Chapter 082 Chapter 82
During the Little New Year, even though my three roommates were all in Ningcheng, none of them had time to come to Ayan’s house for dinner.
For the three families, Xiaonian means celebrating the New Year in advance.
On weekdays, parents are busy with work, and since childhood, Ayan Zhu and his two children have become accustomed to going to Ningcheng Canteen to get their meals.
By the time we were teenagers, there were four of us ordering takeout, eating out, and starting to cook.
Only during occasional festivals and the Chinese New Year can the three families get together to eat and drink and have a great time.
"All my daughter's roommates are here, why hasn't any of them come over? These kids are too polite." Ms. Yu was very disappointed when she knew that many of her daughter's roommates had come to Ningcheng.
"Your father and I haven't seen any of them yet."
When Yan and Juejue went to Binda to report, their parents, who were teachers at the school, did not have time to see them off. Although they had seen photos of the children, they still wanted to be closer to them.
"We all went to register by ourselves, Mom, it's okay. They all have things to do. Suishun may go back to Bincheng tonight, and Yizhi came with her teacher. They can't leave." A Yan said.
"That's what I said, it's rare for me to come here, and these kids don't have time to eat at home. I'm sorry to come home, you can just hang out outside."
"I understand, Mom." A Yan said.
"If they come again in a few days, we will go to Jiayuan's house." Zhu Jue said.
After his and A Yan's cordial invitation, Chu Shen was still tempted and decided to come to Ningcheng for a visit. However, he claimed that he wanted to inspect several high-end restaurants in Ningcheng and would not arrive until tomorrow. He also refused to stay at home and booked a nearby hotel for himself.
The twenty-fourth day of La month.
As the New Year got closer, Ayan and Zhujue became more and more idle.
During the Chinese New Year, children have the most free time. Although they need to clean the house, these are daily tasks. With the help of floor scrubbers and sweeping robots, the house is generally clean. Only small places need to be cleaned properly, such as the tiles against the wall in the kitchen and the floor tiles under the bathroom cabinets.
Although they have already gone to college, they are still children in the eyes of adults. They don't need to visit relatives and give gifts. Every day they just look around and buy some New Year's goods.
The music in the supermarket near home has changed to "Congratulations on Your Fortune". Ayan and Juejue are looking at the bulk pistachios in the supermarket.
Although it is very convenient to buy New Year gift boxes online, after I bought them home, I always felt that the packaged products were not as delicious as the loose ones, and they were not necessarily much cheaper than those in large supermarkets.
We still have some of these dried fruits in stock at home, but buying New Year's goods before the Chinese New Year is a ritual, and buying a few is also a way to revisit the feeling of childhood.
"We still don't know where to go on New Year's Day. Hey, do we have to grab movie tickets?"
Ah Yan was putting mustard-flavored macadamia nuts into the shopping cart when he suddenly remembered something.
Zhu Jue thought for a moment and said, "The main reason is that we are not sure how many people there are now."
Ah Yan touched his chin and nodded. This was the key point. From the first day to the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, neighbors who lived nearby, as well as parents, uncles, aunts and students might all come.
If they were at home, they would have to go through all these small talk, so since they were young, the four of them chose to go out and avoid their relatives.
In addition, in the past two years, several children have either grown up or are close to adulthood, and Yan doesn't want to be embarrassed and torn between the demands of the annual allowance at home.
"Yeah, let's wait and see." Ah Yan sighed.
Chu Shen was definitely here, but we weren’t sure about the others, and movie tickets were hard to buy.
Fortunately, as the capital, Ningcheng provides many places for them to kill time even on New Year's Day.
"Jiaojiao might come to me then. She said she wanted to go shopping two days ago, but she is busy now." A Yan said.
It seemed that because the Chinese New Year was approaching, several reborn male guests suddenly had free time. Xu Jiaojiao made two appointments with her to go out shopping, but she called A Yan to cancel the plans. A Yan could hear Jiaojiao's resentment and gnashing of teeth through the phone.
"What is Brother Xiao doing recently? Is he still at home with Peng Peng? I searched yesterday and he hasn't started seeing patients yet."
When it comes to this, Zhu Jue's face also has something strange.
