Golden Scale [EN]: Chapter 18

Sitting in Bao Ding’s office, Hou Longtao detailed the plan, “If she cooperates willingly, that’s fine. If not, this is what we’ll do.” Bao Ding nodded, “You’re the brains, I’m the muscle. I’ll listen to you.” He handed him a piece of paper, “This is Shi Ya’s background information. Take a look.” Then he walked out.

Shi Ya, 43 years old, Deputy Director of the Beijing Drug Inspection Bureau, in charge of drug approvals, a representative of the Municipal People’s Congress, and a graduate of Beijing Medical University. Her husband is a liaison for the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation stationed in Paris and is abroad year-round. She has a son, Shi Long, 19 years old, a sophomore at the School of Science in Beijing Union University.

“To become a deputy director at 43 is quite an achievement. This kind of woman probably won’t cooperate honestly.” Just as he was thinking this, Bao Ding came back with a police uniform. “Try this on.” Hou Longtao changed into the uniform. “I’ve always wanted to wear one of these. Can I keep this one?” “No way. All the uniforms are accounted for. I can lend it to you for a couple of days when you want to have fun, but I can’t give it to you.”

When they arrived at the Drug Inspection Bureau, they found out that Shi Ya had led a team to inspect work in the morning and went straight home for lunch and wouldn’t be back today. “Whatever, let’s go to her house and wait for her. Saves us from dealing with too many prying eyes.”

Shi Ya lived on the eleventh floor of a tower building in Fangqunyuan, Fangzhuang [a residential area in Beijing]. Even outside the door, they could hear rhythmic music. After ringing the doorbell a few times, the music stopped. “Who is it?” a woman’s slightly breathless voice asked, and the door opened.

The woman in front of them was of medium height, wearing a sweatband on her head and a set of tight-fitting workout clothes that accentuated her curves, with white sneakers on her feet. Seeing two policemen at the door, a look of surprise flashed across the woman’s still-beautiful face. She wiped the sweat from her face with a white towel hanging around her neck. “Who are you looking for?”

“Are you Ms. Shi Ya? We’re from the Criminal Investigation Department of the sub-bureau.” Bao Ding, in the lead, took out his police ID and placed it on the screen door for her to see clearly. “I am Shi Ya. What can I do for you?” Hou Longtao knocked on the iron door twice. “Can we come in? We’d like to ask you about something.” “Oh, please come in.” The woman opened the door and let them into the living room. “Please sit down. Would you two comrades like some water?” The two men sat on the sofa. “No, thank you.” But Shi Ya still poured them two cups of tea.

Given her position as the head of a bureau, she would never be so polite to two policemen. Shi Ya held a lucrative position, and there were many people who sought her help. Although she wasn’t involved in major corruption, she accepted a lot of bribes. This made her afraid of no one, except the police. This is what they call a guilty conscience.

The woman placed the tea on the coffee table and sat in a single sofa on the side. “Is there anything I can help you with?” Bao Ding took a sip of tea. “Is this a convenient place to talk? It’s best if your family doesn’t hear. I think we should go back to the bureau. Go change your clothes, and we’ll wait for you.” Shi Ya was extremely unwilling to go to the Public Security Bureau. “No, no, my husband is in France, and my son is out on a date. He won’t be back until very late. It’s fine here.” “Okay, Ms. Shi,

Is there a Honda Accord with license plate Jing C59368 [Jing is the abbreviation for Beijing]?” Bao Ding took out a file from his bag.

The woman immediately understood that these two policemen weren’t here about her problems at the Drug Inspection Bureau. Her attitude took a 180-degree turn, and she looked at them arrogantly. “So what if there is? What’s it to you?” “Where is that car now?” “I lent it out.” “To whom?” “That’s my private business. Do I have to tell you?”

