NOS Chapter 76

Chapter 76: Birch Bridge (7)

Evening, the night was thick.

Outside the city, a northerly wind, carrying bone-chilling cold, howled into Za Mu Er in early winter. The streets were deserted, and the shops on both sides had long since closed, the faint streetlights flickering ominously. Before long, scattered snow and sand swept down with the wind, repainting the freshly swept streets white, and obscuring the footprints left by passersby.

In the distance, the shadows of the mountains loomed, and under the gray and hazy ridges, there was no sign of smoke or human activity. On the frozen Ning Nie Li Qi River, a train slowly chugged along, spewing black smoke from its diesel engine into the sky.

Woo–

“What are you looking at? Hurry up,” Qin Tian urged impatiently from under the bridge.

Yu Chunming withdrew his gaze from the train. He coughed lightly twice, exhaling a breath of cold air: “Where exactly is Birch Bridge?”

“Does it matter where it is? You’re going to pay my debts,” Qin Tian grabbed his brother’s injured shoulder and pushed him ahead.

Yu Chunming’s face paled, and he groaned softly.

“I kept hearing the past couple of weeks that a policeman died over in Bei Lin Village, blood everywhere. Villagers going out early in the morning could even see Freshred crops,” Qin Tian asked with a smile, “Big brother, that wasn’t your blood, was it?”

Yu Chunming straightened up with difficulty, not saying a word.

The snow fell harder, and the two began to quicken their pace.

“Why aren’t you curious about how I know those things?” Qin Tian asked.

Yu Chunming focused on the road, not bothering to answer: “I’m not curious.”

Qin Tian snorted and laughed: “You don’t think Jiang Min or Wu Lao San told me, do you?”

Yu Chunming didn’t answer.

Seeing this, Qin Tian said smugly: “I found it out myself. Big brother, I found out about your affairs myself! What do you think, didn’t expect that, did you?”

Yu Chunming replied casually: “Didn’t expect it.”

This attitude immediately angered Qin Tian, ​​who suddenly turned around and grabbed Yu Chunming’s collar, shouting sharply: “Try being perfunctory with me again!”

Yu Chunming was extremely calm. He looked at the drunk Qin Tian and replied indifferently: “Are you going to kill me?”

“You think I wouldn’t dare?” Qin Tian glared.

Yu Chunming suddenly smiled and said, “If I die, who will pay your debts?”

Qin Tian’s hand loosened slightly.

But then, Yu Chunming added: “And, you better remember this, if the act of assaulting a police officer is for the purpose of killing the police officer, it can constitute intentional homicide, punishable by death, life imprisonment, or imprisonment of more than ten years. Qin Tian, ​​if you really kill me, that’s much more serious than owing three hundred thousand.”

Compared with being in a detention center, the death penalty was too sensational. Qin Tian was awakened by this, and he let go of his hand, his face gloomy, and ordered: “Follow me closely. If you dare to run away halfway, I might really kill you.”

At 8:30 that night, Qin Tian finally led Yu Chunming through half the city and arrived outside a row of abandoned boiler factory buildings on the outskirts. The place was deserted, but dozens of cars were parked outside, and the ground was littered with cigarette butts.

Behind the factory buildings, there was a small canal leading to the Ning Nie Li Qi River, with several narrow stone piers spanning the canal. In the early years when the boiler factory was still in operation, this place was once called “Birch Bridge.”

“We’re here.” Qin Tian rubbed his face, which was frozen red, raised his hand to push Yu Chunming, and ordered him to go down to the negative floor from the stairs on the side of the factory building.

Yu Chunming glanced at the dark dirt road outside and asked strangely: “Isn’t Birch Bridge an entertainment club in the Huang Sha Ling area? What are you bringing me here for?”

Qin Tian chuckled: “Big brother, gambling dens can’t be found so easily. The club in Huang Sha Ling is just a front, this is the real thing. If it wasn’t hidden, we would have been caught by the police long ago.”

Yu Chunming raised his eyebrows and stepped aside: “You go down first.”

