Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 143 Voluntary Help
Li Yancheng did not interrupt. He waited for Xiao Yuan to continue speaking to see what else he could say.

In any case, even if the information was useless, he would not discourage the enthusiasm of this old classmate, after all, he was helping voluntarily.

Xiao Yuan didn't let him wait long. After taking a puff of his cigarette, he continued talking.

“I felt something strange, and it was strange about this person. He said the sweet potatoes were grown by his family, but Dacheng, you know, his hands don’t look like the hands of a farmer.

When I shone the flashlight on his bag, he had just taken off his gloves and was untying the rope at the bag. I saw his hands, his nails were neatly trimmed, and although his hands looked a little dirty due to the dirt, I could tell at a glance that they were not the kind of hands that were used to dig for food in the fields.

Those hands are not those of a worker. The hands of a farmer or a worker cannot be so white and tender."

In order to strengthen his persuasiveness, Xiao Yuan stretched out his hand and spread it in front of Li Yancheng for him to see.

His hands were typical of a worker's. Because he often worked with tools, the skin on his hands was very rough. There were very obvious calluses on the palms, and there was still dirt on the old skin on his hands and in between his nails that had not been washed clean.

A real farmer's hands would only look dirtier, rougher, and more calloused than his.

It’s not that the workers and farmers are unhygienic and don’t wash their hands thoroughly, but the cleaning power of soap today is limited. Once the grease and dirt stick to the hands, it is difficult to clean them thoroughly.

Not to mention that many rural families are reluctant to wash their hands with soap.

Li Yancheng looked at his hands again. His hands were typical of hands that were not used for work. They were white and tender, and his nails were neatly trimmed. There was no dirt in the gaps between his nails. This was his job. He didn't have to do much heavy or dirty work. If he had to treat patients, it was impossible for him to get his hands that dirty.

It’s interesting!

He is not a farmer, but he says he is a farmer. Although few people in the ghost market tell the truth, few people will deliberately reveal their identity.

Like the guy selling sweet potatoes, he could have just opened the bag and started selling without saying anything. As long as he didn't run into any inspectors, no one would care where your stuff comes from when you buy things at the ghost market.

Then why did he go to the trouble of explaining it?
"Have you seen this guy before?"

"No." Xiao Yuan shook his head with certainty.

"It was definitely the first time I had seen him. He deliberately lowered his voice when he spoke, but I could tell that he was a middle-aged man in his 40s or 50s, and his voice was a little hoarse."

"Did he leave after the sale?"

"Yes, sweet potatoes sell very quickly. His bag was sold out in no time. He didn't even walk around the market. He packed up his bag and left directly."

"Have you ever noticed how high it is?"

"He's about the same height as me, but stronger than me." Xiao Yuan said after thinking for a while.

He is 1.7 meters tall and thin.

"By the way, Dacheng, there is one more thing I almost forgot."

Li Yancheng was about to say something when Xiao Yuan spoke first.

"There is another reason why I say he is not a farmer. He is wearing a pair of new cotton shoes. Just think about it, the snow in our city hasn't melted yet, let alone the countryside.

Not to mention whether you can wear new cotton shoes, your feet will definitely be covered in mud just from walking all the way, right?

But his shoes were very clean, as if they were new shoes he had just put on when he went out.

Also, his bicycle was very clean, and it didn’t look like it was ridden on a dirt road in the countryside.”

To be honest, after hearing this, Li Yancheng was very surprised. He didn't expect that Xiao Yuan would observe so carefully.

Anyway, I think if it were him, he might not be able to observe so carefully.

"Anything else?"

"Nothing else." Xiao Yuan shook his head: "When he left the market, I watched him from a distance, but I didn't dare to follow him."

"Thank you, Xiao Yuan." Li Yancheng raised his hand and patted Xiao Yuan's arm, then retracted his hand and reached into his trouser pocket.

When he came out again, he was holding a pack of Daqianmen cigarettes and a local grain coupon worth one kilogram.

He didn't know how to give it, but he just remembered seeing it on TV in his previous life, that if the special agents provided any information, they would be rewarded.

There are generally two types of special information: one that is filed, and the other that is maintained by individual police officers.

