Lin Shuyue followed Huang Qiang inside, and from Huang Qiang's narration, she learned about the old story that happened fifteen years ago.
From his words, Lin Shuyue recognized her senior brother Chen Jianlong, whom she had never met before.
The year was 1988. Huang Qiang, who had just worked for two years, had a young man named Chen Jianlong come under his command and call him "Master".
None of them were born into a professional family, but because they love the profession of journalism, they joined this big family without hesitation.
Chen Jianlong is more motivated than Huang Qiang. What he likes most is to go among the common people, worry about the common people and share their sufferings. He smiles every day and has a detailed plan for everything he does.
Almost all the reports he sent out had to be reprinted. There was a time when the people of Pengcheng felt comfortable and at ease when they heard the name Chen Jianlong.
Although Huang Qiang was his master, the two of them became friends as they got along. Together with Wang Mingzheng, who was not the editor-in-chief at the time, the three of them were jokingly called the "Three Musketeers" of Pengcheng Metropolis Daily.
Every time after get off work, they would get together on the streets of Pengcheng, with a small barbecue table and a few bottles of beer. The three of them would talk and laugh loudly like young teenagers.
One night in 1989, after drinking, Chen Jianlong told them that he had received a letter saying that the director of the Public Security Bureau, Yang Baozong, was involved in smuggling crimes.
Yang Baozong is a veteran. After retiring from the army, he came to Pengcheng to serve as the director of the Public Security Bureau.
In the 1980s, all kinds of crimes were proliferating, and major criminal cases occurred frequently in all provinces. There were countless robberies, frauds, thefts, murders, and bullying of women on the streets.
The first thing Yang Baozong did after taking office was to organize all the police forces in Pengcheng and patrol every corner of Pengcheng day and night, even the remote areas were not spared.
Because of his action, all the lawless elements in Pengcheng either fled to other places or kept quiet.
The public security in Pengcheng is unprecedentedly good. Many businessmen have heard about it and come here to develop business.
Who would believe that such a good policeman of the people was suddenly said that he was involved in a smuggling case?
Chen Jianlong is also one of those people who don't believe on it.
But he still decided to investigate, because only after the investigation could he write a letter openly to refute the person who wrote him the anonymous letter.
Before he left, he only told Huang Qiang and Wang Mingzheng about his whereabouts.
The next time Huang Qiang heard from him was on a dark night a month later.
Chen Jianlong was no longer in good shape. He was once strong, but now he was just skin and bones. His bright eyes, which were always full of hope, no longer had a gleam of light. His tongue had been cut off, and four of his fingers were broken.
He put a package in Huang Qiang's hand, then walked into the darkness without looking back.
Huang Qiang went after him, but failed to catch him.
He returned to his residence and took out the things Chen Jianlong had given him.
Those were photos, in which Yang Baozong's figure was clearly visible.
Even in those photos, there are many foreigners. In addition to the usual items such as food, clothing, and electrical appliances, the things they smuggled also included drugs.
In other words, Yang Baozong was the great and glorious Public Security Bureau chief during the day, but at night, he was the leader of a smuggling gang and the protector of criminals.
In addition, there are also the time and items each time Yang Baozong participated in smuggling.
Chen Jianlong was an undercover agent in the smuggling gang, but he was discovered, his hands were chopped off, his tongue was cut off. He escaped with the evidence with the help of several people.
Chen Jianlong died that night, along with those who covered him up.
Huang Qiang found their bodies three days later. Before he could grieve, he received a bloody warning letter with detailed information about his parents, wife and children.
From that time on, all reports that Huang Qiang made could not be published in the newspapers, and his residence was searched every few days. When his wife and children came home, they often said there were strangers outside the house.
After thinking it over again and again, Huang Qiang took the evidence to Yangcheng. Just as he was about to arrive at the Yangcheng Procuratorate, he was arrested.
He was locked up, beaten three times a day, and the evidence was taken away and burned in front of him.
Finally, he was thrown to the foot of the mountain dying and was saved by an old man who went up the mountain to hunt.
