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For several days in a row, Lu Lingyou was extremely busy.

On the night of her departure, Fang Ning sent him a WeChat message to report that she was safe, but he only replied with a hello.

Zhou Feng was finally willing to go to the hospital in person to visit his sick wife, probably because he was called to the police for questioning.

This matter was not kept secret, and the new person in the family also knew about it, and he went to the hospital with his son angrily.

As a result, when she heard about the extra 10,000 yuan in Zhang Junmei's account, she made a full medical fuss on the spot and insisted that the hospital return the money.

The hospital said that the money could not cover Zhang Junmei's debt, and she couldn't produce the remittance receipt when she was asked to do so, but she was determined to fight the hospital to the end.

The hospital finally called the police, but Zhou Feng insisted that the other person was a distant relative of his, so he didn't want the money and took his mother and daughter away.

Just as Lu Lingyou hung up the phone at the hospital's police station, Zhao Yue knocked on the door and entered the office.

"Boss, I still can't contact the old lady.

She does not have a mobile phone number in her name, but she has a son in his forties who has a mobile phone.

The problem is that the signal from the newly built signal tower there this year has not fully covered their village. It is surrounded by mountains on three levels inside and three outside. Even if there is a mobile phone signal when I go home, it is intermittent.

Colleagues from the police station called several people but none of them were in the service area. The police force there was limited and they said they needed to coordinate before sending someone over to ask.

It takes a whole day just to go back and forth on the mountain road. This is not a police call. We are all in time to go to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures."

Lu Lingyou smoked a cigarette and said nothing for a while.

"You tell your colleagues at the police station over there not to go."

Zhao Yue was confused.

"Why.

There must be something wrong with this old lady sending money to a stranger who can't reach her.

Moreover, she went there in person, which ruled out anyone else using her identity.

An old lady, no matter how good her legs are, would not go back and forth across mountains and ridges for a stranger.

Besides, he has a son. If he really needs to do something serious, can’t his son do it for him?"

Lu Lingyou motioned Zhao Yue to sit down and said.

"That's the problem.

A relationship that cannot be reached with eight poles, and a point of intersection cannot be found even with five poles.

Whether the son knew about the remittance or not.

If he knew the information, how did he get the information? Did he know Zhang Junmei or who entrusted him with it? Why didn't he go by himself?

If you don’t know, how can an old lady without contacting the outside world accurately remit money to Zhang Junmei Hospital?

No matter which of the above possibilities, the source is nothing more than someone giving them accurate remittance information.

The remittance was accurately entered into the hospital's public account without any objections, and was headed for Zhang Junmei.

Is it possible that this information was actually given by Zhou Xiaofei?

No matter what, the mother and son must have some news related to Zhou Xiaofei.

But since Zhou Xiaofei wants to remit money to her own mother, why not go by herself.

If this old lady and her son are both insiders, are they helping, or..."

Zhao Yue understood instantly.

"I understand.

It's okay to help, but if we have any other business, if we ask someone rashly, we might alert the snake."

Lu Lingyou nodded.

"Have you checked the accounts of the mother and son?"

Zhao Yue nodded.

“The village collective household registration was only obtained with reluctance in the past two years, or because the town wanted to provide them with farmland subsidies, which required ID cards and bank accounts, or else there was no one to cooperate with this matter.

But my colleagues there said that most of the villages there have limited transportation due to their remote location.

Hey, it can’t even be counted as transportation.

In short, farming is basically for self-sufficiency. If you sell it, no one will come to collect it.

You can carry the food yourself and sell it in the town. It won't cost you RMB 80 cents for a bus trip.

Besides, every family cultivates land, so who can buy it?

The income of most people can be said to be basically zero. Except for the annual subsidy, there is almost no cash.

The villages near the town are better, with many people going out to work.

But the old lady's village was the farthest, the poorest, and the most difficult to deal with.

However, she and her son are considered the tallest among the poor in the village and have some fixed income.

Because his son works as a driver for the only bus line in the town that leads to the mountainous area over there.

Including various subsidies, it costs about a thousand yuan a month."

