Lin Shuyue was truly stunned. She had never expected that the criminal who was handed over to the police in the morning would die within two hours.
What she couldn't understand was that there were two policemen on duty at the checkpoint, so how could they let the pervert get away?
But no matter what, she had to go and check it out since someone was killed. But this time, she went to the police station near the square.
When Lin Shuyue arrived, the girl in the white down jacket was still there that morning. After the morning police call, Lin Shuyue had already memorized her name.
Ruan Tinglan, a nice name. She should have been called over during working hours. She was wearing a dark blue uniform under her down jacket.
She took off her mask, revealing her pretty face. She smiled at Lin Shuyue, but she was not happy in her heart.
She was called here when she's working. She still couldn't believe it. How could that hooligan be dead? He was hit to death on the roadside!!!
What bad luck, Ruan Tinglan thought.
Lin Shuyue had just sat down when the woman with the hammer, who had threatened the pervert on the bus with her earlier that morning, arrived. She was still wearing an apron. Lin Shuyue's good and evil radar was always on. Both Ruan Tinglan and the woman with the hammer had good and evil values around 5%.
Obviously, none of them could be the murderer.
The aunt with the hammer saw Lin Shuyue and Ruan Tinglan and said with a bitter face, "Tell me what happened? The nails on my wall were loose, and I bought a hammer when I went out to buy groceries this morning. When I was on the bus, I thought that hooligan was so abominable, so I took out the hammer. Who could have thought that this would happen?"
Catching a pervert on the bus is a great feat, and the aunt with the hammer can brag about it to her neighbors for a year, but being involved in a murder case is different. It is an unlucky thing that she doesn't even want to mention.
When Ruan Tinglan heard Aunt Daichui say this, she agreed with him. "Who says it's not true? I was in my work, and then I was called over. What bad luck."
After Ruan Tinglan finished speaking, she moved closer to Lin Shuyue and thanked her. She had wanted to thank her in the morning, but Lin Shuyue ran faster than a rabbit. When she chased after her, Lin Shuyue had disappeared.
"No need to thank me. If I encounter this kind of thing in the future, I still have to fight back. Although it is difficult." Lin Shuyue sighed.
There are so many perverts on bus No. 027. Lin Shuyue doesn't believe that no one has resisted. But this thing is like a weed, which can't be blown away by the wind. There are also many people who like them. Maybe when the girls resist, they will cover up for each other.
Ruan Tinglan said, "I usually avoid taking the No. 027 bus. I'd rather take a few more buses. I woke up late this morning, otherwise I wouldn't have taken it. I heard someone say that about two years ago, a girl on the No. 027 bus got off her night shift and took the last bus home. After getting off, she was followed by a pervert and eventually disappeared."
"That pervert must be a veteran. It is said that he didn't leave any trace at all." Ruan Tinglan's voice became noticeably softer as she spoke.
Aunt Daichui also came over and said, "Yes, yes, yes. In those two years, no women were willing to ride the No. 027 bus. It's only in the past two years that things have calmed down and more people have started riding the bus." Aunt Daichui obviously knew more.
She said, "That little girl is near Songzhuang, where we live now. When her mother heard the news, she cried so hard that she almost went blind. What a sin."
After hearing what Ruan Tinglan and Aunt Daichui were saying, Lin Shuyue had a vague idea. She wondered if this was another case of the victim's family being unable to find the murderer, and therefore hating every pervert on the bus equally?
A police officer came over and interrupted Ruan Tinglan's conversation with Aunt Daichui, and also interrupted Lin Shuyue's thoughts.
Ruan Tinglan was called in for questioning, and Lin Shuyue was also called into another interrogation room. Lin Shuyue remained calm during the interrogation because she had a perfect alibi. The photos she had taken in the square and the soldiers on guard could all prove her absence.
During the interrogation, Lin Shuyue also learned the basic information of the pervert who was caught by Lin Shuyue.
His name is Wang Chengjian. He works as a salesman in a furniture store west of the square. He has a wife and a son.
