Chapter 174 — Sister-in-Law and Younger Brother's Wife - "What Is There to Fear!" Provoked by Wei Zhao, Qiu Lingshan Knew It Was a Goad Yet Still Accepted, All Because of Those Contemptuous Words He Had Just Said

As a former special forces instructor, Qiu Lingshan had nothing to fear. At worst, she could always get herself out. As for Wei Zhao... Hmph, if he was asking for trouble, he could blame no one else.

In Qiu Lingshan's eyes, although Wei Zhao was quite skilled, he could not possibly have undergone professional training or life-and-death combat, so there was still a certain gap between him and her. If even Wei Zhao dared to go, what did she have to fear?

"Heh, then let's go." Wei Zhao paid no attention to Qiu Lingshan's heated reaction.

Qiu Lingshan felt as if she were playing music to a cow. She had just delivered such bold and lofty words, and he should at least have shown some response, even a compliment on her courage would do, yet Wei Zhao said nothing at all.

"Based on the city surveillance footage we obtained from the urban management department, as well as traffic footage from the main roads, we have determined that the criminal suspects are hiding in the stretch of woods ahead," Qiu Lingshan forced down her anger as she explained to Wei Zhao. "Moreover, the robbers' car we found was also nearby, and in a warehouse of an abandoned factory over there, we discovered the bodies of Baldy and Ma Laoliu..."

"The robbers have a large amount of cash on them. If they tried to leave here carrying the cash, they would certainly attract the attention of the nearby checkpoints, so we judge that if the kidnappers care much about the money, then they must still be around here."

"Oh, meaning if they ditch the money, they might have run off?" Wei Zhao nodded and asked.

"You could say that." Qiu Lingshan said. "But if we can recover the stolen cash, the case will count as half solved, and I will have something to report back."

"If the men are still there, I can help you find them, but the cash... you expect me to sniff it out? Do you think I am a police dog?" Wei Zhao rolled his eyes. "By the way, does your captain not call himself the Hound? You can have him try..."

"Screech..." A harsh braking sound rang out as the Cheetah slammed to a stop by the roadside, and both Qiu Lingshan and Wei Zhao lurched forward with the momentum.

"Are you sick?" Wei Zhao frowned, unable to understand why Qiu Lingshan reacted so strongly.

"Do not insult Captain Yang! If you insult him again, get out of the car!" Qiu Lingshan glared straight at Wei Zhao, fire spurting from her eyes as if she would devour him, looking rather like the lioness Wei Zhao had described.

So that was the reason? Wei Zhao was rather speechless. Qiu Lingshan defended Yang Huaijun so fiercely. Could this girl be in love with Yang Huaijun?

"Do you like Yang Huaijun?" Wei Zhao asked.

"Please do not insult the pure brother-and-sister bond between Captain Yang and me!" Qiu Lingshan corrected Wei Zhao's crooked idea with serious certainty. "Do not judge my relationship with Captain Yang with your filthy mind! I stand up for him because I respect him and admire him. He is like a teacher. Ever since I first joined the police bureau, he has taught me and encouraged me bit by bit, watching me grow..."

"Heh..." Wei Zhao smiled faintly. "Then tell me, if Yang Huaijun called you a police dog, would you get angry?"

"Ah? Me?" Qiu Lingshan was slightly taken aback, not knowing why Wei Zhao suddenly asked that, but she still shook her head and answered honestly. "How could I? Captain Yang is like my master. Is it not normal for him to joke with me?"

"Heh..." Wei Zhao explained no further. In the same way, when Yang Huaijun had first joined that special mission squad, he had been just as green and inexperienced, and Wei Zhao had led him step by step as he grew. So the bond between him and Yang Huaijun was even deeper than that between Qiu Lingshan and Yang Huaijun. That kind of friendship forged between life and death was irreplaceable.

So even if Wei Zhao pointed at Yang Huaijun's nose and cursed him, Yang Huaijun would only greet him with a smile. In fact, although the former Wei Zhao always defended his teammates before outsiders, among his own men he scolded them without mercy. He remembered how Yang Huaijun, a grown man, had been scolded to tears before him, a captain younger than himself...

Of course, Wei Zhao could not tell Qiu Lingshan about this.

"All right, since you defend him, I will not talk like that in the future." Wei Zhao nodded. "But afterward you can ask Yang Huaijun. He does not mind my talking about him this way..."

"?" Qiu Lingshan blinked, not understanding what Wei Zhao meant. With her professional instincts, she had long suspected that there seemed to be some unknown secret between Wei Zhao and Captain Yang. But because it involved Yang Huaijun, the man she respected most, Qiu Lingshan had not investigated further, for she believed Yang Huaijun was an upright man who could never associate with villains.

But now it seemed that all signs showed there were many secrets between Wei Zhao and Captain Yang, secrets she did not know, and this made Qiu Lingshan very curious. She dared not ask Yang Huaijun, but she could ask Wei Zhao. From this kid, she simply had to pry something out of his mouth! Qiu Lingshan thought...

"Maybe I got too excited," Qiu Lingshan started the car again, no longer cold-faced as before, her expression softening considerably. "Wei Zhao, did you and Captain Yang know each other before?"

Qiu Lingshan began to probe indirectly.

"Sort of, but that was a very long time ago... I have almost forgotten it. If he had not recognized me that day, I would hardly have remembered him." Wei Zhao explained calmly, but Qiu Lingshan would not believe it even if beaten to death!

Forgotten? Judging by Yang Huaijun's look, he had been happier than if he had caught a criminal suspect. How could it be as simple as Wei Zhao claimed? Qiu Lingshan could see that Captain Yang had been excited from the bottom of his heart that day, even to the point of incoherence!

"Really? Then how did you meet?" Qiu Lingshan asked.

"Did your superior never tell you not to ask what you should not ask? I heard you were an instructor in the special forces. You should know better than to be so undisciplined?" With one sentence Wei Zhao blocked all of Qiu Lingshan's questions. "Is there such a thing as confidentiality or not?"

"..." Qiu Lingshan was speechless. What kind of confidentiality was this? You were neither part of the police system nor the military system. What did you have to keep secret? Even if Captain Yang was now a police captain, telling how you met would have nothing to do with confidentiality, would it?

"If you do not want to tell, then do not!" Qiu Lingshan played a goading trick of her own. "You are not on a mission, so what is there to keep secret?"

"Well, when you become my sister-in-law, or Yang Huaijun's younger brother's wife, I will tell you." Wei Zhao said, looking at Qiu Lingshan with a smile.

"???" Qiu Lingshan was utterly confused. What did he mean by your sister-in-law? What did he mean by Yang Huaijun's younger brother's wife? Who on earth was Wei Zhao talking about? Did she know them?

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