The person who called the police and the ambulance was a resident of Lanwan Community who had just returned from living on the other side of the ocean.
Shi Yu heard this at the police station.
After those seven or eight thugs were taken back to the police station, I don't know which brain waves connected with each other, but when asked, they all answered that they didn't know and said that they had never done those bad things.
The area where the conflict occurred was in front of the night snack shop, which was out of the camera's range, and there was no other surveillance on the road. The hooligans insisted that they were innocent and argued with Xiao Wang for five minutes, acting very confidently, but they were finally exposed by a cell phone recording released by Shi Yu.
This kind of thing happens almost every day in Nanhang City, and the severity is not enough to be brought to the attention of the Public Security Council. The final result is that the gangsters were detained and forced to write a 10,000-word self-criticism.
Shi Yu acted in self-defense and was released directly after being questioned and signing a statement. Before he even stepped out of the police station, he was taken back to the interrogation room by Xiao Wang.
This time it was because of the doorman.
The security guard who was found in the grass in the green belt was Lao Zhang, who had gone out to lobby and never returned.
"According to the security guard at the North Gate of Lanwan Community, the person on duty at the North Gate tonight is Zhang Gaoli, and the other one is you?"
"yes."
"The security guard who stayed behind said that he only saw you when he arrived at the duty room. Where was Zhang Gaoli at this time? Why wasn't he at his post?"
"Someone was making noise, and the residents complained, so he went to persuade them."
"About when did you go? How long did you stay there?"
"I didn't notice it." Shi Yu said, "But you can look at the call records on the phone on the table. He went out after the first call, and I went to find him after the fifth call."
Xiao Wang said in a serious tone: "You haven't been out during this period of time?"
"No." Shi Yu asked calmly, "Do you suspect that I attacked him?"
Xiao Wang said calmly, "It's just a routine inquiry. After all, you are the last person to see him now."
Shi Yu: “Is he dead?”
Xiao Wang paused while spinning the pen in his hand, his eyes sharpened: "I remember I didn't tell you about his current situation, why did you ask such a question?"
Shi Yu sat back in his chair and said, "Because the way you brought me in for questioning was like treating a murderer."
Xiao Wang's eyes moved.
"He was suspected to have been attacked and fell in the bushes outside the community? Let's not talk about where he fell, whether it was a sudden illness, an accident on the road, or some other reason. Even if the Schrodinger's attacker really existed and knocked him out, then what? It would be a humanitarian act for a passerby to call an ambulance. Why call the police?"
Shi Yu said, "Let's take a step back. Even if the passersby were more aware of the situation and called the police, most people would first think it was a physical problem, and then a robbery. Your involvement means that the hospital's information shows that it was not a subjective reason. Even if it was the latter, I was at most a stranger who happened to have some relationship with the victim. If I didn't want to be questioned by you, I could have left at any time. Why did I come to the interrogation room?"
Xiao Wang held the pen tightly.
Shi Yu said in a calm voice: "Is he dead?"
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"You've seen the situation." Xiao Wang sat on a bench outside the interrogation room, gulping down water from a kettle. "This guy is too evil. I can't take him down."
The policeman named Li, who had a birthmark in the shape of a gold ingot on his hand, withdrew his gaze from the glass and took the kettle he threw to him: "How about you try again?"
Xiao Wang rolled his eyes and said, "Here's a chance for you. Why don't you try one for me? For more than half an hour, his expression didn't change at all. If I hadn't looked at that face, I would have thought the person facing me was a machine. He can speak any words as if he were reading a book. How do you say that?"
Li Yuanbao stopped talking.
"It's easy to find flaws in fabricated stories. Even a mute can observe the changes in facial expressions. But this guy is not a mute. He is worse than a mute!"
Xiao Wang let out a long breath: "By the way, have the people from above arrived?"
Li Yuanbao: "It should be soon."
After all, they are just police officers, and new police officers with little experience. The most common work they do is running errands and doing odd jobs. The most serious case they have received was the missing ragdoll cat of a wealthy woman in Yunyin District half a year ago - because that ragdoll was worth 100,000 yuan.
