Chapter 213: The End
Gao Ping was handcuffed, squatting on the ground with his head down, denying everything. Gao Yuan also resisted, thinking that this was the end, the Lei Zis really came for Yang Xue's matter. They both said in unison: "I don't know her!"

Liu Zhiye was not surprised to see that they did not admit it, because he knew that they would not admit it so easily. So he continued to ask, "But Xu Dalong from the Red Star Factory, Yang Xue's husband, said that you knew each other and were very familiar with each other. What do you say?"

Gao Ping and Gao Yuan looked at each other, their faces pale and somewhat desperate. Gao Ping saw that the public security personnel had already figured out their social relations, and it was useless to deny it, so he had to change the topic and said, "Hey! You are talking about Yang Xue from the Red Star Factory! Then we know each other. What happened to her?"

Liu Zhiye said expressionlessly, "Comrade Yang Xue, the cashier of the Red Star Factory, has disappeared, along with a huge sum of 500,000 yuan. Do you know where she is?"

Gao Ping pretended to be clueless and asked Gao Yuan: "How would we know? Brother, have you seen her today?"

Gao Yuan shook his head and pretended to be surprised and said, "I don't know, I've never seen it. Oh my! This is a lot of money. Do you think Yang Xue has absconded with the money?"

Gao Ping nodded in agreement: "Yes, people's minds are hard to predict! It's possible that they will be tempted by money."

These two guys are really abominable. They think they have done a perfect job and are talking nonsense here with impunity.

Seeing that they were still pretending to be crazy and stupid, Liu Zhiye didn't want to play any psychological tactics with them, so he defeated them one by one. Because time waits for no one, he needed to make them speak as soon as possible so that he could find Yang Xue who had been missing for a long time.

So he said directly: "Gaoping, Gaoyuan, let's stop beating around the bush. I think you know the reason why you were arrested. I advise you to tell the truth and you can get leniency. If you resist stubbornly, you will die. What do you say?"

Gao Ping and the other two knew that if they confessed, they would not have a good ending. They thought that although the police had good intentions, they had no evidence to prove their actions, so they decided to refuse to admit it. What can you do to me?

"Government, what are you saying? You can't wrongly accuse good people!" Gao Ping shouted loudly.

Zhou Weiguo heard their nonsense and said angrily, "Shut up! You guys are all dog-headed and toad-eyed. How dare you say you are good people?"

Gao Yuan shouted excitedly: "Leader, you have to make the decision for me! He insulted us, I want to report him!"

Feng Gang, who was standing by, frowned and scolded him, "Squat down!"

"Squat down. Did you hear me squatting down?" Feng Gang shouted again.

Seeing that Gao Yuan refused to listen, Feng Gang kicked him in the knee, causing him to kneel on the ground again.

Gao Yuan knelt and crawled, but still shouted: "Help come quickly! The police are beating people! Help come quickly..."

Feng Gang was so angry that he raised his hand to slap him.

Liu Zhiye narrowed his eyes, a cold light flashed, and he decisively shouted: "Stop!" He keenly realized that these two bastards were stalling for time and making trouble.

So he had the evidence brought over, pointed at a pile of money and said, "Gaoping, Gaoyuan, look at what this is?"

When Gao Ping and Gao Yuan saw the money, their hearts skipped a beat and they said, "It's over!" They immediately became as pale as death and remained silent.

Liu Zhiye scolded coldly: "Speak up! What's the matter with this money? What did you do to Yang Xue?"

Gao Ping struggled to his death and said, "We picked up this money and were planning to hand it over to the government tomorrow. We didn't hide it on purpose. Who knew you got there first?"

"The government should investigate! We really have never seen Yang Xue. This money was really picked up."

Liu Zhiye saw that even at this point, they were still being stubborn and refused to admit that they were the ones who had robbed the money.

They won't cry until they see the coffin. It seems that they must find Yang Xue before they can be completely convicted.

“Do you think you can get away with it by refusing to admit it? I tell you, it’s not that easy!” Liu Zhiye said sternly.

"Based on their activities today, I don't believe that a living person can disappear out of thin air!" he ordered.

"Yes!" Liu Fangliang and others said in unison.

…………after an hour.

Zhou Weiguo brought an old sanitation worker named Zeng Laosan from the District Health Bureau.

"Director, this is Comrade Zeng Laosan. He was once responsible for leading the Gao brothers in the work of removing excrement. He is very familiar with the Gao brothers' work route, and he will lead us to search," Zhou Weiguo introduced briefly.