"It seems he was asked to leave by Ilud recently."
Ah Yan said "eh" immediately, "I was wondering why he has been posting less and less recently."
Originally, when we were celebrating the Little New Year, I thought that if several roommates came, we could also call Brother Xiao, but Brother Xiao's home is in Ningcheng after all, so it would not be convenient for him to celebrate the Little New Year at someone else's house, right?
"It seems to be the research institute we just visited today." Zhu Jue said.
A Yan nodded, which meant that Shunshun had just left last night and Xiao Ge had just visited today.
"I'm actually a little uncomfortable with this." Ah Yan took another bag of hot pot and threw it into the shopping cart.
Everyone went about their own business, nothing happened, and they were not forced to get involved. It was so quiet that Ah Yan felt a little uncomfortable.
Ayan and Juejue counted the people one by one, and the two of them went home carrying today's shopping results.
On the other side, Ningcheng Garden Hotel.
Chu Bingbing did not book a courtyard this time. The leaves no longer fell in winter, and the trees were all dead. It hadn't snowed in the past few days, so living in the courtyard made her feel even more desolate.
She stayed alone in a business suite, and because she was in a hurry, she just picked a room type at random.
Even after the Little New Year, the hotel's service remains the same.
She had a spa treatment and returned to her guest room, where she lay down and fell into deep thought.
This sudden forced consumption mission in Ningcheng occurred on the night of the 21st of Lunar month. She rushed to Ningcheng the next day and completed it at noon. The mission was settled the night before.
But...Chu Bingbing looked at the system interface in front of her.
The compulsory consumption task has been completed, and the 5 million consumption amount has been successfully doubled back, but what concerns Chu Bingbing is that this kind of compulsory consumption task often has additional rewards.
This time, more than a day had passed, and the message "Super bonus being settled" was still displayed.
Last year, he received a one-time payment of 360 million yuan, which successfully made him famous. The reward for that mission was a top-notch apartment in Bincheng and a luxury car worth tens of millions.
So this time the consumption limit was only 5 million, and Chu Bingbing didn't take it seriously. Generally, the amount of such consumption tasks with a time limit that suddenly pop up is not high, and the reward after completing the task is just a critical hit return, just a little more money.
But... this time the mission was over-completed, and the 10 million returned by the critical hit has already been deposited into her card. What does the remaining settlement mean?
Chu Bingbing didn't understand and was afraid that this damn system would cause more trouble, so she could only lie low in the hotel for the time being.
She prayed sincerely in her heart that the system would not cause trouble for her on New Year's Eve and the first day of the new year.
No matter how she looked at it, she felt uneasy about the fact that the settlement had not been completed. Could it be that the system was going to be upgraded?
Staying in Ningcheng for the past two days, it was quite warm in the hotel, but the temperature outside was often ten degrees below zero. Chu Bingbing was too lazy to go out. She really had no interest in going to any tourist attractions in such a cold weather.
The weather forecast doesn't say snow these days, otherwise we could go see the snow scene in the Forbidden City.
The hotel has sufficient facilities, from fitness SPA to various gourmet restaurants. Every day I lie down in the hotel, watch TV series, and check my phone, and before I know it, a day has passed.
Recently, Chu Bingbing's main concern is the hot topic that everyone is discussing, the incident of the wealthy Xie family in Bincheng.
When it comes to eating melons, as long as the melons you eat are not your own, you are all badger in the melon field.
"Why hasn't the official announcement been made yet? I'm so anxious."
Chu Bingbing searched various platforms for the latest developments, but there was still no announcement with white text on a blue background. However, more bloggers had joined the discussion about the Xie family.
"Report!!! According to the news from Bincheng Mingxie headquarters, Lanruo has been coming to the town to work these past few days and is staying in a nearby hotel. [photo.jpg]"
"So the madam is fine, and the people who were arrested are from the Xie family? What did they do wrong?"
"It can't really be a car accident, right? Wasn't it already ruled an accident?"
"I feel LS is right. Lan Ruo married him after that incident, so she is 100% clean. WOC said that we were all fooled by Xie Er. He is really good at acting."
There were many different opinions on the Internet, as one owner said that it was a police force from another place who came to arrest people, while others speculated that the Xie family had committed a crime somewhere else, or that it was a financial case.
