"Comrade, ask me, is this the Xialang Police Station?" Li Yifeng asked, and when he was away from home, he automatically became very polite.
"There is a signboard at the door, can't you read?" The policeman on duty at the police station rolled his eyes, and then his eyes automatically returned to the screen, where he was playing a game of poker.
"We are from the provincial capital, and we are working together. We are chasing a case. The assisted investigation report should have been sent to your office. That..." Li Yifeng said politely, and the policeman curled his lips and replied: "Look at what time it is." , the office automatically faxed, and there was no one there.”
"Ah, isn't it only five o'clock in the afternoon?" Li Yi became furious and finally exploded.
The policeman was displeased, and asked rhetorically, "Just looking at five o'clock in the afternoon, I don't know what day it is today?"
"What day?" Li Yifeng rushed.
"The twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, don't talk about the police, even the criminals have already gone home for the New Year. Come back after the new year. Why are you so dedicated? Do you think you are Ren Changxia?" the policeman said, in a naughty tone.
Li Yifeng noticed that the policeman had a fucking face that his uncle didn't know and his grandma didn't love, so he yelled furiously, "Call your boss."
"No." The policeman replied.
"Where's the instructor?" Li Yifeng asked again.
"Not here." The policeman said disdainfully.
"Believe it or not, I'll go find your chief." Li Yifeng threatened.
"Then go find it, not to mention the director, it is your ability to find a job in the bureau." The policeman rolled his eyes and gave Li Yifeng a displeased look.
After all, although Li Yifeng often skipped work and skipped work, but now he discovered that absenteeism and skipping work are so abominable; although he is also aware of this in the agency, but it is really on him, and he feels disgusted for no reason. But people here are not familiar with the place, and you can’t walk without a local, at least you can’t even understand the dialect. After thinking for a while, he swallowed his anger and said: "Comrade, we really came here after traveling hundreds of kilometers. The second criminal investigation team in the provincial capital has sent a report on the assisted investigation to your bureau. We need a local guide... You see, can you do it. "
"Comrade, it's not that I won't help you. I'll be off work in 40 minutes. Who would be happy if you knock on the New Year's Eve? Anyway, you can wait until tomorrow...tomorrow won't work. It's New Year's Eve, and no one can go home for the New Year's Eve Isn’t it? If it were really a case of murder, arson, and fleeing, our emergency mobilization would have come down earlier, wouldn’t it be impossible?” The police also changed their tone of impatience, but they made sense.
Li Yifeng was so angry that he had nowhere to vent, he breathed a sigh of relief, closed the window of the duty room, slammed the door, went out and got into the car, angrily, Yu Zui smiled and asked: "I hit a wall? Are you being rude? It's New Year's Eve Yes, you have to speak politely to others, or someone will help us."
"I've never been so polite. You don't know, director. There are only two people left in the whole office. One watches TV and the other plays computer. They don't answer us at all. We are also policemen anyway. If we are ordinary people, we should not be punished." They drove out." Li Yifeng said.
"Hehe, this is normal. Who is willing to provide assistance to you during the Chinese New Year? It's not an emergency assembly order. No matter how big it is, it must be put on hold first." Yu Zui said with a smile, and asked Zhang Meng to go again, Zhang Meng But he couldn't die, he knew better than Li Yifeng the style of the agency, and he might not be able to find the right owner at ordinary times, let alone this season.
"Forget it, then I'll go." Yu Zui bowed his body, ready to go out in person.
"You can't go." Li Yifeng said with a shot, pointed inside and said: "That bastard over there is worse than a cow thief. I want to kick him in the face a few times."
"Let's see, it's so hateful, I'll kick two feet first." Yu Zui got out of the car with a smile, entered the police station, knocked on the door and window, and yelled unceremoniously inside: "Hi, we are the criminal investigation department of the provincial capital. For the second team, the coordination notice has been notified to your bureau, but you haven’t received the notice yet?”
"No." The TV watcher said without turning his head.
"What's the attitude? All colleagues are so virtuous, and ordinary people can't be kicked out by you when they come? Tell you, I'm from the Second Provincial Criminal Investigation Team. If you delay handling the case, you don't want to mess around." Yu Zui cursed viciously, This sentence worked, the one watching TV saw that Yu Zui's certificate was already in hand, it was definitely not Yu Zui's, but Dong Shaojun's.
Hearing Yu Zui's big words, he didn't know what to do, another came up with tea, and said straightly: "Who is it, who is it, why did another one come just after leaving, the notice really didn't arrive, there is no one in the office, go to do the New Year's goods Now, you can contact our director directly."
