Chapter 78: Having One's Own Dignity

  "Ah!" Chen Chufan yawned, stretched his waist, and opened his eyes after a good sleep. The sky was already dimly lit, shining through the glass onto his face, slightly dazzling him.

  "Get up quickly!" A harsh voice pierced into Chen Chufan's ears, which were still heavy with sleep. Chen Chufan suddenly realized that this was not his familiar dormitory, but the office of the criminal police team at the police station.

  Chen Chufan stretched and then straightened up, jumping up from the sofa.

  "Officer Wang, good morning!" Chen Chufan, who had just woken up, greeted the policeman sitting at a desk recording something.

  "It's already 7 o'clock, let's go have some breakfast together, I've got something to tell you!" Wang Mingdao said gruffly, throwing down the pen in his hand and standing up.

  "Oh!" Chen Chufan replied honestly, still feeling grateful to the police officer in front of him. After all, he had been quite polite to himself yesterday, neither making things difficult for him nor denying his wishes.

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  "Officer Wang, you took all my money yesterday, can you please pay for this meal first?" Chen Chufan said helplessly, patting his empty pockets while sitting in the breakfast shop across from the police station.

  "Alright, don't call me Wang Team, that's what my colleagues call me! It sounds awkward, I'm Wang Mingtao, just call me Taoge!" Wang Mingtao said straightforwardly.

  "Alright, Taoge!" At this moment, Chen Chufan looked very honest.

  "What a lively scene it was last night!" Wang Mingdao continued.

  Chen Chufan didn't say a word and simply played with the chopsticks in his hand.

  "Just be happy and don't cause any more trouble!" Wang Mingtao was originally a person who hated evil, otherwise he wouldn't have become the captain of the criminal police team. Chen Chufan's performance was quite to his liking, which is also why he decided to give this young man a few words. "Especially those two classmates of yours, you're not allowed to touch them!"

  "How did you know?" Chen Chufan looked at Captain Wang in surprise.

  "The detention room you were in last night has surveillance! I was watching the whole time!" Wang Mingtao explained, looking at the boy's puzzled gaze.

  "Oh! Then I won't touch them. How will you deal with them? Does this count as a crime of hiring someone to commit murder?" Chen Chufan asked further.

  "Where did this crime of hiring someone to commit murder come from? China doesn't even have such a crime, and did they really hire someone to kill? Do you have any evidence?" Wang Mingdao said helplessly.

  "That cheap person said it herself yesterday! Didn't you see it on the surveillance footage?" Chen Chufan argued.

  "Firstly, yesterday's video cannot be used as evidence, and putting you together with them is not in line with the regulations. Secondly, to form a employment relationship, how do you know there is an employment relationship between them? Of course, after those few injuries recover, through interrogation there will be evidence, it may also implicate them!" Wang Mingdao explained patiently.

  Just as Wang Mingtao finished speaking, the boss brought over two steaming bowls of noodles. However, without even having time to eat the fragrant noodles, Wang Mingtao opened his mouth again.

  "Yesterday, Chen let you get away with it because on one hand, that group of good-for-nothings hurt Secretary Han's daughter, and on the other hand, you have Abbot Longyuan's business card! Chen was giving face to Secretary Han and Abbot Longyuan! But this thing called 'face', when others give you a little, it gets thinner by a little! Moreover, Chen gave face to others, not to your own face! If you continue making trouble like this, in the end no one will be willing to speak up for you, understand? So just forget about going to bother those two classmates of yours. Just focus on studying and reading your books!" Wang Mingdao continued.

  "Right, I understand. If you want to be more uninhibited, you can't always rely on others' faces. You need to have your own face!" Chen Chufan nodded as if he had gained something.

  What's wrong with Wang Mingtao? Is this what he means? His point is to let Chen Chufan not go to school and cause trouble, don't hit his own classmates! How can the young man in front of him misinterpret it like this? You're just a young kid, where are you going to get face? Who will give you face?

  He didn't know that Chen Chufan was going through a huge change in personality due to his girlfriend Han Xiaoxi's injury. His words had supplemented Chen Chufan's unconventional view of life and the world, which was still taking shape - being ruthless to enemies while having one's own power and dignity; otherwise, everything would be a joke! You can't take on several people alone, no matter how awesome you are. That's what the naive boy thought at the time.

  "What I mean is, don't be stupid and treat your classmates like you did those losers last night. Be serious! They're not some thugs on the streets!" Wang Mingdao had to spell it out for him.

  "Alright, I understand what you mean, Officer Tao. I won't do it!" Chen Chufan understood that the police officer in front of him was genuinely looking out for his own good, which is why he had said so much with a bitter tone. So he replied sincerely.

  But deep down inside, he annotated his own words like this: I won't break their bones like those bastards last night, but I'll smash their faces!

  Han Xiaoxi was still lying in bed, and Li San was still at large. Zhang Peng and Wang Kun were not the main culprits, but they couldn't escape their guilt either. From Wang Mingdao's attitude earlier, it could be seen that even if evidence was obtained in the end, the two of them wouldn't bear too much responsibility. So Chen Chufan didn't plan to let them off easy. "At least make them know pain!" The youth secretly seethed with anger in his heart.

