The farce involving Deputy Factory Director Hou dragged on from six in the morning until nine. During those nearly three hours, the police station arrived, the funeral home arrived, and the hospital arrived. Finally, the fire department showed up and used hydraulic cutters to release Deputy Factory Director Hou from the railing.
There were no valuable clues left at the scene; too many onlookers had trampled the ground, rendering any footprints worthless. Even the section of the stair railing that had trapped Deputy Factory Director Hou was covered in the fingerprints of at least a dozen people, and the entire piece had been cut away and taken by the fire department.
Hou Yong sat at a nearby breakfast stall, eating two steamed buns and dipping a fried dough stick into a bowl of bean curd jelly. Once Deputy Factory Director Hou had been hauled away, Shen Xiao appeared, sporting dark circles under his eyes, and slumped into the seat beside him.
Chapter 96