He had beaten up several police officers the day before and caused a big ruckus on the road. He might already be wanted by the police, and he would definitely be arrested if he went back to Province Z.
He pondered the issue for a while, then stopped by the roadside and removed all the jade talismans from his car.
Then, he got back into the car and continued his journey back.
He passed through a tollbooth. The tollbooth attendant regarded him curiously. He must have been recognized.
Tang Hao was not worried. He continued to calmly drive back toward his destination.
Two hours later, he arrived at the province boundary.
Tang Hao was shocked when he looked into the distance.
Police cars were positioned side by side at the tollbooth ahead, and police officers waited in formation. It was an awe-inspiring sight.
‘Is there a need for this grand spectacle?’ Tang Hao was speechless.
He did not think that he deserved such a grand welcome. He only beat up the police officers because they were trying to frame him.
“Tang Hao! You have been surrounded, and there is no escape! Stop the car now and do not resist. Otherwise, there will be consequences!” Zhao Wuyang shouted through a megaphone.
Tang Hao slowed down his car and eventually stopped.
Whoosh!
The police officers, led by Zhao Wuyang, surrounded his car.
“Get out of the car!” Zhao Wuyang roared.
Tang Hao complied.
“You are under arrest, Tang Hao!” Zhao Wuyang roared. He produced a pair of handcuffs and slapped them on Tang Hao’s wrists.
Then, he turned around and looked at Tang Hao’s car.
The police officers crowded closer around the car. They had curious and doubtful expressions on their faces as they inspected it.
Some of the police officers reached out and touched the car as though it was something extraordinary.
“So, is this the flying car?”
“It looks no different than a normal car. How can it fly?”
Some police officers opened up the hood to inspect it closely, while others opened the doors and went inside.
Everyone was confused.
It was an Audi A8, as normal as it could be. There was nothing special about it.
“This is very strange!” The police officers could not figure out what was going on as they inspected every inch of the car.
Zhao Wuyang went behind the car and was shocked. He could see the registration plate clearly.
“What trickery is this? I can see the registration plate clearly now!” Zhao Wuyang asked Tang Hao.
“What are you saying, Officer? I don’t understand!” Tang Hao pretended to be oblivious.
“Don’t play dumb with me, kid!” Zhao Wuyang said sternly.
“I really don’t know what you’re talking about, Officer. Ah! Also, I’ll be filing a complaint about you and a few of your colleagues, Officer Zhao. You’ve abused your powers and tried to frame me.”
Zhao Wuyang was shocked, then looked angry. “What are you talking about, you filthy kid? How did I frame you?”
“Isn’t that so? You got your colleague to beat himself up and attempted to pin the crime on me.
“A normal person would want to run away when they’re met with such injustice, and I’m just acting like how a normal person would. Is that a crime?
“So, what are you arresting me for?”
Zhao Wuyang was at a loss for a reply.
He thought it was quite amusing that the kid was grasping at straws!
“What do you mean, we’re falsely accusing you of assaulting the police? You indeed assaulted my fellow police officer and ran away. Dozens of police cars were wrecked. You’re also responsible for that.
“Also, I strongly suspect that you are involved in the disappearance of Gao Wenqiang. I will bring you back for interrogation now.”
Tang Hao chuckled. “Are you an idiot, Officer?”
“You…” Zhao Wuyang gritted his teeth. Veins bulged on his forehead.
‘This kid is too arrogant!’
“What are you trying to say? Speak it!” The police officers that were crowding around him were also angry.
Tang Hao spoke coldly, “Officer, you should know that my residential area has CCTV surveillance. Your actions have all been captured by the cameras.
“Of course, I’ve already gotten someone to make a backup of the recording. It’s too late for you to delete it.
“Also, you can suspect me all you want, but do you have any actual evidence? If you don’t, I suggest that you don’t wrongly accuse the innocent.”
Zhao Wuyang gritted his teeth out of anger.
“Bring him away!” He roared.
Tang Hao laughed coldly. “Are you sure you want to do that, Officer Zhao? Be ready to bear the consequences!”
Zhao Wuyang was livid.
“Why are you still standing there? Bring him away now!”
Two police officers brought Tang Hao into a police car.
Half an hour later, they arrived at the city police station.
Tang Hao was brought into an interrogation room.
Tang Hao sat on the chair calmly. He did not say a word, no matter what Zhao Wuyang asked him.
Zhao Wuyang became angrier and angrier. He suddenly slammed the table and stood up. “Dammit, are you mute? Why aren’t you saying anything?
“Don’t think that I can’t do anything to you just because you keep quiet! I know that you have some money, but don’t you think that you’re invincible! You’ll beg for death when I’m done with you!”
Tang Hao remained silent.
“Dammit, turn off the cameras!” Zhao Wuyang’s face was red with anger.
“Calm down, Captain Zhao!” The police officers next to him tried to persuade him.
“Calm down my *ss! Can’t you see how arrogant this kid is? I’m not called Zhao if I don’t kill this kid today!” Zhao Wuyang roared and prepared to head to the control room.
