pjbooks Chapter 106 The Old Man Next Door to Lü Cuicui
Chapter 106 The Old Man Next Door to Lü Cuicui
Early the next morning, Liu Chengyu led a team to find the car owner, Fang Duo and Xiao Jiale investigated the social connections and pager number, while Dai Yan handed over the case to He Zhuang.
Zhou Yang decided to take some time to learn more about the so-called friend He Zhuang had mentioned.
He arrived early at the spot where he had previously run into Lü Cuicui, hoping to run into her again today.
Coincidentally, the other party did not show up today.
However, Zhou Yang still encountered a few elderly people who greeted him, after all, he had only helped Geng Yan find his family a few days ago.
Secondly, in this era, and even for many years to come, ordinary people also hope to get to know three types of people.
One type is in the political and legal field, such as police officers and lawyers, who resolve troublesome matters.
One type is in the medical industry, such as doctors, who address health issues.
The last type is the education industry, which solves children's education problems.
Therefore, Zhou Yang easily found out Lü Cuicui's address. Seeing that it was still early, he wandered around for a while.
To be honest, since returning from his time travel, he hasn't really looked at Ning'an properly again.
Over the next decade, Ning'an experienced rapid development. Streets were widened, and housing prices skyrocketed. The events that were about to happen seemed like ancient memories, carrying a sense of unreality.
It seems that we can't let Dad just be obsessed with fishing anymore. We need to encourage them to buy two houses—this is an opportunity they can seize through their own abilities. Zhou Yang didn't see anything wrong with it.
Fruits weren't nearly as treacherous as they would be in later generations. After much deliberation, Zhou Yang finally decided to go empty-handed. In the simple values of ordinary people, a policeman bringing fruit to visit a stranger would inevitably arouse suspicion.
Looking at the gleaming aluminum alloy security door covered with countless dents, Zhou Yang couldn't help but grin. Goodness, Aunt Lü's execution was truly impressive, which indirectly proved that she had been forced into a corner.
Zhou Yang gently knocked on the door, but even so, the sound seemed amplified, becoming particularly jarring in the narrow hallway.
Clang...
The door opened, and a middle-aged man with messy hair pulled it open, saying, "How many times have I told you, if you have a problem, go to the police, go to the neighborhood committee. This isn't something we can decide..."
After the man finished speaking, he was about to slam the door shut.
"I'm looking for Aunt Lü, Lü Cuicui. Also, I'm a police officer!" Zhou Yang blocked the door from closing.
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"Officer Zhou, please have a seat..." Hearing the commotion, Lü Cuicui invited Zhou Yang into the house, then turned and scolded the man, "What are you standing there for? Go get some water and cut some fruit. This is the Officer Zhou I told you about."
"Oh, oh! Thank you so much, Officer Zhou. You have no idea how long it's been since I've had a good night's sleep!" Upon hearing Lu Cuicui's words, the man stepped forward to shake Zhou Yang's hand.
"Pour yourself some water, stop reminiscing!" Lü Cuicui gave the other person a push, then sat down on the sofa with a smile in her eyes: "Officer Zhou, let me peel an apple for you, and here, a banana!"
Zhou Yang initially refused, but seeing the man bring over the water, he quickly took it and put it down: "Aunt Lü, please don't be so polite. I was just passing by and remembered what you mentioned before, so I thought I'd drop by. So, is it resolved now?"
"It's solved, it's solved!" Lü Cuicui nodded with a smile. "You know what, you're truly a good police officer who serves the people. After using your method, all the neighbors in the building were in an uproar that day, and even my older relatives were shocked. In the end, the hospital, the neighborhood committee, and you police officers were all involved. Actually, I'm really embarrassed to have caused so much trouble for so many people..."
As she spoke, she wiped away her tears again.
Seeing the other person's expression, the man beside him sighed, handed over a towel, and continued the conversation: "If we weren't so busy lately, we would have tolerated it!"
According to the other party, the couple only has one daughter, and they are currently going through a divorce with the son-in-law, so they are thinking of leaving the child with her maternal grandparents for the time being.
The elderly couple, who didn't have much to do, happily agreed, thinking that having the little one would ease their anxiety about their daughter. But little did they know that on the very day their daughter brought their granddaughter over, their front door was vandalized.
The little girl was so frightened that she cried loudly, begging for her mother. No matter how they tried to comfort her, they couldn't. They had no choice but to have her grandfather take her out to avoid the situation, leaving Lü Cuicui to confront the other party alone.
After the neighbor's family pulled the other party away, the grandfather returned with his granddaughter. They thought nothing was wrong, but that night the vandalism started again, scaring the little girl so much that she cried until her voice became hoarse.
I had hoped to help my daughter share some of her worries, but instead I ended up with a lot of complaints. In fact, I even had sleep problems and blood pressure issues because of this.
"At first I thought, what kind of people are they? They have no sense of public morality at all, they're just heartless. But after learning about what happened to the other family, I couldn't bear to condemn them anymore..." Lu Cuicui said, having composed herself.
This is where Zhou Yang's true intention lies.
"Oh? What happened?" He picked up his water glass and asked casually.
If this had happened when he first became a policeman in his previous life, he might have gone directly to the neighbor's house to ask what was going on. But as he grew older and gained more experience, he learned to verify things from multiple sources.
Because no one can be absolutely impartial, if someone goes to ask questions based on a few words from He Zhuang or an occasional opinion from Lü Cuicui, it's like giving the other person a glimmer of hope.
Giving someone hope or acceptance when everything is still unclear is cruel to them.
Besides, this isn't something he can decide on his own. The most important thing is evidence. Relying solely on speculation? He's probably seriously ill.
Isn't the situation already a huge headache? There's Sun Weixin's remains, Sun Yan who's missing and his fate is unknown, and there's also the possibility of a theft case in another region, and the matter involving Ning'an Power.
These issues are all waiting to be resolved, and no one can afford to ignore them and then actively devote their energy to something that is still unknown.
In other words, Zhou Yang was a witness who noticed something was wrong and vaguely felt that it might be related to the case, which is why he took such action.
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"The one banging on the door is our neighbor across the hall. He wasn't living here anymore when we bought our apartment in this complex..."
Based on Lü Cuicui's account and the supplementary information provided by her husband, Zhou Yang gained a general understanding of the situation.
The old man who was banging on the door had a son who was said to be very capable and made a lot of money. He bought a new house and moved out with his elderly father.
The house had been empty and uninhabited until now. Now that something has happened in the family, the elderly are so bothered by the disturbances that they are also distressed by the sight of the house that they have moved back to live there.
His relatives, seeing that the old man was gone, came one after another to persuade him to "help out" and to take care of him in his old age or to see him off in his final days.
The old man moved here to find peace and quiet, but things remained the same. Faced with this situation, he finally couldn't take it anymore, and his old illness relapsed. He started smashing the door of Lu Cuicui's house across the street whenever he had a spare moment, which led to the situation that followed.
"Have you heard about his child?" Zhou Yang asked.
"I didn't know at first, but this time it's all over the streets, and I've heard a few words about it too." Lü Cuicui leaned closer with a mysterious look on her face.