Lin Shuyue saw Hang Jiabai ten minutes later. He looked disheveled, but there were no obvious wounds on his body. However, the protective suit of the man next to him was a little torn.
Hang Jiabai first glanced at Lin Shuyue, tried to comfort her with his eyes, and then went to report the situation to his leader.
They defused the bomb in the last three minutes, but the countdown did not end after defusing it. Instead, a second countdown was triggered. At the critical moment, Hang Jiabai ran to the pond behind with the bomb in his arms. The man who was with him turned over and knocked him to the ground after he threw the bomb into the pond.
After reporting to his leader, Hang Jiabai came to Lin Shuyue. Seeing Lin Shuyue's slightly red eyes, he moved his fingers but still did not extend his hand. Lin Shuyue smiled at him, and Hang Jiabai also smiled.
They said nothing, but everything seemed to be implied.
The man who had been walking beside Hang Jiabai came over: "Ah Bai, let's go together later."
Hang Jiabai nodded, and then introduced Lin Shuyue: "Ah Yue, let me introduce you, this is my second uncle, Hang Yuxing. Second uncle, this is my friend, Lin Shuyue."
Hang Yuxing had already taken off the protective mask on his face. He nodded to Lin Shuyue: "Hello."
Hang Yuxing had other things to do, so he didn't say much to Lin Shuyue. After saying hello to Lin Shuyue, he left.
Everything happened here is too much, but they still have a lot of work to do.
Hang Jiabai only say a few words to Lin Shuyue before going to work. The data in the computer room that Wang Bingchang wanted to blow up still needed to be sorted out.
Lin Shuyue and the media staff who came behind were called away by the police. As soon as they walked out of Luwu Village, they saw several large military trucks, which were full of dismantling soldiers who came to support.
Lin Shuyue was exhausted both physically and mentally. After returning to Xijiang Apartment, she wrote a report on the incident and sent it to Huang Qiang overnight. Without waiting for Huang Qiang's reply, she lay down on the bed and fell asleep. When she woke up the next morning, there was a newspaper beside her. Lin Shuyue didn't read it and went to the bathroom first because she had her period.
After taking a shower and changing into clean home clothes, she came out of the bathroom and heard some noise on the first floor. Lin Shuyue looked down from the corridor on the second floor and saw Lin Shuxing lying on the sofa watching TV. When she saw her, she waved at her.
Lin Shuyue went downstairs directly. Something was bubbling in the kitchen, and when Lin Shuyue looked over, Lou Fengqin was busy.
"Why are you here?" Lin Shuyue asked Lin Shuxing.
Lin Shuxing said, "The temperature has dropped today. It's very cold in the morning. Mom was afraid that you didn't have winter clothes, so she sent some over for you."
When Lin Shuxing said this, Lin Shuyue noticed that she was wearing long sleeves. She glanced out the window. It was cloudy today. She leaned back on the sofa and said, "Winter is coming."
Lin Shuxing was very excited: "Yes, winter is coming. Mom said we'll have hotpot tonight, and Uncle Bai has gone to buy fresh beef and mutton."
Hotpot should be prepared in winter, as it is more comfortable to eat that way. Lin Shuxing has been looking forward to it. She was unwilling to eat it even though Lou Fengqin wanted to prepare it in advance, and insisted on eating it on a cold day.
It would have been fine if Lin Shuxing hadn't said anything. Once she said it, Lin Shuyue also began to look forward to it. Lou Fengqin in the kitchen heard Lin Shuyue's voice and brought her a bowl of red bean sweet porridge. The sweet porridge had been cooled slightly and tasted just right.
Lin Shuxing had already drunk, so she didn't want any. She turned up the volume on the TV. Lou Fengqin also finished cleaning up and came out of the kitchen.
Lou Fengqin said, "Ah Yue, you should go out less at night recently, and don't come back so late. It's almost the New Year, and all kinds of monsters are coming out. Just yesterday, when your uncle Bai and I went to pick up Pingping and the others from school, your uncle Bai said that a few gangsters were following them."
