Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 317 Lotus?

Su Xiaotong's words made Li Zhiguang, Tian Linjun, and Lao Xu feel a little embarrassed.

“No matter whether the lotus pattern is real or not, no matter whether the person arrested back then is real or not, this case now has nothing to do with those years.

The amazing thing is that Lotus has not been caught. He has been lurking and is now starting to show up again.

Or maybe he has actually been operating in secret for the past ten years or so, but he hid it so deeply that we have no idea.

But no matter what the situation is, what we have to do now is to start investigating this case.

Personally, I think it’s okay to look up the data from that year, but there’s really no need to tie together cases that happened more than a decade apart, even if he was the Lotus back then.”

Su Xiaotong stopped here and nodded apologetically to Li Zhiguang and Tian Linjun respectively.

"I'm sorry, you two. I'm not talking about people, please don't think too much about it."

"It's okay, Director Su. We were just ordinary investigators back then. We investigated cases according to the leaders' arrangements. Even if it is proven later that the person we arrested was wrong, we will not be blamed. Director Su, please speak up."

Li Zhiguang shook his head indifferently and said jokingly.

It's all about the case, no one will care about these.

"Everyone, judging from the fact that Liang Qiutao was still thinking about this handkerchief before he died, he must have joined a mysterious organization. Let's call it the Lotus Group.

Not surprisingly, Sui Donghe and Li Zhengxi should also have close ties with this organization.

So when did they join this organization?
At home or abroad?
If they were abroad, how did they get in touch with the Lotus Group in China?
Is it possible that the current Lotus Group is just borrowing the name from that time?

The most crucial point is that no matter how we investigate, we cannot avoid investigating the murderer who killed these three people first.

These three people are already dead. Whether the Lotus Group behind them is related to the past or not, we have no way to investigate now. "

"Director Su, it's not completely unrelated." Li Yancheng spoke at this time.

Seeing Su Xiaotong looking at him with a puzzled look, he smiled and explained.

"Director Su, have you forgotten what we said in the car when we came back just now? If we can't find any new clues, this case will have to be handed over to the police.

Now, a new clue has been found. It depends on whether you guys are willing to take the trouble. If you are willing to take the trouble, then report it to the bureau. This case is related to the Lotus case from ten years ago. It is very likely that the Lotus arrested that year was a fake. Now we need to use this case as an opportunity to reopen the case for investigation."

!!!

Swish!
As soon as Li Yancheng finished speaking, everyone's eyes fell on Lao Xu.

What Lao Xu suffered from was a toothache.

He was a little hesitant about whether to take over the case.

Finally, he gritted his teeth and waved his hand: "Let's adjourn the meeting. Those who need to be on duty should do their duty, and those who need to rest should have a good rest. We can discuss everything on Monday."

He planned to take advantage of tonight and tomorrow to look through the case files of the Lotus Case.

"Do you want to take this case?"

As Lao Xu said to adjourn the meeting, everyone stood up and walked out. Su Xiaotong reached out and grabbed Li Yancheng's arm and asked.

"I don't care. What I want to find out most is who killed these three people and why."

"You're talking nonsense. If we find out who killed them, the case will be almost solved."

“It’s different, Xiaotong, I think these are two different cases. The lotus case and the murder case should be two different cases.

Don't ask me the reason, it's just my intuition."

"Okay! You should leave quickly. Don't forget to come home tomorrow."

"Remember it!"

……

"Xiaotong, what do you think?"

After everyone had left, the two directors sat down and prepared to discuss the matter.

"Take it." Su Xiaotong expressed his opinion without even thinking.

"I'm not interested in the previous Lotus case. I just think that Liang Qiutao seems to have some kind of unclear relationship with the Guan family mother and son."

"Do you think they know each other?"

"No, it's unlikely that we met directly."

Lao Xu said nothing. He tapped his fingers on the table a few times before asking again.

"What did Yan Cheng mean by that just now?"

"Oh, that's right, Yan Cheng and I both think that Sui Donghe and the other three are on the same line.