The filing is very powerful, but because of the different legal systems, it is very difficult to become a registered special agent in China.

It is quite common for police officers to have their own knowledge of special information.

If you want the horse to run, you have to feed it grass. Because there is no record, the information fee for the special intelligence is basically paid by yourself, which depends on what kind of information is provided.

No one can stand having to pay for everything, so generally speaking, no one would easily use special agents unless it was a major case.

Li Yancheng must give it today, even if Xiao Yuan doesn't want it. Only in this way can it be used at the critical moment in the future.

Besides, it’s freezing cold in the winter and it’s not easy for people to come here from so far away.

When Xiao Yuan saw what he handed over, he was stunned at first, but soon he understood what it meant.

He took a step back, waved his hand and said, "Dacheng, I didn't come here to tell you this because of these things."

"I know you wouldn't come if we weren't classmates, but that's why you have to take it. Otherwise, don't come again in the future."

"You..." Xiao Yuan just laughed.

He smiled and thought for a while, then nodded: "Okay, since you said so, I won't be polite."

As he spoke, he reached out to take the cigarette and put it in his pocket, but did not take the food coupon.

"I'll take the cigarettes, but I definitely won't take the food coupons. If you insist on giving them to me, I'll take them, but I won't come here again, and don't look for me. Let's just pretend we don't know each other."

Well, it would be bad if I couldn’t give it even though I wanted to, so save the money for me.

After hearing what he said, Li Yancheng said nothing more. He just retracted his hand and put the food coupons back into his pocket.

"Okay, then I won't give it to you. Xiao Yuan, you should be careful when you go to the ghost market next time. Pay attention to safety. If you encounter people or things that you find strange, just watch them and don't do anything else."

You have to warn him clearly, if this kid gets impulsive and follows you or does something else one day, it would be fine if he follows an ordinary person, but if he really does that, your life will be in danger.

"Yeah, I know." Xiao Yuan nodded.

"Well, Dacheng, if there's nothing else, I'll go over first. I've asked for leave today."

"Okay, thank you, Xiao Yuan."

"You're welcome, I'm glad I can help."

"Go slowly on the road and remember what I just said."

Xiao Yuan came here on a bicycle. After he got on the bike, Li Yancheng gave him some instructions again.

"Remember, go back, Dacheng. I'm leaving now."

"OK, bye!"

……

Watching Xiao Yuan waiting for the bicycle to go away, Li Yancheng took out another cigarette from his pocket and lit one for himself.

The rising smoke made him squint his eyes, and he remembered the person Xiao Yuan had just mentioned that he met in the ghost market.

There was definitely something wrong with this guy, but it was hard to say what exactly. After thinking about it for a while and still failing to get the point, he shook his head and walked into the door.

He is not a professional in this field and has never studied it, unlike Jin Zhihai, who at least attended the Public Security Cadre School for three years and received professional training and has mastered the theoretical knowledge. All he has to do is gain experience in actual case handling and integrate all the theories.

At this moment, he thought of his good brother. After returning home from get off work in the afternoon, when his good brother came back and heard the case from his mouth, Li Yancheng suddenly felt like he had returned to Qin Province?
Otherwise, how could the evil nature of Qin Province come to Beijing?
It is said that in Qin Province, especially in the provincial capital, there are more people living underground than on the ground, so many evil things happen there, such as good things not working but bad things happening, things happening as soon as you say them, and ghosts living in scary places.

But I've never heard that Beijing also has this tradition.

Around seven in the evening, the two of them were sitting in the yard smoking while Li Yancheng listened to Jin Zhihai talking about the case he encountered in the morning. When he heard where the body was found, his heart skipped a beat.

"Wait a minute, Zhihai, where did you find the female corpse?" "It was near Liuli Bridge. That place belongs to the Street Office. It's a warehouse. The place is not very big. A few days ago, the heavy snow collapsed the roof of a house. The people from the Street Office just cleaned it up yesterday, and then this one came this morning.

What's wrong? Does it have anything to do with your case again? "

Seeing the surprise on his good brother's face, Jin Zhihai asked curiously after explaining.