  "Just go, you understand? Hurry up and finish your breakfast, then roll back to school!" Wang Mingdao said bluntly.

  "Hmm, Taoge is asking you something!"

  "Speak!"

  "Do you know where Li San lives?"

  Wang Mingtao raised his head, vigilantly staring at Chen Chufan: "What's wrong! You just called me not to provoke my classmates, and you're thinking of going to find Li San trouble? After going through the formal procedures, the police station will go to catch him. Don't get involved in this matter!"

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  After sending Chen Chufan away, it was already past eight o'clock. After learning from the duty room that Chen Suo had arrived at the office, Wang Mingtao didn't even have time to rest and directly took the materials to Director Chen's office for a report.

  "Has that child left?" Principal Chen asked.

  "Alright, I'm off!" Wang Mingtao replied.

  "What happened last night?" As he asked this, Director Chen picked up his teacup and was about to take a sip.

  "One person's right arm was fractured and crushed, with three fingers fractured and crushed. Two people had nasal bone fractures, two people had four ribs broken, and one person had two ribs broken. The five people's right hands' index fingers and ring fingers..."

  "Pfft!" Before Wang Mingtao could finish his report, Director Chen spat out the entire mouthful of tea he had just taken.

  "Wang Mingtao, what are you up to? Are you letting that little brat run wild just because of me? I specifically came in on Sunday to understand the case, and it's all so I can be annoyed by you!" Director Chen was getting angry, and without even bothering to wipe away the tea leaves splattered everywhere, he began scolding.

  "Chen Suo, that kid was still pretty normal at first, who knew he'd suddenly go crazy! Besides, you told us to go in at the crucial moment, how was I supposed to know when it was the crucial moment?!" Wang Mingtao yelled at Qu.

  "Alright, alright! You continue, you continue!" Director Chen said helplessly. The matter had already happened, and blaming was useless. He might as well listen to the end first and then think of a way to solve it. After all, they were just a few pieces of trash, as long as no one died, that's all! Director Chen comforted himself like this.

  "Ah, these five people's right hands' index fingers and ring fingers are all comminuted fractures!" Wang Mingtao continued to read in a serious tone.

  "Alright, alright, six people were locked up in our police station for one night and over twenty bones were broken. How are we going to explain this when the higher-ups investigate? Do you think they'll praise us for having a strong fighting force?" Director Chen said indignantly.

  "Reporting to the director, according to the suspect's confession, they were unable to sleep in the middle of the night and got up to play hide-and-seek. As a result, a conflict arose from playing games and they made a ruckus on their own!" Wang Mingtao continued his serious report.

  "Hide the cat!?" Director Chen stared at Wang Mingtao in shock, his face red with rage, stuttering and unable to speak coherently: "Good, good, good, you're really something, Wang Mingtao! Do you dare to make it even more absurd? Are you testing whose IQ is higher? Ah!"

  "Director, I've got all the confessions recorded! Yesterday, I spent a lot of effort to get them to sign off on this. If we can fool our way through it, then so be it. What else can we do at this point?!" Wang Mingtao placed a stack of confessions in front of Director Chen and started acting slyly. "Also, there's something I need to report to you. According to the suspects' confessions, they targeted Chen Chufan as an act of revenge. The reason is that the Iron Bear who was caught by the Min Da security team last time was actually taken down by Chen Chufan...". Wang Mingtao then recounted the entire confession from the video of the gang leader to Director Chen.

  "Now we have reason to suspect that the security manager of Red Heart, Li Sanqiu, is the mastermind behind last night's Xijie Street injury case. Don't you think it's time to issue a wanted notice and take him down?"

  After finishing the report, Wang Mingtao handed over the U disk that copied video files to Chen Suo: "This is the video material from last night, I have deleted it on the monitor!"

  "Go, take your team and bring those people back. Now get out! I'm too lazy to look at you!" Director Chen said in a bad tone.

  Just as Wang Mingtao quickly flashed out of the office, Director Chen hesitated for a moment and picked up the phone.

  "Hello, Secretary Han! I'm Little Chen from the X Hospital Road Police Station. There's been a new development in yesterday's case and I'd like to report it to you!"

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  Hanging up the phone, Secretary Han was also speechless.

  Over the phone, through Director Chen's report, he learned about Chen Chufan's behavior in the police station last night. Secretary Han felt that Chen Chufan's attitude had improved a lot and even somewhat admired this kid.

  At least he is at Chen Chufan's current age, but absolutely can't do something like running into the police station and breaking more than 20 bones of those beasts! He has a strong sense of justice! Secretary Han secretly praised him in his heart. Moreover, upon hearing this news, Secretary Han felt very pleased, daring to hurt his own daughter, they deserved it!

  Especially knowing that those thugs were looking for Chen Chufan's trouble, because Chen Chufan had seen justice and bravery in school, which offended those hooligans, rather than having a grudge against them in the past. Secretary Han also felt that his words to the young man last night were a bit too harsh.

  Lao Han was a military man, after transferring to the local procuratorate, he climbed step by step to his current position. The tempering in the army forged his iron-blooded character! So although Lao Han couldn't possibly agree with Chen Chufan's approach on the surface, deep down inside, he had an increasing good impression of Chen Chufan.