Speaking of which, Song Sen and Wang Zhao, who had gone out to talk to Zhou Feng for a second time, returned.

The two of them looked for water when they entered the house. Zhao Yue quickly opened Lu Lingyou's tea table that had not been used for 180 years to boil water.

"Team Songtou Wang, are you going to visit your family or go to the desert? Why are you so thirsty?"

Wang Zhao didn't care whether the water was boiled or not, he just drank it when it was in the cup.

"I have met many families of victims, but this is the first time I have said so many words to persuade a father who has lost his daughter not to give up the possibility of getting his child back."

After saying that, he poured himself another glass, raised his head and drank it.

“I originally planned to buy a bottle of water on the way, but ended up calling one after another.

Lao Song and I both had our phones burning."

Lu Lingyou also walked to the sofa and sat down.

"It seems like this is a bit of a gain?"

Song Sen nodded.

"It really does.

After finding out the true identity of the remitter, I contacted the municipal bureau over there that has jurisdiction over the prefecture-level city.

Wang Cheng, do you still remember?"

Lu Lingyou frowned and thought for a moment.

"You mean the big orange guy in school who always wears red pants to fetch water?"

Zhao Yue listened with interest and turned to ask Wang Zhao.

"Wang Captain, you know this guy too."

Wang Zhao finally drank half full and nodded.

"This Wang Cheng'a can be regarded as the junior fellow student of the three of us.

He is a child from a pure mountain school, which is not easy. It is said that there are not many people in his hometown who have even completed elementary school and junior high school.

Even if he climbs several hills barefoot every day and walks back and forth for a whole day, he still has to go to school and insist on attending classes.

In this way, he persisted from elementary school to the college entrance examination.

When I first entered school, I still remember that the three of us went to greet the new students as seniors. As soon as we took one kid to the dormitory, we saw a bunch of people gathered around.

I squeezed in and saw Wang Cheng.

He was wearing a pair of cloth shoes with handmade soles, and his big toes were almost exposed, and a bunch of people were pointing and laughing.

At that time, they were all half-brained brats who didn't understand other people's sufferings. Although they didn't necessarily have much malice, they just found it funny.

Wang Cheng has a soft character and doesn’t know what they mean, so he just stands there at a loss.”

Zhao Yue's eyes widened.

"and after."

"It didn't matter after that. Lao Lu and Lao Song scolded them all and ran away.

You don’t know, your boss may have grown up eating strong food, so he would be so tall.

He can stand a head taller in the crowd, and he is so tall and fierce."

Zhao Yue turned around and gave Lu Lingyou a thumbs up sign.

"Boss, you are awesome.

What happens later?"

Wang Zhao smiled.

"This big orange has different living habits from everyone else, and he is not so gregarious.

I didn’t make any friends, and I offended a few of them because I reported to the school that my dormitory classmates secretly used electric pots to cook hot pot.

He stopped socializing at all and got up before five o'clock in the morning to go for a run. No matter it was winter or summer, he always wore single clothes to resist the cold."

Song Sen looked at Lu Lingyou with a smile, but he was talking to Zhao Yue.

"You know that no one can surpass your boss's records in school so far, right?"

Zhao Yue nodded.

"Is that necessary?

My eldest son is still a master who has been passed down by word of mouth.

Young men who have just graduated and are interning in various branches must ask him every time they come to the city bureau."

Wang Zhao took a piece of Lu Lingyou's cigarette and threw it into his mouth.

“That’s not to say that no one can surpass them.

Let me tell you, back then your boss was number one in everything, but he lost face in one thing."

Zhao Yue hurriedly came over.

"It won't be a record broken by this big orange, right?"

Wang Zhao snapped his fingers.

"Just him.

Marathon record held by the school.

This big orange is really worthy of being a child who came from across the mountains.

Good guy, it was so easy to run barefoot, I didn’t even see anyone’s taillights.

Your boss was thrown out almost a kilometer in the last section.

But this guy has good physical fitness and endurance, but he also eats a lot.

The little money that every household in the village usually pools together is not enough. I feel hungry every day, so I just drink water.

He didn't even buy hot water because he had to swipe his card to pay for hot water. He drank tap water from the water pipe and was famous for carrying a kettle to get water every day.

