Chapter 29 The bloody memory made her stunned
Jiang Zhen took Gu Hui and Jiang Tang to feed the rabbits in the space. The two little rabbits grew well. The small fish in the pond grew to the length of a finger. There was a knock on the door. Li Chongling from next door came out from the space. He was holding a very beautiful potted strawberry with many red fruits.
"It's an improved variety imported from abroad. I'll give you some to try."
Jiang Zhen took it and smelled it. It smelled so good. She had never eaten it before, and neither had the four children. But since it could be given as a gift, it must taste good.
"Your unit is really amazing."
Li Chongling only saw two children and asked curiously, "Are Jiang Zhaohe and Panpan not at home?"
Jiang Zhen began to talk to Li Chongling about some things: "We dug traps in the mountains this morning. Gu Liancheng took the children to the mountains to see what they had harvested."
Li Chongling: ...Going to the mountains at this time, it wouldn't be surprising for Jiang Zhen to do anything, but Gu Liancheng's involvement shows that this is normal for her and the children.
Why is it normal to let children go to the mountains at night? Unless the kids are abnormal.
Li Chongling was secretly happy that Jiang Zhen could convey such news now. Maybe in the future she could tell him where her sister was.
He smiled and asked Jiang Tang and Gu Hui: "You four never do anything separately, why didn't you join in?"
Jiang Tang liked Uncle Li very much and said, "Mom said it was dangerous and asked me and Gu Hui to wait at home."
That means these four children are different. Li Chongling didn't leave. "Do you two want to know how strawberries are grown?"
"think!"
"Then I will teach you."
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Two wild boars were caught at once. Gu Liancheng was also happy when he thought of Jiang Zhen's joy after finding out. But when he got home and saw Li Chongling holding ginger candy in his arms and explaining a bowl of strawberries, Gu Liancheng felt sad again.
He had seen strawberries once, before liberation, at his grandfather's house. It was a gift from a foreign friend. That kind of fruit was delicate and could not be grown later.
"Uncle Li, what is this?" Gu Pan was extremely curious.
"Strawberry." Li Chongling said with a smile, "I heard you went to the mountains to check the traps. Are there any wild boars?"
Gu Liancheng spoke on behalf of the children: "There are two places. Go early tomorrow morning to prevent others from getting there first."
Jiang Zhen knew it well: "You are really amazing. Let's split up tomorrow. I will find a butcher. Where do you think we should sell the meat?"
Gu Liancheng suggested, "Just go to the butcher's house. Killing a pig is a big deal, and the neighbors can buy a lot. I'll go to the company to ask for help, and you go to the school to ask for help, and we'll be able to sell most of them."
Li Chongling also said: "There are many people in our unit. I will go and tell them tomorrow morning."
Jiang Zhen thought it was okay: "Then thank you both for your help."
Gu Liancheng: ...Just thank Li Chongling, why should I thank him?
Li Chongling is even weirder than Gu Liancheng. We can just thank him. Is there any need to thank Gu Liancheng?
After Li Chongling left, Jiang Zhen finally had the nerve to eat strawberries. She gave one to each of the four children. There was still the largest red fruit left, so she cut it in half and gave it to Gu Liancheng. She ate the other half herself. The moment she took a bite, she sighed, "Professor Li is still very useful."
If this fruit were to become available in the last days, there would be a great many people willing to exchange it for a high price.
The strawberries did taste good, and rare things are valuable, but Gu Liancheng tasted sour.
"What did you thank me for just now?" Gu Liancheng asked.
Jiang Zhen hesitated for a moment: "You're helping me sell pork, shouldn't I thank you?"
Gu Liancheng: "Between us, there's no need to say thank you from now on."
Jiang Zhen thought about it. She helped to touch the body, and Gu Liancheng seemed to have never said thank you: "That's fine."
"But we still have to thank Professor Li, after all, he is an outsider." Gu Liancheng said.
Jiang Zhen suddenly realized and said with a smile: "I know."
Gu Liancheng felt a little embarrassed. In fact, the three of them were adults and knew what was going on. Jiang Zhen could see through his little thoughts and knew that he was the one who fell in love first. He was worried about how to change the relationship, as he had not been able to come up with a good solution.
