Chapter 35
As if he could read the rejection in Lin Anyu's expression, Jiang Aichen asked, "Are you unwilling?"
Of course...
Before he could finish his words, Lin Anyu responded with a sentence: "That's not the case..."
"Not really, but there is one?" Gu Beizhi, who had approached at some point, suddenly interrupted.
Lin Anyu: “…”
Must he understand it this way?
"I didn't discuss this with you." Jiang Aichen said without allowing any room for discussion.
"Oh," Lin Anyu replied weakly.
There are no human rights anyway, I'm used to it.
Gu Beizhi quickly replied: "Where are you going?"
"Check the household registration to see whether the deceased is married." said Lin Anyu.
"I'll go with you." said Gu Beizhi.
Lin Anyu: “Ah?”
One big devil is not enough, another old fox is needed?
Why don't the two great gods do anything else? Why do they have to go with her to check the household registration?
"I think..."
Before Lin Anyu finished speaking, Jiang Aichen quickly said, "I'll go drive."
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Aichen left.
For a moment, there were only Lin Anyu and Gu Beizhi in the entire conference room.
There was an awkward moment in the air.
Lin Anyu touched his nose uncomfortably.
She was worried that Gu Beizhi would think of her as Song Luo's substitute again, so she insisted on following him. She said, "Let me make it clear first, I am just myself. Don't try to dig anything out of me."
"What did you dig out?" Gu Beizhi asked knowingly.
What?
Song Luo!
"Ahem," Lin Anyu coughed, "You should know."
Of course he knows.
Gu Beizhi stopped making things difficult for Ta: "Are you very repulsive?"
Lin Anyu nodded proudly: "A little bit."
She didn't know when it started, but someone kept saying in her ear, you are Song Luo, you are Song Luo, you were so great and awesome in the past, you should become her soon.
What's the difference between this and 'telling a baby that you will be an outstanding student at Peking University and that you must learn the law of universal gravitation when you are one year old'?
"Okay, I won't do that anymore." Gu Beizhi pretended to agree, "So can we go investigate the case now?"
"Can."
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After investigating for a whole morning, Lin Anyu followed Jiang Aichen and Gu Beizhi out of the Household Registration Department.
"The deceased was unmarried and had no civil capacity. It is basically certain that she was raped," Gu Beizhi came to a conclusion. "What should we do next?"
Jiang Aichen said in a cold voice: "Go back to the police station and see if they have any clues."
Lin Anyu followed them silently without saying a word.
Noticing that something was wrong with her, Gu Beizhi tilted his head and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Lin Anyu said truthfully: "I feel something is wrong."
"What's wrong?" Gu Beizhi asked.
"It doesn't make sense." Lin Anyu said.
Gu Beizhi: “Hmm?”
Seeing that he didn't understand what he meant, Lin Anyu said, "This morning, I reviewed the recording of yesterday's interview."
"The deceased's aunt, Su Pannan, obviously knew from a young age that the deceased was not her biological niece. But she was still willing to adopt the deceased for nine years, which shows that in her heart, regardless of whether the deceased was related to her by blood or not, she was willing to take care of her."
"So in this case, two years ago, when Su Cheng was not married, why did Su Pannan choose to throw Su Cheng out of the house?"
"Besides, she was the one who threw the person out, so why did she have such a big reaction when Su Cheng was mentioned again? It was as if she was the one who was thrown out."
Jiang Aichen immediately started talking, his voice cold: "Because two years ago, something happened that forced Su Pannan to kick Su Cheng out of the house."
His thoughts gradually became clear. Lin Anyu stared at Jiang Aichen in disbelief, as if seeking comfort: "Captain Jiang, I have a bad feeling."
Jiang Aichen didn't allow her to think too much. He ordered, "Get in the car and go to the vegetable transportation company."
"Um."
Lin Anyu responded and quickly followed.
Gu Beizhi, who was confused by what he heard, stood there: "Huh?"
After a long time, Jiang Aichen and Lin Anyu got into the car, leaving Gu Beizhi alone to watch everything.
Gu Beizhi: “Heh~”
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The vegetable transportation company is located in the south of Beihai City, and it only took Jiang Aichen half an hour to drive there.
This is a super large registered company, an independent compound surrounded by high walls.
Jiang Aichen and Lin Anyu got out of the car and walked in, after showing their police IDs to the guard.
The guard was a little less alert.
