"It's early winter now! The autumn harvest has just come to the market! The flour market in winter sees double the transaction volume compared to other seasons!" Ping An thought of an interview he had done before. "As far as I know, Dahe Flour Mill has six factories in Chuan City. There are three sales channels: one is wholesale to markets, supermarkets, and other retail terminals; another is allocated nationwide according to national grain adjustment requirements; and the last one is contract sales, with a minimum transaction volume of five hundred bags, sold in batches to designated merchants."
"I didn't expect you to know this stuff?" Gao Liang said with surprise.
"I'm not finished yet!" Ping An pointed to the map of Chuan City hanging on the wall. "There are thirteen roads, country roads, county roads, and highways leading out of Chuan City. There are two river mouths, north and south. Transactions of over five hundred bags will be allocated to trains and ships for transportation. This kind of point-to-point transportation makes it impossible for drug dealers to tamper with, so we don't need to worry about it. In addition, there are airports. Chuan City has three airports: Shanhe International Airport, Chuan Civil Aviation Airport, and Hegou General Aviation Airport. With strict security checks, we basically don't need to worry. What we need to consider is the retail end with less than one hundred bags, such as supermarkets, grain and oil stores, and markets!"
"If the intelligence that no drug dealers will come to Chuan City for face-to-face transactions is correct! Then after the transaction, one of the retail ends will inevitably deliver the flour through logistics, express delivery, or even direct sales!" Ping An said. "So I really want to know how Yan Qing bought the flour back then?"
"While you were all focusing on the murder cases, Yan Qing had been continuously smuggling drugs back from abroad. It's strange, we have intelligence about this large quantity of drugs entering Chuan City, but no information on how it came in! Guess what? Even some low-level thugs know that Chuan City now has a large amount of drugs. Some drug dealers passing through Chuan to sell goods are even complaining that this huge amount of drugs is affecting the market, making their own drugs unsalable!" Gao Liang said. "It seems like no one has seen this batch of drugs, as if they suddenly appeared in the city! The drugs seized from Chen Nairong at that time were also not much. This case is really strange. Oh, and according to intelligence from our colleagues in the overseas investigation department, Yan Qing has a high-interest loan of 15 million US dollars from a lending company in a small Eastern European country. Therefore, we deduce that he has been planning for a long time, luring various drug dealers, and now he intends to sell all the drugs at a high price in one go. Fourteen hundred catties of drugs can be sold for over 400 million yuan! And as far as we know, Yan Qing's loan is due in three days. If he doesn't repay it... I heard that the lending company values credit very much. They don't want overdue interest, they want lives!"
"So, whether it's to save his life or to hurry up and finish this matter to fund his escape, the transaction must start within three days! Group leader Gao, do you have any more useful intelligence?" Ping An asked.
"First, some of the explosives made by Gao Min in the warehouse have not been found yet! Second, according to the current situation, the Chuan City Municipal Committee will officially hold a secret meeting with Vice Mayor Wang this afternoon to report on the investigation of Yan Qing! However, to indict Yan Qing at once, solid evidence is needed, otherwise, we still can't control Yan Qing's actions. Third, according to intelligence from the Ministry's anti-drug bureau, combined with reliable news from our police's overseas undercover agents and reports from border armed police, it is absolutely impossible for more than 1,000 catties of drugs to enter the country in the past six months. Therefore, we are convinced that what Yan Qing brought into Chuan is not pure drugs but semi-finished products like opium paste or morphine. If this conclusion is correct, it can explain why we can't find any drug information no matter how hard we try." Gao Liang said, "Purifying over a thousand catties of crude heroin requires not just a basement, but a chemical factory, or at the very least, a standardized chemical laboratory."
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"This intelligence is still far from enough." Ping An stroked his chin and thought carefully. "If I run away, Yan Qing will probably guess something. He will likely accelerate his operations. We can't fall behind him."