Yesterday afternoon, Bai Pingping's class teacher called Lou Fengqin. Bai Pingping had a stomachache. Lou Fengqin and Bai Pingping arrived before school was over. After taking Bai Pingping to see the doctor, they went to Experimental High School to pick up Zeng Xiaoyi and Lin Shuyang.
When they arrived, school had already been over for a while. They saw from a distance a few hooligans following Zeng Xiaoyi and the others. Bai Wenhua picked them up in the car, and the hooligans followed the car for a long distance. This morning, Bai Wenhua sent them to school.
Lin Shuyue didn't think much about it. She said, "It is true now. You should be careful too. There are many criminals now."
"We know that, that's why your brother-in-law's shop closes at eight o'clock now." Xiasha Village is more remote than Pingsha Village, and Luo Zhengjun is very careful now.
Lin Shuyue asked about Lu Yinglan again, and Lou Fengqin said, "She bought the flower shop. When we came this morning, she had already gone to tidy up the flower shop."
"What about Xiaoyi? How did Xiaoyi talk to her?" Lin Shuyue was more concerned about this.
Lou Fengqin said: "Xiaoyi said she has money, and in a few months, she will be 18 years old and will not need child support. She thanked Lu Yinglan, and then said that when she has a successful future, she will repay Lu Yinglan, and when Lu Yinglan is old, she will also pay for someone to take care of her."
Lin Shuxing continued, "She also explained why she wouldn't take care of Lu Yinglan herself. She said that she was born with original sin, and Lu Yinglan probably wouldn't want to live with her."
"This child is so pitiful." Lou Fengqin said.
Lin Shuyue didn't say anything else.
After she finished her porridge, Lou Fengqin and Lin Shuxing went back. Lin Shuyue went upstairs and the newspaper was still there. Before reading the newspaper, she first took a look at the task progress of the good and evil classification system.
After one night, the accuracy of the mission suddenly jumped up by 40%. You have to know that when Feng Junpeng and Ruan Xuling were found, the mission progress was only 0.2%. For this 40%, no one knows how many people were arrested. People like Feng Junpeng, Ruan Xuling, Zeng Xiuju, and Wang Bingchang, no one knows how many more are there.
Lin Shuyue was about to read the newspaper when Ye Xueyu called: "Ah Yue, are you up now?"
"I'm up." After Lin Shuyue answered, she asked her, "You're still awake?"
"I dozed off at my desk for two hours just before dawn. Now that you're awake, go to Luwu Village. Liu Yunjun told me last night that they buried many of the victims' bodies in the vegetable fields by the river."
Lin Shuyue exclaimed: "Is there really someone buried in the vegetable field by the river?"
"Yeah." Ye Xueyu also felt that this matter was very coincidental.
Last time, a group of them went to the Lanqi KTV near Luwu Village to eat. Because Li Weisheng was a bit mean, he mentioned a few good places to bury a body. Everyone became interested and discussed it for a while. The girl working there was so scared that she called the police. But just a few days later, a body was really buried there!
Lin Shuyue put the newspaper on the bedside table into her system backpack, put on her going-out clothes, and called Li Weisheng and Huang Qiang.
The two had not received any information about this, and were very surprised to hear Lin Shuyue say this. Especially Li Weisheng, he immediately rushed out of the unit. Huang Qiang is now the director of the news department. He has to deal with a lot more things than before, and he is no longer as carefree as before.
Lin Shuyue wore a coat and a pair of light-colored loose jeans and went downstairs. After greeting the two girls at the front desk, Lin Shuyue stood on the roadside waiting for Li Weisheng, who drove over soon.
As soon as he got in the car, Li Weisheng began to talk about the matter non-stop. After the discussion, Li Weisheng said to Lin Shuyue: "Ah Yue, I received a letter today. It was written to me by someone I met when I was secretly visiting the black factory."
"What did you say?" Lin Shuyue asked him.
Li Weisheng drove the car attentively: "He said that several people from their village were arrested and sent to the illegal coal mines in the mountains to dig coal. Most of these people who were arrested had intellectual problems."
The letter was received this morning. After reading it, Li Weisheng felt unhappy.