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Early the next morning, Chu Aihua discovered that several fourth graders had asked for leave. She grabbed the monitor and asked, "You're running around like wild monkeys. What are you doing?"
"We caught two big wild boars in the trap yesterday. Let's go sell the pork!" The children were very happy. After selling the two wild boars, they could repair the teacher's body.
Chu Aihua was also very happy. Jiang Zhen took her children to school and earned her own money. She could forget about her job as principal.
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Killing pigs was a big deal. Jiang Zhen thought it would be difficult to sell all of them, so she went to the school to tell them. The teachers all made reservations with her, saying they would go during lunch break and they had to pay Jiang Zhen in advance.
While Jiang Zhao was in class, the other three children went to watch the pig slaughtering in the morning. When Jiang Zhen arrived at noon, there was already a long line at the butcher's meat stall. Gu Liancheng and Professor Li's colleagues also came one after another. The pig offal and large bones were sold at half the price and given away at half the price. In one afternoon, they sold out all the meat of two wild boars.
The butcher was very happy as he got several pounds of meat and offal, enough to eat for several days. I heard that the pigs were sold to build a school, so God must have given the two wild boars to the children.
Jiang Zhen and the fourth grade monitor settled the accounts. The two wild boars weighed more than 400 kilograms and were sold for more than 200 yuan. He called the children and said, "Use half of this money to repair doors and windows and the other half to make desks."
"My uncle is a carpenter, so the wood is cheap!"
"My second uncle can paste windows."
"Okay, call all those who have relevant skills here, and get a quote together. Whoever is suitable will be hired to do the job."
Jiang Zhen still gave the account book to the class monitor, took the money and picked up half a pig liver and sent it back home first. When she returned to school, she found that a reporter from the newspaper was interviewing Chu Aihua.
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Chu Aihua was in high spirits. She pointed at the reporter next to her and introduced him to Jiang Zhen, saying threateningly, "Jiang Zhen, this is reporter Sheng from Beijing. He also has another identity. He is An Jinzhu's lover."
She changed her hand, pointed at Jiang Zhen, and introduced him to Sheng Qinghe: "Our principal is here, reporter Sheng, you can ask her, it is unheard of to ask the school students to help her sell pork to make money during class. Can your wife An Jinzhu be released earlier? She is holding her in her hands. I hope you will report diligently and responsibly."
Jiang Zhen: ...I've seen people seeking death, but I've never seen anyone do it like this.
Jiang Zhen was amused: "No teacher in the school told me about selling pork, Teacher Chu, why don't you think there might be something behind it? No one told you, is it possible that they were waiting to see you make a fool of yourself?"
Chu Aihua: ... "Principal Jiang, please explain clearly. Why are you making fun of me?"
"All your actions are a joke." Jiang Zhen said, "Reporter Sheng, right? You are not a reporter from Fancheng. You came from Jing City just for An Jinzhu. You were dragged here to be cannon fodder to attack me. Are you really that stupid?"
Sheng Qinghe: ...Because the detention time is about to end, he came because his family felt that they should not get involved in the struggle between the Lan family and Jiang Zhen. No matter who wins, the Lan family will be seriously damaged, and it will never be the same Lan family again. It is better to change it back for our own child.
Sheng Qinghe said, "Principal Chu asked me to come to the school to tell him that there was big news. I only found out what I was going to interview after I arrived. Principal Jiang, is there something else going on with the pork sales? Why don't you just speak up so that we don't publish false reports?"
Jiang Zhen looked at him impatiently: "Your family is so annoying, one after another, you are giving away your heads. Well, let me tell you, I just took over a large textile factory, do I need to catch wild boars and sell them to supplement my family income?"
Sheng Qinghe's family is well-off, so he naturally thinks it won't be necessary.
"In theory, it's not necessary, but people are greedy. The richer the capitalists are, the more they want to squeeze out all the benefits they can. Principal Chu said that your family donated the honorary principalship for you, so you have to find a way to get the donated money back."
Jiang Zhen couldn't help laughing to death: "How stupid am I? Even if I catch all the wild boars in Fancheng, it still won't be enough to donate money, right?"
