Detective Files II

Chapter 330 Conflict
At first Tian Mi hated the faint musty smell on the bed, because of the washing and the old and yellowed bedding, but she really lay down, and after a while she fainted from the exhaustion of the train journey the day before. She fell into a deep sleep. If she hadn't drank a little too much water during the day, she had to get up and go to the public bathroom at the end of the corridor to go to the bathroom in the early morning. It might have been a good night's sleep without dreams.

When getting up at night to go to the bathroom, Lu Xiangdong's room can still see a faint light from the small glass transom on the top of the door. It seems to be the light of the old-fashioned desk lamp that is standard in every room. Tian Mi wonders why he doesn't take a good rest , and considering the embarrassment of time, I finally held back and didn't have the nerve to knock on the door to ask.

When she woke up in the morning, she and Lu Xiangdong met at the door, planning to go out to find a breakfast shop for something to eat, Lu Xiangdong looked energetic as before, except that the shadows under his eyes were much thicker.

"You didn't sleep well last night, did you? I woke up at night and saw the lights in your room!" Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong walked out of the small hotel side by side. Although they are a couple, they are here for work after all. , she can clearly distinguish the boundaries between dating in private time and handling official business.

Lu Xiangdong nodded: "I can't sleep in another place."

"If it was the first day I met you, I would have believed it. How can you, a guy like you who has no pursuit of the living environment at all, refuse to sleep because the accommodation conditions are so poor!" Tian Mi didn't believe Lu Xiangdong excuse.

Seeing that he couldn't hide it, Lu Xiangdong simply said frankly, "I'm rushing to finish a paper."

"Do you have work assignments?" Tian Mi didn't think of this, she thought that near the end of the term, Lu Xiangdong offered to come to Shiyuan Town with her again, it must be because there was nothing to do at the school, so she would have free time.

"It's nothing, I finished more than half of it last night." Lu Xiangdong smiled at Tian Mi, his tone very flat.

"If you have something to be busy with, don't come with me, how tired you are!" Tian Mi said with a reproachful tone, but actually felt distressed in her heart.

Lu Xiangdong seemed to see through her unexpressed mood, smiled and raised his hand to gently scratch Tian Mi's cheek with his fingers, then changed the subject and asked, "What do you want to eat in the morning?"

"I'm not picky eaters, as long as I don't overeat my stomach, I still have business to do." Tian Mi looked at a few greasy and dusty snack shops not far away.

The two found a shop with a relatively clean environment, ordered a basket of steamed stuffed buns, two bowls of porridge, and two dishes of pickles, and finished eating as soon as possible. After paying, they left the snack shop and went straight to Shiyuan. Town police station.

When we arrived at the Shiyuan Town Police Station, the police officers on the night shift were having breakfast the night before, and the police officers on the day shift had just arrived at the unit. I was a little surprised to see Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong enter the door, but after listening to their explanation, I immediately understood come over.

"You guys came here specially for this matter! You have worked so hard! Have some tea?" Old Dong, the policeman who had talked with Tian Mi on the phone before, warmly greeted the two of them.

"No, thank you." Tian Mi politely declined his enthusiasm, emphasizing the relationship between Meng Qingwei and Meng Dabao, "I heard that the relationship between these two families has always been particularly tense? Do you know anything about this? ?”

"I really know about these two old Meng families!" From Tian Mi's attitude, Old Dong could see that the matter was of great importance, so he immediately gave up being polite to the two of them, nodded, and told them what he knew, "These two families Conflicts have been going on for many years. Ever since I was assigned to work here, the relationship between the two families has been tense. Now that I have worked here for more than ten years, the history before I came here is still certain. How old is it! I also heard this from the old man in the town. It is said that the cause is that the two old men of the two old Meng families have passed away, because they are both Meng family members. According to the genealogy, they are of the same generation , so the word of seniority in the name is also the same, but the word at the end of the names of the two old masters looks quite similar. In the old days, it was a falling out because of a land deed. You can see the first two characters clearly, but the last one is blurry and you can only see the outline. Both of these two families say that they are the owners of the land deed, and then they quarrel. I don’t know who actually owned that piece of land, but after that, the old man of Meng Dabao’s family was furious, and the names of his descendants no longer followed the generation in the genealogy.”

"Of course, it's all passed down by word of mouth in the neighborhood. I can't say whether it's [-]% accurate." Old Dong's attitude is still very strict. It’s still very tense, but it’s gotten better in the past year or so, and our colleagues at the police station were even scratched in the face by a woman from the Meng family because they helped their family.”