“Ms. Shi, don’t be resistant. It won’t do you any good. Recently, there have been several robbery cases in this district involving cars. The perpetrators are ruthless, resulting in two deaths and one injury. Witnesses have confirmed that the criminals used a Honda Accord with this license plate. According to the vehicle management office, the car is registered to you. We should have summoned you directly to the bureau, but considering your status, we believe you are not one of the perpetrators. We hope you can cooperate with our work and provide factual clues.” Bao Ding had been a policeman for several years, and what he said sounded quite convincing.

“This… this has nothing to do with me. My car was stolen long ago.” Shi Ya was a little scared. This was a criminal case, and people had died. Her little bit of power wouldn’t be enough. “Stolen? When? Where? Why didn’t you report it? You just said you lent it out, and now it’s stolen. Are you trying to hide something?”

The woman was a little dazed by Bao Ding’s series of questions. “It was stolen at the beginning of the year, downstairs. I… I didn’t think it was a new car, so… so I didn’t report it. Just now… just now I didn’t think… didn’t remember, that’s why I said I lent it out. I…” Shi Ya was still making up lies, but even she didn’t believe them.

Hou Longtao was already impatient. He slammed his hand on the coffee table, and the tea in the cups splashed out. “Stop making up stories.” The woman was startled and looked at him in fear. “How much is your monthly salary? You wouldn’t care if a 400,000 yuan car was stolen? Do you think the police are stupid?”

Without waiting for the woman to answer, Hou Longtao continued grimly, “To tell you the truth, two of the three perpetrators have already been arrested, and only one is on the run. The car is his. We have already grasped most of the situation. Now we are giving you a chance to prove your innocence. Let me tell you, regarding this case itself, failing to report or harboring a criminal is not a crime. Your punishment depends entirely on your attitude.” Although Shi Ya wasn’t as arrogant as before, she was still a worldly person and knew a little about the law. She wasn’t completely intimidated. “You… what evidence do you have that I failed to report? My car was stolen.”

In her heart, the person on the run wasn’t necessarily Hu Bing. Even if it was really him and he was caught, at most their affair would be revealed. She had never participated in the robbery. Although her reputation would be damaged, nothing major would happen. Besides, there was still a glimmer of hope that the person could escape, so there was no need to reveal her unspeakable secret now.

“Are you going to keep playing dumb with us? You’re clearly hiding something.” “Why are you talking like that? What do you mean playing dumb? You don’t have any evidence. You can’t just talk nonsense.” The woman regained her composure and didn’t show any weakness. Both sides were silent. Shi Ya felt very uncomfortable. The policeman named

Li Bao Ding didn’t seem special except for his slightly fierce appearance, but the one with glasses, although gentle and not bad-looking, had very sharp eyes that made her feel very uneasy. “If you don’t have anything else, please leave. I can’t help you with anything.” She said, getting up to see them off, seeing that the two had no intention of leaving. “What, you don’t want to leave yet?”

“If you don’t make things easy for us, we won’t make things comfortable for you either.” Hou Longtao said unhurriedly, “We both know that you’re hiding something, and if you don’t provide clues, it will be difficult for us to catch the person within a week. Since you’re forcing us to go to extremes, don’t blame us for using any means necessary.”

“You… what do you mean?” The woman looked at his cunning expression and couldn’t help but take a step back. “Hmph, you’ve heard of ‘a mad dog bites people,’ right? We won’t bother catching that person. We’ll go back and tell the two in custody to say that person is the mastermind and you’re harboring stolen goods. They call that confession, which can get them a reduced sentence. They will definitely do it.”

“How… how can it be so easy? No one will believe it based on the words of two prisoners alone.” Although Shi Ya didn’t give in verbally, a look of panic appeared on her face, and she slowly sat back on the sofa. “Yes, of course we can’t rely on them alone. Don’t forget, there’s also your car. Add a zero to the end of your bank account balance, or find a large sum of cash when searching your house, unexplained sources of huge wealth. With witnesses, physical evidence, and stolen goods, we can convict you even without your confession.”