He was embarrassed to drink water vigorously in front of everyone, so he drank in a deserted place at night.

You don’t know, it was the first time the three of us saw him curled up in a ball under the basketball stand and drinking water from a thermos bottle. It was really weird.

Lao Lu and Lao Song couldn't stand it, so they reacted to the school leaders at the time.

Finally, I asked him to use his spare time to help out in the cafeteria, so he could eat whatever he wanted."

Zhao Yue opened her mouth again.

"I'm going, a man of God."

Lu Lingyou raised his wrist and looked at the time, then at the three gossiping Zheng Huan people in front of him.

"You guys have been gossiping here for more than ten minutes. Do you want to talk about business?" Song Sen cleared his throat.

"Okay, let's talk far away.

I called Wang Cheng and asked him to check it for me.

There's nothing wrong with this old lady.

But his son, Zhao Gang, was once involved in a murder case."

"specific."

Song Sen took out his cell phone and handed Lu Lingyou the case file information sent over there.

"This murder case has been closed and the murderer is already serving his sentence.

At that time, it was said that Zhao Gang was driving a bus back to their town on the line and found a dead female in the grass on the side of the mountain.

The victim was naked at the time. After forensic examination, it was determined that he was raped first and then killed. He died of mechanical asphyxia and suffered severe head trauma.

Later, it was discovered that the murderer was a man in his fifties from the next village. The J fluid in the deceased's body and the belt used to strangle the deceased all matched."

Lu Lingyou frowned.

"You didn't say a word about the identity of the deceased.

Okay, don’t show off."

Song Sen nodded.

"The problem is this female deceased.

She is not a local and no one knows where she comes from.

The body had been left there for almost two years and no one had come to claim it.

The information we were coordinating the investigation had not been conveyed to them before, but I had just coordinated to send our list information, and Wang Cheng recognized the girl at a glance.

The deceased's name was Zhou Qi, female, and she was 21 years old at the time of death.

Her name is among the earliest auction lists on the dark web."

Zhao Yueteng suddenly stood up from his chair.

"What?

Wouldn't that mean that Zhao Gang had contacted two victims who were related to the dark web?

No, maybe more than two, maybe there are others we haven't discovered yet.

How could he, a bus driver, find the body so accurately on such a long mountain road in the dark?"

Song Sen pressed his hand towards her, and Zhao Yue sat back down again.

"This is a very important breakthrough, and Zhou Xiaofei's incident is also related to Zhao Gang.

Lao Lu, it seems I have to go there myself."

Lu Lingyou thought about it for a while.

"Don't be in a hurry to book tickets. I'll discuss it with Lao Fang. After all, Zhou Xiaofei's household registration is with us.

If that’s okay, let’s go for a run together.”

the other side.

Fang Ning has been living in the dormitory here on campus for several days.

The progress of the project plan was much slower than they expected.

The public mobilization meeting on the second day had been notified to every household in advance through the village cadres and heads of each township, and it was also promised that a lot of daily necessities would be distributed to those who showed up.

As a result, not even the first row of chairs was filled by the villagers present.

The person in charge, Pan Zhi, kept talking on the stage and the fewer people there were, the greener his face became. Those people who came received rice noodles and oil and left one after another.

That scene cannot be described as desolate.

The person in charge of the expert team, Li Ge, didn't look very good. He kept explaining that it was a busy time for farming, and everyone was working in the fields and might not be able to get away.

There was no other way, so everyone held a small meeting afterwards, planning to find a way to carry the daily necessities they brought as well as books and stationery for the children into the mountains by manpower in the most primitive way and deliver them to every household.

After that, I hired some laborers from the town, and then together with this team of teachers and experts, I traveled from village to village across the mountains and ridges.

But most people here have never seen such a rugged mountain road. One teacher fell down today, and the equipment of the filming team broke down tomorrow. It just keeps happening.

Even Shen Qingrang, who has been exercising diligently and often participating in outdoor sports, grinned every morning when he woke up from the soreness all over his body.

