Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

Chapter 484 Discovery
"When I was waiting for you on the roadside just now, I felt someone was looking at me, but after looking around, I didn't find anyone behaving abnormally." Luo Min expressed his feelings truthfully.

This made Li Yancheng frown.

He half turned and looked through the rear window toward the opposite side of the school gate, while carefully observing the pedestrians on the roadside as he spoke.

"Starting tomorrow, if I haven't shown up yet after you come out, you should go back in and wait for me at the guard room inside your gate. Don't stand on the sidewalk."

"I understand." Luo Min nodded obediently.

"Do you have the gun with you?" After still not finding anything unusual, Li Yancheng sat up straight again and looked at his wife.

"I always carry it with me." Luo Min patted his waist, making a snapping sound.

Because of Li Yancheng's identity and the fact that he had been followed before, in order to ensure the safety of his family, Luo Min had a specially approved gun on him and he always carried it with him.

She used to keep the gun in her bag, but started to wear it around her waist after coming to school. Now she has changed her gun to a Type 64, which is smaller in size. She has gotten used to it over the past year.

Li Yancheng nodded, hesitated for a moment, and pulled the handbrake. He was still a little worried and wanted to go down and take a look.

"Honey, just stay in the car. I'll go check across from the gate of your school."

After turning around just now, the car drove nearly a hundred meters away from the school gate before stopping on the side of the road. It is indeed difficult to see the situation over there clearly from here.

"I'm with you."

When she heard her husband was about to get out of the car to take a look, Luo Min immediately spoke in an unquestionable tone.

"Okay." Li Yancheng agreed without hesitation. He turned off the car, took out the key and held it in his hand. Then he glanced at the rearview mirror on the left to make sure there were no bicycles or cars coming from behind. He opened the door with his left hand and got under the car. On the other side, Luo Min put her bag on the passenger seat, pushed open the door and got out.

After closing and locking the car door, Li Yancheng walked around the rear of the car and onto the sidewalk, and walked with his wife towards the opposite side of the school gate.

There was a department store, a post office, a state-owned restaurant and a bicycle repair shop there. Now, except for the restaurant, all other shops have closed.

When he was almost there, Li Yancheng discovered that under the eaves of the restaurant was a middle-aged man who looked to be in his fifties. He was a shoe repairman and was busy with his work with his head down. Next to him sat a female police officer who was also in a police uniform. She had leather shoes on one foot and the other foot was bare, stepping on the shoe-wearing foot.

"Wife, do you know that woman?"

Li Yancheng raised his chin and gestured towards the shoemaker.

"She looks familiar. I must have seen her in school. She's not from our class, but should be from the short-term training class." Luo Min looked at the policewoman carefully and shook his head slowly.

As they were talking, the two had already walked to the opposite side of the school gate. Li Yancheng stood on the side of the road and looked at the place where he had parked his car when he drove over just now. He felt something was wrong. If the person who looked at him just now was standing here, then he would definitely see it when he looked over when he felt it.

Thinking of this, he turned his head to look both sides, then walked a few steps to the west. At this time, Luo Min spoke.

"Dacheng, I felt that person was there at that time. When I looked over there were many people coming in and out, so I couldn't see clearly." She raised her hand and pointed to the department store.

The store is the last one in the row of houses. To its east is the post office, and further back is the state-owned restaurant which is still open. At this moment, Li Yancheng and his companions are standing on the roadside in front of the restaurant.

To the west of the store is a small path heading south. Following the path south is the living area for employees of a factory on the Dianhai side. The place that Luo Min pointed to is the intersection of this path.

Walking to the place his wife pointed to, Li Yancheng stood at the intersection and looked towards the school gate where he had parked his car just now, then took a few steps back and retreated to the outer wall of the store.

As soon as he retreated here, he noticed four cigarette butts thrown on the ground in the corner. They were all without filters and had not been stepped on. Judging from the traces, it seemed that they had not been thrown away for a long time and the cigarette butts were not dirty.

He immediately bent down and picked up the four cigarette butts one by one. When he picked up the third one, his heart tightened involuntarily. Although the cigarette butt had gone out, it was still hot, which meant it had just been thrown away. After hurriedly picking up the last one in his hand, he touched the end of the four cigarette butts and could still feel their wetness. The four cigarette butts had not been thrown away for long.

He straightened up and looked around.

The fact that he was wearing a police uniform and picking up cigarette butts at the corner of the intersection had attracted the attention of passers-by, and everyone stopped and looked at him.

After Li Yancheng stood up, he originally wanted to see if the person who threw the cigarette butt had gone far away, but he saw this scene. He didn't care. He looked around and saw that he was surrounded. He couldn't see the situation outside, so he lowered his head again and looked at the four cigarette butts in his hand.

Pegasus
This is a brand of cigarettes. The smoker didn't smoke very hard, so you can just see half of the brand clearly. All four cigarette butts are Pegasus cigarettes, which means it was probably smoked by one person.

