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

Chapter 55 Copying Portraits.

Yang Jinwen held the fountain pen, the nib scribbling across the blank pages of the notebook.

He didn't draw the facial features based on Lü Deping's description first; instead, he drew a geometric figure directly.

According to the principles of the three courts and five eyes, it is simply described from the hairline to the center of the eyebrows, the base of the nose, and the chin.

After Yang Jinwen laid the foundation, Lü Deping stared at the blurry facial outline, his eyes suddenly narrowing. The woman he had seen that night had already surfaced in his mind.

"This woman has single eyelids..."

Yang Jinwen interrupted him: "Let's talk about the other parts first."

“Okay.” Lü Deping nodded: “Round face, shorter chin, slightly prominent cheekbones…”

Yang Jinwen pursed his lips tightly. If he drew something wrong, he would wipe it off with his finger before the ink dried, as reminded by Lü Deping. As a result, the sketch became a complete mess.

Yang Jinwen's hands were also covered in blue ink stains.

Zheng Kang frowned as he watched from the side. It was just scribbles, not a human face at all.

He looked at Jin Hanliang: "Do you have pencils at your newsstand?"

Jin Hanliang nodded: "Yes."

"Then didn't you tell me earlier?"

“You didn’t even ask!” Jin Hanliang retorted.

"Stop talking nonsense and bring it here right now."

"With eraser, 50 cents each; without eraser, 20 cents each..."

"I'll give you a dollar, keep the change!" Zheng Kang was furious.

Zheng Kang brought over a sharpened pencil and handed it to Yang Jinwen, but he didn't take it: "Master, I'll use it later."

As Yang Jinwen listened to Lü Deping's narration, he continued drawing, eliminating all distractions.

After a while, Zheng Kang, Jiang Jianbing, and the others saw that the drawing in the notebook looked like a ball of yarn, and they couldn't make out anything.

Yang Jinwen looked up at Lü Deping: "What other characteristics are there?"

"Eye."

Yang Jinwen nodded, tore off a page, took the pencil from Zheng Kang, and started drawing again.

This time, he did not listen to Lü Deping's description, but instead copied the woman's appearance from his memory without hesitation.

Twenty minutes later, a sketch of a woman appeared before everyone's eyes: a high forehead, a round face, a flat nose, and a round chin.

Jiang Jianbing frowned and said, "She doesn't look like a woman in her forties."

Yang Jinwen ignored him and instead asked, "Old Lü, what do her eyes look like?"

"Single eyelids, with more white in the sclera..."

Yang Jinwen nodded, holding a pencil, and carefully applied it to the eye sockets.

However, Lü Deping's description and Yang Jinwen's painting are not consistent, since the human eye is the most difficult thing to depict.

They revised it several times, and finally, on the sixth attempt, Yang Jinwen finished drawing the inner and outer corners of the woman's eyes, and then drew the pupils.

Lu Deping let out a heavy sigh: "It's this woman, the one I saw the night before last!"

Upon hearing this, Zheng Kang quickly snatched the sketch from Yang Jinwen's hand and examined it carefully.

Jiang Jianbing leaned over for a look and blinked: "With those eyes drawn on, he really does look like he's in his forties."

Zheng Kang asked Lü Deping for confirmation, "Old Lü, I'll ask you one more time, are you sure it's this woman?"

Lü Deping nodded: "At least 80% similar!"

Zheng Kang then showed it to Jin Hanliang, the owner of the newsstand, who nodded and said, "I didn't see the face, but the hairstyle is like this." Zheng Kang clenched his fist, just about to call over the joint defense team that was conducting the search in the surrounding area, when the roar of a motorcycle sounded in the distance.

He looked up and saw Liao Guohua riding a Qianjiang motorcycle over. He kicked down the support bar, straightened up, and looked at Zheng Kang and the surrounding auxiliary defense team members with a wicked smile.

"Old Zheng, what a coincidence, we meet again."