“Okay,” Qin Tian raised his leg and walked in. “I’ll go down first, but don’t run away halfway, otherwise it’s none of my business if Jiang Min gets her hands and feet chopped off.”

This was a long passage, perhaps an underground pipe used by the boiler factory to transport fuel in the past. Over the years, it had been transformed into a small road that could be traveled.

Yu Chunming counted in his mind, keeping track of the time and distance. He followed Qin Tian silently until the two passed through a large iron gate.

Instantly, a roar of noise came, and Yu Chunming’s eyes, which had just adjusted to the darkness, were suddenly stung by the strong light, making it difficult for him to open them.

“Who is it?” A burly man with a full beard guarded the iron gate. The burly man had an unfriendly expression, and a pistol was hanging from his waist.

Qin Tian gave him a flattering smile and pointed to Yu Chunming: “My brother, here to help me pay Tao’s debt.”

“Little Tian?” The burly man frowned and looked at Qin Tian’s face clearly, then pointed inside: “Just right, Tao is drinking inside, and he said that if you don’t pay tonight, he will bring someone to smash your house.”

Qin Tian’s smile froze on his face. He gritted his teeth and said to Yu Chunming: “You better really have three hundred thousand on hand, otherwise neither of us will be able to get away with it!”

Before, at home, Yu Chunming had vowed that as long as he led him to Birch Bridge, he could directly transfer the money to pay off the hundreds of thousands of dollars that Qin Tian owed in interest.

Qin Tian had been begging for help for many days, but he couldn’t solve this big problem, so he immediately agreed to Yu Chunming’s proposal when he heard it.

But after walking this way, Qin Tian, ​​whose cerebral cortex was extremely smooth, suddenly became a little worried. After all, Yu Chunming was a policeman. Was it appropriate for him to lead a policeman into a casino?

“Where is the person, how should I pay?” But as soon as he entered the door, Yu Chunming said without hesitation.

The place didn’t look very big, but there were a lot of customers. Walking two steps inside, facing the aisle was a row of billiard tables, a few slot machines were crowded in the corner, and in the center were dealers, bodyguards, and dancers dancing on the stage.

It turned out that Birch Bridge was such a smoky little casino, and the people who squatted inside to have fun were either nearby villagers or foremen.

Yu Chunming, who had swept large venues in Songlan, looked around and sneered in his heart.

“Follow me.” Qin Tian had confidence, he put his hands in his pockets and led Yu Chunming all the way into the innermost private room.

The private room was very spacious, with a mahjong table and a billiard table inside. Several men and women were crowded in the booth singing karaoke. There were a few packs of drugs on the table, and the room was filled with a burnt smell.

“Boss Tao!” Qin Tian called enthusiastically.

Yu Chunming took a look and saw a fat middle-aged man standing up from the booth. He glanced at Qin Tian and asked coldly: “Where’s my money?”

“Money, the money is here.” Qin Tian pushed Yu Chunming forward. “Boss Tao, this is my brother. He has money in his hand, he can pay.”

“Your brother?” The middle-aged man lifted his eyelids and looked at Yu Chunming a few times. “Even your mother came, but the money hasn’t been paid. Little Tian, ​​can your brother really pay it?”

“Of course,” Yu Chunming said calmly. He took out a bank card from his pocket and looked around, “Where can I swipe it?”

Seeing the card, the Tao boss finally willing to brighten his turbid eyes, just see that the just not cold or hot people suddenly laughed, he went forward enthusiastically to greet: “It turned out to be Xiao Tian’s brother … is quite rich.”

Yu Chunming raised the corner of his mouth and handed the card to Tao’s boss’s hand: “The password is 110717, swipe it.”

Qin Tian’s eyes were instantly staring, he never thought that Yu Chunming really had money.

Boss Tao also didn’t expect that Qin Tian had been mixing and waiting to die here for so long, and he could still pay it back. He pulled Yu Chunming over and was about to walk inside: “Since the money is given, then everyone is still friends, come sit, don’t be polite.”

Yu Chunming stood still, he asked: “Where is Qin Tian’s mother, I’m here to take her away.”