"Yan Qing is highly respected in the Chuan police circle, and many junior officers were promoted by him. Therefore, according to discipline, we dare not and cannot mobilize Chuan's police force. The people investigating on the front line are all from the provincial department. But now that Group leader Xiang has fallen, coupled with the unexplained eighty million deposit, Yan Qing is not without the means to cause trouble." Gao Liang said, "I suggest you'd better not show yourself. Yan Qing will likely try to kill you this time. Let's wait for the intelligence from the provincial department first."
No one could have imagined that Xiang Wanfeng would fall. The provincial department, in addition to arguing with Yan Qing, had to reallocate forces to keep an eye on Yan Qing.
Speaking of the Shanhe Provincial Public Security Department, it is actually located next to the Chuan City Public Security Bureau. Since the Niu Jian case, the provincial department has been conducting independent investigations and appropriately arranged Xiang Wanfeng, who was responsible for the independent investigation at the time, to join as the head of the special investigation team.
After Xiang Wanfeng's incident, Yan Qing immediately reported the relevant information to the provincial department and insisted that the mastermind behind the current drug case was Xiang Wanfeng, and his accomplice was naturally Ping An. Faced with Yan Qing's report, the provincial department was in a dilemma. Compared with the strong evidence of Xiang Wanfeng's eighty million yuan deposit abroad, Yan Qing's illegal and disciplinary violations were still in the stage of evidence collection and investigation.
While Ping An was hiding at Gao Liang's place, anxiously waiting for the latest intelligence, Luo You, the Vice Governor of Shanhe Province and Director of the Provincial Public Security Department, arrived at the Chuan City Municipal Committee at 1:30 PM. In the municipal committee's large conference room, Qiu Weiming, the Secretary of the Chuan City Municipal Committee, kept looking through a stack of materials. Even now, he still couldn't believe that Yan Qing would do such a thing. However, the intelligence provided by the provincial department, although lacking direct evidence, indicated that Yan Qing's situation was not optimistic based on the chain of evidence.
In the compound of the Chuan City Public Security Bureau, Vice Mayor Wang was getting into a car, and Yan Qing handed him a coat.
"The weather is getting colder and colder, my old leader, you must take care of your health." Yan Qing said.
"Old Yan, we're not outsiders. This pile of cases is enough for you to handle. And that Xiang Wanfeng, you've offended the provincial department. I'm going to see Secretary Qiu at the municipal committee, and it's probably to argue." Vice Mayor Wang teased from inside the car.
"Old leader, I still say the same thing, a clear conscience fears no accusation. We've been police officers for a lifetime, and we value evidence the most. Without evidence, I fear nothing!" Yan Qing heard the implied meaning of his old leader and quickly gave him a "reassurance shot."
"Alright, you go and get busy, I'm leaving." Vice Mayor Wang, reassured, immediately left with full confidence.
Unfortunately, this confidence was so great that before he could reach the Chuan City Municipal Committee, the car he was in exploded.
"Report, latest intelligence: on the way to the Chuan City Municipal Committee, Vice Mayor Wang first picked up Yao Chang, the Secretary of the Chuan Municipal Political and Legal Affairs Committee, who was also going to the committee. Then, while continuing to drive, the vehicle's front wheel suddenly exploded, the car body spun in the air for a week before landing. The driver died on the spot, Vice Mayor Wang and Secretary Yao are in a coma and are currently being rescued in the hospital." Gao Liang's subordinate handed a piece of intelligence to Gao Liang.
"Too rampant! The director of public security and the secretary of the political and legal affairs committee are all hospitalized! Isn't the sky of the Chuan police circle going to be covered by Yan Qing?" Gao Liang said.
"It won't be covered. The municipal committee, the municipal government, and the provincial department will not give up. It's just that with this move, Yan Qing's 'one-man show' can last for three to four days!" Ping An, who was familiar with government affairs, said, "Even if the municipal committee holds a meeting to discuss, it will follow a standardized procedure. It's difficult for the provincial department to intervene in local affairs. Yan Qing is very smart. He doesn't want to monopolize power. He just wants to monopolize power for a short while. It's only for these few days. Under his absolute authority, drug transactions will be easier, and even transportation will be given a green light."
