Chapter 429 City-wide manhunt

Chapter 429 City-wide manhunt

Chapter 429 City-wide manhunt
the next day.

The news of food being available on the black market broke out completely in the streets and alleys.

"Oh, why did I fall asleep yesterday? Damn it. Let's go to the black market and see if there's any left."

Crowds of people went to the black market and found that it was already crowded with people.

But there was not a single grain merchant selling grain.

"Pah!" Someone suddenly slapped himself in the face, feeling very upset: "Why did I sleep yesterday? Now I have no food."

"Pah!" Another slap.

"Let's go. We come here so early in the morning and there's nothing here at all." Someone said disappointedly and turned away.

But more people still choose to wait where they are.

I don't know how long I waited, but the black market boss didn't open the shop. Instead, I got the police, a large group of them.

"Boom--" Trucks roared over.

Just when everyone was puzzled, fully armed policemen got off the trucks and surrounded the entrance and exit of the black market.

In an instant, the black market was surrounded tightly.

"The police are investigating a case. Anyone outside please leave immediately and do not stay here." The police waved his hand to signal everyone to leave.

Everyone looked at the police in panic.

"Why are the police here? What happened?"

"What else could it be? The fact that there is food here must have been exposed, and the police are here to arrest people."

"That's terrible. I haven't bought any food yet. Now they've arrested people. How can I buy food?"

"Are you still thinking about buying food? Aren't you afraid of being eaten?"

Seeing that everyone was indifferent, the police shouted again: "Get out of here quickly, do you want to go to jail?"

"Let's go, let's go!" When they heard that they were going to prison, everyone hurriedly fled from this place of trouble.

After the police surrounded the black market, they immediately sent some police officers to other places, apparently to arrest people.

Time goes back to one hour ago.

Upon learning that there was a large amount of food on the black market, Chief Qian of the Nanluoguxiang Police Station personally reported the matter to the Public Security Bureau.

"boom!"

"What did you say? You said there is a lot of food on the black market? It is estimated to be 40,000 to 50,000 kilograms. Are you kidding?"

The leaders of the Public Security Bureau looked directly at Director Qian. As soon as Director Qian did something wrong, someone would immediately throw him in jail and charge him with defamation.

There is a shortage of food everywhere in the city. Suddenly someone tells him that there is food on the black market, or 40,000 to 50,000 kilograms of food.

"Do you know what's going on outside right now? Forty to fifty thousand catties of grain, not just forty to five hundred catties of grain. This is a major case, a serious case!"

Director Qian nodded solemnly: "Leader, I know, I didn't believe it at first, but the facts are before my eyes, so I have to believe it."

"According to intelligence my police station received from the black market, a large number of people went to the black market late last night. There were so many people that the streets were illuminated."

Hearing this, the leader frowned deeply and his eyes looked serious. How many people would be needed holding flashlights to light up the street?

"According to preliminary statistics, there are at least three merchants reselling grain in one black market, and one merchant resold at least 3 kilograms of grain last night."

"Four black markets, 4 to kilograms, is my most confident estimate. In fact, it will be much more than this."

After hearing this, the leader completely gave up and paced around the room.

After a while, the leader slammed the table and said, "How audacious! How audacious!"

"They were able to sell so much food in one night. They must have more food. Where did they get all this food?"

It is terrifying to think about it. In this time of food shortage, some people are actually making money from the national disaster.

The people who were able to sell large amounts of grain to black market merchants were most likely people from the grain stations.

Apart from the grain station, the leaders could not think of where to sell so much grain.

"Okay, okay! In such a difficult time, instead of spending it together, you're thinking about getting rich. If I don't catch you, I won't want this hat anymore."

The leader made the decision instantly.

"I order you to arrest all the grain merchants who resell grain on the black market at all costs. Don't let any of them go!"

"Also, surround the grain stations in your area, thoroughly check the granaries, and arrest all the corrupt officials who engage in speculation and collusion with the government. We will not show any leniency!"

"understand!"

After receiving instructions from his leader, Director Qian immediately went back and called everyone together.

Looking at everyone, Director Qian first asked kindly: "Have you all bought food?"

"Bought."

"I bought a lot. At least I can spend this New Year peacefully."

"Yes, fortunately we went early yesterday. If we had gone later, there would have been no food to sell."

A group of policemen were talking about yesterday's purchase of food.