"Ah bah!" Yu Zui cursed, but his expression froze as soon as he scolded, he saw an unbelievable thing. The policeman's expression was also fixed, holding a teacup, like a clay sculpture, staring at Yu Zui in a daze.
After a long while, the other police assistant who was scolded looked at the two surprised people, stretched out his hand and waved in front of the policeman, at this time the policeman's face gradually became more happy, and he said: "Bitch, why are you here?" here?"
"Scumbag, why are you here?" Yu Zui also laughed, never expecting to meet an old acquaintance in a foreign land.
It was Daxian, Zheng Zhongliang, a deserter who went to Guangzhou. Later, he went to work far away and had no contact with him. Who would have thought that in this strange city, fate would bring the two former classmates together again like a joke.
"I work here." Zheng Zhongliang grinned.
Yu Zui smiled and yelled at the door: "Brave, come in, see who works here, and beat him up."
As soon as the door answered, Zheng Zhongliang happily stuck his head out of the window. Zhang Meng and Li Yifeng who entered the door were stunned, and Zhang Meng yelled strangely: "It's you boy, are you looking for a cigarette? The police from the provincial capital don't accept it." .”
"Come out." Yu Zui pushed his head back.
This time I was more polite and enthusiastic, and ran out screaming and smiling, hugged Yu Zui, hugged the animal, and sighed: "Brothers, what's the matter with you, the New Year's day is so hard , and put it outside to work hard."
The two of them haven't explained yet. Seeing that Li Yifeng was upset, he asked who this is. After the two sides introduced, Zheng Zhongliang took Li Yifeng by his side and kept talking slowly, but then again, you stick your nose and go to the police station. You don't look like a good bird, you can't blame us for not entertaining, Li Yifeng was so angry that he wanted to kick this guy twice.
Gossip less, Yu Zui urged to leave, Zheng Zhongliang arranged for the assistant policeman to be on duty, and called the director again, after the call, he whispered: "The director told me, there is no imminent matter, don't bother him, I want to have a safe year. The criminal police from the provincial capital came to assist in the investigation, so I just handed it over to me."
After getting into the car, four people were squeezed in the back row. Seeing that the situation was not small, Zheng Zhongliang asked strangely, "What's going on? Are they all in the same company?"
There is nothing to hide from his classmates. Yu Zui explained the general case. Zheng Zhongliang frowned when he heard that the suspect's vehicle was being chased. As soon as the question was raised, Yu Zui explained: "It's not that I have to chase him, but I just want to see where he has settled. This case may involve a lot, and it won't be solved that easily."
"What kind of suspect is it?" Zheng Zhongliang asked, this was something Yu Zui omitted.
Yu Zui and Zhang Meng exchanged glances, and simply told their classmates the core of the case. He was the main suspect in the cattle theft case. According to the account of the arrest, this "Old Seven" is likely to be the leader of the crime organization.
Unexpectedly, as soon as these words came out, Zheng Zhongliang laughed out loud, and said with a smile: "Stealing cows? What's so rare about stealing cows, it's not rare for women to steal people these days."
Others were stunned, and after a while he smiled and said: "Even if you can find someone who steals people, you won't find someone who steals cattle here."
"What's going on? Damn, you can't talk well like a bastard." Yu Zui urged, knowing that something was wrong again.
"Come down, I'll drive, I'll show you around, and you'll know for yourself." Zheng Zhongliang called Li Yifeng to stop, changed his seat, and when he got in the car, he touched left and right excitedly. He had never driven a Land Rover before, so he felt envious for a long time. Authentic: "Your second team is so annoying? Attending to work with Land Rover?"
"Borrowed." Zhang Meng said.
"Let me tell you, even black policemen can't make this whole car to attract people's hatred." Zheng Zhongliang was proud, and started the car. While driving, he turned his head and asked Yu Zui, "Yu Jian, according to my calculations, you will either be miserable or poor in your life. I was taken aback. Driving this car, I thought I made a mistake... Oh, this car is Pull."
"Shut up, I want to slap you no matter what I see now." Yu Zui replied.
"Isn't this normal? In our profession, anyone who looks at you will want to beat you up." Zheng Zhongliang laughed. At this time, Yu Zui noticed that this guy is almost the same as in school, and now he is even more ruffian than the bad student back then. Yu Zui took a few glances and asked cautiously: "Daxian, are you in the editor?"
"Contract police, film police..."
"Isn't your hometown here?"
