Detective Files II

Chapter 92 Everyone Has a Story

"You don't sleep in the middle of the night, you come out to watch the sky at night, do you think you are Zhuge Liang?" Tian Mi felt that Lu Xiangdong's state was very strange, but she also knew that if she asked seriously, he would definitely avoid talking about it, so she simply Probing in a joking tone: "If you are so powerful, why don't you tell me, judging from tonight's celestial situation, what will happen tomorrow?"

"I don't know what will happen tomorrow, but I know what will happen to me later." Lu Xiangdong looked away and looked at Tian Mi.

"Then tell me, what will happen to you in a while?"

"I'll be annoyed to death by you." In the night, Lu Xiangdong's expression couldn't be discerned, but his tone didn't sound impatient.

Tian Mi made a grimace at Lu Xiangdong, stuck out her tongue, shrunk her hands into her sleeves, and tried to keep the warmth of her body, lest nothing happened, she would freeze into a lump of ice, and tomorrow she would have a fever and catch a cold, so it was not a fight Downsizing, that's going to be exciting!
You know, the invisible contest between her and Mo Dou has just begun.

"Why aren't you sleeping?" Tian Mi turned her face to look at Lu Xiangdong.

"I don't want to sleep." Lu Xiangdong replied very simply.

"why?"

"Where are there so many reasons?" Lu Xiangdong snorted, and asked with a half-smile: "Everything you do, can you tell why?"

Tian Mi answered without hesitation: "Yes!"

"Well, tell me, why do you want to be a criminal police officer?"

"Why do I feel that you have asked me this question?" Tian Mi glanced at Lu Xiangdong inexplicably.

Lu Xiangdong crossed his arms in front of his chest, looked up at the night sky slightly, and didn't care about Tian Mi's question: "How do I know if you deliberately made up a lie to deceive people for my help?"

What he said made Tian Mi feel dumbfounded: "Are you underestimating my IQ or overestimating yourself?"

"The former."

Tian Mi rolled her eyes: "I have a complex of hero worship, and I have a natural liking and yearning for people and professions that punish evil and promote good. Since childhood, my brother's ideal has been to be a policeman. I also think it is very good. Later, he went to study The police academy, came back and told me a lot of what I saw and heard in the school, which made me feel that although this job is hard, it is very honorable, so I am determined to become a justice envoy who fights crime!"

After Tian Mi finished speaking, Lu Xiangdong didn't respond. He was silent for a while. Tian Mi saw that he was silent, so she had to speak again: "It's not rude to come and go. What about you? Why would you want to study criminology?"

"I don't want to 'offend' you, but your answer is too superficial, which makes me very disappointed."

Lu Xiangdong's answer brought Tian Mi a muffled snort of dissatisfaction: "Then what do you mean? Cooperating with me as a policeman, there must be a touching and tear-jerking tragic story behind it?"

"more or less."

"Nervous! Then tell me about your not-so-superficial, touching, and tear-jerking tragic story that pushed you to the path of criminology?"

"Want to hear?"

Tian Mi thought that Lu Xiangdong would refuse to answer awkwardly, but he did not expect his attitude to be quite cheerful, and nodded quickly: "I think so!"

"Then prepare the facial tissues and listen." Lu Xiangdong cleared his throat and said slowly, "My father is a truck driver who does long-distance transportation. Helping others, the popularity in the unit has always been very good, and he is very family-friendly, every time I go out of the car, he will bring me some gadgets when he comes back, it’s not worth much, but it’s enough to make a child happy."

"Children are indeed easier to be satisfied. When I was young, my father often bought gifts for me and my brother when he came back from a business trip!" Tian Mi interrupted with emotion.

Lu Xiangdong nodded: "Yes, so at that time, I especially hoped that he would go out of the city by car, because the material circulation in that era was not as convenient as it is now, and the things bought from other places were always so special. The servant rushed back, not caring about his exhaustion, and immediately took out the gadgets he bought for me, and then watched me jumping around, laughing silently by himself."

Tian Mi stared at Lu Xiangdong under the faint moonlight. He didn't have much expression on his face, but he was very focused, so she didn't make a sound and listened to him quietly.

"One day, my father told me that he was going to run a long route, and it would take many days to come and go, but it was far away from home, and it could bring me good things that I had never seen before. He was happy and elated and sent him out, then counted the days with his fingers, looking forward to my father’s return and bringing me a gift.” Lu Xiangdong took a deep breath: “As a result, the calendar was torn off page by page. The days he promised are over, and my father never came back."