In people's general perception, going to the police station is a very shameful thing, let alone being taken there for being a hooligan on the bus, which is even more shameful!
Wang Chengjian couldn't stand the days of being discriminated against, so when the police at the duty booth escorted him to the police car, he took advantage of the gap when his colleague who was arrested with him got into the car and ran away.
He was obviously very familiar with the surrounding terrain, as he ran directly along the alley.
The alleys in the capital were quite complicated. When the police caught up with him, he was lying at the entrance of the alley in a very twisted posture. There was a bowl-sized wound on his head, blood was hissing out, and he was already dead.
Lin Shuyue and others who had a very direct conflict with Wang Chengjian in the morning were called in for investigation.
Lin Shuyue's alibi was easily cleared. When she came out of the interrogation room, Ruan Tinglan was still in the reception hall. She insisted on inviting Lin Shuyue to dinner, and Lin Shuyue couldn't refuse no matter how she did.
Helplessly, the two could only go together. Ruan Tinglan did not treat Lin Shuyue to a big meal, so the two found a clay pot cross-bridge rice noodle restaurant.
The northern cross-bridge rice noodles are filled with green vegetables, bean sprouts, meatballs and tofu shreds. The flavor is very rich and makes people's appetites grow just by smelling it. The dishes are served very quickly. Not long after they ordered, the dishes came up.
Ruan Tinglan stood up and picked up a small plate of pickled radish: "The rice noodles in this restaurant are cheap and delicious. We usually like to eat here."
"It smells nice, it must taste good." Lin Shuyue took a deep breath.
Seeing that she liked it, Ruan Tinglan breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank you for helping me this morning, otherwise I really don't know what to do."
The small shop was bustling with people, but Ruan Tinglan's words were clearly audible. Lin Shuyue looked over through the rising steam of the rice noodles. Ruan Tinglan was eating the rice noodles. She said words of thanks, but her expression was very normal.
Ruan Tinglan also noticed that her expression was not right. She touched her face and said, "You must be curious about why I am so calm."
She smiled bitterly and said, "I'm twenty years old, but I've been begging for four years. You must think I'm poor, but you're wrong. I'm actually from a wealthy family."
Ruan Tinglan's words made Lin Shuyue slow down her eating.
Ruan Tinglan was eating tofu shreds in her rice noodles. When she was most helpless, there were so many people in the bus, but only Lin Shuyue stood up to help her.
From the moment she entered society, she learned not to share her suffering with others, because she always knew that people's joys and sorrows are not shared. What you find extremely painful may be just a ridiculous joke to others.
But she had been holding it in for too many years, and it only took a small thing to make her want to speak out.
There are some things she has been holding back for many years. Ruan Tinglan often feels that if she doesn't say anything, she might suffocate to death.
Seeing Lin Shuyue's curiosity, she continued, "My biological parents are from Jiangsu Province. They should be quite wealthy. It is said that when I was one year old, I went out with my parents and was abducted by human traffickers. In the end, I was sold to my parents in the suburbs of the capital."
"My parents are lame and mute. They didn't want to buy me because their lives were already very difficult. To use my father's words, they only have one meal to eat, but they don't know where the rest will come from."
"But when they saw me, it was already winter. I was wearing very thin clothes, my whole body was red, and I was seriously ill. The traffickers couldn't sell me anymore and wanted to throw me to death. My mother couldn't bear to see this, so she used their life savings to buy me. They did their best and gave me all the best they had."
Ruan Tinglan has known her life story since she was a child. Her father never hid it from her. When she was little, she even fantasized about her biological parents. She thought that since her adoptive parents were so kind to her, her biological parents would surely treat her even better.
However, the opposite happened.
"When I was fifteen, my mother fell seriously ill. We tried every possible method and spent all our money, but we couldn't save her and ended up in debt. My father, with a limp in one leg, worked on construction sites with others. He worked harder than others but only earned half as much."
