The train driver in the courtyard

Summer afternoon.

After learning about Professor Lebedev's identity, all members of the task force felt the situation was difficult.

Professor Lebedev is also a big shot among the Russians.

Under the current circumstances, if such a person is touched, it will inevitably cause big trouble.

"No matter who it is, if they dare to steal our things, we will pick up an axe and chop off his hands!" Zhou Ke straightened his chest, clenched his fists and said, "Brother Aiguo, you give the order, we will investigate Professor Lebedev immediately!"

The team members also made up their minds.

At this moment, their hearts were filled with anger. Even if there was a battlefield filled with smoke ahead, they would rush forward without hesitation.

To everyone's surprise, Li Aiguo shook his head at this time.

"Don't move this line for now."

"Ah!" Zhou Ke's eyes dropped in shock, and he said in surprise: "Brother Aiguo, are you scared? This is not your style."

"What nonsense!" Li Aiguo asked with a stern face: "Zhou Ke, let me ask you, what are we most afraid of when investigating a case?"

"What I fear most is having no clues!" Zhou Ke, who is now considered an old policeman, straightened his back and said.

"No, I'm most afraid of having too many clues."

"Isn't it bad to have too many clues?"

Zhou Ke was a little confused when he heard this. It was not until Li Aiguo got on the jeep that he reacted and quickly followed him into the jeep.

"set off!"

Following Li Aiguo's order, the convoy drove towards Beijing Cotton Factory No. 2.

Zhou Ke kept muttering to himself along the way: "Are we afraid of having too many clues when investigating a case? What does Brother Aiguo mean?"

He wanted to ask Li Aiguo, but when he saw Li Aiguo sitting in the passenger seat with his eyes closed, looking deep in thought, he didn't feel like disturbing him.

Zhou Ke was just full of doubts that he couldn't figure out. It felt like thousands of ants were crawling in his heart and he couldn't sit still.

Minister Niu saw that he was restless, so he had to lower his voice and explain: "The most frightening thing about investigating a case is that there are so many clues. It seems that every clue is possible, but investigating each clue takes time and energy. If you can't grasp the main clues, not only will you not catch the real culprit, but you may also waste time.

So in this case, the best thing to do is to continue the investigation according to the established investigation ideas. "

Zhou Ke was also a talented investigator and immediately understood the path.

He couldn't help smacking his lips twice.

It is really depressing that an old policeman who specializes in investigations was surpassed by a train driver in criminal investigation.

The jeep roared all the way to the gate of Beijing Cotton No. 1 Factory.

Chief Ma of the Security Department had been notified and was guarding the door with seven or eight security officers.

Seeing the jeep coming, Section Chief Ma trotted over and stopped the jeep.

He saluted the co-pilot, and when he saw clearly that it was Li Aiguo sitting in the passenger seat, a strange look flashed in his eyes.

"It's Driver Li. Why are you leading the investigation today?"

"Chief Ma, we'll explain the extra things later. Open the factory door immediately. We need to take control of the spinning workshop immediately!"

As Li Aiguo spoke, he took out the railway document from his bag and handed it over.

Section Chief Ma sensed the tense atmosphere from Li Aiguo's tone and his eyes quickly scanned the documents.

"I'll do it right away!"

After handing the documents back, Section Chief Ma turned around and waved to the security officers: "Open the door, open the door quickly!"

The two security officers trotted over and opened the big iron gate. The driver stepped on the accelerator and the jeep roared towards the gate.

At this moment, a fat figure suddenly ran over from the side.

This guy is as fat as a ball, with very short legs, and when he runs it's almost like a football rolling on the ground.

After a hundred-meter sprint, the football was successfully shot into the goal.

No, he was blocked at the gate.

"What are you doing? It's working hours now, no outside vehicles are allowed to enter!" Football supported his knees with his hands, breathing heavily, and every bit of fat seemed to tell of his raging anger at the moment.

When he saw that person, Section Chief Ma's face changed: "Deputy Director Huang, why are you here?"

