Chapter 145 My Hero
Lu Xiaoshuang was a very smart person. She understood what Zhou Yi meant when he interrupted her just now.
Zhou Yi said, "Try not to reveal my identity to others. After all, the Third Brigade I'm in is responsible for serious crimes, so my identity is quite sensitive."
This is one reason, but the deeper reason is that Zhou Yi does not want to reveal his identity because he is still unsure of the danger around Lu Xiaoshuang.
If the murderer is in the dark, then he must also be in the dark, otherwise he will be very passive.
Lu Xiaoshuang nodded: "I understand. If any classmates ask me, I will say that you are my neighbor's elder brother."
Zhou Yi smiled and said, "No problem."
"Oh, by the way, Xiaoshuang, I came here today to tell you that the internship at the Tax Bureau that we talked about last time has been finalized. Please check your regular class schedule to see when you're going to report and finalize the subsequent internship arrangements."
"Wow, really?" Lu Xiaoshuang jumped up excitedly, "Thank you, Brother Zhou."
"Don't thank me, I'm not that kind of person. It was Captain Wu from our Criminal Investigation Detachment who did it. You've seen it."
Lu Xiaoshuang nodded repeatedly.
"You can thank him yourself someday. I've inquired, and the tax bureau is very busy, so they often have to work overtime, sometimes on weekends. If you have a lot of classes during the day, you can use the overtime to do an internship." Zhou Yi said with a smile, "I heard that their overtime pay is even higher than ours."
He knew that Lu Xiaoshuang cared a lot about income, so he specifically talked about the point that she cared about most.
"Yeah, that's great. I'll count my classes." Lu Xiaoshuang said, and started counting on her fingers as she walked.
Zhou Yi looked at her serious expression and couldn't help but smile.
"Xiao Shuang..."
"Ah? What's the matter?" Lu Xiaoshuang shook her ponytail and turned around to ask.
"You won't have to work outside in the future. A top student like you shouldn't be using your physical labor to earn a cheap income. That's such a waste of talent."
Zhou Yi's words made Lu Xiaoshuang's nose sore.
Her eyes were red, she nodded, and wanted to say something, but she choked up and couldn't speak.
Zhou Yi reached out and scratched her nose, saying with a smile, "Don't cry too much in the future. It doesn't look good if you cry too much."
Lu Xiaoshuang's face turned slightly red, she wiped the tears from her eyes, and then smiled widely.
"Brother Zhou, the news says you're a city hero. But I think you're actually my hero."
Lu Xiaoshuang's eyes were red, but she smiled brightly and said, "You must have been sent by God to save me."
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The huge cafeteria was crowded with people, much more crowded than the cafeteria in the police academy that Zhou Yi remembered.
Moreover, it is different from the police academy cafeteria, which is mainly populated by boys and has a lot of training. Every time the cafeteria is crowded with people, there is a strong smell of sweat.
The two of them waited in line for more than ten minutes before they got their turn. Lu Xiaoshuang turned around with her meal card and said, "Brother Zhou, eat as much as you want today. Don't be polite to me."
Zhou Yi smiled, but saw that Lu Xiaoshuang only asked the cafeteria aunt to get two vegetarian dishes.
Lu Xiaoshuang turned around and saw Zhou Yi staring at the plate in her hand. She smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm losing weight."
Zhou Yi looked at the piece of rice on the plate that she had asked the aunt to order just now, and sighed helplessly in her heart. This girl is just stubborn. She must be so frugal in her daily eating.
It was Zhou Yi's turn. Zhou Yi held out his plate and asked the aunt to make him some scrambled eggs with tomatoes and some shredded potatoes, and then he directly got two taels of rice.
Lu Xiaoshuang was stunned: "Brother Zhou, why are you only hitting so little?"
Zhou Yi smiled and said, "I'm losing weight."
"No, no, please order two more meat dishes. I have money in this card. I just topped it up yesterday."
Zhou Yi pushed her forward to pay the bill without giving her a chance to order more dishes.
When checking out, Zhou Yi took a look and saw that there was only twenty yuan in the card. This was what she called being rich.
The two found an empty seat in the corner and sat down. Lu Xiaoshuang was still upset that Zhou Yi didn't order any meat dishes.
Zhou Yi suddenly stretched out his hand and said, "Give me your meal card. I'll go see if there are any dishes I can add."
When Lu Xiaoshuang heard this, she took out her meal card and handed it over without hesitation.
Zhou Yi took the meal card and went to the recharge window instead of the food window.
He took out a hundred-yuan bill and handed it over along with his meal card. "Excuse me, could you please top up my account with a hundred yuan? Thank you."
After topping up his money, Zhou Yi returned to his seat and placed his meal card on the table. Without waiting for Lu Xiaoshuang to speak, he said, "I looked around, but there's nothing I particularly want to eat. Maybe I ate too much meat at the Municipal Bureau."