Tian Mi felt a bad feeling in her heart, she seemed to have vaguely guessed what happened next.

"After a few days, someone finally came. Unfortunately, it wasn't my father, or even someone from my father's unit."

"Who is here?" Tian Mi was caught by Lu Xiangdong's narration, seeing him stop, she hurriedly asked.

"It's your old man, some policemen."

Lu Xiangdong's answer made Tian Mi's heart sink, and sure enough, it was not far from what he expected.

"Traffic accident?" She guessed cautiously.

Lu Xiangdong shook his head: "A criminal case."

"Ah..." Tian Mi opened her mouth, but said nothing. This turning point in Lu Xiangdong's story was more serious than she imagined. Although she is not an expert in psychological research, she still understands some of the most connecting truths. The pain of losing a loved one because of a criminal case is far greater than that of a traffic accident.

Tian Mi didn't speak, but silently watched the man beside him, his appearance at this moment, since the day she met him, she had never seen him before.

On weekdays, Lu Xiangdong is either taciturn and looks indifferent to everything around him, or he speaks sharply, wishing to turn every sentence of himself into a knife, and stab others with blood.

But now, there was not much expression on his plain face, but it seemed that the dark tide was turbulent. His eyes were quietly watching the night sky, but there was a faint sadness under the starlight.

Lu Xiangdong was silent for a while, and continued: "The police came to my house. It was the first time in my life that I had to deal with the police. Although I was only a child, I could only sit quietly and listen from the beginning to the end. They said , my father disappeared, and even the unit’s car disappeared. Along with the car, there was also a carload of goods that he should have brought back from other places. It was already expensive.”

"The purpose of the police coming is to find out where my father may be hiding. If the family members know where he is hiding, try to persuade him to come back. After the police left, our family was under tremendous pressure for a period of time. Secretly pointed behind my back, saying that my father stole the goods from the public house and ran away, leaving us alone, and went to other places with money to live a carefree life.”

"No!" Tian Mi blurted out without thinking.

"You know?" Lu Xiangdong asked with a half-smile.

"Yes, I don't know your father, but I can tell from what you said just now that he loves you very much. A father who loves his son and family so much will not abandon his wife and run away alone! "Tian Mi replied angrily.

Lu Xiangdong did not respond to her point of view, but continued: "Just when I thought I had been abandoned by my father, the police came to my house again and told us that my father had been found by the winding mountain road more than ten kilometers away. In the small woods, there is a hole left when the mountain was blasted, and his body was thrown there, if it wasn't because of the cold winter, the bones might have rotted away when found."

"Did the case be solved later? How did your father get killed?"

"It took a long time for the case to be solved, and it was because the perpetrators committed other crimes and accidentally slipped their mouths during the confession, so my father's case was also involved." Lu Xiangdong took a deep breath. , spit it out slowly, and continued: "That's a group of habitual offenders who robbed transport vehicles on the road. At night, they turned an agricultural tricycle on the side of a deserted road, and then a woman pretending to be a pregnant woman lay on the ground with red paint on her face. The other men also pretended to be injured and intercepted passing trucks on the side of the road, and lied to the driver that they were taking the pregnant women to the hospital at night, accidentally overturned the truck, and now their lives were dying, and asked to give them a ride."

"The kind of person who takes advantage of other people's sympathy to commit crimes is the most detestable!" Tian Mi said through gritted teeth.

"Yeah, but there are fools like my father in the world. Not only did he stop the car and let people get in the car until the knife was on his neck, but he was also worried about the safety of the fake pregnant woman." Lu Xiangdong sneered: " This happened just like that. Less than a month after my father’s body was buried, my mother left with another man and left me with my grandparents who lived in the countryside. My grandparents were already over 80 years old at the time, and I was not around them. After a while, my grandpa passed away, and my grandma was sent to my uncle’s house, who was not rich and didn’t want to bring an extra oil bottle, so I was given to my only uncle.”

Tian Mi was dumbfounded, not knowing what to say.

"Uncle is a person who only takes advantage and doesn't want to suffer. Naturally, he is not happy to have such a fool like me. If he hadn't found his mother and asked her to pay the child support, I might have been sent to a welfare institution."

"Your mother... just left you like that and ran off to marry someone else? And not long after your father was killed?" Tian Mi found it unbelievable, after all, it is said that maternal love is the greatest and most selfless thing in the world.

"Yes, I found out later that because my father was out in sports cars all year round, my mother had already hooked up with others."

(End of this chapter)