Chapter 687 Take the blame!

Chapter 687 Take the blame!

Chapter 687 Take the blame!

Soon, Zheng Jie and others were brought into the courtyard by the police. When Zheng Jie saw Jia Dongming, he immediately asked him dissatisfiedly, "Director Jia! What's going on? Why was Liu Jiangping silenced just after we set up an investigation team? And he was silenced right under your noses?"

Yesterday in the office of the Municipal Bureau, when Jia Dongming and Zheng Jie were discussing the division of labor in the task force, both sides had agreed that when the task was to be carried out, two people would be sent from the public security side and one person would be sent from the disciplinary department. However, when Zhou Gang and his team went to carry out the task last night, the person from the disciplinary department who was supposed to carry out the task together was nowhere to be seen.

Early this morning, Liu Jiangping's family was killed because of the killer's strategy of luring the tiger away from the mountain. Zhou Gang and his colleagues should bear the main responsibility, but the people in the disciplinary department who failed to report to work on time should also bear some responsibility. After all, if the people in the disciplinary department were on duty at that time, the killer would probably not have had the opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

After Liu Jiangping's family was killed, Jia Dongming did not think of shirking responsibility, nor did he intend to take advantage of the vacancy in the disciplinary department. Instead, he thought about how to actively remedy the situation, find valuable clues from the crime scene, and then follow the clues to find the real culprit hiding behind the scenes.

What Jia Dongming didn't expect was that Zheng Jie, who acted very easy to get along with when they were discussing work yesterday, did not think about how to remedy the situation after learning that Liu Jiangping had been silenced. Instead, he put the blame on them. This made Jia Dongming realize the meaning of the idiom "human hearts are treacherous".

Facing Zheng Jie's aggressive questioning, Jia Dongming's smile froze instantly, and he asked Zheng Jie in a very unfriendly tone: "Director Zheng! I admit that Liu Jiangping's death was related to our comrades' temporary absence from work, but this is not a reason for you to put the blame on us."

"According to the division of labor we agreed on yesterday, when carrying out the surveillance mission, our public security department sent two people, and your disciplinary department sent one person. As a result, when our people arrived to carry out the mission, your people did not show up. If your people were present at the time, even if our comrades were temporarily off duty, the killer would not have had the opportunity to take advantage of it."

"Now you don't think about how to remedy the situation, conduct self-examinations within your respective systems, and find out the traitor who informed the real culprit behind the scenes. Instead, you try to shirk responsibility and put the blame on us, Director Zheng! Isn't your behavior a bit too much?"

The reason Zheng Jie was able to join the task force was not because of his strong case-handling ability, but because he had a good uncle.

When Zheng Jie heard about this case and saw the account books sent by the police, he felt that this was a good opportunity to gild his reputation, so he asked his uncle for help and successfully got the opportunity to lead a team to join the task force.

Zheng Jie originally thought that as long as they caught Liu Jiangping, pried open his mouth, and identified Liu Jiangping's accomplices, they would be able to easily close the case. However, what Zheng Jie did not expect was that their task force had been established for less than a day when the key suspect was silenced.

Upon learning that Liu Jiangping had been silenced, Zheng Jie immediately realized that this case was far from as simple as he had imagined. His original idea of ​​using this case to gild his reputation was not only impossible to achieve, but it was also likely to cause trouble for Liu Jiangping's silence. So on the way to the crime scene, he thought about shifting the blame onto Jia Dongming, which led to the scene of him putting the blame on Jia Dongming as soon as he saw him. However, Zheng Jie was thinking about shifting the blame, but he ignored the fact that after they left the Municipal Public Security Bureau and returned to the unit yesterday, he happened to receive a call inviting him to dinner, and in a hurry to go to the appointment, he forgot about arranging people to participate in the monitoring work of the special case team.

Hearing Jia Dongming's rebuttal, Zheng Jie, who was trying to shift the blame to Jia Dongming, suddenly remembered that he was in a hurry to keep an appointment yesterday and forgot to arrange people to carry out the monitoring task. He suddenly became speechless.

In order to ease his embarrassment, Zheng Jie looked at Guo Jie standing next to him and asked him with a very serious expression: "Guo Jie! Is what Director Jia said true? Didn't I ask you to pack your things and go directly to the Municipal Public Security Bureau yesterday to carry out the monitoring mission of the special task force with the comrades of the public security? Why didn't you go?"

When Guo Jie saw Zheng Jie looking at him, he immediately thought of Zheng Jie's character, which made him secretly feel bad! At this time, he didn't need to use his brain to guess that Zheng Jie was planning to push him out as a shield.

Facing Zheng Jie's questioning and seeing his serious expression, Guo Jie had to take the blame no matter how much grievance he felt. He quickly pretended to admit his mistake and took the initiative to admit his mistake: "Director Zheng! Yesterday, when I finished the work at hand and was about to go to the Municipal Public Security Bureau, Deputy Director Qian called me to help him organize a document. By the time I finished organizing the document, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening, and I forgot about participating in the monitoring mission."

Zheng Jie was relieved when he saw Guo Jie took the initiative to take responsibility for the mistake. He immediately showed an apologetic expression on his face and explained to Jia Dongming with a fake smile: "Director Jia! I am really sorry. I also heard the news that Liu Jiangping was silenced. I was anxious at the time, so my tone was a bit harsh. I hope you don't take it to heart."

Jia Dongming saw Zheng Jie and Guo Jie's reactions just now. Although he didn't know why Zheng Jie didn't send anyone to carry out the monitoring task, based on Guo Jie's reaction, Jia Dongming had a vague feeling that the other party was pushed out by Zheng Jie to take the blame. This alone was enough to prove that Zheng Jie looked amiable on the surface, but was actually a sanctimonious hypocrite.

After seeing what kind of person Zheng Jie was, Jia Dongming became more defensive towards him. When he faced Zheng Jie's explanation, he also pretended that the unpleasantness just now had not happened, and reminded Zheng Jie with a serious face: "Director Zheng! Our special investigation team was just established yesterday, and the key suspect was killed this morning. This shows that there must be a hidden line of the other party hidden in our ranks. Before we find this traitor, it will not be an easy task for us to solve this case."

If what just happened had not happened, Zheng Jie would have definitely concluded without hesitation that there was a traitor in the public security system after hearing Jia Dongming's words. However, every failure makes one wiser. Facing Jia Dongming's reminder, Zheng Jie said to him with a serious face: "Director Jia! You are right. We have just set up a joint investigation team, but the key suspect was silenced. If there is no traitor in our team who tipped off the real culprit, I will never believe it even if you kill me."

"In order to solve this case as quickly as possible and give our superiors a satisfactory answer, I suggest that we first conduct a secret self-examination within our respective systems, try to find someone to pull out the traitor, and then follow the clues to bring the real culprit behind the scenes to justice!"

(End of this chapter)