"Old Ma, you are an old security guard too. How can you take the lead in violating the factory rules?" Deputy Director Huang took several breaths and finally calmed down.

He put his hands behind his back, walked to the front door in a square step, pointed at the jeep, and asked arrogantly: "Which unit are they from? Have they applied for passes?"

Section Chief Ma explained in a low voice: "Director Huang, these are comrades from the railway who are here to investigate the case. They have the documents issued by the Ministry of Railways."

"On the railway? Ha, I, Huang, have been the factory director for so many years, and this is the first time I know that our Beijing Cotton No. 1 Factory is under the management of the Ministry of Railways!" Deputy Factory Director Huang frowned and waved his hand at the jeep: "No one can break the rules of our Beijing Cotton No. 1 Factory today."

Looking at the football blocking his way, Li Aiguo frowned.

Beijing Cotton No. 1 Factory was under the management of the Ministry of Textile Industry of the State Council and did not need to obey the orders of the Ministry of Railways.

However, as brother units, they generally cooperate with each other when a case occurs.

What's going on with this thing?
At this time, Section Chief Ma was still trying to explain to Deputy Director Huang: "Director, although this matter was led by the Ministry of Railways, it is related to the confidential equipment produced by Class B of the Spinning Workshop last time."

At this point, Section Chief Ma turned his head to look at the jeep, then turned back and said to Deputy Director Huang in a low voice: "These people are very important. The director asked us to fully cooperate with them."

Deputy Factory Director Huang interrupted Section Chief Ma, his eyes rolling around: "Old Ma, do you think I am deliberately making things difficult for you? You are wrong, I am doing this for the sake of our textile factory. If these people find out anything, our textile factory will be the one to suffer the consequences."

"Director, what you said is wrong. If there is really a problem here, we should find out and solve it in time, and not cover it up." Section Chief Ma frowned.

The director of the textile factory went to the south for an inspection and study two days ago, and the work in the factory was handed over to Deputy Director Huang, who is in charge of routine work.

Section Chief Ma could understand Deputy Director Huang's concern about something going wrong.

However, we should still have a firm stand when it comes to major issues.

"I don't care about so many things. Anyway, in my area, if I want to investigate a case, I have to ask the ministry to issue a notice!
Otherwise, no one will be able to set foot in our Beijing Cotton No. 1 Factory."

Deputy Director Huang became even angrier when he saw that Chief Ma, the security chief, dared to refute him.

Holding his waist, his eyes widened, he reminded: "Old Ma, I know you have a good relationship with the old factory director.

But nothing lasts forever, the old factory manager is old, he will retire sooner or later, you should think about yourself too."

Section Chief Ma realized that he was misunderstood and was about to explain when Li Aiguo's voice came from behind him: "Section Chief Ma, what happened?"

Li Aiguo was dissatisfied when he saw that the convoy was stopped by football.

Especially now that there are already a lot of people gathered at the gate, it would be terrible if the news leaked out.

Section Chief Ma jogged all the way to the car window, bent over and explained in a low voice: "That is Deputy Director Huang who is in charge of the general affairs of our factory.

He thinks your documents are incomplete and needs the documents from our department.
Otherwise, please contact the State Council and ask them to issue a formal document."

The deputy factory director in charge of general affairs wants to maintain his own authority. It turns out that there are all kinds of birds in the forest.

"It takes a lot of time to issue the formalities, and now we don't have time."

"Then I'll go explain it to Deputy Director Huang. I'm sure he'll understand."

"No need, let me explain it to him."

In the past, Li Aiguo would have kept a low profile and gone through the formal procedures.

But now there are more and more people watching, and we can’t delay any longer.

Li Aiguo opened the car door and walked down. He waved his hand and the team members in the GAZ truck behind him jumped down.

"Hey, what are you doing? This is Beijing Cotton No. 1 Factory, a national key factory. If you want to act tough here, why don't you take a piss and look at yourself in the mirror?" Deputy Director Huang was furious when he saw that Li Aiguo dared to act tough.

