Eat meat

When the dumplings came to the table, they were already miserable. They were too bad to be boiled and hadn't been washed in cold water. They were sticky, white and green, and people lost their appetite.

Luo Mai was a little embarrassed looking at the colorful dishes on the plate, and felt that he could never waste food like this. Just as he was thinking of eating all the dumplings, Li Yijie sat across from him without changing his expression, grabbed the plate and started to gobble it up. He choked and drank two sips of water before suppressing it.

Luo Mai wanted to open his mouth to tell him not to eat but held back, he secretly told himself that silence is golden.

After eating the big plate of dumplings, Li Yijie got up and went to the kitchen to start working. Luo Mai sat outside and smelled the smell of meat and eggs coming from the other end, and he was entangled.

After a while, a bowl of ham, bacon and egg noodles was placed in front of Luo Mai. Luo Mai looked at the noodles and then at Li Yijie. What he wanted to say was stuck in his throat and he couldn't say it.

"Eat first, and I will tell you a secret after eating."

Luo Mai felt that the secret was not simple. He grabbed the chopsticks and lowered his head to eat the noodles. He didn't raise his head until there was only a small mouthful of soup that couldn't be filled: "Let's talk."

Li Yijie took out a napkin and wiped the soup from his mouth for him, and said: "The 74th Brigade can be said to be in the establishment or outside the establishment. Its existence is due to the deputy director of the Ministry of Finance and the Criminal Investigation Brigade at that time. They reached a consensus with the Ministry of Public Security and asked the 74th Brigade to investigate some old and unhandled cases in Jiangcheng Province. When the investigation progresses, they will be transferred to the local police. After all, we are doing it for others. Wedding clothes, you also know that the old cases in several major provinces have come to us recently, ranging from cats and dogs fighting to big...not so big. Except for the big cases in Jiangcheng Province, the 74th Brigade has been evacuated from the beginning Yes, there are no major cases, only bits and pieces."

Luo Mai was dumbfounded, he was really dumbfounded.

"Lei Hua and I took five months to bring all the old cases in Jiangcheng Province back into the database, and found that there were only a few cases that could really continue, including the Chen Juan case. But the Chen Juan case is not difficult to investigate. Why? No news for so long? Later, I found out that this case does not exist on the intranet at all, and there is nothing except the thin information for the 74th brigade."

"That……"

"I gradually learned," Li Yijie interrupted Luo Mai, "the 74th Brigade can only find out some information in Hongshan, and it is completely unknown in other places."

"But the insurance fraud case in Sidong City was indeed solved by our 74th Brigade."

Li Yijie shook his head: "You didn't read the report at the time, did you? The content of the report was that the Sidong City Public Security Bureau and the Qiaoshan Sub-bureau cracked a huge cross-provincial insurance fraud case. Our 74th Brigade didn't even have a name. We were able to intervene in the investigation at the beginning because I let it go." My dad made a phone call in the name of the provincial department, and I guess they agreed at that time because they didn't think we could solve the case."

Luo Mai's eyes were numb, and he asked, "Isn't it true that we have been giving selflessly these past few months?"

"You can think of it that way," Li Yijie shrugged, "We're the ones who wipe our asses. If we don't get praise for our good performance, we'll be robbed of the limelight. If we don't do well, we'll be told that the 74th Brigade is for idlers. We are rice buckets, rice bugs of the country."

Luo Mai opened his mouth and said angrily: "We are not..."

"Of course we are not," Li Yijie patted his head, "I know what you think, I have always kept the matter of Yu Jia in my heart, and I will ask my dad to transfer the file as soon as the 719 case is over."

Luo Mai was quite touched when he heard it: "So what you said last time is true, and the 74th Brigade has no right to intervene in Yu Jia's case?"

"Everything I tell you is true. What you don't know is the most I didn't say. There is no deception in it."

Hearing this, Luo Mai smiled slyly: "But the biggest reason I came here is because my dad said that Yu Jia's case was transferred here."

Li Yijie replied weakly knowing that he was justified: "Well, I was pushing the boat along the water for Uncle Luo, he was worried that you would get moldy if you stayed at home, but I never said from the beginning that the Jia case was with me. "

Luo Mai tilted his head and thought about it. It seemed that this was the case. He cleared his throat and asked, "Then let's investigate the 719 case first?"

Li Yijie nodded.

"Tell me about the adopted child you mentioned last time in the car?"

Li Yijie was taken aback: "Which kid?"

Luo Mai narrowed his eyes and stared at him, Li Yijie slapped his head and remembered: "Is that the kid who intentionally hurt others? My dad said he was adopted by Ji Fan's family..." The words came to an abrupt end here, and Li Yijie seemed like Jumping up as if thinking of something, Luo Mai was startled, but he quickly realized what was going on.

Li Yijie ran upstairs three steps at a time, shouting as he ran, "Call Lei Hua and ask how Ji Fan's investigation is going? I'll contact my dad."

Luo Mai responded and went downstairs to get his mobile phone, and the two gathered in the lobby 10 minutes later.