The four-eyed policeman was always gloomy, and just looking at him made her feel nervous. She could now hear the woman’s panting due to panic. She was also an official and knew very well that these policemen were capable of anything. There was another silence, and Shi Ya quickly weighed the pros and cons in her mind. “I might know the person you’re looking for, but I really didn’t participate in their affairs. Can you keep my words confidential?” “Okay, our conversation today will not leave this room.”

“My husband is a career-oriented man and is away all year round, sometimes not even coming back for the New Year. This year, he stayed in France and didn’t come back, so I argued with him on the phone and went to a bar to drink my sorrows away. I met a man named Hu Bing and had a one-night stand with him.”

“Hu Bing? Is it him?” Bao Ding placed a photo on the coffee table. The muscles on the woman’s pretty face twitched when she saw the handsome and tall man in the photo. “It’s him.” “That’s not his real name. According to our information, his name is Hu Xuejun, but that may not be his real name either. Continue.”

“I thought I would never see him again after that night, but he became obsessed with me. He probably stole a glance

at my work permit and ID card in my purse and found out my identity and address. He often came to my house to find me, either wanting money or sex. If I didn’t comply, he threatened to reveal our affair and ruin my reputation. I am a person of status. How could I let others know about this? I had no choice but to submit to his lewd power. He even forced me to take several rolls of nude photos, so I dared not disobey him even more…” Mentioning her tragic experience, Shi Ya burst into tears.

“It seems this is a woman who is strong on the outside but weak on the inside, very weak. Hu Xuejun, you lucky bastard. If I had used this trick against my Yunyun back then, it definitely wouldn’t have worked.” Hou Longtao looked at this middle-aged woman, who still had a lot of charm.

“And then? You gave him the car too? How much money did he take from you in total?” Bao Ding gave Hou Longtao a cigarette, and the two lit up without asking the host’s permission. Now they had completely controlled the situation, and their bossy attitude was revealed.

“The cash alone adds up to more than 100,000.” “When does he usually come to you?” “There’s no fixed day. He comes every two or three days, but he hasn’t shown his face in the past four months. I thought everything was over, but I didn’t expect you to come looking for me…” “Damn, it seems he doesn’t want this woman anymore because he has He Liping. Wang An keeps coming one after another.” Hou Longtao got up and slowly paced back and forth. “It’s just another victim, not very useful.” As he thought, he walked to the TV cabinet and saw a photo frame on it, with a family photo inside.

A buzzing sound in his head, he picked up the photo frame and looked at it carefully. “This is your son?” Shi Ya turned her head. “Yes.” After saying that, she turned her head again and sobbed, not noticing the strange expression on his face. “He went on a date?” “Yes.” “He won’t be back until very late?” “Yes.” At this point, Hou Longtao was already gnashing his teeth, and the jealousy in his chest was burning uncontrollably.

Taking two steps forward, he aimed at the woman’s nape and delivered a heavy chop. Shi Ya didn’t even scream. Her body lunged forward and slowly fell to the ground, motionless, knocking over the cups on the coffee table, and the remaining tea spilled everywhere.

This unplanned action surprised Bao Ding. “Monkey, what are you doing?” He quickly checked the woman’s breath and felt relieved that she had only fainted. “Ding’er, you go first. Just leave the handcuffs with me.” Hou Longtao was expressionless. “What are you going to do with her?” Bao Ding handed over the handcuffs. “Don’t you trust me?” “Okay,” Bao Ding reminded him before leaving, “But you have to bring the police uniform back to me tomorrow.” Years of working together had built absolute trust between the two, and he knew that Hou Longtao was resourceful and must have a reason for doing this. He squatted down, cuffed Shi Ya’s hands behind her back, and examined the woman’s body. Perhaps because she was well-maintained and exercised regularly, even though she was over forty, her figure hadn’t changed at all, and the workout clothes accentuated her figure, which was still very attractive to men.

