I bring bad luck to my husband, you bring bad luck to your wife.

"Officer Yang, we found it strange when we came to inspect last time; there were too few things in this house." The officer in charge felt that he had thoroughly inspected the place.

There was no jewelry or money in the house, and only a few old clothes that had faded from washing. But the household items were very new, not like a house that hadn't been used at all.

"What did the neighbors say?" Yang Tongchuan checked the cabinet and found that even the tea leaves were gone.

Where are we going for fun? Why do we need to bring tea with us?

"Just like what China Telecom said, they said that the deceased had taken a lot of things with him some time ago, saying he wanted to go out for a walk to clear his head."

"Do you need to bring so much stuff to relax? It looks like you're not coming back." Yang Tongchuan personally inspected every corner of the house.

"Is this house registered under the deceased's name or under the name of China Railway Corporation?"

"We found out it was a telecommunications company, but the deceased had an eccentric personality. She always felt that the people around her wanted to harm her, so she rarely talked to her neighbors." The police officers also wanted to understand the case as soon as possible, so they did their work very carefully.

"Looks like I'll have to meet with this TieTong again." Yang Tongchuan didn't want to offend TieTong and cause himself trouble, but now that he'd investigated this far, no one would believe he had absolutely no connection with TieTong.

"Boss, we've found that scoundrel."

A yamen runner rushed into the courtyard, knocking the constable standing next to Yang Tongchuan off balance.

"Behave yourself. What did you say? Seven Rascals has been found."

"Well, this kid didn't have a proper license and couldn't go on the official road, so he took the village's side road. He probably hasn't changed his ways, because he actually stole a bellyband that was drying in a villager's house along the way. He was caught red-handed by the man of that house, beaten up, and sent to the village chief. Later, the villagers found a lot of things in Qi Laizi's carriage. They felt something was wrong, so they sent him to the yamen."

"Heaven is on my side! Quickly tell the brothers to pack up and head back to the yamen. This month's bonus is coming right to our door." A glimmer of hope appeared after a long period of despair; Yang Tongchuan was relieved that he didn't have to provoke Tie Tong for now.

Yang Tongchuan returned to the dungeon of the yamen and saw Qi Laizi for the first time.

My first reaction was that this was definitely not a good thing.

In the dungeon, Qi Laizi hunched over with his neck shrunk, his cheekbones prominent, his chin sharp, and his eyes darting around, avoiding eye contact.

At the slightest sound, it would peek out, its fingers fidgeting with the hem of its clothes, looking exactly like a rat in a ditch.

"What did you find out?"

"Officer Yang, this guy's quite the actor." When the jailer first took over Seven Rascals, this bastard was pretending to be a fool.

The jailer saw through his plan and kicked him two meters away.

A normal person would at least groan a couple of times after being kicked like that, but Qi Laizi was different. He flipped over and pounced on the jailer. If the jailer hadn't reacted quickly, his ear would have been bitten off.

"He's injured?" Yang Tongchuan looked at the jailer's wrinkled uniform and the beads of sweat on his forehead, thinking that Qi Laizi's attack power was quite strong.

"It's just a superficial wound; it'll be fine after a wash." There were several obvious bloodstains on the back of the jailer's hand, which must have been inflicted by Qi Laizi.

"Tie him up first, and after you've finished the torture, I'll come back to question him." Constable Yang stared at Qi Laizi. If he really was the one who killed him, then the cruelty of his methods meant that such a person could not be allowed to live.

After leaving the prison, Constable Yang went to inspect Qi Laizi's carriage.

Besides the spoils of Qi Laizi's petty thefts over the years, there was also a rather large money box, quite heavy, with the lock on the outside broken.

When Yang Tongchuan opened the money box, he found that it contained silver notes of twenty taels each and a few loose silver ingots. Most importantly, there were also many old pieces of jewelry inside, with outdated styles, which looked like they had been stored for many years.

