You're supposed to be a security officer, what case are you solving?

Chapter 302 The Road They Came From!

June 19th, Friday.

Just after seven o'clock in the morning, Yang Jinwen and his group boarded the green train bound for Deyang.

The carriage was almost empty, with only four people sitting together.

While smoking, Yao Weihua boasted, "I went to Chengdu once when I was young, more than ten years ago. The women in Sichuan Province are really beautiful, with long, white legs and fair skin!"

The cat said enviously, "I've heard that there are giant pandas in Chengdu, but I've never seen one before."

Yao Weihua rolled her eyes at him: "I'm talking to you about women, and you have to bring up some damn panda!"

Cai Ting smiled and said, "I also want to see pandas, Captain Yang. If we finish the case, can we find some time to go see them?"

Yang Jinwen was holding the materials in his hand and was looking at them intently, ignoring them.

The cat sat next to him, eating sunflower seeds and looking at the scenery outside the train window.

Suddenly, he sniffed and said, "Hey, Captain Yang, you smell like Forensic Doctor Wen."

Cai Ting raised an eyebrow: "That's right. We have to pay our dues before each business trip; we can't leave the granary full."

Cai Ting deals with a bunch of shabby old men every day, and she can tell dirty jokes without blushing or skipping a beat.

Yang Jinwen glanced at them and said, "Nonsense, that's just how I smell."

Cat curled her lip: "Give me a break. Everyone in the city bureau can smell the perfume on Forensic Doctor Wen. You two must have slept together last night."

Yao Weihua said with deep feeling: "Brother Cat, you're not married, no, you don't have a girlfriend, you don't understand our Captain Yang."

Maozi ignored him. He was a country boy who had lived in Annam since childhood and had rarely left the province. The few times he had gone on business trips were when he was on a case, so he found the scenery along the way very novel.

"Isn't Sichuan Province a basin? We take the train there, so why don't we feel any difference in elevation?"

Yao Weihua scoffed: "You think this is a roller coaster? In the afternoon, the train went through tunnels all the way. The workers who built the railway in those early years were truly remarkable, building railways all over the country."

Cai Ting lit a cigarette, then looked out the car window at the majestic mountains and sighed, "To get rich, build roads first. In all these years of reform and opening up, we have built roads connecting the north and south, and diverted water from the south to the north. What a magnificent project!"

Cat nodded in agreement: "By the way, Lao Yao, are we going to pass through Jianmen Pass?"

Yao Weihua shook his head: "It's in Guangyuan, you can't see it."

Maozi said with some regret, "Jiange is majestic and precipitous, a place where one man can hold off ten thousand! I want to see the ancient road from the pre-Qin period, after all, we are all people from the Qin Dynasty."

"Damn, you really know how to flatter yourself."

"My family has lived in Shaanxi Province for generations, so I am a native of Shaanxi."

At this moment, Yang Jinwen looked up and asked, "Who is in charge of receiving us from Deyang?"

When the conversation turned to work, Cai Ting took out her notebook, pulled out a photo, and handed it to Yang Jinwen.

"The deputy captain of the Deyang Criminal Police Detachment is named Lin Qiao."

Yang Jinwen glanced at the photo and memorized the other person's appearance.

Before setting off, we had to confirm each other's identities. In 98, information technology was not well-developed, so we had to communicate with each other first.

There are plenty of swindlers in this world. There was once an inspection team that went to the south, and as soon as they got off the train, they were targeted by swindlers and swindled out of everything.

Yao Weihua said worriedly, "The Deyang Criminal Police Detachment isn't cooperating. How are we supposed to investigate?"

Cai Ting replied, "If 'Yin Hong' is indeed from Deyang, excluding those whose place of origin is in the main urban area, then there are six districts and counties to investigate. We don't have her real identity, so we can only investigate one place at a time."

Yao Weihua sighed: "She really hid it well. She didn't say she was going back to take revenge on anyone. I think she must have committed a crime before she went to Dannan County, otherwise there's no way to explain why she would hide her true identity."

Yang Jinwen put away the witness's statement. Last night, Qi Bin went to the detention center and interrogated Yuan Lang again. The other party really didn't know where 'Yin Hong' was from.

Cat said, "Didn't she tell Aunt Wang, who took her in, that she had killed someone before and was most likely a fugitive?"

Cai Ting sighed: "I guess she was forced to kill. If she had killed willingly, she would have done so long ago in the face of the suffering brought to her by Yuan Dajun and Tao Jianye. She wouldn't have waited for the deaf-mute woman to find her. It was like the last straw that broke the camel's back."

Yang Jinwen asked, "What time will our train arrive?"

Cai Ting replied, "It's expected to be around 7 p.m., but it'll probably be a little later, at least past 7 p.m.

"Six months ago, on January 22nd and January 23rd, the deaf-mute woman traveled from Deyang to Dannan County, and 'Yin Hong' returned from Annan to Deyang. They both took this train, K121."

Upon hearing this, Yao Weihua's expression immediately fell, and he stood up on his own initiative.

"Qi Bin is a good-for-nothing. If I had known I was going on this business trip, I should have switched with him."