Suddenly, there was a loud roar from outside the interrogation room. “Who do you want to kill today, Captain Zhao? Don’t forget that this is a police station, and you, as a police officer, ought to be careful of what you say.”
The door to the interrogation room opened and a middle-aged man walked in.
“Deputy Superintendent!”
All the police officers in the room were shocked and stood up in attention.
Zhao Wuyang was surprised as well. “Why are you here, Deputy Superintendent?”
“Hmph! You don’t know what trouble you’re getting yourself into! I’ve heard all about the incident. You don’t have any actual evidence, right? Why are you arresting people then? Haven’t you learned your lesson?
“Also, look at what you’ve done.”
He handed Zhao Wuyang his tablet. There was a video playing on it. It was the security footage of the incident at Tang Hao’s residential area.
“Look at the comments. The citizens are saying that the police are abusing the rule of law and arresting innocent people. This is a serious matter! You’re ruining the reputation of the police.
“Officer Zhao, you are suspended with immediate effect. Go home and reflect on what you have done. When you’ve finally realized what you did wrong, you can return to your job.”
Zhao Wuyang trembled and his face turned as pale as a sheet.
Chapter 236 - Second Uncle
‘How did it come to this?’ Zhao Wuyang stood there, incredibly confused.
He was indeed careless and had forgotten about the CCTVs in the residential area. He had pulled off the same trick without any problems before.
He expected the kid to be bluffing but did not expect that he managed to obtain the footage and uploaded it to the Internet.
Things were a lot trickier when the footage got onto the Internet.
“Release him at this instant!” The deputy superintendent roared.
“Yes, yes!” Th
e police officers immediately agreed. They urgently went over and unlocked Tang Hao’s handcuffs.
“Sigh! I’m so sorry about this!” The deputy superintendent laughed heartily and came over. “Our young friend, that Captain Zhao is indeed a hot-tempered person and he tends to run his mouth. I hope that you don’t mind him.
“Alright, everything is settled now. You can leave.”
The deputy superintendent was quite friendly. In fact, a little too friendly.
Zhao Wuyang was shocked when he saw that.
‘Is there a need for the deputy superintendent to be so courteous? Don’t tell me… the kid has a powerful figure backing him?’
Even Tang Hao was a little taken aback by how friendly the deputy superintendent was.
‘Even if one of his subordinates made a mistake… is there a need for the deputy superintendent of the Provincial City police station to be so friendly toward me?’
All he did was to ask Han Yutong to obtain the CCTV footage and upload it on the Internet.
“Come here, my young friend, let me send you off!”
The deputy superintendent smiled hospitably and gently bowed, showing him the way out.
Zhao Wuyang and the other police officers were dumbfounded when they saw that.
They had not seen the deputy superintendent being so friendly toward a suspect. Furthermore, the suspect was only a student.
Tang Hao found it rather unsettling.
“Well, I suppose this settles it!” He said and walked out of the interrogation room.
The deputy superintendent watched Tang Hao leave, then breathed a sigh of relief, as though a heavy burden had been removed from his shoulders.
“Phew! He’s gone!” He mumbled.
Zhao Wuyang was dumbstruck again.
He could not believe his own eyes and ears.
Looking at the deputy superintendent’s expression, he seemed to be respectful and even fearful of the kid.
How was that possible?
The deputy superintendent of Provincial City Police Station was one of the top-ranking police officers in Province Z. Why would he be wary of a teenager?
What was the true identity of that kid?
Zhao Wuyang became more and more doubtful than ever.
That kid had amazing martial arts abilities and owned a weird flying car. He felt that the kid was incredibly mysterious.
“Deputy Superintendent, that kid is…” Zhao Wuyang could not curb his curiosity anymore.
The deputy superintendent turned to look at him coldly. “You can’t afford to cross that person! Did you try to arrest him without any evidence? Are you tired of living?”
Zhao Wuyang was speechless as panic grew in his heart.
The deputy superintendent’s tone of voice made it sound as though that kid was a very important person.
Soon after, the deputy superintendent calmed down a little. “You remember the incident with Long Jiang Group not too long ago, right?”
Zhao Wuyang’s body trembled when he heard that.
Of course, he remembered that incident. It had sent shockwaves throughout the entire Provincial City police force. Even the Provincial Headquarters was involved in it.
The incident originated with a phone call.
When the police station received the phone call and went to the Xu family mansion, they were shocked by what they saw.
The elite bodyguard force of the Xu family was defeated and sprawled on the ground, while Xu Jianghai, the president of Long Jiang Group, clung to the police while confessing to every evil deed like a lunatic.
The evil deeds rendered the police officers speechless.
News of the incident was reported to the City Headquarters, then relayed to the Provincial Headquarters. From there, it went on to shake the entire police force.
The most amazing thing about the entire shocker was that the identity of the most important person was unknown. That was, the person who had made the call in the first place.