"Uh... I'm not sure if it's related to our case, but I did hear Xiao Yuan tell me something very interesting, which may be related to the case you mentioned."

"Oh? What's the matter? Did Xiao Yuan come to see you today?"

"Well, he went to the market over at Liuli Bridge last night..."

Next, Li Yancheng told Jin Zhihai everything Xiao Yuan had told him.

"It's hard to say what was in the two large bags that person was carrying on his bicycle. His behavior was a little strange anyway."

"It's really strange." Jin Zhihai also agreed after hearing it.

When the snow melts after a heavy snowfall, normally no one would wear new shoes. Even if they are not farmers, they would still want to emphasize their identity as farmers.

He brought two large bags of things on the road, but only one bag was left when he arrived at the market. It is possible that someone had made a reservation in advance and he delivered it first, but it is also possible that the bag might not contain good things.

That place is not far from the warehouse. According to the time Xiao Yuan said, it is enough for the man to dispose of the body and then rush to the market.

Hey, Jin Zhihai immediately became interested.

He reported to his team leader after returning today, but unfortunately, the team leader did not agree to report to the director and bring the case up for handling.

He was not disappointed. This was normal. It was just a casual mention. It didn't matter whether the normal work of each branch office should be carried out or not.

No matter how far the city bureau extends its arm, it cannot dampen the work enthusiasm of grassroots police officers.

Therefore, apart from major cases and requests for help from the branch office, the Municipal Bureau will only pay moderate attention to ordinary homicide cases.

Forensic doctors are different because professional forensic doctors are scarce and each branch does not have its own full-time forensic doctor. For example, the forensic doctor Zhan that Jin Zhihai interviewed at the scene this morning is from the Forensic Doctor's Office of the Municipal Bureau.

In the huge city of Beijing, with a population of several million, there are only three professional forensic doctors, plus six assistants. They are busy all day long. After the body was pulled back to the morgue of the forensic department this morning, it is not known how many days it will take to perform an autopsy.

Therefore, when investigating a case, criminal investigation police officers will never wait for the forensic doctor's feedback after the autopsy, and basically no one cares about that, as long as they know the approximate time of death.

The next thing to do is to investigate and visit to see if there are any witnesses. This situation usually lasts for a month. If there are no clues within a month, and if the forensic doctor cannot provide any help after the autopsy, then the case will most likely be shelved.

This is the current case handling condition. In many cases, if the time of death can be basically determined and the cause of death can be seen, the forensic doctor will not perform an autopsy at all.

The criminal investigation comrades can just rush in. After catching the suspect, there are plenty of ways to make him confess, it’s just a matter of time.

They focus more on confessions than on evidence, there is no such thing as innocent until proven guilty, and sentencing is very quick.

It is hard to say whether it is good or bad. The limitations of the times are here. The construction of the rule of law is a gradual process and cannot be achieved in one step.

"Oh, by the way, give it to..."

After thinking about what Li Yancheng said for a while, Jin Zhihai took out a stack of tickets from his pocket and handed it over.

"So fast?"

Of course Li Yancheng knew what this was. He asked for the national food coupons to be exchanged for 500 yuan, but he didn't expect it to be returned so quickly.

"I went to see Lao Zhu as soon as I came back from Taifeng this morning. He just happened to have some. When he heard that you wanted to exchange it, he sold it at 1.5 yuan per catty. There are 334 catties in total. You count them.

The current market price is basically 1.6 to 1.8 yuan. He has more channels to buy it, so the price can be cheaper. He said he only added 5 cents per catty to share with his brothers below. "

The price of grain in the country has remained fixed, and in theory the price of grain coupons should also remain unchanged. However, due to the household registration system and the people's artificial empowerment of grain coupons, this small piece of paper can be exchanged not only for grain, but also for many other things, so the value of grain coupons has been invisibly raised a lot.

This makes its price much higher than the food itself.

Three years after those events, the annual grain harvest and other agricultural and animal husbandry industries have been steadily improving, and the price of grain coupons has been steadily falling.

But Li Yancheng knew that starting from the second half of this year, the price of food coupons would increase.

The reason is that the junior and senior high school graduates who have accumulated three years of experience will go to the countryside to work as sent-down youths starting from the second half of this year.