Sheng Qinghe figured it out. There must be a misunderstanding here. "Principal Jiang, the stupid one is Principal Chu. There is a misunderstanding in today's interview. I am sorry for wasting your time."
Jiang Zhen said: "That may not be the case. Don't you want to know why I brought the children to catch wild boars and sell pork? Stay and interview me."
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Soon, the children called all their relatives who were carpenters and bricklayers. They all said, "How can we make money by building a school for the children? We don't even need labor fees. I will be responsible for buying materials and reimbursing according to the materials. We don't need labor fees. We will repair the roof, doors and windows so that the children can have a good environment to study."
With this calculation, we can do more. Jiang Zhen said, "This time the money is earned by the children's own labor. There happened to be reporters working for free. At least their names will be published in the newspaper, so that the whole city can see that there are still many good people who support our school."
When they heard that it would be in the newspaper, everyone became even more enthusiastic and said that Principal Jiang had done something very meaningful with the children.
Jiang Zhen wrote a report himself and gave it to Sheng Qinghe: "Just use my report, you can help polish it, it's yours, and then submit it to Fancheng Evening News, and also publish an article in Beijing."
Sheng Qinghe looked at Jiang Zhen's manuscript, which started from Chu Aihua's jealous perspective, then had a big reversal, and the ending explored human nature and was thought-provoking. Such a manuscript was indeed eye-catching, but after it was published under his name, the relationship with the Lan family, which had just been eased, became tense again.
"Principal Jiang, I shouldn't have come today." Sheng Qinghe smiled bitterly.
Jiang Zhen said: "This is a pledge of allegiance. Either you continue to be the enemy of the Lan family, or you become my enemy. If you can't make up your mind, you can call home and ask."
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Everyone in the school was happy that the classrooms could be rebuilt, and there was a lot more laughter and joy. But Chu Aihua was an exception. She was almost mad at her. Times had changed, but she still used the same old bullying methods. She deserved it.
Jiang Zhen went home and said to Gu Liancheng, "Can An Jinzhu be locked up for a few more days?"
Yes, yes, but why: "What do you want to do?"
Jiang Zhen said: "Sheng Qinghe is here. The Sheng family is probably trying to decide who will fall first, me or the Lan family. I want to give the Sheng family a slap in the face first to make them behave themselves."
Gu Liancheng smiled and said, "That's easy. Will it be enough to lock him up for another half a month?"
"Sure, is it easy to find a reason?"
Gu Liancheng said: "She has been causing a lot of trouble for the past half month, which has caused great damage to your reputation. As long as we sue her, she won't be able to come out in the near future."
Like Yu Qiaoying, Sheng Qing was detained with An Jinzhu. When he didn't pick up his lover at the agreed time, he called home immediately. Later, Fancheng Evening News and Beijing newspapers both published sharp reports about selling pork to repair the classroom, which was maliciously misinterpreted.
Just after the liberation, it was a transition between two eras. It was difficult for a family like the Lan family to make the transition all of a sudden. Chu Aihua was bound to suffer a great loss because of her arrogant mentality before the liberation. This time, Jiang Zhen did not give her a chance to breathe. He found several faults in Chu Aihua and expelled her from school.
From the backbone school leadership team of the junior high school, to being transferred to the elementary school in order to create trouble for Jiang Zhen's children to go to school, from principal to vice principal, to current dismissal, this slap in the face of the Lan family was a solid blow.
Chu Aihua threatened fiercely: "Jiang Zhen, if the Sheng family doesn't exchange the child, they will make peace with our family. Do you really want to go against me? Our Lan family is the richest family in the provincial capital."
Jiang Zhen: "That was all before liberation. Last winter, Fancheng was suppressing bandits. Don't you understand? Times have changed. The methods that worked so well for you in the past don't work anymore. If you can wake up, you can start over."
If we continue without realizing it, it will be hard to say what will happen.
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Chu Aihua was deeply shocked. After being expelled, she received the news that Yu Qiaoying had been released. She hurried back, only to see Yu Qiaoying holding the child she brought back from her parents' home, loudly scolding An Jinzhu and Sheng Qinghe, the couple who went back on their word.