Li Yijie wrote a few names with a marker on the office whiteboard, and then clapped his hands to Luo Mai who was sitting across from him and Lei Hua who was sitting on the computer: "Now we know one thing, a 2001-year-old child whose original name was Shi Li Stabbed Ji Fan, a police officer of the Beigang Public Security Bureau in Jiangcheng Province, resulting in the death of Comrade Ji Fan. Later, Shi Li was taken away by the Runjing District Children’s Welfare Institute in Beigang City because he was under the age of 7. Adopted. According to Lei Hua's investigation and my father's statement, Shi Li was adopted by Ji Fan's younger brother Ji Ming, and later changed his name to Ji Fan, and is now an ordinary policeman in Luzhou City, Jiangji Province."

Luo Mai raised his hand and asked, "There are two questions. First, as a policeman, how did he know about and participate in Haiyang's case, and where did he know about the 74th Brigade. Second, even if he was not criminally responsible back then, the The file of deliberately harming the police will follow him all his life, why did he successfully become a member of the public security system?"

"I know that," Lei Hua lazily said on the computer, "Shi Li, Ji Fan, who is now 28 years old, doesn't include the intentional death of a policeman in his file, so I checked Ji Ming who adopted him. It was discovered that this person had been the captain of the criminal investigation team at the Hongshan City Public Security Bureau, and he was Yang Su's predecessor."

Li Yijie frowned: "He used to be a policeman?"

"Yes, now I have opened a company and cooperated with the government to purchase land. Now it is the top few in Jiangji Province's GDP, and the richest leg."

Luo Mai and Li Yijie were silent after Lei Hua finished speaking, and after a while they spoke together: "Why didn't my dad tell me about this?"

"Does your dad know that you are investigating the 719 case?"

The answer was clearly revealed in Li Yijie's silence. Lei Hua didn't know what the atmosphere was like at the other end. He took out a bag of potato chips, opened it, and ate it: "Why don't you talk?"

Li Yijie closed the computer with a slap, Luo Mai stood up and looked him at the same level: "You are very anxious now, is there something you are still hiding from us?"

Li Yijie clenched his hands and then released them, repeating several times before saying: "Yes, I did hide one thing from you, in fact, the 74th Brigade was originally a task force."

Luo Mai stared: "What task force?"

"In the 719 case, the leader of the task force at the time was the deputy director of the Provincial Public Security Bureau. He and Ji Fan died together in the 719 case. After that, my dad took the position of team leader, and the perpetrators were also caught and wanted. The task force was later disbanded and only started running again last year."

Luo Mai turned these words around in his heart, and then covered his dizzy head and said, "You mean the 74th Brigade is the name of the task force of the 2001 case in 719."

"At that time it was called the 7.19 Task Force, and the 74th Brigade was changed by my dad last year."

"No, no," Luo Mai shook his head, "Then what is the existence of the 74th Brigade now? There are not so few public security personnel in the country that we need to rebuild an organization to do the work of sorting."

Li Yijie stared at him deeply, and before Luo Mai was about to get frustrated, he said: "On the surface, we are doing odd jobs, but in fact we are re-investigating the 719 case."

Hearing that Luo Mai had a flash of inspiration as if he had caught something, he said without hesitation: "I see, there are only a few cases that you have screened out in Lei Hua's app. The Chen Juan case we investigated before, the fraudulent insurance case, etc. Are all the cases related to the 719 case?"

"You missed a few. The juvenile assault cases in the Hongshan City Public Security Bureau, the Yu Jia case, and the sudden appearance of Haiyan are all involved in the 719 case."

Li Yijie turned on the computer while talking, Lei Hua was still there, but the potato chips in his hand had been replaced with jelly.

"Did the power go out just now?" Lei Hua asked.

Li Yijie ignored him, he turned around and wrote a few words on the whiteboard - the first centralized meeting of the 2017 September 9.19 case task force.

"Let's forget about those few cases now. Now we are investigating the 2001 case in 719. I renamed it the 9.19 case."

Luo Mai clapped his hands and praised: "It's really nice."

Li Yijie smiled brightly: "In 2001, all the members of the original task force died except my father Li Defeng, Min Bao, and Liu Jun." He wrote these three names on the board and said to Lei Hua, "Check out these three people 16 What have you done over the years, the more detailed the better."

Lei Hua asked in disbelief, "Your father also checked?"

"Cha, he's hiding a lot of things from me. I don't want to hear him change the subject. Just tell me if you find out."

Lei Hua said OK and immediately went offline, Luo Mai stroked his chin and asked thoughtfully, "Why is Yu Jia's case involved?"

"His handler is Zhang Wang, former criminal investigation team leader of the Hongshan Public Security Bureau." Li Yijie said.

"You don't believe him?"

"Yes," Li Yijie said, "he has not been in Hongshan since he resigned. I asked about Yu Jia's case and he also left shortly after you left. I heard that he went to Jiangji Province. Ji Ming's old subordinates left everything in Hongshan City and went to the city where Ji Ming is located, I don't believe that there is nothing tricky about the two of them."

After Li Yijie finished speaking, he looked at Luo Mai and found that he was also looking at him.

"There may be a lot involved in this, are you afraid?"

Luo Mai shook his head: "You are not afraid of what I am afraid of."

"What I do now is selfish. I don't want the 74th Brigade to wipe other people's butts all the time."

Luo Mai smiled: "Coincidentally, me too."