Beijing Cotton No. 1 Factory is the largest textile factory in the country, holding the power of cloth production and sales. The leaders of any unit in Beijing have to bow and nod when they see him.

This rough guy on the railway actually dared to lead his men to force their way in.

If they succeed, will Beijing Cotton No. 1 Factory still have any dignity?

Especially since there were many workers and leaders around, all watching how he would handle the situation!

Deputy Factory Director Huang rushed over and pointed his finger at Li Aiguo's nose: "Do you know what you are doing?"

Zhou Ke also got out of the car at this time. Seeing Deputy Director Huang walking towards him with a dirty mouth, he was about to rush up to him.

Li Aiguo patted his shoulder and said, "Let me do it."

As soon as Zhou Ke stepped aside, Deputy Director Huang rushed to Li Aiguo and started to curse, "Don't think you can show off your power here just because you are from the Ministry of Railways.

This is the Beijing Cotton Mill No. 1, you should have your stuff put away right now, or don’t blame me for being rude to you.”

"哐~"

Li Aiguo swung his fist and shone it on Deputy Factory Director Huang's face like a light bulb, knocking the remaining words from Deputy Factory Director Huang's mouth back into his throat, and he could only let out a muffled groan.

"Fuck you."

Deputy Director Huang took a deep breath and reached out to call Section Chief Ma and the security officer of Beijing Cotton Factory No. 1 for help.

Section Chief Ma was stunned at this moment.

Logically speaking, Deputy Director Huang was his direct supervisor, and he could not stand by and watch Deputy Director Huang being beaten.

However, Li Aiguo was on a mission. If he stopped Li Aiguo, wouldn’t that be a mistake?
The security officers wanted to touch the guns, but seeing that Section Chief Ma did not move, they just put their hands on the gun handles and did not dare to move.

As for the workers and leaders, they didn't react at all at this time.

Deputy Director Huang is the deputy director of Beijing Cotton No. 1 Factory and enjoys deputy director-general level treatment.

On weekdays, even the leaders in Beijing have to give Deputy Director Huang some face when they meet him.

Now he was beaten in public?

They were still wiping their eyes at this time.

Before other people around him could react, Li Aiguo stepped forward, grabbed Deputy Director Huang by the collar and pulled him back, then pressed Deputy Director Huang's head and ran straight to the hood of the GAZ jeep.

"哐~"

How hard is the front hood of the GAZ jeep? Let’s put it this way, it can protect against stray bullets on the battlefield.

Deputy Director Huang’s head competes with the front hood.

The front hood wins!

The hood was intact, but blood was flowing from Deputy Director Huang's head.

Li Aiguo let go of his hand, and Deputy Director Huang collapsed to the ground. He felt his head buzzing and opened his mouth to curse.

Seeing Li Aiguo clench his fists again, Deputy Director Huang couldn't help but shiver. He took a few steps back and leaned against the wheel.

"Leader, let's talk it over."

As the head of the security department, Chief Ma could not just watch Deputy Director Huang being beaten by Li Aiguo.

Li Aiguo pointed at Deputy Director Huang.

"Tied up!"

"Oh, I was beaten."

Deputy Director Huang instinctively felt that something was wrong and wanted to struggle.

Zhou Ke had already led his men forward and tied him up with ropes.

"Throw it on the car first, and let's get into the factory quickly!"

At this point, the delay has been more than ten minutes. Every minute longer there is a greater risk of leaks.

Li Aiguo got on the jeep, the driver stepped on the accelerator, and the jeep rushed into the Beijing Cotton No. 1 Factory like an angry bull.

Deputy Director Huang was thrown into the truck bed by Zhou Ke. The truck drove into the factory under the gaze of the security officers and worker leaders of Beijing Cotton No. 1 Factory.

In the blink of an eye, the convoy was gone, leaving only Deputy Director Huang's miserable cries in the air.

