Volume 4: Counterattack: Bright Star Road Chapter 254 The Coming Conflict
According to the plan, Park Hee-soo brought the police to arrest Lee Kang-seok, while Gao Xidong and the other two took the opportunity to sneak into Lee Kang-seok's home to look for the account book of Jang Doo-chil's bribery of government .
In the office of Park Hee-su at the Criminal Division 2 of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office, Lee Kang-seok, handcuffed, cried out in anger:
"Prosecutor Park, I am innocent. I am also a victim, okay?"
Looking up at Li Jiangshi, Park Hee-soo flipped through his criminal record and said calmly:
"You've done illegal foreign currency exchange before, and last month you did ghost stocks. This time you've planned a brand new real estate scam. Your target is Choi Chang-sik, right?"
When Li Jiangshi heard Park Hee-soo mention Choi Chang-sik's name, he said excitedly:
"Prosecutor Park, where is that old man Choi Chang-sik?"
"Why are you asking me? You should be the one telling me!"
"Oh, damn it, Prosecutor Park, I was deceived by that old man Choi Chang-sik, that bastard!"
"What's going on?"
"Prosecutor Park, this is what happened!"
Li Jiangshi looked at Park Hee-soo with a painful face and recalled:
"The first time I met that old man was at the Real Estate Exchange in Gangnam District. As you know, people in our line of work are good at judging people. That old man looked honest, and as soon as I saw him, I knew he was a very gullible person. I deliberately bumped into him, and the real estate information in my hand fell to the ground. He helped me pick it up, and then I gave him a business card and a brochure. At this time, you have to judge whether the other party is gullible or not. People who come to the Real Estate Exchange are either buying or selling houses. The earlier someone contacts me, the easier it is to cheat. Just as I thought, he took the bait within a day. He is a typical gullible guy. After a few days of communication, I was supposed to get a deposit of 500 million won yesterday, but he said that the delivery would be postponed for three days.
I was afraid that the night would be too long and I deliberately said that I couldn't wait that long. I asked him why the transaction had to be postponed for three days. He said that it was an inheritance from the United States, and because there was a loan in his domestic account, the international remittance would take a few days to arrive. I asked him to pay off the loan first. He said that he owed the bank 120 million won, and he only had 20 million won on him, so he was still 100 million won short. What did he need at this time?
Pushing and pulling, I pushed hard and said that if the money could not be transferred within today, the contract would be invalid and I could not sell him such a good house. There were other customers who wanted to buy my house later, but the old man did not play by the rules. He asked me to sell the house to someone else. Damn it, how much money did I spend to open a real estate agency? Of course I couldn't let the duck in my mouth fly away, right?
I went to the bank with him and transferred 100 million won to him. I was afraid that he would run away, so I followed him. I only needed to wait for half an hour to confirm the result. I followed him even when he went to the toilet. I felt something was wrong at the time. You know, my sixth sense is very good. The bank toilet has no windows, and his shit was really smelly. I waited outside the toilet, but he didn't come out. I ran in to take a look, but he disappeared, and my 100 million won disappeared with him!"
After saying that, Li Jiangshi slammed the table and said angrily:
"Fuck, this is too much. How can I cheat money from a liar? This kind of guy with no professional ethics should be ripped off his face. Fuck, the more I think about it, the angrier I get. I was actually cheated of 100 million won by another liar. Isn't this an insult? How can I survive in the underworld in the future?"
Park Hee-soo looked at the chattering Li Jiangshi. At this moment, a cell phone rang. It was Park Hee-soo's cell phone. He took out the phone from his pocket and took a look. The caller ID was Gao Xidong. He glanced at Li Jiangshi and waited for him to calm down. Park Hee-soo answered the call and said calmly:
"How's it going, did you find anything?"
"Prosecutor Park, we are at Li Jiangshi's house. Someone has come here before, but there is no account book or anything like that. I don't know if it was never there or if it has been taken away by someone else!"
"Okay, I get it. You guys go back first and wait for me at the old place. I'll be there soon!"
"Okay, Prosecutor Park, see you later!"