Xiao Wang stared at the ceiling for a few seconds, scratched his hair, stood up, and looked at the window of the interrogation room: "Speaking of which, I don't understand. Usually, we help the people find cats and dogs, fix water pipes, and install anti-theft nets, but what about now? I went over to take a look before, and didn't Zhang Gaoli have any external injuries? His keys and wallet were all there, and it was obviously not for money. We don't know if someone secretly attacked him or if he was simply sick. Why did the higher-ups insist on us dealing with it so seriously?"
As a grassroots official, Li Yuanbao certainly had no idea what the big guys above him were thinking, so he could only shake his head.
Just at this moment, footsteps were heard outside.
It was someone from the monitoring room: "Have you finished asking questions?"
Xiao Wang nodded: "What about the one inside? Have you put it out?"
The visitor said, "He's not even a suspect. He's been keeping people away for so long. Let him go."
"oh."
Xiao Wang went to open the door.
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Ten minutes later, Shi Yu left the police station and called a taxi.
The phone was shaking and message pop-ups kept popping up.
Shi Yu usually talks to others on the phone. She has very few social media accounts. Even if she has registered, she only adds a handful of people, and often there won’t be a red dot appear for months.
Except for the work group.
For fear of missing out on important messages, he did not block messages.
After all this noise, it was already early morning. In addition to those on duty at midnight, there were also those who came to take over at eight in the morning.
"Something happened to Lao Zhang? What happened?"
"It seems like someone hit him with a hammer and knocked him unconscious outside the community. The police were called."
"Ah? Didn't he suddenly become ill and foam at the mouth and faint?"
"I clearly heard that his wife called and was furious..."
"I live on the tenth floor and I heard sirens in the middle of the night. The police came. How could it be just a simple illness?"
"I don't know what happened downstairs today, there was so much noise, and then finally it quieted down, but Lao Zhang was admitted to the hospital... Could it be that he got into a fight with someone and that's why?"
"Don't guess blindly."
"Brother Shu."
"Hello, Brother Shu."
"Brother Shu, you seem to be on patrol tonight. Have you heard any news?"
"Speaking of patrols... it seems that Shi Yu is on duty with Lao Zhang tonight...?"
"The doctor said that he was not beaten, but fainted suddenly. The specific cause needs to be checked. Please stop spreading rumors."
"How did Shu know?"
"I was patrolling at night and happened to pass by the North Gate. Xiaoyu was going out to look for Lao Zhang, so I stayed behind to watch the surveillance for him. Later, I heard the sound of an ambulance approaching, and ran out to see it."
"Oh, how is Lao Zhang now? Is everything alright?"
"He's been sent to the hospital. I don't know the details, but I'm going to go check it out after get off work. Is anyone else going?"
Many employees who were supposed to hand over their shifts during the day and were unable to do so responded by working the night shift and waiting to be freed at eight in the morning.
As the message screen was filled with messages, someone tagged Shi Yu: “Are you going?”
Shi Yu read the whole post from beginning to end and only replied "No, I'm not going". Without even looking at other people's reactions, he set the group message to do not disturb and got into the taxi that had received the order.
It was seven o'clock when we returned to the community and the sky was bright enough.
Before going to the police station, Shi Yu asked for leave from the foreman in advance. After getting off the bus, he passed by the late-night snack shop and found that the owner was still there.
Seeing him, the fat boss smiled like a chrysanthemum: "Young man, you just came back? You should be getting off work soon, do you want to take some breakfast back?"
Shi Yu shook his head and refused, without even stopping, he went straight into Lanwan.
This was the second time an ambulance had visited the community in three days. Even the residents who had previously been unaware of the incident had heard something about it, including the elderly who were used to getting up early and going downstairs to exercise.
The little girl was still holding the small iron cage. Having learned from her last lesson, she tied a ribbon around the legs of her gray rabbit and then carefully took the rabbit out and walked it away.
Being tied up with a ribbon did not prevent the rabbit from running around the community. When passing the tree-lined path, the rabbit suddenly turned a corner and pounced towards the feet of the person on the path like a gray rag.
The little girl ran after him, holding the ribbon in her hand, and called out in a very sweet voice, "Big brother."
Shi Yu nodded and continued walking forward.
The rabbit continued to chase him.
The little girl continued to chase him, and asked, "Brother, can you teach me rabbit language?"
