Jiuyan River is a river flowing through Jiangcheng.

Jiangcheng has created a riverside scenic belt along its coast.

However, due to the slow progress of construction, this scenic belt is still a work in progress, and the monitoring and other facilities are not perfect.

Despite this, nearby residents still often come to the river for walks and morning exercises.

Today, a crowd of onlookers gathered here early in the morning.

Blocked aside by a cordon, the crowd watched, their necks stretched out like giraffes.

A cordon surrounded a riverbank where a swollen, water-soaked body lay. From the body's stature and features, one could vaguely tell it was an old man.

The forensic doctor is performing an autopsy, the inspection department personnel are searching and salvaging evidence at the scene, and Ji Shuyun and other police officers who arrived at the crime scene first are waiting for the forensic doctor's identification results.

Xia Zheng arrived and began to make arrangements: "Xiao Zhang, contact the deceased's family; Lao Wang, check the surveillance; as for Ji Shuyun..."

He paused, as if suddenly remembering this person, and said, "Go maintain order outside and don't let the onlookers interfere with the investigation."

Ji Shuyun nodded slightly, turned and walked towards the cordon, neither irritated nor annoyed.

Seeing Ji Shuyun's indifferent reaction, Xia Zheng's brows furrowed a little.

Next to the cordon, Ji Shuyun stood tall and straight, and his police uniform made him look even more heroic.

When he stood there, the eyes of several middle-aged women who were watching him lit up and they immediately came over.

"Oh, this policeman is so handsome!"

The aunt in the flowered shirt looked at Ji Shuyun with bright eyes, "My niece works at Yinxian. Would you like to meet her?"

Ji Shuyun was recording the situation at the scene with his head down. He raised his head and his eyes curved slightly when he heard her words. "Auntie, my job requires me to stay up late every two or three days. If I really go on a blind date, I'm afraid the girl will call me a liar."

The aunties burst into laughter. The one in the flowered shirt was still not giving up: "Girls nowadays like men who are responsible!"

Ji Shuyun smiled, his slender fingers gently closing the notebook. "Speaking of responsibility, I'd like to ask you a question."

He lowered his voice and winked at the people inside the cordon. "I heard that old man is a professor of archaeology?"

The woman with permed hair immediately perked up and took a half step forward: "That's right! Professor Xu is a celebrity here. He even appeared on a TV archaeology program two years ago."

She suddenly lowered her voice and said, "It's just bad luck that I have such a troublesome grandson."

"Oh?" Ji Shuyun showed a puzzled expression at the right moment, "The old man and his grandson have a bad relationship?"

"It's more than bad!" the woman in sandals interrupted impatiently. "The night before last, the whole building could hear the noise. When the kid slammed the door and left, he turned on the stairwell's sensor light."

Ji Shuyun's eyes moved slightly, and he quickly wrote a few words on his notebook.

He asked casually, "Professor Xiao is so great, why is his grandson arguing with him?"

Seeing this, the lady in the flowered shirt added mysteriously, "Peaches are everywhere in the world, but bitter melons grow in my own garden."

"His grandson doesn't like studying at all. He dropped out of junior high school and now hangs out with a bunch of bad people all day long."

"You're still participating in some street dance competition, with all the rehearsals and training, what kind of future can you have?"

Ji Shuyun continued calmly, "Do you know where Professor Li's grandson usually hangs out? For example... where he practices dancing?"

The woman in the flowered shirt immediately said, "That abandoned factory building across the river! A bunch of young people hang out there every day, making so much noise!"

At this moment, Xia Zheng heard the commotion here and glanced coldly at Ji Shuyun who was taking notes, with obvious contempt in his tone:

"Officer Ji, I asked you to maintain order among the crowd, but you still have the time to chat here?"

After Xia Zheng walked away to examine the body, the woman in the flowered shirt couldn't help but mutter, "This superior has a really bad temper."

Ji Shuyun calmly closed his notebook and smiled apologetically at the ladies: "Thank you for your cooperation."

——"Please make way."

Xia Zhining squeezed through the crowd.