Chapter 10

Chapter 10

“The car accident in the old city three days ago?”

Li Fufeng returned to the police station after his fieldwork, and before he could bring up the matter of blood testing, he heard about another case.

He frowned immediately, “It wasn’t an accident, but man-made?”

“It’s been confirmed that it wasn’t an accident, although the murderer devised it very cleverly, leaving almost no flaws. Even the driver involved in the accident didn’t know he was set up, thinking it was his own carelessness that caused the accident.”

Liu Ningshuang, who was next to him, handed him a cup of water and shook her head, “To harm such a well-respected good person in this way, I really don’t know what deep hatred there is. Moreover, the murderer’s method of committing the crime is so skilled, it’s likely a veteran.”

Saying this, she turned her gaze to the transparent plastic bag in Li Fufeng’s hand, and the blood-stained clothes in the bag. She almost immediately understood his intention, “Don’t tell me, you really believe that drunkard’s nonsense?”

As the youngest policewoman in the Yuan Yang City Police Station, Liu Ningshuang’s personality was a stark contrast to her poetic name, a gap between a “goddess” and a “neurotic goddess”.

On the contrary, Li Fufeng was just like his name.

This pair of buddies, with names like the male and female leads in a martial arts novel, perfectly embodied the characteristics of a martial arts novel protagonist, “full of chivalry, highly skilled in martial arts”, with Li Fufeng corresponding to the first half and Liu Ningshuang to the second half.

The reason for their close relationship was entirely due to their parents, who had known each other for many years and were equally obsessed with martial arts novels, giving their children the same style of names.

So, even though she thought Li Fufeng’s matter was very unreliable and a waste of effort, Liu Ningshuang still took the plastic bag to solidify their friendship that had lasted for many years.

“Forget it, big good guy, I’ll help you with this–remember, you already owe me three meals!”

She held up three fingers and muttered, “Looks like I have to deal with that jerk again... If I could, I really wouldn’t want to go. If you don’t treat me to a good meal this time, I’m going to be at a loss!”

“Don’t worry, you won’t be short-changed.” Li Fufeng swore solemnly.

Temporarily putting aside a worry in his heart, Li Fufeng’s attention returned to the case just now, he asked, “Has the murderer of the car accident been caught?”

“Not yet. But we already have some clues, and now that you’re back, we might have results soon.”

****

Bai Yi woke up to the sound of crying.

After sending off the fish he had raised for several days with a grand ceremony and burying it in his own Five Zhang Temple, he took a nap and slept in the afternoon.

(t/n: Five Zang Temple refers to the human internal organs)

Then, he was awakened by the increasingly loud crying outside the window. The cries of many people mixed together.

People had gathered on the street at some unknown time.

A long funeral procession passed in front of everyone. The elderly living in this old city area were almost all startled, standing on both sides of the street or at their doorsteps, watching this scene.

Almost everyone’s gaze fell on the two old people.

They cried until they almost collapsed on the ground, tears and snot flowing, their faces wrinkled and trembling, their white hair messy, they were about to faint from crying.

The young girl, on the other hand, reached out a hand to cover her face and stood there expressionless. She was thin and silent.

Mrs. Gu, who had lost control of her emotions, was still cursing relentlessly, “Let go of me! It’s this girl who killed my son! You killed your own parents, killed my daughter-in-law, and now you’re here to harm my son——”

“Damn it!” The old Mr. Gu, who seemed slightly calmer, finally couldn’t help but stop her. He looked around and said in a deep voice, “This has nothing to do with Tiantian. Tiantian has always been filial, don’t you also like this girl very much usually? Let’s go home first, don’t make a fool of ourselves outside.”

The other people around also began to persuade her.

Finally, the emotional old Mrs. Gu calmed down a bit.

The young girl called Tiantian also stepped forward, “I’m sorry, grandma.” She bowed her head, her voice was also hesitant.

After all, she was a retired teacher, and Mrs. Gu had lost her temper with her in a moment of grief. Now that she had come to her senses, she also regained her rationality, tightly holding the young girl’s cold hands, “I was confused, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t blame you. How could your father just leave us like this...”

Thinking of her son who had passed away prematurely, she held her granddaughter in her arms, crying inconsolably.

Seeing the family regain harmony and the funeral procession continuing to move forward, the onlookers seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

“That’s right, life has to go on...”

Seeing this, the woman standing next to Bai Yi showed a satisfied expression as if she had seen a happy ending in a TV drama.

“Oh, that’s right, Bai Yi, you’re still here?”

At this moment, she seemed to finally notice the young man standing next to her, quickly putting on a warm smile, feeling a bit strange in her heart.

...She didn’t know why she had ignored him just now. Logically speaking, this child’s appearance should not be ignored. Could it be that she was starting to have memory problems in advance?

Fortunately, the thought of making money allowed her to break through some unknown buff, remembering this long-term patron of their business, and she enthusiastically started talking.

“——We just got a bucket of fresh carp from the countryside yesterday, as well as eels and loaches, they’re so fresh and lively. If you’re interested, I can give you a 10% discount!”

“Okay, how lively?” Bai Yi was interested.

“......???”

Half an hour later, after careful selection, the most lively fish stood out from the crowd, winning a private custom sauce bath, oil bath, and a luxurious burial reservation.

Humming a song, Bai Yi returned home.

He opened the tablet computer on the living room sofa, skillfully logged into an account, and found a remittance prompt.

[——You have received 5000 yuan.]

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