Lei Jing called just five minutes after he left: "Beisong, I drove the car back to the downstairs of the hospital. We must go to the airport together."
"What's wrong?" Qi Beisong asked.
Lei Jing said: "My reputation alone is not enough for something as important as stopping a plane. You try first. If it doesn't work, you have to go back and ask the old man for help."
"Okay!" Qi Beisong agreed quickly, turned around and tapped Cheng Ji on the forehead, grabbed his coat and left.
Cheng Ji shouted from behind him: "Contact me if you need anything!"
"It's okay, just lie down!" Qi Beisong said casually.
He got into Lei Jing's Land Rover and sped off as soon as he got on the road. It took him only 30 minutes to drive to the airport during the morning rush hour, and he didn't even exceed the speeding limit. He relied entirely on his ability to weave in and out of traffic flexibly.
Qi Beisong sighed: "Old Lei, I really admire you! How did you practice this unique skill?"
Lei Jing said modestly while steering: "It's mainly because the hospital is close to the airport."
"Did I praise you?" Qi Beisong yelled, "I told you to speed when you should!"
Lei Jing roared: "If you have the guts, run! Run!"
As soon as the two drove into the airport access road, they almost collided with a car that suddenly cut in from the side. Qi Beisong cursed fiercely: "Bastard!"
Lei Jing was about to curse, but when he looked closely, he actually recognized the car!
"This is a police car," Lei Jing said, "What are they doing here?"
The other party also recognized Lei Jing's car and honked the horn.
Lei Jing and Qi Beisong quickly pulled over, unbuckled their seat belts and ran towards the other jeep.
The co-pilot rolled down the window and shouted, "Lei Zi!"
"Old leader, what's going on?" Lei Jing asked.
The deputy commander of the Narcotics Control Brigade of Hongcheng Public Security Bureau, Lei Jing's old superior, whose surname is Tang, was sitting in the black jeep.
When Lei Jing was in the special warfare, Lao Tang was the instructor. Although he was a political cadre, he had strong professional ability. He transferred to the front line and gradually took this position.
Old Tang said, "I found something strange, so I came here. Someone here at the airport contacted one of our surveillance subjects more than half an hour ago. The conversation lasted three minutes, but unfortunately we didn't monitor the content. What are you doing here?"
Qi Beisong said quickly: "Old leader, please don't ask us first, just continue talking! Who is it? How to contact them?"
Old Tang glanced towards Lei Jing inquiringly.
Lei Jing said: "I mentioned him to you before, our President Qi."
Qi Beisong's name is well-known among the upper and middle classes in Hongcheng. Although Old Tang has never seen him, he has heard of him, especially that he has a good relationship with Lei Jing.
He immediately extended his hand and said, "Hello, Mr. Qi."
Qi Beisong shook hands with him quickly: "Old leader, please continue talking!"
"Get in the car!" Old Tang signaled.
Qi Beisong and Lei Jing opened the car door and got in. They saw that in addition to Lao Tang and the driver, there was also a plainclothes officer in the car. He was obviously a veteran, with a sturdy physique and sharp eyes.
A few people nodded as a greeting, and the driver stepped on the accelerator and rushed to the terminal. Old Tang, out of professional habit and caution, said, "Boss Qi, Lei Zi, tell me what you are doing at the airport first?"
Qi Beisong did not hide it either. Only at this moment could his truth be exchanged for the other party's honesty.
"Someone bullied my wife and tried to escape on a plane, so I came to catch him."
Lei Jing added: "That person is going to Country K and should have boarded the plane by now. He not only bullied Mr. Qi's wife, but also has some complicated connections."
"Country K?" Old Tang asked, "What's the name of that person?"
"Shen Zimo."
The three policemen in the car exchanged glances, and Old Tang said, "He's the one we're looking for. Is he a student at Y Academy of Fine Arts? If so, then he's right!"
Qi Beisong and Lei Jing were both shocked.
