Chapter 489
left behind a letter
Chapter 489 left behind a letter
The road from the city to Yanjing Village has not been repaired.
Su Miaoyi and Zhuang Yanzheng endured a bumpy journey, encountering only one other vehicle along the way. However, the night road was extremely difficult to navigate, and by the time they reached the town police station where Yanjing Village was located, it was already past four in the morning.
Duan Wenrui had given prior notice, so both the director and deputy director were present.
The current director is the deputy director who was there last time; everyone knows him. The deputy director is new.
After a brief greeting, Su Miaoyi said, "We need to see Zhao Yongliang's old office."
"Okay, this way."
The four of them went to Zhao Yongliang's former office, which is now the director's office.
“Duan came by a few days ago, and we searched the whole place but found nothing.”
Zhuang Yanzheng looked around.
Su Miaoyi didn't move after entering the doorway. A few seconds later, she heard a voice: "Here—here—here—"
The voice was still somewhat mechanical, but with a hint of urgency.
Su Miaoyi walked towards the direction of the sound and stood in front of a bookshelf.
"Behind, behind." The voice rang out again.
Su Miaoyi pushed the bookshelf open and knocked on the wall behind it; it was solid.
Zhuang Yanzheng was also knocking on the wall.
Then Su Miaoyi heard a voice again: "Squat down."
She glanced around and felt as if Zhao Yongliang was right beside her, just like Ning Cheng was talking to her in Jiangcheng.
However, Zhao Yongliang's voice was too stiff and mechanical, unlike Ning Cheng's natural voice.
Su Miaoyi squatted down and tapped on the wall.
Seeing that she had squatted down, Zhuang Yanzheng also squatted down and started knocking on the wall.
“When the team leader came last time, all of these were moved and the walls were checked. They are indeed solid.”
Su Miaoyi tapped on the wall, and it was indeed solid; nothing could be seen with the naked eye.
Her hand touched the wall again.
"Here." The voice rang out.
Su Miaoyi's hand immediately stopped.
Zhuang Yanzheng didn't move again, he just looked at her.
"Knock on it." Zhao Yongliang's voice rang out once again.
Su Miaoyi said, "We have to knock it open here."
The director paused for a moment, then immediately said, "I'll go find something."
The tools were quickly brought over, and Su Miaoyi struck the wall a few times with her hammer, causing the plaster to crack. She then used the tools to scrape the plaster off.
After a few more hammer blows, the bricks behind were exposed.
“There’s something in the cracks between the bricks,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “It looks like cardboard.”
He tried to pull it outwards, but couldn't budge it.
When Su Miaoyi realized she couldn't pull the object out, she simply chiseled a hole in the wall.
The cardboard that was stuck in the crack in the wall fell out.
The two cardboard boxes were taped together.
Zhuang Yanzheng went to his desk and took a utility knife for her.
Su Miaoyi stood up and carefully cut the tape.
The two officers from the police station sensed that she was avoiding them, so they moved to the side as well.
Jinghai sent people to investigate the case, but there are some things we might not be able to let them know.
Especially since Zhao Yongliang has been here for several years, and they have worked with him for several years, they still cannot be completely trusted.
Su Miaoyi opened the cardboard box, and inside was a letter.
They tore open the envelope and looked at it together.
Their eyes seemed to have GPS, and they first saw seven very familiar locations.
The two exchanged a glance.
In addition to these seven locations, there are six other locations: Jinghai, Changshi, Jiangcheng, and Xiangshi.
All of these locations are followed by the person's name, gender, age, home address, and company name.
Very specific.
Su Miaoyi and Zhuang Yanzheng read the letter again from the beginning. Zhao Yongliang explained that he was working under Chang Kong.
Scamming, money laundering, secretly aiding murder, covering up the whereabouts of Chang Kong's people, etc.
He did these things because of his relationship with Chang Kong and because he wanted to make money.
He knew his sins were grave, but his greed prevented him from stopping. So he left this letter, hoping that one day, when it was discovered, it would lessen some of his guilt.
The locations, names, and companies listed in the letter were all entities he knew that Changkong was developing.
After reading the letter, Zhuang Yanzheng looked at the wall with a hole chiseled in it. Hidden in the crack, it could be built up without anyone noticing.
If Su Miaoyi hadn't come looking for it, this letter might have been discovered when the building was being demolished.
It seems that Zhao Yongliang never intended to take out the letter before his death.
If this building had been demolished while he was still alive, he would definitely have kept this letter himself, and might even have come to oversee the demolition.
This method of hiding the letter is a way of waiting for atonement after death.
That's really greedy.
You want both.
He committed crimes and coveted money while alive, and even after death, he still wanted to atone for his sins.
Su Miaoyi put the letter away.
Zhuang Yanzheng looked at the two people from the police station, walked over and talked to them for a few words.
The two then went to the house next to the police station.
I rented the house next door again.
They arrived so suddenly that the cleaning was rushed, and the room wasn't very warm.
The electric heater wasn't very effective either.
However, it wasn't a big problem. It was already past five in the morning, and dawn would break soon. Su Miaoyi and Zhuang Yanzheng didn't plan to sleep either.
After settling the two people in, the police officers left.
Su Miaoyi stayed in the same room as last time, while Zhuang Yanzheng stayed in the same room where Lu Zhishen had slept last time.
After they left, Zhuang Yanzheng came to Su Miaoyi's side and said, "My side is drafty."
"Then you can sleep here." Su Miaoyi sat on the bed.
Zhuang Yanzheng sat down on the bed opposite her: "No. What if you take a dislike to me in the middle of the night and beat me up? I can't beat you up."
Su Miaoyi smiled and handed him the letter.
Zhuang Yanzheng took out his phone and called Zheng Qi directly, telling him all the information from the letter.
Zheng Qi's mind wasn't fully clear yet, but she quickly memorized all the information.
After finishing their business, Zhuang Yanzheng said, "Brother Zheng, I thought you would have been awake long ago."
"Zhuang Yanzheng, what do you mean? Are you saying I'm old?"
Is it that obvious?
Zheng Qi hung up the phone immediately.
Zhuang Yanzheng chuckled, then looked at the letter in his hand: "The letter didn't say what the relationship between Zhao Yongliang and Chang Kong is."
“Both of them are gone, and Lu Xian doesn’t know either,” Su Miaoyi said.
Lu Xian only knew that Zhao Yongliang and Chang Kong had a good relationship, but he didn't know how they got along, why they were so close, or what their relationship was.
"Will Fan Ning know?" Su Miaoyi asked.
“We know the exact locations now, and there are two more locations than Fan Ning told us. Once we confirm them all, it should be easier for Fan Ning to ask,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “He was still cautious and omitted two locations.”
Su Miaoyi nodded.
“However, Fan Ning thinks you’ve played him. With his stubborn temper, he might just shut up and not say anything more.” Zhuang Yanzheng said, “Anyway, since they’re all gone, what their relationship was, why Zhao Yongliang could just quit and still be alive and well, isn’t really that important anymore.”
“If the information we have is accurate, then Chang Kong’s case is closed,” Su Miaoyi said. “Now it’s Xie Zhiyan’s turn. We have no clue what Qian Ying did in Chang City, or where she did it.”
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year in advance.
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I'll be busy all day tomorrow, so I probably won't have time to update.
I'd like to wish everyone a Happy New Year in advance.
Also, it should end in just a few chapters.
Goodnight everybody.