"See you later!"
Not finding the account book he wanted, or being unsure whether Lee Kang-seok actually had the real account book or whether the account book had been taken away by someone else, Park Hee-soo decided not to get rid of Lee Kang-seok for the time being. He asked his investigators to take Lee Kang-seok away, then went to the bank that Lee Kang-seok mentioned and copied the surveillance video of the bank lobby and the bathroom exit from yesterday. Then he took the copied video to the secret base, ready to have Director Kim analyze it. His intuition told him that Choi Chang-sik, who cheated Lee Kang-seok, and the person who broke into Lee Kang-seok's house before him, were most likely a group of people, or even the same person in disguise.
In Park Hee-soo's secret base, Park Hee-soo handed the memory stick containing the video file to Director Kim, who inserted the memory stick into the computer and turned it on. The big screen played the surveillance footage of the bank hall, in which Choi Chang-sik's head was magnified. Park Hee-soo glanced at Gao Xidong and asked:
"Do you know him?"
“I don’t know him!”
Gao Xidong glanced at Cui Changzhi's portrait and shook his head slightly.
"He's not from our circle!"
Not getting the answer he wanted, Park Hee-soo looked at the big screen and told Director Kim:
"Open the bathroom scene!"
"good!"
Director Jin switched the screen to the entrance of the restroom and played it quickly. After watching for a while, Park Hee-soo pointed at the big screen and ordered:
"Back up a little, back up a little more, okay, pause!"
The surveillance video on the big screen paused. Park Hee-soo pointed at a young man in a baseball cap who had just walked out of the men's restroom and passed by Li Jiangshi and asked:
"When did he go in?"
"What time do you go in?"
After hearing Park Hee-soo's question, Director Kim continued to rewind the surveillance video, trying to find the scene of the man in the baseball cap entering the bathroom. He kept rewinding for more than an hour, but still could not find the scene of the man in the baseball cap entering the bathroom.
“No footage of him going in?”
With a smile on his face, Park Hee-soo told Director Kim to zoom in on the man in the cap in the video. As the man's face became clearer and clearer, Gao Xidong said in surprise and excitement:
"That boy, it's that boy!"
" Brother Xidong, who is this boy?"
Seeing Gao Xidong's excitement, Chunzi next to him asked curiously:
"Do you know him?"
"Yes, of course I know him. It was because of the trap he set that I was caught by Prosecutor Park!"
Gao Xidong pointed at the man in the peaked cap on the big screen and said angrily:
"His name is Huang Zhicheng, and his nickname is Loach, which means he is as slippery as a loach. No one can catch him easily. He is the psychopath who specializes in finding scammers to cheat. He is a lunatic, a liar among scammers, and a shameless scum!"
"Prosecutor Park, he also built Lee Kang-seok's house!"
Director Jin said that he checked the surveillance footage from the bank to Li Jiangshi's house and saw that after leaving the bank, Huang Zhicheng went to Li Jiangshi's house. Before he and others rushed over, he had already walked out of Li Jiangshi's house with a black backpack in his hand, and then left in a black Sonata with a license plate number of 42, 4271. Through the vehicle registration, Director Jin found Huang Zhicheng's current address, No. 1606, Donghe Office Building, 21, Myeongji-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul. Director Jin zoomed in on the surveillance footage near Donghe Office Building and found Huang Zhicheng's figure and said excitedly:
"Found it. No. 1606, Donghwa Office Building, 21, Myeongji-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul. He went in and never came out!"
"Look at this kid, he's quite impressive!"
Park Hee-soo looked at Huang Zhicheng on the big screen and said with a smile on his face.
"I've finally caught this kid. I'm going to teach him a lesson before sending him to jail!"
Gao Xidong, who was standing next to him, looked at Huang Zhicheng on the big screen, rolled up his sleeves and said with gritted teeth. Judging from his vicious look, it was obvious that he wanted to beat to death Huang Zhicheng, the psychopathic liar who caused him to be caught by Park Hee-soo.
"Okay, let's go, follow me to catch this guy!"
"Yes, prosecutor!"