The police force should have been capable of tracing that person’s identity. Furthermore, there had been so many witnesses. However, the identity of that person remained a mystery, as though someone powerful suppressed that information.
Zhao Wuyang trembled more violently than ever. His face displayed an expression of utter incredulity.
He looked at the deputy superintendent with round, wide eyes, and said with some difficulty, “Don’t tell me… that’s the person?”
The deputy superintendent nodded grimly.
“That’s right. It’s him. I got the information from the Provincial Headquarters. Not many people know about this. To be frank, it’s one of the leaders in the province who had requested his identity to be kept secret.
“Now, you finally understand why you can’t cross that person! You can’t afford to do so unless you have concrete evidence!
“Remember, don’t tell anyone else about this. I’m telling you this so that you don’t act rashly next time.”
Then, the deputy superintendent turned around and left, leaving two figures standing still as stone in the interrogation room.
Meanwhile, Tang Hao left the building and gave Han Yutong a call, informing her that everything was settled.
He looked at his missed call notifications and found that Liu Bingyao and Teacher Jiang had called him.
Evidently, they were also visited by the police.
He returned their calls one by one.
Then, he walked out of the front gate of the police station.
He had just started walking when he remembered that his car should have been towed back to the police station.
He looked around and asked a police officer where he should claim his car.
He noticed two figures walking out of another building. They were a middle-aged couple who seemed to be in their mid-fifties.
Tang Hao glanced at them and was stunned.
He knew who those two people were.
The male was Shi Xuebin, his second maternal uncle. In other words, the second elder brother of his mother.
That female was none other than Tang Hao’s aunt.
He had not seen the couple for several years, though their appearance did not change much and Tang Hao recognized them at first glance.
Then, he became slightly uneasy.
He was not quite fond of his second uncle and second aunt. In fact, the two were not very popular in Dragonrock Village.
They had left Dragonrock Village many years ago to find their fortune in Provincial City. When their business succeeded and they became rich, their attitudes changed. They looked down upon Dragonrock Village and the villagers.
They have not returned to Dragonrock Village for a long time, even to visit their parents.
That was ingratitude!
That was why Tang Hao did not like those two people.
In his eyes, his second uncle and second aunt were materialistic and shallow. They sucked up to rich people and looked down upon the poor. After they earned their fortune, they forgot their roots.
It was as though city folk were somehow superior to village folk.
He furrowed his brows and prepared to leave.
At that moment, the two people happened to turn over and notice Tang Hao.
Shi Xuebin was surprised. He thought that the boy in front of him looked familiar, but could not recall the name.
Chapter 237 - Wedding Banquet
“Aren’t you…?”
Shi Xuebin stopped walking and looked intently at Tang Hao.
Next to him, his wife, Wang Guifen also stopped walking and stared at Tang Hao. She also felt that the person looked incredibly familiar.
Shi Xuebin’s body was well-built. He wore a trim business suit which looked expensive. Wang Guifen was dressed rather trendily. Her bright red high heels and the fur trimmings on her clothes were extremely eye-catching.
Her lipsticks matched her high heels and she looked very fashionable.
These two people were from a diff
erent world than his first uncle and aunt.
Second Uncle and Second Aunt dressed to show off, while First Uncle and First Aunt were simple and down-to-earth.
Tang Hao could not find their village roots on Second Uncle and Second Aunt anymore.
‘They’re city folk now!’ Tang Hao mocked them in his heart.
“Ah!” Shi Xuebin exclaimed abruptly when he figured out who that person was. “You’re… Tang Hao?”
Then, his expression became incredulous.
The boy had changed a lot since he last saw him a few years ago.
He was more curious about why that boy was in Provincial City, not to mention that they met in the police station.
“Tang Hao?” Wang Guifen was taken aback.
“Oh!” She exclaimed and put on a condescending look on her face.
She remembered that Tang Hao was Shi Caifeng’s son, a poor kid from the mountains.
They were relatives, but the couple would rather not be related to him. They looked down upon their poor relations.
In her eyes, poor relatives were a hassle. What would they do other than ask them for money and favors?
Tang Hao noticed the condescension in her eyes.
He chuckled up his sleeve again.
‘Second Aunt is just the same as before! She’s materialistic and petty. She was born in a mountain village, yet she looks down upon people who shared her origins. She even finds it shameful.’
“You’re really Tang Hao?” Second Uncle asked as though he could not believe it.
Tang Hao furrowed his brows, then greeted them, “Second Uncle! Second Aunt!”
“Oh, it’s really him!” Second Aunt said condescendingly while blowing air from her nose.
Second Uncle was surprised. “It’s really you! No wonder I thought that you looked familiar. Right, why are you in Provincial City? Are you attending college here?”
Second Aunt laughed. “What are you saying, Xuebin? How can he afford to study in college? College fees are so expensive now. How can their family afford it?” She said mockingly.
As she spoke, her expression became condescending.
She knew that Tang Hao was poorer than most villagers. Caifeng had passed away when the boy was very young, and his father had also passed away a few years ago. His household should be very poor, so how could he afford the college fees?
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