"It's not easy to divide in my hometown. I didn't expect Xu Chu to really save face. I found a vacancy here. My family has activities again, so I came to work as a police officer."
"Oh, what happiness, that was my dream."
"Ideal? Pull it down, it's a deception to come in, the duty of the New Year's Eve assigns me from the thirties to the second day of the junior high school, and I don't even dare to let a fart go. It's really depressing."
"There are two kinds of depression in life. One is that the dream of a film policeman has not been realized, like Yu Er." Dong Shaojun interjected, pointing and saying: "The other is like a great fairy, whose ideal has been realized, ha ha."
As the few people talked, Yu Zui burst out laughing. After seeing Zheng Zhongliang's life that he had longed for, it was quite different from what he had imagined. He sighed secretly, Zhang Meng and Zheng Zhongliang started talking, and Li Yifeng poked his head out behind him and asked Yu Zui, "Director Yu, why is there more than one person calling you Yu Jian?"
On purpose, when he said this, the whole car burst into laughter, and Yu Zui laughed and cursed: "Fuck off, this is our nickname for each other, it's none of your business."
"Haha, he's always been so cheap, what's his name if he doesn't call Yu Jian?" Zheng Zhongliang said with a smile, suddenly realized the address of the other party, and asked Yu Zui in surprise: "Damn, Yu'er, you're already the director?"
"Ah, the deputy director of the Yangtouya Township Police Station, in parentheses, on temporary duty. In parentheses, the deputy director is in charge of the work." Yu Zui laughed at himself. When Zheng Zhongliang heard it, he raised his head and laughed even worse. After a while, he gave a thumbs up and said: "Okay, okay, you are expected to become the cheapest director in history."
"Great Immortal, believe it or not, we've turned you into a ghost and a monster. How come I'm cheap?" Yu Zui threatened.
"Hehe, do you know what a normal director should do? During this new year's festival, drink some wine to refresh yourself, find a chick to keep fit, and give some small gifts to be a man... You are good, you came out to find a cow, this is not a cheap bone, it is What? I haven't met our director at all in the twelfth lunar month, and I'm busy looking for contacts in the city, waiting for promotion after the year." Zheng Zhongliang said.
Hearing these words, Zhang Meng and Li Yifeng looked at each other, deeply convinced, how to mess around in this suit, even a little bit of social common sense is clear, just like what Zheng Zhongliang said. But looking at Director Yu with a sad face, they felt that there was nothing wrong with what Yu Zui did.
Maybe they are all right, the environment dictates it.
After talking nonsense all the way, the car drove less than ten kilometers, and stopped in a large yard on the outskirts of the city to see if the terrain was wrong. Zheng Zhongliang drove the car more than ten meters higher, pointed at the yard, and look!
The eyes of Yu Zui and the others were wide open. There were twenty or thirty yellow cattle locked in the large yard, and seven or eight big men were picking them up. The open space was covered with blood, and it looked like an open-air slaughterhouse. When he was about to ask a question, Zheng Zhongliang said, let you see the oldest method of slaughtering cattle. This is a place in the Kuching Dynasty, and the scene of slaughtering cattle has hardly changed for thousands of years.
Everyone became curious, and watched with their eyes open, and saw a thousand-pound yellow ox being pulled out. Several big men tied knots on the ox's hoof, led the ox to the edge of the slaughtering pond, and then brought the ox to the slaughter pond. As soon as the local dialect was yelled, the five ropes were pulled hard at the same time, and with a loud shout, the cow fell to the ground with all five bodies on the ground, with its head facing the pool of blood. At this time, a valiant and strong man held a large guillotine that was half the height of a man. With a wave, the bright silver blade flashed and chopped straight down from the neck of the cow. As soon as the rope was pulled, the bull's head flew up and landed on the big wooden case.
"Damn it, it's so fierce." Zhang Meng looked bloody and felt uncomfortable.
"It's too cruel." Li Yifeng couldn't see it anymore.
Li Dai and Li Shuanyang couldn't bear to look at them any longer. After all, they grew up in the countryside, and they had a special feeling for these big livestock that worked. Yu Zui looked at Zheng Zhongliang in bewilderment, but this guy saw it very brightly, pursing his lips with great interest, and tsk-tsk loudly.
"What do you mean?" Yu Zui asked. We're here for cattle thieves, not slaughterhouses.
"Do you know what is the most famous thing in Yicheng City?" Zheng Zhongliang asked, seeing the crowd stunned, he smiled and said: "I know you are stupid, the most famous is the Niu Tau Banquet, one Niu Tau can make more than a dozen dishes, want to try Early adopters have to make reservations, and the practice here in Yicheng is the oldest known so far, longer than the Tujia nationality.”