"Officer Yang, we just found a bundle of cotton thread on the carriage."

The snow-white noodles were still stained with dark red blood.

It's exactly the same as the one used to sew the mouth shut on the deceased.

"Someone, go and ask Tie Tong to come and identify how many of his foster mother's belongings are in the car."

The telecommunications equipment arrived very quickly.

Upon seeing the contents of the money box, he recognized that it belonged to his foster mother.

"I gave her the money, but this set of jewelry belonged to my birth mother. She lied to me and said she had sold it a long time ago, but she had been hiding it all along?" Tie Tong held the old jewelry in his hand, tears streaming down his face.

He had asked his adoptive mother for this last thought several times, but she always said she had sold it long ago to support him. He never expected it to have been hidden here all along.

"Did you ever see your adoptive mother's biological son again?"

"I've never seen him. He was taken away by his biological father before he was even a month old. I only remember that the man spoke in a very refined manner." Tie Tong seemed to have all his strength drained away, and he slumped halfway in the chair.

"Boss Tie, what do you think of your adoptive mother?"

"What does Officer Yang mean by that?"

"Let me put it another way, do you think she's stupid or not?"

"Hehehehe." Tie Tong laughed through his tears. His expression seemed more genuine than when he was crying in pain.

"She's been stupid her whole life. She can't understand being bad, and she can't be good either. She can't understand good or bad words, truth or falsehood. Once she's made up her mind, she'll stubbornly stick to it to the end." Tie Tong clenched his back teeth tightly as he spoke.

"If you're not in a hurry, Boss Tie, just have some tea at the yamen. I'll be back in a bit."

When Yang Tongchuan returned to the dungeon, the warden had already carried out half of the severe torture.

Qi Laizi's disguise has been almost completely exposed.

Looking at Qi Laizi's eyes, which seemed to want to bite everyone to death, Yang Tongchuan knew that he hadn't arrested the wrong person this time.

Yang Tongchuan personally finished inflicting the remaining tortures on him.

Having experienced the last bandit suppression, Yang Tongchuan was originally very disgusted by such heart-wrenching roars, but Qi Laizi's curses did not make him feel uncomfortable.

A complete set.

Qi Laizi didn't even have the strength to press his fingerprint on the document.

It was the jailer who helped with the fingerprints.

"That beast deserved to die." The jailer spat a mouthful of phlegm on Qi Laizi, then threw him back into the cell, leaving him to fend for himself.

"They're still hanging on, because the county magistrate will have to go through the process again."

"Don't worry, Officer Yang, we have this under control."

The jailer watched Yang Tongchuan leave.

Yang Tongchuan showed the things that Qi Laizi had signed to Tie Tong.

Unexpectedly, Tie Tong is illiterate and cannot understand it.

"Then I'll read it to you. In principle, I shouldn't show you this kind of thing, but we're brothers, so I won't say anything more." Yang Tongchuan looked at the paper in his hand, his heart filled with emotion.

According to Qi Laizi, ever since he was kicked out of the Wu family's home, he has been wandering around. When he runs out of money, he goes to Tie Tong's adoptive mother, his own mother, to ask for money.

The mother doted on her son, so she kept subsidizing him. When he ran out of money, he would pretend to be sick and ask the telecommunications company for more.

Back then, they hadn't fallen out yet, and Tie Tong would readily give his adoptive mother money whenever she asked.

According to Qi Laizi, the conflict broke out because the two argued when Tie Tong came to deliver money to his adoptive mother.

He didn't know what the two were arguing about, but ever since then, China Telecom has been reluctant to pay him.

Until one day he got into trouble outside, and people asked him to pay compensation, so he went to his mother for it.

Even her own mother didn't want to give it to her.

He came up with a plan: he lied to his mother, saying that he couldn't make it here anymore and wanted to start a new life somewhere else. He asked his mother if she would like to leave with him, promising to take good care of her.