Li Zhiyuan: "So in reality, who can always be blessed with good fortune?"
After saying that, the youth thought of his Grandmaster.
Entering the school campus, he arrived at the dormitory building only to find that the new dormitory supervisor had already locked the doors.
"Brother Xiao Yuan, I can climb in."
"No need. It’s almost dawn anyway. You take Lin Shuyou to the dical room, I’ll go over there to sleep."
"Okay then."
Tan Wenbin carried Lin Shuyou to the dical room while Li Zhiyuan, loaded with big and small bags, walked toward the family building.
He pushed open the courtyard door, and inside it was very quiet.
Not until Li Zhiyuan reached the French window did any sound appear inside.
The girl didn’t, as before, actively open the window and stand there barefoot.
The French window wasn’t locked, and Li Zhiyuan gently opened it and went inside.
The girl was lying on the bed, sleeping.
Li Zhiyuan stood by the bed and, borrowing the moonlight streaming in, watched for a while.
The quilt was beside her.
Li Zhiyuan reached out to take the quilt, felt the remaining warmth inside, and knew the girl had been covered with it, as she had gotten up just now wanting to open the window to welco him as usual.
But then she rembered what she had said before, so she lay back down, pretending to sleep.
But this quilt, she had folded it over her belly according to the boy’s habit. There was no ti to fold it up again.
After Li Zhiyuan folded the quilt nicely, he gently placed it on the girl’s belly.
Then he put down all the bags he was carrying and lay down on the carpet below the bed, closing his eyes.
He was tired; he wanted to sleep.
Granny Yu had been dealt with ahead of ti, aning he would have a period of calm to sleep without distraction.
A while later, the girl slowly sat up, carefully lifted the quilt folded by the boy off herself, and put it aside.
Then she turned to the edge of the bed, propped her chin with her left hand, and just watched the youth sleeping soundly on the carpet.
The moonlight also spilled over him, casting a layer of glow.
As for the stars, they were all in the girl’s eyes.
...
A large-scale deploynt of police cars entered the western outskirts of Tong’an Town, accompanied by many green trucks, from which ard police with guns descended.
They first completed the encirclent and then proceeded to storm in and make arrests.
The whole process went much smoother than expected.
Because all mbers of the circus were sitting in place waiting to be arrested, looking more wilted than grasshoppers after autumn, completely devoid of their bounce.
Apart from the old woman and Sister Rou, the rest of the circus were ordinary people, bona fide human traffickers.
Thus, "ghost hitting the wall" had already caused so of them to ntally break down, and on seeing the police rushing toward them, they wept tears as if seeing their "saviors," and spontaneously confessed their cris.
Standing by the police car, Captain Tan lighted a cigarette, feeling very sleepy and straining to keep awake.
Because he had the morning off the next day, he had allowed himself a few drinks, never expecting an incident to occur.
At the celebration dinner, leadership was still praising his outstanding performance, having solved successive pending cases just after taking up the new position, and calling on everyone to learn from him.
When he received a pager ssage, went out to call, and summoned everyone to assemble and deploy, even the leadership was surprised, exclaiming: "Solving another case?"
He hadn’t intended to stand out so much, but what could he do when his son kept phoning one call after the other, lighting him up like a light bulb.
"Captain Tan, a body has been discovered inside the performance tent."
"Male or female?"
"I... I can’t tell."
"Take to see it."
Tan Yunlong walked into the performance tent and saw that uniquely contorted body, flesh and bone separated.
And the flesh part had obviously been beaten extensively and for a long ti, completely turning into a bloody pulp.
Tan Yunlong took a closer look and said, "It’s a female body."
Xiao Zhou, curious, asked: "How was this done?"
"Smashed with stones."
"Ah?"
Captain Tan pointed to the large number of bloodstained stones near the body.
Xiao Zhou clicked his tongue and said: "How much hatred must one have to keep smashing even after death?"
"Unless the murderer rearranged the scene after the killing, based on the distribution of stones on the ground and the bloodstains on the floor, when the smashing happened, the victim probably wasn’t dead yet, she was still moving."
"To smash so many stones without dying, isn’t that victim a bit too much?"
"Let’s secure the scene first."
After Captain Tan and the others left the performance tent, outside, the ard police were escorting circus mbers onto the vehicle.
Officer Xiao Yun, from the sa departnt, curiously asked: "Captain Tan, how did you know this was a human trafficking group’s location?"
"My son is studying at college in Jinling."
Everyone was from the sa office, now under Captain Tan’s command, and found this opening a bit familiar.
Captain Tan continued: "You’ve seen Binbin before. He’s been to our office before and even brought you breakfast. He ca here to play with classmates today and noticed sothing off about this circus, so he told about it."
Everyone nodded.
Only Xiao Zhou, probably from drinking too much, dared to boldly say: "Captain Tan, it’s your son again... I find that hard to believe."
We’re all police officers in this line of work, not so easy to dismiss or fool, we just used to kind of ignore it.
At this point, a mber of the ard police ca over, pointing to a man and a child standing in the distance, and said, "That man wants to turn himself in."
Xiao Zhou: "Another trafficker?"
"No, he said he originally ca here to sell his son, but changed his mind and wanted his son back. They refused, beat him up and then locked both him and his son in a cage.
The kid said, it was a brother called Binbin who saved them."
On hearing this, everyone’s expression changed; it turned out to be true, Captain Tan hadn’t lied.
Xiao Zhou imdiately said: "Captain Tan, I was wrong."
"Heh, no problem."
Captain Tan waved it off with a look that said: See, I told you it was the truth.
But inside he thought:
This bunny, how could he be so sloppy this ti, even got seen saving people.
He’s going to have to co to the station to go through the process now, hope it doesn’t delay Xiao Yuan’s matters.
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This Chapter is 7,000 characters. Including that Chapter at noon, today’s update counts as 14,000 or 15,000. The main thing is that once I get over 10,000 characters a day, it gets harder to add more. My typing isn’t fast, and I need to think about adding elents of entertainnt, which takes extra ti to get the feel right. So it’s not that I’m releasing a single 10,000-word piece split into two Chapters. Please see clarity in this.
The wrap-up of this subplot is tomorrow, and I plan to write a bit more.
Lastly, I humbly ask for your monthly ticket, and I will try my best to write more!
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