“The murder suspect Ye Qian escaped last night!” Yang Wei had a vile, complacent smile on his face. He could already imagine himself shooting Ye Qian dead on the spot.
w.a.n.g Yu gave that nasty person a disdainful look. Her thoughts were a mess and she thought to herself, “You idiot, why did you do this? Didn’t you just give them a reason to go after you?” But now was not the time to rebuke Ye Qian. She turned to the officer on duty and angrily said, “You were on duty last night. How could you let the suspect escape? What happened exactly?”
The officer shrank bank at her anger. He was very aware of w.a.n.g Yu’s indomitable character. There were few people who could stand up to her in the police station. The criminals that she arrested were usually subjected to her violence and bruised from head to toe, of course, Ye Qian was an exception to this. “Last night the suspect told me that he had a stomachache so I went over. Who’d have thought that he’d knock me out and escape. When I regained consciousness the sun was already coming up, so I thought it best to wait for the chief to arrive and report it then.” Sun Ji Sheng replied.
Sun Ji Sheng actually felt quite guilty over this whole affair with Ye Qian. However Yang Wei was pressuring him and even enticing him with all the rewards, so in the end he decided to help the tiger do evil.
When Hu Yue heard Sun Ji Sheng’s explanation he was so mad he was about to blow his top off. Didn’t this punk understand how important Ye Qian was? If Ye Qian were to slip away from them for good, the people upstairs would put the blame on himself. Even his position would be in jeopardy. This punk kid didn’t even call him to inform him as soon as possible and waited till morning. How could they catch up to him now? With a whole night, that person could have reached all the way to Hainan Island by now. Now wasn’t the time to rebuke Sun Ji Sheng, he had to think of a way to deal with the higher ups.
Hu Yue’s cellphone suddenly rang at this moment. He took it out and glanced at the caller ID and his face turned unsightly. Even though the whole situation wasn’t very clear to him, Hu Yue could guess that more or less Ye Qian was just an unlucky guy that offended the wrong person. Now he was afraid that he would also be dragged into the bad luck. With a sullen heart, he put the call through, cautiously he said, “Deputy Secretary Ouyuang, is something wrong?”
“I only wish to know, how is the suspect Ye Qian?” Ouyang Cheng’s voice said.
Hu Yue wiped the sweat from his forehead and replied in a trembling voice, “Deputy Secretary Ouyang, I sincerely apologize. My subordinates have failed and allowed the suspect to escape last night. You… don’t you worry, I’m organizing the whole bureau to apprehend him.”
“Xiao Hu, you’ve been neglectful. How could you let the suspect escape? You must apprehend him as soon as possible, understand?” Ouyang Cheng only replied somewhat indifferently. Contrary to Hu Yue’s expectations, Ouyang Cheng did not sound shocked at the news. This made Hu Yue grow a little suspicious. “Also, remember not to act too harshly. We are a democratic country after all, that person hasn’t had a trial yet and is a citizen of China. So when you arrest him you must still give him proper treatment.”
Hu Yue was taken completely by surprise by his reply. Never did he expect to hear those words from Ouyang Cheng’s mouth. Just yesterday Ouyang Cheng had ordered him very gravely to shoot the suspect on the scene if he were to resist arrest, but now… did he eat poison? Hu Yue shook his head helplessly, it was too difficult to comprehend the thoughts of this leader, he was too fickle. But no matter, when he heard that Ouyang Cheng did not intend to put himself under any form of investigation he relaxed and replied that he understood the order.
After ending the call, Hu Yue casted his eyes over the people in the police station and roared out, “What are you still doing here? Go and quickly apprehend the suspect! But remember this, you must not under any circ.u.mstances open fire, understand? The suspect must be taken alive so that he can have a proper trial.”
Yang Wei stared at Hu Yue in shock. He couldn’t understand how the situation suddenly developed this way. Ouyang Tian MIng had clearly told him that after he gave Ye Qian an opportunity to escape, his father would put pressure on the bureau so that he would be able to kill Ye Qian himself when he arrested him. “Chief… chief, you… didn’t you make a mistake? Ye Qian is a fugitive, so…” Yang Wei said.
His words were interrupted by Hu Yue, “What mistake? What I order, you do! This came from the higher ups anyway. Now go.”
w.a.n.g Yu was just as shocked as Yang Wei. It was very clear that last night the other party wanted Ye Qian dead. How could they change their minds now? Did something untoward happen? In any case, this was a good thing for Ye Qian.
While the officers were preparing to leave, Public Security Chief Li Hao walked into the room with a grave expression. Hu Yue quickly greeted him frantically. Even though the position of deputy secretary of the munic.i.p.al committee was very high, Ouyang Cheng wasn’t his direct superior. Li Hao was. “Chief Li, may I ask what brings you to the police station?” Hu Yue asked cautiously when he saw the expression on Li Hao’s face.
“I heard you arrested a murder suspect last night.” Li Hao said as he walked.
Hu Yue was filled with foreboding. How could he have acted so foolishly. Ye Qian was Chief Li’s older brother and he had Ye Qian arrested, how could Chief Li let this matter go? “Yes… yes that is correct. Chief Li, I was only following orders from the higher-ups.” Hu Yue replied in a manner that he was pushing all the blame away from himself.
Li Hao snorted, “The higher-ups seem to have a lot of interest in this matter. Deputy Secretary w.a.n.g has given an order as well, I’m to bring the suspect to the general headquarters and lock him up there.”
Hu Yue was very shocked to hear that even w.a.n.g Ping, who usually kept a low-profile, was getting involved. This situation was getting more and more out of hand. Hu Yue had been mixing with the bureaucracy for a while now and understood the relationship between w.a.n.g Ping and Ouyang Cheng. Now he was worried that there was a war between their two parties and he was getting dragged into the mess. “But… but…” Hu Yue stammered.
“What? Are you going to disobey Deputy Secretary w.a.n.g’s order?” Li Hao’s expression darkened as his replied coldly, “Hu Yue, it seems you want an early retirement?”
Translated by: korezmi
Edited by: patrick_father_of_dragons