Old Tang said: "Shen Zimo has been in contact with a surveillance subject nicknamed 'Professor'. We can't reveal too much about this person, we can only tell you that he is the brain trust of a criminal gang."
"Professor?" Qi Beisong repeated.
"He used to be a university professor, but he went into business a long time ago," said Old Tang.
"So Shen Zimo might be a person involved in the case?" Lei Jing asked.
Old Tang nodded: "We can't say that without evidence. We can only say that there is suspicion of involvement in the case."
Qi Beisong asked: "What are your plans for the next step?"
Old Tang said, "We will split into two groups. On one hand, the three of us will come to stop them, while on the other hand, we will file a report to fight for them. This Shen Zimo has a clean family background and no criminal record. In fact, there is no sufficient reason to arrest him. It is not enough to just know that he talked to the professor. What if he was once the professor's student? Or a close friend?"
The plainclothes officer nearby added: "Country K, where Shen Zimo is going, is a religious country, and the professor himself is a bit superstitious. If he calls the professor just to ask if he needs to bring a gift or to pray for safety, it would be awkward for us to rush into the plane and arrest him."
Qi Beisong said quickly: "He is not innocent at all, he poisoned my wife and almost killed her!"
Old Tang pointed out: "Boss Qi, this is just your one-sided statement, right? The evidence is not credible. Anyway, we don't care. Let's arrest him first. If we arrest the wrong person, I will take the responsibility. The police are not afraid of death, so why are they afraid of embarrassment?"
As they were talking, the jeep had passed the apron security checkpoint and was heading towards several international flights that were lined up on the taxiway in the distance, waiting to take off.
The cabin door was already closed. Without the cooperation of the airport, it was impossible to pull the person down. Old Tang kept calling and asking, "Are you guys ready? Please! Today's flight is not delayed. We will take off in 20 minutes!"
"That one!" The plainclothes officer looked at the message on his phone and pointed at a plane with Green River paint scheme and shouted.
"Let's go!" Qi Beisong urged.
The car was already speeding up to 100 mph, which was illegal on the tarmac. The people over at the airport tower must have been pretty furious. The police officer driving the car was about to put the police lights on the roof when he was stopped by Old Tang.
"Wait." Old Tang's face changed slightly, and he asked into the phone, "What did you say?"
There was a long mumbling going on over there, and although it was almost shouted, Qi Beisong and Lei Jing still couldn't hear it clearly.
"Stop the car!" Old Tang listened to the phone for a long time and suddenly said to the police officer who was driving.
"What?" the other four people in the car asked at the same time.
"Stop the car!" Old Tang repeated.
The driver must obey his superiors and stop immediately after applying the brakes.
Qi Beisong leaned on the front seat and asked, "What's wrong, old leader?"
Old Tang motioned for them to be quiet, listened for a moment, ended the call and said, "It's over, we can't stop it."
"Why?" Qi Beisong asked.
Lei Jing also said: "As long as it doesn't fly into the sky, we can stop it even if it's taxiing on the runway!"
Old Tang shook his head. "Today is a special situation. There is a visiting delegation from Country K on that flight. They are of a relatively high standard and are led by the Vice Speaker. Although Country K is smaller than one of our provinces, the Vice Speaker is a national leader after all. Moreover, Country K is a constitutional monarchy and the Vice Speaker himself is a prince. For security reasons, the cabin door can only be reopened if there is a direct order from the top. Our application has been rejected."
Qi Beisong was both amused and annoyed: "What do you mean by security considerations? Now a living poisoner and a terrorist who illegally detained others is on that flight, and they are not cooperating in arresting him? You are the police, you are the security!"
"The higher-ups didn't agree, saying any inadvertent mistake could lead to a diplomatic dispute," said Old Tang.
"Just bring one person down!" Qi Beisong refused to give up.
Old Tang said, "Just compare the two people on the plane. One is a college student with a cleaner resume than us, and the other is the speaker who might seriously protest. Which one is more scary? Who would offend the head of a neighboring country's government just to arrest a college student who might be a suspect?"
