Siheyuan: It’s so nice to be Lao Liu

Not long after, Xu Damao came in with two policemen.

Yi Zhonghai was delighted to see the visitors, for one of them was an old acquaintance of his, Deputy Chief Liu Yingjie of the Nanluoguxiang Police Station.

"Who in your yard called the police? And where is the uncle in charge of your yard?" Deputy Director Liu, who was walking in front, asked the crowd after entering the yard.

"Captain Liu, I was the one who called the police. I am the boss of this yard." Yi Zhonghai walked up and greeted with a smile.

Liu Yingjie saw that the person who came was Yi Zhonghai, and he knew him, so he smiled and said, "It's Uncle Yi, why did you call the police? Did something happen in your family? Comrade Xu just said that money was lost in your family. Can you tell me what happened in detail?"

"After the hospital-wide meeting, I returned home and found my door open. I clearly remembered that I had closed it tightly when I left. Someone must have broken into my house. My wife and I checked all the valuables in the house and found that something was missing. Five kilograms of flour was missing from the kitchen, and all my money was stolen, a total of 1,500 yuan. That's what happened."

When Yan Jiefang saw that Yi Zhonghai was only concerned with his own business and had forgotten about the theft of his rabbits and didn't even mention it, he knew that this wouldn't do. If he didn't investigate the scene where his rabbits were stolen, how could he quickly identify the root of the problem?

Just now, Yan Jiefang went to check next to his own cage. It might be because his mother spilled the vegetable washing water on the ground when cooking. The ground next to the rabbit cage was wet, and there were several conspicuous small footprints with obvious lines on the soles. Obviously, they were not his sister's.

He couldn't guarantee that Bang Geng would leave any traces of the crime at Yi Zhonghai's house. If he went to Yi Zhonghai's house first and found nothing after a lot of hard work, wouldn't he have to stay up late today?

"Director Liu, a rabbit was stolen from my house as well." Yan Jiefang walked up to Deputy Director Liu and reminded him, "My rabbit was also stolen during a general meeting of the institute. It should have been done by one person. However, this person left a clue when he stole the rabbit from me."

Upon hearing there was a clue, Deputy Director Liu became interested and said, "Take me to the scene."

He turned to the police officer who came with him and said, "Xiao Li, follow Uncle Yi to his home to take a look at the scene and record any useful information. I'll go over to take a look later."

After explaining everything to Xiao Li, he glanced at Yan Jiefang.

Yan Jiefang was also very sensible. He took Deputy Director Liu to the footprints he had found and explained, "The water was poured when we were cooking dinner. It wasn't long ago. These footprints are not from my family."

Deputy Director Liu took out a ruler to measure, recorded the data, and after a careful survey of the area around the crime scene, he went to Yi Zhonghai's house.

Yan Jiefang followed Deputy Director Liu to Yi Zhonghai's home. What made Yan Jiefang happy was that Banggeng also left footprints.

There was a thin layer of white flour on the kitchen floor, with several children's footprints on it. Although several of them were damaged by an old lady who came into the house to check, there were still a few that were complete and clear.

After a discussion, the two police officers said to everyone in the yard, "We have investigated the crime scene and inferred from the information you have given that it was probably done by a child in the yard, who should be between ten and fifteen years old. Please ask the children in the yard who meet the requirements to come out and cooperate with our investigation."

In fact, there are not many children who meet this condition, including Yan Jiedi, Banggeng, Liu Guangfu from the Yan family and Li Jianguo, the grandson of the old Li family in the backyard.

Originally everyone was watching the fun, but when Deputy Director Liu said that children between the ages of ten and fifteen should come out, all three except Bang Geng stood up.

The culprit, Bang Geng, was indeed hiding at home trembling in fear.

Seeing the police comparing the footprints of several people, Bang Geng was quite panicked. He looked at his grandmother Jia Zhang and asked hurriedly, "Grandma, I won't be caught by the police for stealing, right?"

Banggeng is a bully in his own family. With Jia Zhang and the eldest uncle as his backers, he doesn't care about anyone. He steals things from this family and touches things from that family, but no one can stop him because they are afraid of offending Jia Zhang. If he is unlucky, he may have to pay compensation and apologize to the Jia family under the moral blackmail of Jia Zhang and the eldest uncle Yi Zhonghai. After a long time, no one dares to offend Banggeng.

But when facing outsiders, especially the police, he was so timid that he acted like a grandson. Even before the police came to his door, he was already trembling with fear.

Jia Zhang looked at her grandson and said nonchalantly, "It's okay, Banggeng. You just took a rabbit from Yan Laokou's house. We haven't eaten meat for a long time. What's wrong with helping our family?"

"As long as you don't go out and hide at home, you'll be fine. Grandma is here, don't be afraid."

After comparing the soles of the three people who met the requirements with the marks, Deputy Director Liu did not find any corresponding ones, so he looked at Yi Zhonghai and Yan Jiefang.

Yan Jiefang understood what Deputy Director Liu meant and said first, "Jia's Banggeng is also within this range. In the past, whenever there was something exciting in the yard, he and his grandmother would be the first to come out to watch the fun. It's strange today that they didn't come out."

After these words were spoken, Deputy Director Liu did not notice anything unusual, but Yi Zhonghai's face changed. After Yan Jiefang's reminder, Yi Zhonghai seemed to have figured it out and knew that the thief who stole his money should be Bang Geng.

If it were an outsider, when stealing one's money, there is no way he would leave the bills next to the money unattended, unless that person did not know the function of these bills.

Now Yi Zhonghai figured it out. If it was Banggeng, it would make sense. Banggeng was young and didn't know that he needed tickets to buy things, so he only took his family's money.

Yi Zhonghai was extremely anxious at this time, and even regretted why he did not think about it carefully. If he had thought about it carefully, he would definitely guess that it was Bang Geng's doing. In that case, he would not have to call the police.

Besides feeling regretful, Yi Zhonghai also developed some hatred towards Yan Jiefang. The police had already checked, so why were you still bringing up the issue?

But he had no idea that Yan Jiefang did it on purpose, just to stir up conflict between the Jia family and him.

"Whose Banggeng is this? Let him come out for a moment." When Deputy Director Liu heard that there was still one person who had not come out, he asked Yi Zhonghai.

Yi Zhonghai had no way to refuse, and his brain was working frantically, trying to find a way to exonerate Bang Geng.

Yi Zhonghai looked around and was stunned when he saw Qin Huairu standing in the crowd, looking like she was watching the fun without any worries at all.

Qin Huairu doesn't know whether it was Bang Geng who did it or there really was someone who stole it?

Yi Zhonghai also felt a little confused.