Children aged three or four do not have much sense of distance and their emotions are simple. It is easy for them to fall in love with someone wholeheartedly because of something. For example, when Shi Yu helped her catch a rabbit, she instantly forgot her parents’ warning to her to “stay away from the big brother with long hair in the community.”
It’s not that I’ve forgotten, it’s just that I feel that the other person is not as scary as I imagined, and it’s no big deal even if we get close.
The little girl ran faster and faster: "Brother, slow down."
Shi Yu stopped where she was and asked, "Where are your parents?"
"My grandma is in the park with Grandma Qiu Ling, and she said that children shouldn't listen to adults' matters."
The little girl held the cage in one hand and failed to brake when the car suddenly stopped. Her hair was directly in front of her eyes. She blew it with her mouth: "Brother, your hair always blows on my face."
The gray rag circled around him.
Shi Yu continued walking: "Why not?"
"My mom went to work, and so did my dad. My grandma didn't know how to braid my hair, so I braided it myself." The little girl jumped up and down, shaking her head, "I braided it myself."
Shi Yu lowered her head and took a look. The rubber band was tied in a very unique way.
The little girl stared at him, or more precisely, at his hair: "Brother, can you tie your hair?"
She thought, this older brother had long hair like her, and since he could speak rabbit language, he might also be able to tie hair. She could learn one more skill, buy one get one free.
Shi Yu reminded him to lower his head and look at the road, then said, "I have never pierced myself."
"oh."
The little girl walked down the stairs step by step and asked again: "Can you teach me rabbit language?"
Shi Yu did not answer, but asked: "Can you solve it?"
The little girl's attention was instantly diverted: "Okay."
Shi Yu stretched out her finger and hooked the rubber band that was wrapped around her chicken coop.
The little girl was very obedient and stood still: "Brother, can you braid your hair? Just like Sister Cuihua."
Sister Cuihua is the heroine of the ancient drama broadcast every day at 1:00 p.m.
"Brother, can you braid a princess's hair? Like Sister Beibei's."
Sister Beibei is the heroine of the sweet pet drama that airs every day at 6pm.
"Brother, can you tie your hair into a bun? Like Sister Shen Jia's."
Sister Shen Jia is the heroine of the melodrama that airs every night at 8 o'clock.
"elder brother……"
"Bow your head."
"oh."
Shi Yu tied the rubber band around the little girl's hair three times, and the messy hair finally looked better. He let go of her hand and said, "Go home early."
The little girl asked for the third time: "Then can you teach me rabbit language?"
...This is not over yet.
Shi Yu said: "No."
The little girl looked at his back as he left, stood there sad for a second, then raised her hand and touched her hair.
It's a princess braid.
She was stunned for a moment, her eyes curved into crescents, and she skipped back to find her grandmother.
Every morning when the old lady gets up, she takes a walk to exercise and chats with old friends. Occasionally, she goes out to the department store outside the community to buy food for lunch.
The little girl walked around the community park but couldn't find her grandmother, so she led the rabbit out of the community gate and took a long detour according to her poor memory. Finally, she found a familiar store sign and ran in: "Grandma! Look at my princess hair..."
The old man stood in front of the raw vegetables with his back to the store, and his figure caught the girl's eyes.
"Bang--"
A muffled sound.
The old man collapsed in front of her without any warning.
The girl was stunned and her pace suddenly quickened: "Grandma!"
She pushed through the crowd and saw strange red marks at the corners of the old woman's eyes. But she had no time to think and could only shout in panic, "Grandma."
"Grandma, what's wrong with you?"
"Grandma, wake up."
"grandmother……"
Her hands were shaking more and more, and her voice was getting smaller and smaller.
The people around screamed in panic and backed away. The shop owner looked at the situation from half a meter away and carefully took out his cell phone to dial a number.
No one dared to step forward.
The rabbit cage in the girl's hand loosened, and the rope tied to the pet disappeared. Only the voice was filled with tears: "Grandma..."
Half an hour later, the ambulance from the City Center Hospital, which had just left less than half a day ago, drove into the road next to Lanwan Community again.
Fifteen minutes later, district police officer Xiao Wang received a report from the hospital.
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