Qi Beisong pointed at the plane outside the car window: "But we are already here, and we are just going to watch Shen Zimo escape?! We won't be able to stop him once he lands! There is only one flight from Hongcheng to Country K a day, and the next flight is in 24 hours. Even if I fly to Beijing right now, I can't catch the flight from Beijing to Country K in the afternoon. In short, by the time we get to Country K, he can hide in any corner of Country K!"
"I know." Old Tang said solemnly, "But we must obey orders."
"But… "
"I'm even more reluctant than you!" Old Tang said, "We don't intend to let any potential criminals go, or else I'll personally stop the plane?!"
When they said this, Cheng Ji was sitting on the hospital bed stretching his legs while receiving an IV drip. He decided that after Qi Beisong brought Shen Zimo back, he would give him a kick, or whip kick, in the ward corridor.
The ward corridor was thirty meters long, and he vowed to whip from one end to the other, not a meter less.
The international flight to Country K moved slowly and slid onto the runway, sliding faster and faster. Then the nose of the plane pulled up, the landing gear was retracted, and it began to circle around the airport.
Several people in the jeep got out and watched helplessly as the plane adjusted its direction, returned to its route, and flew toward the sky.
“…” Qi Beisong took out a pack of cigarettes angrily, gave one to each person, then leaned against the car body and smoked with a depressed look on his face.
Finally, Old Tang coughed and said, "Mr. Qi, go back and apologize to your wife and tell her that the man was not caught."
Qi Beisong blew out the smoke from his mouth, and imitated Cheng Ji, holding his aching temple: "… If this continues, even if my wife doesn't break up with me, she will beat me to death."
Old Tang pretended to be surprised: "Oh, your wife hit someone?"
Qi Beisong glanced at Old Tang and said, "You probably can't even beat my wife."
Old Tang burst out laughing: "Ask Lei Zi, I am also a special warfare veteran. Although I am old and fat, I am not too weak, right?"
"I can't beat her." Qi Beisong shook his head with a serious expression, "I have confidence in my wife!"
Old Tang thought he was just joking with his boss, and didn't argue with him. He got in the car and said, "Let's go. There's no plane. What are we looking at? We'll be back in defeat!"
Qi Beisong cursed angrily and asked, "What should we do with Shen Zimo now?"
Old Tang sighed: "If he is a fugitive, we can only hope for the extradition agreement between us and Country K."
"First, we have to block them in Country K. Secondly, we also need the cooperation of Country K," said Qi Beisong.
Arresting criminal suspects in other countries is extremely difficult and constrained for law enforcement agencies of any country, which is why there are so many international fugitives at large in the world.
Old Tang said coldly: "We can't let him go!"
On the way back, Lei Jing said to Qi Beisong, "Old Tang didn't say it explicitly, but you should be able to understand it, right? They are in the drug enforcement department, and the case they are investigating must be complicated. It seems that Shen Zimo is more complicated than we thought."
Qi Beisong said: "There is a master behind Shen Zimo."
"Do you think so too?" Lei Jing asked.
Qi Beisong nodded: "Hongcheng Airport is the second largest aviation port in China, with so many international flights taking off and landing every day. He chose Country K. And there happened to be a vice speaker on this flight to Country K. I don't think it's a coincidence."
Lei Jing said: "I even suspect that he didn't just decide to run away on a whim, but that he had been planning to take Xiao Cheng away the moment he knocked him unconscious."
Qi Beisong hadn't considered this, and the hair on his arms stood up: "No way?"
"It's just a guess." Lei Jing said, "No matter what, you almost lost your wife."
Qi Beisong shuddered and gritted his teeth and said, "If he dares to take Cheng'er away, I will kill him no matter where he is!"
