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Cheng Shuping hurriedly walked toward Zhou Junsheng's bedroom. The police patrolling outside the bedroom saw Cheng Shuping and greeted him. Cheng Shuping nodded and directly pushed open the door to Zhou Junsheng's room.
Zhou Junsheng was lying on the bed in his bedroom smoking opium. Upon seeing Cheng Shuping enter, he quickly hid the pipe under his pillow.
Cheng Shuping noticed Zhou Junsheng's movement and also caught a whiff of the opium smell. He walked straight to Zhou Junsheng's bedside, lifted the pillow, and pulled out the pipe from underneath it.
Cheng Shuping looked at Zhou Junsheng with anger and disappointment: "The housekeeper told me there had been no activity in your room for two days. I thought you had quit."
Zhou Junsheng looked at Cheng Shuping awkwardly.
Cheng Shuping pressed on: "Who is supplying you with opium? Tell me!"
Zhou Junsheng remained silent.
Cheng Shuping sat down on Zhou Junsheng's bed: "If you don't tell me, I will stay here until you quit opium."
Cheng Shuping broke the pipe in half and threw it on the floor.
Zhou Junsheng hesitated but eventually revealed the name of the servant who had been bringing him opium.
In a fit of anger, Cheng Shuping ordered someone to tie up that servant and whip him until he was covered in bruises. Then he dragged him to the middle of the courtyard and kicked him over: "Tell me, who instructed you to do this?"
The servant stammered: "It... it was a masked person. If I didn't do it, he would kill me."
Cheng Shuping asked, "What else did he make you do?"
"He also made me bring him..."
"What did he make you bring?"
"Bring the experimental data that only my master knows about."
"Where will you meet?"
"We won't meet. I'll put what the master wrote in the crack of the wall on the right side of the back door, and he will come to collect it at night."
At this moment, Wang Junpeng hurried over with five or six police officers. He asked Cheng Shuping, unaware of the situation, "Mr. Cheng, what's going on? What has this person done?"
Cheng Shuping replied, "This is our family matter; you don't need to interfere."
With that, Cheng Shuping pulled out a box gun and pressed it against the servant's head. Seeing this, Wang Junpeng quickly aimed his gun at Cheng Shuping, and the police officers behind him also raised their rifles.
Wang Junpeng said, "This is a matter of life; if you dare to kill him, I will have someone take you back to the station."
Cheng Shuping retorted angrily, "This beast colluded with outsiders to harm his own master; he deserves to die."
"Whether he lives or dies is not for you to decide. Even if he committed a crime, it is still our responsibility to take him back to the station."
After finishing his words, Wang Junpeng signaled two police officers behind him to step forward and snatch the servant from Cheng Shuping's grasp.
Wang Junpeng asked, "What crime has this person committed?"
Cheng Shuping sneered coldly, "Hmph, how can you still ask? With so many of you guarding the Zhou residence, he delivered opium to Zhou Junsheng right under your noses, and you turned a blind eye. I really don't know what you police are doing."
Cheng Shuping led his people away, while Wang Junpeng looked back at the two police officers patrolling Zhou Junsheng's bedroom with confusion. "Is what he said true?"
The two police officers lowered their heads in shame. "We... we thought this was a family matter, so..."
Wang Junpeng went up and slapped each of the two people's heads twice, saying, "Family matters! You know that the person is undergoing drug rehabilitation, and someone is sending drugs in. You still think it's a family matter! From now on, everyone who enters or exits that room must be registered, understood?"
The two police officers nodded repeatedly, "Understood."
One of the officers holding the house servant asked Wang Junpeng, "Captain Wang, how should we handle this person?"
Wang Junpeng waved his hand and said, "Such a disloyal and ungrateful person should be taken back to the police station to see how the Sheriff decides to deal with him."
"Yes."
The two officers escorting the house servant immediately took him to the police station as instructed by Wang Junpeng. As they walked down an alley, suddenly a shadow flashed overhead.
One officer quickly drew his gun and shouted, "Who is it?"
The other officer nervously looked up as well.
Another shadow darted past above them, and the armed officer fired two shots into the air.
The other officer trembled and said, "Brother, could that be... Thorned Rose? If it really is Thorned Rose, neither of us combined would be a match for him!"
"Stop scaring yourself!" The armed officer tried to bolster his courage. "Whoever you are, come out now!"
As they shouted, the two officers retreated and ultimately ran away in panic.
Only the house servant remained in the alley. He looked up in fear.
The shadow finally descended. Upon seeing it, the house servant hurriedly knelt down and said, "My lord, I was only following your instructions; I didn't know Jin Cheng Shuping would come!"
The shadow was the voice of Guo Zhuanghuai: "Did you tell them everything?"
"Um... no, I didn't say anything! Nothing at all!" The servant stammered, bowing repeatedly.
The shadow said, "Look up at me!"
The servant, sweating profusely, slowly raised his head. Suddenly, the shadow threw a dart, which pierced the servant's throat. The shadow quickly climbed up the side of a building in the alley and disappeared, while the servant collapsed to the ground, lifeless.
...
Morning light streamed through the window, illuminating Cheng Shuhua's face.
Cheng Shuhua sat in a chair, gradually waking up. She tossed aside the blanket covering her and immediately looked at the bed. There was no one there. She hurriedly got up and walked around the house while calling out, "Cheng Yuwan! Wan'er!"
Cheng Shuhua moved from one room to another.
Hearing her mother's call, Cheng Yuwan poked her head out from the kitchen: "Mom, I'm here!"
Cheng Shuhua walked over and asked, "When did you wake up? Why are you already doing chores right after waking up?"
Cheng Shuhua entered the kitchen. Cheng Yuyao was also in the kitchen.
Cheng Yuyao said, "Mom, she's fine; just let her do it!"
Cheng Yuwan replied to Cheng Shuhua, "Mom, I've been lying in bed for so long. If you don't let me move around a bit, I'm going to suffocate from boredom."
Seeing Cheng Yuwan skillfully washing and chopping vegetables, Cheng Shuhua's feelings of relief were evident.
Cheng Shuhua asked again, "Yuwan, when did you wake up? Why didn't your mom know?"
Cheng Yuyao replied for Cheng Yuwan, "She woke up in the middle of the night!"
Cheng Yuwan, while working, said, "Mom, I saw you sleeping so soundly that I didn't want to wake you."
Cheng Shuhua turned her back to prevent the Cheng Sisters from seeing her joyful tears welling up at the corners of her eyes. She then turned back and said, "It's good that you're awake! It's good! After you have breakfast, you need to go to the café. It’s been closed for a while, and if we don’t get there soon, all our hard-earned customers will be gone!"
Cheng Yuyao and Cheng Yuwan nodded in agreement. "Yes, we'll go after breakfast."
Cheng Shuhua went to the altar where she worshipped the Buddha, took three sticks of incense, lit them, and placed them in the incense burner. Then she knelt before the altar and prayed, "Thank you, Buddha, for protecting them and keeping them safe."
Cheng Shuhua bowed her head in reverence before the statue.
After breakfast, the Cheng Sisters arrived at the café early. Since it had been over a week since it was last open due to the incident with Guo Zhuanghuai, a thick layer of dust had settled inside. The Cheng Sisters spent a long time cleaning up the accumulated dirt and organizing the tables and chairs until the café was bright and tidy before opening the doors to welcome customers...
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