Fu Lan's room remained in the same state of chaos as before.
Lin Guohua pretended to go inside and look around, then asked, "What's missing?"
“A pair of gold bracelets,” Grandma Fu said.
"Just a pair of gold bracelets?" Zhou Haomin pulled out a small notebook from his pocket and made notes in a serious manner.
“There’s also a horse,” Grandma Fu said.
"Horse?" Zhou Haomin paused, looking at Grandma Fu with confusion, and asked, "What horse?"
"Uh..." Grandma Fu hesitated for a moment, unsure of what to say, and looked at Fu Lan questioningly.
“It was a ceramic horse. I found it by the roadside. It was about this tall. I thought it was quite nice, so I brought it back as a decoration. I don’t know why it’s gone now.” Fu Lan pointed to the corner where the horse used to be kept and said, gesturing as she spoke.
"Really?" Zhou Haomin frowned, sensing something was amiss. He could understand a thief stealing a gold bracelet, but why steal a worthless ceramic horse found on the roadside? It was so big; it wouldn't be easy to move.
Zhou Haomin wanted to ask more questions: "That horse..."
Before he could finish speaking, Lin Guohua impatiently interrupted him: "Why ask so many questions? It was picked up by the roadside, what could it be anything important? It's lost, so what? The most important thing now is to help them find the lost gold bracelet. What has Zhao Bin been doing all this time? The people he brought along don't even understand the important things."
Zhou Haomin: "..." Can't he see such obvious suspicious points? Is he blind?
Seeing Zhou Haomin standing there dumbfounded, Lin Guohua couldn't help but urge him on, "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and get to work."
Zhou Haomin's lips twitched. He looked at Fu Lan and then asked, "What about the others? Is it just a gold bracelet that's gone?"
Seeing that Zhou Haomin stopped asking about the horse, Fu Lan secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't want them to ask too much about the horse, as that would inevitably involve Liu Feiyue. If Liu Feiyue was suspected by the security team and it delayed his time to hide the things in the woods, her brother-in-law and the others didn't know when they would catch him.
"Yes, I only lost a gold bracelet," Fu Lan nodded obediently to Zhou Haomin.
Zhou Haomin noticed that Fu Lan seemed to have breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart skipped a beat. That feeling of unease from before resurfaced, and he couldn't quite put his finger on what was wrong.
He put the thought aside for the moment, looked around, and asked, "Was it just this room that was robbed?"
Fu Lan nodded again: "Yes, only my room was robbed."
Zhou Haomin shuddered and quickly realized: "So it seems that the thief was after your pair of gold bracelets."
Wei Junjie nodded in agreement.
Lin Guohua's small eyes were wide and empty: "Why do you say that? What evidence do you have?"
Benny Chou: "..."
“If the thief just randomly picked an empty house to steal from, he shouldn’t have only targeted that one house. He should have searched every single house,” Zhou Haomin explained to him.
Lin Guohua then looked enlightened, and noticing the questioning looks from those around him, he put on a righteous and stern expression and said, "I know all of this, I just wanted to test you."
Zhou Haomin: "..." Keep bragging.
"Besides your family, does anyone else know about the gold bracelet you have?" Zhou Haomin continued, looking at Fu Lan, and asked.
Fu Lan pretended to think seriously for a moment and said, "Yes, Dong Cang."
“Dong Cang is…” Zhou Haomin asked.
“He’s my brother-in-law’s younger brother. When I was carrying that horse back from outside, it was too heavy to carry, and I happened to run into him, so he helped me carry it back. At that time, the gold bracelet in my pocket fell to the ground, and he saw it,” Fu Lan said.
Lin Guohua's expression hardened, and he said, "It should be him. Let's go to the Dong family to arrest him."
Zhou Haomin: "..." There's only suspicion, and they haven't even gotten the stolen goods yet, so it's a bit much to arrest someone directly. However, they still have to go to the Dong family. As for what consequences will arise after Deputy Captain Lin arrests someone, that's none of his business.
It was already very late at night.
Dong Cang was preoccupied with the thought of whether Liu Erxi and Liu Sanchang had succeeded. He tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep, his mind filled with thoughts of when he could get a large stack of unpaid bills from Liu Feiyue.
Suddenly, there was a loud knocking on the door.
Dong Cang shuddered and huddled on the bed, too scared to move.
"Bang, bang, bang," the knocking continued.
Soon, someone stood up; it was his older brother: "Who goes there?"
"We are from the Public Security Brigade."
Dong Cang shuddered in fright. Oh no, the police have indeed come! What should he do now?
However, he quickly realized what was going on. He hadn't stolen the things; he'd been home all night, and so many people in the house could testify. What did he have to be afraid of?
Once he thought about it that way, he felt at ease and lay on the bed pretending to be dead, acting as if he knew nothing.
The door was pushed open, and Dong Cheng walked in: "A Cang..."
Dong Cang pretended to be asleep and didn't hear.
Dong Cheng walked to the bedside and nudged him: "A-Cang..."
Dong Cang then pretended to be sleepy and sat up in bed, complaining, "Why did you wake me up so late at night?"
"The police from the Public Security Bureau are here to see you," Dong Cheng said, looking at Dong Cang with suspicion. "Have you gotten into trouble again?"
"I've been staying home quietly all this time, what trouble could I possibly have caused? Annoying," Dong Cang said impatiently.
Dong Cheng paused for a moment. He'd only said one sentence, and he already found it annoying...
Dong Cheng couldn't help but recall Fu Hong's words: "Cheng, I'm not against you being filial to your family. We are capable, so it's only right that we take care of our parents and relatives. I have a family too, and I understand. But being filial doesn't mean giving them whatever they want. Taking care of your younger siblings doesn't mean giving them whatever they ask for. If you spoil them, and then you're no longer able to help, won't your parents and yourselves suffer in the end? If you are truly filial and truly care about them, you shouldn't indulge them."
"And you, Cheng, no matter what happens at home, they only ask you to help them sort things out, taking your contributions for granted, but they never think about you. You have to work, you're human too, you get tired too. Take better care of yourself, okay, Cheng? Just for my sake."
Dong Cheng's heart tightened. Perhaps he had indeed made a mistake before.
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