Park Hee-soo looked at Gao Xidong and said, then looked at Director Jin and Chunzi beside him and instructed:
"You two stay here and keep an eye on Huang Zhicheng. Call me if you have any news. Don't let him get away. Got it?"
"Got it, Prosecutor Park, don't worry, this kid won't be able to get away!"
Director Jin smiled, and Haruko beside him also nodded slightly, with a faint smile on her face, looking confident and elegant.
The four people acted separately. Park Hee-soo took Gao Xidong to catch Huang Zhicheng, while Director Jin and Chunzi stayed in the secret base to monitor the target person in real time to prevent him from escaping. When Park Hee-soo and Gao Xidong arrived at No. 1606, Donghe Office Building, 21 Mingzhi Road, Mapo District, which was Huang Zhicheng's current residence, the door was open and Huang Zhicheng was not inside. Before they could search carefully, Director Jin called and said quickly:
"Prosecutor Park, the parking lot, he's in the parking lot, he's about to drive away!"
Hearing Director Jin's reminder, Park Hee-soo and Gao Xidong hurriedly chased after him, drove their own car onto the road and said:
"Director Jin, track down Huang Zhicheng!"
“Okay, Prosecutor Park!”
Inside the car, Director Jin's voice came from the headset:
"Wait a minute, okay, I found it. He turned left at the Yongji intersection. It's a black Sonata with a license plate number of 42,4271. Now he's at the next fork in the road!"
"Now we're turning left again and starting to enter Mingzhi Road East. Do you see it?"
"Not yet, keep tracking!"
"Okay, Prosecutor Park, now wait for the left turn at the Jungang-ro intersection!"
"He's starting to move, about to turn left, Central Road East!"
"Okay, I see!"
Under the constant reminder of Director Jin, Park Hee-soo and Gao Xidong drove their car to block Huang Zhicheng, forcing his black Sonata to stop on the side of the road. Park Hee-soo and Gao Xidong got out of the car, and Gao Xidong slapped the front window of the Sonata and shouted:
"Brat, come out quickly, our prosecutor Park wants to see you!"
Without answering Gao Xidong, seeing that Park Hee-soo and Gao Xidong had already gotten out of the car, Huang Zhicheng drove the Sonata back two meters, then accelerated and rushed forward, knocking the car in front of him away and fled. Gao Xidong was startled, and before he could react, Park Hee-soo quickly got back into the car and drove after him alone. The voice of Director Jin came from the headset:
"Turn right, then turn left and enter Putian Road East. There will be no surveillance there!"
"Okay, I got it!"
After hanging up the phone, Park Hee-soo took a look at the Sonata in front of him, turned right into Putian Auxiliary Road, then turned left and accelerated. Looking down from the air, Park Hee-soo and Huang Zhicheng were driving two cars along two roads respectively and were about to meet at the intersection ahead. Park Hee-soo was some distance behind Huang Zhicheng, and when Huang Zhicheng turned right along the intersection, he had just driven out of the intersection.
Instead of following Huang Zhicheng or blocking his car like before, Park Hee-soo took the steering wheel, stepped on the accelerator, and rammed directly into the side of the black Sonata. The two cars collided violently, making a loud noise, and stopped at the same time. The glass was shattered, and the front and body of the two cars were severely deformed. Fortunately, there was no rollover accident.
Park Hee-soo limped out of the car, took the injured and unconscious Huang Zhicheng out of the car, and then checked the Sonata inside and out. Not finding any suspicious items, he took the unconscious Huang Zhicheng back to his secret base.
After returning to the secret base, Park Hee-soo handcuffed Hwang Ji-sung to a chair, and then sent Chun-ja and Director Kim away. He then called Gao Xidong and asked him to search Hwang Ji-sung's home to see if there were any suspicious items, especially documents such as account books. He had always suspected that Hwang Ji-sung's purpose of deceiving Lee Kang-seok was to find Jang Doo-chi's bribery account book.
As night falls, in Yuan Xudong's office at the Criminal Division 2 of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, Jiang Zhentai and others have already gone home from get off work, but Yuan Xudong and Song Eunxi are still working overtime in the office to handle cases. If they don't finish them today, there will be more tomorrow.
