Cui Yuanfeng was very quick and rushed back at noon the next day to report the investigation to Luo Xingchao.

"The news from Wenxiang is correct. My man found the white Buick sedan at Baili Auto Repair Store yesterday. We spent some effort and found out that the car was sent to Baili Auto Repair Store by Lai Huaiwu, the leader of the Operations Team 1, to Baili Auto Repair Store. In other words, Lai Huaiwu participated in the kidnapping of Wei Hongde."

"This person is Wu Shicai's confidant!" Luo Xingchao showed joy on his face, "Have you found Lai Huaiwu now?"

Cui Yuanfeng nodded and said, "Lai Huaiwu has never appeared before. We spent a whole morning and finally found him at the Wanguo Casino in western Shanghai. We are now planning to follow up."

Wanguo Casino is one of the largest casinos in western Shanghai. Wu Shicai often stays here and is also one of his dens.

Cui Yuanfeng has been setting up someone here to monitor Wu Shicai, and happened to discover Lai Huaiwu's whereabouts.

Luo Xingchao pondered for a moment. Now the situation is clear. The information from the intelligence department is not wrong. Wu Shicai is indeed the mastermind behind this kidnapping case. Now the breakthrough is on Lai Huaiwu.

He ordered in a deep voice: "Let your people be careful and keep a close eye on him. Before the darkness, you must find the place where Wei Hongde is detained. If you can't follow him, you will arrest him and pry open his mouth. We are in a tight time and cannot waste time with him."

"I understand!" Cui Yuanfeng nodded and turned around and left the office to arrange personnel to prepare for the arrest.

In the spacious hall of the IWN Casino, dozens of gambling tables lined up in sequence, and there were many gambling people gathered around the gambling tables, and the business was very prosperous.

This is the most luxuriously decorated casino in the West Shanghai Casino. The interior decorations of the casino are mainly golden, creating a magnificent atmosphere in the entire place.

At one of the gambling tables, a young and strong man in his thirties held the Pai Jiu in his hand on the gambling table. He couldn't help but curse, and obviously lost the game again. He touched his pocket and emptied it in a while. In desperation, he had to shake his head and turn around and leave the gambling table.

This person is Lai Huaiwu. Today he came to report his work to Wu Shicai. However, as soon as he entered the casino, he couldn't resist his gambling addiction and simply threw out Paijiu games for several games. As a result, he was so angry that he lost all his money in a short while.

He looked at the time and did not dare to delay any more. He turned around and came to the second floor lobby.

There are also some gambling tables on the second floor, but the decoration is even more gorgeous, and the sound is much quieter than the lobby downstairs. The gamblers' clothes are also more upscale. Here, they can only come up with gamblers with relatively large bets.

There was a Qing Gang disciple who was watching the venue at the entrance of the stairs. He looked at Lai Huaiwu and said with a smile: "Brother Lai, why are you wearing a face and not having luck?"

Lai Huaiwu rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Oh, I just pushed a few times and my pocket was clean."

Speaking of this, he looked around and asked, "Is the captain here?"

"exist!"

Lai Huaiwu nodded and said hello, walking constantly inside, and soon arrived at the door of a private room, which was Wu Shicai's dedicated room. Lai Huaiwu greeted the guards guarding the door and knocked in.

In the room, Wu Shicai was pointing at a leader and cursing: "You idiots, let you go and find someone. How many days have you been? You haven't even found a figure. I'm sending more people to dig three feet into the ground and find him."

The boss was scolded and had to nod and say yes. Fortunately, Wu Shicai didn't continue to scold Lai Huaiwu when he saw that Lai Huaiwu came in.

Wu Shicai then ordered: "You go and look for it now. If you can't find anyone, I'll ask you!"

After saying that, he waved his hand, and the leader hurriedly withdrew from the office as if he had been amnesty.

Wu Shicai turned around and stood beside Lai Huaiwu and asked, "How is your situation there? Is this old guy Wei Hongde still honest?"

Lai Huaiwu is Wu Shicai's confidant and was specially assigned to be responsible for the kidnapping operation. When he heard Wu Shicai's inquiry, he quickly replied: "Don't worry, my situation is very good, Wei Hongde is also very honest. Such rich people cherish their lives and dare not disobey. Captain, I will redeem people tonight. Do you think there are any instructions?"

During this period, in order to collect the money as soon as possible, Wu Shicai used all his skills and used all means to search everywhere, but the effect was not good.

Although Sheng Zhiyuan's property was swallowed up by him, these industries almost became empty shells, and all the funds were taken away by Sheng Zhiyuan. The remaining real industries could not be cashed out in the short term. No. 76's reputation was too bad. People around him knew the entanglement between the Sheng family and Wu Shicai, so they dared not take over.

He was anxious and arrested several merchants from Shanghai and western Shanghai with various excuses, but the family background of these people was really limited and was far less than Sheng Zhiyuan. Even if they lost all their money, it would be difficult to collect the huge sum of money.

Since modern times, the most prosperous business in Shanghai has always been the concession area. In addition, since the war in Shanghai started, rich people have fled to the concession to live. Now almost all the richest wealthy people in Shanghai are in the concession area, and the businessmen who do business in the city are not rich in their wealth.

Of course, there are still some strong families, but there is naturally a reason why these people can survive and develop under the strong control of the Japanese. They are either important officials of the government or business partners of Fujiwara. Wu Shicai really dares to provoke such people.

Finally, he thought about it over and over again, and chose the target to be the rich man in the concession. This is how Wei Hongde became Wu Shicai's prey.

