Li Nanshan rushed to the detention center, but Director Lei was not there. Li Nanshan called him, but no one answered.
Yao Youbing rushed to the old branch secretary's house. The branch secretary told him that the telephone line was gnawed by rats last night and was waiting for someone to come and repair it. Yao Youbing turned his bicycle around and went to the village to make a call without saying a word.
Li Nanshan felt more and more uneasy. While continuing to call Director Lei, he went to the district to find the leader. The leader was in a meeting, so the secretary asked Li Nanshan to wait for a while.
Yao Youbing rushed to the village and finally got through on the phone, but the person who answered the phone was not Yao Youhua. She said someone was talking to her. Yao Youbing asked her to hurry up, but the person on the other end was impatient to listen to him and hung up the phone. Yao Youbing had no choice but to patiently continue calling.
Before the leaders finished their meeting, Li Nanshan received a call from the old branch secretary, who said Yao Youbing had just been there and wanted to call her sister. Li Nanshan was shocked, and the old branch secretary hurriedly said that he hadn't made the call and had gone to the township to look for a phone number. His family's phone line was indeed broken by a rat, but he didn't tell Yao Youbing that he also had a mobile phone, which was bought for him by his daughter. Li Nanshan didn't want to wait any longer and rushed into the meeting room. Everyone inside looked at him in surprise. Before Li Nanshan could say anything, the leader asked someone to kick him out.
No one answered Yao Youbing's phone, so he called another number. The same person answered the phone. When he heard Yao Youbing's voice, he cursed him and hung up. Yao Youbing cursed loudly while holding the phone. What he didn't know was that the person who answered the phone also worked at the Qian family farm and was Yao Youhua's rival. She felt that Ruan Yinsheng treated Yao Youhua better and secretly held a grudge against her.
The leader finally finished the meeting and called Li Nanshan to the office, intending to educate him first. Li Nanshan interrupted him directly and said that it was a matter of life and death, Xiaoxi was framed, and if no action was taken, the real murderer would escape. The leader was skeptical, so Li Nanshan gave him a general outline of his speculation and begged him to call the Public Security Bureau and control Yao Youhua and Ruan Yinsheng. The leader asked him how he could be sure that Yao Youhua was the one who took the red flower and framed her with just an empty can. "Because Yao Youhua and Sun Wangcai are old lovers, she is about to move into the Sun family!" Li Nanshan roared. Looking at Li Nanshan with red eyes, the leader finally picked up the phone.
Yao Youhua finally finished talking to someone and returned to her room when she heard the phone ring. It was her brother. "Li Nanshan is here looking for you. Go out and hide!" Yao Youbing shouted. Yao Youhua dropped the phone and ran back to the house to pack her things.
When Li Nanshan finally got through to Director Lei, he was about to curse, "Why did you answer the phone just now?"
"What? I have to report to you when I'm on duty at work?" Director Lei was also angry. They were all asking for his life. He treated his position as the director like a grandson.
Li Nanshan suppressed his temper and said, "No, this matter is urgent. I'm afraid that if I'm late, it will be completely over."
"It's not over yet. I'm in Zhangshu Village." Director Lei said slowly and lit another cigarette.
"You are in Zhangshu Village? When did you go there?" Li Nanshan asked in surprise.
"Do you think we police officers are just sitting around doing nothing and can't compare to an amateur like you in handling cases? I was investigating here today, and it just so happened that I found out about Yao Youhua. Wait a minute—"
"Hello? Hello? Hello!" Li Nanshan shouted three times into the phone, there was a burst of noise and then the call was hung up.
Yao Youhua was carrying a package when she was caught red-handed by Director Lei.
"Are you going on a long trip?" Director Lei put away the phone and smiled.
"Yes, yes, I received a call from home saying that my mother is sick and asked me to go back to see her." Yao Youhua swallowed her saliva. The reason she didn't answer her eldest brother's call just now was because Director Lei asked her a question.
"What a coincidence! Someone just saw your mother. The old lady was in good shape, talkative and cheerful. How come she fell ill in such a short time?" Director Lei said with a forced smile.
"Then I was wrong. It's my father. My father is sick." Yao Youhua's inner defenses were already collapsing bit by bit.
Director Lei scratched his ears and waved his right hand forward, "Take him back."
Two people came up and dragged Yao Youhua towards the car. Yao Youhua struggled desperately and refused to get in the car, so she was carried directly in.
Just as they were about to drive back, Director Lei thought again and ordered, "Take Ruan Yinsheng back with you."
"Boss, the higher-ups didn't say to arrest Ruan Yinsheng." The subordinate reminded him that they only issued a summons for Yao Youhua, not for Ruan Yinsheng.
"It's okay. I guess I'll have to come here sooner or later. It's better to take them together. I'll take care of anything if it happens." Director Lei said generously.
The subordinates had no choice but to do as they were told. Their director had always behaved like this, so they were not surprised.
When Ruan Yinsheng was caught and put into the car, he was so scared that he peed his pants and kept looking at Yao Youhua. Yao Youhua kept winking at her and almost told her to be tougher and stop scaring herself.
Director Lei snorted and said, "You see, he'll come sooner or later, so why not take him away at once?"
When they arrived at the detention center, Ruan Yinsheng confessed everything before they were even asked. Yao Youhua looked as pale as death, and she knew that she was completely finished.
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The day Tao Xiaoxi was released from the detention center was exactly one week, seven days, 168 hours, 10,080 minutes, and 64,800 seconds since she'd been there. While it wasn't a completely useless experience, I really couldn't enjoy it.
Li Nanshan was at the door, holding an umbrella and a set of clean clothes in his hands for her to change into.
"Are you still so superstitious?" Tao Xiaoxi sneered as she changed her clothes.
Li Nanshan threw the clothes he took off into the trash can next to him.
"Xiaoxi, let's go home."
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