Chapter 1936 — Back to School
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"It was like this..." Wei Zhao began, and he recounted to Chen Yuxuan the chance encounter with the drug dealers—though he left out the delicate matter of Wang Xinyan going off to relieve herself. At the end he came straight to the point: "I used silver needles to deal with those two. I asked around about who was behind them, and it's the Red Conch organization. Only, they'll suffer brief amnesia, so they may not remember anything about the deal..."
Chen Yuxuan nodded. He knew Wei Zhao's methods well enough, and he roughly understood why Wei Zhao would want to ask about Red Conch, so he did not press further. Brief amnesia was no concern—so long as the two were confirmed to be drug dealers, that was enough. The finer details of the transaction were trifles.
"So the drugs are in this case?" Chen Yuxuan asked, glancing at the leather suitcase on the ground.
"Yes. Take it back with you—but handle the case together with Yang Huaijun and Qiu Lingshan. They've just arrived in Donghai; cracking this case will help them get a firm foothold," Wei Zhao told Chen Yuxuan.
"No problem." Chen Yuxuan nodded, and pointedly said not a word about whether there was any cash involved. In his view, the dealers might well have used phone transfers; and even if there had been cash and Wei Zhao had taken it, Chen Yuxuan would not have raised the question himself. "Chief, why don't you and Sister-in-law Xinyan take the helicopter back together? Your mission is as good as done, and you caught two drug dealers besides. If you weren't so set on keeping your name out of things, that one piece of merit alone would earn you a great many credits. So we'll just have to count you as the first to complete the mission..."
"Ha, all right. I was just thinking it was about time to head back anyway," Wei Zhao said with a nod.
Hearing Instructor Chen call her Sister-in-law Xinyan struck Wang Xinyan as very strange, but she made no effort to correct him... Her relationship with Wei Zhao did seem to be growing more than friendly by the day...
Wei Zhao packed up briefly, and Chen Yuxuan came over to help him take down the tent. In no time they were finished; the two dealers were tossed into the vehicle; and the helicopter's engine soon turned over, carrying them down the mountain...
No one raised any objection to Wei Zhao and Wang Xinyan flying back to claim first place. They all knew that on the merit of catching the drug dealers alone, Wei Zhao had earned far more than the credits awarded for first place—but Wei Zhao kept a low profile and had no wish to make a show of such things.
That same night, Chen Yuxuan telephoned Yang Huaijun and asked him to come collect the men. As a rule, when border defense troops caught drug dealers, they handed them over to the local police for trial.
When Yang Huaijun heard that Wei Zhao had gone up the mountain for field training and casually scooped up two drug dealers along the way, he was momentarily speechless. Still, he was deeply grateful that Wei Zhao wanted to give him and Qiu Lingshan a share of the credit. He drove over that very night and took the two dealers away, and as for what followed, Wei Zhao and Chen Yuxuan had no need to trouble themselves...
As Yang Huaijun led the dealers away, his feelings were peculiar indeed. Wei Zhao really was something else! Only a few days ago he had finished telling the man about the drug dealers and Red Conch, and now Wei Zhao had casually brought the dealers back with him?
Recalling Qiu Lingshan's words—that any case handed to Wei Zhao was a case that would be solved—Yang Huaijun was utterly convinced. It really was true!
He had known Wei Zhao was formidable, but he had never expected him to be this formidable. Finding an enemy in the jungle and finding a criminal in the city were two entirely different matters, after all—the methods and means of investigation differed as well. Yet where Wei Zhao was concerned, they were all the same.