"Old Chen, save me!"

A security officer watched the truck drive away, approached Section Chief Ma and whispered, "Section Chief, our factory director has been arrested."

Chief Ma said, “I saw it.”

Security Officer: “Should we do something?”

Section Chief Ma turned his head to look at the security officer, squinted his eyes and asked, "Little comrade, what's your name?"

"Chief, my name is Zhang Datou. I have a very big head. People say that people with big heads are smart, so I gave myself a nickname. You can just call me Zhang Datou."

There are tens of thousands of workers in Beijing Cotton No. 1 Factory and hundreds of security officers in the Security Department. Being able to show up in front of the section chief is already a great honor.

Zhang Datou stood up straight, with great momentum, and looked at Section Chief Ma with expectation. Section Chief Ma looked at him deeply, called the squad leader standing next to him, pointed at Zhang Datou and said, "Don't let him guard the gate in the future, lest the gate be stolen."

After saying this, Section Chief Ma asked his men to guard the gate and strictly prohibit anyone from entering or leaving. He also sent someone to quickly notify the old factory director.

This time the matter has become a big deal!

After arranging everything, Section Chief Ma called a few security officers and rushed into the factory.

Looking at Section Chief Ma's back, Zhang Datou scratched his head, puzzled: "Squad leader, such a big iron gate can be stolen."

Monitor: “.”

He felt as though he had lost all face.

At this time, the jeep was rushing through the Beijing Cotton No. 1 Factory and arrived at the door of the spinning workshop.

As soon as the jeep stopped, Li Aiguo jumped down with Zhou Ke and several team members.

Team Leader Hua, who had just inspected the workshop, was startled when he saw Li Aiguo. He hurried over and asked in surprise, "Driver Li, why are you here? And you brought weapons with you. What are you doing?"

Li Aiguo has explained it too many times today and there is no time to explain it again.

Let Zhou Ke go up and control Team Leader Hua, and then rush into the workshop with his team members.

At this time, the female workers in the workshop were busy at their workstations, and the machines were making bursts of roaring noises.

"Snapped!"

Li Aiguo strode to the distribution room and turned off the power. All the machines stopped, and the female workers who were concentrating on their work raised their heads.

Seeing a group of ferocious team members pointing weapons at them, the female workers were so scared that they screamed loudly, and some even wanted to run away.

"Be quiet with me!"

Li Aiguo pulled out his pistol, held it in his hand and yelled.

Li Aiguo didn't know how loud the sound was, but the white paper light bulb hanging on the ceiling actually flickered twice.

The female workers were stunned by the thunder-like sound and stood still, not daring to move.

"Don't be nervous, everyone. I'm sure you all know me. I'm just here to look for someone. Once I find someone, I won't make things difficult for you.

Right, so let’s resolve this matter calmly.”

Li Aiguo spoke these words word by word, his eyes sweeping across the faces of the female workers.

At this time, the female workers also recognized Li Aiguo. They had a good impression of this train driver who carefully guided them in weaving.

Although they didn't know what had happened at the moment, after thinking about it, they all nodded as if this made sense.

The scene was under control in an instant.

Team leader Hua was taken into the workshop by Zhou Ke.

Li Aiguo turned his head and waved his hand to let Zhou Ke loosen his hands. He looked at Team Leader Hua and asked, "Lao Hua, are all the people in your workshop here?"

Zhou Ke was very strong. One of the female comrades under squad leader Hua had her hands twisted so hard that they were sore. After the hands were loosened, she rubbed her arms and nodded.

"Everyone is here. No one is absent from work today."

"How many people are there in your workshop?" Li Aiguo glanced at the female workers and quickly counted them.

"Including the porters, there are a total of forty-five people."

"Forty-five people? Why are there only forty-four people here?"

"Impossible. I just counted the number of people."

Squad leader Hua was so frightened that he didn't even bother to rub his arm. He stood on tiptoe and stretched out his hand to count the heads one by one.

