Seeing the crime scene flashbacks made me the darling of the police station.

Chapter 107 Reencountering the Old Case
Zhuang Yanzheng then asked about the place where Yao Ying was arrested.

“I don’t know where it was. I only know that the second time I was sold, when that man took me away, there were mountains everywhere, and mountains beyond mountains, mountains that seemed to have no end. I don’t know how long we walked before we got out,” Yao Ying said. “They spoke a dialect that I could hardly understand, and I couldn’t tell where they were from.”

“The second time she was sold, it probably wasn’t in China,” she said.

Zhuang Yanzheng rubbed his fingers together without saying a word.

Yao Ying asked, "Can I use the name Yao Ying?"

Zhuang Yanzheng looked up at her.

"Can I call myself Yao Ying?" she asked again.

“Okay,” Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Yao Ying smiled and looked at Chu Xingrou: "A stranger shed tears because of my experience, but all of my experiences were caused by my parents."

Chu Xingrou's pupils trembled.

Yao Ying said, "I've come to terms with it. Maybe it's because I did something wrong in my past life that I'm paying off my debts in this one."

“I’m quite content. After all, I’ve had five years of peaceful life.” Yao Ying’s eyes seemed to recall the past. “Some people can’t even come out of those places alive. They die. They’re just wrapped in a white cloth and thrown out.”

Chu Xingrou looked at her.

“I can go back to the place where I was born, see the sun outside, smell the flowers, sleep soundly until dawn, and have a place that belongs only to me after I die. That’s enough,” Yao Ying said. “So don’t be sad for me.”

After leaving the interrogation room, Zhuang Yanzheng looked at Chu Xingrou.

Chu Xingrou met his gaze for a moment, then quickly lowered her head, waiting to be criticized.

Zhuang Yanzheng was silent for a while before saying, "That's how it is to be a police officer. You may be dealing with hateful criminals or pitiful murderers. You have to be mentally prepared."

Chu Xingrou lowered her head and whispered, "She just wants a peaceful life, why is that so difficult?"

Zhuang Yanzheng remained silent.

Chu Xingrou sniffed and said, "I won't let my emotions affect my work anymore. I will stay rational when it comes to work."

Zhuang Yanzheng looked at her again: "Okay, go ahead and get busy."

Chu Xingrou left.

Su Miaoyi and Lu Zhishen walked over.

Su Miaoyi watched Chu Xingrou's departing figure and asked, "Did you criticize her?"

"Is this really my image?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

Su Miaoyi nodded.

Zhuang Yanzheng: "."

The three of them went to his office.

Su Miaoyi asked, "You know that license plate number?"

Zhuang Yanzheng took a glass of water, drank it, and then hummed in agreement.

Su Miaoyi and Lu Zhishen looked at him.

“Five years ago, the anti-drug squad arrested drug dealers in Qingyou District,” Zhuang Yanzheng said. “One of them escaped and was picked up by someone else. We checked the surveillance footage and found a Mercedes-Benz E300 with the license plate number that Yao Ying mentioned. The surveillance footage showed a woman wearing a hat and mask in the driver’s seat.”

"The car then disappeared from the surveillance camera's view."

"Is the license plate a fake?" Su Miaoyi asked.

Zhuang Yanzheng nodded: "When we found that car again, it had been burned, and inside were the charred bodies of the drug traffickers who had been picked up."

Su Miaoyi's eyebrows twitched slightly.

It seems the drug dealer who escaped knew far too much.

That's why I killed him.

"Later, we found another surveillance video of the car stopping at the charred site, which captured a woman without a hat," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "Her upper half of her face was visible."

"Who is it?" Su Miaoyi asked.

"The man and woman who attacked you on Xiangyao Street," Zhuang Yanzheng said, "it was that woman. The investigation revealed that everyone calls her Sister Ying, but we don't know her full name."

“Sister Ying,” Su Miaoyi repeated.

Zhuang Yanzheng nodded: "When Yao Ying talked about the people who helped her, I thought of her."

“They came to Jinghai back then,” Su Miaoyi said.

"Yes. That was our first encounter."

Su Miaoyi pursed her lips.

Every time a case involves those people.

She had to admit that they were really difficult to deal with.

The weather is getting warmer. Although Su Miaoyi doesn't have to work regular hours, she has insisted on coming to work every day for the past two months.

Zhuang Yanzheng asked her if she was addicted to going to work.

Su Miaoyi replied that she wanted to work hard and then become his boss, directing him to do his work.

Zhuang Yanzheng threatened to remove her from her workstation.

Su Miaoyi said she was going to cry at the entrance of the bureau chief's office.

In this round of competition, Su Miaoyi narrowly won.

For more than two months, she has not seen any images.

However, I also handled two cases along the way.

He also wrote a work report.

When I got paid, I felt incredibly wise to have signed the contract.

While writing the report, I wondered why I was so foolish as to sign the contract.

Su Miaoyi was writing a report at her workstation when Chu Xingrou passed by her, glanced at her, and felt as if her yang energy had been drained away.

"Su Miaoyi, Chu Xingrou, Qi Feng, pack your things and come with me," Zhuang Yanzheng called out as he came out of his office.

Su Miaoyi immediately sat up straight, her depleted yang energy instantly restored, and she got up and followed Zhuang Yanzheng.

"What case?" she asked Zhuang Yanzheng.

"The burial case." Zhuang Yanzheng glanced at her, paused for a moment, and then continued walking forward.

"what happened?"

“It has some connection with the Ji family,” Zhuang Yanzheng said.

"Ok?"

"The Ji family had a villa in the suburbs that was sold some time ago, and the buyer was going to demolish it and rebuild it. Today, when they were demolishing it, they dug up two bodies in the backyard."

"Two?" Su Miaoyi asked in surprise.

"Let's go take a look first."

We drove for nearly an hour to reach the villa in the suburbs.

The villa has been almost completely demolished, and the areas in the backyard where cement was laid have also been dug up.

The body was found under the cement.

When Su Miaoyi and the others arrived, they saw half a skull, along with some bone fragments and scraps of cloth, mixed with soil outside the dug pit.

It should be the corpse's clothes.

When the worker arrived, he explained the situation.

They first used a hydraulic breaker to break up the cement floor.

Then they dug it up again with an excavator.

To everyone's surprise, the first shovel unearthed a bone.

They quickly stopped.

Su Miaoyi and Yan Cheng looked into the pit.

Most of the bones are still buried inside and need to be carefully dug out.

Zhuang Yanzheng, along with Qi Feng and Chu Xingrou, inquired about the specifics.

Su Miaoyi, Yan Cheng, and his assistant cleaned the bones they had dug out of the soil and put them into body bags.

Only then did they discuss continuing the digging.

There were also pieces of broken cement on top.

The excavator first cleared away the cement, and then it dug a bit with a shovel.

After finding the clothes, they began to carefully dig outwards with their hands.

Both bodies were lying nearly flat, showing no signs of struggle.

The body's clothes were already slightly corroded.

"The bone marrow cavity looks honeycomb-like." Su Miaoyi examined it carefully in her hand. "The time of death must have been four or five years ago, right?"

Yan Cheng observed for a moment and nodded, "Yes."

Su Miaoyi dug carefully, thinking: It's another old case.

　Goodnight everybody

　　(End of this chapter)