Although according to Yuan Xudong's somewhat frivolous words, these cases are trivial matters, but for the parties involved in these cases, these are absolutely big things. The sooner they are over, the sooner they can feel at ease and resume their normal and peaceful life. So Yuan Xudong is just talking, he is still very serious when it comes to his work.
After all, no one is qualified to joke about other people's fate, not even the God in heaven, and not even the prosecutors on earth. At least Yuan Xudong thinks so and is willing to work hard for it. Apart from women, there is no temptation in this world that can corrupt his character. Sorry, it's not women, it's love. He has nothing else to ask for in this life, except for a few passionate romances. The little sisters are pitiful and helpless, how can the kind-hearted Yuan Xudong bear to reject their love?
"Prosecutor, prosecutor...?"
"What's wrong?"
Hearing Song Enxi's voice, Yuan Xudong woke up from his distraction and asked:
"Is there anything you don't understand?"
“Hmm~~”
Nodding slightly, Song Enxi placed a case description in front of Yuan Xudong and said with some embarrassment:
"Prosecutor, look at this case. I don't know how to sentence him!"
"Let me see!"
Yuan Xudong took the case description and took a look at it. A single mother took her 17-year-old blind daughter to the amusement park to ride a roller coaster. Because her daughter was blind, the amusement park staff pulled her aside for safety education. There were many people watching around. The single mother felt that her daughter was insulted by the amusement park, so she had an argument with the staff on the scene.
During the scuffle, the staff member was pushed to the ground by the single mother and fell from the platform of the amusement park, breaking his leg. The amusement park staff member was a college student and this job was a part-time job. The amusement park was unwilling to take responsibility, so the college student asked the single mother to compensate him for a total of 20 million won including medical expenses, which is about more than 100,000 yuan. This compensation is not excessive, and even a bit too little. It can be seen that the college student who broke his leg is still a very kind person.
But the problem is that this single mother lives alone with her blind daughter and she herself has no extraordinary abilities. The money she earns is barely enough for herself and her daughter to live on. She has no ability to compensate the injured college student with 20 million won. If she is arrested and sent to jail, her blind daughter will have no one to take care of her. The injured college student is also from a poor family, and 20 million won is only enough for him to heal his leg and rest for a while, which is the most basic compensation. It is precisely because of this that Song Eun-hee, who is also kind-hearted, is in a dilemma. It's not that she doesn't know how to sentence, but she just can't bear to sentence.
After reading the case description, Yuan Xudong glanced at Song Enxi and said:
"Isn't this case very simple? The injured college student did nothing wrong. He was just working according to the relevant regulations of the amusement park. The single mother may feel that her daughter has been treated unfairly. In addition, her daughter is blind, so she is somewhat inferior or sensitive. She is overly concerned about the words and deeds of the people around her. She pushed the intern and caused him to fall and get injured. The testimonies of both parties and the confessions of the people around him have confirmed this. The injured college student asked her to compensate him for 20 million won. This is a completely reasonable request. What don't you understand?"
After taking a look at Yuan Xudong, Song Enxi said in a whining voice:
"But……"
"But what? This single mother is pitiful? Her daughter is blind and pitiful?"
After glaring at Song Enxi, Yuan Xudong asked her:
"That college student came from a poor family, found a part-time job but met the wrong person, broke his leg and no one compensated him for his medical expenses. Isn't he pitiful?"
After that, without waiting for Song Enxi to speak, Yuan Xudong said directly:
"The law is the law. Everyone is equal before the law. This equality is not just about not fearing the powerful or the rich. It also includes treating women, children, the elderly and the weak equally. Otherwise, if you are strict with people in high positions and wealthy families, and give the disadvantaged groups a break, being strong when facing the strong and weak when facing the weak, is such a law fair?"
Hearing Yuan Xudong say this, Song Enxi weakly retorted:
"According to the laws of the Republic of Korea, if the suspect suffers from a mental illness, he or she can be exempted..."