"What should we do next?" Gao Liang asked with some discouragement.
"There are two methods. One is to find the drugs and transfer them before he trades them, cutting off his financial source. Without money, he can't go anywhere. The other is to delay. Try to cause trouble and disrupt his plan, forcing him to postpone the drug transaction. Then it will be easy to handle after the municipal committee makes a new decision." Ping An said, "I can't wait any longer. I have to do something. So I'll handle the first method, and you think of a way for the second method."
"Heidou will go with you. You are also familiar with Maimang. One in the dark and one in the light to cooperate well. It's easier to get things done with fewer people. There are no other good ways right now. Be careful yourself." Gao Liang nodded in agreement after thinking for a while.
Heidou, who had been accompanying Ping An in the room, immediately became energetic upon hearing that they were going to act.
"Heidou, is your name really Heidou?" In the underground garage, Heidou was holding a remote key, searching for the car Gao Liang had temporarily assigned them for the operation. Ping An yawned and teased.
"My father's surname is Hei, so I'm called Heidou." As before, the young man was not talkative and liked to act cool.
After searching for a long time, they finally found a motorhome in a corner.
"Tsk tsk, leader Gao really thought of everything. If we can't handle Yan Qing, we'll have to run away. Is he letting us run away more comfortably?" Ping An got into the motorhome unceremoniously and sat on the sofa. Kuaishuge.
"Teacher Ping An, where are we going now?" Heidou asked.
"First go home to pick someone up!" Ping An clasped his hands behind his head and closed his eyes. Soon, a soft snore could be heard.
As the number one fugitive in Chuan City, Ping An's "treatment" was much better than Gao Min's. At the very least, there were four or five police cars surrounding Ping An's house. This was quite a show.
"Teacher Ping An, there are police. We can't get in. Do you want me to... " Heidou said.
"No, no, they are just doing their job. Wait a moment." Ping An comforted him.
After a while, the door of Ping An's house suddenly opened. Su Tang, dressed in a neat tracksuit, with a backpack on her back, slowly walked out of the community.
As if under a strict order, a police car slowly followed Su Tang.
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Su Tang seemed to ignore the police car behind her. When she reached the entrance of the community, she even bought a bottle of cola and slowly opened it to drink. At this moment, a tricycle delivering express packages suddenly drove into the community from the road outside. After the tricycle quickly passed between Su Tang and the police car, Su Tang, who had been standing there drinking cola, disappeared.
The person tracking her disappeared. A head poked out of the police car window, looked around, pointed towards the road leading to the school, and then the police car accelerated and left the entrance of the community.
As soon as the police car drove away, Su Tang, who had bent down pretending to tie her shoelaces, immediately stood up. It turned out that Su Tang had not run away at all, but had used the blind spot created by the tricycle to "hide" herself in the crowd.
Ping An saw all of Su Tang's actions.
"Not bad, the little girl has potential." Ping An nodded silently.
The door of the motorhome opened, and Su Tang got in with a curious expression.
"Master, are you escaping for your life, or on vacation?" Seeing her master, who was perfectly fine, staring at her and grinning, Su Tang revealed her standard four teeth, gave her master a smile, and then curiously looked around the motorhome.
"Is everything at home alright!" Ping An took out a tissue and handed it to Su Tang to wipe the cola stains from the corner of her mouth.
"The game has been on all the time, for fear that you would send me a message. I've been bored these past few days, and since you've been ignoring me, I've leveled up my hero to level 40!" Su Tang said. "Everything is fine at home. You were arrested by the police yesterday, and Auntie was a little worried, but Sister Lin Dang said it was no big deal. She's very optimistic about you!"
