Captain Sun asked with a sullen face, "Lu Jiaxin said that she got off the train with you and was going to go back to Fengxian with you. But you wouldn't let her stay at the guesthouse, even though she said she would give you a room, and you still refused to let her go. You even covered her mouth when she screamed."

Mrs. Hu immediately protested that these were all fabricated stories: "I got off the train at the same time as her. I had a big bag with food and clothes in it, which was very heavy. I walked slowly with such heavy things, and when I got off the train, the child had disappeared."

After that, she said angrily, "I praised her as a good child at the time. I didn't expect that she looked so well-behaved but had such a vicious temper. She even slandered me for trafficking her?"

"My eldest grandson is a college student. He will be assigned a job after graduation, so he won't have to worry about finding a wife in the future. My second grandson got married at the beginning of the year, and his wife is now seven months pregnant. My third grandson is only ten years old and is still in elementary school. You say I trafficked her. Tell me, why did I traffic her?"

After more than two hours of interrogation, Mrs. Hu insisted that they separated after leaving the train station. They didn't find anyone who was in the same car, and now there is no other evidence except Lu Jiaxin's confession and the portrait.

Captain Sun said, "Leader, this old woman obviously came prepared. We can't convict her without solid evidence."

Wu Hanping understood what she meant: "Do you think Lu Jiaxin can pry her mouth open by confronting her?"

They were all smart people. When they heard that Lu Jiaxin had set the time for the confrontation with Old Lady Hu at 1 a.m., they knew that things were not that simple. For them, as long as a crime was committed, there would be clues left. However, the case happened near the train station and in the middle of the night, which made it difficult to investigate. The biggest difficulty was that their funds were limited, so he thought he could see if Lu Jiaxin's method would work. If it worked, it would save a lot of trouble.

Wu Hanping nodded and said, "Okay, let them meet. I hope there will be some results."

Old Mrs. Hu did not come back alone this time. Her youngest son Yang Jun also came back with her. In the evening, he saw that his mother had not been released yet, so he went to find Captain Sun and said, "In order to cooperate with your investigation, I brought my mother back from Jinshi. Now that you have finished the questioning, why don't you let my mother go home?"

Captain Sun said, "Your mother said that she went to your cousin's house as soon as she got off the train, and stayed there that night. We asked her what time she arrived, and she said she didn't remember. We need to verify this."

"How long will it take?"

Captain Sun said, "It's too late now. We need to go to the ancient capital to verify tomorrow morning. If everything goes well, we can go home before noon tomorrow."

This was a good enough reason, so Yang Jun immediately lowered his stance: "Captain Sun, my mother is old and in poor health. I'm worried that she won't be able to bear it if she stays in the interrogation room all the time. How about this, I'll take her to stay in the guesthouse tonight and send her here tomorrow."

Captain Sun refused, saying it was against the rules, but he also gave in: "If you bring thick clothes, I can help you take them in."

After thanking him, Yang Jun stuffed a cigarette into Captain Sun's pocket and said, "My mother has never experienced anything like this at her age. She has been very anxious these past two days. I hope Captain Sun can take care of her."

When Mrs. Hu was being interrogated, he also went to look for his former classmates. Now that the crackdown was being carried out, his classmates did not dare to get involved in the matter after hearing the news. However, considering their relationship as classmates, he also reminded her that if her mother was innocent, she should not do unnecessary things. The more she did, the easier it would be for others to catch her.

In order to calm him down, Captain Sun not only took the cigarettes, but also said something nice: "Comrade Yang, don't worry, we will not tolerate a bad person, and we will never wrongly accuse a good person. As long as it is proven that your mother is wrongly accused, we will not only release her immediately, but also severely punish the false accuser."

Yang Jun left with a lot on his mind.

He felt that the fact that Old Lady Hu was so calm must have something to do with Yang Jun. Even this set of rhetoric was prepared by Yang Jun in advance. It was also because the time interval was too long. If Lu Jiaxin had gone to the police to report the case as soon as she woke up, the case might have been solved. Such a long time interval increased the difficulty of solving the case.

At around eight o'clock in the evening, Lu Jiaxin came to the Public Security Bureau accompanied by Uncle Lu and Lu Jiajie and others.

Captain Sun saw that she was carrying a box and reminded her, "Miss Lu, you cannot bring anything with you when you meet Old Lady Hu."

Lu Jiaxin immediately stated that she would not bring anything to the meeting, and then made a request: "Captain Sun, can you arrange a room for me?"

Captain Sun thought she wanted to rest, so he took her to a room. In the room, there was only a bed, a long table and a chair.

"This is where we usually sleep. It's rather simple, so you can just use it for now."

Lu Jiajie couldn't help but frowning when he saw the bed. Others didn't know, but he knew very well that his sister had a little mysophobia. So every time they had a meal together, they would prepare serving chopsticks on the table.

Lu Jiaxin thought it was good and thanked Captain Sun again. As long as there was a table and chair for makeup, it would be fine. As for the bed, she didn't sleep there so it didn't matter if it was a little dirty.

Uncle Lu, Lu Jiajie and the other two were arranged in the next room. After entering the room, Uncle Lu asked in a low voice: "What's in Xinxin's box?"

This box was given to her by Lu Jiajie just now, so he was the only one besides Lu Jiaxin who knew what was inside.

Lu Jiajie said it was a makeup box: "Xinxin said she needed these things, so I asked my classmates to help me borrow them from the art troupe."

The supply and marketing cooperative only sold vanishing cream, and had no lipstick or eyebrow pencil. Fortunately, his classmate's uncle was the leader of the art troupe, and he borrowed what Lu Jiaxin needed through his classmate's relationship.

Seeing that it was borrowed and not bought, Uncle Lu didn't say anything.

After sending the person out of the house, Lu Jiaxin began to put on makeup. The quality of these cosmetics was not very good, but now there was no condition to be picky, so she could only make do with what she had.

Captain Sun did not go to bed, and now he could not sleep in the dormitory, so he patiently wrote the summary of the case he hated the most. When he finished, he looked at his watch and it was half past eleven.

He walked out of the office and found that the light in Lu Jiaxin's room was still on. He was very curious about what this girl was up to, hoping to pry open Old Lady Hu's mouth.

(End of this chapter)