"Sure, okay."
Li Zhiyuan really had business to attend to, and Alii personally made a new canvas for him, which he needed to go and pick up.
With the new canvas in hand, it was equivalent to having a new cover for the book. Only then would he dare to open the old cover of the evil book and attempt to look at the contents inside.
When he stepped out of the door, Li Zhiyuan greeted Tan Wenbin: "Brother Binbin, late-night snacks later."
Tan Wenbin raised his hand in a "got it" gesture: "Understood, Old Sichuan."
After Li Zhiyuan left, Tan Wenbin acted as the guide.
"Dad, are you really being transferred here?"
"Mhm."
"This doesn’t follow the rules, right, dad? Tell secretly, have you beco corrupted?"
"What?"
"Did you take so backdoor deal? Give gifts or bribes?"
"You worry about your old man that much?"
"Of course, I did not even benefit from your extra points for the college entrance exam, just don’t influence my future political vetting."
"Heh."
"Dad, you need to be a good cop."
"I don’t need you to teach that."
"So, what area are you in charge of now?"
"Currently it’s here."
"No, I an, I was in your jurisdiction before my college entrance exam, and I’m still in your jurisdiction after the exam, doesn’t that make my exam pointless?"
"Then you might as well drop out and retake your senior high school year, and try for those two universities in Beijing."
"Wow, Officer Tan, ambitious aren’t you, even thinking about transferring to Beijing?"
Tan Wenbin nudged his father, Lao Tan, with his elbow. Lao Tan glared back at him.
Then, both of them laughed.
As soon as they arrived at the dormitory entrance, they saw Lu Yi coming out with a bag on his back.
Tan Wenbin took the initiative to greet: "Hey, heading out this late?"
"Yes, just nearby. The kids have piano and dance classes during the day, only ti they’re free is at night."
"Then be careful."
"Don’t worry. And this is ..." Lu Yi looked towards Lao Tan standing beside Tan Wenbin.
"Oh, sir asked to show him the way."
"Heh, all right." Lu Yi nodded, waved, and left.
After entering the dormitory building, Tan Wenbin pointed out: "Dad, this is Ran Qiuping’s office."
"Don’t have to ntion the na so smoothly next ti."
"Understood."
The window was closed. Upon opening the door, they discovered soone standing inside.
Tan Wenbin’s eyes narrowed slightly; he recognized the person who had once told them stories in Shinan Town, and had also been to Mr. Li’s house, it was Yu Shu.
Yuanzi was very wary of his identity and didn’t want to be too involved with him.
Lao Tan also recognized him and took the initiative to greet: "Mr. Yu, hello."
"Officer Tan, hello." Yu Shu greeted back briefly, his gaze turning to Tan Wenbin, "Young man, we et again."
"Ah, um, hello, Storyteller."
"Are you a student here?"
"Yes, that’s right. Mr. Yu, are you here to perform at our school?"
"Heh, you live here?"
"Yes, right."
"Let’s go see your dorm, I’m thirsty."
"Sure, no problem."
Yu Shu looked at Lao Tan: "What a coincidence, I didn’t know your son was studying here."
Lao Tan paused briefly, he suddenly had so insights about his own sudden personnel transfer.
Tan Wenbin led the way, with Yu Shu and Lao Tan following. The remaining police continued to inspect Ran Qiuping’s office more procedurally.
"Officer Tan, do you believe in fate?"
Lao Tan did not answer and instead looked serious as he took off his police cap and then put it back on.
"Sorry, I was abrupt, I an, it seems your son really brings you luck."
"This rascal, it’s a miracle if he doesn’t drive mad."
Walking ahead, Tan Wenbin raised his arms in dissatisfaction: "My mom said when I was born, there was an auspicious sign, red clouds appeared in the sky at night."
"That’s because the cotton factory next to the hospital was on fire."
Lao Tan does believe in soone bringing him good fortune, but not his own son, it was soone else.
Upon reaching the third floor, Tan Wenbin naturally opened the door to Lu Yi’s dorm room.
"Co on, everyone sit, don’t be shy."
Tan Wenbin picked up so loose cigarettes from the small table, handed them to his dad and Yu Shu, then also picked up the red sausage, breaking it into pieces and handing it to them too.
Apart from his own and Xiao Yuan’s room, this was the dorm he knew best. He himself was like the local deity of this dorm room.
Yu Shu asked: "How co there’s only your bed spread here, the other beds are empty?"
"Well, I was unlucky during dorm allocation, ended up with the second year students, and the school has the new first-years attending earlier, the upperclassn haven’t returned yet."
Lao Tan imdiately saw that this was not his son’s dorm room. The bedding and daily necessities could be explained as old ones from ho, but the dust accumulated under the storage box and so items revealed that this was certainly not a newly settled dorm.
But he said nothing.
Yu Shu, not being a professional in criminal investigation, specialized in different areas and didn’t notice these details.
After biting the red sausage, Yu Shu nodded: "Tastes quite authentic."
"That of course, a buddy from Northeast gave it to ."
Though it had been a while since the Red Sausage Ghost had co to eat his sausages,
Lu Yi still maintained the habit of offering, it wouldn’t go to waste anyway as he would eat whatever he offered during the day.
His parents worked at the at processing factory back ho and would send him so from ti to ti.
Anyway, no matter what, he couldn’t let his fellow ghost go hungry, who knows, maybe one day it would crave a bite and co back.
"Officer Tan, let’s go."
"Okay."
"Then, dad, Mr. Yu, you guys go ahead, I’ll go do laundry."
After his real dad and Yu Shu left the dorm, Tan Wenbin finally relaxed completely.
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