“Go back and have your confinement properly, I will handle these matters,” Zhang Liunian said gently, stroking his wife’s head.
Ignoring the driver and Du Ziteng in front of the car, Jiang Qingqing snuggled into Zhang Liunian’s embrace and whispered, “Mm.”
After that, neither of them spoke, just holding each other tightly, incredibly warm.
Unlike the warmth on Zhang Liunian’s side, the Tang family in the south city was facing a storm. After several days of investigation, Tang Shikou was found guilty. Not only that, but the Tang family also received a wave of investigators.
“Officer Tu, is there some misunderstanding? My second brother could not possibly do something like this.”
It was the first time the Tang family had police officers from the south city visit them.
As the person in charge of the Tang family, Tang Shikang, seeing this situation, had already cursed Zhang Liunian to the heavens. It was all Zhang Liunian’s fault; if it weren’t for him, his second brother wouldn’t have been investigated, and the Tang family wouldn’t be investigated either.
He vowed to make this guy understand the consequences of offending their Tang family.
Though he thought this, he showed nothing on his face and had to find a way to resolve the issue.
“We are just doing our job impartially, and everything requires evidence. If there is no evidence, we would not be here. We ask for Director Tang’s cooperation. If you have nothing suspicious, we will just go through the motions. Don’t you agree?”
Officer Tu was a staunch anti-Tang faction. After apprehending Tang Shikou, he investigated diligently and finally found an opportunity to openly investigate the Tang family.
He kept this matter highly confidential, not even revealing his mission to his colleagues before departing. His intention in doing so was to catch the Tang family off guard.
“Heh, our Tang family naturally wouldn’t have anything suspicious. We are all law-abiding citizens who uphold public order.”
Tang Shikang spoke pleasantries, but he did not move an inch from the main gate. If one looked closely, they would notice a hint of anxiety in his eyes.
Officer Tu seemed to have seen through his intentions and had to speak again, “Director Tang, it’s getting late. Please be accommodating.”
He implicitly meant, “Shouldn’t you move aside now?”
Tang Shikang’s eyes narrowed. This Officer Tu was indeed bold to speak to him like this. Not many dared to do so. It seemed he was determined to go against the Tang family, and such a person could not be kept.
Suppressing his malicious thoughts, Tang Shikang secretly calculated the time and felt that it was probably about right. He said with a smile, “Look at my memory, delaying your important business. As an apology, I will personally take you inside to look at each place, let’s go!”
Officer Tu extended his hand as if to say no, they could investigate themselves, but seeing Tang Shikang’s firm attitude, he eventually followed behind him to inspect one by one.
Naturally, nothing was found in the end. Officer Tu inwardly resented the Tang family’s shamelessness, their delaying tactics, and their evasiveness. He was determined to find another way.
“Officer Tu, doesn’t he have a daughter who just came of age? Have someone tie her up and take her to the laboratory,” Tang Shikang immediately ordered his subordinate after seeing Officer Tu and his men out.
“Yes.”
Before the subordinate could leave, Tang Shikang issued his second and third commands. “Since we couldn’t find Zhang Liunian’s wife, capturing his mother will do just fine. We can’t let him cause any more trouble.
And that bitch Fang Yan, how dare she treat me like this? Give her a madness pill.”
“Yes.”
After the subordinate left, Tang Shikang still felt uneasy, always having a feeling of an impending doom.
But he didn’t know who was causing this feeling.
In fact, Tang Shikang’s feeling was not wrong, because at this very moment, inside a pig farm in the south city, a man disguised as a worker had been staking out the place for a long time.
Only when he saw two people dressed in white emerge from underground did this man confirm something. He turned and left. This person was none other than Master Huang, who was helping Zhang Liunian investigate the Tang family’s herbal medicine shop.
“You have a major discovery?” In the afternoon, Zhang Liunian had just returned to the south city when he saw Master Huang excitedly sharing his new findings with him.
Zhang Liunian was thrilled and asked impatiently, “What did you discover?”
“I think I’ve found their pharmaceutical base, underground in our south city’s breeding farm. I personally saw them entering and exiting from a pigsty, wearing white coats, looking like doctors.” Master Huang’s expression was excited because he had finally investigated something useful and hadn’t disappointed his boss.
“That’s great.” If he could find that pharmaceutical room, he would be able to find the contraband drugs and illegal research inside, and perhaps even find evidence of them using people for human experiments.
“But that breeding farm doesn’t seem to be the Tang family’s. If there’s anything inside, won’t they be able to get away with it again?” Master Huang remembered that this breeding farm seemed to be privately owned, but it wasn’t stated that it belonged to the Tang family. If something happened here, wouldn’t the Tang family be able to wash their hands of it?
It wasn’t that Master Huang thought this way; it was mainly because in the previous confrontations, the Tang family always used this tactic, always clearing themselves. Especially Hong Fei, who hadn’t implicated the Tang family yet, but instead dragged Zhang Liunian’s second brother into it.
“Impossible. If that breeding farm had no connection to the Tang family, they wouldn’t be able to do such things under everyone’s noses. That breeding farm must have a connection to them, it’s just that no one knows about it.” Zhang Liunian didn’t believe that the breeding farm was unrelated to them. Even the best of friends wouldn’t allow the Tang family to conduct such research under their noses. This was a capital offense that could lead to imprisonment. Were people crazy?
In fact, Zhang Liunian’s guess was not wrong. Although this breeding farm was not openly owned by the Tang family, it was privately managed by the Tang family. They had used someone with no apparent connection to the Tang family as a scapegoat, and this person didn’t even know they owned a breeding farm because they were also a missing person.
Of course, this was a later story. The current Zhang Liunian was unaware of it. He was rewarding Master Huang at the moment, “You’ve worked hard these days. Here’s a thousand yuan for you to eat well. Once I confirm whether that place is their base of operations, we will continue our action.”
“Thank you, Boss.” Master Huang did not refuse and happily took the money back.
His wife, seeing her husband return with a large sum of money again, couldn’t help but remind him, “This Boss Zhang is really good to you. He rewards you so often and is so generous. You must work diligently by his side and never offend our benefactors.”
“I know that. Never mind him, let’s try to have a child soon!” Master Huang handed the money to his wife, then pushed her onto the bed and started kissing her. These past few days had been too difficult for him; he hadn’t enjoyed a man’s life at all.