Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 296 Daytime
"Zhi Hai, what's the situation over there now?"

As soon as he sat down, Lu Fangyang threw a cigarette over to him.

Taking the cigarette thrown by the team leader, Jin Zhihai lit it and nodded and said softly, "We have made some discoveries, but it is hard to say whether it is specific or not. We followed the direction in which the murderer might have left and found a forest about one kilometer east of the village.

We conducted a net search in the woods all day today and discovered a fresh trace of landfill at around 4:00 p.m.

After digging, remnants of clothes that had almost been burned to black ashes were found in the pit.

By identifying the remaining fragments, it was found that what was burned there should be a Type 65 military uniform.

In order to burn the clothes more thoroughly and cleanly, the people who burned the clothes poured kerosene on them.

Judging from the freshness of the landfill soil, it must have been burned and buried in the past two days.

We used a sieve to filter the excavated soil and found three fragments. One of them looked darker in color and has been sent to the laboratory for testing to see if it can detect blood components and blood type.

But there is not much hope. The fragments are small, not even as big as the little fingernail, and they may have been soaked in kerosene. The analyst said that it is unlikely that any results will be obtained from testing.

How are you doing, Team Leader?

"We also gained something." Lu Fangyang nodded, but then his face became a little depressed. He sighed and then said, "But it's better not to gain anything."

"What do you mean? Isn't it a good thing to have some gains?" Jin Zhihai was a little confused and didn't know why the team leader said that.

"Go east from the village, on the road you checked before. You know there's a wheat field just outside the village, right?"

"I know"

"Did you see the pile of straw next to the wheat field?"

"Um"

"During this period, there was a man sleeping in the straw piles every night. He hollowed out the bottom of one of the straw piles and slept there at night."

唰

Jin Zhihai's eyes suddenly lit up. Doesn't that mean that if someone left the village from that side that night, the person sleeping in the straw pile should have seen it?

Before he could speak, Lu Fangyang shook his head helplessly and said, "I know what you are thinking. Let me tell you clearly that the man may have seen the murderer, but what he said does not count."

"Why?" Jin Zhihai was very curious.

"Ah... You should be able to guess who is sleeping in the straw pile."

? ? !

What the hell!

When asked by Lu Fangyang, Jin Zhihai reacted quickly.

"Team Leader, you're not talking about that idiot, are you?"

"Yes, it was him. With the help of the captain, the fool led us around the village three times and identified six people in total. However, after preliminary investigation, those six people all had alibis."

The fool that Jin Zhihai and his friends met was different from the fake fool Guan Weizhen. This was a real one.

No one knows why he became so stupid. This idiot is not from this village. No one knows where he came from and how he got here six years ago. He looked only eleven or twelve years old at that time.

At that time, the production team reported the situation to the commune, and the commune sent the people to the county’s civil affairs relief department.

What the villagers didn’t expect was that half a year later, this fool came back to them again.

He was sent to the county again, and came here for the third time a year later, as if he had decided to stay here.

The civil affairs relief department was also troubled. Over the past year or so, they posted missing person notices everywhere and even placed ads in newspapers, but they still couldn't find where the child came from.

He didn't stay well with them. He ran away whenever they provoked him. He ran to this village three times and to other places five or six times.

It's not like they have nothing to do, they can't just revolve around this one person.

They simply discussed it with the locals and decided to give the village some food coupons every month so that the child could stay here temporarily.

Although the child was stupid, he was able to work and had strong arms, so the villagers agreed. Since the county gave him food coupons anyway, they just kept him.

This retention has lasted until now.

The village even built a room for the idiot, but he didn't live there well and just liked to hide in the straw piles in the wheat field.

The only person in the village who could communicate with the fool was the team leader. It was also the team leader who remembered that the fool liked to hide in the straw pile at night, and maybe he saw something.

After finding the idiot, after several rounds of communication, it was confirmed that this guy did see someone leaving the village from this side in the early morning of the 10th.