The guard asked: "Comrade police, who are you looking for here?"
Before coming here, Jiang Aichen had already known the main members of the Su family. He quickly answered: "Li Cheng."
"Oh, him," the guard obviously knew Li Cheng, "He went to the vegetable market to deliver goods. You should be able to run into him if you go to Nanshi now. He drives a red electric tricycle, so he's easy to spot."
"How to get there?" Jiang Aichen asked.
"Go straight south from here without turning. It will take about ten minutes to get there."
"Okay," Lin Anyu replied politely, "Thank you."
Seeing Jiang Aichen about to leave, Gu Beizhi, who had just arrived at a leisurely pace, asked: "Excuse me, what kind of person is Li Cheng that you know?"
The security guard thought about it seriously and replied, "He is honest, decent and kind."
After saying that, he did not forget to add: "Otherwise he would not have taken in his stupid niece for nine years."
Lin Anyu and Jiang Aichen looked at each other for a second.
Lin Anyu was puzzled and asked, "Do you know his silly niece?"
The security guard made no secret of it: "Yes, I know. There is no one in our factory who doesn't know."
As if accidentally touching on a familiar topic, the security guard continued, "Li Cheng treats his silly niece very well. Several colleagues who live in the same village as him said that Li Cheng often takes her out to buy snacks. Sometimes, the workers even tease him that he is not raising a niece, but a daughter."
Gu Beizhi listened carefully and asked, "What do you think?"
The security guard said without any defense: "I think so too. Li Cheng is really good to the niece left by his deceased uncle."
"Several times before, his silly niece got lost, and her boyfriend beat and scolded her. It was only after Li Cheng intervened that the situation was resolved."
Jiang Aichen asked bluntly: "How likely do you think it is that he has killed someone?"
"What? Murder?" The security guard obviously didn't expect her to say such a thing, and he asked in surprise.
"Um."
"Impossible," the security guard waved his hands, "Li Cheng couldn't possibly kill anyone."
Gu Beizhi turned his eyes and asked, "Why?"
The security guard continued, "He is well-known among us for being timid."
"If he really kills someone, he won't be able to sleep for several days."
"Has he behaved abnormally in the past year?" Gu Beizhi asked first without waiting for Jiang Aichen to ask.
"Abnormal?" The security guard thought seriously for a few seconds and said, "Two years ago, when their family first drove his stupid niece away, they were indeed abnormal for a while."
"But that's human nature and understandable. After all, his silly niece is like a daughter he has raised for nine years."
"Why did their family drive away that stupid niece?" Gu Beizhi asked again.
"I heard that it was because that stupid niece stole a bracelet from their family," said the security guard.
Gu Beizhi continued to ask: "What bracelet?"
"It's gold-plated, not worth much," the security guard thought for a while and said, "but I heard that it was the dowry that Li Cheng's mother-in-law, that silly niece's grandmother, left for Li Cheng's girlfriend. His family treasures it very much."
"How much do you know about their family?" Gu Beizhi asked again.
"Not much," the security guard continued, "I just heard that Li Cheng's girlfriend's family favors boys over girls. Li Cheng's girlfriend is the eldest child in the family, but her family has always provided a poor life. It is common for her to be beaten and scolded. Later, the old couple gave birth to a son when they were about 40 years old. The joy of having a son so belatedly came that they were completely overwhelmed."
"They were even more unscrupulous towards their only daughter. I heard that when Li Cheng first met his girlfriend, she was about 20 years old and was washing her brother's clothes in the yard with her frozen hands in the cold wind. It was only after they got married that his girlfriend's life got better."
"Later, the old couple died before they reached old age. Before they died, they left all their property to their son, Li Cheng's brother-in-law. And Li Cheng's family only left a pair of gold-plated bracelets."
"Li Cheng has a good temper and doesn't care about these things, so he didn't say anything."
Lin Anyu blurted out: "If he really didn't care, you wouldn't know this."
The security guard was stunned for a second: "What do you mean?"
"What it means is that when a person really doesn't care about something, their instinctive behavior is to forget it. They won't remember it for nine years and tell you about it." Gu Beizhi explained patiently.
"This is impossible. The security guard was about to explain.
Seeing the security guard's concerns, Jiang Aichen comforted him: "Don't worry, we are the police and we will go by the evidence."
The security guard nodded: "Oh."
Jiang Aichen: "Let's go."
Lin Anyu: “Okay.”