"Oh, okay then. Don't blame me if you're not full." Lu Xiaoshuang said with a pout.
The two of them ate and talked, and under Zhou Yi's deliberate guidance, Lu Xiaoshuang unknowingly talked a lot about her interpersonal relationships at school.
Basically similar to what was recorded in the files of the Hongda case, Lu Xiaoshuang's interpersonal relationships were relatively simple. They mainly consisted of a few girls in the same dormitory, and the others were just ordinary classmates.
There was a female teacher who took good care of her, and then there was the counselor, who knew that her family was poor and also took good care of her.
Zhou Yi couldn't understand why Lu Xiaoshuang, who had such simple interpersonal relationships, met with an accident. What was the motive of the murderer in the Hongda case?
"Xiaoshuang, are there any boys who like you?" Zhou Yi asked casually.
"Ah?" Lu Xiaoshuang was stunned, her face suddenly turned red, and she quickly lowered her head to eat.
"No one likes me."
"Just now outside the classroom, I noticed a boy paying special attention to you. He looked back several times and it was obvious that he was interested in you. Didn't you know?"
Lu Xiaoshuang lowered her head and shook it like a rattle.
"Brother Zhou, stop making fun of me. No one likes me."
Zhou Yi thought to himself that this boy might have a crush on Lu Xiaoshuang. He immediately thought of the topic the psychological portrait artist had suggested. He wasn't sure what the boy's name was, so he would try to find out later and keep a close eye on him.
Lu Xiaoshuang secretly looked up and found that Zhou Yi was holding chopsticks, wondering what he was thinking.
I suddenly felt uneasy. Could it be that Brother Zhou had misunderstood something?
She was about to say something when someone passed by and called out in surprise, "Officer Zhou?"
Lu Xiaoshuang looked up and saw a thin, gentle man wearing glasses, who seemed a little familiar.
Zhou Yi also came back to his senses, and when he saw the person in front of him, he stood up in surprise. "Teacher Xiao, I didn't expect to see you here."
The gentleman with glasses in front of him was none other than Xiao Bing.
Xiao Bing adjusted his glasses and smiled, "This is school, I should be the one surprised."
"Yes, yes, look at what I said." Zhou Yi glanced at the plate in the other person's hand. There was only a little food residue left on it.
"Teacher Xiao just finished his meal?"
"Yeah, I was just about to leave when I saw you, Officer Zhou, passing by." Xiao Bing turned to look at Lu Xiaoshuang, who was sitting across from Zhou Yi, and asked, "This is Lu Xiaoshuang, right?"
Lu Xiaoshuang quickly stood up: "Hello, Teacher Xiao...Hello, have I met you before?"
Zhou Yi said, "Do you remember when you were being held hostage, someone took the knife from Baimao's hand at the critical moment?"
Lu Xiaoshuang thought for a moment and said, "Okay...it seems to be the case."
She was in such a state at the time that she had no idea what was going on.
Zhou Yi pointed at Xiao Bing and said, "The one who bravely snatched the knife from the criminal was Teacher Xiao Bing. He is also a teacher at your school."
Lu Xiaoshuang widened her eyes and looked at the thin and gentle man in front of her in disbelief.
She immediately bowed deeply and said, "Thank you, Teacher Xiao, for saving my life."
Xiao Bing was startled and hurried to help her: "Don't do this, classmate. As a teacher, this is what I should do."
Zhou Yi felt a little emotional. Although they were both teachers, Sun Kun was involved in gambling, prostitution, and even committed the crime of kidnapping. He even killed someone in his previous life.
However, Teacher Xiao was able to stand up at the critical moment regardless of danger.
The gap between people.
Xiao Bing helped Lu Xiaoshuang up and said, "I teach at the Foreign Languages College. If you encounter any difficulties at school in the future, you can come to me."
Lu Xiaoshuang nodded repeatedly.
Zhou Yi said regretfully: "It's a pity that Teacher Xiao has finished eating, otherwise we could sit down and have a meal together and chat."
Xiao Bing said calmly, "It's okay. We'll get together again next time if we have the chance. Take your time eating. I won't disturb you."
After saying that, Xiao Bing turned around and left with the plate.
Zhou Yi and Lu Xiaoshuang sat down again. Lu Xiaoshuang bit her chopsticks, thinking about how to answer the question she had asked before Xiao Bing appeared.
She was very afraid that Zhou Yi would misunderstand something. In her heart, this policeman who was only four years older than her was as important as her family.
But she didn't know what her brother Zhou was really thinking at the moment.
"Xiao Shuang, if you encounter any danger at school in the future, you must seek help from the school immediately. Don't go to remote places, don't trust others easily, but if you encounter danger, you must run as fast as you can, and run to where there are many people, understand?"