Liu Zhiye said carefully: "Master Zeng, thank you for your help. The situation is urgent so I won't be polite with you. I'll trouble you from now on!"

Zeng Lao San was surprised and said, "Oh! Leader! You are serious! I am not tired, not tired!"

Then, he walked past the Gao brothers and spit at them fiercely, spitting on their faces, and said, "Bah! I knew you two brothers were no good. I saw it from the first time I saw you. You should have eaten peanuts like your traitor father!"

Without even looking at the two good-for-nothings, he led everyone to the alleys where the Gao brothers were responsible for collecting excrement on a daily basis.

Liu Zhiye walked and talked, and asked Zeng Laosan: "Master Zeng, how do you sanitation workers usually do your work?"

Zeng Laosan responded: "We do the work of slop workers. Usually we work in teams of two, pushing a two-wheeled slop cart or driving a donkey cart, going door to door to collect slop and dump it, and then transport it to the slop factory outside Beidingmen."

Liu Zhiye nodded. He knew this. The "dirty water man" was responsible for clearing away the swill from every household, commonly known as "swill dumper".

The swill cart of the filthy man was also a bulky two-wheeled wooden cart with a large water tank installed on it, which could hold more than ten buckets of water. There was a hole at the bottom at the back, which was plugged with a wooden plug and was used to drain the water.

The slop man would usually harness a donkey to pull a cart and go to the courtyards of people in the alley every afternoon. Upon entering the door, he would first shout "Dump out the slop!" Then he would take out the slop buckets of each household and pour the slop into the water tank.

When a truck is full, it is pulled with a creaking sound to the "dirty water pool" that connects to the sewer and dumped, then returns to the alley to continue.

In addition to slag and swill, feces is also an important part of urban garbage. Cities do not have enough underground pipes and water sources, so they can only be cleaned up manually.

Therefore, whether it is the toilets of ordinary people in small families, the toilets in large mansions, or the dry toilets in restaurants and theaters outside, they all need sanitation workers to clean and transport them out of the city every day.

In the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, until the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the capital had no sewage pipe system, let alone excrement pumping machines, and the removal of human and animal excrement was entirely dependent on manpower. In Dongcheng District, the excrement was collected and sent to the outside of Andingmen.

As the capital of many dynasties, Beijing has clear divisions of urban functional areas. Outside Andingmen is a desolate area, mostly used as a manure processing site. Manure is usually transported here, mixed with furnace ash, dried into manure, and then sold to farmers growing grain and vegetables in the suburbs as pure organic fertilizer.

The dung collectors usually collected and transported dung at dawn. Writer Cong Weixi wrote in his article “Looking for Fun in the Past - Searching for the Jade Emperor Pavilion in the Capital”: “I remember that the crowing in the alleys was not announced by the rooster, but the squeaking sound of the wheels of the dung carts, which were dry and lacked oil. It was very irritating at dawn. No wonder a song was popular in the capital at that time: The dung cart is our crowing rooster, and so many sounds follow it…”

Liu Zhiye quickly mapped out the daily movements of the Gao brothers in his mind. They started moving along a fixed route before dawn every day, and knew every courtyard and every public place. They knew where there were many people, where there were few people, and which corners were more hidden. They knew it so well that they would not go wrong even with their eyes closed.

If the two brothers kidnapped or killed Yang Xue, it would be relatively easy to move or hide her.

Apart from anything else, the large wooden barrels they used to transport manure could hold two strong men, or they could just throw people into the manure pit without anyone noticing.
Liu Zhiye reminded: "Pay close attention to the public beacons and corners along the way, and remind everyone to prepare a few more bamboo poles for salvaging. If you find anything, report it in time."

Liu Fangliang's heart tightened when he heard this, and he asked, "Captain, are you saying that Yang Xue might have been killed?"

"I hope this is just my guess. Look at how fearless these two brothers are. They are obviously not worried that we will find Yang Xue and ask her to marry them. Who can keep silent? " Liu Zhiye said anxiously.

Liu Fangliang knew without guessing that someone must be dead, because only dead people can't speak. This made him furious, and he gritted his teeth and said, "I have to teach these two bastards a lesson." After that, he rushed over and prepared to teach the Gao brothers a lesson.

"Old Liu, come back and don't do anything stupid!" Liu Zhiye said with a frown.

Liu Fangliang said angrily: "Captain, these two bastards are such bastards!"

Although Liu Zhiye hated it in his heart, he had to abide by the rules and not act recklessly. He said, "Find Yang Xue first. Without evidence, everything will be in vain."

(End of this chapter)