Lu Yang conducted a general inspection and, even from the vague remarks of Director Shen and Director Zhang, he knew that they both suspected Wei Lan.
Everything requires evidence, and he has not yet found any evidence to confirm it.
There's absolutely no way to confirm her identity just because she had the ability to get the office and cabinet keys.
"Battalion Commander, we're not the police, why should we be involved in solving cases?"
Lu Yang's men followed him through every corner of the textile factory. In the sweltering summer heat, he preferred training under the sun to doing this work.
Training is his forte, but criminal investigation is a complete mystery to him.
"What can I do if it's an order from my superior?"
It's not like he doesn't have a headache.
The textile factory required a very large area. It was nominally located in front of the military district, but from the entrance of the family compound, one could only see the back wall of the textile factory.
"Go ask the soldiers who were on guard duty last night?"
“They’re just on guard duty; they don’t have eyes that can see a thousand miles. How could they possibly see through these walls and see who’s going in and out of the textile factory gate?”
Lu Yang kicked him, saying, "Just go ask when I tell you to, stop talking so much nonsense."
Liu Jiandong borrowed Lu Ronghui's bicycle, put the stack of white papers on the back seat, and sat An'an on the front bar, intending to deliver the items to the entrance of the family compound.
Before they even arrived, they saw his brother-in-law and his men squatting by the corner of the textile factory wall, their eyes fixed on the entrance to the family compound.
"dad?"
As soon as An'an saw Lu Yang, she excitedly waved to him. Her large movement almost caused Liu Jiandong to lose control of the car.
Lu Yang didn't expect to see his daughter return so soon. An'an has been particularly fond of going up the mountain these days, and she doesn't want to go to the nursery anymore.
Every morning, after breakfast, she would stand by Lu Ronghui's car with her water cup, waiting for her aunt to take her to Aunt Tian's house.
They didn't even want to go home for lunch. The aunt and niece simply took their food and went to Aunt Tian's house, leaving him to eat alone in the canteen.
Lu Yang looked up at the sky to make sure it was still early. It was really strange that he was back so early.
"Don't move around, you might fall."
Liu Jiandong rode his bike to Lu Yang's side. As soon as the bike stopped, An An opened her arms and Lu Yang picked her up.
"Brother-in-law"
"Why are you back so early today? Aren't you going up the mountain?"
Running around every night, in a few days when Song Qing comes back, she will see that her daughter has turned into a wild monkey on the mountain.
Liu Jiandong was trying to figure out how to tell his brother-in-law what had happened that morning; he was too ashamed to admit to bullying a child.
Seeing that her uncle was hesitant to speak, An'an immediately told him everything.
“We didn’t intend to take his things. Who knew he was so timid and disappeared in an instant? That’s why we returned the things.”
After she finished speaking, she quickly lowered her eyes, not daring to look directly at her father.
Lu Yang almost laughed in anger. This little girl was getting smarter and smarter. Once she realized she had made a mistake, she was quicker than anyone else to admit it.
Why is he carrying that thing up the mountain?
Lu Yang walked to the back seat and curiously touched the thick stack of white papers. The size of these papers was about the same as the test papers he had seen in the factory manager's office.
"Even if you skip class, you don't need to carry something this thick up the mountain, do you?"
Sure enough, anyone with a normal mind would find this behavior strange, and Lu Yang's subordinates also noticed that something was wrong.
“But if you say you want to steal something, who would want to steal this blank piece of paper?”
Based on Liu Jiandong's description, he subconsciously felt that Tiedan had taken something from home or somewhere else, which was why he ran up the mountain out of a guilty conscience.
These sheets of white paper are cut to the appropriate size with a guillotine when they are produced in the factory. They have never been used, and the cut surfaces retain the sharpness they had when they left the factory.
Lu Yang gently ran his finger across the cut surface, feeling a slight stinging sensation. If it weren't for the calluses on his hands, he might have been cut open.
"What a coincidence."
The subordinates then realized that a stack of "exam papers" had been left in Director Shen's office.
The paper was about the same size and thickness; if the cover hadn't been torn, who would know what was inside?
An'an raised her head. She knew that she and her uncle had gotten into trouble and thought she was bound to get a scolding. But to her surprise, her father didn't scold her.
"dad?"
Like An'an, Liu Jiandong didn't understand what they were saying.
All he knew was that he didn't need to deliver the blank paper to the entrance of the residential area, because Lu Yang simply took the bicycle and rode it to the entrance of the residential area along with the blank paper on the back seat.
"battalion commander?"
The subordinate who came over to inquire about the guard duty last night wondered why their battalion commander had come on a bicycle, and was about to tell him about the events of the previous night.
"how's it going?"
"We can't see the textile factory gate from here, so we can only confirm that there's nothing unusual about the back wall."
This is exactly what they had expected.
Were there many people coming and going last night?
Visitors to the family compound need to register, but there are fewer requirements for internal staff.
Lu Yang knew that Tie Dan was Zhou Lian's son. By questioning the guards who were on duty last night, he found out that Zhou Lian had indeed gone out last night.
Are you sure?
As luck would have it, the guard on duty was the same one who had come to notify Lu Yang and the others when Zhou Lian caused a scene at the Women's Federation office.
Among so many people in the family compound, he had a rather deep impression of Zhou Lian.
The city provided some of the family members in the residential compound with jobs in the city. Most of them worked in government agencies or various factories as clerical staff, since the residential compound was some distance from the city.
Family members usually return home very late.
Aside from family members returning home late from work and some military vehicles coming and going, very few people go out at night.
“When Zhou Lian came over yesterday, she seemed a little flustered. After we questioned her according to regulations, we advised her not to go out at night.”
Zhou Lian didn't wait until midnight to go out. While some lights were still on in the family compound, she picked up a basket and prepared to go out.
Although the security situation is good now, there are still many mountains in this area. If wild animals come down from the mountains at night, it would still be very dangerous for her, a woman, to go out alone.
Zhou Lian felt guilty and was still trembling even though she knew the guards were just asking questions according to regulations. Fortunately, the darkness concealed her from being discovered.
"The child had a stomachache, and the elderly in the village knew of a folk remedy that could cure it. The child couldn't wait, so we had to make the trip."
Although there was a hospital in their residential compound, it had already closed at this time. Although the guards found her behavior a bit strange, they didn't pay much attention to it.
Even though Lu Yang found it unbelievable, and although he didn't have a good impression of Zhou Lian, he didn't expect her to be so bold.
"Could it be her?"
Lu Yang's subordinates never expected that they would find a major suspect when they were just worried and had no clue.
"Dad, what are you talking about?"
Although An'an was somewhat unhappy that her father had just ridden away on his bicycle and left her there unattended, she still walked with her uncle to the entrance of the family compound.
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