He did not die, he returned to Pengcheng. This time, he learned his lesson and no longer tried to expose Yang Baozong.
He stopped following social news and turned to entertainment news.
He kept a copy of the original evidence and hid it in the newspaper office. Under Wang Mingzheng's protection, the evidence was not discovered for fifteen years.
Huang Qiang and Wang Mingzheng also became estranged, and they got along like ordinary superiors and subordinates.
But over the years, he still didn't dare to relax at all.
Ten years ago, Zheng Zhongfu's letter was sent to him. He checked it out, and then when he found Yang Haoan's background, he gave up the case.
Because he knew Yang Baozong's status too well. But in the past few years, Huang Qiang never gave up investigating Yang Baozong.
Two years ago, Yang Baozong finally stepped down. He wanted to hand over the evidence, but Wang Mingzheng persuaded him to stop.
Because Yang Baozong still has the protection in Yangcheng, the provincial department, and the army.
At the same time, he also knew that there was already a group of people secretly investigating Yang Baozong.
He just needs to wait patiently.
Huang Qiang finally waited for this day.
He finally lived up to his friend's trust, and fifteen years later, he finally sent the evidence out.
Huang Qiang finally had the nerve to visit Chen Jianlong at his grave. Huang Qiang finally dared to pick up his camera and pen again to photograph the various aspects of society and write about the joys and sorrows of all living things.
After listening to Huang Qiang's account, the police looked at the information he handed over, stood up and extended his hand to Huang Qiang very solemnly: "Thank you Mr. Huang for the important evidence."
Huang Qiang brought Lin Shuyue out of the Public Security Bureau together. At the gate of the Public Security Bureau, they saw Yang Baozong being escorted back at gunpoint.
Yang Baozong also saw Huang Qiang, but he no longer remembered him. Perhaps from the beginning to the end, he never took Huang Qiang, a young reporter, seriously.
The two people passed each other, and Huang Qiang took out his cell phone and called Wang Mingzheng.
After fifteen years, he finally made an appointment with Wang Mingzheng for street barbecue again.
Unfortunately, it is never perfect. Their good friend left them forever on the road of pursuing truth.
However, they were powerless and for various reasons, they had to wait for so many years to even seek justice for him.
Lin Shuyue looked at two middle-aged men who were crying while eating barbecue at a roadside stall before it got dark.
At the end of the meal, Lin Shuyue, who was full and satisfied, took a taxi to send them back.
When Lin Shuyue arrived home, Lin Shuxing and Lou Fengqin were both awake. Only after seeing that she had returned safely did they go back to their room to rest.
The light in Zeng Xiaoyi's room was also turned off when she returned to her room.
Lin Shuyue slept very deeply.
The next day, when she saw the familiar newspaper from the future beside her pillow, she had already gotten used to it.
But today, there are three copies of this newspaper.
Lin Shuyue picked up the first newspaper and read it. The title of this newspaper was [ "Middle-aged man wants to blow up the public security bureau to seek justice for his wife and children!" ]
In the report, Wang Guiquan had a crazy look on his face. He rushed into the provincial police station with a bomb tied to his body. He held a radio in his hand and played over and over again what Deng Ling said at the car accident scene that day.
The above is the story of Wang Guiquan's family. At this time, Ah Qin had passed away.
The conclusion is that the perpetrator Deng Ling was arrested and brought to justice.
The second newspaper was published a month apart from Wang Guiquan's newspaper. Its title was: [ "Zheng Zhongfu's wife murder case: The murderer was the same person as Wang Guiquan's case!" ]
In this newspaper, the newspaper restored all the facts and processes of the murder of Liang Haihui by Deng Ling and Yang Haoan.
Yang Haoan had liked young women since he was a child. After he started dating Deng Ling, he was never honest behind her back. When he was in college, he was involved with a married woman and was reported to the school. The school gave him a serious warning for his bad behavior and refused to assign him a job.
After returning to Pengcheng, he used his grandfather Yang Baozong's connections to enter the real estate industry. At the same time, Deng Ling became pregnant, so he married her.