Boss Tao paused, his expression suddenly a little embarrassed, he laughed: “Oh, my brother, didn’t Xiao Tian tell you?”

“What did he want to tell me?” Yu Chunming narrowed his eyes.

Naturally, it was about Jiang Min. Qin Tian avoided the important and focused on the minor, only mentioning that Jiang Min was taken away by the people from Birch Bridge, but didn’t mention why she was taken away.

Now, seeing the fat pig in front of him with a lewd smile, Yu Chunming had a bad feeling in his heart.

Sure enough, he heard Boss Tao sighing: “Xiao Tian actually owes me more than 300,000, totaling 550,600. I saw that he and his brother have been friends for so many years, so I waived 6,000, and then waived the 50,000, but he still couldn’t pay it back. In the end, I proposed, why don’t … let his old mother come and have a drink with me.”

Dong! Before Boss Tao could finish speaking, Yu Chunming suddenly raised his left hand and punched him. Before anyone could react, the one surnamed Tao had already fallen backward onto the coffee table.

Bang——crack!

The glass table and bottles were shattered all over the floor, and the burnt smell was even stronger.

“What are you doing?” Soon, a group of bodyguards rushed in.

Qin Tian was so frightened that his face turned pale, and he squatted on the ground, not daring to move.

Yu Chunming was very comfortable. He dusted off his left hand on his pants, then picked up a billiard cue from the ground and used it to Hold onTao’s throat.

“I’ll only ask once, where is Jiang Min?” He said word by word.

Qin Tian trembled and called out: “Brother, big brother, don’t, don’t make trouble here … they have …”

“Have what?” Yu Chunming turned his head and met a dark gun muzzle.

Qin Tian replied weakly: “Have a gun …”

“Have a gun?” Yu Chunming tilted his head. “What gun? Bring it here and let me see.”

“Big brother …”

“Do you want to die?” The bodyguard roared.

However, at this moment, there was a sudden commotion at the door. A waiter ran in in a panic, trembling and shouting: “Police, the police are here …”

As soon as these words came out, Boss Tao, who was originally paralyzed on the ground, twitched all over, almost fainting directly under Yu Chunming’s billiard cue. The men and women crowded in the booth also swarmed up, all fighting to get out.

Yu Chunming stopped him with a cue, and then knocked off the bodyguard’s gun, which he didn’t know was real or fake.

“Stop pointing that scary thing at me.” Yu Chunming mocked.

The bodyguard, who was angry and embarrassed, was about to pounce forward, but in the next second, Min Chao, the captain of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Municipal Bureau, had rushed in with people, and he shouted: “Everyone, hold your head and squat down!”

Half an hour ago, in the cafeteria of the Municipal Bureau, Min Chao was holding a rice bowl, enthusiastically inquiring about Vice-Governor Yu’s family affairs from Guan Yao.

He squeezed his small eyes and said mysteriously: “Old Guan, are you going to be promoted?”

Guan Yao was concentrating on picking the scallions from the dishes, and he was very puzzled: “What meritorious service have I done to be promoted?”

Min Chao patted him on the shoulder meaningfully: “You’ve been running around Songlan with the Governor’s eldest son, isn’t that a sure promotion?”

Guan Yao helplessly put down his chopsticks and said, “Don’t talk nonsense. Don’t spread this kind of thing outside, or others will gossip. It doesn’t matter if they gossip about me, what if it gets to Chunming’s ears?”

“Oh, you’re really cautious, as expected of someone who is going to be promoted,” Min Chao said happily, “Old Guan, I heard that Team Leader Wang Zhen has been in his position for more than ten years and is about to be promoted to the director level and transferred to the Provincial Department. Doesn’t he want you? If you follow him, you’ll go straight to the Provincial Department.”

Guan Yao was speechless. He closed the lunch box, stood up and said: “Stop making fun of me, you are ready to be promoted to deputy director, and you will be the director when the document comes down. I am still on the way to the deputy director, and you are embarrassed to tell me this kind of thing. Okay, I won’t listen to your joking anymore, I’m going back to deliver food to Chunming.”