In fact, Lei Jing found one thing quite strange: since Shen Zimo had the guidance of an expert, why did he use his real identity when leaving the country
For some people, such as him and Qi Beisong, it is not difficult to forge a false identity, it is just a matter of willingness. Since Shen Zimo is involved with the brain trust of the criminal gang, why don't they remind him to be discreet
He changed his mind and thought that it was probably too late. The think tank was not a god and could not produce all the complete documents overnight.
Qi Beisong discussed with him: "You can ask the police about Shen Zimo's case. Before there is any news, don't tell Cheng'er about Shen Zimo's escape and his involvement in the case, so as not to affect his mood."
Lei Jing looked forward: "Of course you can ask, you don't have to tell me the second thing, but I can't hide the first thing."
"Just say that Shen Zimo was taken away by the police because he put sleeping pills in school to harm his classmates." Qi Beisong said.
Lei Jing shook his head slightly: "Don't tell such a lie, it will be exposed in less than a day."
"That day will come." Qi Beisong lit a cigarette in a depressed tone, looked out the window and said, "Cheng'er should be able to be discharged from the hospital tomorrow, we'll talk about it then."
The two of them agreed on the words and returned to the hospital. Cheng Ji was standing at the door of the ward, looking forward to the next day, his eyes sparkling.
"Where are the people?" He found that the two men had nothing in their hands.
Qi Beisong told the confession he had prepared earlier, and Cheng Ji was shocked: "Ah? He poisoned the school? Who did he poison?"
"About 70 or 80 people took large doses of sleeping pills in the school cafeteria," Qi Beisong said. "He is a repeat offender!"
Cheng Ji scratched his head: "That's impossible. Their school seems quite peaceful. It doesn't look like there has been a vicious case involving so many people."
Qi Beisong said, he looked quite peaceful when he drugged you, but the truth was revealed. Of course, the school cannot be in chaos. If something happens, it can only be covered up, otherwise its reputation will be ruined. If its reputation is ruined, how can it recruit students in the future
He said, "That's it. I'll go back to the company because I have a meeting there!" Lao Lei, let's go together! Honey, I'll come over to accompany you in the evening, be good!
Lao Lei said, ah... okay, let’s go together.
Cheng Ji shouted, "Wait for me!"
Qi Beisong and Lei Jing rushed out.
"Wait!" Cheng Ji shouted again, but he had an IV on the back of his hand and couldn't catch up.
“…” He sat cross-legged on the hospital bed, biting his lower lip angrily.
More than half an hour later, Chen Chuan peeked in at the door of the ward. He was called in to change shifts.
"Cheng Xiaoshuai, why do you look so gloomy?" Chen Chuan asked.
Cheng Ji said angrily: "Lao Qi and Lao Lei, those two bastards deceived me and they didn't even come back with a lie!"
Chen Chuan asked: "What did I lie to you about?"
Cheng Ji told the whole story and the lies told by those two men.
"It's all fucking loopholes! I guess Shen Zimo ran away on a plane, and they were too embarrassed to tell me!"
Chen Chuan curled his lips and said, "That's not very kind. We are all family, why are you hiding it from me? I guess he's afraid that you'll be angry."
He sat down in front of Cheng Ji's bed and said, "Hey, every failure makes you wiser. Don't judge people by appearances in the future. You climbed the stairs to save someone, but what did you get? Not to mention Lao Qi, I feel sorry for you!"
Cheng Ji was stunned, and finally rubbed his temple helplessly.
"I was wrong," he admitted. "When I first entered the room, I should have tied the two men to two bedposts, slapped each of them fifty times, and then left."
"Naked strangulation." Chen Chuan reminded.
"Yes," Cheng nodded, "Strangle the stronger ones from behind, and strangle the weaker ones from the front."
Chen Chuan said: "Forget about hanging him, but don't kill him, he's your husband."
"Wife!" Cheng Ji glanced at him.
Chen Chuan asked: "Is it interesting for you to keep arguing about this?"
When Qi Beisong came home from get off work, he couldn't face his baby because he wanted to confess as soon as he saw him. The man's eyes were straight and serious, full of repression.
