Chapter 116 — Qiu Lingshan's Troubles [Eighth Update, Summoning Monthly Tickets]
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After hesitating again and again, Qiu Lingshan decided to call Yang Huaijun for advice. Otherwise she really had no direction. She had already made a solemn pledge, and if the case was not solved within ten days, the chief might not dismiss her, but she would lose a great deal of face. If word reached the Song family, not only would she be humiliated, her father would be unable to hold his head up before the other uncles...
"Brother Yang, it is me..." Qiu Lingshan felt nervous. After all, making this call made her look incompetent. She had studied behind Yang Huaijun for so long and still had made no progress, which was truly embarrassing...
In the past, Yang Huaijun had always taken command while she led the charge. Relying on her experience as an instructor in the special forces, no matter how vicious a suspect was, she could beat him until he was picking his teeth off the ground. Dangerous arrests were therefore Qiu Lingshan's strong suit, and this was acknowledged throughout the bureau. Otherwise, as a female captain, she would never have won such ready obedience.
"Xiao Song, what is it?" Yang Huaijun had a meeting at the provincial department in the afternoon and nothing much in the morning, so he was planning to go back to the old traditional doctor who treated him for a follow-up. He had suffered an attack a few days before, supposedly from being angered by Wei Zhao, but over the past few months his health had plainly worsened day by day, something Yang Huaijun could feel himself.
"Captain Yang... the 313 bank robbery still has no leads... two suspects are dead, and whether the others live or not is unknown..." Qiu Lingshan said carefully.
"Heh--" Yang Huaijun naturally knew Qiu Lingshan's difficulty and understood her. After all, she had not come up through criminal investigation and had never received systematic training, so he gave his own view. "I already know about that. Let me tell you what I think. I feel the chance of a silencing is rather small. If it were a silencing, it would be impossible for only two out of the whole gang to die while the rest are fine..."
"Then... what if they were silenced by the others? What if only those two were not their own people?" Qiu Lingshan asked humbly.
"Would there be any need for that? If they were all on the same side, why bring two outsiders along? Would that not be asking for trouble? Either they are all trustworthy, or none of them are..." Yang Huaijun said with a smile. "So I think an internal feud is more likely. Most probably they disagreed over the division of the loot, failed to reach a consensus, and Lu Jieyan and Ma Liu were killed by their own accomplices..."
"Mm, right... that must be it." Qiu Lingshan nodded deeply, convinced.
"In that case, just step up the search. They are carrying such a huge pile of money. Unless they abandon it, they can hardly move very fast. All the main roads have our men checking, so there is little chance they have left Songshan. Search around those two corpses, and you may find something..." Yang Huaijun said.
"Mm, I understand." Qiu Lingshan suddenly felt as if the fog had lifted...
"Hehe, Xiao Song, I hear you and Wei Zhao are dating?" Yang Huaijun paused a moment, then asked anyway. The story of Qiu Lingshan's fierce exploits had already spread privately through the bureau... serving her boyfriend in the hospital...
Although Yang Huaijun hardly believed Wei Zhao could have gotten together with Qiu Lingshan. Leave aside that Wei Zhao was not the sort to go around leaving his affections everywhere, and consider Qiu Lingshan herself. In all her time at the bureau, no scandal had ever touched her, and even a man as outstanding as Chen Yutian had been turned down...
But as the saying goes, which young girl does not dream of spring? Outstanding as Chen Yutian was, he fell far short of Wei Zhao, and even a girl as excellent as Xiao Ning was devoted to Wei Zhao with utter infatuation, let alone Qiu Lingshan...