Wu Shicai shook his head and said, "I still have some things on my hands now. You are fully responsible for this matter, so don't make any mistakes."

Wu Shicai interrogated Sheng Zhiyuan's family for two days, but he did not gain anything. He finally found a clue from the butler of the Sheng family.

It turned out that Sheng Zhiyuan did put all his money into the stock market, but he had a little more thoughtfulness and could not put eggs in the same basket. Different stock brokers have different visions, different information, and different operating methods. Diversified investment will help the safety of funds.

More importantly, he knew that Wu Shicai was as famous as his name, and forgot his righteousness when he saw money, for fear that he would eventually jealous and take his own share, so he did not put all the money in the hands of a stock broker.

Except for Ji Zhengcheng, who Wu Shicai knew, Sheng Zhiyuan handed over most of the funds to another stock broker for a secret position, but he didn't tell anyone about this person, but he didn't expect that the Shanghai station would break out halfway and take Sheng Zhiyuan's life. In this way, no one knew the identity of the stock broker and the money became a masterpiece.

However, this butler still knew something. Wu Shicai had been in the world for so long, so he naturally had some tricks. He took some effort to find out this person, but it was too late.

As soon as the news of Sheng Zhiyuan's death came out, the agent fled with the money. Wu Shicai is now looking for this person everywhere, trying to recover his money. This is the scene that Lai Huaiwu saw just now.

Wu Shicai looked at him and then asked, "I heard that the car repair shop said, have you driven Wei Hongde's car back together?"

When Lai Huaiwu heard this, he felt a little nervous. He went to the concession to kidnap Wei Hongde. When he was inquiring about the news, he learned that Wei Hongde's car was worth nearly 10,000 US dollars, so he couldn't help but feel greedy for a moment and simply brought it back with the person and the car.

Of course, he also knew that there were indeed some hidden dangers in doing this. He really didn't dare to be so reckless when he was messing around in the hall. However, now he is fearless and is not so cautious when doing things with the backer of the Seventy-Six Agent Headquarters.

Now that he heard Wu Shicai's questioning, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous and quickly explained: "Captain, that car is very valuable. I have inquired about it. This car is the latest American car purchased by Wei Hongde through diplomatic channels. It cost nearly 10,000 US dollars. If we ship it to Peking and Tianjin, the value will be doubled at least. So I thought about it. Anyway, it was just one move, so I would just bring it back together."

When Wu Shicai heard this, he couldn't help but say angrily: "Wei Hongde's background is not simple. He is very close to the British consul. If he hadn't been forced to do it this time, I wouldn't have chosen this person to do it. Besides, this car is too conspicuous and not dealing with it well is a hidden danger."

Lai Huaiwu quickly said carefully: "Captain, I am not considering it carefully. I will handle this car carefully."

Wu Shicai pondered for a moment. He was also a greedy person who was greedy for money. If this car was successfully sold, it would be a profit of 20,000 US dollars. It is indeed not a small amount. There are not many merchants in the west of Shanghai that can produce it.

Thinking of this, his tone was a little calmer and he said in a deep voice: "Forget it this time, you can't do things too recklessly in the future. The car will be sent out as soon as possible and you can't stay in Shanghai."

When Lai Huaiwu heard Wu Shicai's tone relaxed, he felt relieved and quickly agreed.

Wu Shicai continued: "There is another thing. My right eyelid has been pounding these two days. It's not a good sign. It should be on this old guy. Tonight you will collect the money. Once the money is obtained, you will deal with Wei Hongde. The beginning and end must be handled."

Lai Huaiwu couldn't help but feel a sudden jump in his heart and looked up at Wu Shicai involuntarily.

Since you have received the ransom, you have to let the deceased ticket go. This is also the practice and industry rules of the Qing Gang kidnapping and extortion. If you break this industry rules and get the money, you can "tear the tickets" and let the family members of the kidnapping and the meat tickets know that no matter whether they pay or not, the meat tickets will be dead. Then you will not pay the money according to the requirements of the kidnappers. They will only call the police to strictly arrest the kidnappers. In this way, they will only cut off the kidnappers' financial path.

So over the years, there have been so many kidnapping cases in Shanghai, and most of them are paying money to redeem people. Unless unexpected situations occur, such as strong resistance from meat tickets, family members have no money to redeem people, and even calling the police, etc., there are few "tearing tickets" happening.

But today Wu Shicai was going to tear up the ticket, which surprised Lai Huaiwu, but he nodded and agreed: "Yes, once I receive the money, I will do it immediately to ensure it is done cleanly."

Wu Shicai knew what Lai Huaiwu was thinking, but in fact he had no choice now. Wei Hongde was different from ordinary businessmen. He was too famous in Shanghai and had close ties with the British. His kidnapping case could not have anything to do with him, otherwise there would be endless troubles. If you want to be foolproof, you might as well cut off all traces, destroy the corpse and refuse to admit it.

Wu Shicai gave a few more words, then waved his hand and signaled. Lai Huaiwu bowed and retreated, went down the stairs to the casino hall on the first floor.

As soon as his figure appeared, in the corner of the casino, the two men who were lingering at a gambling table suddenly lit up their eyes and they both lowered their heads to watch the battle without any reason.

Lai Huaiwu was unaware of anything. He looked at the bustling and lively casino and shook his head helplessly. Now he had no money in his pocket, so he had to resist his gambling addiction and turn around and leave the gate of the Wanguo Casino.

When I arrived on the street, I reached out to wave a rickshaw, raised my legs and sat in it, told the rickshaw driver to go westward.
Chapter completed!