53: Chapter 53: Entering the Squad Room Feels Like Coming Ho 53: Chapter 53: Entering the Squad Room Feels Like Coming Ho In those days, there were no surveillance caras on the streets; as long as you weren’t apprehended on the spot, it was essentially impossible to clarify the matter.
Wang Yunxiao adamantly denied everything, and the complainant had no way to deal with him.
After all, he had been at that place at that ti, and he couldn’t clear himself of suspicion.
Why does everyone like to bully the honest people?
Isn’t it because honest people don’t know how to fight back?
You can’t beat a fart out of them even with three sticks.
When dealing with soone like Wang Yunxiao, a tough character, this thod of bullying the honest just doesn’t work.
One party refused to calm things down without solid evidence, while the other steadfastly denied any wrongdoing, feigning ignorance and confusion.
The case was at a deadlock; there was nothing to do but wait until the next workday.
Seeing that it was getting late, the old policeman did not let Wang Yunxiao leave, letting him spend the night in the station.
His main concern was the risk of sothing happening to the youngster on his way ho in the dead of night, for which he would be held responsible.
Of course, Wang Yunxiao had his own reasons for not being in a rush to leave; he had finally made the trip and wasn’t eager to go.
Spending a night was no big deal; it was actually a good opportunity to visit that old gentleman.
The old man, who had been sleeping by the window, hadn’t left yet.
Initially lying down, he couldn’t help laughing when he saw Wang Yunxiao entering, “What trouble did you get into this ti to co back so soon?
Have you no regard for your life!”
Generally speaking, staying in the station doesn’t necessarily an you are in trouble.
Though there were indeed criminals guilty of theft or other offenses, the vast majority were like Wang Yunxiao, involved in a verbal dispute with soone, or so trivial annoyance leading to conflict.
The police, uninterested in diating, would just throw them in to cool off for a couple of days.
This was still in the city, done out of necessity to maintain social order.
In the countryside, when two villages fought over sothing trivial, gathering hundreds of villagers for a brawl with nobody to intervene even if brain matter got spilled.
Going to the station once was not a big deal.
However, heading there twice in a week was a bit much; in Jianghu World, they’d say you’re aiming to get so peanuts to eat at the station.
“Don’t talk nonsense,” Wang Yunxiao retorted, “What does it have to do with ?
This is soone else trying to fra !”
Wang Yunxiao walked over nonchalantly and sat next to the old man.
Just as he was about to speak, soone next to him suddenly lunged forward, grabbing his legs and wailing, “Yuanxiao!
Yuanxiao, please save !”
Who the heck is this…
Wang Yunxiao instinctively wanted to kick him away, but when he took a closer look, he realized it was actually Lv’er.
“Oh?
Isn’t that Brother Lv?
You haven’t left yet?”
Lv’er clung tightly to Wang Yunxiao’s legs, crying like a wretched soul, “Yuanxiao!
Brother Yuanxiao!
We are brothers, please save !
I don’t want to be shot!
I have an elderly mother at ho…”
“What kind of talk is that?”
Wang Yunxiao asked, puzzled, “Your little issue isn’t that serious… right?”
Hearing Wang Yunxiao say this, Lv’er cried even harder.
The thing was, he really was implicated.
His own minor issue was not really the problem; it was the person behind him who had instructed him to approach Wang Yunxiao, the master spoken of by the Du Family brothers, Third Master Ding’s paramour Xiao Baili.
This person, relying on so ability, had beco reckless and oblivious to consequences, even threatening the chief of police over the phone.
This act crossed a line.
Rules, after all, need mutual acknowledgnt to be considered rules.
“You think you have the capability to disregard the rules, then don’t bla others for not playing by the rules either.”
Because of that one phone call, the entire Nantong Sub-Bureau suffered.
Xiao Baili was taken away by the Special Service Bureau and disappeared without a trace.
What good could his underlings, who worked for him, expect from the bureau?
Initially, after Wang Yunxiao and his group were released, Lv’er and the Du Family brothers should have been released as well, but sothing went wrong in the process, and they weren’t notified.
Later, they were taken out separately and thoroughly interrogated.
For loiterers like them, they were like mosquito legs, hardly worth the police’s attention.
But if they really investigated, who didn’t have so dirt in their underpants?
Just like that, back and forth, the Du Family brothers were found guilty of various cris including loan sharking, extortion, and harassnt of respectable won, and were sent directly to prison.
The brothers were terrified.
If it had been in olden tis, going to prison wouldn’t have mattered much.
But now, the prisons are as empty as haunted houses.
Where do you think everyone went?
Who knows if there’ll even be any events repeated this year?
Lv’er, due to his lack of skills, didn’t excel at anything and thus narrowly escaped this disaster.
However, the old police in the bureau knew the shady history of a loafer like him like the back of their hand; they could easily dredge up so old account to lock him up for three to five months.
He wasn’t sent to prison; they just threw him into a cell to see if he could last until the event was repeated—that would depend on his own fate.
Lv’er had no such fate.
If he had any real skills, he wouldn’t have ended up in such a state today.
After spending a week in the cell, eating slop every day, unable even to smoke a cigarette, he felt he wouldn’t live to see the day he could eat peanuts.
Seeing Wang Yunxiao tonight, Lv’er was simultaneously struck by sadness and joy, tears welling up in his eyes.
“Brother Yuanxiao…”
“Shut up!
Stop your wailing!”
Wang Yunxiao kicked him aside and sneered, “You got a lot of nerve, eh?
Trying to cozy up to ?
You think you can treat like a fool?”
“No!
Absolutely not!”
Lv’er quickly raised his hand to swear, “Heaven and Earth are my witness, Brother Yuanxiao, I told you nothing but the truth!”
“The truth, huh?”
Wang Yunxiao smiled, “Then tell the truth, what the hell does Xiao Baili want?”
Upon ntioning Xiao Baili, Lv’er’s face imdiately stiffened, his eyes darting around, seemingly calculating how to phrase his next words.
Wang Yunxiao snorted coldly, making him shudder, “I’ll say!
I’ll say!
That bastard isn’t good news!
Did you know he can use sorcery?
Those eyes of his, they can capture souls, just look him in the eye, and he can dig up things like how old you were when you wet the bed.
It’s not that I wanted to harm you; I was forced…”
“Heh heh…”
An old man nearby couldn’t help but laugh out loud.
Wang Yunxiao turned to bow, “Old man, I was in a rush last ti and didn’t get the chance to talk much with you.
May I know how to address you?”
The old man waved his hand, “Don’t try to get cozy, don’t co to with your niceties.
You’re capable and you look down on an old bone like .”
Last ti he saw Wang Yunxiao expertly picking locks, he took a liking to him and thought about taking him as an apprentice, but Wang Yunxiao didn’t care.
At his age, it was a bit hard to save face.
He was initially happy to see Wang Yunxiao, but as soon as he heard him speaking in such a humble tone, the old, wily fox knew the young man had an ulterior motive and imdiately stiffened his expression.
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