Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 127 Being followed

Without bothering to explain anything to Ningning, Li Yancheng stopped as soon as he turned into the alley. After waiting for a few seconds, he walked straight back to the road he had just come from and stood there looking in the direction he had just come from.

There were quite a few people coming and going on the road. At this time, most people had finished dinner and came out to the door to enjoy the cool air. Adults and children, some were running, some were playing, and some were standing there motionless.

At first glance, even if it is impossible to recognize everyone, they are basically familiar faces.

This made Li Yancheng frown involuntarily. Could it be that he was wrong just now?

"Big Cheng Brother"

"It's okay, Ningning, let's go home."

"Brother Dacheng, do you feel like someone is following you?" With a brother who is a police officer, Ningning is not completely ignorant.

"It seems so, but I didn't see any strangers just now."

"No problem, leave it to me!"

Ningning grinned, turned around and ran to a few boys who had greeted her just now. She didn't know what they said, but those boys patted their chests loudly and ran away in a flash.

After those boys ran away, Ningning jumped and ran to his side again.

"Let's go, Brother Dacheng. We'll have news soon if any strangers entered the alley just now."

Does this count as mobilizing the masses?

Li Yancheng looked at Ningning, then turned his head to look in the direction where those boys had disappeared.

"Are you familiar with all the kids here?"

"I know this area well. I'll beat up anyone who dares to disobey me." Seeing Ningning clench her little fist and then raise it up to shake, Li Yancheng almost couldn't hold back his laughter.

It can be seen that the children just now really listened to her, otherwise they would not have run away to help with the investigation as soon as she said so.

This girl is really the leader of the group.

Children run very fast. The distance from here to home is at most 500 meters. Before they reach home, one of the children just now came running over panting.

"Sister Ningning..."

"Little monkey, did you find anything?"

"Yes, there is a man who looks a little older than Dacheng. I have never seen him before. He is hanging around at the intersection where Sister Ningning asked us to look for him just now.

I also specifically asked Erhuzi who lives at that intersection. He said that the man just entered the alley. When his father saw him, he asked him who he was looking for. He said that he had taken the wrong road and then backed out.

But when I passed by just now, I saw he was still at that intersection."

After listening to the little monkey's words, Li Yancheng narrowed his eyes. It seemed that his feeling was correct. The man should be following him, but he was questioned as soon as he entered the alley. He was afraid of being exposed, so he retreated.

It seems that the man is not familiar with this place, otherwise he would not be hanging around that intersection.

"Little monkey, huh?"

"Brother Dacheng, my father is Hou Jincai."

"Hey, you should call me uncle. You're pretty smart. Your dad has been here longer than me without saying a word."

Li Yancheng smiled and took out a dime from his pocket and handed it to the little monkey.

"Here, use it to buy popsicles for each of your friends."

"Thank you, Uncle Dacheng."

This kid changed his mind pretty quickly. When he saw the dime handed over by Li Yancheng, he was so happy that he almost jumped up. He was about to run away after taking it, but then he remembered something and turned around and said.

"Uncle Dacheng, the man just now was not tall. He was wearing grey pants, a white shirt, and yellow rubber shoes."

"Okay, I get it. Go have fun. Don't go over to see that person again."

"I understand, Uncle Dacheng. Goodbye, Sister Ningning."

The boy didn't even feel the heat and ran away without waiting for Ningning to reply.

"Ningning, go back and see if your brother is back. If he is, ask him to come over. I'll be waiting for him here."

"okay"

"You don't need to come over here. It's inconvenient for her to do anything right now if you stay with your sister-in-law."

"I got it."

After Ningning ran towards home, Li Yancheng took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it for himself, and frowned deeply.

The person who followed him probably didn't run away. He probably followed him from the entrance of his workplace. But why did he follow him? Who wanted to follow him?
Could it be because I helped Zhu Yongxiang and Chen Guangyao detoxify and disrupted their plans?

I had just taken two puffs of my cigarette when Jin Zhihai came jogging over.

"Dacheng, Ningning quietly told me that someone is following you. What's going on?"

"It's not certain yet, I plan to go over and take a look."

"Where are people?"

"The intersection north of Nianzi Hutong."

"Walk"

After knowing the place, Jin Zhihai walked over there without saying a word.

……

Soon, the two arrived at the entrance of the alley.