However, the most discussed topic at the moment is still Xie Jin's car accident five years ago. Those historical relics buried in countless online information have been dug up, and many netizens from that time have come forward to share their experiences.
"Someone actually suggested a car accident, but it was dismissed as a conspiracy theory."
"I also made a comment at first, suspecting it was Xie Er, but after a month, all the comments disappeared."
"Could it be that there was a witness who couldn't bear the inner torment and turned himself in in a foreign land, so the police from other places came here?"
Chu Bingbing was eating melons while watching the high-rise buildings in the Douyan group continue to be exposed. Some people were listing Xie Er's ex-girlfriends and all kinds of true and false revelations. In short, although everyone didn't know the details of the Xie family's melons in the past few days, they were all very excited about it.
As for the several official Weibo accounts of Ming Xie Group and the official accounts of its branches, they were all filled with tourist groups checking in. The official Weibo accounts did not play dead, but just continued to post company promotions as usual without giving any response.
The official blog of Bincheng Public Security Bureau has been attacked and they have no words to express their grievances. On the other side, Zheng Yi had no expression on his face as he watched the situation in the interrogation room.
She was in Ningcheng and detained Xie Zhen there. Bincheng also went out at the same time and captured Xie's mother and Xie Zhen separately.
They were arrested in two places and interrogated separately, so there was no chance of collusion.
What Zheng Yi never expected was that there was another action team working with them, which was a secret unit of the Ministry of Public Security - the Special Case Investigation Team.
Compared to his own old case investigation team, this special case investigation team is truly "special" and is responsible for cases at another level.
As a person with a special golden finger, Zheng Yi was not so scientific when he was able to see good and evil radar in his youth.
As a special group of different levels, Zheng Yi knew about the existence of the special case team, but was not familiar with it.
But she was a little surprised to find that the other party was also arresting someone in this case.
When the two teams met, they quickly verified their identities and directly cooperated to control the Xie family. At the same time, they began to contact the upper level and initiated information sharing.
Xie Zhen in the interrogation room bowed his head again and remained silent. After the initial resistance, in just two days, this playboy who was arrogant in public had long lost the clamor and spirit he had when he was arrested.
As for the current silence, in Zheng Yi's eyes it couldn't even be considered a last-ditch resistance.
The evidence was solid, but there was also a "mysterious" factor mixed in. The professionals from the special case team issued a complete report.
At this moment, the document in Zheng Yi's hand was still hot as if it had just been printed out.
She looked at the documents in her hand, while casually scanning the progress of the case in front of her, and her heart became more and more at ease.
Zheng Yi sat down and scanned the case records currently given by the two investigation teams from the scientific and metaphysical perspectives. She moved her fingers slightly and tapped on the table.
Xie Zhen and Lan Ruo had a "soul transfer" incident before. If the report had not been issued by the official special case team, she would have thought she had watched some melodramatic soap opera.
This is the only reason that could explain why the black color above Xie Zhen's head disappeared when she returned to Bincheng after completing her mission.
Because "Xie Zhen" at that time was Lan Ruo.
Even though this report from the special case team involved the Xuanmen formation, Zheng Yi had read it several times and now felt it was a bit mysterious.
She flipped through the list of people that Xie Lan and his wife had met during this period, and saw a young couple. She asked the investigator nearby.
“Didn’t you ask these two?”
"No, Sister Zheng, according to your instructions, these two are exempt from investigation."
Zheng Yi nodded, "That's good."
"The other Ningcheng survey subjects have assisted in completing the investigation."
Zheng Yi remembered these two young, beautiful and handsome faces. In fact, when she followed Xie Zhen and the others to find the courtyard in Ningcheng, she met the young couple that afternoon.
Before the arrest the next day, the young couple met with Xie Zhen and Lanruo, and also met with himself.
In particular, Zheng Yi could be sure that when they first met in the alley, the young man, especially the girl, looked at her twice. The next day, at the entrance of the club, so many people stood there taking pictures, but the two of them spotted her at the first opportunity.
