It was getting dark, and only the night-duty officials were left in the lobby of the Criminal Department. After dinner, everyone sat in their seats, drank tea, and read documents.
Suddenly there was a noise outside the door. The officials listened attentively. When they heard loud shouts of death, they knew that another prisoner was being taken to the court.
Shen Koda, a doctor on the night shift, frowned and looked up at the door. He saw the eighth-rank supervisor Su Ping and his female swordsman Mei Ran walking in, holding down a well-dressed middle-aged man. .
Shen Xingtian took a closer look and saw that this middle-aged man's face had been severely beaten. He had a black eye on the left side, bloody foam on his lips, a palm print on his right cheek, dirt on his body, his scarf had fallen to someone unknown, and his hair was disheveled. As soon as he walked into the lobby, the middle-aged man looked around with a very unconvinced look, as if he was looking for someone he knew, but he was slapped so hard by Mei Ran that he couldn't even lift his head.
From a distance, Shen Xingtian felt that this person looked familiar. When he got closer, he recognized him and asked quickly: "Su Ping! How did you capture Mr. Qiao? Whose order was it?"
Shen Xingtian was from Shilang Feng. Su Ping ignored him and glanced into the lobby. Among the officials from the four divisions who were on night shift today, only Peng Li, the chief official of the capital division, was from Shilang Xue.
Peng Li also wondered why Su Ping suddenly arrested King Qi's agent and brought him to the Ministry of Justice, so he waved to Su Ping, indicating that if Su Ping had anything to say, he should talk to him in private first.
Su Ping waved his hand to Peng Li, indicating that there was no need to talk in private, and then said loudly: "According to His Majesty's decree and Mr. Xue's work instructions, we will dig deep into the mastermind behind the "Qi Yu Case" and comprehensively investigate the Huainan thin horse sales channels. This Qiao Dongcheng once provided a venue for Qi Yu’s criminal gang..."
"You fart!" Qiao Dongcheng shouted: "I'm just the landlord, Qi Yu's human trafficking, what does it have to do with me!"
Su Ping said loudly: "Qiao, don't make any excuses! I have gone to the factory office and the county government to check the import and export accounts and tax payment accounts of Chengfeng Tea House. They have been operating at a loss for the past two years. In their warehouse , there is not even a basket of tea. The accounts are all fake, and they are trying to hide people's eyes. There are many neighbors around the teahouse, and there have not been a few tea-drinking guests in the past two years. The "Chengfeng Poetry Club" that has lasted for a hundred years has also been suspended for two years. At that time, Qi Yu, Zhang Accountant, and the group of boys were all very arrogant and did not look like people who opened a teahouse. Don’t you, the landlord, find it strange? In the past two years, you have not noticed anything? You know it If you don't retaliate, you are hiding it for the criminal, and you should be punished for the crime of covering up!"
Qiao Dongcheng wanted to speak, but Su Ping didn't give him a chance and continued: "I've been watching you for a few days. After the incident, you were anxious to sell the haunted house and wanted to get rid of the relationship with the case as soon as possible. Today you are selling on the street Real estate, I did not alert the snake, but borrowed money to buy the house and then re-inspected it. Although Jingzhao Mansion has already inspected there, I made new discoveries today. I think you are suspected of a major crime. I suspect you are Qi Yu’s accomplice!”
Inspector Su showed great style and roared in court, scolding Qiao Dongcheng until he was dumbfounded.
This was the first time that Qiao Dongcheng had suffered such a big loss since he started working for the King of Qi. At first, Qiao Dongcheng retorted a few words, but after hearing Su Ping's impassioned speech, Qiao Dongcheng sneered twice. He didn't want to say anything more, but He said to Shen Xingtian who was sitting in the hall: "I don't want to talk now, let's just wait here. I thought my uncle would come over in a short time."
Is it too much for Su Ping to do this? Will it anger King Qi?
If this powerful prince were to read a book, Su Ping, a young official, and even his life might be lost.
Touching an egg against a stone is obviously not Su Ping's style of doing things.
Su Ping wanted to beat up Qiao Dongcheng, so he worked hard to do so. He first went to the office and the county to collect some information about Chengfeng Tea House, and then fabricated official documents, and then went to find Qiao Dongcheng.
He said to Qiao Dongcheng, I only found out after I bought your house that the Ministry of Justice has begun to suspect that you are related to the Qi Yu case. You must know that the emperor is now watching this case and will investigate and deal with it strictly. All relevant persons involved in the case will be punished.
behead!
Su Ping then showed the results of his investigation and the fabricated Ministry of Justice documents to Qiao Dongcheng.
Qiao Dongcheng said: Although the officials in the Ministry of Punishment have generally changed, I still know a few people, so it should be fine. Besides, all I deal with now are big businesses, and I am too busy with serious business. How can I have the leisure to partner with Qi Yu in human trafficking?
I don't think the government will suspect me.
Su Ping said: Brother, don't be careless. You said you won't doubt you, so why did I come to you? You said you are familiar with the officials of the Ministry of Punishment, but are you familiar with Shilang Xue? The new official's three hot topics when he takes office are this case.
