Chapter 935 - 871: Even Closer
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In the meeting room of the Ningtai County Bureau, a group of police officers of all ages were frantically cracking sunflower seeds.
A few were chatting softly, but most of the officers, coming from the criminal police background, had minds more complex than ant nests. Today, they were all here because of Jiang Yuan; they couldn’t really converse with each other and were crazily trying to fish for information. It was like a meeting of people who made a fitness pact, where everyone was eager to drag the one who had lost even a tiny bit of weight to eat hotpot.
The rustling sound...
Liu Wenkai poured a bag of seeds onto the table.
Hou Lejia, the captain of the criminal police brigade of Longli County, often visited Ningtai County and was very familiar with Liu Wenkai. Half-joking, he said, "That looks like you’re feeding pigs."
"In the middle of the day, everyone has gone off to sleep, it’s hard to find anyone working. I asked an intern to fetch some plates, they’ve been searching for ages and still can’t find any, who knows if they went off to rest somewhere." Liu Wenkai feigned complaint and said, "I’ll fetch another bag once the plates are found."
"Alright, alright, we know we’re interrupting your work. Captain Jiang just came back for such a short time, everyone is rushing to see him. Next time, I’ll bring my own people and plates for eating seeds," Hou Lejia hinted between the lines.
"You might as well bring the seeds over as well," Huang Qiangmin entered, greeted by a chorus of welcomes.
Hou Lejia remained seated. He and Huang Qiangmin were from the same batch of criminal police captains and worked in neighboring counties. Their relationship wasn’t exactly friendly, it was more of a familiar competitive one, yet because of their proximity, they often had to work together...