Jiang Ning's expression immediately changed. She stopped the police officer and asked anxiously:
"No, officer, what did he do that requires him to be handcuffed?"
Seeing the gleaming, cold handcuffs hanging on Lin Chen's hands, she felt as if she had been struck by a blunt object, and a sharp pain began to pierce her chest.
Lin Chen frowned, wanting to resist, but seeing Jiang Ning's frightened expression, he cooperated with the police to put on the handcuffs and gently comforted her:
"It's alright, they must have misunderstood something. Go back, nothing will happen."
Jiang Ning watched them leave, her body stiff and unable to move.
How could nothing be wrong?
The police will not arrest people arbitrarily without solid evidence.
But what could possibly be wrong with him?
The incident where Yu Xiaofeng was burned was her own fault, and Lin Chen bore no responsibility whatsoever.
Could it be something to do with the printing factory?
That's impossible. He managed to extricate himself from the printing factory in time and has no connection with it anymore.
Jiang Ning didn't have time to think much and entered the space to follow.
When she arrived at the police station, her pupils nearly dilated when she heard the police interrogating him.
What?
Lin Chen was unexpectedly involved in a murder case.
A few months ago, a male corpse was found beside a national highway in Hunan Province leading to Shanghai.
According to the man's companion, he boarded a cargo truck intending to travel to Shanghai, but the people on the truck murdered him for his money, robbed him of all his money, and then beat him to death.
At that time, the police had already visited and investigated many places.
Xiao Wang was questioned once, but he denied walking that route at that time, which ruled them out.
After more than six months of investigation, the police found the key evidence, a hammer. Xiao Wang has also admitted that he and Lin Chen were on that route and encountered a robber.
When Lin Chen was interrogated, he was shocked to hear that the man who had been leaning against the car window was dead.
"Impossible. I was just teaching him a lesson and broke one of his legs. It wouldn't have killed him at all."
The police coldly told him that the man had been hit on the head with a hammer many times before he died.
"Lin Chen, confess and you'll be treated leniently, resist and you'll be punished severely. You'd better cooperate with the investigation, or you'll suffer the consequences," the police warned him.
Lin Chen felt a surge of anger rising in his chest. What was going on? He was telling the truth.
Even if he was wrong to hit someone, the charge of murder cannot be pinned on him.
Just as he stood up angrily, wanting to defend himself, Gao Baoliang walked in suspiciously.
"Brother Chen, what are you doing here?"
Lin Chen frowned. "Baoliang, what are you doing here?"
Gao Baoliang smiled at the police officers and said, "Give me a few minutes, I'll have a private chat with him."
The other police officers nodded and left the interrogation room.
Gao Baoliang then briefly explained his situation.
Since Li Jianfeng was implicated in the Song Jia poisoning case, the provincial public security bureau has contacted the township police station.
Upon learning of Gao Baoliang's meritorious service in solving the case and his continued focus on Li Jianfeng's case, the provincial public security bureau appreciated him greatly and directly transferred him to the provincial criminal investigation team as captain.
As for Li Jianfeng's whereabouts, he felt that even if they found one of his arms, they couldn't conclude that he was dead and temporarily designate him as a missing person suspect.
He came to the county public security bureau this time entirely for another case.
Lin Chen's eyes lit up when he heard that he had arrived at the Provincial Criminal Investigation Team.
"I don't like asking for favors in my life, but this time I really need your help to investigate this case. The deceased man and his friends were a robbery gang with guns."
"We might be able to find something by starting with those people who filed the reports."
Gao Baoliang nodded solemnly: "Brother Chen, don't worry, I'll apply to investigate this case as soon as I get back."
With Gao Baoliang's instructions, the county police did not continue to torture Lin Chen to extract a confession, but waited to transfer him to the provincial police.
When Jiang Ning returned home, she felt as if all her life force had been drained, leaving her completely weak.
"Sister-in-law, what's wrong? You don't look well!" Lin Qiao asked with concern when she saw her.
Upon hearing this, Wang Xiufen quickly came over to check and hurried over to pour her a bowl of sugar water.
She took the sugar water and drank it, forcing a smile: "It's okay, I was just too tired from going to the county town today."
To put their minds at ease, she continued:
"By the way, Ah Chen has something urgent to attend to and needs to go out."
Wang Xiufen scolded, "Why are you in such a hurry? You didn't even bring any clothes."
Lin Qiao teased her, "Your career is more important. It's not like your brother is short of money; he can just buy it now!"
"Okay, let's make some sugar pancakes today."
Wang Xiufen smiled.
Lin Chen doesn't like sweet pancakes, so he rarely makes them. Today he can finally enjoy a good meal.
At dinner, Jiang Ning was biting into a sugar pancake when a wave of bitterness washed over her.
Why is that?
Wasn't Heaven favoring her? How could something like this happen to Lin Chen?
What exactly went wrong?
Could it be that if Lin Tao is abused too severely, he himself will suffer the consequences?
She has never intentionally harmed anyone!
She lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep, so she simply sat up to think of a solution.
If Gao Baoliang were to investigate this case, he would certainly uphold the law impartially and do his best to find evidence for Lin Chen.
But how long will this process take?
The college entrance exam results will be released soon, and admission notices will arrive one after another. If he doesn't get out of the police station soon, he definitely won't pass the political review and won't be able to go to university.
Should we just pay someone to settle this matter?
That doesn't seem realistic either. If there were a way, she would be willing to spend as much money as there was in her savings account.
But that might backfire.
The best way is to find evidence to prove that Lin Chen did not kill the person.
The only people we can find now are the accomplices of those male corpses.
They have no criminal record, their stories are consistent, and they are clearly in cahoots. This might be the key to their breakthrough.
"I can only take it one step at a time." She encouraged herself, finally seeing a glimmer of hope.
The next day, she entrusted her two children to Wang Xiufen's care and went to the county town herself.
Upon hearing about Lin Chen's situation, Song Jia, disregarding her own postpartum confinement, immediately called her father-in-law, urging him to take good care of Lin Chen and to send more police officers to investigate.
Jiang Ning was very touched. After thanking her, she entered the space and found the information of those accomplices from the police station.
Their testimonies were remarkably consistent, all claiming to be honest, simple farmers, and that the dead man was simply hitchhiking.
Jiang Ning found it laughable. Lin Chen used to earn tens of thousands of yuan just by driving a car once. How could he possibly murder them for a little money?
The more consistent their stories were, the more she felt these people were highly problematic.
Most criminal cases are committed by acquaintances.
She got into a car heading to the location where the incident had occurred.
It might be faster to travel through space, but she didn't know the way, so she could only slow down.
As soon as I sat down, a baby in the arms of an older woman sitting by the window on the other side of the aisle started wailing loudly...
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