Chapter 21: Julien Twenty

Chapter 21: Julien Twenty

TL: cici, Editor: Isalee

Synopsis: Then, Fei Du kept his mouth shut. Until they arrived at the Yancheng Bureau, he did not even speak a punctuation.

First Published on Ainushi.

"Officer Tao, if the test result proves that I'm the one who's overreacting, could you please keep this a secret?" This was the third call that Lawyer Liu had made to Tao Ran. The main idea was still along the lines of, "I wish I could travel back in time to half an hour ago and cut off the hand that I used to call you".

Tao Ran sighed helplessly, feeling that this Lawyer Liu was really neurasthenic.

"Otherwise," babbled Lawyer Liu, "I won't be able to continue my business. What did I do? Please don't tell anyone, my life is in your hands."

Tao Ran had to make the same promise for the third time. He had almost sworn to the god or signed a document. The hesitating lawyer on the other side finally reluctantly agreed to send the tie to the Bureau for testing immediately.

After dealing with this guy, Tao Ran turned around to the back of the car and flashed an apologetic smile: "I'm sorry."

He was tragically interrupted by Lawyer Liu in the middle of a movie. The main character and his lover in the movie started turning against each other -- making the girl leave the theater with him during the tearful complaints was an ominous start for the blind date.

The girl did not say anything. She was probably cursing in her heart, but she held herself back. She was even considerate enough to say, "If you are busy, you don't need to send me home - Sir, please stop in front of that metro station entrance for me, then send him to work." This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com

Tao Ran blushed - only because of embarrassment: "This... is not very..."

"It's okay. We get caught by the boss on weekends too," the girl said, "Besides, we only work overtime for the boss, and you are working for public safety -- I also saw that rich second-generation murder case on the Internet. You need to quickly solve the case."

Tao Ran stuttered: "Not, not confirmed to be the rich second-generation, we didn't... didn't... identify the murderer."

During the conversation, the taxi had arrived at the metro station entrance. The driver stopped with a smile, waiting for the girl to say goodbye to Tao Ran.

Before she left, she remembered something and turned to him: "It was nice to meet a former classmate after leaving my hometown, only the way we met was a bit awkward."

If there were cracks in the ground, Tao Ran must have jumped into one without looking back.

What was the probability of being in a city away from home and meeting a high school classmate during a blind date? What was the probability for that high school classmate to be the girl he secretly had a crush on during his school days?

Of course, this was nothing to be congratulated about. Even if he met Audrey Hepburn on a blind date, he would still have to leave the girl and go back to work.

It was not until he watched the girl walk into the metro station that his severely disturbed intelligence level returned to normal values. With a deep breath, Vice Captain Tao shook the porridge in his head, trying to turn it back into normal brain matter and refocus on the case.

The taxi driver observed and concluded, "I think you have a chance, young man."

Tao Ran forced a smile: "Sir, make a U-turn there and go to the Bureau."

The driver, a middle-aged man, was interested in love affairs and a "rich second-generation murder case". He wanted to have a discussion with Tao Ran about it. At the time, Tao Ran finally started to regret refusing the offer to rent a car from his two bastard friends. To mute the talkative guy, he pretended to be sleepy, put on his headphones, and opened an audio app to plug his ears.

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Fei Du made no comment. The next moment, he heard Luo Wenzhou say, "But you're just talking about it. Additionally, you are only talking about it to me. Neither did you put it into practice, nor did you set up a 'no-trace murder training'. This gives us a chance to occasionally take a short vacation or go on date with someone, so I still want to express our gratitude on behalf of the organization to you."

Fei Du: "..."

Why was his reaction different than usual?

Luo Wenzhou nodded to himself again and said kindly, "We should send you an extra silk banner. Is there anything else? Please tell us for reference."

Then, Fei Du kept his mouth shut. Until they arrived at the Yancheng Bureau, he did not even speak a punctuation.

At the entrance of the Bureau, just after Luo Wenzhou got out of the car, a police car rushed towards him and stopped beside him. Before the car was fully stopped, Lang Qiao had already jumped out from it: "Boss, Ma Xiaowei is missing!"

"Don't shout." The wound on Luo Wenzhou's back was just sutured and he was still a bit paralyzed. He fished out a box of cigarettes with one hand, took out one cigarette with his mouth, and calmly said, "It is good for him to be missing."

Lang Qiao widened her large eyes even more and opened her mouth. But before she could say anything, her eyes focused on something behind Luo Wenzhou, not far away from him: "That, that is... "

Hearing her voice, Luo Wenzhou turned around and saw a small and timid figure on the opposite side of the street. His head was popped out towards the direction of the Bureau. Another man came and led him across the road.

Lang Qiao: "Ma Xiaowei and that crooked-leg small glasses!"

Xiao Haiyang finally replaced his broken glasses with a new pair. The somewhat prim square frames made him look a few years older. He led Ma Xiaowei all the way to Luo Wenzhou: "Captain Luo."

Luo Wenzhou saw him, but he apparently was not surprised. He nodded gently: "You are here? Go in."

There was no sign of the weekend in the Bureau. There were people who were examining the bodies, people who were examining the necktie, people who were enquiring the witness, and people who were enquiring the prisoner -- the criminal investigation team and the forensics department were in a mess. Mother He, who temporarily stayed in the watch-house, was inevitably alerted, and she had to take an eager look whenever something was happening.

When they came in with Ma Xiaowei, they saw Mother He walking in the corridor. After she saw Luo Wenzhou, she moved her suspicious gaze to Ma Xiaowei.

Luo Wenzhou said to Ma Xiaowei, "That's He Zhongyi's mother."

Ma Xiaowei's originally listless footstep suddenly stopped, and he looked at her with fear on his face.

The emaciated woman and the haggard teenager looked at each other. After a while, probably because the appearance of the boy reminded her of her son, Mother He called out to him: "Did you... you know my son?"

Ma Xiaowei stepped back.

"My Zhongyi was a good boy. You knew him, didn't you?" She shuddered and took a step forward, looking at Ma Xiaowei. Staring at him for a while, her tears fell down. She straightened up her neck and drew a long breath, "Who killed him? Ah? Boy, please tell your aunt, who on earth killed him?"

Ma Xiaowei's eyes were red, and then without warning, he dropped to his knees.

"Me, it's me!" He burst into tears. "I hurt brother Zhongyi, I hurt you. I'm sorry... "

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