Chapter 8 arson case

At 4 o'clock in the morning, a black shadow appeared on the fifth floor of the procuratorate and came to the room where the case team's documents were placed.Hei Ying opened the door with the key with ease, first fumbled to close the curtains, and then opened the wooden cabinet where the local product company's physical evidence was stored. He took a photo of the documents with a flashlight, and after confirming that there was no doubt, he put all the documents in his backpack, took some documents from other cabinets, and put them in this cabinet.Then he took out a small Soviet jug, poured out the petrol inside, and then lit a small candle. After the candle's light stabilized, he carefully placed the candle in the filing cabinet.

Looking at the burning candle, he quickly left the room. He has done experiments on the burning time of this small candle many times. When he returned to the apartment opposite the office building and stood by the window for ten minutes, he saw that the firelight on the fifth floor made the curtains red. The piercing ringtone of the phone pulled Hou Weidong out of his dream. "What, the evidence placed in the procuratorate was burned?" Hou Weidong jumped up from the bed as if his butt was being burned, and jumped down the nine stairs in two steps. After the car was ignited, the roar of the motor woke him up.

The car arrived at the gate of Shazhou University. The guard at the gate sat on a chair and took a nap. When he heard the horn of the car, he was very impatient. When he came out, he saw that it was a pickup truck that often came in and out. He cursed and said, "Go out so late, what are you doing?" , let people rest?" Hou Weidong threw a cigarette out of the car window and said, "I have something urgent to do, please." Looking at the street light, the guard saw that it was a Jiaozi cigarette, and his anger calmed down. He lifted the pole up and asked, "I see you often go in and out here. Where do you work?"

"I work for the county party committee." The guard looked at the pickup truck and said, "I worked as a security guard in the county committee, and the county committee doesn't have a pickup truck." The guard was smoking a cigarette and chatting slowly. Hou Weidong didn't have the heart to chat with him, so he flashed his work card and said, "I work in the county committee. This is a work card. Do you want to read it?" The guard is very familiar with this kind of red book, and his attitude immediately changed, saying: "You are really busy as cadres, you have to go out so late. I have to close the iron gate at night, and you can call me when the time comes. My name is Huang. Call me Old Huang."

Hou Weidong threw another cigarette to Lao Huang and said, "I'll trouble you later." At around 4 o'clock in the morning, Yiyang County has long lost its hustle and bustle during the day. Except for street lights and the lonely outline lights of a few tall buildings, the city is plunged into darkness.Hou Weidong took out his mobile phone several times, found Zhu Yan's phone number, and then gave up.If Zhu Yan was woken up in the early morning, the reported information would be inaccurate, which would be embarrassing.Seeing is believing, hearing is believing, there is absolutely nothing wrong with this one.

The fifth floor of the procuratorate was full of nervous prosecutors.Li Du was also startled from the bed, with disheveled clothes and disheveled hair, standing at the front, staring at the burnt file cabinet like a sharp sword. The file cabinet is an old-fashioned thick wooden cabinet, and all the documents inside are paper documents. The fire burned so violently that the wooden cabinet turned into black charcoal, and the documents inside were naturally wiped out.A prosecutor on the outside saw Hou Weidong squeezed in and stopped him: "Who are you? Don't squeeze!" Hou Weidong said: "I am run by the county party committee."

Hearing Hou Weidong's voice outside, Li Du hurriedly said, "Secretary Hou, please come in." With the light outside the door and a few flashlights, Hou Weidong had a clear view of the situation inside.He took the bamboo pole from a prosecutor next to him, poked it a few times in the ashes, and turned to Li Du, "Inspector Li, are all the evidence inside?" Seeing Li Du's expression, Hou Weidong stopped stabbing, returned the bamboo pole to the person beside him, and said, "Have you reported this to Secretary Zhu?" Li Du said: "I called you and Ji Standing Committee first, and wanted to hear your opinions. I haven't reported to Secretary Zhu yet. Ji Standing Committee is already on the way."

