Courtyard House: Railway Police at the Start

Chapter 33: Weaknesses

Tang Zhenghong was unaware of this matter; he was staking out someone today.

Liu Guangqi was taken away just as he arrived at the school gate.

Of course, he wasn't a simpleton like Sha Zhu; he couldn't handle the rough work of squatting down and beating people up.

Everyone has flaws. Just like the Jia family, the two generations of widows cared most about the sticks, which can be said to be the root of the Jia family.

To put it bluntly, if you're ruthless enough, since Bang Geng likes to steal, just give him the chance, lose some money to train and cultivate his skills, and then just wait for things to fall into place.

If a pun goes down the wrong path, it can ruin one's life.

So, he was trying to find out Liu Guangqi's girlfriend today, but unfortunately, it was his first time doing this, and he hadn't even managed to find out her name after half a day.

As he was lost in thought, Liu Guangqi walked over with a dark expression.

Liu Guangqi had just been released and returned to school. He was still thinking about how to explain to the school that he had been taken away by the railway police when he saw Tang Zhenghong squatting across from the school without any attempt to hide from people.

"Tang Zhenghong, believe it or not, Old Master Tang's matter has nothing to do with me. I was just taken away by your people and questioned for a long time. Now I don't know how to explain it to the school."

Tang Zhenghong was taken aback. They were already investigating? It was his own people who were truly helpful.

"I only have one question: how did you two survive that day?"

So I deserved to have survived?

Liu Guangqi was furious but couldn't vent his anger. He was about to graduate and start working, and he didn't want this to interfere with his job. He could only take a deep breath and explain what had happened that day again. At the end, he said something polite: "Whether you believe it or not, this has nothing to do with me. If you want to find someone to vent your anger on, I'll accept it. We'll see how things go in the future."

Tang Zhenghong stood up, scrutinized Liu Guangqi for a while, and asked out of the blue, "Remember how your second uncle used to beat you up all the time? Tsk tsk."

"What do you want?"

"It's not easy for the country to train a vocational school student, so of course I can't do anything about it. But what if I see you in the courtyard and it reminds me of Grandpa? You won't put me in a difficult position, will you?"

"Becoming a police officer changes things. You weren't this domineering before!"

"Some things are weightless on the scale, but can weigh a ton on it. Want to try it?"

"Guangqi, I've been looking for you everywhere."

At this moment, the person Tang Zhenghong had been squatting for a long time without finding appeared, standing opposite Liu Guangqi and Tang Zhenghong looking at them with a puzzled expression.

"Get out of here with your partner after graduation, and don't let me see you in the college again."

Tang Zhenghong smiled and nodded at Liu Guangqi's girlfriend, patting Liu Guangqi on the shoulder. The two acted like old buddies who hadn't seen each other for years.

"I didn't want to stay in that house for a long time, you don't need to remind me. Is this over or not? I've always been too lazy to get involved in things in the courtyard."

Liu Guangqi slapped Tang Zhenghong's hand away, admitting defeat but also giving himself a way out.

"You're a smart person; you know what to say. Alright, don't keep your sister-in-law waiting."

After Tang Zhenghong left, Liu Guangqi clenched his fists, then let them relax weakly.

His girlfriend jogged over, looking concerned, and asked, "Guangqi, who is this person? I heard from a classmate that you were taken away by the railway police. What happened?"

"It's nothing. Someone in our compound had some trouble and asked me for information. Shuqin, I've made up my mind about what we discussed last time. We'll leave together. I don't want to stay in that compound for another second."

In the afternoon, after watching the movie, Xu Damao rode his bicycle to his parents' house in the city.

"Mom, I brought some cured meat. Could you prepare it for me? I'm going to have a drink with Dad later. Where's Dad? He's not back yet?"

Both father and son had good job benefits, so Xu's mother wasn't surprised that her son brought cured meat; she was just a little puzzled as to why he was here today.

"Why did you decide to come here? Your dad hasn't come back yet."

"Mom, what are you saying? Does that mean your son can't even come to see you?"

She didn't believe her son Xu Damao's words at all, and curled her lip: "It's useless to put on this show for me, I don't have a single penny on me."

"Mom, I'm really not here to borrow money this time. Look at what I'm wearing on my feet, I came to ask Dad if he needs it."

"Wow, it's rare to see our Da Mao so filial. These shoes are so nice, why even ask? Of course we want them! When are you going to buy them for your dad?"

Xu Damao's biggest lucrative job as a projectionist was smuggling things out of his mother and making a profit. He fawned over her, massaging her shoulders: "We definitely have the shoes, but these shoes involved a favor. We can't expect you to work for nothing and then lose money on them, can you?"

"So after all that talk, you still want money? I thought the sun had risen in the west. Forget about spending money, your dad and I don't have money to buy leather shoes. Alright, help me out."

The mother and son prepared the meal in no time, but it was already dark and Xu Fugui still hadn't returned.

"Da Mao, why hasn't your dad come back yet? Why don't you ride your bike and go check?"

Xu Damao quickly picked up two pieces of meat and put them in his mouth, mumbling, "Maybe he went drinking with someone, or maybe he went shopping, cough..."

Xu Damao almost blurted out the rest of what he was going to say. Once, when Xu Damao had just graduated and was an apprentice, he ran into his father, who was also taking care of an "old friend," at a place with a half-closed door. The father and son almost bumped into the same person.

Since then, Xu Damao has never dared to walk alone in the dark alleys of the city. He never knows which one might be his father's old friend. It just doesn't feel right for the father and son to be "like-minded".

"What are you muttering about? The food's getting cold. Hurry up and ride your bike to their movie theater."

With no other option, Xu Damao went out, wondering how he would cover for his father when he returned.

After making inquiries everywhere, we finally confirmed "Where did Dad go?"

The mother and son were both panicked; they couldn't believe they'd been taken away by the railway police.

This inevitably led Xu Damao to make wild guesses. Could it be that his father's new love interest had already spread to the vicinity of the railway section? At his age, was he really going to be so promiscuous?

Even so, he still teaches me to be more frugal in my daily life. But he's still my father, so I'm saved.

He had no acquaintances in the railway system and after being repeatedly turned down, he thought of Tang Zhenghong in the hospital. After telling his mother, he went back to the hospital to ask Tang Zhenghong for information.

Unfortunately, it was already late at night, and even if Tang Zhenghong was willing to help make the connection, it would have to be by tomorrow morning at the earliest, so the old man would have to suffer.

"Brother Zhenghong, are you asleep yet?"

"I've never seen anyone go visiting someone else's house in the middle of the night."

And it was Liang Ladi, who was out getting water, who ran into them again.

"It's not even midnight yet, I need to talk to Brother Zheng Hong about something."

Normally, Xu Damao would at least say a few flirty things, but he really wasn't in the mood right now, so he forced a smile.

"What's wrong with you? I wouldn't be surprised if you were looking for a woman late at night, but looking for a gay man..."

After pouring out the water, Liang Ladi muttered to herself as she went back into the house.