It was the last day of the century. As the last bell rang in the early morning, a clear gunshot rang out in a hillside forest in the outskirts of Wu City. After the gunshot, the deputy chief of Wu City, Zhang Cheng, fell into a pool of blood. This explosive news spread throughout Wu City on the morning of the first day of the New Era.
A week later, at eight o'clock in the morning, Su Qing, the Criminal Investigation Director of the Anti-corruption Bureau of Wucheng City's Public Security Bureau, came to his office. As soon as the door opened, Su Qing heard the phone ringing in his office. At this time, Su Qing's movements were particularly agile. He walked to the phone in a few steps and picked up the receiver. He heard the other party say,"Hello, is this Chief Su? Attorney-General Zhao asked me to inform you to go downstairs immediately and go to the municipal party committee meeting with him. He is waiting for you downstairs.”
Su Qing put down the phone and hurried downstairs. As soon as he stepped out of the building, he saw Inspector Zhao's car waiting at the door. He quickly walked a few steps and opened the car door. Before he could sit still, Inspector Zhao said to him,"I heard that Deputy Zhang grew up in Zhang Village in the suburbs. The suicide, right? Now, not only were people on the streets and alleys spreading the news, but the radio stations and television news were also broadcasting this matter. Although these news needed to be censored, they were only doing objective reports. No one could stop them. Besides, if our dominant medium doesn't intervene, then this matter will only get more and more evil. Therefore, the municipal party committee is holding an emergency meeting this morning to make a special response to this incident. The municipal party committee has requested that our prosecutor's office also participate. You're the Criminal Investigation Director, so I brought you to this meeting. Remember, in such a meeting, we can only listen more and talk less.”
Su Qing had long heard about this matter, but he did not think it had anything to do with him. This was because it was impossible for a prosecutor of his level to come into contact with such cases. Therefore, he never asked too much about this matter. But today, he still asked,""Did Deputy Chief Zhang really commit suicide?”
Zhao shook his head and said,"It's still too early to make this conclusion. Let's see what the police officers say when we get to the venue." They had been investigating the case for a week.”
The car soon arrived at the municipal party committee's compound. When they walked into the municipal party committee meeting room, the room was already filled with people. The long conference table was sitting in front of the municipal party committee secretary Cao Xueqiang and Shi Chang Zhou Lin. Seeing that everyone had arrived, Chief Zhou whispered a few words to Cao Xueqiang. Then, he cleared his throat and glanced at the people in the venue. Then, he said seriously,"Comrades, the meeting will begin now. The theme of today's meeting is to listen to the report of the police officers. Please give us your instructions, Secretary Cao."
Cao Xueqiang cleared his throat, looked around the venue, and said,""Comrades, regarding the murder of Deputy Chief Zhang Cheng, we have not reached a conclusion yet. I hope that the comrades present here will explain clearly to their subordinates and the general public the true situation of Deputy Chief Zhang Cheng's murder. After the comrades of the police station report the situation, when they go back to convey it, they must not expand or shrink it. Now, please report to the police.”
Upon hearing Secretary Cao's call, the Criminal Investigation Director of the municipal police station, Fang Tao, stood up and began to report. His tone was moderate and sounded just right."Leaders, I'm now reporting to you on the investigation of Deputy Chief Zhang Cheng's death. At 3 am on the 1st of this month, we received a report that a gunshot was heard in a forest on the hillside of Zhangzhuang in our city. At dawn, someone saw a corpse. After receiving the report, we immediately rushed to the scene. At the scene, we found Vice Chief Zhang Cheng's upper body leaning against a big tree. There was grass under him. He was holding a pistol in his right hand. After investigation, one bullet was missing from the gun. It had been found out that the pistol was borrowed from the guard squad by Deputy Chief Zhang. There was a round bullet hole in Assistant Chief Zhang's Yintang acupoint, and there was a bullet hole in the back of his head. There was no trace of a fight at the scene, and no suspicious remains were found at the scene except for Assistant Chief Zhang's personal belongings. After we interviewed the local people, they said that at noon on the first day of the incident, they found a person wearing a coat on the hillside. After that, they didn't find any suspicious people. After multiple investigations, they had indeed only heard one gunshot. We found a bullet in the grass. After technical identification, it was the bullet from Deputy Chief Zhang's pistol. There was only Deputy Chief Zhang's fingerprint on Deputy Chief Zhang's pistol. The gunshot was heard by an old man who was watching the mountain. At that time, based on his experience, he determined that it was not the sound of a shotgun, but he did not dare to go forward at that time. It was only at dawn that he found the place where the gunshot came from. At that time, he found Deputy Chief Zhang sitting under the tree. The old man repeatedly told us that he had participated in the War to Resist the United States and aid Korea, so he was not afraid of gunshots and dead people. He went to Deputy Chief Zhang to test his nostrils and found that he was indeed dead. So he quickly went down the mountain to report the case to us. We have now concluded that Deputy Chief Zhang committed suicide.”
After Secretary Cao heard the report, he turned to Chief Zhou Lin and said,""Chief Zhou, do you have any objections?”
"This case is serious. It's not something our bureau can solve." I suggest that we immediately report it to the provincial party committee and the provincial public security department for them to come up with specific opinions. Of course, our work should not stop. We must continue to do some basic work.”
After Secretary Cao heard Chief Zhou's words, he announced loudly,"We'll follow Chief Zhou's suggestion and report it to the Provincial Party Committee. All departments in our city are fully prepared and ready to be dispatched by the provincial Wei at any time. If there is no doubt, the meeting will be dismissed.”
On the way back to the prosecutor's office, Su Qing said to Zhao,""Inspector Zhao, why is the city asking me to attend the meeting? It's enough for one of your leaders to attend the meeting.”
Zhao glanced at Su Qing and said,""Don't you understand? This case will definitely alert the provincial party committee, and the provincial party committee will definitely respond in time. What's the fastest response? Of course, it's to set up a special task force. You're a registered prosecutor in our department. If the special task force wants to ask our department for someone, they'll definitely send you. That's why I brought you to the meeting to listen to the situation. At the same time, it's to let you be mentally prepared. In order to fight."
Sure enough, three days later, Su Qing received a notice from the provincial prosecutor's office asking him to attend a meeting at the Supreme People's Court. Naturally, Su Qing did not dare to delay. He immediately went to the Provincial Supreme People's Court. As soon as he entered the door, he was brought to the office of the Provincial Supreme People's Court's chief prosecutor. The chief prosecutor, who was about 50 years old, looked at Su Qing and said to him,"I'm sure you know what's going on after I called you here from the city. After the provincial party committee received the report from your municipal party committee, they immediately gave instructions and asked us to form a joint task force with the provincial public security department. Now, the hospital will send you to the Provincial Public Security Department. Director Jiang is waiting for you. The leader of the task force was Director Jiang.”
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