Ruan Tinglan's eyes were red. "Even so, he didn't stop paying for my tuition. I dropped out of school on my own. I started working as a waiter. Every month, I would earn money with my dad to pay off our family debts, but it was too much, and there were too many creditors."
When Ruan Tinglan said this, Lin Shuyue knew that a turning point had come.
Ruan Tinglan continued, "My biological parents came looking for me. They said I was their lost child and wanted to take me back."
Ruan Tinglan gave a bitter laugh, as if she had seen the couple who had come all the way to find her three years ago. "Before I could express my feelings, my so-called biological mother said that because my family missed me so much, they adopted a girl named Sisi, Fu Sisi."
"Isn't it nice? According to them, they adopted Sisi because they missed me. But you know what's the funniest thing? They said that because Sisi didn't know I existed since she was a child, she always thought she was the Fu family's biological daughter. So they hope that I can take a step back, stop caring about this matter, and go back to live with the Fu family as their niece."
"I thought it was hilarious at the time. It was then that I realized that not all parents in this world love their children."
"I didn't agree with them and asked them for a sum of money I never dared to think of in my life. Then I paid off the family debt and brought my father to the capital. But my father didn't survive that winter."
A tear fell from Nguyen Dinh Lan's face. She said, "I don't have parents anymore. I used the remaining money to buy the two best tombs in the capital and buried them together."
"I'm a pauper again, with nothing. I learned a long time ago that when faced with problems, it's useless to just keep getting angry and resentful. I want to survive in this world, so I have to be as tough as the weeds in the field."
Ruan Tinglan looked at Lin Shuyue with an apologetic look on her face. "So, I'm sorry, Reporter Lin, I can only treat you to some rice noodles. Because I want to save money and buy another one next to my parents' graves. In their place, I'll have a home again."
Lin Shuyue took a bite of the rice noodles. The noodles were smooth and chewy, as if they would bounce in her mouth. She shook her head and said, "No, I think this rice noodles are delicious."
Ruan Tinglan laughed and said to Lin Shuyue, "Reporter Lin, don't feel sad for me. My father said that everyone comes to this world with their own destiny. I must have done too many bad things in my previous life, so I came to atone for my sins in this life."
"But my father also said that they must have done great good deeds in their past lives to have a daughter like me. I am very content with having them in this life."
Lin Shuyue looked at Ruan Tinglan like this and was speechless. She was always at a loss for words at times like this.
"So for me, nothing is insurmountable. I just treated what happened this morning as a dog bite. It was over quickly." Ruan Tinglan was very open-minded, but no matter how open-minded she was, she was just a twenty-year-old girl. She was also afraid when she encountered that kind of thing.
Lin Shuyue said: "When it's convenient for you, can I go see your parents?"
Happy people are all the same, but unhappy people are all unhappy in their own way. Lin Shuyue couldn't imagine how many nights the girl in front of her had spent breaking down and healing alone.
Lin Shuyue's grandmother in her previous life loved watching all kinds of soap operas. These stories about real and fake daughters had the same core, but they were played over and over again. Some of the real daughters in them were good, and even after suffering hardships, they remained sincere and kind.
Some real daughters of rich families are stimulated by the huge gap and become shrews, resentful women, and clowns.
There are actually very few people as insightful as Ruan Tinglan. Three points of this insight come from her nature, and the remaining seven points are due to her adoptive parents. They were poor, but they left Ruan Tinglan with a lifetime of wealth.
They are great people. Lin Shuyue suddenly had an urge to go and see them.
Lin Shuyue felt that she was becoming more and more emotional.
Ruan Tinglan didn't expect Lin Shuyue to say such a thing, but she quickly agreed: "My dad must be very happy that someone other than me will go to see them."
"Let's do it tomorrow. I'm on vacation tomorrow. I'll call you then?" Ruan Tinglan looked at Lin Shuyue inquiringly.
"Okay, okay."