"My son is mine. You and your wife want to exchange him back now. It's impossible. Our Lan family has suffered a loss temporarily, but we are not afraid of you."
An Jinzhu had no choice. She was detained for a month, and when she came out, her husband said he wanted to exchange their son back. She wanted to raise her own biological child, so she naturally agreed.
"Yu Qiaoying, if you don't change, my wife has decided to use the power of newspapers to defend their rights. When the children grow up, they have the right to choose whose home to return to. You don't want the children to abandon you and return to my home after raising them for more than ten years, do you?"
After several days of arguing, Chu Aihua was fed up and didn't want to make it to the newspapers: "Qiaoying, sons and daughters are the same. If they want to switch, then let them switch."
"How can it be the same? My daughter will eventually get married, and then I will be alone again. But my son can be with me forever, and my descendants will never stop. I will never change."
Yu Qiaoying cursed viciously: "You go back on your word. If you insist on changing, be careful that you will end up dead on the street one day."
However, the Lan siblings, who were in charge of the provincial capital, that is, Yu Qiaoying's mother and uncle, decided to exchange the child back after weighing the pros and cons, and let Chu Aihua do ideological work on Yu Qiaoying.
Chu Aihua failed to convince her, and took the child away to An Jinzhu while Yu Qiaoying was not paying attention.
After Yu Qiaoying found out, she immediately went to the guesthouse and took her son back. She also warned An Jinzhu and Lan Qinghe: "I will kill anyone who takes my son away."
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Yu Qiaoying sat near her home holding her son in her arms, lost in thought. She really couldn't understand why she had to live her life like this. Is it true that life cannot be repeated? It would be great if I could start over again.
Chu Aihua came over and advised kindly: "Qiaoying, you should raise your daughter well, it's actually the same."
Yu Qiaoying was really contemptuous: "Aunt, it was my husband who died. In order to save my cousin, I said it was an accident. Now you treat me like this? Okay, I'll go to the police station and confess."
"Do you dare to go?" Chu Aihua scolded sternly: "How dare you bring up such an ugly thing?"
Yu Qiaoying laughed: "What scandal? It was obviously you who did it. I didn't mention it for my cousin's sake. Now I only have a son, so what can I not mention? If I go to Cheng Liwen and his wife, do you think they will still listen to you?"
Chu Aihua quickly stopped her: "Qiaoying, you must not be confused. Don't you love your cousin? How can you bear to let him go to jail?"
Yu Qiaoying pushed her away and said, "Why, it's your son's turn. You know how heartbroken you are, but you want to take my son away. I've said before, whoever steals my son, I'll kill him."
Chu Aihua chased for dozens of meters, and the words between the two became more and more fierce. Chu Aihua was desperate. She was stunned for a few seconds. Seeing Yu Qiaoying holding the child in front of her, determined to go to the police station, she suddenly became angry and picked up a five or six kilogram stone from the roadside and caught up with Yu Qiaoying.
"Qiaoying*, wait a minute, I want to tell you something."
Yu Qiaoying had a sarcastic look on her face. She turned around and was about to mock him when suddenly a stone fell on her head.
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At this moment, Chu Aihua only had one thought in her mind: "If you want to harm my son, then go to hell."
After hitting Yu Qiaoying several times, she didn't move at all. The baby in her arms suddenly burst into tears. The crying brought Chu Aihua back to her senses. She raised the stone again and was about to hit the crying baby on the head.
"Who is it? Who is there?" The sudden light of the flashlight and the sound of footsteps startled Chu Aihua so much that she dropped her stone, hid in the green bushes, and ran away like crazy.
Sheng Qinghe came out at night after calling home and then came to discuss a plan with Yu Qiaoying. When he heard the child crying miserably, he thought it was a human trafficker, so he plucked up the courage to bluff and scare the child away, and he actually scared the child away.
After waiting for a while and making sure that the bad guys had left and there was only the sound of a child crying, he came around. It was dark and the street lights were dim, and when he got closer he could see clearly the person lying in the shadow, lying in a pool of blood, still twitching.
