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

Chapter 8 Assisting in the Arrest
By the time Su Miaoyi came to her senses, the man had already walked away.

Looking at the dilapidated buildings in front of her, she realized what was happening and turned into the alley.

When the man who had walked away turned back to look at her, she was already out of sight.

After Su Miaoyi turned into the alley, she waited for two seconds before slowly peeking out again.

Watching the man turn to the alleyway ahead.

Su Miaoyi was quite familiar with this area, and she thought about where the man might go after entering the alley.

I didn't dare follow them directly, but instead went around them from this alley.

She placed the cat carrier on an old chair by the roadside and walked into the alley while taking out her phone to find Zhuang Yanzheng's phone number.

I never expected that the money I saved at midnight would come in handy today.

The phone rang for a while before being answered: "Who is it?"

"I am Su Miaoyi." Su Miaoyi subconsciously lowered her voice, and her breathing was not very steady because she was walking.

"What's wrong? Where are you?" Zhuang Yanzheng noticed something was off about her voice.

Su Miaoyi said, "I was in the old city. I just saw a man with a mole at the end of his eyebrow, and when I looked into his eyes, I saw him committing murder."

"Are you safe now?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked immediately.

"I'm safe," Su Miaoyi whispered. "You should get the police from the local station here right away. I'm afraid they won't believe me if I call them directly."

"Give me the exact location," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Su Miaoyi told him the exact location and then asked, "Is this phone number synced with your WeChat?"

"Ah."

"Okay," Su Miaoyi said and hung up the phone.

On the other side, Zhuang Yanzheng didn't even have time to say the words "be careful" to her.

He and Qi Feng had just come out of Xia Zhenghong's house.

He immediately called the local police station.
Su Miaoyi added Zhuang Yanzheng's WeChat account immediately after hanging up the phone.

Once he approved, she shared her location.

Then I put the phone away.

There are many illegal buildings in the old town area.

At first, they tried to manage it, but since there was no development in the area, it gradually fell out of control.

Previously, all the alleys were connected.

Some of them have now been sealed off by walls.

Su Miaoyi looked around to make sure no one was watching, then took a running start and vaulted over the wall.

Whether in the welfare home or later in the old town, she had climbed over walls quite often, so she was quite familiar with it.

I climbed over the wall and hid behind a flower bed behind a resident's house.

She crouched down, using flowers as cover, and looked outside.

Soon the man's figure came into view.

The man walked along, glancing around as he went, before entering an apartment building.

Su Miaoyi waited for two seconds, then quickly moved close to the wall and waited at the door for the sound of footsteps coming upstairs.

She listened carefully until she heard the door open.

There are five floors in total, with four households per floor. Su Miaoyi calculated it in her mind, then found a corner with a good view and sent a message to Zhuang Yanzheng, telling him the more accurate location.

Zhuang Yanzheng replied: [Retreat to a safe place.]
Su Miaoyi replied with an "OK" emoji.

The police officers from the local police station arrived very quickly.

Three police cars were parked outside the apartment building.

Su Miaoyi ran out.

The police officer looked at her: "Su Miaoyi?"

Su Miaoyi nodded.

"The municipal bureau has already given instructions," the police officer said.

Su Miaoyi didn't waste any words and said directly, "The fourth or fifth floor, on the west side of the building. I didn't dare to follow too closely, I just judged it roughly by the sound of footsteps."

"Okay." The police officer assumed she was from the Municipal Public Security Bureau and didn't think much of it. He arranged for people to be stationed at the entrances of the fourth and fifth floors of the building and led her upstairs.

Not long after, Su Miaoyi heard shouts of "Stop!" and "Don't move!" from downstairs.

Residents from the surrounding area gradually gathered to watch the spectacle.

The police officers who remained outside maintained order.

The police officers quickly arrived with the suspect. Su Miaoyi breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that they had caught the person.

The man glanced at her before being put into the police car.

When their eyes met again, Su Miaoyi saw nothing more.

The person was taken away, and the police drove away.

Su Miaoyi also walked back, picked up the cat from the other alley, and continued home.

He told Zhuang Yanzheng what he had seen.

They also told him that these scenes took place in a room, but the exact location was unknown. Therefore, the overpass was not the primary crime scene.

After telling him, she put her phone in her pocket.

It wasn't until I met my uncle and aunt and chatted for a long time that I took out my phone and realized I hadn't turned off location sharing on WeChat.

She quickly turned it off.

Fortunately, the other party was not a bad person, but a policeman, otherwise their residence would have been exposed.

Su Miaoyi stayed at home for three days, and during those three days she got up early to help her uncle and aunt sell vegetables.

Cheng Yong left for a while, and when he came back, he was holding two grilled sausages and an ice cream: "Here, Miaomiao."

"Thank you, Uncle." Su Miaoyi accepted it.

Cheng Yong gave Ge Yu an ice cream, and ate one himself.

"It's so hot, let's go back," Ge Yu said.

"It's okay." Su Miaoyi was wearing a sun-protective shirt and hat. "It's not hot."

“The child finally came back, and look at you, how could you chase him away?” Cheng Yong said.

“You’re really something. You’re not young anymore, yet you’re still trying to sow discord,” Ge Yu said. “In this sweltering heat, the kids are helping out here, getting tired and hot. Don’t you feel sorry for them at all?”

“That’s what you’re doing, trying to sow discord,” Cheng Yong said. “How can I not feel sorry for the child?”

Su Miaoyi smiled from the side.

The two only quieted down when someone came to buy groceries.

Su Miaoyi entertained two groups of guests, then took out her phone and opened the Writer's Assistant app.

I've been using my home computer to type for the past three days.

The novel I'm currently writing is doing better than my previous ones; it has more readers, and naturally, more comments as well.

Su Miaoyi replied to a few messages.

Seeing someone standing in front of her stall, she put away her phone and asked, "Hello, what would you like to buy?"

As she spoke, she looked up and met Zhuang Yanzheng's gaze.

Su Miaoyi: "."

Zhuang Yanzheng noticed that she was wearing an oversized sun hat, and people had to look up at her.

It was so hot that there were a few glistening beads of sweat on her cheek.

After staring at each other for a moment, Su Miaoyi rolled up her hat brim, carefully looked around, and asked in a low voice, "Is there a case nearby?"

"No," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "I came to find you."

Su Miaoyi breathed a sigh of relief: "How did you know I was here?"

“Sharing location,” Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Su Miaoyi: "." She was at this stall before she closed it.

"What do you want? Am I a suspect again?" Su Miaoyi asked in a very low voice.

"No." Zhuang Yanzheng glanced at Cheng Yong and Ge Yu, who were both looking in their direction. "I need your help with something."

"Oh." Su Miaoyi's eyes lit up. "The dishes are very fresh today. See what you'd like to see."

Zhuang Yanzheng looked at her.

Su Miaoyi smiled very politely: "What would you like to order?"

Zhuang Yanzheng looked down and said, "Just do whatever you think is best."

"Okay," Su Miaoyi said. "Please wait a moment."

She weighed some of everything, and Cheng Yong and Ge Yu came over to help pack it into bags.

Su Miaoyi calculated: "It's three hundred and two in total. Let me round it down to four hundred."

Zhuang Yanzheng chuckled: "Do you know what I do?"

Su Miaoyi felt like she could be handcuffed and taken away any second now. She cleared her throat and said, "Three hundred. I'll also give you two free tomatoes."

(End of this chapter)