Zheng Kang quickly hid the sketch behind his back and sneered, "Captain Liao, don't be so dishonest. You arrest your people, we investigate ours. Don't resort to any underhanded tactics."

"What?" Liao Guohua frowned. "You don't think I'm trying to find out about your investigation, do you?"

Zheng Kang replied coldly, "Isn't that right?"

Liao Guohua pointed behind him and said angrily, "Old Zheng, this is Linchuan Street. Our Chengnan Branch is just past this road. I just got off work and was passing by here on my way home. What gives you the right to say that I was asking about your situation?"

Zheng Kang didn't speak, but his eyes didn't seem to indicate that he was going to compromise.

Jiang Jianbing quickly tried to smooth things over: "Captain Liao, I'm sorry, our Lao Zheng is just a stubborn, upright man, and straightforward. He doesn't know how to speak properly, so please don't take offense."

Liao Guohua snorted coldly: "Why should I bother with him? Let me tell you, the place where the murderer withdrew the money in the 6*14 case is definitely not in your north of the city. Just wait, we'll talk properly after I catch him!"

After saying that, Liao Guohua kicked the motorcycle's support rod backward with his heel, stepped on the starter lever, and sped away with the throttle.

"Damn it, what a piece of trash!" Zheng Kang cursed as he watched his retreating figure.

Jiang Jianbing patted him on the shoulder: "Alright, alright, you're such a stubborn mule, you're even more troublesome than Lao He."

Zheng Kang persisted: "Liao Guohua has come to our area to arrest people several times while handling cases, without even giving us a heads-up."

The most disgusting thing is that a few years ago, a homeless man was beaten to death, and no clues could be found at the scene to help solve the case.

Guess what he did? He dumped a body in our jurisdiction and even had someone call our branch office, asking us to send officers. That kind of person is trash; what kind of captain is he? I spit on him!

At this moment, Yang Jinwen stood up from the ground and rubbed his sore knees.

"Master, don't worry about it. The most important thing right now is to find this woman."

"Yep."

Zheng Kang realized what was happening and patted him on the shoulder: "You're a good kid!"

Jiang Jianbing joked, "Old Zheng, if you really don't want Jinwen as your apprentice, you can give him to me, and I'll buy you a pack of cigarettes, how about that?"

"roll!"

Zheng Kang was now extremely reluctant to part with him. He was becoming increasingly certain that Yang Jinwen was probably the most talented criminal investigator among all his apprentices.

Yang Jinwen graduated from university with a bachelor's degree. He is a top student who is very proficient in applying criminal investigation knowledge. He is not only meticulous but also bold and versatile.

He has the education, the background (his father is the deputy director of a steel factory), the ability, and most importantly, he is 186cm tall and handsome.

Given time, this kid will definitely climb to the top and break out of the police system in Anan City.

Zheng Kang could imagine that one day after he retired, he would be sitting in a recliner, with only a few days left in his life, when a middle-aged man in a high position, wearing the uniform of a senior police officer, would come to visit him.

This person has solved countless major cases and has seen the most evil human nature and the most vicious and rampant criminals.

He must be Yang Jinwen!
It was past 10 p.m., and only a few shops along the street were still open. There were no pedestrians on the street.

Since there is only one sketch, we need to take it back to the branch office to make a copy first.

Therefore, Zheng Kang decided that at dawn the next day, everyone would be mobilized to focus on investigating this woman.

The next day.

As soon as it was light, the investigation started again, and all the results from yesterday afternoon's investigation were invalidated.

Zheng Kang, Jiang Jianbing, and Xu Guoliang, along with their respective teams of joint defense members, carrying sketches of the suspects, began their patrol of the streets and alleys around the noodle shop on Jianmin Road.

This time, specific individuals have been identified. Although the woman's name is still unknown, good news continues to arrive, and more and more eyewitnesses are being found...

(End of this chapter)