"Forty-two, forty-three. Forty-four."

Squad leader Hua counted the number of people twice and there were only 44 people. His face suddenly changed. He looked at the team leaders and asked, "What happened? Did anyone go out just now?"

The team leaders looked at each other and shook their heads: "No one asked us for leave."

At this time, a female worker suddenly raised her hand: "Leader."

The female worker seemed a little timid. She stood there trembling a little, staring at the pistol in Li Aiguo's hand, stammering and unable to speak.

Li Aiguo knew her and she seemed to be very close to Zhang Qingshan. Her name was Wang Mei.

"Comrade Wang Mei, don't be afraid. This matter has nothing to do with you. You can tell me everything you know."

Li Aiguo put the pistol into his waist and tried his best to force a smile on his face.

But he had been keeping a tense face the whole day, and the muscles on his face were out of control, so the forced smile was still a little scary.

But it still had some effect, and Wang Mei calmed down a lot.

She heard from Zhang Qingshan that the train driver was a good man.

"Leader, Zhang Caixia just slipped away from the back door of the workshop."

"What time?" Li Aiguo's face changed and he asked.

"It was about two or three minutes before you came in." Wang Mei shrank her neck in fear. "I thought she was slacking off again, so I didn't pay much attention to it."

"Where is the back door? Take us there immediately!" When Minister Niu heard the news, he immediately called Squad Leader Hua and chased towards the back door.

The back door is the passage used by the workshop to transport materials. Outside the door is a small path, and on the right side of the path is the wall of the textile factory.

Minister Niu led his men to chase for a distance, but did not see Zhang Caixia.

At this moment, he suddenly stopped, made a "yeah" sound, and walked quickly to a big tree.

The big tree is close to the wall, and the branches spreading out from the crown have extended outside the wall.

Minister Niu seemed to have discovered something and bent down.

"What's wrong?" Zhou Ke followed behind him and couldn't see clearly.

"Look, is this a fresh trace?"

Minister Niu made half a step aside, and Zhou Ke moved closer. He just took a look and then frowned.

"This is troublesome. Let's notify the team leader."

Li Aiguo rushed over after hearing the news and rubbed the tree trunk with his hand. Juice was oozing out of the mark. He looked up and saw that the mark had spread all the way to the tree crown.

A branch was broken off in the tree crown.

It was obvious that someone had just climbed up the tree and then the branch jumped out of the courtyard wall.

It’s just that the person who climbed the tree was quite clumsy, otherwise there wouldn’t have been so many traces left. Li Aiguo vaguely remembered that Zhang Caixia was a clumsy person.

When I was moving boxes, I got hit on the foot.

In 1949, an Air Force captain engineer named Murphy thought that one of his colleagues was unlucky and made a joke: "If something can go wrong, let him do it and it will go wrong."

In layman's terms, if there is a chance that something could go wrong, it will happen, no matter how small the possibility.

To put it more simply: the more you don't want something to happen, the more likely it is to happen.

In order to prevent the news from leaking, Li Aiguo and the investigation team took great pains to issue orders through the Ministry of Railways, thus circumventing most of the procedural links.

Even in the whole process, some less than legal means had to be used.

Dozens of people worked all day, but a clumsy female worker ran away.

This is a big joke.

At this time, Minister Niu and Zhou Ke's faces turned ugly.

Zhou Ke said: "Team Leader, what should we do now?"

"Don't worry. There are people checking the railways and roads in the capital. Zhang Caixia won't be able to escape for a while!" Li Aiguo took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.

He pointed to the workshop and said, "You must immediately control all the female workers in the workshop."

"So many people, are we going to take them all back to the locomotive depot?"

"Don't take them back yet. Keep them in the workshop. No one in the textile factory is allowed to contact them." Li Aiguo said, "These female workers may know some clues, or there may be Zhang Caixia's accomplices among them. Now is not the time to be afraid of trouble."

"Yes!"

