Chapter 1307 — Qiu Lingshan Is Very Worried
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With the direction of the investigation settled, the results took care of themselves. Before long, word came back from every team - and every single lead pointed to one and the same place: the underground fight ring!
The police confirmed that someone had indeed been recruiting waiters, lorry drivers, day labourers, hotel security men, construction workers and the like to climb into the ring, offering a staggering price - anywhere from a hundred to two hundred thousand for a single fight. For a great many people, that was temptation enough!
Of course, not everyone had risen to the bait - otherwise there would have been no leads for the investigation to follow!
Looking at the rolls of investigation reports stacked across her desk, Qiu Lingshan at last felt the clouds part and the sky appear - the case finally had a thread to follow! With this one crucial lead, everything that came next would be far simpler: all she had to do was find the location of the underground fight ring.
Only, this underground ring... Qiu Lingshan had never heard of it in her life. It must be a newly sprung illegal operation.
"Tap, tap, tap..." Qiu Lingshan was turning over the case files when suddenly she heard a knock at the door. She thought nothing of it and called out absently, "Come in!"
"Lingshan, are you busy? Got any time tonight? Let's have dinner together." The person who came in was Xie Yufeng. He had already taken a temporary leave from the school - what had happened that day left him no face to keep hanging around there.
"Yes, I'm busy," Qiu Lingshan replied evenly. "A case has come in and I'll be working late. As for dinner, forget it - some other time."
She might have no warm words for Xie Yufeng, but neither did she want to offend him outright. The Yu family - and with the Song family as it now stood, they were not to be crossed just yet. Qiu Lingshan had no wish to bring trouble down on her clan through sheer wilfulness, so all she could do was fob him off with a show of civility, hoping Xie Yufeng would take the hint and back off.
"In that case, another day will do!" Xie Yufeng was happy enough not to push it. He dropped himself carelessly onto the sofa opposite Qiu Lingshan's desk. "Running into some trouble? Anything I can lend a hand with? Fire away - let's see what I can do."
"I'm sorry, the case is classified." Naturally, Qiu Lingshan would say nothing more to Xie Yufeng - the less he involved himself in her work and her life, the less she would have to fend him off.
"Ha... I was only making conversation." Qiu Lingshan's reply left Xie Yufeng feeling a little awkward, but there was nothing for it; with 'classified' as her answer, he had no way to ask anything further.
"I'm off to a meeting, Mr. Xie - please make yourself at home." Qiu Lingshan showed him the door; she did not want Xie Yufeng lingering in her office.
"All right, then, I'll be off! Once you've finished, I'll come find you." Xie Yufeng did not cling on; he simply rose and walked out of Qiu Lingshan's office.
When it came to sweet-talking girls, Xie Yufeng had plenty of experience. Against a cold beauty like Qiu Lingshan he had his trump card, too: sheer, unremitting pestering! But he could not crowd her too closely either - so long as he kept a thick skin, he would almost always come through.
"Then you'd better stay away for a while. I'm buried in work and won't have time to entertain you." Qiu Lingshan threw in one last warning.