When they were far away, Jiang Aichen asked, "Captain Gu, what do you think?"
Gu Beizhi said truthfully: "It sounds like Li Cheng is an honest, dutiful person who pretends to be generous, but is very good at hiding his inner thoughts."
Jiang Aichen: "What do you think is the possibility that he is the murderer?"
"Not much," Gu Beizhi continued, "If you say he committed other crimes, I can understand, but I don't think he would kill someone."
Jiang Aichen: "Okay."
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As they stepped into the vegetable market, a conversation came over them.
"Boss Li, you haven't been here for such a long time, what have you been busy with?"
"I sprained my waist a few days ago and rested at home for a few days."
"You can't have a bad back when you're old. I'll get you some plasters from my mother-in-law someday. I guarantee they'll cure your problem."
"Okay, thank you, thank you. I'll get the money from home and give it to you when the time comes."
"You are still giving your salary to your wife. This is not okay. It's a loss of dignity for us men."
"When the family is stable, everything goes well; when the family is stable, everything goes well."
Li Cheng repeated it several times, and just as he turned around, he ran into Lin Anyu and others who were walking towards him.
Several people looked at each other for a few seconds.
Li Cheng asked first: "Who are you looking for?"
"Looking for you."
As soon as Gu Beizhi finished speaking, Li Cheng was stunned for a few seconds.
Then he threw the basket in their direction and ran back.
Lin Anyu and Jiang Aichen instinctively ran after him.
Jiang Aichen had a good foundation and caught Li Cheng in no time. He pinched Li Cheng's shoulders, trying to get him to stop.
But who would have thought that Li Cheng, who had been transporting vegetables for many years, also had a good foundation. After a fight between punches and palms, Li Cheng successfully pushed away Jiang Aichen, who did not use any brutal force, and ran away again.
As he ran, Jiang Aichen chased him. When they were about to catch up, Lin Anyu, who had predicted his direction, happened to block his way.
In front is a soft and tender female detective, and behind is a 1.88-meter-tall male detective.
Everyone will choose the side that is beneficial to him or her.
Li Cheng is no exception.
He ran towards Lin Anyu.
Lin Anyu didn't expect him to be so fierce. She was a little at a loss until Li Cheng gradually became bigger in front of her eyes. Then she closed her eyes in resignation.
Never mind, just fight first and talk later.
As a result, he twisted his body and swung his fist, which happened to hit Li Cheng's palm.
Li Cheng clenched his fist instantly and wrapped his hand around her fist firmly.
Lin Anyu, feeling the restraining force on his palm, slowly opened his eyes:?
After all, she is a professionally trained police officer.
Is it so useless?
What about her skill of removing people's arms? Wasn't it because she almost went to the police station twice that she removed people's arms?
Why doesn't it work now?
At the moment when Lin Anyu was anxious, Li Cheng, who only wanted to escape, did not want to get entangled with her too much. He shook off Lin Anyu's hand and tried to throw her to the ground.
Lin Anyu resigned himself to his fate and closed his eyes again.
It's really humiliating to be beaten by the suspect and unable to resist.
Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly, Lin Anyu, with his eyes closed, uncontrollably took a step to the left with his left foot, then grabbed Li Cheng's wrist with his backhand and twisted it back with force.
My arm is dislocated.
"Ah——" a heart-wrenching scream pierced the entire vegetable market.
The world seemed to be quiet at that moment, and everyone stared in amazement at what was happening here.
Li Cheng turned around dragging his injured arm, intending to fight back with his other intact arm, but Lin Anyu, with her eyes closed, seemed to have eyes all over her body. After dodging several times, she grabbed Li Cheng's arm with both hands.
Then he raised himself up with all his strength and threw him over his shoulder cleanly and steadily.
"Bang——"
A heavy object fell to the ground, raising a cloud of dust.
Everyone was stunned.
No matter how thin Li Cheng is, he is just a man, and his strength and frame are there.
This little girl in simple casual clothes is still a girl no matter how fat and strong she is, so there will always be some gap in strength and weight.
Especially, this little girl's figure... looks quite thin.
Where did she get the strength to throw a grown man into the air?
Gu Beizhi, who came slowly from behind, looked at the mess and smiled faintly: "Heh..."
It was resolved so quickly.
Lin Anyu clearly felt that her body was out of control just now, as if her body's instinct was protecting her.
The feeling was quite mysterious, as if I had just dropped a heavy object and it fell into the mud.