As frontline police officers, they naturally knew about the sale of food on the black market, but they did not rush to report it. Instead, they lined up to buy food like the general public.

After all, policemen are also human beings. They have families and they also need food, so naturally they have to buy some.

However, they did not just buy grain and do nothing else. While buying grain, they took note of the appearance of the grain merchants.

Of course it is impossible to remember them all, after all, some people's faces are blocked and I can't see clearly.

But it doesn’t matter if you can’t see clearly, the police will follow their homes and write down the addresses.

"Okay, since everyone has bought it, let's start working." Director Qian nodded.

"I have been instructed by my superiors to make the following arrangements. Xie Yong will take half of the people to the black market to arrest merchants, and You Feng will take the other half to the grain station."

"The black market traders must be arrested and the grain depots must be thoroughly investigated. In this mission, we would rather arrest the wrong person than let him go!"

"Move out now!"

"Yes!"

After the order was issued, all the police officers in the police station went out in full force, some went to the black market to arrest people, and some went to the grain station.

"Let's go! Grab your weapons and arrest them!" Xie Yong gave an order and led his men into the marked grain merchant's house and arrested the sleeping people.

"Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing!?"

"The police are arresting people, the police are arresting people?"

"Oh no, we've been discovered, run!"

Some grain merchants were caught with confused looks on their faces, while others ran away when they saw the situation was not good.

"Run? You can run away. If I really let you run away, my surname will not be Xie!" Xie Yong pulled out his gun, pointed it at the fleeing grain merchant, and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!" A gunshot hit the ground, frightening the grain merchant so much that his legs went limp and he fell to his knees.

"Hmph, he can get away." Xie Yong gently blew away the non-existent gun smoke from the gun barrel.

Upon seeing this, other policemen immediately ran forward and arrested the grain merchant.

Soon, all the grain merchants who were marked in this black market were arrested.

"Take them all and go to the next one!"

In less than two hours, more than a dozen grain traders from several black markets were arrested and thrown into prison.

On the other side, the grain station.

You Feng led his men to surround the grain station and thoroughly checked the granary and account books.

You Feng was both relieved and disappointed.

"What a pity, we didn't catch any big ones. We only caught two or three big and small cats."

"But fortunately, the grain station did not collude with outsiders to resell the grain in the granary. It was just that someone inside made some false accounts and a few hundred kilograms of grain were missing."

For a moment, You Feng didn't know how to deal with the fact that someone inside the grain station was falsifying the accounts.

"Captain, what should we do? Are we just going to let it go?"

You Feng looked at the policeman who asked the question with a strange expression: "How is that possible? Don't you remember what Chief Qian said? It's better to arrest the wrong person than to let him go!"

"All those involved in this incident will be arrested, and no one will be spared."

"Oh, this is not good, Captain. If they are arrested, all the people in this grain station will be arrested. How can we buy grain?"

Hearing this, You Feng looked at the long queue of people outside. Everyone was looking at them with nervous expressions, fearing that the grain station would be affected.

Tomorrow is the Chinese New Year. If they can’t buy food, they won’t be able to celebrate the New Year well.

As police officers, they cannot be so inhumane.

Looking at the people at the grain station, they also looked nervous. Their accounting fraud was finally discovered.

As they were people working at the grain station, they were close to the food and had the advantage of being the first to get the food. As the New Year was approaching, they discussed and decided to allocate several hundred kilograms of grain, and each of them received a few dozen kilograms to prepare for the New Year.

Unexpectedly, they were discovered after just a few days. Looking at the aggressive police, they were afraid of being arrested and left with nothing.

You Feng looked at them and said, "You guys are lucky. If there weren't so many people here today, I would have arrested you all and taken you to jail."

"Get up, start working, and let everyone buy food. But don't think that this matter will be forgotten. Once everyone has bought the food, you can go to the police station."

"Don't even think about running away. You can run away from the monk, but you can't run away from the temple. There's a city-wide manhunt going on right now. Where can you run to? Just focus on your work."

"Yes, yes, the police comrade is right. We will definitely not run away!" one person said hurriedly.

"You're smart." You Feng looked at the policemen, "You guys stay here and don't let them get away. The rest of you can check the next one."

'Yes! '

A group of police left in a mighty procession and searched other grain stations.