A man stood near the corner and smoked four cigarettes in a row. Even if he smoked one after another, it would take him nearly half an hour to finish them.

This person has been standing here for quite some time. After seeing the brand of the cigarette and the trace of cigarette butt, Li Yancheng muttered to himself.

This pack of cigarettes costs 20 cents, which shows that the person who smokes this is of ordinary means.

He looked down at the corner again, and then he realized that he had been careless just now. There were two burnt matchsticks near the cigarette butt he picked up.

Two matches were used to light four cigarettes. Either there were two people, or if it was just one person, then that person was a heavy smoker. He smoked one cigarette after another, and after stopping for a while, he lit another cigarette and another one.

"What happened to these cigarette butts?"

Seeing her man picking up cigarette butts and looking at the ground, Luo Min couldn't help but move closer to him and ask in a low voice.

"Someone has been standing here for quite some time. Let's go first."

Seeing that more and more people were watching, they were whispering, wondering if the police were investigating a case. The school opposite had also noticed the situation here, and some students had already come out of the school. Li Yancheng didn't want to make it known to everyone, so he responded to his wife briefly and motioned for her to leave first.

Hearing her husband say this, Luo Min didn't ask any more questions and followed him towards the car.

When everyone saw the two police officers leave, they didn't understand what happened and dispersed after talking about it.

Li Yancheng walked to the shoe repairman's stall and suddenly stopped. Under the surprised gaze of the female police officer who was sitting and waiting for her shoes to be repaired, he walked to the other side of the shoe repairman and squatted down.

"master……"

The shoemaker and the policewoman certainly saw the commotion at the small intersection on the west side, but neither of them expected that the two policemen who had been standing at the intersection for a long time and had picked up something unknown would actually come to them.

The policewoman had noticed before that the woman in the police uniform was a student in the long-term training class. After all, Luo Min was indeed very pretty.

She had also heard that this woman was sent by the Social Affairs Bureau to study, so she naturally thought that the man with Luo Min was also from the Social Affairs Bureau, and maybe the two of them were investigating some case.

Although she couldn't understand why Luo Min could come out to investigate cases while she was studying full-time, she had no intention of asking too many questions even though she had walked up to her. It was better to not ask too much about the cases of the Social Affairs Bureau.

The shoemaker had been watching Li Yancheng and the other man. When he saw that he actually walked up to him and started talking to him, he stopped repairing the shoes and put down the work in his hands. He responded with a rather nervous look.

"Comrade Public Security, I am the one you are looking for..."

"Master, don't be nervous. I just want to ask, before the get out of class ended at the Political Science College across the street, did you notice that someone was standing at the small intersection on the west side for a long time?"

Li Yancheng came over to ask the shoe repairman on a whim. The shoe repairman had been sitting outside, and his professional instinct might have made him keep looking at the people passing by, waiting for customers to come.

There was a man standing at a small intersection about ten meters to the west for what seemed like the time it took to smoke four cigarettes. This was a long time, and the shoemaker might have noticed it.

Sure enough, the shoemaker's answer did not disappoint him.

"Yes, I did see a man standing there for quite some time, as if he was waiting for someone."

"Master, can you describe to me what that man looks like?" As he spoke, Li Yancheng took out his work ID from his shirt pocket. He did not show it to the shoemaker, but directly opened it in front of the female police officer sitting on the other side.

After asking this question, he turned to look at the policewoman, without saying anything, just glanced at her lightly.

At just one glance, the policewoman understood what Li Yancheng meant. She quickly put on the cloth shoe that the shoemaker had just thrown to her and asked her to step on temporarily. She thought the shoe was too dirty and didn't step on it. After putting on the good cloth shoe, she stood up and walked to the side of the road without saying a word.

The cobbler looked at the policewoman who suddenly stood up and walked to the side of the road in surprise: "What...what...what happened?"

"Master, don't worry about her. I'm investigating a case that needs to be kept confidential. She's not suitable to be listening."

"Ah? Oh, I understand, I understand." Li Yancheng's words made the shoemaker's face change a little.

"You...Comrade Public Security, what do you want to ask?"

The shoemaker was a little nervous and forgot the question Li Yancheng had just asked.

"You just said that the person you saw was a man?"

"right"

"How old are you?" "Uh... He looks about 40 or 50 years old."

"Can you give me a detailed description of his appearance?"

"This... Comrade Gong'an, he just looks like an ordinary person. I... I don't know what to say."

"How about this, I ask you questions and you answer them? What do you think?"

If you ask an ordinary person to describe the appearance of a stranger whom he has only seen a few times, and there is nothing special about that person's face, he really won't be able to say anything.

"Okay, please ask, comrade Public Security."

"Master, have you seen that man before?"

"No," the shoemaker shook his head flatly. "Comrade Public Security, I have been running this shoe repair stall here for quite some time. You can see that I see many people coming and going every day when I sit here, but I am sure that I have never seen that person."

"How tall is he?"

"How high?" A trace of confusion flashed in the shoemaker's eyes. This time he did not give an answer quickly. Instead, after thinking for a while, he turned his head to look to the west and then spoke.