Hearing that Ji Haiyang was coming, Hou Weidong put the phone back again.He didn't say much, just sat quietly in the burned file room, waiting for Ji Haiyang. Seven or eight minutes later, Ji Haiyang appeared on the fifth floor of the Procuratorate.He came here by taxi, walked quickly all the way, and was still panting when he went upstairs, and said, "Li Jian, how could this happen? This is the file room of the procuratorate!" Li Du was quite embarrassed, and said: "We are checking this matter, and the Criminal Police Brigade has also come." Ji Haiyang had been the director of the county party committee office for four years, so he knew the entanglements and conflicts between Ma Youcai and Zhu Yan best. Hand, said: "This matter is very important, even if it is late, Secretary Zhu must be notified."

After calling Zhu Yan's home phone, Ji Haiyang reported the matter concisely.Zhu Yan asked: "Have all the evidence been destroyed?" "Yes, all the evidence." "Do you have a copy?" "No." Zhu Yan was silent on the phone for a while, and said, "Let Li Du come to my office tomorrow." After speaking, he hung up the phone. Listening to the beeping sound coming from the phone, Ji Haiyang smiled wryly: "Li Jian, Secretary Zhu invites you to visit his office tomorrow." Li Du is quite old now, and he has no intention of going up to another level. He just wants to work in Yiyang for one more term. If he can do another term, he will be transferred to a non-leadership position at the age of fifty-seven and retire after three years of rest. is the most ideal state.If he is allowed to come down as soon as he turns 50, it means that he will have to stay in the procuratorate as an investigator for nearly ten years.

"Ten years, a long ten years." Li Du coughed twice in a daze, his expression looked five or six years older.After a while, he said to Bo Ning: "You accompany Team Li to investigate the case thoroughly, and come to my office on time at 7:00 tomorrow morning." Hou Weidong heard Li Dadui's three words, looked around, and sure enough, he saw Li Jianyong standing beside him, talking to someone in a low voice. Li Du returned home in a daze, and went directly into the bedroom. Looking at his increasingly obese wife, he couldn't help muttering: "I just know how to eat, I'm as fat as a pig." She turned around, opened her eyes and said, "It's so late, why bother, go to sleep."

