Chapter 787 Waves

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"What did you say? There are anti-books circulating in Jinxia City recently?"

In the police department of the affairs bureau, Li Xing raised his head from the case file.

"Boss, don't you know?" Detective Huang Si nodded repeatedly, "This book has been popular in the streets and alleys recently! The bookstores selling it have people lining up from the yard to the street entrance!"

"Oh? Tell me in detail." Li Xing immediately became interested.

To be honest, the security environment in this city is the best he has ever seen. Even during the period when the enemy was infiltrating crazily, there were less than a hundred murders. Now that it has entered a stable period, the city is even more prosperous and stable, and even robbery and theft have decreased a lot. However, this does not mean that the police department has nothing to do. In fact, their work has become more and more busy, such as population registration, identity card processing, business disputes, etc., and even disputes between neighbors have become one of their tasks to solve.

This also made Li Xing feel a little melancholy.

He always felt that his talents had lost their place.

The emergence of the anti-book news cheered him up - there is no doubt that the Seven Stars Privy Council has not stopped sending spies to Jinxia. If these termites can be caught, the credit will definitely be greater than dealing with those neighborhood trivia.

The whole process is not complicated.

About four or five days ago, a book of folk stories called "Flowers Blooming" suddenly became popular. Many people rushed to buy it and it triggered heated discussions. Due to the limited quantity, its price has also been rising steadily. After several resales, the price can even be tripled or quadrupled. Price supervision is also one of the responsibilities of the police department. It was because someone in the market reported it that the detective noticed the popularity of this book.

But if it was just a popular book of folk stories that sold very well, it would be fine.

The key is that a considerable part of its content involves the lives of court officials, and the image of the people in the book clearly has the shadow of the founder of the Bureau.

After listening to his subordinates' report, Li Xing slammed the table and stood up, "This man is so bold!"

No wonder he was angry. Xia Fucheng's reputation in the Bureau was respected by everyone, and his style of doing things was seen by everyone. Although the princess behind him did support him very much, everyone with a discerning eye knew that he was able to succeed not because of the support of the superiors, but because it made sense to do so.

There is no doubt that this is definitely a weapon of public opinion used by enemy spies to discredit Xia Fan!

"Boss, do we need to report this to the Privy Council?" Huang Si asked.

If the opponent is the Seven Stars, the possibility of the Taoist making trouble should be considered. Although the police department is equipped with air rifles, guns are obviously at a disadvantage when arresting people in complex environments such as streets and houses.

"No need, I guess the plotter is most likely an ordinary person." Li Xing said decisively, "It is precisely because he has no ability to carry out substantial damage that he chooses such a despicable means to attack Lord Xia. Which bookstore is it?"

"North City District, Erli Taohua Street, Fengming Bookstore."

"Take a team and seal up the bookstore immediately!"

"Yes!"

"Wait a minute." Huang Si was about to leave when Li Xing suddenly stopped him again, "The enemy will not be the bookstore. It would be too stupid to do so. It would be a blatant provocation. If we overreact, we will alert the enemy. Moreover... the enemy can even further spread rumors, saying that it is precisely because the content is true that Jinxia City is so taboo."

"What should we do then?" Huang Si scratched his head.

"Wait until he closes the business, and we will visit him at night." Li Xing said in a deep voice.

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In Fengming Bookstore, Shopkeeper Zhang was calculating and laughing.

What is wise and decisive, what is a business genius, this is it! First, he used free samples to promote the book in teahouses, and then sold the book in limited quantities. In less than a week, Fengming Bookstore went from being ignored to being a hot seller. Every day, a large number of customers came to the store and specifically asked to buy the book "Flowers Bloom".

There were only him and Zhang Yuan in the bookstore, and the printing volume obviously could not meet such a large demand. In addition to recruiting staff urgently, he deliberately raised the purchase threshold by the first-come-first-served method, and secretly asked someone to raise the price, and he secretly leaked a part of it himself - now a book can be bought outside for three or four hundred yuan, which is enough to be worth hundreds of Shenjin Weekly, and it also brought the bookstore back to life in desperate situations.

The numbers on the abacus clearly revealed a fact: the sales in the past few days have exceeded the total of the previous six months!

This sense of joy of reversing the overall situation made him laugh out loud in his dreams.

Dong Dong Dong.

There was a knock on the door outside the house.

"Who is it? It's so late..." Shopkeeper Zhang looked at his waiter, "We are closed, you go and say hello."

"No, uncle." Zhang Yuan showed a surprised look, "I have already locked the gate..."

Wait... the gate is locked?

How did the knocker get in front of the house?

Shopkeeper Zhang just felt alert, and the bolt was quietly cut off - then several figures rushed into the house, instantly blocking all their ways!

"Don't move." The leader shouted in a low voice.

Shopkeeper Zhang shivered with fear and almost dropped the abacus on the ground.

He clearly saw that the other party was holding a long sword in his hand!

In the past, there were indeed occasional home robberies in Jinxia City, but in the past six months, the crackdown on crime has been severed, and all street thugs and gangs have been swept away. He hasn't heard of this kind of thing for a long time. In addition, the bookstore business was not good, so he fired the only guard. He didn't expect to encounter a robbery at this time!

"You, if you want money... it's all in the box under the counter..."

"Who is the robber?" Li Xing said impatiently, "We are from the police station, and we are here to investigate the counterfeit letter. You'd better cooperate with our actions, otherwise you will be responsible for the consequences!"

"Police station?" Shopkeeper Zhang was startled and replied subconsciously, "According to the provisions of Chapter 5 and Twelve Sub-chapters of Jinxia Law, the police station must produce documents for investigation..."

Li Xing couldn't help but be stunned.

After sizing him up for a moment, he took out his police officer ID card from his pocket and showed it in front of the shopkeeper.

"Ah, it turns out to be Master Li. Please take a seat, please take a seat..." Shopkeeper Zhang took a deep breath and glanced at Zhang Yuan at the same time, "Go and make tea for the police officers."

"No need - no one can leave this room without my permission." Li Xing interrupted, "Come here first, I have something to ask you."

"Uh... you have the final say." The shopkeeper walked out of the counter obediently and sat down in front of the head of the police department.

"You should know...the purpose of my coming, right?" Li Xing raised his head slightly and said in a deliberately cold tone.

This is a powerful threat, which can not only deter the suspect, but also find out his background.

The latter rubbed his hands and said, "I guess...is it related to "Flowers Blooming"?"

"Hmph, it seems you know it very well." Li Xing narrowed his eyes, "Then who wrote this anti-book, and who gave it to you to print? I guess... it couldn't have been written by the waiter in your store, right? ?”

He glanced at Zhang Yuan, who trembled with fear on his face.

This person might be a breakthrough, Li Xing realized.

"Rebellious book?" The shopkeeper shook his head in confusion, "Mr. Li, are you sure you read the title of the book correctly? This book is obviously just a bizarre and wonderful emotional story, so why is there any reason to be rebellious?"