Volume 5: Qingming Chapter 35: Convergence
Tang Butian and Sun Yu arrived in Chucheng at around one o'clock. After getting off the train, they followed the crowd to the exit and saw a man in a blue polo shirt standing not far away holding an A4 paper with their names on it. They quickened their pace and walked over.
The man hesitated for a moment after seeing the two. After confirming that they were walking towards him, he immediately smiled and said, "Are you the experts from Tangjiang?" He introduced himself, "I'm Chang Lizhang , from the Chucheng Religious Affairs Bureau. Shall I take you to the hotel?"
"It's troublesome." Sun Yu said.
They followed Chang Lizhang to the parking lot. As he walked, Chang Lizhang said, "The weather in Chu City has been very strange recently. I don't know if it's just my mind. The weather was very comfortable at this time of year in previous years. Now it's cold when it rains, but when it stops raining and the sun comes out, it feels scorching hot when you're in the sun. But when you walk into the shade, you find it's still cold, and the temperature hasn't really risen.
Tang Butian looked up at the sun.
Golden sunlight shines through the mottled clouds.
Chang Lizhang said: "The meeting will be at 9:30 tomorrow morning. Do you have any plans for the evening?"
"Anything going on tonight?" Sun Yu asked.
"No, no. If you want to have a good rest in the hotel, I will arrange a buffet on the second floor of the hotel. If you want to eat out or go shopping, there are many good restaurants on Chunmei Road next to the hotel."
As they were talking they walked to the car.
Chang Lizhang opened the trunk door, put Tang Butian and Sun Yu's suitcases in, and then he sat in the driver's seat.
As soon as he sat down, he heard a cold female voice.
Tang Butian asked: "Zheng Yuantai is missing, who is responsible for the investigation now?"
"It's me." Chang Lizhang said.
"you?"
"Yes, Brother Zheng helped me a lot in the past," Chang Lizhang said with a sigh, "The person in charge before was also from the Tangjiang City Special Operations Department. His name was Su Wangshu. Do you know him?"
The car drove out of the parking lot and headed towards the city.
Sun Yu said, “I know.”
"When did you find out he was missing?" Tang Butian asked again.
"If we find out, it was seven days ago. We are not sure when Brother Zheng disappeared," Chang Lizhang sighed, "Brother Zheng only goes to work when he has something to do. He usually practices at home."
"Then how did you find out?"
"A tourist found Zheng's sword on Jiujin Mountain. It was found during security check at the train station. As the management has been strict in the past two years, he was detained and the sword was confiscated. It just so happened that the officer in charge of this case had seen Zheng before and recognized the sword. That's how we realized Zheng was missing."
"That's a coincidence." Sun Yu said.
"Yes, they reported the matter to the higher-ups according to the procedure, and then Su Wangshu came to take charge of this matter. He knew that I was familiar with Brother Zheng and knew a little bit about it, so he asked me to follow him to investigate the matter. As a result, after two days of investigation, he left, saying that someone else would take over."
As he spoke, Chang Lizhang sighed, "Now that he's gone, this matter has fallen on my shoulders."
Sun Yu said, "There are many others who have also received it."
“That’s right.”
"What did you find out?" Tang Butian continued to ask.
"We went to the place where the sword was found, cordoned off the area around it, and assigned someone to watch over it to prevent tourists from entering by mistake."
"You didn't find anything?"
"That's right," Chang Lizhang admitted, and he added, "Advisor Su and I walked almost all over Jiujin Mountain. We brought a spiritual power scanner with Brother Zheng's spiritual power fluctuations stored in it."
"Where is the sword now?"
"It's stored in the evidence room of the Public Security Bureau." Chang Lizhang observed Tang Butian's expression through the rearview mirror. He said, "Shall we go to the hotel first, put our luggage there, and then go to the Public Security Bureau?"
"Okay." Tang Butian agreed to Chang Lizhang's arrangement.
"You will be making a speech at tomorrow's meeting..."
"I'm not going."
"That……"
“Sunwoo will go instead of me.”
"OK."
As we were talking we arrived at our destination.
The car stopped in front of the hotel gate.
…
The No. 17 bus stopped in front of the platform. Jiang You held Jiang Mo and got on the bus from the front door. After throwing two coins into the cash box, he walked to the rear of the bus and sat down in the last row.
Lin Yu also sat in the last row.
Along the way, Jiang You was looking at his mobile phone.
After five stops, Jiang You and Lin Yu got off the bus.
Jiang You walked forward, and Lin Yu called him, "To get to Chucheng No. 1 Middle School, you need to transfer to bus No. 31, and it will arrive in three stops."
"I know, let's just walk over there."
Jiang You looked up at the sun, "It's not raining anymore, let's go for a walk, get some sun, and do some photosynthesis." He paused, then corrected himself, "Replenish vitamin D, promote calcium absorption, and soy sauce. Can you come down and walk by yourself?"
Jiang Mo lay motionless on Jiang You's shoulder.
"Are we going to school to look for Duan Rui's teacher?"
"Just walk around," Jiang You took a step to the side, walking in the shadows of the wall. "You like to summarize, and your strong purpose is an advantage. You will also subjectively filter out a lot of seemingly useless and invalid information. Besides, since you have just entered this industry, it is better to read as much as possible. It's like reading a book. You have to read more and more, and then read more and more, and then you can really master it. If you start by reading about how many problems the seven theorems can help you solve, or expect to learn a few professional terms by listening to a lecture, then you are just knowing, not knowledge. Letting you go to the research institute is also to let you read more."
"I understand. I will try to listen more, watch more and draw fewer conclusions."
Jiang You walked forward slowly. "I'm just guessing. In high school, it's hard to flirt with each other under the teacher's nose. After being discovered, her mother picked her up and dropped her off every day. I think she and that guy are probably on their way to school. I just checked my phone. Each stop on bus 17 is long. Bus 31 goes all the way to school in three stops, less than two kilometers, which is just right..."
"That's true..."
"There's a shortcut here." Jiang You looked at the map on the phone screen and took Lin Yu across a road. Lin Yu saw a path trampled out in the green belt. They walked along this road for about fifty meters and saw an abandoned factory.
The iron door was half open and covered with rust.
The weeds are growing wildly.
Jiang You walked in. "Go through the back door and cross the street, and you will reach Chucheng No. 1 Middle School."
The phone vibrated.
It was Tang Xiaotian who called and Jiang You picked up the phone.
"Leader, have you arrived in Chu City? Okay, okay, I think," Jiang You looked around, "why don't you come over here, I might find something here."
