latelenovela Chapter 344 Obedient and Clingy Younger Brother (55)
Chapter 344 Obedient and Clingy Younger Brother (55)
Jin Shuhe entered the office, and before he could even sit down properly, he heard someone behind him talking to him.
When she first started working, Jin Shuhe was worried about whether her personality would allow her to fit in.
After all, the members of the Major Crimes Unit have worked together for a long time and seem to be a complete unit, and I am not a person who is good at socializing.
But once you actually get to know them, you'll find that although everyone has their own personality and they're all incredibly hardworking, the work atmosphere isn't very serious.
To paraphrase what Team Leader Xie and Deputy Team Leader Wu said in a meeting: "Our work is already so serious, so our work attitude must also be serious. If we are also that serious in our daily lives, we'll be too stressed!"
This was meant to comfort the two newlyweds and tell them not to be nervous.
"Brother Chen! It's done, it's done!" Jin Shuhe sighed helplessly, holding the documents printed out of the printer.
"I want to hear! I want to hear!" Qi Silang wasn't with them earlier.
I just went to the tech department and went to look at the surveillance footage again. I'm so bored now.
"The young girl didn't believe him at all and asked him: 'Handsome, how old are you? Are you really married?'"
"And then?" Qin Wen became intrigued. He saw an embarrassed look on Jin Shuhe's face and immediately felt that the story that followed would definitely be interesting.
"Hahahahaha!" Chen Mingkang laughed at himself: "Shuhe said to the person with a straight face: 'Classmate, I am already thirty years old, I just look young.'"
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
"Hahahahaha!"
The office was immediately filled with laughter and chatter, taking Jin Shuhe's embarrassment as a balm for them.
"I..." Jin Shuhe tried to interrupt them, but failed.
"Hey! You really got married?" Qi Silang leaned over and asked curiously.
In the Major Crimes Unit office, most of the staff are single, and they always feel inexplicably excited when they discover that one of them has a partner.
Old bachelor Qin Wen glanced at Jin Shuhe's expression; he already knew some of it beforehand.
"No."
"What marriage? He's only of legal marriage age this year!" Chen Mingkang scoffed.
"Oh."
Seeing that the topic wasn't going to be explored in any depth, everyone went about their own business.
Jin Shuhe breathed a slight sigh of relief; he didn't really like his private life being discussed by others.
It could also be... because he himself is currently very confused and unable to obtain what he desires.
They didn't even dare to ask for it.
"Brother Wen! Look at this!"
Jin Shuhe turned a page of documents, his expression turning serious.
“There was a graduate student surnamed Liu in Dong Hongcheng’s lab who attempted suicide two years ago and has now dropped out of school, saying that he had developed mental problems.”
"Oh? Mental health issues? You've been a graduate student for so long, how come you only just discovered you have mental health problems?" Qin Wen leaned closer.
"What else?"
“There weren’t any details, just a brief mention, but I feel there’s… something wrong here.” Jin Shuhe quickly flipped through the other documents.
"Now that we've discovered a problem, we should investigate it. We can't let any suspicious detail slip by."
"Let's go!" Qin Wen grabbed his coat. "Let's go ask that graduate student at his house."
Jin Shuhe stood up and went out with him.
When they knocked on the door, a couple who looked to be around sixty years old looked at them with some wariness when they heard that they were police officers.
Qin Wen nudged Jin Shuhe in the lower back, signaling for him to speak.
"Excuse me……"
After Jin Shuhe finished asking the question, he saw the mother's face suddenly turn ugly: "What's wrong with the man surnamed Dong?"
"Due to the confidentiality of the case, please answer my questions first."
"It was him! He drove my child to death!"
"Dead...dead? You mean your son..."
"Correct!"
"Wasn't it a failed suicide attempt?"
"He committed suicide later! He said he had wasted his education! He had no hope for his life! He said he felt like a useless person who could only be bullied by others, all because of that guy surnamed Dong!" The mother became agitated instantly, crying and shouting until her voice almost broke.
After leaving the Liu family, both of them looked solemn.
The mother had just broken down, and the father helped his wife back to the bedroom before letting out a long sigh.
I told them about it.
“Neither his mother nor I are highly educated. Our son is upright, and we don’t really understand what he’s learned or done, but we always hear him talking about how his tutor bullies people, and how other people at his school bully him. He had no other choice but to take his own life.”