Zhou Ke received the order and took his team members to read out the investigation team's decision to the female workers.

The female workers didn't expect the matter to become so serious and they all felt somewhat resistant.

Think about it and understand.

Many of them are married and have elderly and children at home who need to be taken care of. Why are they being inexplicably controlled here?

But now is not the time to explain, as Section Chief Ma just happened to arrive.

Li Aiguo briefly explained the situation to him and asked Section Chief Ma to do ideological work for the female workers.

Upon learning that a female worker had escaped from the workshop and that this female worker might be the person Li Aiguo and his men wanted to catch, Section Chief Ma's face turned ashen.

Section Chief Ma was a little panicked: "Team Leader Li, this may be a misunderstanding. Zhang Caixia may not have escaped because she got the news."

"Do you believe in what you say?" Li Aiguo asked with a straight face.

Section Chief Ma fell silent.

When Section Chief Ma thought about Dieter appearing in the textile factory and running away right under the noses of the investigation team, he couldn't help but shudder.

Regardless of whether the matter can be investigated thoroughly, it is difficult for him as the head of security to shirk responsibility.

But now the muzzle of the gun was pointed at his head, and he had no time to hesitate.

Section Chief Ma immediately asked four or five security officers to do ideological work for the female workers.

The female workers regarded the security officers as their own family members. After listening to their explanations, they finally calmed down.

Except for an older sister who was going home to cook for her husband, everyone else sat obediently at their workstations.

Section Chief Ma walked up to the elder sister and said in a cold voice: "Zhang Xiaocui, if you make trouble again, I will send you to the fence and make sure you can never cook for your man in this life!"

I have to say that Chief Ma is quite impressive as the head of the security department.

The elder sister was startled and didn't dare to say anything more. She just sat down obediently.

Seeing that the situation in the workshop was under control, Section Chief Ma looked at Li Aiguo, took a deep breath and said, "Team Leader Li, no matter how you want to investigate, our textile factory security department will listen to you."

"Zhou Ke and his men are already questioning the female workers one by one. Old Ma, do you have a confidential telephone number in your textile factory?"

Li Aiguo patted Section Chief Ma on the shoulder, signaling him not to be nervous.

"Lao Ma, the bad guys did bad things, and it has nothing to do with you as the security chief. Don't be nervous. As long as we find out the truth, I will help you when the time comes."

Li Aiguo knew very well that under such circumstances, the people in charge of security were most worried about getting involved.

Sometimes, in order to shirk responsibility, people may even intentionally or unintentionally conceal some important circumstances.

So it is crucial to comfort them.

Section Chief Ma was worrying about these things at the time. After being patted on the shoulders twice, he seemed to come back to life.

"The confidential phone is in our security department. Please follow me."

Beijing Cotton No. 1 Factory is indeed one of the richest factories in Beijing. It even arranged a separate room for confidential phone calls.

The desks, sofas and chairs are simply not impressive in comparison.

After the door closes.

Li Aiguo picked up the phone and passed it to the farmer through the specialist.

"Old leader, things seem to be a bit troublesome."

An hour later, all the communes around the capital received a notice from the capital’s public security department.

A woman may have fled the capital because she was suspected of committing a serious crime.

The woman's name was Zhang Caixia. She was 35 years old, fair-skinned, 1.53 meters tall, and spoke with a Beijing accent.
After receiving the notice, the commune team immediately stopped all work and organized militia members to set up checkpoints at various intersections to check the pass of pedestrians passing by.

When the members were working in the fields, they would straighten their backs from time to time and look around vigilantly. Once they spotted a suspicious person, they would often rush over and tie him up with ropes.

At the same time, all the street offices in Beijing also received the notice of joint investigation, and the street office officials went to each compound to publicize it.

Those aunties took to the streets one after another, scanning the passers-by with sharp eyes.

It only took an hour for the entire capital city and surrounding areas to create a strong momentum to capture Zhang Caixia alive in the vast sea of ​​people.

(End of this chapter)