That was the deal, and Ruan Tinglan went back to work. She was also working in a furniture store now, but their furniture suore was not the same one where Wang Chengjian worked.
Lin Shuyue went to wait for the bus and received a call from Hang Jiabai on the way. She was shocked to realize that it was already noon.
She stood by the roadside, leaning against a magnolia tree, and told Hang Jiabai what happened that morning. Hang Jiabai's brows were furrowed so tightly that they could pick up stones.
"Don't be so reckless next time. Most people who do such things on the bus have no bottom line. If you just rush up like this, what if that person has a weapon?" Hang Jiabai's tone was nervous, and the image of Lin Shuyue covered in blood seemed to appear in front of him again.
Lin Shuyue understood the truth, but she didn't think too much about it at the time. At that time, Ruan Tinglan looked at everyone with pleading eyes.
She has always hated men bullying women, so how could she just stand by and watch?
Hang Jiabai also knew Lin Shuyue's personality. Wasn't it because of Lin Shuyue's personality that he was gradually attracted to her?
Add to that her fate of causing bloodshed wherever she went, and Hang Jiabai was speechless. In his experience, Lin Shuyue never looked for trouble; usually, trouble came to her.
He said, "Stay where you are. I'll come find you. Xu Yu is treating us to dinner tonight. He's joined the crime investigation force."
"Oh, really? Then we have to congratulate him." The haze in Lin Shuyue's heart was somewhat dispelled by this happy event.
After hanging up the phone, Lin Shuyue squatted on the side of the road. As she squatted, she thought of the case in the morning and what Ruan Tinglan said to Aunt Daichui. She was very curious whether there was any connection between the two things.
The phone rang, and Lin Shuyue thought it was Hang Jiabai calling, but when she took it out, she saw it was Liu Xiaoping.
Liu Xiaoping was one of the two older sisters who lived with Feng Qinqin when she moved to a new dormitory. She was one of the people who stopped Gong Sufen on the day when Feng Qinqin and He Wanqing confronted each other.
She worked at Capital Wangyue Magazine. When Lin Shuyue saw her phone number, she already knew why she call. She answered the phone, and before she could say anything, she heard Liu Xiaoping's very sweet voice from the other end.
After a brief exchange of pleasantries, Liu Xiaoping asked about her earlier incident on the No. 027 bus. Lin Shuyue wasn't surprised she knew about it; after all, she had given two separate statements at the police station. It was a simple matter for Liu Xiaoping to find out she was among the suspects.
Lin Shuyue also believed that her name was probably spread all over the capital even when she was not in a hurry to make a name for herself like this.
Lin Shuyue told Liu Xiaoping everything she knew, except Ruan Tinglan's identity.
Liu Xiaoping was very grateful to her and promised to treat her to barbecue when she had time. Then she hung up the phone and rushed to write the manuscript.
Liu Xiaoping's phone call was like a switch, and Lin Shuyue's phone call never stopped. Hang Jiabai drove a black SUV and stopped in front of her. Lin Shuyue did not stop talking on the phone when she got in the car.
All the calls were from reporters she met at the press conference. Regardless of whether they knew her or not at the time, or whether they had a conversation before, they still call her now.
She hung up the phone only after the car had turned halfway to Feng's house. While waiting for the traffic light, Hang Jiabai reached back and took out a bottle of mineral water for her.
The mineral water had been in the air-conditioned room for a long time and was not cold. Lin Shuyue unscrewed the bottle and drank half of it.
"I'm so thirsty." Lin Shuyue took a long breath and felt that she was finally alive.
After Hang Jiabai hung up the phone with Lin Shuyue, the line was always busy when he called Lin Shuyue. He knew that Lin Shuyue must be thirsty, so he bought a bottle of water on the roadside.
"I guessed you'd be thirsty." Hang Jiabai said, then started the car and rushed into the traffic. "This car belongs to my senior brother. I borrowed it from him for a few days. You can drive it for the next few days. It will be convenient and safer for you to go anywhere you want to play."