“Officer, our child did commit suicide, so… although I don’t know what you’re investigating, this man surnamed Dong is definitely not a good person. If you really want to investigate him, please investigate thoroughly.”
Jin Shuhe frowned as he got into the car.
"Why, is this so uncomfortable?"
When Qin Wen took Qi Silang on the last visit, Qi Silang was not as outgoing as Jin Shuhe. He was a bit hesitant when talking to the people involved, and he would instinctively back down when the other party became a little tougher.
But this is only human nature.
Jin Shuhe is much better than him. This kid has his own logic for asking questions and won't be led by the other person. He insists on asking questions about what he wants to know, no matter what the other person's attitude is.
The problem is that the questioning techniques are rigid and inflexible. This can significantly reduce communication efficiency when dealing with scheming or emotional individuals.
"No, I just think that if he really did that, why didn't anyone tell us when we visited the school?"
"I guess they all have their own concerns. With a mentor like Dong Hongcheng who holds the future of his students in his hands, the students probably won't say much to protect themselves."
"We can't just ignore them, we have to keep asking!" Qin Wen stepped on the gas.
"In this way, if we put them together, they will stick together and not say anything. So we call them to the police station to cooperate with the questioning, and ask them one by one."
"Yes."
After returning to his office, Jin Shuhe immediately began calling the students over.
"In that case... if the situation is true, we should also consider the possibility of a revenge killing."
Deputy Captain Wu nodded after listening to Jin Shuhe's words.
The surveillance footage still yielded no results. The car registered under Dong Hongcheng's name was parked in their garage without any problems. Clearly, he didn't drive himself to the scene of the crime. So who brought him there?
The students, one by one, seemed to have all agreed on the same thing: they all said they were too busy with school and couldn't find the time.
Jin Shuhe didn't care about all that. If they didn't want to come by themselves, he would go to their homes to ask, or go to the school to find them.
Cooperating with the police in investigating criminal homicide cases is the responsibility of every citizen.
"You and Silang will each ask questions, focusing on a few key points, and make sure you get the truth out of them." Qin Wen was intentionally training them.
Compared to people in society, students are relatively simpler individuals, especially those in their ivory towers, where their biggest daily activity is academic experiments.
Once inside the police station, they became visibly nervous and restrained. Just by looking at their expressions, Jin Shuhe knew they were hiding something...
"Excuse me... are we responsible?" A girl sitting opposite Jin Shuhe asked timidly.
"You were only asked to come to assist in the investigation. If you have nothing to do with the case, you naturally don't need to take any responsibility." Jin Shuhe was businesslike and meticulous.
"Tell me about your mentor, Dong Hongcheng."
Under such circumstances, with Jin Shuhe watching her, the girl quickly spoke up.
The situation was similar for the remaining students, except for their senior brother.
“My juniors and I don’t know anything else about our professor. As for that senior who committed suicide, when he dropped out, not only me, but most of the other juniors and seniors didn’t come to the professor’s lab either. How could we know the inside story?”
“Your juniors just said…” Jin Shuhe pushed the interrogation record in front of him.
After looking at the other side, he finally relaxed and let out a long sigh: "We don't dare to say that, because we have to graduate, we have to achieve results, officer, the employment scope for our major is not that wide."
"The influential figures inside all know each other. If Professor Dong... if he deliberately says something to us, our future will be in jeopardy."
The senior student took off his glasses, pinched the bridge of his nose, and Jin Shuhe noticed the obvious dark circles under his eyes.
“It was my fault for not letting them tell the truth… It’s all my responsibility. I don’t want them to be affected by this in the future. After all, only a minority can go abroad to continue their studies. Most of them will still have to develop their careers in China.”
"That's enough for today. You can go back now. I'll contact you again if I need anything." Jin Shuhe closed the notebook, stood up, and saw him out.
The situation is similar for Qi Silang.
According to the students, Professor Dong was accused of falsifying experimental data, exploiting students' labor, and using graduation as leverage to steal students' research results.
"Do you think... their school knows?" Qi Silang asked.
Jin Shuhe shook his head: "These are secondary. What we need to figure out now is who might have such intense hatred in these matters that they would kill someone."
The investigation of the case gradually found its direction.
“Going abroad…” Jin Shuhe twirled his pen as he sat down, pondering the word, feeling that it might be somewhat useful.