"Don't be disrespectful, call her Auntie!" Ping An tapped the little girl's head and then pulled her to his front, saying sternly, "Su Tang, although it's cruel, Master needs your help now. I want you to recall carefully what Gao Min and his subordinates said in the warehouse at that time? Did they receive any calls? What did they do? In short, not a single detail can be missed!"
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"Okay! I'll try! But I need a special environment, Master. Every time I need to recall special things, I need to do this. You won't object, right?" Su Tang narrowed her eyes and said naughtily.
"How could I! Do you want me to find you a boat, and we'll go somewhere quiet, and you can think slowly!" Ping An readily nodded.
The quietest place in Chuan City was naturally the Dahe River. But if you were to talk about the noisiest place, there were many. For example, at this moment, Heidou drove the motorhome under an overpass and squatted on a wooden stake under the bridge, then looked at Ping An, who was squatting on the other side and frowning, not knowing what to say.
Inside the motorhome, music from six high-pitched speakers was playing rhythmically. After five minutes of perseverance, Ping An could no longer stand it and walked out, leaving Su Tang, who was closing her eyes and pretending to sleep.
"Recalling the past requires a quiet environment, doesn't it?" Heidou couldn't help but ask.
"Ask me, how should I know?" Ping An said somewhat irritably.
"Oh!" Heidou answered honestly.
At this time, Ping An suddenly remembered that Heidou had been expelled by the National Security Bureau at Yan Qing's request because he had "coerced" him to leave.
"Hey, Xiao Hei, it's all my fault for getting you involved in this mess. Although it's for the greater good, you have to be mentally prepared. I know very well that no matter what your starting point is, you have committed a crime by getting me out of the Public Security Bureau. This stain is now permanent." Ping An said with some guilt.
"I'm just a private, and the bureau values me, giving me a promotion and a job. What does it matter if I take off this uniform for him?" Heidou said nonchalantly. "My family runs a butcher shop. At worst, I'll go home and sell meat!"
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"..." Ping An.
Fortunately, Su Tang didn't stay in her "memory palace" for long. In a short while, she came to Ping An, hopping and skipping.
"I won't narrate the detailed process to you one by one, but I've recalled the useful key points." Su Tang said, "When I was first caught, Gao Min was surprised. After taking me into the warehouse, he made a phone call. On the phone, he addressed the other party as 'Sir' with a respectful tone... After talking about my situation, he specifically asked about someone, saying something like 'you've worked hard, I feel bad'... Oh, he called this person 'Madam'!"
"Madam?" Ping An frowned and said, "Continue!"
"Later, the person on the other end of the phone asked Gao Min to record something. At that time, he was a little far away, and I was very scared. I kept watching him..." Su Tang said. "Although I don't know what he was recording, I can restore the strokes he used when he was writing..."
"This line! I've seen people who can read lips, but I never thought of someone who can record strokes!" Ping An looked at his disciple in surprise.
Su Tang gave her master a look that said "you haven't seen the world." "My politics are terrible. Every time I can pass the exam, it's all thanks to imitating my deskmate's strokes during the exam! I can guess almost all the multiple-choice questions correctly, and for the essay questions, by modifying the strokes of the words, I can guess them with about eighty or ninety percent accuracy!"
As a master, being looked down upon by his disciple! How could this be allowed! Ping An pushed Heidou, who was squatting beside him and grinning foolishly, telling him to quickly get paper and pen. He was going to see his disciple's stroke imitation on the spot!
The space in the motorhome was limited. At Su Tang's request, Heidou, with his honest appearance, was successfully chosen as the "actor" to imitate Gao Min, standing at an angle directly illuminated by the car lights. Su Tang looked for a long time before determining her position in the warehouse that night.
"I'm going to start. I'll say the strokes, and you try to write down what you think is correct or similar!" Whether it was the biting cold wind or the first time participating in a case investigation, Su Tang's little face was flushed red.
"First character, horizontal, vertical, horizontal!"
"Second character, vertical, bent, horizontal, horizontal, vertical!"