She was a woman, and with the mentality of saving people, Sheng Qinghe hurriedly turned her over. When he shone the flashlight on her, he was so scared that he let go. The person was already dead. What moved was the child in her arms, the son he and An Jinzhu had planned to exchange for.
Yu Qiaoying is dead? He was at the scene, can he clear himself of suspicion?
Sheng Qinghe was frightened and picked up his son in his arms, only to find that his body was covered in blood.
The child stopped crying, but two flashlights came from behind him, and there were sounds.
"Brother, someone is dead. Is that Sheng Qinghe? In order to snatch the child, he killed Yu Qiaoying?"
Sheng Qinghe was horrified. He turned around suddenly and saw Gu Liancheng with his hands behind his waist, ready to reach for his weapon. He was so scared that he broke down: "I was just passing by like you guys. I didn't kill him."
Gu Liancheng and Xiao Qingfeng were not just passing by. They encountered a robbery on the street after get off work and chased the robber here.
Gu Liancheng warned: "Whether it is true or not, let's talk about it in the police station. We are arresting you now. Put the child down, hold your head with both hands, and stand up slowly."
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Yu Qiaoying is dead, and Sheng Qinghe was caught at the scene. He is a suspect that cannot be cleared.
Jiang Zhen was called to search the corpse, and he knew exactly who the murderer was. Chu Aihua's son Lan Kuiwu was her biological son, but he was not a member of the Lan family. After Lan Kuiwu knew his life experience, he fell in love with his cousin Yu Qiaoying, so the Lan family sent Lan Kuiwu abroad.
After liberation, Lan Kuiwu was called back by the Lan family, only to find that his cousin had married in Fancheng.
Chu Aihua was afraid that the two would rekindle their old love, so she transferred her job from the provincial capital to Fancheng. However, she failed to keep an eye on them. Lan Kuiwu and Yu Qiaoying rekindled their old love, and Cheng Liwen saw them. Cheng Liwen was so angry that he had a heart attack. The two men did not find medicine for Cheng Liwen, which delayed his treatment.
After Cheng Liwen's death, Yu Qiaoying realized the good of Cheng Liwen and felt that her cousin was irresponsible. For more than a hundred days and nights, she felt more and more guilty towards Cheng Liwen, so she placed her hopes on her son and would not allow anyone to take her son away.
Jiang Zhen had no feelings towards corpses, but the bloody memories in the corpses made her stunned.
After searching for useful memories, Jiang Zhen was speechless and said to Gu Liancheng who was accompanying him: "I know who the murderer is and the motive for the murder."
Gu Liancheng gently covered the next sentence that Jiang Zhen blurted out: "This murder case is still in the golden period of solving the case. Several clues are being investigated. Don't tell me yet. If all the cases in Fancheng rely on you to touch the corpse and report the name of the murderer, how can Fancheng train criminal investigation police if you leave? Let us solve the case first. If we can't solve it, we will ask you for help."
Jiang Zhen thought it made sense and nodded, "Okay, then let a few kids try to help solve the case. Their abilities will be used by you one day, so why not start training them now?"
Gu Liancheng: … “This is a homicide case. They are only a few years old. I’m afraid they will be scared.”
Jiang Zhen: "Do you still remember those two rabbits? The four children all wanted to kill the male rabbit for meat. If I hadn't been soft-hearted, I would have killed the male and kept the female."
Gu Liancheng: ... "Okay, I'll listen to you."
Jiang Zhen smiled in her heart, she had figured out some experience, and Gu Liancheng couldn't help but be scared.
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Jiang Zhen and Gu Liancheng left the autopsy room, and the lobby of the Public Security Bureau was surrounded by the Lan and Sheng families.
The Lan family, represented by Chu Aihua, demanded that the Public Security Bureau return Yu Qiaoying's body to her family: "The dead must be buried as soon as possible. Why don't you let the family collect the body?"
How could the Lan family cremate the body and destroy all evidence when the case has not been solved?
Jiang Zhen asked Gu Liancheng: "Strange, no one from the Yu family came?"
Gu Liancheng said: "The Yu family is small, and now they only have distant relatives, and they are unwilling to take care of it."
Chu Aihua, as the murderer, screamed the loudest. Judging from her current ferocious look, she will not repent for killing anyone.