"Can I ask you, or any of my colleagues who are not busy, to take us to see the homes of Meng Dabao and Meng Qingwei?" Tian Mi asked Old Dong for his opinion.

Old Dong looked at Tian Mi with some embarrassment, without saying a word, with a hesitant expression.

Tian Mi was a little puzzled, not knowing his attitude: "What? Is there any difficulty?"

"There is nothing difficult for us, but you may have to be mentally prepared." Old Dong smiled wryly at Tian Mi, "Although the household registration of these two old Meng's houses belongs to our Shiyuan Town, they do not live in The center of the town is a little bit off. Originally, the locals in Shiyuan Town had more or less patriarchal thoughts. The area where these two old Meng’s family lived was simply sexist. Usually their ethnic group The women in it are all at home, taking care of their husbands and children, cooking and cleaning up the house, and other things that show their faces are men. You can also see that this place is actually quite backward, so many people have not yet shaken off that thinking mode. "

He looked at Lu Xiangdong: "However, it would be much better if he was here. In case they refuse to cooperate with you, you can also ask him to negotiate. It is definitely unacceptable for a woman to be a policeman in that ethnic group, so if I were you Ah, listen more and talk less later, it's the best way to hang around."

Tian Mi's eyes widened in disbelief. After so many years in the 21st century, there are still places that look down on women so much, which makes her feel very incredible.

"Are they going to openly refuse to cooperate with the investigation in front of you?" She couldn't help asking.

Old Dong laughed a few times: "It's not that I destroy my prestige to raise others' aspirations, the group of people you are looking for are notoriously hard-headed, and they usually don't do too much. If they do, It is estimated that if we really make a move, they will dare to resist the law violently!"

Tian Mi was a little speechless. In order to investigate the matter as clearly as possible and not put her personal feelings first, she nodded and told Old Dong that she knew it well.

Old Dong felt that she had been vaccinated enough, so he didn't care about it. He greeted Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong to get into a jeep parked in the yard, and then went straight to Meng Qingwei and Meng Dabao's home.

After bumping for about 10 minutes, after turning left and right, Lao Dong parked the car outside the gate of a family. Watching the woman murmur in a sobbing voice.

"What's the matter!" Old Dong's brows immediately furrowed into knots when he heard the voice from the yard, "If there were no such two families in this town, I would lose a lot of gray hair!"

The three jumped out of the car quickly, with Old Dong leading the way, Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong followed him into the courtyard with the open gate.

As soon as you enter the courtyard, there is an uphill red brick road. In front of the house on the slope, several men and women are fighting together.

To be exact, it was four or five men twisted into a ball, and there were three women beside them, one who looked about 50 or [-] years old just stood timidly and wiped his tears, while the other two were judged by age and appearance to be mother and daughter. He tried to persuade the fight from the sidelines, but he was afraid and did not dare to really step forward.

Seeing this, Lao Dong rushed over to start a fight. Lu Xiangdong had no intention of meddling in this kind of nosy business, but seeing Tian Mi also rushed over, he had no choice but to help out.

Soon, the men were forced to separate by the efforts of three people, either pulling or pushing. Old Dong stood panting among the men and shouted: "Okay! No more beatings! I'll stop fighting!" Anyone who sees a fight will follow me back to the police station!"

Although the men all had expressions of reluctance, none of them dared to provoke the words that Old Dong threw out.

No matter who were fighting or Tian Mi, the three of them were still breathing. A young man in his early twenties who participated in the fight before suddenly noticed Tian Mi's existence. He frowned immediately, and took a step forward. She gave Tian Mi a hand: "Where did you come from, you bitch! When is it your turn to point fingers!"

The men next to him also echoed.

Tian Mi was unprepared, being pushed so hard by him, she lost her balance and almost fell to the ground on her back, thanks to the old Dong who held her by the side.

At the same time, Lu Xiangdong had already rushed in front of her, grabbed the young man who had just pushed Tian Mi, and folded his wrist towards the back of his hand.

The young man was in so much pain that he almost screamed. Lu Xiangdong had a gloomy face, and said to him coldly, "Touch her again, and I promise you will be hurt."

After speaking, he let go of his hand, and the young man hurriedly took a few steps back to avoid him.

Old Dong cleared his throat, pointed at Tian Mi and Lu Xiangdong: "Don't be arrogant, these two are criminal police, and they are here to investigate the situation."

"She is, I am not." Lu Xiangdong glanced coldly across the faces of several men, "So I am not bound by the chances of the police, if anyone wants to fight fiercely and bully women today, I don't mind paying compensation Medical expenses, or accept public order punishment."

Several men looked at each other in blank dismay. Although their expressions were not good, no one dared to say anything.

(End of this chapter)