Qi Beisong was so frightened by the look on his face that he forced himself to remain calm and said, "What are you doing?"
Cheng Ji hooked his hand: "Come up."
"Where?"
"Come to my bed."
In terms of scarcity, Cheng Ji's words were the invitation of the century, but Qi Beisong had a guilty conscience and did not move.
Cheng Ji said, "Come on."
Qi Beisong had no choice but to crawl onto the bed. He had never thought in his life that he would feel so nervous lying next to his wife.
He warned Cheng Ji: "You can lie down, but don't touch me. Be civilized!"
"Is it okay for me to sleep?" Cheng Ji said.
He wasn't a good person either. He closed his eyes for thirty seconds at most, then turned around and asked, "Brother, do we have to be honest with each other when we're dating?"
“…” Qi Beisong turned around slowly.
Cheng Ji looked at him closely from a very close distance: "Did Shen Zimo run away?"
After a long while, Qi Beisong nodded, put his hand on his cheek and said, "He ran away."
"I'm sorry." Qi Beisong said.
Cheng Ji asked, "Why are you apologizing? I was the one who got involved with this guy. It's probably because of me that he became like this. It's not your fault anyway."
Qi Beisong said, that makes sense, it's all your fault, let me punish you? I'll just kiss you for five minutes!
Cheng Ji had sharp eyes. He saw a figure moving in the corridor through the window on the door, pushed him off the bed and said, "Brother Lei is here!"
However, Lei Jing knocked on the door for the first time, knocking many times before he was willing to step in. Qi Beisong pulled a chair and sat at the head of Cheng Ji's bed, asking, "Is there anything wrong?"
"Haiping asked me to bring some soup." Lei Jing said.
"What soup?"
"Wild boar tripe stewed with wild mushrooms is said to be good for the stomach. Another one is pigeon stewed with yam and wolfberry." Lei Jing put down the two thermos cans and took out two white porcelain bowls from his bag.
"Beisong, would you like to try it too?" he said as he filled a bowl and handed it to Qi Beisong.
Qi Beisong frowned after taking just one sip and said, "Brother Hai's soup is always too bland, as if adding one more grain of salt would kill him!"
Lei Jing said coldly: "You have something to eat but you are so picky!"
Qi Beisong snorted, picked up the bowl and forced the liquid down his throat.
Lei Jing wanted to serve soup to Cheng Ji, but Cheng Ji quickly grabbed the spoon and didn't bother him to do it.
Cheng Ji took a sip from the bowl and thought it was okay. It seemed that Zheng Haiping's taste was similar to his, which was light.
The three of them sat together, and Lei Jing said, "Xiao Cheng, I just asked the doctor. We'll do another blood test tomorrow morning. If there's no problem, you can be discharged from the hospital."
This was the only piece of news that made Cheng Ji happy today. He smiled while holding the spoon: "Great!"
Hongcheng is a place that is like a curse to him. As soon as he arrives in Hongcheng, he hangs around the hospital. It is better for him to live a carefree life in Huang Village.
He had discussed with Lao Geng that if his nephew's condition improved, they would take him to Huang Village to recuperate in half a month.
"Oh, by the way, Cheng'er, I have something else to ask you." Qi Beisong said, "You and your mother's things are still at Shen Zimo's house. What are you going to do with them? Move them to my place first?"
Cheng Ji thought for a moment and asked, "Is there a rule in Hongcheng that after the funeral, the deceased's belongings must be burned at a four-way intersection?"
“It seems so.”
Cheng Ji said, "Can you accompany me out of the hospital tomorrow? Let's find a place to burn something."
Qi Beisong readily agreed: "Okay!"
He said to Lei Jing, "Brother Lei, go back and buy some more paper cars, yachts, villas, and private jets, pile them on my car, and burn them all for my mother-in-law tomorrow."
"Got it." Lei Jing said, "Then remember to drive that large-displacement pickup truck tomorrow. The small car can't fit it."