The person who killed them should be someone they knew, and might also be the person who anonymously reported Sui Donghe.

This person knows them, but they are not in the same line of business.

The reason they killed them was to use them to attract our attention, perhaps to make it easier for them to do something."

"You mean... the people who killed them might also be some mysterious organization?"

Lao Xu was a little surprised. He didn't know much about the case of Sui Donghe and the other two. He had been preparing for the report this week, and this case was just to help the Third Department, so he didn't ask too much.

Now, of course, I am surprised to hear that there is a possibility that another wave of lurkers may be involved.

"This is just our guess. We informed the Third Division after we came back and asked them to pay attention to the cases they are currently conducting."

Su Xiaotong took out a cigarette and handed it to Lao Xu, then helped him light it.

"According to your analysis, this case involves more and more people."

“It’s hard to say for sure now, but this case seems quite complicated, especially now that an old case from more than ten years ago has been implicated.

The main thing is that the murderer's motive is really hard to understand.

I don’t know what his purpose is.”

"Could it be a thief-type character?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Lao Xu realized that he had said nonsense and quickly waved his hands.

The chivalrous thief he was talking about was someone like the underground judge, but how was that possible?

This kind of person claims to be righteous and would certainly not do anything like killing innocent people on the surface, but the four fires that followed did harm many innocent people.

"I see, Xiaotong, leave me your records of this case for me to see."

“There are records, but they are rather messy.”

“It doesn’t matter, as long as I can see the thread.

Hey, did you and Yan Cheng gain anything from going to the fire scene in Wen Chong this afternoon?"

"I didn't gain anything, but I did hear a story."

Su Xiaotong handed the notebook in his hand to Lao Xu, and briefly told him the story he heard in the street office that afternoon.

“It’s really not an easy task to have four places on fire at the same time, even with four people.

Doing so increases their risk of being exposed. The murderer must have targets at the two fire scenes in Wen Chong and Wu Xuan, but we just haven't noticed it yet.

Xiaotong, what do you mean by memorial service and the sense of ritual that Yancheng mentioned just now? " "Director, I was just saying memorial service casually. Wasn't that place a hospital morgue before liberation? I wondered if the murderer's relatives or friends had died there, and yesterday happened to be his death anniversary or something. It doesn't count.

Although I didn't go to Xuanwu to see the scene, I called and asked.

There was a fire in a residential building over there. Although no one died, that was just luck. In other words, the arsonist probably intended to kill people.

Who the specific target is will have to be investigated before we know it.

As for the sense of ritual that Yancheng mentioned, I asked him, but I didn’t understand what he meant.

He said it was a ritual that some people performed to satisfy their psychological needs.”

Having said that, Su Xiaotong turned his head to look at the door of the conference room, and seeing that it was closed, he pulled his chair towards Lao Xu.

His action made Lao Xu stunned. What was he trying to say? Why was he so mysterious?

"Yan Cheng said that it is similar to religious belief, through certain rituals, the intention of achieving self-realization and satisfaction is achieved."

"What a mess! How is it related to this thing?" Old Xu was a little amused.

"Okay, go back. I don't have anything to do tonight or tomorrow. I'll study the case again. We'll talk about what to do on Monday."

"Do you want me to come over and look at the case file of the Lotus case with you?"

"No, I'm not going to study it, I just want to get a general idea. Isn't Yan Cheng going to your house tomorrow? You can greet the guests."

"He's just a worthless guest. If it wasn't his first time at my house, I would have asked him to cook for me.

I heard from his wife's brother that this guy cooks delicious food."

"Haha, you two have a good relationship, right? If you are embarrassed to let him do it at your house, you can go to his house to eat for free later."

"Your idea is good, Director. I'll have to trouble you tomorrow."

"It's not that hard." Lao Xu waved his hand, picked up the notebook on the table and stood up.

"Let's go, get off work!"

"Director, when will my sister-in-law and the children come over? It won't last long for your family to be separated like this."

"Let's wait until the kids are on summer vacation. If I'm not busy then, I'll go back and help with all the paperwork."