Lin Anyu slowly opened her eyes and saw Li Cheng, who had cured her severely, lying on the ground with a painful look on his face.
She immediately let go of his arm and tried to distance herself from him.
Jiang Aichen walked over to Li Cheng who was lying on the ground, checked him, and said, "It's dislocated."
Lin Anyu, who was frightened and at a loss, breathed a sigh of relief.
"Let me do it."
Gu Beizhi said as he slowly walked forward, fumbled around Li Cheng's arm for a few times, and then twisted it to the correct position.
The shoulder resets instantly.
Jiang Aichen pulled Li Cheng up and said in a cold voice, "How is your arm? Does it still hurt?"
Knowing that he had no chance of escaping, Li Cheng hung his head and said, "It doesn't hurt anymore."
Only then, Jiang Aichen followed the procedure: "We are from the Beihai Criminal Police Team. We suspect that you are related to Su Cheng's dismemberment case. Please go to the police station to cooperate with our investigation."
"Yeah." Li Cheng replied sullenly.
After Jiang Aichen and Li Cheng walked away, Gu Beizhi walked to Lin Anyu and said, "You have learned the grappling technique well."
"Who taught you that?"
Lin Anyu: “That’s what we learned in school.”
Gu Beizhi smiled and said, "You have lost your memory, haven't you? Remember to listen to the instructions carefully."
Lin Anyu was speechless: "This is the self-protection of muscle memory."
Gu Beizhi didn't know whether he believed it or not. His expression showed no emotion at all: "Oh."
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After returning to the police station, Jiang Aichen and Gu Beizhi went to the interrogation room, while Lin Anyu, who came back with them, went to the search room.
When he saw that it was Lin Anyu, Tang Yan, who was eating dinner, quickly put away the instant noodle bucket and said, "Goddess, you are here."
Lin Anyu, who had been following Jiang Aichen and Gu Beizhi to look for clues for a whole day, was exhausted. As soon as she entered the search room, she slumped on the table with a gloomy face.
Lin Anyu: “Yeah.”
"Did you follow Captain Jiang and Captain Gu to check on Su Cheng's aunt's house today?"
"Yeah," Lin Anyu said in a muffled voice, "I'm so tired."
After a while, Lin Anyu tilted his head, revealing half of his face from where his arm and head overlapped, and asked tiredly, "By the way, how is Jiang Nan's review of the hospital video for you going?"
Tang Yan was a little embarrassed: "Goddess, it's not that I didn't try my best, it's that the surveillance video you gave me can't see the whole face clearly, and our scanner is not AI that can automatically recognize and complete the face."
Lin Anyu: "In other words, what you need is a front-facing photo."
Tang Yan: “Yes.”
Lin Anyu was extremely annoyed: "Where can I find a frontal photo of you?"
Tang Yan: "Didn't you know how to draw portraits before?"
"You said that, but that was in the past," Lin Anyu said lifelessly, "I can't do anything now."
Tang Yan: "You knew a lot of people before, there must be someone who can draw portraits, you can ask for someone."
Lin Anyu: "I don't remember anyone now, how can I remember who can draw a portrait?"
As soon as Lin Anyu finished speaking, the sound of several criminal police officers discussing something was heard at the door.
Judging from the voices, it seemed like there were both a man and a woman.
"That artist must have beautified you when he painted you. How could you be so pretty?"
"How dare you say that to me? You have a mole on your face, but that artist removed it for you. And you even said I used beauty filters. You must have used a lot of beauty filters too."
"What do you know? He's an artist. He must have seen the best side of me."
"So when that artist painted me, he didn't see my most beautiful side? What nonsense, really."
Hearing the conversation, Lin Anyu quickly stood up, opened the door of the search room, and looked at the three people walking in a row: "Sister Cao, who is the artist you are talking about?"
The policewoman named Sister Cao came to her senses and turned around to look at the source of the sound.
When she saw that it was Lin Anyu, she said, "So it's Anyu."
"Yes," Lin Anyu nodded and continued to ask his question again, "Where did you find someone to paint your portrait?"
Sister Cao quickly replied, "It's the handsome guy at the flower shop next door. He draws very quickly. He can finish a painting in five minutes. And his painting is fast and beautiful."
The one with the flower shop next door?
Lin Anyu had an impression that Pei Jingji seemed to have said before that they knew each other.
