Chapter 4
"Ugh... Ugh! Ugh!" After the initial shock, the person at the bottom began to struggle violently.
Unfortunately, no matter how she rolled, the man who was pressing down on her back did not move at all, leaving only the middle-aged woman's legs kicking up and down. From a distance, her posture looked like a big toad stuck in a mud pit.
As for Luo Jingyao, she let the other person's hysterical commotion for a while. Then, after turning around and making sure the police had picked up the fruit knife, she relaxed her grip slightly and pulled Huang Guojun's mother, who was lying on the ground, to her feet. She even reached out to help her brush off the dust. Then, she spoke softly, "It's illegal to carry controlled knives in public places. It's very dangerous."
Her attitude was so good that it seemed as if she was not the one who had just pushed the man to the ground and 'rubbed' him.
The middle-aged woman was startled at first, as if she hadn't expected that the person who had immobilized her just a few seconds ago was such a thin-armed and thin-legged girl. When she came to her senses, she raised her hands high, cursing: "Where did you come from, you little bitch? I'm seeking justice for my son, why do you have to meddle in my business?!"
Glancing at the ferocious face of Huang Guojun's mother, Luo Jingyao frowned slightly and quickly turned sideways, accurately making the hand that was waving towards her miss.
When the strong men holding signs and banners saw their companions being defeated, they roared and rushed forward. A violent conflict seemed to be about to break out.
Suddenly, several figures appeared and stood in front of Luo Jingyao.
Several police officers, led by Deputy Director Zhang, stopped the burly men with fierce expressions. "What are you doing? You dare to beat people up right in front of the Public Security Bureau? You're really too arrogant!"
"Comrade from Public Security! It was clearly she who pushed me to the ground and beat me first. It would be fine if you didn't arrest her, but why are you blaming the victim?" After pushing several strong men aside, the middle-aged woman came forward with a sad face, sat down on the ground with a "thump", and cried out for justice to the people around her.
"Everyone, please help me judge the situation. Aren't they ganging up on me, a woman?"
Raising a hand to press his throbbing forehead, Deputy Director Zhang took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, and continued, "If Coach Luo hadn't disarmed your knife, you wouldn't have been able to scream and shout here after accidentally injuring yourself. We police respect your reasonable expression of your demands, but you can't use such radical methods!!"
"If your actions just now really caused any negative impact or harm to society, you can't just sit on the ground and make trouble!"
"...I...I..." A trace of panic flashed across Huang Guojun's mother's pale face, but she quickly put on her unreasonable expression again: "Hey, everyone here, look carefully, these are the police! This is the Jinshi Public Security Bureau! People are beating people up right under their noses, and they don't do anything!"
"How dare you do this in front of so many people? I can only imagine how much injustice my son suffered two years ago. He might have even been tortured into confessing... wuwuwu..."
After hearing these words, all the policemen present looked unhappy and started to refute.
"Sister, please be reasonable!"
"It's a different era now. It's impossible for the police to handle cases like you described. Our interrogations are monitored throughout the entire process."
"Sister, spreading rumors is a crime now!"
Huang Guojun's mother didn't regret hearing these words. Instead, she cried even louder. "What do the police think? Can they just threaten people? I just want an explanation today, but instead of investigating the murder case, you're all bullying an old lady like me. Who would believe me if you said there was nothing fishy going on?"
"you……!"
In the end, Deputy Director Zhang shook his head and interrupted his subordinates. He was silent for a while, struggling with how to solve the current situation. After all, the longer it was delayed, the greater the impact would be.
But before he could figure out what was going on, a head suddenly popped out from behind him.
In order to facilitate activities during class, Luo Jingyao wore her hair in a bun today, and paired it with a beige sportswear, looking like a female college student in her early twenties.
"This... um..." She carefully looked up and down at Huang Guojun's mother, who was sitting on the ground kicking her legs and acting like a spoiled child. "Auntie, from what you said just now, I mean your son didn't kill anyone?"
"Of course, wasn't what I said just now clear enough? The murder case that happened last week is exactly the same as the case two years ago where the police falsely accused my son of being a murderer! Including the case in Hexi District today, they were all done by the same murderer!" The middle-aged woman raised her neck, not noticing the meaningful expression on Luo Jingyao's face at all, and responded with full energy.
"So that's what's going on." Luo Jingyao continued to hide behind Deputy Director Zhang and stretched out her voice as if she believed it.
But before Huang Guojun's mother could show any smugness, she suddenly changed the subject: "The police haven't released any details of the case to the public, and you know things that even the media don't know. You're really amazing, Auntie."
Yes, even the media couldn’t dig out this information, so where did this woman get it from?
For a moment, everyone present was filled with this doubt.
Could it be that something went wrong within the police force and the details were leaked to her?
But the next second, Luo Jingyao's words shattered everyone's outrageous ideas.
"And that old lady said a murder just happened in Hexi District? Oh my god, that's even more amazing! Maybe the police haven't been able to confirm whether the case in Hexi District is related to the cases last week and two years ago, but the old lady is so confident..." Luo Jingyao's face was full of surprise.
