A gentleman is not a group

When Zhou Chi looked at the man in black, the man in black also looked at him.

They didn't see it clearly just now, but now the distance suddenly became closer, and they could even hear each other's breathing clearly, only then did they realize that the arrester's appearance was so desirable.

Suddenly, there was a hint of joking.

Zhou Chi felt that he was not a person who would be blinded by sex, and he came back to his senses for a moment. Just as he was about to act, the person on the opposite side stopped struggling.

The little thief raised his long and narrow eyes, curled his lips into a charming smile, and said in an ambiguous and daydreaming voice to Zhou Chi's ear, "Catch me, brother, you are so pretty!" .”

Zhou Chi retreated slightly unconsciously, and the force holding his opponent's shoulders and elbows loosened a little.

Then he saw the person on the opposite side stop laughing instantly, and pulled off his belt. It was too late when Zhou Chi realized it, and the lower garment without the belt was hanging down loosely, so he had to frantically grab the shirt.

In the blink of an eye, the little thief had climbed over the courtyard wall and disappeared.

What is this!

He was a majestic government arrester, but he was confused by a little thief who didn't know where?Still twice!

When he sees this little thief next time, he must be tied up and brought back to cure his stinky handicap!

Qi Fei, who was guarding the courtyard wall, got up suddenly when he heard the movement, and saw Zhou Chi walking towards this side.

He was puzzled, he didn't understand why the boss who was supposed to be guarding the wall on the other side left his post without permission, and it seemed a little strange.

When Zhou Chi approached, he finally understood where the strange thing was.

For some reason, the flat and regular police uniform was shortened, and the belt around the waist disappeared, replaced by a torn corner of the robe.

Looking at the boss's expression again, it seems... angry?

Impossible, Qi Fei quickly dispelled this incredible thought.

Zhou Chi met Qi Fei's probing gaze, coughed lightly to cover up his embarrassment, and tried to be natural, but unconsciously squeezed the black mask in his hand.

"Let the brothers withdraw, and go back to sleep quickly."

Qi Fei was surprised: "Where is the thief?"

After asking, he regretted it. Looking at Zhou Chi like this, he probably had already met the thief, and he probably lost the wind and let the thief run away.

"Ran……"

Qi Fei: "..."

He glanced at Zhou Chi worriedly, and was about to say some comforting words, when he suddenly remembered the sentence yesterday, "I guess I won't be able to catch it", so he summoned up his courage and asked in a low voice with trepidation, "Boss, are you passive and sabotage?" ?”

After receiving Zhou Chi's sharp glance, Qi Fei cautiously added: "I won't tell others."

Oh, how faithful you are.

Should the next sentence be to say that even if Zhou Chi is the thief, he will pretend nothing happened?

Zhou Chi was about to be laughed at by Qi Fei, and even the anger of being molested by that little thief was swept away.

He stepped forward and hooked Qi Fei's neck, gritted his teeth and said, "Do I look like a passive saboteur? I met a thief, and I played a few tricks with him. I didn't expect that the little thief is not good at kung fu, but his tricks are not good." Very influx!"

"Ah?" Qi Fei turned his head in a daze, not understanding the meaning of "not into the stream", he thought of Zhou Chi's inexplicably disappeared belt in a daze, and blurted out, "Seduction?"

Zhou Chi: "..."

It was really hit by this idiot.

Zhou Chi patted Qi Fei on the shoulder, and changed the subject nonchalantly: "Do you remember the question you asked me yesterday? Now I can tell you."

Qi Fei's attention was instantly diverted: "Remember, why is it tonight?"

"From the moment I learned that Jia, Zhao, and Nian's family lost property, I felt that something was wrong. How could a thief steal so much with such fanfare? It's not obvious. Tell everyone that his next target is the Sun family, so that we can prepare in advance. Are you catching thieves online? There are still three crimes in five days, do you think there is any regularity in the crime time?"

"Rules..." Qi Fei murmured, "It was the first night on the fifteenth night, and then on the seventeenth...nineteenth..."

"The thief always steals every other day!"

Zhou Chi nodded, and continued: "So according to this calculation, it's the Sun family's turn tonight."

"And... this also confirmed a conjecture of mine."

"What guess?"

"With such a big fanfare, such a clear goal and a fixed time, there are only two possibilities. First, the thief is a fool, but obviously not. Second...that is, stealing is not an end, but a means."

The thief committed such a crime, he must have thought that the Sun family was full of nets tonight, just waiting for him to enter the urn, but when he came, it was too late, he ran away when he saw anyone, and he didn't struggle with gold, silver and jewelry at all, not at all. The style of stealing before.

Like a desperado who was afraid of death, he had already put all his eggs in one basket and sharpened his sword, but suddenly relented before the battle, and even gave him a piece of candy.

very contradictory...

Zhou Chi was just guessing at first, but the moment he saw the thief tonight, he was sure almost instantly—the thief was not after money, and there must be some missing clues behind it.

The Jia family, the Zhao family, the Nian family, the Sun family...

There are also Jinxiufang and the fire case.

What's unfinished in between?

It was past time when Zhou Chi returned home, he wiped his face in a hurry, took out a new set of police uniform from the cabinet and put it on the bedside, took off his ragged coat, and lay on the bed in his inner coat. on the bed.

