Chapter 400 Strange Village
He was about to explode, but was stopped by Xu Lin beside him.
For some reason, Xu Lin's eyes suddenly turned red, and tears as big as beans could not be stopped from slowly sliding down from her eye sockets.
The middle-aged man said: "Big sister, what's wrong with you? If you do this, the villagers will misunderstand that I am bullying you."
Liu Jian was still a little confused, but he still grabbed his collar and shouted, "We just came over to take a look! Why are you chasing us away?"
Xu Lin quickly persuaded him: "Husband, don't be like this."
She pulled Liu Jian's hand away.
Xu Lin said pitifully, "Brother, the truth is this. My husband and I have been married for several years and have been childless. My mother-in-law thinks it must be my fault that they don't have a grandchild. She's been urging us to divorce. My husband can't bear to leave me and ignores her. Later, we ran here to hide from the limelight because we were so tired of it. Can your village take us in for a few days? We promise to leave your village in three days."
The middle-aged man really wanted to refuse, but he didn't want to cause trouble for himself.
He glanced at Liu Jian and Xu Lin, then feigned helplessness and said, "I sympathize with your situation, but I'm just a small security officer in the village. Regarding such a major matter as taking in outsiders, I still need to ask the village chief for his opinion."
Liu Jian and Xu Lin looked at each other.
Xu Lin: "Then please take us to see the village chief!"
The middle-aged man led them into the door of an office.
When Xu Lin was about to knock on the door and go in, the middle-aged man stopped her.
"Let me go in and talk to the village chief first."
Xu Lin nodded and made way.
The man knocked on the door and walked straight in.
After a while, loud curses were heard from inside: "Fuck you, why are you so nosy? What does it have to do with us if they can't have children? How many infertile couples are there in our country every year? We are not running a charity, are we going to take them all in? You know..."
The middle-aged man said: "Village chief, please keep your voice down. People are still outside."
"You brought someone with you?"
Then there was another round of obscene cursing.
The middle-aged man hurried out of the office, wiping his sweat with a tissue. He said to Xu Lin sheepishly, "I believe you heard it just now! I didn't mean to embarrass you, it's just that the village chief..."
Xu Lin: "I understand, brother, you tried your best and it was very thoughtful. We don't want to embarrass you, so we'll leave now."
Watching them walk away, the middle-aged man finally breathed a sigh of relief.
When Xu Lin and Liu Jian arrived at the village entrance, Liu Jian couldn't wait to ask Pu Yi in the car for a cigarette.
"I was in a hurry and forgot to bring cigarettes. Can you lend me a cigarette to satisfy your craving?"
Pu Yi lit a cigarette and put it into Liu Jian's mouth.
Unfortunately, before Liu Jian could take a few puffs, the cigarette was taken out of his mouth by Xu Lin.
Liu Jian: "Auntie, please don't waste a good cigarette!"
Before he could finish his words, Xu Lin threw the cigarette to the ground and stomped on it several times.
Liu Jian looked at the smoke on the ground and Xu Lin in front of him and shook his head helplessly.
Pu Yi even asked in a rather tactless manner, "Brother, I still have some here, do you want some more?"
Xu Lin glared at him fiercely: "I'm going to borrow all your cigarettes and throw them away later. I want to see how many you have left."
She glanced at Liu Jian.
"You're really something. You're still in the mood to smoke at this time?"
Liu Jian: "If I don't smoke, then I don't smoke. My wife is about to give birth, so it's time to quit. Anyway, I feel like there's something seriously wrong with this village!"
Xu Lin: "Everyone knows I'm a woman. Do I need to be told? The problem is how do we find evidence?"
Liu Jian knocked on Pu Yi's car and said, "Brother, why don't you drive Captain Xu back first? I plan to wander around this village tonight and see if there are any other clues."
After saying that, he opened the car door for Xu Lin.
But Xu Lin didn't seem to appreciate it at all. She slapped the car door shut.
"What nonsense are you talking about? You want to take all the credit by yourself? You have to ask me first."
Liu Jian cursed softly, "She's such a lunatic, she doesn't know what's good for her."
Xu Lin: "What are you mumbling to yourself again?"
Liu Jian: "It's nothing, as long as you are happy."
Pu Yi: "I'm really impressed by you guys. I'll go sell you two lunch boxes first! But I have to be frank. When I come to pick you up tomorrow, no matter what you say, you have to come back to me with any clues you have! Otherwise, they will definitely think you are bandits or vagrants, and then call the police to arrest you. What do you think, should I take action or just turn a blind eye and pretend nothing happened?"
Xu Lin: "It's just business as usual. We'll do what needs to be done."
Pu Yi ignored her and drove off to buy lunch boxes.
After watching his car drive away, Liu Jian quickly picked up his cell phone, hid aside and made two calls.
He appeared in front of Xu Lin half an hour later.
Xu Lin: "Calling your wife? Are you going to say something obscene? Otherwise, why would you have to hide so far away just to make a phone call?"
Liu Jian: "I only briefly informed my wife that I was safe for less than a minute. The more important thing was to report the situation to the director and Captain Wu Sangui. I was hiding from that Pu Yi."
Xu Lin: "You suspect him"
Liu Jian: "I wouldn't say I doubt it, but after being a police officer for so many years, I always feel that sometimes I can't even trust my brothers who have been through life and death with me. For a police officer I just met, out of professional habit, we naturally have to be cautious."
Xu Lin felt the same way and naturally agreed.
Pu Yi also drove the car back, threw the two lunch boxes there as if he was dealing with two insignificant beggars, and then drove away by himself.
After eating, Xu Lin and Liu Jian wandered around the village stealthily.
After sneaking around a few times, they felt more and more that this village was not simple.
They found that this was a typical "left-behind" village. The strong men in the village had gone out to work early in the morning, leaving only a group of elderly, weak, women and children in the village.
Xu Lin and the others have read the information. This natural village used to be extremely poor and needed government poverty alleviation every year. But today, they live in small houses and there are cars worth two or three hundred thousand yuan at the door. How did they suddenly become wealthy?
Could it be that the village leaders' wise policies have put them on the road to prosperity? Or is it that every man in the village has a promising future and has made a fortune outside?
Xu Lin felt that was not the main reason.
Just then, they discovered an exception who didn't fit in with the other villagers.
He is a disabled person with a severe hunchback who makes a living by selling small items such as rubber bands.
Xu Lin felt strange, so she went over to buy him a lot of little gadgets. On the other hand, it was getting dark, and she wanted him to go home early.
Xu Lin: "Uncle, why don't you go set up a stall at the market over there? There are more people there and the sales are better. Who will help you if you hide here and set up a stall by yourself?"
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