"Since you're neither a police officer nor a reporter, let me guess... You're the murderer, right? Otherwise, how could you know so much?"
Huang Guojun's mother's face suddenly changed drastically. She stood up from the ground and said in a shrill voice, "You...you are slandering me! You are confusing right and wrong! Why do you say such nonsense without any evidence?"
"Oh, so Auntie also knows that you can't talk nonsense without evidence?" Luo Jingyao shrugged and said lightly: "It doesn't matter. You talk nonsense, I talk nonsense. Anyway, it's not against the law."
As soon as she finished speaking, she tugged at the corner of Deputy Director Zhang's clothes in a corner where the people opposite couldn't see her.
Deputy Director Zhang was suddenly startled and quickly pulled himself out of his trance. He said in a stern voice with a fierce look on his face, "Ms. Wang, the police now have reason to suspect you are involved in a serious crime that occurred in Jinshi last week. We hope you can cooperate with the investigation."
"Nonsense! I'm a good person, a victim! You can slander me just by touching my upper lip with your lower lip?" Huang Guojun's mother said as she retreated inconspicuously. She said with a weak voice, "I'm tired today, so I won't bother with you for now. But if the Public Security Bureau still doesn't give me an explanation in a few days, I will definitely come again!"
After she finished her harsh words, she turned around quickly, pushed through the crowd of onlookers, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Seeing that the leader had run away, the strong men naturally did not stay here any longer. They all disappeared in less than half a minute, leaving behind only the foam printing boards and the banners with red letters on a white background on the ground.
A grand farce ended in such a bleak way. There was really nothing exciting to watch, so the media and onlookers gradually dispersed.
Deputy Director Zhang breathed a sigh of relief, wiped the sweat from his shiny forehead, turned around and smiled politely: "Thanks to Coach Luo's good skills today, otherwise if Wang Guifen really got into trouble, the consequences would be disastrous."
"You're welcome." Luo Jingyao smiled and waved her hand. Then, as if remembering something, she said, "The Special Case Investigation Team said they're out on a case. Since today's class is cancelled, I'll be heading back first."
"Okay, Coach Luo, you're busy." Deputy Director Zhang enthusiastically sent the person away and turned around to clean up the mess.
On the other side, Luo Jingyao had just left the Jinshi Public Security Bureau and stopped a taxi on the street and got in.
It was almost ten o'clock in the morning, which was not the peak traffic period in this new first-tier city, so the taxi was driving smoothly on the road and arrived at Sanjiang Road in Hexi District after more than twenty minutes.
She actually didn't know where the crime scene the special case investigation team was going to was. Fortunately, Hexi District was the old city area of Jinshi, and the so-called Sanjiang Road was not long.
Luo Jingyao walked slowly on this narrow and slightly shabby road with her bag on her back. Occasionally, when she passed by the deep alleys on both sides, she would look inside.
Soon, she found traces of the police.
No matter what, these are serious cases, and the police will always be there, with police cars, cordons, on-site security measures, etc. It is impossible to pretend not to see them.
This is an old residential complex. The police van driven by Lin Jiafan and others that Luo Jingyao saw before was parked downstairs of one of the buildings.
Most of the people standing outside the cordon are elderly people, and only a few younger people can be seen here and there.
After hesitating for a long time, Luo Jingyao stepped outside the cordon and took a look at the dark entrance of the building where the policeman was coming in and out, but she couldn't make out anything.
"What happened? Why are there so many police cars?" Just then, an old lady wearing a mask and holding vegetables in her hands walked over from not far away and asked curiously.
A kind old man nearby immediately responded: "Someone's dead! Look, it's the one on the left side of the second floor of unit two in this building."
"I heard that house has been empty for a long time, how could someone die there?"
"Open communities without security guards are unsafe. Anyone can come in..."
Hearing a lot of discussions, Luo Jingyao raised her head slightly and looked at the house on the left side of the second floor.
Through the blue glass sliding windows that were popular twenty or thirty years ago, she saw shadows inside. They should be police officers conducting an on-site investigation.
Retracting her gaze, Luo Jingyao walked towards the entrance of the community. After all, she couldn't get into the crime scene, so she had to think carefully about what to do next.
Suddenly, there was a sharp creaking sound of glass windows being pushed open above my head.
She glanced subconsciously and saw a man jumping out of a window on the second floor!
This building is right next to the building where the crime occurred.
The other person seemed to be extremely familiar with this place. The first thing he did after jumping out of the window was to grab the thick and sturdy external sewer pipe next to him, then slid down a short distance, stretched out his foot to the side and stepped on the protruding anti-theft window on the first floor. Finally, he jumped and landed steadily, and ran out of the community at an extremely fast speed.
"Don't run... fuck!"
Before Luo Jingyao could react to the scene in front of her, a familiar male voice came from above her head. When she looked up, she saw a yellow-haired young man half-squatting on the second-floor windowsill.
At this time, the young man's hands were clinging tightly to the window frame, and his long face turned pale because of the height of the second floor.
Their eyes met.
Hmm...how should I put it?
There is nothing scary about looking at each other, but whoever is timid will be embarrassed.
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