After a thorough investigation, it was found that there were not many clean people at the grain station, and almost all of them were involved in falsifying accounts.

It’s just a matter of quantity, with the least being two or three hundred kilograms and the most being nearly a thousand kilograms.

For those with fewer people, they were just guarded, and for those with more people, they were taken away directly. After thoroughly checking all the grain stations in the jurisdiction, You Feng returned to the police station to report.

Police station.

Director Qian listened to You Feng's report.

"Well done. As long as there are offenders, no one can be let off. All must be arrested. The higher-ups have just issued an order. No one can be let off."

You Feng continued to report: "Director, we have not yet found any collusion between insiders and outsiders to resell grain. It's all the insiders who store grain for themselves."

Upon hearing this, Director Qian breathed a sigh of relief. It was just an internal problem of the grain station and did not involve the outside world. The situation was not as serious as he had imagined.

"sure?"

"determine."

"Since we didn't get any food from the grain station, where did all this food come from? It can't just appear out of thin air."

"Let's go to the interrogation room. I want to see how they get the food."

trial room.

"Tell me, where do you get your food?"

In the dim interrogation room, the light shone directly on the black market grain dealer, making it impossible for him to open his eyes.

Xie Yong brought the police officers to interrogate the suspect personally.

"Comrade police officer, I told you not to hit me!"

Xie Yong shouted, "What nonsense! Explain the matter clearly. If you can't explain it clearly, don't blame us for being ruthless. It will be good for you to speak out as soon as possible!"

"Yes, yes, yes." The grain merchant nodded repeatedly and organized his words.

"Comrade police officer, ask me anything you want. I'll tell you everything."

Seeing that the grain merchant accepted his fate, Xie Yong breathed a sigh of relief. He was afraid that the prisoner would never tell anyone even if he died. But he was not afraid, as torture was also possible.

"Where do you get your food?"

"Late last night, a man came to my door and said he had food to sell to me. I didn't believe him at the time. How could there be so much food now?"

"Last night, another person came over on a bicycle, exchanged secret signals with me, and asked me to go to a place."

"When we got there, there were 50 bags of food."

Xie Yong listened and wrote down all the information.

"Two people?"

"Yes, two people. Although they were wearing the same clothes, they were different heights. The one I saw yesterday was a head taller than the one I saw the day before yesterday. He must be at least 2 meters tall."

"Write it down, 2 meters." The police officer at the side made a note of this number. A height of 2 meters would make one stand out among a crowd of chickens, and there aren't many people like that in this city.

This can eliminate a lot of people at once.

"You've met them. What do they look like?"

The grain merchant shook his head. "I don't know. I didn't see what he looked like. His face was covered by his clothes. I couldn't see it."

"Besides height, what other characteristics do you have?"

"What else?" The grain merchant lowered his head and thought for a moment, and suddenly an idea flashed in his mind, "Oh, right, he also rides a motorcycle. That motorcycle is so impressive."

"Motorcycle, do you have any impression of what it looks like?"

The grain merchant thought for a moment and said, "I don't know what to say, but I remember its appearance. If I can bring it here, I will definitely be able to recognize it."

"Let's make a note of this. What was the voice of that man? Can you guess how old he was?"

"From the sound of his voice, he should be in his twenties, a young man."

Afterwards, Xie Yong asked one by one, but he couldn't get any results.

Afterwards, Xie Yong compared the confessions with other police officers who interrogated the suspect, and most of them matched, except for the voice.

"Wow, this guy is really amazing. He even has different voices when he speaks. There are men, women, young and old. With this ability, what can he do?"

Xie Yong felt disgusted by Li Kailang's change in voice.

Teenagers, middle-aged people, old people, lolita voices, old woman voices, all kinds of strange voices came out of Li Kailang's mouth.

Except for women's voices, other voices cannot be ruled out and are all suspicious.

Li Kailang's behavior was tantamount to adding to their workload, how could they not curse?

Xie Yong integrated the results of the interrogation and did not obtain many clues.

First, there were two suspects, one was responsible for finding grain merchants and the other was responsible for selling grain, and the two worked together.

One is about 1 meters tall, and the other is about 8 meters tall.

Both were men, and the taller one had a motorcycle.

These are the clues Xie Yong has at the moment.

After further analysis of the time later, the two suspects will become one.