"Gray pants, white shirt, yellow rubber shoes. Not very tall, right?"

"That's right"

"Okay, I'll go out and take a look first, don't rush out."

There was no one at the entrance of the alley at the moment, and there was no view because of the walls on both sides, so the only option was to go out and look. Jin Zhihai asked Li Yancheng to wait here for a while, and he turned around and prepared to walk out of the alley.

"Okay, do you have a gun?"

"Clap"

The one who answered him was Jin Zhihai who patted the back of his waist with his backhand. The area was covered by his sweatshirt and he knew there was something there by the noise.

……

After walking out of the alley, Jin Zhihai first glanced to the east. There were quite a few people on the road, but at a glance, most of them were wearing sweatshirts or cross-bar vests and big shorts, and holding a palm-leaf fan in their hands. It was obvious that they were nearby residents who came out to enjoy the cool air after lunch.

He did not rush to look to the west. Instead, he lit a cigarette for himself and carefully glanced at both sides of the road to the east. After making sure that the person he was looking for was not there, he turned to look to the west.

Is the situation similar to that over there... huh?

Diagonally across the street, he saw the man described just now. At this moment, he was asking something to an old man not far away. Judging from the situation, he should be asking for directions, because the old man was drawing something on the ground with the handle of a palm-leaf fan, as if telling the man how to get there.

After taking a close look at the man's profile, Jin Zhihai was about to walk to the other side, but he stopped and looked at the profile seriously again.

He frowned as he looked at her, then turned around and waved at the entrance of the alley, signaling Li Yancheng to come out. "Dacheng, do you think it's that?"

Li Yancheng looked carefully in the direction Jin Zhihai pointed and nodded.

"According to the little monkey's description, it should be him."

"I know this guy."

"You know him? Who?" When Li Yancheng heard that Jin Zhihai knew him, he thought he had made a wrong judgment.

"Haha, I guess you're right. He's most likely the one following you. Let's go over and meet him."

"Who is he? How do you know I'm not wrong?" Li Yancheng became even more confused and asked quickly.

"If I'm not mistaken, his name is Mao Dajian, nicknamed Ermao, a thug from Dianhai, specializing in helping people get information. However, his activities have always been limited to the Dianhai area. It would be strange if he came to the east of the city today without any problems."

As they were talking, the two of them had already walked across the street.

As if he sensed something, the man who was originally facing sideways and listening to the old man giving him directions, turned his head in an instant.

When he saw the two people who were not far behind him, and saw clearly who they were, he was stunned for a moment, and then an unnatural look flashed across his face, but this guy reacted quickly and a smile immediately appeared on his face.

"Brother Hai, why is it you? What a coincidence, I can actually meet you here."

This guy is obviously much older than Jin Zhihai, but the way he called him "brother" was so straightforward and natural.

In fact, Jin Zhihai only knew him after he joined the task force because of investigating a case. They had only met two or three times. But this guy's current performance, to outsiders, made it clear that he was an old acquaintance for many years.

"Zhi Hai, is he someone you know?"

"Yes, Uncle Wang."

"That's just right. He was asking me about your area, and I explained it to him for a long time but he was still confused. Don't you happen to live over there? Just tell him."

After saying that, Uncle Wang turned around and went to chat with a few old friends.

Uncle Wang's words made the guy's expression change again. He chuckled twice and said that there was no need to ask for directions, as he had remembered the wrong place, and then turned around and wanted to leave.

"Ermao, why do you think I came here in such a hot day? I want to see if you can run away from the monk but not the temple."

Jin Zhihai didn't even plan to chase him. He looked at the guy who wanted to leave, stood there, took a puff of cigarette, and said lightly.

"Uh……"

It was as if the pause button was pressed on that idiot. His movements were frozen there. It was five or six seconds later that he turned around with a bitter look on his face.

"Brother Hai, I...I really remembered the wrong place."

"Okay, you should know him." Jin Zhihai raised his hand and patted Li Yancheng's arm.

"I think you know which unit it is from. You can decide whether to go to their Security Department 3 or our department. It's your choice."

"Brother Hai, you...your...your friend, I...I don't know him."

"It seems that you don't want to talk properly. That's fine." Jin Zhihai turned his head to look at Li Yancheng and said, "Dacheng, just bring the person to your office and talk. I'll help you send him over."