Until now, I don’t know how many comrades who have worked with her can’t remember her face. “Justice” has become a mystery in the rumors. However, these two young people just passed by her on the first day, but they clearly recognized her when they saw her on the second day.
Amazing insight! And also has superhuman memory!
Zheng Yi had already checked their identities. They were from an educated family. Apart from attending school in Bincheng and having once met the Xie couple in a temple, they had no other connection with them.
However, after meeting with the two so frequently, Zheng Yi originally put the two young men on the key investigation list during the subsequent investigation and visits. However, a call from the special case team that night made her cross them out.
Especially when Zheng Yi saw that the report given by the special case team lacked detailed records of these two people, and the records were very few, coupled with the phone call of the secret personnel of the special case team, she was already clear in her mind that these two young people were special agents.
Like himself, the special case team might have targeted Xie Zhen even earlier.
The two young men had deliberately met with the Xie couple at the Fayan Temple in Bincheng, both to follow them and to investigate. They also took the opportunity of dropping their clothes to establish contact with them. Afterwards, they met twice in Ningcheng, using the identities of Xuanmen to exchange bodies for Xie Zhen Lanruo. If they had not arrested them at noon that day, it would have been the special case team that had killed the entire Xie family that night.
Thinking of this, Zheng Yi couldn't help but shook his head.
This matter was so serious that family members almost fought each other.
No wonder the two young men looked so surprised when they saw me taking out my police ID. I was probably cursing in my heart at that time.
The duck was right in my hands, but she snatched it away first.
At that time, and in front of Lan Ruo, the identities of these two young people were obviously not convenient to be revealed, and they could only watch as she took Xie Zhen away.
But the current situation is not bad. The two parties have merged the case, especially sharing it with this special department, which has given Zheng Yi many wonderful feelings.
Perhaps in the future, the cooperation between the old case team and the special case team can continue.
Thinking about the identities of the lovers he had figured out by memory, Zheng Yi's fingers moved slightly. He didn't know how the special case team had found them, but such a good talent had already worked as a special agent. Not to mention anything else, just by knowing them more than a month ago, they were invited to dinner by the wealthy couple a month later.
The young couple is young and capable, with strong insight and memory, a smart brain and high emotional intelligence. Such a capable special agent, an absolute top talent, really makes her a little jealous.
In this world, there is no place where Zheng Yi's hoe cannot reach. As the saying goes, if the hoe is swung well, there is no corner that cannot be dug down. It is also said that wherever Zheng Yi has walked, after executing justice, she must take away some local specialties.
Now, the members of Zheng Yi's old case team come from all over the world, and they are all talents recruited by her.
There's nothing she can do about it. Whenever she sees something good, she gets itchy and wants to get it into her own bowl.
That night, at Ningcheng’s home.
Ah Yan, who was chewing pistachios like a little hamster, looked at his cell phone which suddenly lit up and jumped from the ground to the bed.
The projector playing the comedy movie in the bedroom stopped urgently, and Zhu Jue turned on the light.
The two of them looked at the prompt "Zheng Yi requests to add you as a friend" in their respective mobile phone address books, and the couple looked at each other in surprise.
Ah Yan's face wrinkled. "It's Officer Zheng Yi! It's been two days. Why did they suddenly call us in? Are they going to record our statements? It's Chinese New Year."
It's not because I'm afraid of bad luck, but mainly because I'm afraid my parents will find out and ask a lot of questions.
Zhu Jue held her hand and said, "It's okay. If it was urgent, you should have come to us directly. Maybe it's just to make a note or something."
Ah Yan nodded, "That's true. But I still feel a little scared."
Thinking of the slogan "I am justice" above Officer Zheng Yi's head, even though they did nothing and were just innocent passers-by who were caught up in the arrest, they couldn't help but tense up.
After all, this is a woman who represents justice!
A Yan and Zhu Jue nodded and approved Officer Zheng Yi's application.
Just when she was wondering whether she should take the initiative to send a message to ask, the message from the other party came first. It was an emoticon package of a short-haired policewoman saluting.
【Zheng Yi】：[Salute and say hello.jpg]
【Zheng Yi】: Recruiting part-time staff, directly under the ministry, professional colleagues, generous remuneration...
Ayan and Juejue:?
!!!
This can't be a scam, right?