Chapter 7
In the early morning, as the sun rose, Lin Anyu took a bite of a pancake and rushed to the police station to punch in at the last minute.
Just as she breathed a sigh of relief, Jiang Nan came down from upstairs holding some documents.
Seeing Lin Anyu standing next to the time clock, he immediately deduced what might have happened: "Little mascot, you almost achieved our police station's achievement of 17 latenesses in a month. Congratulations."
Lin Anyu admitted his mistake and defended himself, "Deputy Captain Jiang, please stop laughing at me. If I hadn't helped an old lady cross the road, I wouldn't have been late."
"Stop it," Jiang Nan didn't believe her grievance. He said, "When your wealthy godmother found out that you were transferred to the Beihai Police Force, she immediately gave you a house behind the police station. You don't even need to cross the road to go to work. Tell me, what time did you wake up this time?"
Knowing that she couldn't lie, Lin Anyu smiled slyly. She made a seven with one hand and a five with the other: "Hehe, seven fifty."
Jiang Nan clapped his hands: "That's awesome. Our police station clocks in at 8 o'clock, and you get up at 7:50, and you can even buy yourself a cake on the roadside."
"Why don't you eat it?" Lin Anyu tried to pass the biscuit he had taken a bite of to Jiang Nan.
"I don't want to eat." Jiang Nan refused.
Lin Anyu took another bite: "Oh."
Seeing Lin Anyu eating the cake heartlessly, Jiang Nan still couldn't bear it and said, "You should think about how you are going to explain to Captain Jiang when he comes back."
Lin Anyu stopped chewing the pancake, then raised his eyes and stared at him with his big round eyes: "What do you want to tell me?"
"You are so careless," Jiang Nan was completely speechless at Lin Anyu's character who immediately didn't know what trouble he had made after getting into trouble. He tried his best to remind him, "Didn't you say in front of the media when you got off work yesterday afternoon that Tang Shuang was murdered?"
Lin Anyu: "We need to explain this to Captain Jiang."
I wasn’t wrong!
"Nonsense, Captain Jiang can't even be sure whether it was suicide or homicide. How can you be sure it was homicide without even listening to the report?" Jiang Nan said.
"That's definitely not possible." Lin Anyu said silently.
"Jiang Nan, you are bullying Anyu again, are you looking for death?" Meng Qi, who had approached at some point, said like a protective child.
"I didn't bully her," Jiang Nan explained for himself, "I asked her to think of a reason to deceive Team Jiang in advance, so that she wouldn't be scolded again."
Mentioning Captain Jiang, Meng Qirang immediately recalled the boast Lin Anyu made in front of the media yesterday. She put her hand on Lin Anyu's shoulder and warned him earnestly: "Anyu, remember - yesterday you were forced by the situation and those reporters were too difficult to deal with, so you accidentally said he was murdered. It had nothing to do with your original intention, understand?"
"Well," Lin Anyu didn't understand what they meant. He responded obediently before trying to explain the reason for his previous actions, "Actually, I..."
"Stop, don't be honest," Meng Qirang said, "The most important thing is to ensure that you can continue to stay in the criminal police team."
Lin Anyu shut up on the spot, and after a while he asked tentatively: "Do you mean that Captain Jiang will kick me out of the Criminal Police Team?"
Meng Qirang and Jiang Nan nodded in unison: "Yeah."
Lin Anyu raised his hand and assured, "What happened yesterday was purely an accident. It had nothing to do with me."
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In the office of the first team of the Beihai Criminal Police Team, when Lin Anyu and Meng Qi let the three people walk in, several criminal police were having a lively conversation about the case.
"Good morning." Lin Anyu greeted warmly.
"Good morning." "Good morning." Several enthusiastic detectives replied.
As soon as they responded, they saw that it was Lin Anyu who greeted them. They immediately greeted back while pointing to the empty single table in the corner with the corners of their mouths and chins.
Lin Anyu stared at their strange movements in confusion, and raised his chin like them, asking, "What's wrong with you? What happened to Captain Jiang's position?"
As soon as she finished asking the question, the detectives who had been hinting at her before immediately stopped their actions as if they had seen something scary and turned around to do their own things.
Lin Anyu: “Hmm?”
"My location has good feng shui, they asked you to move around." Suddenly, a cold voice sounded behind him.
Lin Anyu immediately responded: "That window seat is indeed good, but... but..."
"But" there is no result yet, Lin Anyu immediately realized what kind of devil is standing behind him at this moment.
She turned around, looked up, and chuckled, "It's just that I'm not blessed enough to enjoy that blessed land. Only a detective like Captain Jiang can afford it. How can I, a mere criminal police officer, compete with a detective for a position?"
Jiang Aichen didn't dwell on the location issue and asked, "Did you accept an interview yesterday?"
Without going into too much detail, Jiang Aichen's straightforward question left Lin Anyu's brain stuck.
She nodded tentatively: "Yeah."
Then, she pointed at Jiang Nan next to her without hesitation and said, "He asked me to go. I didn't want to go, but he called me Big Brother."
"It's rare for someone to call me big brother since I was a child, so I just went because I was soft-hearted."
"I don't……"
Jiang Nan denied it immediately, but before he could finish his words, Meng Qirang glanced at him with no kindness at all.