With something on his mind, he couldn't sleep well. After tossing and turning on the bed for a few rounds, before dawn, Zhou Chi got up and went to the government office.

He always felt that something would happen today.

The servants on duty at the gate of the government office nodded their heads when they saw Zhou Chi. Zhou Chi had greeted them and was about to go in when he heard someone shouting from a distance: "Zhou catcher, wait!"

Zhou Chi turned his head, and vaguely recognized that the short and fat figure seemed to be Qian Li, the housekeeper of the Sun family.

Qian Li dragged his bloated body and was out of breath, and it was hard for him to persist in running so far. Although Sun's house was not far from the government office, it was still two streets away.

"Steward Qian, what's the matter?"

"Oh, Mr. Zhou catcher...I...tell you, that thief really killed a thousand knives!"

Qian Li gasped and said, his breath was extremely unstable, and he seemed to be dying when he said a few words, "After you took the arresters away yesterday, I thought that the thief would retreat after he was in trouble, and would never come back again, but Unexpectedly, the cleaning boy passed the door today and saw the door lock dropped to the ground, and when he opened the door to check, the belongings inside had long since disappeared!"

"You must tell Mr. Zhang to be the master for us pure and good people!"

Chunliang...

Zhou Chi wanted to laugh a little. These profiteers are addicted to pretending to be good people. They dare to use any words on themselves, and they are not afraid of the wind when they pretend to be a weak little white flower.

But of course these words cannot be said, Zhou Chi smiled, put on a face of sympathy, first scolded the "dedicated" thief for [-] rounds, and then promised Qian Li with a sad face, saying that he would report the truth to the government , The thieves will be arrested and brought to justice, and justice will be given to the "pure" people.

After arguing with Qian Li, Zhou Chi finally stepped into the gate of the government office.

According to past experience, Zhang Zeyuan should have gotten up at this time, and most of them are in the study.

The magnolias in Fuya are in full bloom, and the large white flowers are wrapped around the branches. The fragrance is full but not strong, and it smudges and melts.

Not long after, Zhou Chi walked to the door of the study, raised his hand and knocked lightly twice, and after a while, the door opened.

"grown ups……"

Zhou Chi saluted Zhang Zeyuan before entering the study.

Zhang Zeyuan was also bored, if the theft case was not solved and the thief was not caught, those uncles would cry endlessly at the gate of the government office, which made him upset and helpless.

"Zhou Chi is here, how was last night?"

Zhang Zeyuan poured a cup of tea and handed it to Zhou Chi.

After Zhou Zhixie, he told what happened last night and his guess.

Of course the belt and mask are ignored.

"It's not for money... what is it for?"

Zhang Zeyuan rubbed the center of his brows, but still did not remove his frown.

"Well, you go and check..."

"grown ups!"

Zhang Zeyuan was interrupted by a call from outside the door. He raised his chin and signaled Zhou Chi to open the door.

Two yamen servants came in carrying a box, they were the two on duty at the door.

One of them put down the box and said, "My lord, we found this box at the door."

Zhang Zeyuan got up and walked to the side of the box. Seeing that the wooden box was not locked, he stretched out his hand and lifted the lid, and then he was stunned—it turned out to be a box of gold and silver treasures inside!

"This..." Zhang Zeyuan looked at the government servant who was also stunned, "Do you know who sent it here?"

"No...I don't know..."

Zhou Chi frowned, approached the wooden box, somehow remembered the hand that hooked his belt away.

A possibility popped up in my mind.

He bent down and groped for a while in a box of gold and silver, and sure enough he found a stack of papers.

Zhou Chi unfolded the stack of papers and looked at each page, his expression became more and more serious.

After reading the last one, he sighed and handed the paper to Zhang Zeyuan.

This is really... the rich smell of wine and meat.

Those paper records are the details of the donations raised in the Jinxiufang fire case, as well as...the records of the silver issued to the families of the injured embroidery workers.

I'm sorry, the two records are not only inconsistent, but the difference is not even a star.

What was distributed to the embroidery workers' families was only a drop in the bucket, and most of the donations were filled by those profiteers and stuffed into their own pockets.

No wonder... No wonder he passed by Uncle Liu's house a few days ago. Uncle Liu, who lost his daughter and was helpless, became seriously ill and had no cure.

He thought it was because the medicinal materials were too expensive, so he spent all the donations, and bought medicine for Uncle Liu out of his own pocket, but it turned out that no amount of donations could reach these people.

And these poor and kind-hearted ordinary people don't know the real amount of donations, and they are probably still grateful to Dade in the dark.

Chunliang...

This is the pure kindness in the mouth of the good people who are praised by the people of Jinzhou every day!

Zhang Zeyuan did not expect that the truth would be like this.

It's ridiculous that, as the prefect of Jinzhou, not only did he fail to settle down the victimized people, but he even failed to see through such despicable acts.

He glanced at the box and understood what the gold and silver inside were, and also understood the origin of the box.

It's ridiculous, it turns out that people are not people, and thieves are not thieves.

"Zhou Chi, arrest and interrogate those four families! I want to see what they have to say!"