Lu Xiaoshuang nodded continuously. After Zhou Yi finished speaking, she suddenly asked, "Brother Zhou, did you find something wrong?"
Zhou Yi knew that she was very smart, and his advice made her realize that something was wrong.
But he couldn't express any signs that would make her panic, so he smiled calmly and said, "No, it's just my occupational disease. What I'm telling you is from a safety lecture, teaching women how to avoid risks and protect themselves."
"Oh, so that's how it is." Lu Xiaoshuang smiled, "Brother Zhou, don't worry too much about me. I will protect myself and won't let what happened last time happen again."
"Eat, eat." Zhou Yi said calmly.
There was still one month left before the grand dismemberment tragedy was supposed to happen.
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Zhou Yi ate much more than usual for dinner that day.
Zhang Qiuxia kept saying, "Oh, eat slower, it's like you didn't eat lunch."
"Almost..." Zhou Yi said vaguely.
"By the way, Dad, how's things going at the old house?"
Zhou Jianguo said, "It's almost done. It's just a matter of painting the walls and buying some furniture. Your uncle and his men painted the walls the day before yesterday. We just need to let it air dry. Your mom and I will find some time to buy some furniture tomorrow."
"Oh, uncle has already done it, that's good."
Zhou Yi's uncle is a professional painter and also a small contractor. He can do the work on the old house in minutes with his men, which is much more reliable than his father's.
"It will take two more months to dry. The paint contains formaldehyde," said Zhou Yi.
"What is formaldehyde?" asked my father.
"A chemical agent that's not good for the human body anyway."
At this time, my mother spoke up: "It would be such a waste to let it air dry for two months. I checked the almanac, and this Sunday is a good day. It's the best day for us to move."
Zhou Yi was surprised: "So fast?"
"Today is a very auspicious day. There won't be such a good day in the next three months." Mother said stubbornly.
"This wall was painted only a few days ago. It's too fast. It's not good for your health."
My father also spoke up: "Hey, it's okay. Your uncle would never cheat us. He uses good paint. What's the word he used?"
"Environmental protection," the mother continued.
"Yes, yes, environmental protection."
Zhou Yi felt helpless, but when he thought about it, it seemed that people didn’t care about these things in the past, and didn’t have such a concept of thinking. Basically, they would just clean up the house and find an auspicious day to move in.
"Xiaoyi, it's okay. It's good to move back early. I'm used to living in grandpa's old house and I want to go back soon."
Since his grandfather had spoken, Zhou Yi no longer insisted. He just reminded his mother to open the windows more often for ventilation and buy some green plants to put at home.
Mother said, "When the time comes, invite all the relatives to come and make dumplings together."
"Zhou Yi, call Xiao Shuang over when the time comes," his mother said. "This girl is quite pitiful. She's been living under someone else's roof for so many years. Her parents have been sent to work in the countryside on that loess plateau."
Listening to his mother's chatter, Zhou Yi suddenly felt something was wrong. He put down his bowl and looked at his mother and said, "Mom, I don't think I've told you about Lu Xiaoshuang's family, right?"
Zhang Qiuxia was stunned for a moment and quickly shut up.
"Mom, did you go to someone else's school again?"
"Well, there's a vegetable market next to their school. Vegetables are very cheap there. Aunt Li took me there, so I just...just stopped by...hehe..." Zhang Qiuxia said with a wry smile.
"I saw Lu Xiaoshuang at noon, why didn't she tell me?"
Zhang Qiuxia's eyes suddenly lit up: "You went to see Xiaoshuang today? How was it?"
"Whatever it is, I'm looking for her for something serious. What are you thinking? She's just a 19-year-old girl."
"What's wrong with being nineteen? Let me tell you, when I married your father, the law stipulated that men could get married at twenty and women at eighteen. Later, it was changed, so women could get married at twenty. The country has made such a provision, so you still say the country is wrong."
"Besides, I've had someone calculate it. You're an ox and she's a snake. Ox and snake are a perfect match."
Zhang Qiuxia became more and more excited as she spoke. Zhou Yi was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. He was too lazy to listen to her nonsense. He said he was full, put down his chopsticks, turned around, turned on the TV, and turned up the volume to cover up his mother's chatter.
But as he looked at the black and white TV screen, his mind wandered to the image of Lu Xiaoshuang looking youthful and energetic in the sunshine this afternoon.
Zhou Yi shrank his neck and curled up in the sofa.
A strong sense of sleepiness came over him, and slowly his eyelids drooped.
Soon, he fell into a deep sleep, snoring softly, as if everything since his rebirth was just a dream.
Zhou Jianguo picked up a blanket and tiptoed to cover his son with it. Then he slowly turned down the volume of the TV and turned it off.
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