After thinking about it, Lin Anyu felt that he needed to find Pei Jingji, perhaps he could help him.
Lin Anyu quickly rushed to the archive room. Pei Jingji was sitting in the light and shadow, reading a particularly thick foreign clinical book.
You can tell from the cover that it's probably all English, which she's not interested in at all.
"Pei Jingji." Lin Anyu pushed the door open and called out.
Pei Jingji raised his head and took a look. After confirming that it was Lin Anyu, he asked, "What's wrong?"
Lin Anyu: "Do you know the guy who runs the flower shop outside?"
"Yes, I know him." Pei Jingji said.
"Before," Lin Anyu realized that he had said something wrong and quickly corrected himself, "Bah, it wasn't me, it was Song Luo."
Pei Jingji: "And then?"
"Song Luo and Jiang Nan went out yesterday and found that the deceased had appeared in the hospital with a woman before his death. The nurse said that the woman was the deceased's mother-in-law, but when we went to the household registration department, we found that the deceased was unmarried."
"So I think she might have a close connection with the murderer."
"We have to find her as soon as possible."
"Do you need the dandy boy at the door to draw your portrait?" Pei Jingji hit the nail on the head on her mind perfectly.
"Yeah." Lin Anyu nodded heavily.
"That's difficult," Pei Jingji scratched the back of his head, as if he was in a dilemma, "That rich young man is known for being a wild horse that has run away from his reins. When he was abroad before, no one except Song Luo could order him to do anything."
"You mean if I want him to paint my portrait, I have to turn into Song Lue?" Lin Anyu said.
Pei Jingji: "Can you?"
Lin Anyu: “I can’t!”
She is not Ultraman who can change at will.
Moreover, when Song Luo was no longer needed, she tried her best not to have anything to do with her.
When using Song Luo, try to become her.
Even if they are the same person, they can't treat each other as tools endlessly.
That's so unfair.
She can't do it.
"Then I have no choice." Pei Jingji said.
Lin Anyu hesitated and said, "Can I pretend to be Song Luo?"
Pei Jingji: "What do you mean?"
Lin Anyu asked tentatively: "It's just a lie."
Pei Jingji: "Then your dressing style and temperament don't match."
"Unless you can adjust to the same temperament as yesterday."
Lin Anyu: “…”
Can the temperament be adjusted at will? This is the first time I've heard of this.
Lin Anyu: "That's the real Song Luo, thank you."
Pei Jingji didn't say anything. He found a black jacket in the closet behind him and took it out. He handed it to Lin Anyu and said, "Try this on."
Lin Anyu unfolded it and took a look at the clothes: "It's a bit big."
"This is mine, of course it's too big." Pei Jingji urged, "Hurry up and put it on and try it on."
While putting it on, Lin Anyu said, "Did I like wearing this kind of jacket before?"
"Well," Pei Jingji said, "Old Ye liked it before, and you liked it too."
Hearing an unfamiliar name, Lin Anyu asked: "Who is Lao Ye?"
Pei Jingji paused for a second: "An...insignificant person."
Lin Anyu: “Oh.”
Pei Jingji's jacket was still a little too big for Lin Anyu. She grabbed the collar in front of her chest and pulled it until it was too long.
“Too big.”
Pei Jingji: "It's okay, you used to like wearing loose clothes like this."
"Oh." Lin Anyu did not refute her and pulled her hair out from the back of her clothes and let it hang outside.
Her hair is black and long, and it spreads out behind her with a slight movement of her hands.
Her hair on top of her head was half tied up with a thin rope, and the hair behind her ears fell freely, making the whole look gentle and virtuous.
From Pei Jingji's point of view, he could just see Lin Anyu's clean jawline and slightly raised corners of his mouth.
Pei Jingji was a little dazed. For a moment he couldn't tell whether Lin Anyu was smiling or not.
When he was abroad in the past, Song Luo liked to raise a mocking smile during breaks, as if he couldn't stand everything in this world.
She is like a God who looks down on all living beings, always looking down on everyone in the world equally from a high and mighty perspective.
In the past, several foreign detectives were annoyed by her look of idiocy.
He angrily challenged Song Luo for seven or eight rounds, from grappling to shooting, to running and physical testing.
As a result, without exception, all of them suffered disastrous defeats.
From that moment on, Pei Jingji felt that this little girl had the capital to look down on everything, and even the talent to look down on everything.
Because she is Song Luo.
Just because she is Song Luo!
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