"Stop, stop!"
After glaring at Song Enxi, Yuan Xudong said:
"I'm just giving an example. Don't quibble with me. In my opinion, the emperor is guilty of the same crime as the common people, and vice versa. The law is the law. Those who use the law to talk about human feelings are all sick people. They are either stupid or bad. Their brains have been kicked by a donkey. Except for special circumstances, such as pregnant women cannot be sentenced to death, other special circumstances are nonsense. Take mental illness for example. Why do mental illnesses have immunity? There is also the issue of proving mental illness. If they pretend to be crazy and stupid and then find an authoritative doctor to issue a certificate, won't those rich and powerful people be able to avoid legal sanctions?"
After listening to Yuan Xudong, Song Enxi couldn't help but glance at him, still hesitantly saying:
"Prosecutor, even if I ask this single mother to compensate the injured college student 20 million won, she doesn't have the money to pay him?"
"That's her problem, not yours!"
Yuan Xudong couldn't help but rolled his eyes and said:
"For example, if you sentence a criminal suspect to 30 years in prison, do you still consider whether he can live another 30 years? I know you feel sorry for this single mother and her blind daughter, but there are too many poor people like this. You can't take care of them all, and you don't have the ability to take care of them. It's best to handle things impartially!"
"Prosecutor Yuan, is there really no way to have the best of both worlds?"
Song Enxi still felt a little reluctant and said:
"If this single mother is really ordered to pay 20 million won in compensation, how will she and her daughter live?"
“There are three ways to solve this problem!”
"real?"
After hearing Yuan Xudong say that there are three ways to help this single mother, Song Enxi, who had already given up hope, said happily:
"Which three methods?"
"First, you have to compensate this single mother with 20 million won. You can pay it yourself or raise money. If you raise money, I can donate 20,000 won. You can figure out the rest yourself. How do you think about this idea?"
“I don’t have money, and I can’t raise 20 million won!”
Song Enxi rolled her eyes at Yuan Xudong and said:
"Prosecutor Yuan, stop joking. Is there any other solution?"
"I'm not kidding!"
Yuan Xudong rolled his eyes at Song Enxi and continued:
"Second, I can use my authority as the prosecutor to delay the case indefinitely by saying that there is insufficient evidence and that it needs further investigation. In the end, a big thing will be reduced to a small one, and a small thing will be reduced to nothing. What do you think of this method?"
"ah?"
Unexpectedly, Yuan Xudong would say this. Song Enxi quickly shook her head and refused:
"No, isn't this an abuse of power? Besides, the injured college student is also very pitiful. If we do this, it would be too unfair to him, right?"
"This is not okay, that is not okay, what do you want?"
Yuan Xudong looked at Song Enxi beside him and said pitifully:
"As your supervisory prosecutor, I am also very pitiful. Why don't you have some pity on me?"
"Prosecutor Yuan, please stop making trouble. Is there a third solution?"
Seeing Yuan Xudong looking at her cutely, Song Enxi asked with a blush. Looking at Song Enxi who was so close to her and smelling the pleasant perfume on her body, Yuan Xudong smiled and said:
"There is one last way, but why should I tell you?"
"What?"
Song Enxi opened her eyes slightly, wondering if she had heard it wrong. Unfortunately, Yuan Xudong repeated it again:
"There is one last way, but I won't tell you unless..."
"Unless what?"
Song Eunxi blinked her big watery eyes and asked curiously.
"Unless... you agree to go to the amusement park with me. I want to ride the roller coaster, the Ferris wheel, the carousel, and the pirate ship. If there is time, we can go to the ocean theme park. How about you treat us?"
"ah?"
"Ah what?"
Looking at Song Enxi, who opened her eyes slightly wide in surprise, Yuan Xudong smiled and said:
"Do you agree or not?"
"promise!"
Nodding vigorously, Song Enxi looked at Yuan Xudong and asked directly:
"Tell me, what is the last solution?"
Glancing at Song Enxi, Yuan Xudong pointed at the third party in the case file, which was the amusement park, and said with a smile:
“Here it is!”