When he said this to Lin Shuyue, Lin Shuyue had already thought of what Li Weisheng was going to do: "When are you leaving?"
"Just in the next two days. I have to go to another province. I have to find someone to understand the situation first." Li Weisheng smiled and said, "I don't know what it will be like when I go there. Ah Yue, I'll give you the address. If you don't get any news from me, you have to save me."
"Okay." Lin Shuyue did not persuade Li Weisheng not to go. Li Weisheng was an adult, and he must have thought carefully about what he was going to do.
He wanted to do this, and as a colleague and a fellow investigative reporter, all Lin Shuyue could agree to do was to provide him with logistical support and some help.
Li Weisheng said: "Then I will leave in the afternoon. I called Mingfang at noon. Let's have lunch together."
"Okay." Lin Shuyue agreed immediately.
After a short silence, they arrived at their destination. They saw from afar a group of uniformed policemen digging in the vegetable fields of Lujia Village. Many people stood around the vegetable fields, all of whom came to watch the fun and discuss the matter. Lin Shuyue saw several familiar faces, and as soon as Lin Shuyue and Li Weisheng approached, they took the initiative to come up and share information.
As Lin Shuyue listened to them, she fixed her eyes on Liu Yunjun, who was brought by the police to identify the burial site.
The excavation process was very slow. The excavator was sent out at around nine o'clock. By noon, more than a dozen remains had been excavated. The oldest skeleton among them was more than ten years old.
Among the crowd watching the excitement, Lin Shuyue heard the local people's comments on the people of Liuwu Village.
"Now, they have all moved to the doorstep of the township government building and set up tents. Now the whole village has been sealed off." The person who spoke was from Luwu Village. Their two villages were adjacent to each other, so if there was any major event in either village, the other village would know it clearly.
"I said before that the people who rented their old house must not be good people, and they must be doing illegal activities. They are still sour grapes. Now it's better, right? The annual rent is high, but look at what a big gift they gave them. I heard that there are a lot of mines in their village, dozens of boxes. Even if the People's Liberation Army comes to clear the mines, what will they do if they can't clear them all?"
"Who would dare to plant the land in their village? Tsk tsk tsk." The people of Luwu Village were gloating. The two villages were close to each other. In the past, when the weather was dry, the two villages would fight over the issue of farmland water. Now that the people of Liuwu Village were in trouble, the people of Luwu Village were too happy to be happy.
Lin Shuyue didn't listen to them anymore and went with Li Weisheng to pick up Li Mingfang for lunch.
Li Mingfang had taken the afternoon off and was now standing downstairs waiting for them. She opened the door and sat in the passenger seat. Li Weisheng stepped on the accelerator and took them to the nearest steamed food restaurant for dinner.
Her boyfriend was about to go on a long journey, so Li Mingfang was not in a good mood. But after getting off the car, she still said to Lin Shuyue: "This restaurant is newly opened, and the dishes are small in size, but they are really delicious."
"I smell it, it smells so good." The restaurant is not big, only about 20 square meters. There are two big steamers at the door. Two waiters stand by the steamers, one to collect money and the other to serve dishes. The portions are not big, but the prices are not expensive either, three yuan for meat, two yuan for vegetables and one yuan for rice.
Lin Shuyue ordered a steamed pork with rice flour, a twice-cooked pork and a stir-fried cauliflower. Li Weisheng and Li Mingfang also ordered two or three of their favorite dishes. They found a table in the corner and sat down. Li Weisheng took three bottles of soy milk from the refrigerator.
After eating, Li Weisheng drove them to the train station. They arrived at the right time, so Li Weisheng took the tickets and left. Li Mingfang watched him walk towards the ticket gate, and only went back with Lin Shuyue after he disappeared.
Li Mingfang couldn't drive, so Lin Shuyue drove the car back home. As soon as the car drove out of the train station, Li Mingfang burst into tears. Lin Shuyue didn't comfort her, but just handed her a tissue silently. When she passed by a stall selling sugar-roasted chestnuts, she bought two kilograms of chestnuts. When she saw salted peanuts, she bought another kilogram.
