“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.
A young girl in mourning clothes stood between the two, supporting them on either side so they wouldn’t fall.
Her beautiful face was expressionless, but her eyes were red.
“Poor thing, so young, how could this happen? How are the two old people going to live!”
“Ah, who could have thought this would happen…..Teacher Gu was such a good person, and he just left like that. It’s all the fault of that damned driver, why didn’t he kill himself too!”
“You can’t blame the driver, no one wants this kind of thing, it’s just fate…”
“Old Gu and his wife have done good deeds all their lives, Teacher Gu was also a good person, I heard he even donated money to support so many children. The child in his family, he adopted her after her parents died, right? Ah, good people just don’t live long!”
Various discussions floated through the crowd.
Countless streams of information, like iron sand attracted by a magnet, involuntarily converged towards Bai Yi.
Grief, regret, despair, hatred, and pleasure…..In the end, all emotions were surrounded by intense joy, like a chocolate mixed with various fillings, sweet on the outside, but strange when bitten into.
This joyous emotion far exceeded everyone else.
Bai Yi looked up in a certain direction.
Suddenly someone came over, “Bai Yi, you’re here too? Remember, Teacher Gu used to teach you?”
Bai Yi looked at the woman who was talking, she was the owner of the shop where he often bought vegetables, her surname was Li, the fish that he had solemnly buried at noon today was from her shop.
Out of respect for the fish, he nodded, “I only stayed in Teacher Gu’s class for half a month, then I applied for home self-study.” His tone carried a hint of regret, “I didn’t expect something like this to happen to Teacher Gu.”
——If it weren’t for this person’s reminder, he almost forgot that he was a high school student studying at home.
“And Teacher Gu, he…” The woman seemed to want to say something else, but the man next to her pulled her arm, and she was somewhat dissatisfied, “I didn’t say anything, just asking if Teacher Gu had offended anyone. I heard from Old Gu that it seems this matter is not that simple…”
“Enough. The person is dead, what’s the point of saying these things?”
Her husband seemed very reluctant to speak ill of the dead. This man, who was always honest, silent, and only knew how to make money, rarely stood up to his wife.
“Really, you’re the only one who understands things!” The woman complained in a low voice, but couldn’t help but bring up the topic again, “You said that Old Gu and his wife only have one son, what are they going to do now that he’s gone? Although they have a granddaughter, she’s not their own, how can she be as close and filial as their own granddaughter?”
Just then…
There was a sudden commotion in the crowd, followed by a “slap”. Everyone else’s attention was drawn over.
“You evil spirit! Your father was killed by you!”
“If it weren’t for you leaving home in a huff, your father wouldn’t have gone out to look for you in the middle of the night, and he wouldn’t have been hit by a car!”
The old Mrs. Gu, who had been crying so hard that she couldn’t catch her breath, was now glaring at the young girl. If it weren’t for the other people around her holding her back in time, it looked like she was going to hit her again.
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.]
“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.
A young girl in mourning clothes stood between the two, supporting them on either side so they wouldn’t fall.
Her beautiful face was expressionless, but her eyes were red.
“Poor thing, so young, how could this happen? How are the two old people going to live!”
“Ah, who could have thought this would happen…..Teacher Gu was such a good person, and he just left like that. It’s all the fault of that damned driver, why didn’t he kill himself too!”
“You can’t blame the driver, no one wants this kind of thing, it’s just fate…”
“Old Gu and his wife have done good deeds all their lives, Teacher Gu was also a good person, I heard he even donated money to support so many children. The child in his family, he adopted her after her parents died, right? Ah, good people just don’t live long!”
Various discussions floated through the crowd.
Countless streams of information, like iron sand attracted by a magnet, involuntarily converged towards Bai Yi.
Grief, regret, despair, hatred, and pleasure…..In the end, all emotions were surrounded by intense joy, like a chocolate mixed with various fillings, sweet on the outside, but strange when bitten into.
This joyous emotion far exceeded everyone else.
Bai Yi looked up in a certain direction.
Suddenly someone came over, “Bai Yi, you’re here too? Remember, Teacher Gu used to teach you?”
Bai Yi looked at the woman who was talking, she was the owner of the shop where he often bought vegetables, her surname was Li, the fish that he had solemnly buried at noon today was from her shop.
Out of respect for the fish, he nodded, “I only stayed in Teacher Gu’s class for half a month, then I applied for home self-study.” His tone carried a hint of regret, “I didn’t expect something like this to happen to Teacher Gu.”
——If it weren’t for this person’s reminder, he almost forgot that he was a high school student studying at home.
“And Teacher Gu, he…” The woman seemed to want to say something else, but the man next to her pulled her arm, and she was somewhat dissatisfied, “I didn’t say anything, just asking if Teacher Gu had offended anyone. I heard from Old Gu that it seems this matter is not that simple…”
“Enough. The person is dead, what’s the point of saying these things?”
Her husband seemed very reluctant to speak ill of the dead. This man, who was always honest, silent, and only knew how to make money, rarely stood up to his wife.
“Really, you’re the only one who understands things!” The woman complained in a low voice, but couldn’t help but bring up the topic again, “You said that Old Gu and his wife only have one son, what are they going to do now that he’s gone? Although they have a granddaughter, she’s not their own, how can she be as close and filial as their own granddaughter?”
Just then…
There was a sudden commotion in the crowd, followed by a “slap”. Everyone else’s attention was drawn over.
“You evil spirit! Your father was killed by you!”
“If it weren’t for you leaving home in a huff, your father wouldn’t have gone out to look for you in the middle of the night, and he wouldn’t have been hit by a car!”
The old Mrs. Gu, who had been crying so hard that she couldn’t catch her breath, was now glaring at the young girl. If it weren’t for the other people around her holding her back in time, it looked like she was going to hit her again.
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.]