Chu Aihua blocked his way: "Gu Liancheng, An Jinzhu is your brother's ex-wife. You can't get involved in this case. I don't trust you."
Gu Liancheng was not joking at all: "You came just in time. I have some questions for you. Where were you before and after the incident last night? Do you have any witnesses?"
Chu Aihua was frightened and asked, "That's my niece. Why do you suspect me?"
Gu Liancheng said, "You secretly held her son. We are investigating several people you have had conflicts with. Don't mention relatives. There are many cases of fathers killing sons, sons killing mothers, and siblings killing each other. Qingfeng, take them to interrogate them."
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Chu Aihua was taken to the interrogation room. An Jinzhu felt better. She gathered her strength and negotiated with Gu Liancheng: "Since Chu Aihua is a suspect, when can you release Qinghe?"
At that time, Sheng Qinghe had a lot of the victim's blood on his body and was holding the child. He was caught at the scene and was the most likely suspect.
Gu Liancheng said, "He is an important suspect. If you waste time here, it will affect the progress of solving the case. No one knows whether he is guilty or not. We have to wait until the case is solved before the truth can be revealed."
An Jinzhu was indignant: "Gu Liancheng, please don't use this case to take revenge on me because your elder brother and I are getting divorced."
Gu Liancheng was extremely disappointed with her: "Fortunately, Gu Pan and Gu Hui don't look like people from your An family."
Sheng Lianrong was anxious and worried that Gu Liancheng would not do his best to handle the case, so she threatened, "Gu Liancheng, if you can't clear my fourth brother's name, we, the Sheng family, will make sure you can't continue working in the Fancheng Political Security Section."
Xiao Qingfeng was furious when he heard this, and ran over to angrily scold him: "Your family is so capable that you asked the provincial capital to send a special task force to us. You are causing trouble for us here. In fact, you don't want your fourth brother to clear his suspicion, right?"
Sheng Lianrong was extremely annoyed and humiliated by being slandered by the person she once had a crush on, and she got angry at An Jinzhu.
"When the baby was born, your family didn't ask you to come back, but you insisted on going back. You made Fourth Brother a suspect. You are such a jinx."
An Jinzhu burst into tears: "When I was at the Gu family, no one in the Gu family spoke like this."
Sheng Lianrong angrily sarcastically said, "Didn't you want a divorce? My fourth brother is an unmarried college student, but he was bewitched by a despicable bitch like you. One day he will wake up and not want you anymore."
"Don't argue about your family's trivial matters in the Public Security Bureau!" Gu Liancheng couldn't stand it anymore and kicked him out.
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After arguing for a whole morning, neither the Lansheng family, including An Jinzhu, asked about the baby who was less than one year old and was at the crime scene.
"Whose family took the baby?" Jiang Zhen asked. After all, he was Gu Pan and Gu Hui's half-brother, so they were related by blood.
Gu Liancheng sighed: "No one wants it, so I'll send it to an orphanage for foster care. An Qihui loves the child very much, so it should be fine."
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Gu Liancheng went to solve the case. Jiang Zhen went home and told the three children about Yu Qiaoying's case and asked them to investigate: "Gu Hui, Jiang Tang, Gu Pan, your abilities will be noticed by powerful departments sooner or later, so you must make yourself useful now so that you will have more freedom and confidence in the future. You can work together to think of a solution and give it a try."
Gu Pan was the most positive: "I've got an idea. I can see whose color is the most evil, and let Gu Hui go invisible to eavesdrop and find out the real murderer!"
Jiang Zhen nodded. It was great that the child could think of this idea. It was very practical and effective.
Jiang Tang was not willing to be outdone: "Mom, I can also help. I'll go to the crime scene and ask the stray cats and dogs."
Gu Hui did not forget Jiang Zhao: "Aunt, what about the elder brother? If we don't invite him, he will be sad."
Jiang Zhen said: "You go check first, and when he's done with school, let him follow and protect you. I think your uncle will be able to quickly identify the real suspect this time. You have to race against time and let him see how powerful you are."
"Yes, let's go now, aunt, you just wait for good news at home."
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