"Comrade Public Security, I can't say exactly how high he was, but for a while I noticed that he was leaning against the wall, just a little higher than the brick nest."

The shoemaker raised his arm and pointed toward the shop.

Li Yancheng noticed that the protruding piece of the west wall of the store might be because two bricks at the corner were dented a lot over time, or it might be that something just happened to break those two bricks. Sitting here and looking at it, it is impossible to estimate how high it is.

Just at this moment, a woman came over from that side. She was about the same height as the brick nest. When she came over, Li Yancheng estimated that the woman was about 1.6 meters tall. Considering that the person was leaning there, her standing posture was definitely not standard, but it would not be too different, so her height should not exceed 1.7 meters.

After determining the approximate height, Li Yancheng looked at the shoemaker again: "Master, how long is that man's hair?"

"Short hair, just a little longer than yours."

"What about your face shape? Long, round, or square?"

……

"What clothes are you wearing?"

……

"Did you see him smoking?"

"See, he seems to be smoking all the time."

"How long do you think he stood there?"

"Oh, it's hard to say. Anyway, it was quite a while ago. When I first saw him, school wasn't over yet, and work wasn't over yet. There weren't many people on the street. It was probably around 5:30."

"Did you notice when he left?"

"I didn't notice that." The shoemaker shook his head and raised his chin to signal the policewoman who was standing on the roadside with her back to them.

"After class, this girl from the opposite school came over to fix my shoes, so I didn't look anywhere else. If you hadn't been doing something in the corner just now that attracted so many people, I wouldn't have looked over there either.

"Comrade Public Security, what happened to that man? Is he a criminal?"

The shoemaker finally couldn't suppress his curiosity and asked this question.

Unfortunately, he couldn't get any answers from Li Yancheng.

"Master, did you notice anything special about that man?"

Not getting the answer he wanted, the shoemaker smacked his lips with some regret, shook his head and said, "No, if you hadn't come to ask, I wouldn't have remembered anything at all."

"Okay, Master, if you see that person again, please go and tell the people at the school security guard duty room."

"no problem"

"Finally, don't mention anything I asked you just now to anyone who is not involved."

"Please rest assured, Public Security Comrade. I'm very tight-lipped. I know the confidentiality regulations."

"Very good." Li Yancheng nodded with a smile and extended his right hand to the shoe repairman.

Seeing this, the shoemaker quickly wiped his right hand on his clothes and carefully held it.

"I won't bother you, Master. Go ahead and do your work. If you remember anything about that person later, you can go and tell the people at the school's security office."

"Okay, okay, I'll remember that."

After letting go of the shoe repairman's hand, Li Yancheng stood up and left with his wife.

"Comrade Public Security..."

Just as the two of them walked up to the car, the shoemaker unexpectedly chased after them again.

"What's wrong, master?"

"I remembered something about that man."

"what's up?"

"That person seems to have some problem with his legs and feet. He is hesitant when he walks."

"Do you know which leg it is?"

The feature that the shoe repairman added when he caught up with him made Li Yancheng's eyes light up. It was a relatively obvious feature, but he soon realized that it didn't mean anything, because it was very easy for a normal person to disguise himself as a cripple. There were such people in the cases he had handled before.

Moreover, the criminal disguised himself for a long time and even deceived the neighbors who had lived with him for more than ten years.

"Which leg did I not notice? Or did I accidentally see it when the man was pacing back and forth at that small intersection."

"Okay, thank you, Master."

"You're welcome. You're also investigating a case."

In fact, until now, Li Yancheng has no way to determine whether that person was following him or his wife. It is also possible that the person had some other purpose. It just happened that his wife just came out of school and stood on the roadside. The man looked at her a few more times, and then when she got in his car, the man looked at him a few more times, and his parents-in-law sensed it.

It has to be said that because of her figure, Luo Min is often stared at when she walks on the street, especially when she wears a uniform.

Speaking of this keen perception, he had never realized that he had this talent before. Gradually, if someone stared at him with malicious eyes and the distance was not particularly far, he found that he would have a vague feeling.

As time went on, he could clearly sense when someone was staring at him for more than a second or two, but he couldn't immediately catch their gaze as long as they didn't keep staring at him.

He felt that this should be one of the benefits brought by the soul traveling through time, and it was a good skill.

Later he found out that his wife also had this vague perception, but it was not as strong as his.

"Dacheng, that person..."

After getting in the car, Luo Min, who had been silent, spoke.

"It's hard to say whether the man was standing there for a long time because he was waiting for someone or had some other intention."

Knowing what his wife was going to ask, Li Yancheng started the car and drove towards home while speaking with a serious expression.

"I'll send you here tomorrow morning and say hello to your school. If you don't have anything else to do during this period, don't leave the school gate."

He has tried countless cases over the years, and offended so many organizations that his personal information would inevitably be checked out. It is very likely that some sleeper organization has sent people to take revenge.

(End of this chapter)