What he submitted to the emperor is now taken seriously by the emperor and he is asked to investigate nationwide and deal with it strictly. In order to show off in front of the emperor, he may have burned you.
Qiao Dongcheng became nervous. Su Ping said: How about this, let's take the initiative, I will report you, and then I will try you personally. After my first trial, I am sure that you are not guilty, then don't we let go of the relationship? Otherwise, as the landlord
, how to explain these questions in the copy? Although your uncle has a high position, what does he use you for? You are used to do things for him, to solve troubles, not to cause troubles for him. Do you think this is the reason?
Son?
Qiao Dongcheng asked Su Ping, what benefits do you want from doing these things for me?
Su Ping said, I don't want anything. I just think your brother is a nice person, and we will be neighbors in the future. Besides, you are a famous person in Luoyang City, and you are the nephew of His Highness King Qi. We also want to make you a friend.
After Su Ping deceived him for a while, Qiao Dongcheng was fooled.
Su Ping reminded him that if we act, you will suffer some hardships. Qiao Dongcheng said, good brother, just do what you have to do, as long as it ends happily. Tomorrow morning, I will buy a batch of goods for my uncle.
Su Ping rolled his eyes and said, if we all act, I'm afraid there will be flaws. Have you seen that girl? I won't tell her this secret, so that the acting will look more like it. But that girl is very harsh, please bear with it.
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Qiao Dongcheng smiled and said, brother, you don't know, I am also a practicing martial artist. It doesn't matter if a girl hits me twice.
It is estimated that Qiao Dongcheng will regret what he said. Mei Ran's "Jiao Fist" is not so delicious. Three punches and two slaps made Qiao Dongcheng, the master's disciple, look like this.
But Mr. Qiao is a person who wants to save face. Now that he has said it, he has to swallow it in his stomach even if his teeth are knocked out.
Su Ping was confident, but the four doctors sitting in the hall were sweating on their heads. How could King Qi explain it? These guys kidnapped the nephew of the princess without telling the old man. Will King Qi get angry?
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Shen Xingtian, a doctor in the Criminal Division, was shocked: "Su Ping! When you arrest Qiao Dongcheng, do you have the documents approved by the superior officer?"
"No."
"Okay!" Shen Xingtian stood up furiously and took another shot: "Then you can try this case yourself. I don't care! It has nothing to do with me!"
Shen Xingtian turned around and left. Seeing that the situation was not going well, all the other officials in the hall seemed to be running away.
Even Peng Li was gone, so he couldn't help Su Ping at this time.
Later, a group of officials hid behind the lobby and handed the lobby over to Su Ping. Su Ping was not polite and sat down behind the main case in the lobby, pretending to start interrogation.
Looking at the messy things on the table, Su Ping was a little confused and asked Mei Ran to go to the mansion and invite a foreign minister to come over.
As a result, Mei Ran searched all over and couldn't invite anyone. Later, she became angry and grabbed Li Liancheng, the member of staff who helped her with human relations. Li Liancheng begged his grandfather to sue his grandmother for not coming, but he couldn't tear Mei Ran away, so he was beaten by Mei Ran. It was like dragging a criminal to the lobby.
Then there was a strange scene in the lobby of the Ministry of Justice. All the high-ranking officials disappeared. Only the eighth-rank junior official was sitting in the lobby, and the fifth-rank official was sitting below with a sad face and taking notes.
After half an hour of chatting, Master Su was sitting in the lobby knocking on the gavel tree, but His Highness King Qi didn't come. Instead, the officials who were hiding behind and eavesdropping returned one after another.
They comfort Mr. Su with their kind words and let Mr. Su show his respect. They all heard clearly that there is no way that Mr. Qiao and Qi Yu have anything to do with each other. Mr. Qiao is doing big business, so why do such risky things? Things like that.
Su Ping asked them: Since you said this, who of you dares to guarantee for him? If you guarantee, I will release him now.
Then they all shut up again.
After interrogating for a while, Su Ping temporarily let Qiao Dongcheng go due to "insufficient evidence." However, Mr. Su said that he would follow up on this matter personally. He hoped that other officials would not interfere. The officials quickly said, no Interfering, never interfering, we always feel at ease when Mr. Su is doing things.
Seeing Master Su relenting, all the officials were relieved and happy. Some of them ran to untie Qiao Dongcheng, helped him up, sat down, and drank tea. They hurriedly explained to Qiao Dongcheng that the person named Su was new here and was not sensible. We It's the night shift. We didn't know about it. Otherwise, how could we have caught you? That's it.
Will Qiao Dongcheng recover later and realize that Su Ping was deceiving him?
Maybe not, because Su Ping didn't gain any benefit from the whole process.
Or maybe Qiao Dongcheng calmed down the moment he came to the Criminal Department. But now that he has reached this point, he can only watch Su Ping continue to act, and Su Ping can't do anything to him anyway.
When the matter was over, it was too late for him to say anything to others. What everyone saw was that Su Ping, a stupid young man, arrested Second Master Qiao, but released him because of lack of evidence.
From beginning to end, Qiao Dongcheng suffered no loss, but this beating was a bit unfair...