At around four-thirty in the morning, the indigo sky loomed overhead, with the river shrouded in mist, barely revealing one or two fisherman's fires leading tiny fishing boats through the haze, slowly slicing the waters and heading off into the distance.
Water Police Fourth Squad Auxiliary Police Wang Xiaoshan, who had been on stakeout on the river embankment for two days and nights, was both exhausted and drowsy, yet excited, because the Chen Xiaojuan gang was unloading coal from the last boat on the river surface.
Captain Luo's "evidence gathering boat" and the Yangzhou Police Station boats, which had helped with tracking and had been found the night before by the Changhang Zhenjiang Branch, had already gathered the necessary evidence an hour ago. They sailed upstream and then made a U-turn, flowing downstream from the south side of the Yangtze River waterway, to meet up with the main force coming downstream for the roundup.