Li Du didn't wash up, and went to bed directly, and the faces of Bo Ning, Tang Xiaowei and others were turning over and over again in his mind.These people usually look like dogs and are loyal, who would be the traitor? The case of the local product company was originally very ordinary, but because it involved high-level officials of the county government, it became a major case.Li Du paid great attention to secrecy. Except for the special case team, other comrades in the procuratorate had no access to this case. When he heard the report of the fire, he concluded very clearly in his heart that the person who set the fire was a member of the special case team of the "native product company". The people who can enter the "native product company" task force are all his confidants, but people's hearts are separated by belly. This arsonist confidant destroyed the important evidence of the procuratorate, and perhaps Li Du's career as the chief prosecutor was also destroyed. Hou Weidong walked out with Ji Haiyang, Ji Haiyang asked: "How did you get here?" Hou Weidong said: "I drive this pickup truck." "You take me back, let's talk." After getting into the pickup truck, Ji Haiyang didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly: "What do you think about this?" "Someone set the fire, it should be the ghost." "Who is behind the scenes?" Hou Weidong didn't even think about it, and blurted out: "It's very simple, the person behind the scenes is the biggest beneficiary." Ji Haiyang took a deep breath and said, "This matter started from an accidental search and was destroyed by a strange fire. It's no big deal. The sun will rise as usual tomorrow." When he arrived at the door, he suddenly said, "Did you pick up Secretary Zhu in the morning?" "I went to pick him up before. Last week, Secretary Zhu said he didn't need to pick him up in the morning, so I didn't pick him up." Ji Haiyang's face was not very good, and he said: "What is the responsibility of the secretary, do you know? Every comrade in our county party committee must do his best to serve the leader. You are the secretary of the county party secretary, and you have higher requirements. You must stay with the leader at any time. By your side, accept the leader's assignment at any time, and serve the leader at any time. You have to learn from Ren Lindu, have understanding, and use your brain to think about it." Hou Weidong's face was reddened by what he said, and he hurriedly said: "Member Ji Standing Committee, I know, I must correct it." Back home, Hou Weidong made a conclusion: "It seems that you can't believe everything the leader says. Especially the polite words of the leader can't be trusted." The next day, Hou Weidong got up early, did dozens of push-ups, took out Zhu Yan's previous speech, and read it intently.At 6:40, he called Lao Liu. At 7:15, the car stopped at the downstairs of Hou Weidong. At 7:30, the car came downstairs to Zhu Yan. Seeing Zhu Yan coming down, Hou Weidong immediately went up to greet him, took the handbag, and quickly came back to open the car door for Zhu Yan.Since he hadn't come for several days, when he was doing these things, he secretly observed Zhu Yan's expression. Wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, Zhu Yan was clean and tidy, with a calm expression, and said, "Prepare five hundred dollars and put it in an envelope. I'm going to visit Comrade Li Yongguo." Hou Weidong reminded: "Prosecutor Li Du is coming to the office." "Ask him to come to the office at 2 p.m.." Li Yongguo is a northern cadre who went south with Liu Deng's army. He served as the secretary of the county party committee in Yiyang for twelve years, and worked as a commissioner in Shazhou for eight years. After retirement, he insisted on living in Yiyang. He is the most important person in Yiyang County. Zhou Changquan, a retired veteran cadre who is now the Shazhou Municipal Party Committee Secretary, used to be his subordinate. The cadre rest houses are all old comrades who have retired from the county-level posts. Li Yongguo is a small courtyard of a single family. When he entered the door, he saw the courtyard full of vegetables. Eggplants, sea peppers, and tomatoes were growing very well. The old man with white hair is watering the yard. "Mr. Li, I'm going to make a living with you today." Zhu Yan entered the yard, beaming with joy. The joy on his face was like running water, which could flow out with just a turn of the switch. "Oh, Xiao Zhu, you have so much to do every day, why come to me when you have time?" Li Yongguo put the water scoop in the bucket, and the water scoop swayed in the bucket with inertia. Zhu Yan took out the envelope, stuffed it into Li Yongguo's hands, and said, "I will come every year at this time. I wish Mr. Li a happy birthday and good health." Li Yongguo was an orphan. He joined the army when he was a teenager. He didn't know his birthday at all.After joining the Communist Party, he took the day he joined the Party as his birthday.On the next birthday, Zhou Changquan, secretary of the Shazhou Municipal Party Committee, deliberately told Zhu Yan that in the entire Yiyang County, only Zhu Yan knew the secret. Li Yongguo took the envelope and said with a chuckle, "Today I can only eat vegetarian food. The vegetables in the yard do not use any pesticides, and they are truly green products." Zhu Yan said: "The last time I came to Mr. Li's place, I was deeply inspired. Now Mengdong Town on the outskirts of the city has planted a thousand acres of pesticide-free vegetables. This year, the Yiyang brand has been formed, occupying 50% of the market in Shazhou." Li Yongguo was very happy and said, "Let's sit inside." Zhu Yan stood at the door and arranged: "Xiaohou, help Mr. Li water the vegetables. You have been a township cadre for several years, so you should know how to water the vegetables?" "Yes, I have grown vegetables before." Hou Weidong knows how to grow vegetables, but he did not learn how to grow vegetables in the villages and towns. The skill of growing vegetables is inherited from his family. In the late 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, due to material scarcity and low wages, many families grew vegetables on small plots in front yards and backyards, or on roofs.When Hou Weidong was seven or eight years old, his father, Hou