When they first go there, their families will definitely find a way to get some food coupons for the children.

There were millions of people across the country who went to the countryside to work in the fields. Even if each person had one pound of food coupons, it would amount to millions of pounds.

Everyone changed their coupons at basically the same time, which pushed up the price of food coupons in a short period of time.

It's better to go to the local rural area to work as a sent-down youth, as it's close to home, and if things really get bad, your family can help you out.

For those who go to other places, especially those far away from home, their families will have to sell everything they have to scrape together more money, as the saying goes: a poor family makes a rich journey.

Many people from Beijing were assigned to Nanniwan, and many people from Shanghai went to the south of the colorful clouds.

If their families were unable to help them find jobs in the city, these people would not be able to return until the great return to the city in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Some people simply don't come back because they get married and have children there.

Speaking of helping his family find a job, Li Yancheng thought of Old Zhao in the front yard. This guy was quite capable and had been trying to find a job for his second son but had never been able to find one.

Later, Fan Chunmei married her current husband. No one knew what tricks Lao Zhao used, but as soon as Lu Junmin moved in, Lao Zhao asked him to help buy a succession quota from an old employee of the art printing factory.

So he sent his second son, Zhao Mingjun, to be an apprentice. And not just an ordinary apprentice, he was to learn how to cook from Lu Junmin.

Li Yancheng heard from Jin Zhihai that Lao Zhao had spent a lot of money to meet this succession target.

Last year, his family was buying money for the eldest son's wedding, and then for the second son's succession quota. In the end, Lao Zhao still borrowed 200 yuan from Jin Zhihai, and I heard that he also borrowed from other places.

In other words, Li Yancheng was confined to his unit at the time, otherwise he would definitely have asked him to borrow money.

The Zhao family now has a total of six people, including the eldest daughter-in-law, five of whom have jobs. The third child is still young and there is no need to worry. It is not difficult to pay back the borrowed money. Better days are ahead.

What do ordinary people work so hard for all their lives? Isn't it to have a stable job and a place to eat and wear warm clothes?

Speak of the devil, and he will appear. Li Yancheng and Jin Zhihai, who had been outside in the cold wind for a long time, were just about to go into the house when Fan Chunmei and Lu Junmin came back with the children.

Lu Junmin should have a treat in the cafeteria today, so he got off work late. Now Fan Chunmei goes to the nursery to pick up her child after get off work every day, and then goes to the printing factory cafeteria to eat, and the family of three comes back together.

Fan Chunmei is a very capable woman. After getting her marriage certificate with Lu Junmin, the first thing she did was to change her son's surname. Mo Xiaojun has now become Lu Xiaojun.

She knew very well that her current husband was infertile. If she wanted him to treat her son as her own, she had to give him hope. Changing her surname became the best and simplest way.

I just wonder if the people of the Mo family would be so exhausted that they would not be able to hold the coffin down if they knew about this.

Judging from the surname alone, the Mo family has been completely cut off.

Fan Chunmei's trick worked well. In any case, in the few months since she married Lv Junmin, he has been very good to her son. Lv Junmin is now the only person who can carry the three-year-old Xiaojun around with him.

A three-year-old child will not lie subjectively. He will naturally be closer to whoever is nice to him.

After entering the yard, Lu Junmin saw Li Yancheng and Jin Zhihai chatting. He handed the child in his arms to Fan Chunmei and asked her to go back first. Then he came over, took out a cigarette and gave one to each of them.

He had a single dormitory in the printing factory, which was definitely not as comfortable as living here, so after getting the marriage certificate, he packed up his things and moved here, not caring at all whether anyone would gossip about him.

The No. 31 courtyard where Fan Chunmei originally lived was rebuilt at the end of October, and she was originally planning to move back.

Here we have to talk about the cleverness of this woman. After all, the house over there was left by the Mo family. It is not a good idea for her to live there with her current husband.

They simply went to the street office and moved their house here.

The house over there is several square meters larger than the one here, so of course the street office agreed, and the deal was made.

Li Yancheng heard what Jin Zhihai said after he came back last night. He shook his head a little. This woman actually did a bad job with good intentions.

(End of this chapter)