"Okay." Li Yancheng nodded, looked at Ermao and said, "There is a case now that requires your cooperation in the investigation. Come with us. Do you need to see my ID?"

"This...this..." Ermao was almost crying.

Seeing that more and more people were paying attention to this side and some had started to gather around, he was just about to struggle a bit, but unexpectedly Jin Zhihai had already seen through his plan and spoke in a louder voice.

"Okay, okay, I'm Jin Zhihai. This guy is a suspect in a major case. It's just a small matter. Don't crowd around. It's too hot to gather here."

As he spoke, he reached out and touched his lower back, and when he came back to the front, he had a pair of handcuffs in his hands.

"Here, Ermao, handcuff yourself, don't force me to do it myself."

This area also belongs to the jurisdiction of the Meishan Police Station. Jin Zhihai has worked here for many years. It would be an exaggeration to say that he knows all the residents in the jurisdiction. But as long as they are residents of the jurisdiction here, it is no problem for them to know him.

After hearing what he said, although everyone did not disperse, no one continued to gather around.

Seeing that he definitely couldn't run away, Ermao caught the handcuffs thrown by Jin Zhihai, and his face became even more bitter.

“Brother Hai…”

"You can't even call me Master Hai, hurry up."

"Brother Hai, I'm going with you two. Don't bring the handcuffs. I promise I won't run away."

"You can run wherever you want."

"No, no, no, I will definitely not run away. I promise to cooperate."

"Then go ahead. Go west until you reach the main road and turn north."

Jin Zhihai did not force him. He reached out and took the handcuffs again, waved at everyone, signaling everyone to do what they should do, and then let Ermaotou go in front, and he and Li Yancheng followed behind.

Ermao is not a fool. He certainly knows that what he did today has been exposed. For him, who goes to the police station almost as often as he goes home, he must cooperate well if he wants to suffer less.

So, as soon as he reached the main road, he immediately turned around and honestly admitted everything.

"Brother Hai, now that it has come to this, I will not hide it from you. I came here today to follow your friend."

"Tell me why."

Seeing that he was willing to cooperate, Jin Zhihai raised his chin and gestured to the roadside, and the three of them walked to the roadside and stopped.

As soon as they stopped, Ermao took out a cigarette from his pocket and was about to pass it around, but Jin Zhihai waved his hand and didn't take his. Instead, he took out his own cigarette and lit one for Li Yancheng and himself.

Ermao didn't care. Seeing that the other person didn't want one, he just lit one for himself.

"Brother Hai, and this brother, the specific situation is this. I really don't know the name of the person who asked me to follow you."

Just when he said this, he saw Jin Zhihai's eyes widened, and he quickly waved his hand: "Brother Hai, I'm really not talking nonsense, please listen to me first, I really don't know who he is.

Early this morning, my wife went to work and my son went out to play. I was the only one at home sleeping. While I was sleeping, I felt something was wrong. When I opened my eyes, I saw a man sitting on a chair beside my bed with a shining dagger in his hand.

You two don’t know, I was so scared that I almost wet my bed, and when he saw me wake up, he put a dagger to my neck and threw a photo on my bed. "

Having said that, Ermao reached into his trouser pocket and pulled out a slightly wrinkled half photo, which was obviously torn in the middle.

Jin Zhihai quickly reached out to take it and took a look. The person in this half of the photo was indeed his good brother, but...

He turned his head to look at his good brother who was also leaning over to look at the photo.

When Li Yancheng saw this half photo, his brows immediately frowned. The photo was originally a group photo, but now only his half was left. However, he recognized the origin of this photo at a glance.

The torn half was of his ex-wife Chen Yunwei. This was taken before they got their marriage certificate. He was wearing a blue-gray Zhongshan suit, and Chen Yunwei was wearing a gray small lapel jacket.

There were two copies of this photo, one for each of them. The copy he made was burned in a fire by the original owner after he ran away from the Chen family. The memory is very clear, and it was burned very thoroughly, including the negative. Jin Zhihai was still there when it was burned.

The things that were burned were not only photos and negatives, but also a few pieces of clothing and books that Chen Yunwei did not take with her when she left.

If the photo studio did not develop an extra photo at that time, then the photo that Ermao took out now would be the one that originally belonged to Chen Yunwei, but for some unknown reason it was torn in the middle.

(End of this chapter)