Lin Shuyue had originally decided to rent a car, since she also found that taking the bus was indeed inconvenient. Especially when she wanted to go somewhere, she would spend most of her time waiting for the bus.
"Thank you, Ah Bai." Lin Shuyue thanked Hang Jiabai happily. Her mother told her not to reject the kindness of a man you are in love with. If you reject him too many times, he will feel that he does not need to be nice to you.
At first, he will think you are nice, but gradually he will feel annoyed because his kindness is not appreciated as it should be. Later, he will feel that you are not worthy of his kindness.
Lin Shuyue felt that what Lou Fengqin said was right, and Lou Fengqin also said later that when he treats you well, you should also treat him well. Only in this way can you stimulate him to treat you better and better.
Just like now, because Lin Shuyue happily thank Ah Bai, Hang Jiabai's smile was almost reaching his ears.
"You're welcome." Hang Jiabai's voice was so soft that water could drip out of it.
After sending Lin Shuyue to the courtyard, the two of them went to the east and west rooms respectively and took a nap. When Lin Shuyue woke up, Hang Jiabai had already gone to school. There were two messages from Hang Jiabai on her mobile phone.
She replied, then turned over and went back to sleep. It wasn't that she didn't want to know the follow-up of the case, but she was unfamiliar with the capital. She dared to say that if she went to the Public Security Bureau to inquire about the follow-up of the case, the police would definitely kick her out like a lunatic.
Thinking of this, Lin Shuyue felt that Pengcheng was still better. After all, in Pengcheng, if there was a case she was involved in, the Public Security Bureau of Pengcheng would always give her a hand.
At four o'clock, Lin Shuyue got up, washed her face, and went to the entrance of the alley to drive to pick up Hang Jiabai. After picking up Hang Jiabai, she gave up the driving seat.
They soon arrived at the place. Zuo Xiangfeng and Zhou Xuanlai were already sitting inside, but the protagonist Xu Yu had not arrived yet.
Zhou Xuanlai had also joined the criminal police team, but he was in logistics. Zhou Xuanlai was very satisfied. He had already discussed with Xu Yu that this guest would be treated to a full day each. After all, Hang Jiabai had come to the capital with great difficulty, and he had brought his partner with him, so he had to take good care of him.
Lin Shuyue and Hang Jiabai had just taken off their coats and sat down when Zhou Xuan came over and poured Lin Shuyue a glass of juice and Hang Jiabai a glass of wine. "I think Ah Xu will be here a little late. There was a murder on Guangchang Road a few mornings, and he's with the investigation."
Lin Shuyue and Hang Jiabai exchanged a glance, both laughing: "What a coincidence?"
Zhou Xuan glanced at Lin Shuyue and said with a smile, "What a coincidence indeed. Sister-in-law, you are this kind of person. In my life, the kind of person I, Old Zhou, admire most is this kind of chivalrous man who sees injustice and draws his sword to help."
Zhou Xuanlai toasted Lin Shuyue with a glass of wine: "No, no! Brother Zhou, I don't deserve this admiration."
The two were chatting when Xu Yu hurried in. He took off his hat, picked up the cold tea next to Zuo Xiangfeng and started drinking it.
"This is really weird. Tell me, the place where Wang Chengjian died was a dead end. It was so clean that there wasn't even a large rock inside. How did Wang Chengjian die?"
"If it was a vendetta, and Wang Chengjian was caught for being a hooligan in a car, how did the person who wanted to kill him know that he would flee in that direction?"
"If it was a random killing, where did the person go after the killing? We've searched the area around that alley eight hundred times today and haven't found a single piece of evidence."
"We've checked out Wang Chengjian's social connections, and he doesn't have any particularly serious enemies. His wife and children are all back home, not here at all. Guys, you were all better than me back in school, so hurry up and sort this out for me."
Xu Yu was extremely worried. How could this first case after joining the crime investigation team go so wrong?!
Just when Xu Yu was worried, Lin Shuyue's good and evil system also joined in the fun.
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