"Third character, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal! I suspect it's the character 'san' (three)!"
"Fourth character, the first stroke seems to be a dot or a left-falling stroke, followed by a horizontal hook, and finally a long right-falling stroke."
"Fifth character, left-falling stroke, vertical, bent, vertical, vertical, curved hook!"
"Sixth character, horizontal, left-falling stroke, right-falling stroke!"
"Seventh character, horizontal, left-falling stroke, horizontal, left-falling stroke, vertical, bent, horizontal, horizontal, horizontal, left-falling stroke, horizontal falling stroke/horizontal hook, right-falling stroke!"
"Behind this is a group of numbers, 1303! I'm sure it's this number!"
To Ping An's surprise, Su Tang uttered a series of strokes as if she were joking.
"Are you sure that the sequence of strokes you saw is correct?" Ping An asked, somewhat uneasy.
"Sure! Master, when I was in the sixth grade of primary school, I could imitate my deskmate's love letters word for word by remembering the strokes. Why don't you have confidence in me?" Su Tang gave Ping An another roll of her eyes.
Ping An swallowed and grabbed Heidou, then got into the motorhome. He was eager to see if Su Tang's contribution would be a surprise or a joke.
"First character, based on the strokes, I identify it as 'tu' or 'shi'; second character, it's likely one of the three characters 'jia', 'shen', or 'you'; third character is clearly 'san'; fourth character, it's likely 'you', 'jiu', or 'liu'; the fifth character is quite distinctive. Besides the character 'ta', I can't think of anything else; the sixth character is clearly 'da', and the seventh character, based on the strokes, is 'sha'!" Heidou analyzed and said, "In the subject of intelligence gathering, the method your disciple used is a type of 'deductive method', also known as 'high imitation', which is very impressive!"
"If it's an address, these words put together, the most likely is - 'Shi Jia' Street, and then something building?" Ping An tried to recall the streets and alleys of Chuan City.
"There are no buildings on Shi Jia Street, Master. However, at the intersection of Shi Jia Street and Caihong Road, there is the Liuli Tower Building. Could it be that Gao Min couldn't write Liuli Tower, so he wrote 'liu' and then 'ta'?" Su Tang circled around Ping An, trying her best to help.
"Alright, my dear! You've got some skills! That's what it means!" As soon as Ping An heard Su Tang's words, his mind instantly became clear.
"Got it! Go to Shi Jia Street!" Heidou, who was on the side, was also very happy. Without waiting for Ping An's command, he had already sat in the driver's seat and started the car.
Shi Jia Street is located in the southern part of Hegou District in Chuan City, an area undergoing old city renovation. This street was once an ancient street. It is said that during the An Lushan Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, a general in Chang'an was shot and wounded while fleeing in confusion to Chuan. He then recuperated on this street. Although the general was seriously injured, he did not forget to protect his country. He entrusted a blacksmith on the street to divide his armor into twenty-four chest plates and made them into soldier's armor using rattan. When the general recovered, he was the first to put on a Shi Jia. The blacksmith hurriedly said, "As a general, you shouldn't wear the soldier's Shi Jia, which is not in keeping with your status!" The general disdainfully said, "In times of national crisis, the country does not lack high-ranking generals, but lacks soldiers who are of one heart with the king, the people, and the state! Today, by wearing the Shi Jia, I am not a high-ranking general, but a soldier who needs twenty-three heroes to help me!" The young people on this street were greatly inspired and volunteered to form twenty-three men. Wearing Shi Jia, they followed the general to join Guo Ziyi and achieved many victories in the great battle. Later, this street was renamed Shi Jia Street.
Today's Shi Jia Street has long been part of the contiguous demolition project in Hegou District. And when Ping An and his group arrived at this street, dusty and travel-worn, they saw not only a street half demolished but also the Liuli Tower Building, which had been razed to the ground half a month ago...
"Damn it! Are you playing with me!" Ping An said with disappointment inside the motorhome.