Chapter 58 — So It Was Him

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"What you did, whether it was right or wrong, will only be known after an investigation. What I see now is that you beat that Brother Black Panther into serious injury. He is in the hospital, and you are fine," Qiu Lingshan said with a cold snort, and went on, "So whether you acted in self-defense or committed intentional assault, that will only be clear after we investigate."

"Suit yourself." Wei Zhao knew perfectly well in his heart that Qiu Lingshan just found him disagreeable and wanted to use her police status to lecture him. Both of them understood that Brother Black Panther was already on record with Qiu Lingshan, so this time it was most likely about what happened yesterday.

Qiu Lingshan had never imagined she would one day use public business for private ends, but thinking it over carefully, it could hardly count as that. At the very least, it was a fact that Wei Zhao had injured Brother Black Panther, so there was nothing wrong with her criticizing and educating him.

This police car was the kind partitioned between front and back. In the rear compartment there were only Wei Zhao and Qiu Lingshan. The driver in front could not hear their conversation, which was why Wei Zhao spoke so freely, daring to say things like "big chest, no brains."

Seeing Wei Zhao turn his head away and ignore her, Qiu Lingshan felt thoroughly bored. Luckily her phone rang just then, and Qiu Lingshan picked it up.

"Xiao Song, this is Yang Huaijun." Captain Yang Huaijun's voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Captain Yang, you are back in Songshan?" On receiving Yang Huaijun's call, Qiu Lingshan felt a great weight lift from her heart. After interrogating through the night with no clue at all on the bank robbery, Qiu Lingshan had been burning with anxiety. Now that Yang Huaijun had returned to crack the case himself, she could finally relax.

"Mm, I just arrived. I am on my way back to the bureau. Nothing wrong on your end?" Yang Huaijun asked.

"A gang member known on the street as Brother Black Panther brought a gun to No.1 High School to make trouble. I just went over to handle it." Qiu Lingshan reported truthfully.

"What? Brother Black Panther made trouble with a gun at the school?" Yang Huaijun was badly startled when he heard it. He had only been gone for a day, and so much had happened in Songshan.

"Luckily there were no serious consequences. Brother Black Panther was instead beaten into serious injury by a student and has already been sent to the hospital, and I have brought that student back to the station to carry out a detailed investigation." When Qiu Lingshan got to this point, she could not help glaring at Wei Zhao.

"Good. We will talk after I get back." Hearing that there were no serious consequences, Yang Huaijun also breathed a sigh of relief.

The police car drove wailing all the way into the Songshan City Police Bureau. Qiu Lingshan personally escorted Wei Zhao out of the car, while Brother Black Panther's two underlings were escorted down from the car behind by the other officers.

At the same time, another police car also drove into the bureau courtyard. Seeing the license plate on the car, Qiu Lingshan was instantly delighted. This was Captain Yang Huaijun's car!

Sure enough, a tall man with a rather dark face jumped down from the car and strode quickly toward the bureau office building. This man was Yang Huaijun, captain of the Criminal Investigation Team of the city police bureau.

At the same moment Qiu Lingshan saw Yang Huaijun, Wei Zhao saw him too. How could it be him? Wei Zhao's pupils contracted sharply, and he quickly lowered his head.

"Captain Yang!" Qiu Lingshan waved happily in the direction Yang Huaijun was coming from.

Wei Zhao really wanted to kick little Song. Once you reach the bureau, why do you not hurry up and take me to the interrogation room? What are you greeting him for? Wei Zhao had no choice but to turn his head aside so Yang Huaijun would not notice him.

"I did not expect us to arrive one right after the other." Yang Huaijun walked over, smiled and nodded at Qiu Lingshan, then turned his gaze to Wei Zhao. "This is the student who injured Brother Black Panther?"

"That is him." Qiu Lingshan nodded and looked at Wei Zhao, only to see him hanging his head in a perfectly obedient manner, which instantly infuriated her. What do you mean by this? Just now in the police car you were acting all high and mighty, and now at the bureau, seeing Captain Yang, you behave yourself? Are you not looking down on me? Thinking of this, Qiu Lingshan gave a cold snort. "Wei Zhao, what are you doing? Lift your head and let Captain Yang look at you!"

"Xiao Song, you sound rather irritated. He is only a student. Be a little nicer." Yang Huaijun frowned. Seeing Wei Zhao wearing his school uniform, he instinctively did not take Wei Zhao for a bad person, so he patted Wei Zhao on the shoulder and said, "Young man, what happened? Tell me about it."

"..." Wei Zhao was left rather speechless and kept his head down. Who is calling who brother? But at this moment Wei Zhao feared nothing more than Yang Huaijun recognizing him, so he lowered his head even further and simply did not bother to say more to him.

"Captain Yang is talking to you!" Seeing Wei Zhao putting on airs again, Qiu Lingshan was so angry she wanted to smack him on the head.

"Oh... actually it is nothing..." Wei Zhao said in a vague, muffled voice.

"Nothing?" Yang Huaijun frowned when he heard it. He thought to himself, this kid does not know what is good for him. He had questioned him like this only because he was a student, wanting to handle it quietly and avoid leaving a black mark on his record, yet Wei Zhao was acting so indifferent.

"They came looking for trouble with me, and I just hurt them, that is all..." Wei Zhao cursed inwardly. You never used to love meddling like this. What is wrong with you today?

After Wei Zhao finished that sentence, Yang Huaijun was silent for a long time, but Wei Zhao could feel a piercing gaze burning into him, making his whole body uncomfortable.

"Can you lift your head?" After Yang Huaijun said this, he himself found it a little funny. There were too many similar people in this world. Although this person's voice sounded very much like that man, he was only a student...

"I am not some shy young lady, so stop staring..." Wei Zhao sighed in his heart. In the end he had still noticed something. But that was no wonder. How could he possibly fool Yang Huaijun, who had always been famous for his sharpness...

Qiu Lingshan was also baffled by the scene before her. Wei Zhao was cold toward Yang Huaijun, yet Captain Yang's attitude was strangely good? Just as Qiu Lingshan was about to force Wei Zhao's head up, she saw Yang Huaijun actually bend down himself and look up from below at Wei Zhao's face...

Right. No mistake. It is him. Yang Huaijun was at least ninety percent certain that the person before him was the one he had been searching for all along. Although he did not know why he had suddenly become a student, Yang Huaijun believed his own eyes.

"Arno?" Yang Huaijun could not hold back his inner excitement and asked tentatively.

"What?" Wei Zhao cursed his bad luck in secret, but his face remained calm as he put on a puzzled look.

"Eagle, is it you?" Yang Huaijun kept carefully watching Wei Zhao's expression, but the result was deeply disappointing. When he spoke that man's English name, Wei Zhao showed no reaction at all...

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