Li Kailang deliberately chose to find them at night, intentionally confusing the time so that they would have a time conflict.

"I will report the situation to Director Qian. You continue the interrogation and don't let go of any clues."

"understand!"

At this time, several leaders came into the police station.

"Dear leaders." Director Qian looked at the people in front of him, all of whom were senior leaders of the Public Security Bureau, and his heart suddenly began to beat fast.

"Director Qian, what's the situation?"

"I have sent someone to conduct the interrogation, and I just got the results of the interrogation."

"Speak!" said a leader.

Director Qian looked at Xie Yong and motioned for him to speak.

Xie Yong immediately stood up and described the results of the interrogation in detail. "After interrogating 15 grain merchants, we found that there were two people who resold grain this time."

"At least 7 tons of grain were resold this time, and the sellers made a profit of at least 14 yuan."

"The two suspects are male, about 1 and 8 meters tall, and are driving a motorcycle."

"The most important thing is that the grain being resold this time was not obtained from the granary in my jurisdiction, and it is still unclear where the grain came from."

Xie Yong told the results of the interrogation in detail.

The more the leaders listened, the more frightened they became. 7 kilograms of grain and 14 yuan, this was no small case.

When they heard that the grain was not rushed out of the granary, several leaders breathed a sigh of relief. As long as it was not collusion between internal and external forces, it was good.

"boom!"

The leader ordered: "Catch them at all costs. Since they were able to sell 7 tons of grain, they must have more grain on hand. It is absolutely impossible that this is all they have."

"If we catch him, we will definitely be able to confiscate more food. I don't care what method you use, you must catch him as soon as possible."

Several leaders beside him nodded slightly. "The enemy is cunning, but they will definitely not escape our search. To be able to release so much food at once, they must have many accomplices, not just two."

"That's right. With so much food in the city, there must be traces. If we follow the traces, we will definitely find it."

Several leaders offered suggestions one by one.

"Pull out the files of everyone in your jurisdiction and examine them one by one. As long as they meet the conditions, we will arrest them directly at their doorstep."

"Arrest someone?" Director Qian frowned slightly, "Leader, this is not a good idea. Wouldn't arresting someone directly have too much of an impact?"

The leaders standing by understood that the big boss was so angry that he lost his mind. When they got the news, they reported it immediately because the order had already been given.

We must catch the person at all costs, but we must be aware of the impact, after all, the New Year is approaching.

"This way, anyone who meets the requirements will be interrogated at home about what they did yesterday, and everything will be recorded."

"I understand!" Director Qian replied.

After the big boss made the arrangements, he left in a hurry as he still had to go to other jurisdictions to issue orders.

"What do you think? Could there be a problem in the military?" the leader suddenly asked.

"Leader, you can't say that."

"I'm just guessing. This motorcycle is rare. Not many people have it in the civilian population. Most of them are in the military and police stations. What do you think?"

The big leaders were hesitant to speak, but they all understood that the matter had become so serious that since there were suspicions, it must be investigated.

Li Kailang's goal was achieved by directly diverting his own suspicion.

At this moment, the instigator, Li Kailang, was lying at home and snoring, and had no idea to the outside world how serious the situation was.

At noon, the police came to his house to ask questions. Li Kailang directly replied that he was at home, but no one testified that he was at home.

But no one could testify that he had left the yard. Like most people in the yard, everyone stayed at home quietly and did not go out.

"Oh my god, so many people?" As Li Kailang walked out of the hospital gate, he saw teams of police officers going in and out of various courtyards.

"Forget it, I'd better not go out."

At this time, not only Nanluoguxiang Hutong was looking for people, but the entire city was searching for the two suspects.

But the result was obvious: Li Kailang could not be found.

The city-wide manhunt did not stop until evening.

It’s not because someone has been caught, but because tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year. Everyone has to go back home to celebrate the New Year and prepare for the New Year today.

There are so many things going on that it is impossible to mobilize all the police forces in the city.

The most important thing is that after investigation, many shady things in Sijiu City were not uncovered, many internal problems of the grain station were discovered, and many cases of collusion between internal and external parties were found.

But there was no clue of reselling large quantities of grain at all, as if it appeared out of thin air.

Therefore, the search had to be temporarily stopped to allow the police to go home and celebrate the New Year.

Without the police on the streets, everyone can celebrate the New Year happily.

(End of this chapter)