Yonggui, worked at the township police station. There was a large vegetable field behind the house. Helping his mother to carry water and water vegetables became Hou Weidong’s daily homework. He was familiar with growing vegetables. Hou Weidong accepted the watering task. Seeing that the lettuce leaves on the left were drooping, he carried a bucket and concentrated on watering the lettuce leaves. In the room, Zhu Yan and Li Yongguo chatted without saying a word.The old leaders who passed away, the policies of Shazhou, the development of Yiyang, and the settlement of Qingda Cement Factory were all topics of conversation, and finally we talked about Yiyang Native Products Company. Yiyang Native Products Company was the subject of Zhu Yan's talk: "In the first half of this year, the Native Products Company lost more than one million yuan. Last year, it invested more than four million yuan in technical reforms. It was useless at all, and the Native Products Company was already worthless. Pay off." The Tongganru project was created when Li Yongguo was the secretary of the county party committee. Since it was put into production, it has become famous for a while, and it has earned back the investment for Yiyang County.As the secretary of the county party committee, he was able to successfully become the commissioner of the Shazhou area. Yiyang Native Products Company is one of his important achievements. Seeing that his hard work was defeated by the latecomers, Li Yongguo was very distressed, and said excitedly: "Yi Zhongling is not of good quality, even if he has a good management, he can't be reused. I said this earlier." Zhu Yan said humbly: "At the beginning, I saw that Yi Zhongling's management level was not bad, so I took the attitude of taking a look and giving it a try, and asked him to continue working for two years. In addition, some comrades insisted on using Yi Zhongling, so there has been no adjustment. He. A few days ago, the Standing Committee was convened, and he has been taken down." Li Yongguo knew that "some comrades" referred to Ma Youcai, but he didn't point it out, saying: "It should have been taken long ago." Zhu Yan added: "After the semi-annual report came out, the county party committee and the county government felt that the problem was serious. This month, they sent an audit team to the local product company. After entering, they got a clue. The procuratorate found a lot of evidence and Account books, judging from these things, the native products company checked for the audit team are all fake accounts." Li Yongguo looked solemn: "I can't adapt to the market economy and suffer losses due to poor management. This can be forgiven. Everyone has been engaged in the planned economy for so long and is not familiar with the market economy. But corruption is another matter. The nature has changed. We will never allow corruption to flourish." Zhu Yan paused and said: "This batch of evidence was burned in the procuratorate last night." Li Yongguo was stunned for a moment, and then his veins swelled, and he said, "Don't stop, you will eat your own chaos. Secretary Xiaozhu, I will criticize you for relying on the old and selling the old. To be the secretary of the county party committee must be ruthless. When it is time to strike, you must be quick." To chop up the mess, it is even more necessary to use thunder for such a black sheep." Zhu Yan said sincerely: "Mr. Li is right in his criticism. We are doing our best to solve the case, but this batch of evidence has been destroyed. It will be more difficult to find out the native product company." Li Yongguo is now a little old man who grows vegetables every day, but because of his special status, he has a very clear understanding of Yiyang's political situation. He watched the two tigers fighting in Yiyang with the eyes of someone who has experienced it, and said: "There are many things I don't know. I know some things. You have been a leading cadre for many years, and you have a bright future. I don’t judge the specific matters of the Yiyang County Party Committee and the county government. Zhu Yan looked solemn, and said: "Every time I talk to Mr. Li, I have learned a lot. Please rest assured Mr. Li, no matter what, I am also a cadre who has been educated by the party for many years. The first one." There are three districts and four counties in Shazhou City, and Yiyang County is the largest county. If there is a fierce conflict between the county party secretary and the county magistrate, Comrade Zhou Changquan will definitely intervene.Zhu Yan's visit this time was to vaccinate Li Yongguo in advance, so that he could have a correct evaluation before Zhou Changquan. After talking about the business, Zhu Yan relaxed and said, "Mr. Li, it's been a long time since I've had a fight with you. Let's set up the battlefield and kill a few games happily?" "Let's play chess and wait for the old lady to come back and cook." "How can you let auntie cook? You can always let Xiaolin do these things without worry." Xiao Lin was the nanny specially hired by the County Party Committee Office for Li Yongguo. He was a junior high school educated, suburban native with quick hands and feet, and was personally selected by Ji Haiyang. "Xiao Lin is good, very diligent, polite, and good at cooking, but she still can't catch up with the old woman. Her ancestors opened a restaurant, and the skills are passed down in the family. I wish the secretary is here, and the old woman will definitely cook in the kitchen herself." Zhu Yan said with a smile: "I have tasted Auntie's handicraft, that's really nothing to say, Mr. Li really has a good taste." While talking, the two set up a battlefield in the main room. Li Yongguo suddenly pointed at Hou Weidong and said, "Are you a new secretary?" "You've only been with me for about ten days." "This young man is not bad. I have been observing him. He is always meticulous in pouring vegetables and has a smile on his face. From this point of view, this young man is an honest person." At this time, Hou Weidong had already watered all the vegetable fields, and sweat poured out from his back.Hearing Zhu Yan's greeting, he quickly put down the bucket and walked over. "I'm having dinner at Mr. Li's house at noon today. You and Mr. Liu will come in and be the audience for Mr. Li and me."