But at this moment, Guan Yao’s phone suddenly “beeped,” and a text message for large-amount transfer identity verification from the bank came over. His expression was fixed, staring at the bright “300,000.00” on the text message in a daze.

“What’s wrong?” Min Chao looked at Guan Yao in confusion.

Guan Yao raised his head in confusion: “I seem to have had my bank card swiped.”

Half an hour later, the person who “swiped” Guan Yao’s bank card was sitting on the billiard table in the Birch Bridge casino private room. He had a billiard cue on his lap, Min Chao’s police cotton coat on his body, and an unlit cigarette in his mouth. He was leisurely watching the Criminal Investigation Brigade count the people involved in the case.

“Where is the person?” Guan Yao, who was still holding a boxed lunch, squeezed into the crowd with a black face.

“Here, here.” Min Chao led Guan Yao to Yu Chunming very enthusiastically. He praised, “It’s still Officer Yu who is skilled and bold, and can think of this method, to lure the enemy…”

“Are you crazy?” Guan Yao scolded before Min Chao finished speaking. “Those people have guns, do you understand?”

Yu Chunming took off his cigarette and raised his eyebrows: “Fake, Officer Guan didn’t see it?”

“Before he shoots, can you know it’s fake?” Guan Yao questioned.

“Of course I knew,” Yu Chunming said confidently. “A real gun loaded with bullets is heavier. When it’s hanging on the waist, the pants will naturally sag. You can see it at a glance. I found out when I stepped on the threshold of Birch Bridge.”

“You…”

“Moreover, didn’t I notify you?” Yu Chunming said plausibly.

Notify, how to notify? Notify with Guan Yao’s bank card to swipe a large amount of money!

Which policeman handles a case like this? Guan Yao was simply speechless.

Yu Chunming was still very reasonable: “I know you are in the branch office, so when the text message is sent, you will definitely check the flow of funds and the consumption address. In this case, why not take advantage of this opportunity to wipe out the Birch Bridge?”

Speaking of this, he glanced at Qin Tian, ​​who was squatting by the door, “Just right, this time, add another crime to that kid and sentence him to a few years, so that he can reform in there.”

These words left Guan Yao speechless. He threw away the lunch box, went up and pulled Yu Chunming’s left arm and pulled him up: “Come home with me.”

“Hey, no, your Aunt Jiang is still…”

“Jiang Min is not here!” Before Yu Chunming could finish speaking, Boss Tao, who had recovered, shouted loudly, “I was looking for someone to invite Jiang Min, but she actually carried pepper spray with her, and kicked my brother in the balls and made him bleed. None of us dared to move her again. Today, she left this afternoon…”

“Left?” Yu Chunming was stunned.

“Left, really left, unharmed.” Boss Tao said quickly.

Yu Chunming’s eyes flickered, turned his head and whispered to Guan Yao: “Sorry, I just heard Qin Tian say that he sold his mother to the creditor, and I was a little anxious, so I didn’t have time to notify you. I came here directly, it was my fault this time.”

Guan Yao took a breath and didn’t want to lose his temper with Yu Chunming in public. He sighed silently, reached out and pulled Yu Chunming’s clothes on his shoulders, and asked kindly: “Did you strain the wound?”

Yu Chunming decisively began to pretend to be pitiful: “It seems to have strained a bit, it hurts so much now.”

Guan Yao’s forehead suddenly jumped wildly, he took the person away, and then said to Min Chao: “I’ll send Chunming back first.”

With these words, he was about to take Yu Chunming away from this dark basement full of the smell of alcohol and smoke.

But just as the two were about to go out, a small policeman from the Municipal Bureau who was responsible for escorting the suspects hurried over. He approached Min Chao and said in a low voice: “Chief Min, someone here said that he is Officer Yu’s younger brother.”

“What?” Min Chao was surprised.

Officer Yu’s younger brother, isn’t that the son of Vice-Governor Yu?

However, Yu Chunming didn’t care. He waved his hand, too lazy to turn his head, and said, “Send the one surnamed Qin to the Forestry Center, I want to interrogate him myself.”

But before he finished speaking, the little policeman then said: “That person said his name is Yu Chang.”