"exactly……"

The two walked out of the meeting room while chatting.

……

In the front yard, as soon as Li Yancheng came out of the meeting room, he rushed to the cafeteria.

"Have you finished the meeting?"

"That's it. Nothing planned."

"Then let's continue with our plan to visit Uncle Su and Aunt Su tomorrow, right?"

"constant"

"Dacheng, I want to go back to work next week."

Luo Min's words made Li Yancheng's men pause for a moment. After thinking about it, he nodded and said, "Okay, do you want me to talk to your curator and adjust your position?

You are now in the reading room. You face too many strangers every day. You may...”

"sure"

Without waiting for Li Yancheng to finish his words, Luo Min responded crisply.

She is not a fool. She would not go there even though she knew there was a tiger there.

"Okay, let's eat quickly. I'll go with you on Monday morning." Li Yancheng grinned at his wife.

It was impossible for him to tie Luo Min to his belt, nor was it possible for him to ask her to stay at home and not go out. He could only find a way to ensure her safety as much as possible.

……

"Uncle, was the fire this time aimed at Xiao Tao? Do you know what he was doing outside?"

At lunchtime, Zhao Laosan came to the Dianhai District Hospital again, carrying the meal he had prepared at home.

Although Liang Qiutao's wife He Juling was not seriously injured, her son needed to stay in the hospital for a few days for observation because he inhaled a large amount of smoke.

Her parents also rushed to the hospital. When Zhao Laosan left at noon, he agreed that he would come and bring her lunch in the afternoon.

As soon as the food was delivered, He Jueling didn't even have time to eat, and gestured to Zhao Laosan to go out and talk.

The inexplicable fire, the husband's last words before his death, the investigation by the Social Affairs Bureau, all of these showed that this fire was unusual and did not seem like an accident.

Although she was extremely sad, He Juling still forced herself to cheer up. She wanted to figure out what was going on.

"Why do you ask?" Zhao Laosan's heart skipped a beat.

He Jueling then recounted the entire story.

What came out of her mouth almost made Zhao Laosan's heart jump out of his mouth.

He never expected that this cheap nephew actually had a trick up his sleeve. He had never mentioned the handkerchief before.

He suppressed the shock in his heart and asked in a slightly surprised tone: "Juling, what handkerchief are you talking about?"

“There was a lotus embroidered in the middle of the handkerchief. I had no idea what it meant. It was only after I found it in Zhenxing’s pocket that I remembered what he had said.

You were not there at the time, and I wondered if the handkerchief was related to the fire, so I immediately took a bus to deliver it to the Social Affairs Bureau.

Uncle, don't you know anything about what Xiao Tao does outside? "

“He didn’t tell me, but it seems that the Social Affairs Bureau asked him to investigate the situation of a classmate who went abroad with him these past two days.

He didn’t tell me anything else.”

Embroidered a lotus?
While answering his nephew's wife's questions, Zhao Laosan was thinking about what the handkerchief meant.

Lotus, he felt like he had heard of this pattern somewhere before, as if it represented some meaning or was a symbol.

"Juling, you'd better not think too much, what you need to do now is to take good care of yourself and the child.

As for the others, people from the Public Security Bureau and the Social Affairs Bureau are investigating. They will definitely come to a conclusion, so don't be in a hurry.

As to whether the fire was aimed at Xiao Tao, you can say this in front of me, but you must not say anything nonsense in front of other people.

No matter if they are from the Public Security Bureau or the Social Affairs Bureau, if they come to you, you should cooperate well and tell them everything you know. "

"I understand, uncle. Well, I just feel...feel...well..."

"Okay, stop thinking too much. Come in and eat. Tell your parents that I'm leaving first. I'll bring you food tomorrow at noon."

"No need, uncle. My mom said that you are far away, so don't run away. She can just cook at home and bring it over.

I would like to trouble you to ask the police and the social affairs bureau about the situation. "

"No problem," Zhao Laosan nodded.

He was eager to leave here to find out what the lotus meant and why he had a familiar feeling about it.

(End of this chapter)