Cheng Ji quickly waved his hands and said no, saying that my mother doesn’t know how to fly a plane or a yacht.
Qi Beisong asked curiously: "Hey, what did your mother like in the past? I'll cook something for her."
Cheng Ji didn't know.
He and Ms. Cheng didn't say a word from beginning to end. It should be said that Ms. Cheng's soul had left long before he traveled through time, leaving only a frail body to accompany him.
"She likes... mink, right?" Cheng Ji said stiffly, "She has never worn it before."
"Buy a mink for my mother-in-law." Qi Beisong ordered Lei Jing.
"What's the price range?" Lei Jing asked.
"One hundred thousand or several hundred thousand will do. If you don't know anything, ask Brother Hai to go to a certain shopping mall. He knows how to buy expensive things." Qi Beisong said, "Bring them here and burn them together tomorrow."
Cheng Ji grabbed his hand.
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"I remembered it wrongly. My mother doesn't like minks." Cheng Ji said, "My mother likes knitting sweaters."
"Add another three hundred kilograms of cashmere yarn." Qi Beisong said.
"No!" Cheng Ji raised his voice, "If I had said that my mother liked a certain celebrity, would you have burned that person to death for her?"
"Who does your mother like? I'll go find her." Qi Beisong said.
"That man is dead too!" Cheng Ji roared.
Qi Beisong asked: "What does your mother like?"
"Fly a plane!" said Cheng Ji.
Qi Beisong ordered Lei Jing: "Brother Lei, real planes cannot be burned. Civilian planes are not cool enough. Go find someone to stab a fighter jet, a bomber, a reconnaissance plane, an air support plane, a helicopter, and a drone to form a full range of combat formations and burn them on my mother-in-law!"
“…” Lei Jing said, “Okay.”
“…” Cheng Ji swallowed the pork tripe soup in one gulp.
Qi Beisong said: "Let her be happy in the underworld!"
Lei Jing and Cheng Ji thought: As long as you are happy...
Lei Jing packed up the dishes and left, as he still had to reorganize the military aircraft.
Qi Beisong stayed to keep Cheng Ji company overnight, and after some more joking around with him, he put his hand on Cheng Ji's eyelids and said, "Go to sleep, you're tired."
Cheng Ji said unhappily: "I am tired, you are too much!"
This sentence reminded Qi Beisong, and he moved closer with ill intentions, until he was face to face with Cheng Ji: "Let's go back and make it after we are discharged from the hospital?"
Cheng Ji buried his face, sat for a while thinking he was calm, and then said, "Okay."
"Okay?" Qi Beisong was shocked. His wife actually said yes?!
Cheng Ji smiled and said, "If I say no, you'll have to smash the bed, right? Don't make loud noises in public."
Qi Beisong blinked his eyes and thought: Does he treat me like a dog? He must be treating me like a fucking dog.
Cheng Ji did not sleep well and felt dizzy when he woke up in the morning. On the one hand, he had something on his mind, and on the other hand, Young Master Qi said he was here to keep him company all night, but in fact he was here to keep him company - literally, to keep him company - and he was not being honest.
In the middle of the night, Cheng Ji was really squeezed by him, so he had to give up the bed to him and went to sleep on the recliner.
At five in the morning, the nurse came to draw blood on an empty stomach. The result came out at seven o'clock. After the doctor finished his rounds at eight o'clock, he was finally allowed to be discharged from the hospital. This was considered another hurdle he had overcome.
At this time, Chen Chuan had already informed the local police station and brought a locksmith to pry open the door of Shen Zimo's house, while the local police station turned a blind eye.
Lei Jing also tied paper cars, paper rooms, paper appliances and a full range of paper fighter jets to Qi Beisong's high-end pickup truck. On the wings of the fighter jets were inscribed - Ms. Cheng Yufang will live forever.
Qi Beisong drove this car around the city in a flashy manner, bringing shame to Cheng Yufang for the rest of her life!