Zheng Zhongfu is a great contributor who has been working with him since the establishment of his company, and Liang Haihui was also recruited to be the company's receptionist.
Because she is beautiful and married, Yang Haoan, who has special fetishes, fell in love with Liang Haihui.
After his hints failed, Yang Haoan suddenly had an idea during a social event and asked his company employees to call Zheng Zhongfu. Before Zheng Zhongfu arrived, he left the club.
He came to Liang Haihui's home, knocked on the door and asked Liang Haihui to open the door, and after confirming that Liang Haihui's child was not at home, he raped her.
Deng Ling has been keeping an eye on Yang Haoan since she found out that he had feelings for Liang Haihui. When she saw that she couldn't get through to Yang Haoan on the phone, she went to Liang Haihui's house.
Yang Haoan was so impatient that he didn't even close the door. When Deng Ling walked in, Yang Haoan was holding Liang Haihui down. Liang Haihui kept cursing and struggling. Yang Haoan was irritated by her struggle and suffocated her head with a pillow. She gradually died.
At this time, Yang Haoan still didn't let her go, he was still venting his anger. Deng Ling was furious, she didn't hate Yang Haoan after this happened, but directed all her anger at Liang Haihui.
She took a knife from the Zheng family's kitchen and chopped at Liang Haihui, who was already dead.
After pulling up his pants, Yang Haoan tidied up the house, turned on the gas in the kitchen, and lit a plate of mosquito coils.
He was the grandson of a policeman and knew how to cover up the evidence of his presence. He cleaned his fingerprints at the crime scene and directed Deng Ling to clean Liang Haihui's body.
But Deng Ling lacked experience and left a fingerprint and a shoe print in the bathroom.
The case was solved by the police that year, but Yang Baozong was still the director of the Pengcheng Public Security Bureau at that time, and he was very powerful. Under his order, the police destroyed all the evidence and treated Liang Haihui's husband Zheng Zhongfu as the murderer.
After Wang Guiquan caused a scene at the Public Security Bureau, Deng Ling and Yang Haoan were arrested one after another, and Zheng Zhongfu was released without charge.
The last newspaper was about Yang Baozong: [ "The former hero finally fell: the smuggling murderer Yang Baozong! ]
Two years after Yang Baozong retired, his grandson and his wife were arrested by the public security authorities for intentional homicide. The group that had been secretly watching them took the opportunity to arrest him and found the melons on the vines.
Not only did they catch the big fish, the Director of the Public Security Department of Guangdong Province, but they also brought down several senior generals in the army.
All of these happened in 2005.
Lin Shuyue's role in this was only to move the case forward by one year.
The reason why the investigation went so smoothly was because Yang Baozong had retired and no longer had sufficient control over the Public Security Bureau, and because he had long been targeted. What Lin Shuyue found out gave those who were targeting Yang Baozong a ladder.
But no matter what the reason was, Lin Shuyue was happy that the innocent person was vindicated and the murderer was brought to justice.
The next day, Lin Shuyue went to work and met Huang Qiang at the door. Huang Qiang patted her on the shoulder and said to her: "Ah Yue, as a journalist, you must remember your original intention and seek truth from facts!"
Lin Shuyue smiled at him: "Master, there is also no fear of power."
Huang Qiang also smiled. He felt that the light in Lin Shuyue's eyes at this moment was very similar to that of the young man who called him Master fifteen years ago.
The two chatted and laughed all the way to the newspaper office. In their bags, there lay a copy of the morning edition of Pengcheng Metropolis Daily.
At the same time, in a rural middle school under the jurisdiction of Pengcheng, a fifteen-year-old boy ran home quickly with a newspaper he had asked for from his teacher.
"Dad, Dad, Yang Haoan has been arrested, Yang Haoan has been arrested."
A man with a cane came out of the house and looked at the newspaper eagerly, tears streaming down his face. He read the newspaper greedily over and over again, then said to his son, "Ah Wen, kill the chicken at home, and we will go to your mother's grave. After that, we will go to Pengcheng."
"Good."