The cat asked, puzzled, "What's wrong?"

Cai Ting also sighed: "Investigating a case, what else?"

The cat let out an "oh" and realized what was happening.

Yang Jinwen smiled and said, "I'll watch the luggage."

Anyone want some sunflower seeds, soda, or eight-treasure porridge?

Just then, a train attendant pushed a trolley through the narrow aisle.

Yao Weihua walked over and called out, "Give me a bottle of Laoshan beer. Excuse me, I have something to ask you."

Cai Ting and Maozi went to the front and back carriages to begin their investigation. More than an hour later...

Cai Ting caught a pickpocket on the train and handed him over to a railway policeman who was sleeping on the train.

Cat showed his ID to the flight attendant. When he asked him questions, a parent holding a child, upon hearing that he was a policeman, handed the child to him and went to the toilet, where she spent most of the day, saying she had diarrhea and had been holding it in for a long time. She didn't trust anyone else but the police.

Every time Yao Weihua went to a carriage, he would chat with the smoking passengers at the connection point, smoking out most of his pack of cigarettes, and talking about all sorts of things for a while.

Two hours later, the three of them returned to their seats, exhausted. They found the small table covered with lunchboxes, all of which Yang Jinwen had brought from the food cart.

"Holy crap, a chicken leg!"

Braised fish!

"Crispy pork, tomato and scrambled eggs, and white rice!" Cat swallowed hard.

Yang Jinwen handed them spoons: "There are no chopsticks on the train, so eat quickly."

Yao Weihua said, "This is too much, Captain Yang. I don't think we can reimburse you for this, do we?"

"It's my treat."

"I'm so sorry," Cai Ting said with a smile, taking the spoon and burying her head in her rice.

After they had eaten and drunk their fill, Cai Ting spoke first: "Captain Yang, I asked around, and one of the train attendants who cleans the train saw the deaf-mute woman, but she doesn't remember what the date was."

She said she saw a woman wearing a floral shirt squatting at the connection between the train carriages, hugging her knees and trembling.

It was winter at the time, and the flight attendant was puzzled. When asked, she gestured with her hands and said something incoherently.

The flight attendant touched her hand; her skin was burning hot. The attendant quickly found a military overcoat for her to wear, poured her a cup of hot water, and got her a fast food meal.

The deaf-mute woman only drank some water, but did not eat.

The flight attendant knew she was deaf and mute, so she wrote a sentence on a piece of paper and asked her if she needed help.

The deaf-mute woman couldn't understand it, probably because she was illiterate.

Before getting off the train, the deaf-mute woman returned the clothes to the train attendant.

Yao Weihua said, "After drinking paraquat, my heart felt like it was on fire. I probably wouldn't feel cold, and I definitely wouldn't be able to eat anything."

Cai Ting shook her head: "I think the deaf-mute woman seems to be running away. She encountered danger, and she wasn't even dressed or had any money on her."

She immediately took a train to Danan County to find 'Yin Hong,' because only 'Yin Hong' could help her.

Cat said, "Of course! Drinking paraquat, this isn't just a dangerous situation, it's a death sentence."

Cai Ting glared at him fiercely.

Cat quickly said, "By the way, 'Yin Hong' did take this train. It was the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, almost Chinese New Year. The train was crowded, and the conductor saw her when checking tickets."

She sat in seat number 11 of carriage 5, gazing out the window.

Yang Jinwen asked, "Carriage 5?"

"Yes."

"Take me to see it."

Cat quickly ate a few bites of braised fish, then picked up a chicken leg and led Yang Jinwen to carriage number 5 while eating.

There were only a dozen or so passengers in this carriage, sitting sparsely.

Modern train carriages are not labeled with letters, but with numbers.

Number 11 is in the middle, on the right, next to the window.

The train wheels rubbed against the rails, causing the carriages to sway and shake.

The cat pointed and said, "That spot."

At this moment, Cai Ting also came over and pointed to the connecting part of the carriage.

“At that time, the deaf-mute woman was squatting there. There were many people who had evaded fares or were standing, and they were all squatting together. She was in that corner, hugging her knees and burying her face in her arms.”

Suddenly, the train entered a long tunnel, and the carriage went dark abruptly, with all the light disappearing.

It felt like falling into an ink bottle, with only the clanging and clattering of train tracks in my ears.

After ten minutes, a burst of sunlight appeared in front of the tunnel. Soon, the train emerged from the tunnel, and all the light returned.

Yang Jinwen seemed to see a woman in a red coat and blue scarf at position 11, turning her face and staring at him expressionlessly.

As he turned around, he saw the deaf-mute woman in the connecting area between the carriages raise her head from her arms and gaze at him with sorrowful eyes.

They were all looking at him!
No, it's not!

Yang Jinwen took a step back. He knew they weren't looking at him, but rather at each other.

The deaf-mute woman was determined to find "Yin Hong" even at the cost of her life, and her appearance was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, forcing "Yin Hong" to kill Tao Jianye and return to the old place without hesitation.

This green K121 train carried the two women on their journey and also took Yang Jinwen on a quest to uncover the final truth.

(End of this chapter)