But no, he pointed out six people. It was normal to point out so many people. It was the middle of the night and there was no light. It was good enough to be able to see the figures clearly by the moonlight.

The six people identified by the fool do look a bit similar in body shape.

But after a quick investigation, they were all ruled out, which made Lu Fangyang very distressed.

No wonder he could say that it would be better to have no gain.

It's really disheartening. We finally saw a glimmer of hope, but the result is like this. Anyone would feel sad.

After listening to the team leader's explanation, Jin Zhihai shook his head repeatedly.

Tomorrow Lu Fangyang plans to check several nearby villages for people with the same body shape. If there is still no result, he will have to give up this clue.

As they were talking, the leaders came in from outside and the briefing meeting officially began.

……

Saturday, June 14th
Li Yancheng finally felt relieved for the time being.

The case at hand depends on whether we can find any connection between Guan Xiaofeng and Wuxuan District.

If you really can't find it, it will be a bit troublesome to report to your superiors, because they themselves are skeptical about the inferred results.

He had nothing to do today so he stayed in the clinic all morning and examined several colleagues.

Not bad, his hands weren't rusty at all because he hadn't treated patients for a long time.

It was almost time to get off work at noon, and Li Yancheng walked out of the clinic and closed the door. He was going home for lunch today, as his wife was on vacation and would cook for him at home.

As soon as he turned around, the operator in the duty room called him.

"Chief Li"

"Hey"

"Deputy Director Xia called and asked for you."

"Who? Deputy Director Xia?"

The operator's words made Li Yancheng a little confused. Deputy Director Xia was the deputy director in charge of logistics in the bureau. How could he contact him directly?

How strange!

"Coming"

After answering, he walked quickly towards the duty room.

He now only hoped that nothing urgent would happen and prevent him from going home to enjoy the loving lunch his wife had prepared for him.

"Hello Director Xia, I'm Li Yancheng."

"Comrade Yan Cheng, it's almost time to get off work, so I'll cut to the chase. I wonder if you know Director Liu Changshun of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the Army General Hospital?"

"Director Xia, I don't know Director Liu."

"It's okay. This is what happened. Director Liu called me just now and said he wanted to talk to you about some medical matters. He didn't know when you would be free. If it's convenient for you, he will come to see you."

Hearing what came over the phone, Li Yancheng grinned.

He really doesn't want to deal with these bigwigs in the field of traditional Chinese medicine.

But since the bureau leader had called him, he couldn't just refuse outright. The most he could do was postpone it for a few days. He would have to meet him sooner or later.

Since we have to meet, it’s better to meet sooner rather than later.

"Director Xia, I don't think I'll have anything to do this afternoon. If Director Liu is willing, we can come this afternoon."

"Okay, then I'll call him back and ask him to come see you this afternoon. It won't delay your work, will it? The case is important, don't let it get delayed just because I called."

"It's okay, Director Xia. I don't have anything to do this afternoon."

"That's good"

After saying that, the person on the other end of the phone hung up. Hearing the busy tone coming from the receiver, Li Yancheng sighed helplessly.

"Chief Li, your boss is not going to suddenly assign you a job, is he?"

"No, even if he arranged it, he couldn't bypass the department and arrange it directly to me.

Aren't you going to get food?"

"Da Ming has already gone. I asked him to bring it over for me."

"Okay then, I'll be leaving first!"

"okay"

Coming out of the duty room, Li Yancheng walked straight towards the gate.

Just two minutes after he left, Lao Xu and Su Xiaotong came over from the central courtyard. When they arrived at the door of the health room, they found that it was locked.

"Uh... Director, Deputy Director Su, Section Chief Li seemed to be walking towards the main gate just now."

At this time, a staff member from the Logistics Office next door just came out with a lunch box. When she saw the two directors, she was stunned at first, and then quickly told them what she had just seen.

"Hey, this kid is quite active after get off work."

"Forget it, let's go eat and talk about it in the afternoon."

Lao Xu smiled and turned to walk towards the canteen. He was in a meeting at the bureau this morning and had just returned.

