Chapter 93 Chapter 93 Mom, what is the top stream? ...
The snow stopped, and the rare sunny day in winter dispelled the haze that had shrouded the riverbed.
Crows circled over the bus stop that led from Tiandu District to the city center. Ji Yinhe, dressed in casual clothes, jumped onto the bus, then stood in front of the self-service coin box, patted his pockets, and stared at the huge "Five Cents" with wide eyes.
This year she was obsessed with work and hadn't been home for too long or taken public transportation for too long.
Only then did I realize how much my hometown had changed, and how quickly.
"Hello, sir. Didn't we always buy tickets?" Xiao Ji asked the driver quietly. "I don't have any change. What should I do?"
"Little girl, how long has it been since you took a bus?" The driver turned to look at her plain clothes and said, guessingly, "Then just stand by the door and wait. Maybe someone getting on at the next stop will be willing to exchange change with you. If you can't wait, get off."
Ji Yinhe's nose wrinkled slightly.
It seems that either I have to accept this suggestion, or I can only try my luck among the passengers who have already boarded the bus.
She took out her wallet, took out the smallest ten-yuan bill, walked towards the passengers next to her, and politely asked them one by one.
But everyone waved their hands—
"Sorry, girl, it's inconvenient..."
"Well, why don't you ask someone else?"
"It's not that I don't want to help, the key is that I don't know if this is real money..."
Ji Yinhe was not discouraged. These days, terrorism crimes are indeed active, and it wouldn't be a bad thing for everyone to be more careful.
But the next stop was just around the corner, and if there was no other way, I had no choice but to get off the bus and take a taxi home.
Just as she was walking towards the car door, a girl who looked a few years older than her and was dressed just as simply stood up, took out a hard five-cent coin from her bag and put it into her palm.
"..." Ji Yinhe put in the coin and blinked sincerely, "Thank you! Just consider it as a loan from you. Please give me your contact address, and I will return it tonight--"
"No need to pay it back. We're all lesbians, so we should help each other!"
The girl smiled brightly, turned around and walked to the back of the car, but the next second, her face and Ji Yinhe's expression changed at the same time!
Right in front of their sight, a mother was holding the railing with one hand and holding the swaddling clothes in her arms with the other hand.
The watch strap on her wrist was already untied, and a boy next to her reached out stealthily, using the shaking of the car body to pull the watch into his sleeve!
Ji Yinhe raised his eyebrows.
In a flash, she instinctively reached out and grabbed the boy's arm, which was as slippery as a catfish!
At the same time, the girl who had just lent her money also took a step forward and stood between the lady and the boy!
His movements were so fast that he was only half a blink of an eye slower than Police Officer Xiao Ji, who had practiced fighting for more than ten years!
The mother holding the child turned around and looked around before reacting. She glared at the boy fiercely, then nodded and thanked Ji Yinhe and the girl next to her.
"You're welcome." Ji Yinhe curled the corners of his lips, clamped the boy's arm again, and showed his ID with a stern face, "I'm a police officer. If you do this again, I'll put you in a juvenile detention center!"
There was an uproar all around, and the boy nodded in fear, "I know, I know, police sister. I will definitely behave myself from now on!"
Ji Yinhe hummed, then turned her gaze to the girl with extraordinary skills and gave her a thumbs up sincerely, "Our female comrades are really amazing!"
However, the other party only responded with a perfunctory smile, and hurriedly jumped off the bus and left when the train arrived at the station.
Comrade Xiao Ji looked at the figure walking quickly outside the glass window and frowned in confusion.
Weren't you quite enthusiastic and cheerful when you borrowed money just now?
Is she... afraid of her identity as a police officer?
*
Confused, Ji Yinhe returned to Heye Street, greeted his neighbors, bought some fruits that Lian Qiao liked, and then walked into Meiqingyuan Community.
It was lunch time and I could smell the rich aroma of roasted meat downstairs.
Comrade Xiao Ji put the little incident on the bus behind him and ran upstairs and into the house in two steps.
"Mother--"
"Why--"
After changing her shoes and putting down her bag, she happily bumped fists with Old Ji, then rushed into the kitchen like the wind and hugged Ms. Lian who was standing in front of the stove.
Lian Qiao also smiled and pinched her daughter's face.
Soon, the family of three sat happily at the dining table.
Lian Qiao made a bowl of soup for her daughter, took a deep breath, and asked, "Are you investigating the murder case on Wisteria Lane? ... Your father and I saw the report on the evening news."
"Yes!" Ji Yinhe took out a piece of pork ribs and chewed it with relish.
Lian Qiao and Ji Jianguo exchanged glances, then asked in a deep voice, "Then can you... withdraw from this case?"
"...Ah?" Ji Yinhe was stunned for a while before asking, "Why?"
Comrade Lao Ji picked up a chicken drumstick for his daughter and said, "We just think this case is very serious. It's an entire family being wiped out. The murderer must be very vicious. Don't you have many people in your branch? It's too dangerous. We should hand it over to the higher-ups!"
"No!" Ji Yinhe tore off the chicken thigh meat and mixed it into the rice, muttering, "Tang Ci may not be as reliable as me!"
“…”
Lian Qiao glared at her husband and kicked the leg of the person opposite her under the table.
I thought to myself, you don’t understand your daughter yet. The more you talk about danger, the more it will arouse her competitive spirit.
Ji Jianguo bit his lower lip and silently made a slapping gesture to his mouth.
All this was seen by Comrade Xiao Ji who was quietly eating his chicken leg meal.