He pinched her buttocks and rubbed them in the crevice, pressed two fingers on her labia, pressed his thumb on the clitoris still hidden in the foreskin and rotated it forcefully, and finally inserted his middle finger into her vagina and dug it out. Ordinary rape is difficult to produce pleasure, mainly because most perpetrators need to constantly use violence to stop the victim’s resistance, and they are eager to insert without any foreplay, causing the victim great physical pain and psychological fear and resistance. But now Shi Ya was in a coma, and Hou Longtao had taken care of most of the sensitive areas of her lower body. The body of a middle-aged woman is not only sensitive but also honest, and a little teasing made her react. The finger in her vagina was completely surrounded by the woman’s secretions.

“Slut, you’re already this wet.” Looking at the shiny liquid on his middle finger, the man muttered to himself, “Even if she wasn’t forced, she definitely couldn’t stand the loneliness.” He took out his hard cock from his zipper and stabbed it into her vagina with a “poof” sound. He grabbed the woman’s buttocks with both hands and began to thrust wildly.

“Um… um…” Shi Ya slowly woke up, first feeling a little cold on her body, followed by waves of pleasure from her lower body to her whole body. Her vagina had an extreme sense of fullness that she hadn’t felt since her husband left again three months ago. It was obvious that a man was raping her. “Ah… um… stop… stop… who are you…” Her memory slowly returned, and she knew it must be one of the two policemen, but she couldn’t turn her head and couldn’t see behind her at all. No matter how she questioned or begged, the man didn’t make a sound except for the panting during the thrusting. In this situation, Shi Ya instinctively made a choice, hoping that the one behind her was the one with glasses, at least he was somewhat pleasing to the eye.

Her body was moving back and forth from the thrusting, and her erect nipples rubbed back and forth on the rough table, also producing unbearable pleasure. “Ah… ah… you… you can’t… can’t do this… please… take it out… ah… you’re a policeman… um… this is breaking and entering… rape… ah… law enforcement… ah… ah…” The woman realized that she was about to orgasm. With the little bit of reason left, she still didn’t want to be raped

and reveal that she was ENJOYING IT.

Hou Longtao ignored her and just thrust desperately. Although the woman’s vagina was a little looser than his girlfriends’, the pleasure of raping her was not diminished at all. It was probably completely psychological. “Shi Long, Wang An, I’m playing with your mom until she’s screaming, I’m going to fuck your mom to death, fuck your mom to death.”

“Ah… ah… ah…” The liquid in her vagina suddenly increased, and the vaginal muscles were also contracting greatly, causing Shi Ya to both fear and anticipate the peak of orgasm, which still came regardless of her will. The woman desperately leaned her head back, and slowly lowered it, her whole body feeling as if her bones were scattered, and the numb and wonderful feeling made the words of resistance she uttered sound like flirting with the man.

“Um… uh… please… please stop… if you don’t stop… I… I’m going to scream…” Her eyelids drooped, looking weak and helpless. Hou Longtao pressed down on her upper body, tore off her sweatband, and licked her face. “Do you really want me to stop? Are you willing?” He thrust heavily twice again. “Ah… ah…” “I didn’t say you couldn’t scream. It sounds good. I like it. Keep screaming.”

Shi Ya knew who he was, and her mood was truly indescribable. Happy, she was clearly being raped; sad, but she was experiencing waves of pleasure, and it was caused by a man she approved of. “Ah… I’m… going to call for help…” “Okay, what do you want to call me? Husband? Lover? Or officer?”

The man’s feigned ignorance and teasing made Shi Ya angry and helpless. “I’m… I’m calling for help…” “Haha, am I that good? Fucking Sister Ya until she’s about to die? But you’d better not call out like that. If people outside hear you and rush in to save you, it will be big news, ‘Deputy Director of the Beijing Drug Inspection Bureau and Municipal People’s Congress Representative Raped at Home Until Orgasm.”

Shi Ya was a very face-conscious person, and she really couldn’t do anything about the man’s threat, so she bit her lip and stopped talking, only moaning softly, hoping he would finish soon. But Hou Longtao was trying his best to restrain the urge to ejaculate, because the longer this fuck lasted, the more satisfaction he would get from revenge. (Golden scales are not things in a pond) [meaning someone with great potential is stuck in a small place]