"Go back and have a drink?"
"Okay." Li Mingfang nodded heavily, then lowered her head to play with her phone and chat with Li Weisheng. She didn't know what Li Weisheng sent her, but Li Mingfang started laughing again.
Li Mingfang had previously bought the house next door to Lin Shuyue in Xijiang Apartment, but she seldom came to live here, so the two of them brought beer into Lin Shuyue's house, sat on the carpet under the sofa, and drank with sugar-roasted chestnuts, salted peanuts, and snacks bought from the convenience store downstairs.
Li Mingfang didn't have much of a drinking capacity, so after two bottles of beer she got drunk and went to the bathroom with her phone to call her boyfriend. Lin Shuyue took out a newspaper to read.
The front-page headline of the newspaper was titled "A review of the crimes committed by Wang Bingchang, the King of Thunder,"and it was published ten years later.
But the story happened at the end of December 2004. The opening of this newspaper described Wang Bingchang's past.
He is Vietnamese. His father died in the war launched by Vietnam against China. His mother raised him alone. When he was 18 years old, his mother stepped on a landmine buried during the war while working in the mountains and was killed. After handling his mother's funeral, he crossed the mountain and came to China.
Later, he had money, found an organization that engaged in information crime, and bought Wang Bingchang's identity.
Wang Bingchang was from the mountainous area of southwest China. In order to make his identity more authentic, he even went to the home of the real Wang Bingchang, learned his speaking habits, and observed his daily life. After he felt that he was almost the same, Wang Bingchang pushed the real Wang Bingchang off the cliff and killed him.
Later, he came to Guangdong Province to develop. Before Feng Junpeng met him, he already knew Feng Junpeng. In the organization, his level was much higher than Feng Junpeng's.
In Pengcheng, he had many women. Except for the wife named Lu Yinglan, Feng Junpeng slept with them whenever he wanted, but he didn't have any children. In 2004, Wang Bingchang was 38 years old. His father died at this age. So he started to travel back and forth between Southeast Asia and Pengcheng from mid-2004, and got many mines used in the Vietnam War in Southeast Asia.
He buried these things in the field near Liuwu Village. The reason for Liuwu Village was that he was tired of the greed of Liu Zhenlin, the village chief of Liuwu Village, and secondly, there were several families in Liuwu Village who were relatives of martyrs. He specifically inquired and found out that these dead martyrs belonged to the troops that fought against his father.
This is also the reason why he rented a house in Liuwu Village.
After the newspaper finished describing Wang Bingchang's life story, it went on to tell the story of how his landmines were discovered.
Lin Shuyue read the name of the person who exposed Wang Bingchang's landmine laying two or three times, and then clicked her tongue in amazement.
The person who exposed Wang Bingchang was Xu Fangda. Xu Fangda was from the northeast. His father was a disabled veteran. During the years when his father was still alive, he taught him a lot about firearms.
After he escaped to Pengcheng as a fugitive, he was also recruited into the organization by Liu Yunjun. Because this place provided food and accommodation and a new identity, Xu Fangda agreed. Then one day, when he got up at night to run a stomach, he saw Wang Bingchang secretly burying something in the soil. He was very curious, so after Wang Bingchang went back, he went to take out the thing, and saw that it was a bomb. Xu Fangda was completely shocked.
He took the things to the dormitory, and then thought about it all night. He felt that although he was a fugitive and had joined a gang, he still had a conscience. He had no choice but to become a gangster, but if he didn't report the bomb in the field, he would be sorry for his father.
After all, if he joined the Black Society and ate the Black Society's food, he would have to work hard for them when they needed him. But working hard does not include this. Wang Bingchang's burying of mines in the fields was not a fight within the organization.
Xu Fangda couldn't accept this, so the next day he coaxed Liu Yunjun to let him go, and he went straight to the Public Security Bureau.
Because he was carrying a landmine, the Public Security Bureau took his report very seriously and organized police forces to conduct a secret investigation in Liuwu Village that day. After discovering that there was indeed a landmine, they quickly contacted nearby troops to remove and blast it. At the same time, the unprepared Wang Bingchang was also taken into custody by the police.