"So what?" Zhang Meng said.
Yu Zui immediately understood, and said straightforwardly: "You mean this is a big consumer market for beef, and you can't find it at all."
"By the way, there are more than a dozen large and medium-sized slaughterhouses like this in the city, and there are 31 restaurants in the city that hold ox head banquets. Calculated by the consumption of ten ox heads per day, more than 300 heads are slaughtered every day. , Beef, beef, and offal in surrounding counties and cities are all supplied from here. There are more than 300 heads a day, even in the weakest season, there are more than 100 heads. This place is not far from the tourist area of Lishan, and the off-season is also the peak tourist season. , so the difference is not big, let me tell you... How do you get back the few cows you lost in a place that consumes thousands of cows a year?" Zheng Zhongliang asked with a smile.
Li Yifeng grunted, and was frightened. He thought it would be difficult to catch a cattle thief in the mountains, but he didn't expect that it would be several times more difficult to find in the city than in the mountains. Zhang Meng frowned, knowing that he might be a hunter Niu was hopeless, and the two village policemen who had never seen the world were dumbfounded, looking at Director Yu, the backbone. Yu Zui frowned, looking at the scene of the slaughter, his thoughts flew wild for a while.
He doesn't think he is a policeman, but from the perspective of selling stolen goods. He is thinking that if he sells it to any of them at a low price, he will probably accept it happily. Lushui; he was thinking again, if there is a gang selling stolen goods here for a long time, it must have established a very solid channel. I am afraid that this win-win channel will not allow outsiders to get a glimpse of its secrets, just like the shady industry. He was still thinking, if he got stuck, he would have no way of knowing where to start, but with just a few people under his command, he could leverage such a huge industry.
Yu Zui was frightened, and Zheng Zhongliang had a sense of accomplishment. He smiled and asked, "Yu Er, it's not that brother won't help you. In this situation, what do you think should be done?"
"Let's vote with a show of hands. I'll make a proposal. If the majority passes, how about following my way?" Yu Zui said, watching the few people who came with him accidentally promote democracy, Zheng Zhongliang heard ,agreed. Zhang Meng and Li Yifeng naturally had no objection, but Zheng Zhongliang warned: "Don't blame me for not reminding, most of the big households here started from selling cattle, and there are more than 400 people who are registered in the register and have the procedures for livestock trafficking. If you want to investigate, it will be after the year."
"Well, I know that." Yu Zui said, and changed the subject with a smile: "But my suggestion is that we have come a long way, we can't return without success, at least let Police Zheng invite us to taste the taste of the bull's head feast? Let's vote by show of hands."
Zhang Meng raised his hand, Li Yifeng laughed and raised his hand, followed by the two township policemen and raised his hand, Yu Zui raised his hand and said: "Five to one, Daxian, democratic vote, you It was agreed just now, you can see when it is suitable for us to arrange."
Zheng Zhongliang's eyes protruded, but Yu Zui, who had a serious face, would suddenly make such a sudden appearance. Seeing the happy faces of the five people, he made a bitter face: "Okay, a few obey... Yu'er, you can do it, I'm a policeman. I feel that I am shameless enough, but today, it seems that I am still inferior to you, brother."
"Not only are you invited, but you are also conscripted. If you run with us for a few days, you won't be able to go home anyway." Yu Zui said with a smile.
"Damn it, I didn't make a fuss when I went to work today. I knew that there would be a financial disaster, so I didn't come to work anyway." Zheng Zhongliang said dejectedly, started the car, and started to visit Yicheng with this group of people. . As Zheng Zhongliang said, restaurants with all kinds of game can be found everywhere. There are big shops with the signboard of such-and-such bull head feast on any street. Occasionally, there are sporadic roadside stalls. The main products are beef, beef balls, Meat dishes such as sauced beef, beef heart, and beef liver. Zheng Zhongliang was quite happy, after all, he saw his classmate who had been away for more than half a year, but Yu Zui's face became more and more sad for no reason.
It’s easy to find beef in this place, but if you really want to find cattle thieves, I’m afraid it will be difficult. He organized several methods in his mind, but he denied it in a blink of an eye. train of thought.
On the same day, new information came out. The tracked ghost vehicle entered Yicheng. From the vehicle flow monitoring to entering the city, but it could not be found to exit the city. In other words, it disappeared. The method of this disappearance is very simple. Just change the screwdriver for a license plate, but once it disappears, it means that all the clues are cut off from here...