On this day, Fang Ning did not continue hiking with the team because Zhao Zhiyan, the support teacher who was in charge of receiving them, injured her leg and had difficulty moving, so Shen Qingrang asked her to stay and help take care of her.

Although it aroused dissatisfaction from the other female teachers, Fang Ning did not refuse.

Zhao Zhiyan was lying on the bed, with two pillows under her swollen ankles, and looked at Fang Ning with a guilty look on her face.

"Sister Fang Ning, don't be angry.

Everyone has been exhausted these past few days, and it is inevitable that they will be a little emotional, so what I said just now is a bit unpleasant."

Fang Ning shook his head.

"It's nothing, I don't care about this."

Zhao Zhiyan sighed.

“However, everyone really didn’t expect things to go so poorly.

In fact, everyone who comes to teach has good intentions. Although I cannot guarantee that everyone has no selfish motives, since they are here, they do want to do something practical.

But what I don't understand is why people here are so resistant to us.

You said that schooling is free of charge, and we provide all books and stationery. We also send so many teachers and experts from all over the country.

Isn't this a good thing?"

Fang Ning was sitting aside, holding a thermos cup and drinking water. Hearing this, he looked up.

"Where are you from."

Zhao Zhiyan smiled.

“My family is in a coastal city in the south, and both my parents are teachers.

I have never left there since I was a child, and I have never seen so many mountains.

I chose this place because I actually wanted to train myself.”

Fang Ning also nodded and smiled.

"Your parents are both teachers, and of course you grew up in an environment that valued education.

The difference is still huge.”

Zhao Zhiyan wanted to say something else, but the sudden sound of footsteps at the door startled her.

Fang Ning waved her hand.

"Don't be afraid, I'm probably the cafeteria lady."

After a pause of about two or three seconds, the loud voice of the cafeteria aunt rang out from outside the door.

"Teacher Fang, Teacher Zhao, are you in the room?"

Zhao Zhiyan quickly calmed down her pounding heart.

"I may be a nervous wreck, where do so many bad people come from?

Yesterday I was also shocked, and I went to see Brother Li to tell him that there seemed to be movement in the grass behind the dormitory.

As a result, he took a few people over and discovered that there was a bird's nest that had fallen from the tree in the grass. The mother bird flew back and found that her baby had fallen, and she was spinning around anxiously and chirping."

Fang Ning smiled lightly and stood up to open the door.

The aunt looked apologetically at the two people in the room.

"Sorry to disturb Teacher Fang, Teacher Zhao.

Today my son brought his granddaughter back from the city. Xiao Pan and I had asked for leave in advance, thinking that I would wait until the troops came back before leaving.

But I see that they haven't come back at this time today. It's probably because they were delayed by something over there, and the road is not easy to walk at night.

Look, if I wait a little longer, the last bus will leave."

Fang Ning nodded.

Indeed, even the janitor in the school was taken away by the team to become a strong man, leaving only the three of them inside and outside.

"It's okay, you can go. How can I help you?"

Auntie didn't expect Fang Ning to be so easy to talk to, so she quickly thanked her.

"Thank you so much. Thank you so much.

My son came back for a rare trip and brought my eldest granddaughter with him. I figured I would have to rush back and cook something for my granddaughter.

There's no need to help, I've prepared dinner for everyone and it's been heating by the stove.

But someone has to keep an eye on the fire in the stove, and just add a piece or two of firewood to it from time to time to keep the fire from going out."

Fang Ning thought about it for a moment. Although he had never done it before, it shouldn't be difficult to do it.

"Okay, I'll go then."

The aunt nodded, and then took care of Zhao Zhiyan's feet before taking Fang Ning to the cafeteria.

Before leaving, Ning asked Zhao Zhiyan.

"I'll bring you the food later, so you don't have to walk back and forth on crutches.

Lock the door in the house, call me from the window or call me if you need anything, I have my mobile phone with me."

Zhao Zhiyan smiled and nodded.

"I understand, Sister Fang Ning.

You should also be careful in the cafeteria. Although there are only two of us in the school, I heard that there are many wild animals in the woods nearby.

Brother Li and the others said that a lot of the meat the canteen purchased from the town seemed to have been lost."