This time, without the appearance of Lin Shuyue, the Pengcheng police were completely unaware of the information trading. Without the early appearance of Lu Yinglan to expose the matter, Feng Junpeng and Ruan Xuling were not arrested. Wang Bingchang had no preparation in advance and was caught while he was sleeping.
Afterwards, the mines he had planted were removed in time, and following his vine, they also touched the melon of the information trading case. However, because too little was known and the organization's umbrella of protection in China was too strong, the police were fiercely counterattacked by them while arresting them, and the police suffered heavy losses.
As time goes by and the Internet comes, this incident is brought up every year, and netizens in later generations also call Wang Bingchang, a Vietnamese in Chinese clothing, the "King of Thunder who can't make a sound."
Below this report was about the information buying and selling case. Lin Shuyue read it roughly and then let go of the newspaper before Li Mingfang came out.
Li Mingfang sat on the sofa playing with her mobile phone, while Lin Shuyue took out her computer and started reading messages.
Hang Jiabai sent her a message in the evening, saying that they had already interrogated Wang Bingchang and the information they obtained was similar to what Lin Shuyue had seen in the newspaper.
After hanging up the call with Hang Jiabai, Lin Shuyue received a call from Xu Fangda, who said he was going back.
Lin Shuyue went to see him off. Li Mingfang had already learned from Li Weisheng that Xu Fangda was an undercover agent. She was very curious about him and also wanted to go.
Lin Shuyue got a car from the underground parking lot and went to the Public Security Bureau to pick up Xu Fangda. Xu Fangda smiled like a fool, revealing his big white teeth.
As soon as he got in the car, he told them everything without Lin Shuyue saying anything: "The police from Pengcheng called our village committee. After they knew that I really didn't beat anyone to death, they said that I was not guilty. When our village secretary found out that I was kidnapped into a gang, he was shocked and gave me money to go back home."
"The police in Pengcheng said that I had made a great contribution in exposing the case, and they wanted to give me money and a banner. I didn't feel comfortable accepting the money. If it weren't for you, reporter Lin, I don't know what I would have done with them. But I accepted the banner. When the time comes, I will hang it in my house. It will definitely bring honor to my family and make my mother proud."
Maybe Xu Fangda was too depressed during those days undercover in the newspaper. Lin Shuyue found that he was really good at talking and the key was that he left no room for others to interrupt. Li Mingfang waited until he finished describing the beautiful scenery of his hometown and then spoke immediately.
"Xu Fangda, I thought you were quite shy before, how come I only discovered you are so talkative now?"
Xu Fangda rubbed his head and said, "I have been a talkative person since I was young. My mother always said that I annoyed her to death. When I was young, she even wanted to ask Wong Tai Sin for a secret recipe to make me mute. It's not that I didn't want to talk when I was in the newspaper office, but I just didn't know what to say."
Xu Fangda showed an aggrieved expression: "I really don't understand those computers, keyboards, and newspapers. According to the principle of saying more makes more mistakes, and not saying anything is not bad, I have to shut up. I am so depressed."
It may be that northerners have a sense of humor, especially Xu Fangda, who would throw in one or two proverbs while talking, making Lin Shuyue and Li Mingfang laugh so hard that Li Mingfang even temporarily forgot the sadness of separation from Li Weisheng.
Lin Shuyue sent him to the train station and waited with Xu Fangda for more than an hour. Before Xu Fangda left, he bowed to Lin Shuyue very solemnly: "Thank you, Lin Ji, for pulling me out of the swamp. When I go home, I will definitely send you some specialties from our hometown."
Without waiting for Lin Shuyue to speak, he said with a smile: "Reporter Lin, Sister Mingfang, I like the city of Pengcheng, and we will definitely meet again."
Lin Shuyue and Li Mingfang looked at each other and said with a smile, "Welcome to Pengcheng again. We are waiting for you in Pengcheng."
Xu Fangda waved at them and strode away.
After being away from home for five months and experiencing many things, he finally returned home. Xu Fangda was extremely happy and excited.