When he came back, he saw Li Yancheng seeing a doctor, so he went to the Intermediate Court to find Su Xiaotong and talk about the case.

The two chatted for a while and saw that it was time to eat, so they came to the front and prepared to call Li Yancheng to eat and chat together.

There are not many people in the office today. Except for the normal duty personnel and the mobile personnel who stay behind, everyone else is outside continuing the cross-checking work of yesterday.

"Xiaotong, does Yancheng agree with your guess?"

"He agrees, but he also has doubts. He thinks his leaders may not agree."

"It's normal for him to have this doubt. Don't talk about him. I think the same way."

"Now we can only wait for the results of the investigation."

Su Xiaotong could understand the director's doubts. All they could do now was to find as much indirect evidence as possible.

Lao Xu nodded: "Okay, let's not talk about it for now, let's go in and get some food."

……

Li Yancheng has also rushed home.

His wife steamed rice at home today, and the original plan was to have braised tofu, stir-fried spicy cabbage and shredded potatoes.

But when he entered the house, what he saw were braised liver tips, stir-fried pork shreds, and hot and sour potato strips? And his wife's silly smile.

Well, needless to say, he knew what happened. The tofu and cabbage were definitely ruined, and then the woman ran to the restaurant and brought back two dishes.

Although the shredded potatoes turned into potato strips, they still looked edible.

“Don’t criticize me!”

When she saw him come in and look at the food on the table in surprise, Luo Min felt a little embarrassed and snuggled into his arms, starting to act like a spoiled child.

Although her words did not have that kind of coquettish tone and sounded relatively calm, they had a different flavor to Li Yancheng's ears.

He smiled and raised his hand to touch his wife's hair, then bent down and kissed her forehead.

"Why should I criticize you? The rice looks pretty good, and the potato strips are fried, too."

"Hate it, they fried shredded potatoes."

"Uh... well, at least the shredded potatoes look edible, but what about the cabbage and tofu?"

"Hehe, I poured it out. I can't eat it."

"Not bad, not bad. If we can cook one, it's a victory. Let's keep working on it."

As soon as he finished speaking, Li Yancheng's eyes swept over four bags of noodles piled next to his door.

"what is that?"

"Oh, I almost forgot. Just now a man named Zhu... Zhu Yongyang came. He said he was your and Zhihai's classmate and brought you rice, flour and oil.

That's a total of 100 kilograms of flour, 100 kilograms of rice, and 20 kilograms of peanut oil. Let each of our two families take half."

Hearing her man's question, Luo Min released her arms around him, walked to the bags piled next to the door, pointed at them one by one and spoke.

"I asked him how much it was and I gave him the money, but he said no, I can just settle the bill with either of you later. I don't know what happened and you didn't tell me.

He had just been gone for a while, less than five minutes. He brought two people with him when he came. He just dropped off his things and left.

I told him that you will be back soon and asked him to sit for a while and drink some water, but he said it was okay and we would talk later. "

Li Yancheng walked forward, untied the ropes tied at the mouths of each bag, looked at it, nodded and said, "I forgot to tell you that he will deliver rice, flour and oil to our family and Zhihai's family every month in the future. I will exchange the food on the food book for food coupons and give him some extra money.

But why did he come here during the day today? If you weren’t at home, wouldn’t he have come here in vain? "

"Oh, he just said he just happened to be passing by here so he came to take a look.

He also said that you were not considerate enough for not telling him after being married for half a month, and he would ask you for a drink next time he sees you. "

As Luo Min spoke, she walked over to Li Yancheng and helped him unbutton his uniform jacket, then took off his coat and hung it on the hook behind the door.

"Go wash your hands and let's eat. Let's talk while we eat. The food will get cold soon."

"it is good"

Whether it's potato strips or potato shreds, although they are of different thicknesses and don't look very good, they are at least fried and have no strange smell, so they are definitely edible.

Watching her husband finish the big plate of shredded potatoes, Luo Min's big eyes narrowed into slits with joy.