Jiang Nan's hair stood on end instantly, and he immediately changed the subject 180 degrees, saying, "Actually, the reason I asked An Yu to say in front of the media that 'Tang Shuang did not commit suicide, but was murdered' was to encourage the public to provide more clues so that we can solve the case as soon as possible."
Jiang Aichen had a blank expression on his face. No one knew what he was thinking or how much he believed.
But his eyes were fixed on Lin Anyu's face, making Lin Anyu so nervous that his heart was pounding.
I was afraid that he would directly assign me to the traffic police team if I said anything.
After a long silence, Jiang Aichen said, "Don't accept interviews casually in the future. Your face is not suitable to appear in public."
Lin Anyu, who was originally in a state of anxiety, was stunned on the spot:? ?
Was she personally attacked by Jiang Aichen?
Lin Anyu, who had been muttering to herself for a long time, waited until Jiang Aichen walked away before she became more and more certain that Jiang Aichen was attacking her appearance.
She raised her hand unscrupulously, pointing in the direction of Jiang Aichen, and asked uncertainly, "What did he mean just now?"
Meng Qirang tried to calm Lin Anyu's hand that was pointing in the direction of Jiang Aichen: "Be good, be good, Captain Jiang doesn't mean anything, maybe it's just..."
"Maybe they simply think that you are ugly and unsuitable to appear in public, which will affect the image of our police force." Jiang Nan said with resentment, as if he was resentful of Lin Anyu's ruthless betrayal just now.
Lin Anyu wanted to cry but had no tears: "That's exactly what he meant."
Meng Qirang: "No, he didn't mean that."
Lin Anyu put his hands on his face and said, "Qi Rang, am I really that ugly?"
Meng Qirang: “No.”
"Really?"
"real."
Jiang Nan added in a sly tone, “It might be fake.”
Meng Qirang, who was trying to comfort him, suddenly changed his expression. If eyes could turn into knives, Jiang Nan would probably be stabbed to pieces at this moment: "Get lost."
"Okay."
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After all the police officers had packed up and were about to leave the police station, Jiang Aichen walked over to Lin Anyu, knocked on Lin Anyu's desk a few times, and ordered: "Leave the task of retrieving the call records to Jiang Nan, and you come with me to interview the residents of the community."
With just one sentence, the detectives who were in action stopped their actions instantly.
Lin Anyu, who was packing all his things into his bag, slowed down a bit and stopped.
She took a few seconds to digest Jiang Aichen's words before asking again uncertainly: "Captain Jiang, you and me?"
Jiang Aichen nodded: "Yeah."
Meng Qirang is a forensic doctor and her office is not here. After delivering the report to Jiang Aichen, she left the criminal police team office.
At this time, in the whole room, Jiang Nan was the only one who was familiar with Lin Anyu.
But Jiang Nan seemed to be very vindictive. When he met Lin Anyu's gaze that asked for help, he shook his head triumphantly. Every movement seemed to be saying - you are hopeless, just accept your fate.
Lin Anyu's head drooped for a second, and when he raised his head again, a standard smile was already on his face: "Captain Jiang, I think I am quite suitable for investigating call records."
"I didn't discuss this with you," Jiang Aichen ordered, "Pack your things and I'll wait for you in the car."
After saying that, Jiang Aichen walked away without looking back.
Looking at that resolute figure, Lin Anyu felt that the world had gone dark at that moment.
Jiang Nan came over as if to watch the fun: "Lin Anyu, you are awesome. Captain Jiang is leading you personally. Did you save the world in your previous life?"
"It's highly unlikely," Lin Anyu was really frightened by Jiang Aichen, "I think it's very likely that I blew up the world in my previous life."
"Don't be ungrateful," Jiang Nan said, "If you are accepted as a disciple by Captain Jiang, you will be the disciple of my goddess, so you can be happy."
"Haha," Lin Anyu pulled the corner of his mouth expressionlessly, "If I stay with Captain Jiang for a week and haven't been kicked out yet, I'll definitely be secretly happy."
Hearing Lin Anyu's words, Jiang Nan couldn't help but burst out laughing.
Lin Anyu said unconvincedly: "What are you laughing at!"
"I think if you can't be a criminal police officer in the future, you can go set up a fortune-telling stall under the bridge."
Lin Anyu: “Why?”
"I think you are quite prescient."
Lin Anyu said expressionlessly: "Goodbye."
Jiang Nan immediately said, "No, no, no, are you angry?"
Lin Anyu shook his head: "No, if I don't leave, I'm afraid Captain Jiang will be angry."
"That's right," Jiang Nan said shyly, "Be careful."
Lin Anyu agreed and said comfortingly: "You can rest assured about this. I have Captain Jiang by my side. He is the best in our police force. No murderer should be able to hurt us."
Feeling that she might not understand what he meant, Jiang Nan added: "What I mean is that you should pay attention to the safety of your position and don't let Captain Jiang write a letter of dismissal on the spot at the scene of the crime."
"Being fired in front of the suspect is a disgrace to our police force."
Lin Anyu: ...
After a while, Lin Anyu, resigned to his fate, gritted his teeth and said two words: "Thank you."
Jiang Nan clearly heard the "hatred" in Lin Anyu's words.
But he didn't seem to care at all, and was actually quite pleased with her angry mood.
Jiang Nan smiled and nodded heavily: "You're welcome——"
“This is what a colleague should do!”
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