he was deliberately putting on airs for show, or if he was just an extremely strict and stern-faced policeman.
But just now, just now… he actually smiled warmly at that young man in the fake police uniform who looked like a country bumpkin, and even put his arm around the other's shoulder and dragged him into the office, as if he missed him terribly. Is he a relative? Definitely not. This Captain Zhong, his words and actions in just a few days have already proven what kind of person he is, especially since he's the kind of person who would never do anything else during work hours.
The four of them looked at each other with puzzlement, exchanged wry smiles, and then prepared to leave.
then……
Zhong Shan walked out of the office again, his face dark and cold. He looked at Sulu, then at the other three officers, and said to Sulu, "Notify all members of the team that we have a mission in a little while."
Bang! The office door slammed shut.
The four people outside were increasingly astonished. Remembering what Captain Zhong had said earlier, they lost interest in speculating about the country bumpkin's identity. They needed to quickly get back to their tasks, sort things out, and prepare for the mission. What mission? Arrest someone? That couldn't be right. The investigation had just begun; all the clues were still unclear, the evidence hadn't been gathered, and the suspect hadn't been fully identified. But if they weren't going to arrest anyone, why should the entire team be prepared? And judging from Captain Zhong's expression, he seemed very serious and focused; he was clearly serious.
The officers were confused, and even Zhong Shan himself felt that his words had been a bit hasty.
The reason was simply that after Xu Zhengyang entered the house, he said to Zhong Shan, "Uncle Zhong, let's arrest them. Hao Peng's family has the accounts and contact information for all the people, and Zhu Fenjin's side also has them."
Sitting opposite Xu Zhengyang on the sofa, Zhong Shan took out a cigarette and offered one to Xu Zhengyang, frowning as he said, "Zhengyang, this case isn't something we can just arrest people on a whim. If we're going to take action, we need to coordinate with all sides, with police from different regions working together to wipe them all out. Otherwise, once Hao Peng gets into trouble here, and communication with other places is cut off, these cunning and cautious bastards will immediately flee, making it much more difficult to catch them again..."
"Hao Peng and Zhu Fenjin will not contact anyone for a month." Xu Zhengyang took a drag of his cigarette and said calmly, "Uncle, you can't wait a month, can you?"
"Hmm? Is the information reliable?" Zhong Shan's spirits lifted, then he smiled wryly. Xu Zhengyang was right. He really couldn't wait to work on this case for a long time. Firstly, he was unsure and afraid of some unexpected situation. Secondly... he was eager to make a good impression on himself.
Otherwise, he wouldn't be so anxious and risking his reputation to ask Xu Zhengyang for help as soon as possible.
Xu Zhengyang lowered his head and smoked, seemingly talking to himself, "It seems that the police in the south have been cracking down on drug trafficking recently, and they are a bit worried, so they are laying low for a while... Moreover, Hao Peng and Zhu Fenjin may have to go into hiding, as they are also not at ease with the south."
"Reliable?" Zhong Shan asked again, his expression serious.
Xu Zhengyang raised his head, looked at Zhong Shan's extremely serious dark face, and smiled slightly.
"Good lad!" Zhong Shan waved his hand and said, "You've done a great job!"
After saying that, Zhong Shan got up, walked to his desk, picked up the phone and dialed: "Old Zhao, Director Zhao, I'm about to make an arrest! Notify the Municipal Bureau and contact other police departments in various places to work together."