"Director Zhao, my case has nothing to do with my eldest brother or second brother, does it? I was caught in Guangdong Province. My eldest brother and second brother's cases fall under Dongshan's jurisdiction. Isn't it against the rules for you to come question me?"
The hoodlums of the eighties and nineties often had a saying on their lips—We understand the law better than decent people do.
That was not empty boasting. Ordinary people rarely came into contact with the law, but those who were constantly being hauled in and thrown into cells treated their recklessness, blood, and tears as tuition fees, learning a few ways to exploit the law.
And San Shui had spent ten years in prison. The people he dealt with every day were all figures who had paid astronomical tuition fees. His understanding of many laws had already reached a profoundly sophisticated level.
So when Zhao Yuanchao said he wanted to reopen the June 27 major smuggling case, he was genuinely stunned.
Reopening a case like this was not something one person could accomplish with a casual word. It required mobilizing vast investigative resources, and aside from a very few exceptions, it was basically impossible.
Take that major northern case that was later turned into a television drama. A gang of criminals had brutally opened a "meat-processing plant," harming countless people before suddenly vanishing.
Given the investigative methods of the time and under normal circumstances, those people would very likely have escaped justice and disappeared without a trace.
Yet ten years later, someone had reopened the case through his own efforts alone and ultimately brought them to justice.
It was said that the reason the case had been reopened was that the gang's ringleader had bullied "that person" for years when they were in school. Once