She pushed the bowl away, crossed her arms, and leaned back in her chair. She raised her eyebrows and asked, "Okay, stop acting. Tell me the reasons. I'll seriously consider your proposal."
"..." Lian Qiao scratched her forehead in embarrassment, "I can't tell you right now, but just listen to us this time, okay?"
Comrade Xiao Ji shook his head: "No."
Lian Qiao and Ji Jianguo understood their daughter's stubborn character, so they were not surprised by this answer.
After a few seconds of pause, Lian Qiao sat up straight and decided to try a compromise solution.
"Okay, then can you promise me that during the investigation period, you will wear a bulletproof vest every day, and you must not go to the evolution factory... and it is best not to participate in any arrest operations."
"Right." Ji Jianguo agreed, "Aren't you the captain? The most important thing for a captain is to sit at the center and command the entire team."
“…”
Ji Yinhe looked at her father who was full of concern, and then looked at her mother who was also full of worry.
If she continues to say that she didn't notice anything abnormal about her parents, she would be deceiving herself!
——The magical five-fold, the clues provided secretly, Ms. Lian’s superb cooking skills, and Old Ji’s extraordinary good luck.
There are also some strange predictive abilities that they inadvertently display.
Sometimes, Comrade Xiao Ji almost suspected that they were agents or aliens disguised as ordinary people, just like in the movies!
Such an idea was too absurd. However, no matter what secrets they were hiding or when they planned to confess, she always believed in one thing -
That is, Mr. Ji and Ms. Lian are her dear father and mother, and the most important relatives to her in this world. They will absolutely not do anything that is harmful to her!
"The Tiandu Branch doesn't have bulletproof vests." Captain Ji said in a low voice after a few seconds, "But I should be able to borrow a few sets and give one to everyone in the team."
"That's fine." Ji Jianguo sighed anxiously.
But they all knew in their hearts that this might be the biggest compromise their daughter could make.
"Okay, okay, let's eat!" Lian Qiao got up and went back to the kitchen, bringing her daughter the small pancakes with pickled mustard greens and minced pork that had been roasting on a low fire on the stove.
Ji Yinhe was just wondering whether to take this opportunity to ask Wu Folding about this when the big brother phone on his waist suddenly made a sound.
The caller was Tang Ci, who was working overtime at the Municipal Bureau on the weekend, asking her to come to the Serious Crime Team as soon as possible because they had discovered important information.
Comrade Xiao Ji's eyes lit up. After hanging up the phone, he stuffed the pancake into his mouth and stood up with puffed cheeks.
"There's new progress in the case. I'm going home now!" She hugged Ms. Lian and then Old Ji. "I've remembered everything you said—wear a bulletproof vest, don't go to the factory! When you're done with the case, come home and remember to make me something delicious!"
Ji Jianguo patted his daughter and said, "Okay, go ahead. Be careful."
Lian Qiao turned back to the kitchen, took out a few oil-paper bags and stuffed them into Ji Yinhe's hands.
"Fried chicken strips, starch sausage, and Tujia crumb cakes—my new creations—are now the top snacks among all the students in Jiangtan!"
"What a nice smell!" Comrade Xiao Ji closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then asked casually, "Mom, what is top flow?"
"It's... the Popularity Award." Ms. Lian perfunctorily walked her daughter to the entrance. "Let me know when you get to the dormitory."
“Okay!”
Ji Yinhe went out with a bag of delicious food, went downstairs, and happened to meet Uncle Wu who was sitting at the door basking in the sun.
"Xiao Yinhe, you're back?" Uncle Wu smiled. "I haven't seen you in a while... Oh, and where's that wind chime you had hanging by the window? It went ding-dong, ding-dong, so nice."
"I took it to the dorm and hung it there! Try this!"
Comrade Xiao Ji picked up a small bag of chicken fillets and handed it over.
Old Wu took it, ate it and said "good" with a smile.
Ji Yinhe was halfway there when he suddenly realized, why was Old Wu asking about the wind chime for no reason?
"Forget it, maybe I'm thinking too much..."
She shook her head and raised her hand to stop a red Xiali.
At that time, she didn't know that her name and the reason for the fusion of the two worlds were actually related to the beautiful crystal clear wind chime that had been hanging in front of her window since she was a child.
…
The Municipal Bureau still looked familiar, but the files piling up on the desks of the Serious Crime Team were getting higher and higher.
Ji Yinhe skipped in, greeted his old colleagues, and took out the snacks made by Lianqiao for them to share.
"Congratulations." Cheng Mo said carefully, "Team Quarter."
"Ahem..." Captain Ji was a little shy and stuffed a starch sausage into Ye Qing's hand, "Eat more, eat more!"
Everyone was in a lively atmosphere, and Tang Ci strode out from behind the desk holding a business registration form from 1980.
"The comrades from the Industrial and Commercial Bureau helped us find the original document." He gestured to Ji Yinhe to look at the line about his native place. "Yao Youlu's native place is Chaojiang Village, Dengzhou. We've spoken to the police station there. His two daughters, Yulan and Xiulan, later returned to their hometown to study. You can go there and inquire about the situation."
"Great!" Comrade Xiao Ji was overjoyed. "By the way, where is the deceased's wife, Lin Fang?"
Tang Ci shook his head, "No news."
"All right……"
Ji Yinhe narrowed his eyes, feeling a turbid fog that spanned time and space slowly gathering in front of his eyes, waiting to be blown away.
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