"Come on! Let's go to the cafeteria!" Qin Wen patted him on the shoulder. "Health is the foundation of everything. When you can eat on time, you should eat well!"
Jin Shuhe got up with him.
"Wow! You're so dirty!" Qin Wen looked at his filthy trousers below the calf: "I didn't notice when we were visiting, why didn't you change them?"
"You're the face of our Major Crimes Unit now!" Qin Wen said smugly.
"I didn't bring any change of clothes," Jin Shuhe said helplessly.
"I'm not as tall as you, and you can't wear my pants."
"It's okay, I'll... just bear with it a little longer."
Jin Shuhe is a very clean person. His home is spotless, and he is never pretentious at work. But now that he has realized this, he suddenly feels a little uncomfortable.
During the meal, he even patted his pants and acted coquettishly towards Sister Li Ruan.
“Ah, so dirty,” Lu Liruan replied quickly.
"There's no way around it, this is proof of my hard work~" Jin Shuhe held chopsticks in one hand and her phone in the other, her eyes glued to the screen.
"Then come back and change your clothes."
"Not today, it's supposed to be my shift today anyway."
The case is under urgent investigation, and they can hardly leave their posts regardless of whether they are on duty or not.
“Then… shall I send you a set?” Lu Liruan suggested earnestly as she sat in the shop.
It turns out that the child couldn't stand his school uniform getting dirty. Even if he washed it at night in winter and wrung it out, it would still be damp the next morning.
Lu Liruan later came up with a solution: after shaking off the sweat, she would turn on the large bathroom heater and leave it on for an hour, which would dry it almost completely.
He would definitely be very uncomfortable wearing dirty clothes now. Lu Liruan had long understood him in many small details.
"No need."
Jin Shuhe sent the message, but her heart was pounding.
It wasn't because of the clean clothes, but because Sister Li Ruan cared about him... She looked after him, and that alone made Jin Shuhe's exhaustion disappear.
He wanted Sister Li Ruan to come.
I didn't want to trouble Sister Li Ruan.
“It’s okay, just send me your location and I’ll come over as soon as I get home from school.”
"Are you enjoying the food in the cafeteria? Do you want me to make you some late-night snacks to bring over?"
"No need, no need, Sister Li Ruan."
The thought that you're coming for me makes me so happy.
I'll call you when I arrive.
Qin Wen wondered if it was just his imagination, but he always felt that Jin Shuhe had a smile on his face when he was working after eating.
"What's the matter with you?"
"Ok?"
"You seem to enjoy your work so much?"
"Yeah, the thought of working gives me a lot of energy," Jin Shuhe joked, mimicking his tone.
Qin Wen: ...
Another one driven mad?
Although Jin Shuhe said it wasn't necessary, Lu Liruan still took a few lunchboxes and made some late-night snacks after returning home.
Around 8 p.m., when Jin Shuhe's phone rang, he suddenly stood up.
Qi Silang, who was standing nearby, was startled.
"What are you doing?"
"My family brought me some clothes, I'm going downstairs to get them."
After leaving those words behind, Jin Shuhe vanished like a gust of wind, leaving the people in the office looking at each other in bewilderment.
"His... mother? Or his girlfriend?" Qi Silang asked hesitantly.
"What's it to you! Get back to work!" Hao Lu, his great-aunt who had just returned from the major case case and was away on a business trip handling the fugitive apprehension procedures, tapped him on the head.
The city bureau courtyard was quiet at night, and the lamplight, spaced a dozen meters apart, cast long shadows.
Jin Shuhe could hear the sound of his own breathing.
"Uncle Wang!" he greeted the gatekeeper, but his eyes were only looking outside.
"What are you looking for?"
"Someone came to deliver something to me." Jin Shuhe didn't see Lu Liruan.
"Oh! A young girl, right? She said she was waiting for someone outside! Is she looking for you..." Before she could finish speaking, Jin Shuhe took a long stride and was already several steps away.
The streetlights outside were much brighter, and Jin Shuhe spotted Sister Li Ruan sitting on the bollard.
She was facing the road, swinging her legs somewhat boredly, her hair loose and fluttering in the night breeze.
Even though it had only been two days since they last saw each other, for some reason, at this moment, Jin Shuhe felt that he missed her very, very much!