Chapter 333 The Second Day

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The country roads were overgrown with weeds, dilapidated houses had collapsed and were littered with rubble and broken walls.

Most of the houses have been in disrepair for many years, the roads are bumpy and uneven, the entire Wolong Village is sparsely populated, and is shrouded in a strong atmosphere of decline.

The off-road vehicle drove from the main urban area, and after a morning of bumpy ride, it finally stopped in front of this desolate village.

Jiang Zhiyue sat in the passenger seat, constantly flipping through the photos in her hands and comparing them over and over again until she reached her destination. She then took out Jiang Wanrou's paintings again and looked out the window.

Although the beautiful scenery in the painting does not match the scene in front of me, if you look closely, the wheat fields, small windmills, and low houses outlined in the painting all correspond to the details outside the window.

There are vast desolate fields, a few dilapidated windmills standing alone, and low bungalows in the distance.

There may be many similar villages, but the almost deserted scene before him made Jiang Zhiyue open the car door without hesitation and run out.

Strong winds blew across the dilapidated village, and even the air was filled with a biting chill. The closer to the north of the state, the lower the temperature and the stronger the chill.

The place had been deserted for more than 30 years and had long been forgotten. No one had ever set foot there again. Jiang Zhiyue stood in the mud, surrounded by the cold air. Looking around, she could not find even the shadow of a living creature.

This place has turned into the dust of history, and the people who once lived here were at the bottom of the class division in the entire country.

Their life and death, their experiences, and even their disappearance from the bustling city, did not cause a ripple. The lives of hundreds of people were just encrypted manuscripts in the sealed archive room of the police station.

Jiang Zhiyue picked up the document and annotated it one by one with red ink, [Fire, homicide, suspect unknown]

[Case progress: None, case outcome: Not accepted, not required]

These two lines of words were like a heavy hammer, hitting her heart hard.

Jiang Zhiyue just wanted to find the truth for Jiang Wanrou. The truth was once again within reach. When she turned to the last page, it was so heavy that it was beyond her imagination.

Things in this world are often unexpected and fate plays tricks on us.

If Chu Junyue had not come here in person, determined to collect evidence to punish the power of the second branch of the Chu family, he would not have opened the long-sealed archive room.

If it weren't for the criminals who wanted to keep a trump card to save their lives, they wouldn't have recorded the facts so clearly and sealed them up somewhere away from the light of day.

"Even my father has never heard of this place." A man's voice came from behind. Since he could bring Jiang Zhiyue here, he knew what she was looking for.

"What happened at the Gu family that day, you and your mother..." Chu Junyue paused slightly. The bodyguard he sent to her did not show up, only because the assassins were still loyal to him in their hearts and did not want to have a head-on conflict with the Lin family.

Also because of his embarrassing identity, as Lin Xian'er's fiancé, and Mrs. Lin is his nominal future mother-in-law, they dare not show up and cannot protect Jiang Zhiyue.

When Chu Junyue got the news, he immediately recalled the person and severely punished him, but so what.

The situation that day was so dangerous that if Jiang Zhiyue had not foreseen it and left a backup plan for herself and did not trust him completely, she would have been separated from him long ago.

Chu Junyue was wondering how he should face Jiang Zhiyue when he returned to the capital, and how Jiang Zhiyue would view him.

He had the idea of telling Jiang Zhiyue everything, why she had not canceled the engagement yet, and why it was not until he set out for this place that he finally sent the letter to his family announcing the cancellation of the engagement without any hesitation.

Like her, he has someone he wants to protect. Like her, he does not allow himself to make any mistakes and strives to make everything perfect.

He looked at her as if he saw his own shadow in her. Perhaps until this moment, Chu Junyue finally understood why his eyes had been following the girl and why his eyes stayed on her when he saw her for the first time.

Like her, he also had a desire for the truth, and everything he and her loved ones had experienced also happened in this vast state.

It seemed like a clever arrangement of fate. No matter what their identities were when they first met, in the end, these intricate ties would make them merge into the torrent of intertwined destinies.

"Stan Lee is the doctor I arranged for your mother. I know everything." Chu Junyue said again. This was his honesty. In this deserted place, he might as well give himself a chance to speak frankly.

"I didn't intend to monitor your mother's physical condition. I just wanted to help you at a critical moment, which was also to help myself." He emphasized the last sentence.

"If this report is true, Director Zhang, who is from my second uncle's faction, will be completely defeated, and he will also be implicated."

In this way, Chu Junyue will not only be able to take over the jurisdiction of the New Myanmar Lanzhou Police Department in an all-round way, but more importantly, after the evil Chief Zhang is brought to trial, he will win the hearts of the local people.

A new official has three things to do when he takes office. Chu Junyue is too young, and there are too many people who disobey him. He must produce enough outstanding results to convince everyone.

Otherwise, even with Mr. Chu's support behind him, it would be difficult for him to maintain his position.

The first time Chu Junyue saw the top-secret document, he was certain that Jiang Zhiyue would show up because of this matter.

Sure enough, she came, but she was too far away from him.

"What do you know about the facts?"

The man's voice continued to sound, his voice was steady, and he took a pair of straight, slender and powerful legs. Chu Junyue took every step steadily, and his military boots dug deep pits in the mud.

Jiang Zhiyue was silent for a moment, thousands of thoughts flashed through her mind, all of which seemed absurd and funny.

She looked at the approaching man, and Chu Junyue also looked at her, with a faint arc on his thin lips. He also found it funny. Who would have thought that Jiang Wanrou was actually the lost eldest daughter of Mr. Sheng.

If Jiang Wanrou had not been lost, the daughter she gave birth to would be the one most likely to be engaged to him...

What would he be thinking at that time?

"About thirty years ago, the Sheng family was invited to attend a banquet hosted by my grandfather and visited this state. It was after that banquet that they chose to settle in North Siri State and their relationship with other families gradually became alienated."

With every statement the man made, all of Jiang Zhiyue's guesses were confirmed.

She blurted out, "My mother was adopted in this land and then murdered. However, the person who adopted her was not Director Zhong, but someone close to him."