Chapter 177 — The Credit Is Yours
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"Ha, it's just that our ways of thinking are different." Wei Zhao did not answer her question directly. "You start from the police's point of view; I start from an ordinary person's."
"Then how much longer do you intend to keep looking?" Qiu Lingshan suddenly changed tack. "Am I to keep bending over like this for you to look at? Shall I open my collar as well?"
"Cough, cough…" Wei Zhao cleared his throat twice. Qiu Lingshan had caught where his gaze had been fixed, and he had just been holding forth so solemnly for so long—which left him rather embarrassed. "I was looking at… at…"
"Then look all you like. I'm leaving." Qiu Lingshan straightened up and turned to go.
"No more looking. Let's go." Wei Zhao sprang up from the ground and brushed the dust off his clothes.
The cordon at the foot of the mountain had already been withdrawn, but the two officers on duty had not yet left; they were waiting by Qiu Lingshan's car for her to come down.
"Captain Song, you really are something. One trip up the mountain and you turned up the nest of those things!" Clearly the two police officers had already received word that the robbers had been caught.
Qiu Lingshan flushed. How was this her doing? Wei Zhao was the one who had found them, plain as day. She glanced at him from the corner of her eye, only to see that he seemed not to have heard at all. He was walking toward the car, getting ready to climb in...
Qiu Lingshan breathed a sigh of relief and said to the two officers, "You two pull out as well. I have a bit of business to finish; I will be back at the station in a while."
"Yes, Captain Song." The two officers acknowledged the order and got into their own car.
Qiu Lingshan opened the door and got in with Wei Zhao. She started the car quickly and drove away from the place. What the two of them had said just now left her thoroughly embarrassed.
"Remember, the credit is yours, and it has nothing to do with me." Wei Zhao spoke up suddenly.
"Huh?" Qiu Lingshan was slightly taken aback and looked at Wei Zhao in surprise. What did he mean by that?
"Drive properly. Watch the road." Wei Zhao reminded Song Ling. "About this business, it is enough that you know. Do not tell anyone else. I have a great deal on my hands right now and no time to deal with anything else."
"The station has a bounty. Anyone who provides a lead on the robbers can get a reward of two hundred thousand in cash. You do not want it?" Qiu Lingshan could not understand why Wei Zhao was declining so cleanly.
"I want it, but I do not want the trouble." Wei Zhao said. "Do you really think these few men are the kidnappers? That there is no one behind them?"
"You mean you are afraid the people behind them will come after you?" Qiu Lingshan was beginning to understand what Wei Zhao was saying.
"Come after me is putting it too strongly. I know well enough who is behind them," Wei Zhao shrugged indifferently. "I spoiled their good work, so naturally they know I exist as well. But the trouble I mean is not only that. I do not want to get mixed up in what comes afterward. Right now I am employed by Gu Pengzhan and no one else. Do you understand?"
"Just say you do not want to meddle and that you will not help in future, and be done with it. Why all the blather!" Qiu Lingshan was choking with anger. So all that talk from Wei Zhao had been for the sole purpose of making sure she troubled him less from now on!
"Good that you know it." Wei Zhao said. "Unless it is something important, for Brother Jun's sake, I will help you people."