"Dacheng"

"Um"

"You asked your classmate to send us rice, flour and oil every month. Nothing will go wrong, right?"

"It's okay. It's not like I'm giving you money for nothing."

"What does he do and how can he get so much stuff?"

"He deals in everything, and has a bunch of little brothers under him. He buys and sells things in the ghost markets at the junction of Chengdong, Yangchao, and Chongwen districts, and he works as a broker during the day.

Some factories now have some unplanned amounts of products produced every month, and the factory leaders don’t dare to sell them themselves, so these brokers come in handy.”

"Wow, your old classmate has quite a wide network of contacts."

"He has only been a broker for a little over a year. Before that, he almost only dealt in ghost markets. After more than a decade, he probably had some money on hand and his horizons broadened, so he started to do daytime business."

"Then when you see him again, tell him to keep an eye out when doing this and try not to touch those big things.

I don’t know about other things, but there were many children in the compound where I lived who did this.

Those guys have dark hands. If they find someone crossing the line they think is theirs, they will show no mercy."

Li Yancheng, who had finished his meal and was smoking, was slightly startled when he heard this.

"Wife, what big item do you mean?"

“For example, cement, coal, gasoline and diesel, prefabricated pipes, some industrial products, and food.

It doesn't matter if he gets less food, but if the amount he moves every month is too large, someone will definitely come to trouble him. He can call the police directly, and if he gets caught, he can just put them in sacks and drag them out of the city..."

Li Yancheng knew that in the 1980s and 1990s, many of the people from that compound were engaged in brokerage business.

Some are particularly greedy and like to use their power to coerce others. They take things from you with their bare hands. If you don’t give them to me, you can try to see if you can still sell your things.

The other side is that if you don’t buy my stuff, you won’t even be able to do business.

Logically, he should pay the supplier after getting the money, right?

No, he is suppressing you. Many factories were crushed to death like this in those years.

I didn't expect that someone has already started doing this.

There's really no point in talking to this bunch of people.

"I understand. I'll tell him when I give him the money later, and ask him to be careful and not try to make money from everything."

"Tell him to be careful. In fact, he can make a lot of money just by doing business in the ghost market. Don't be so greedy that you might get into trouble."

Luo Min said a few more words only because Zhu Yongyang was her husband's old classmate and bought rice, flour and oil for the family every month. If it was someone else, she would definitely not say a word.

She had heard a lot about the great achievements of the people in that compound.

"Meow"

"Oh, I forgot to give it food."

Hearing the cry of a kitten under his feet, Luo Min slapped his forehead.

It has been nearly twenty days since this kitten was brought here by the old cat. It has no worries about food and drink every day and is growing rapidly.

They looked half a body bigger than the four kept in the Zhao family.

Without letting his wife move, Li Yancheng stood up and took the kitten's special food bowl. He broke off two pieces of bean flour cakes that he had specially steamed for the kitten, poured half a basin of water into it, and then added some leftover vegetable soup and mixed it. That was it, its meal.

As for whether or not you can eat salt, that is not considered at all.

It's good enough to have something to eat. Can't you see that it is much bigger than its brothers and sisters?

"Dacheng, when can I get pregnant?"

Just as the kitten was eating, Luo Min suddenly asked.

"Uh... you've really stumped me with your question. I can't really say for sure.

What? You want a baby?"

Hearing his wife ask this, Li Yancheng, who was squatting there watching the kitten eat, stood up and walked to Luo Min who was sitting on the chair, and let her head rest on his stomach.

"Well, I want to give birth to a child for you. Didn't you tell Zhihai that the first child would be a daughter and the second child would be a son?"

"Haha, that's easy. Let's work hard now."

It’s not easy to have a child, just work hard!
"what!"

Before Luo Min could react, he noticed that his vision had changed.

The person who was originally sitting on the chair suddenly floated in the air.

"Dacheng, it's daytime!"

"It's okay. I've locked the gate to the yard, and no one is coming back now."

"you……"

(End of this chapter)