South to North: A Prison Guard at the Beginning

That morning, Yuan Mu was reading a newspaper at home when Niu Dali ran in hurriedly with a piece of letter paper in his hand.

"Brother Yuan! Brother Yuan!"

"What are you doing? Were you chased by a dog?" Yuan Mu frowned.

"No, Brother Yuan, I have something to ask you." Niu Dali smiled and walked over to Yuan Mu and sat down.

"What's the matter?"

"Brother Yuan, can you help me figure out what this poem means?" Niu Dali quickly handed over the letter paper in his hand.

"Lovesickness is only on the lilac branches and the cardamom tips." Yuan Mu frowned and repeated the poem.

"Yes, what does this mean?" Niu Dali asked impatiently.

"Who wrote this? He's so uneducated. Even Kou wrote it wrong." Yuan Mu complained.

"Brother Yuan, don't worry about it. Just tell me what this sentence means. Keep it simple. Don't make it complicated."

"The meaning of this poem is that the lovesickness is beyond words. In general, it means I miss you." Yuan Mu explained briefly.

"Oh my god, this is what it means!" Niu Dali immediately became happy.

"Hey, tell me, who wrote this for you?" Yuan Mu asked with a frown.

"Who else could it be? It must be my Yao'er." Niu Dali looked very happy.

"Who? Yao Yuling?" Yuan Mu said in disbelief.

"Well, then who else can write a love poem for me? Okay, Brother Yuan, I won't talk to you anymore. I have to go back and savor the love poem that Yao'er wrote for me." With that, Niu Dali was about to leave with the letter paper.

"Hey Dali, come back!"

"What's the matter, Brother Yuan?" Niu Dali was stunned.

"Are you sure this letter was written to you by Yao Yuling?" Yuan Mu asked back.

"Oh, then who else could it be? Only my Yao'er is willing to play the hard-to-get trick with me." Niu Dali said proudly.

"Oh my god, stop doing that to me right now. I'm getting goosebumps." Yuan Mu looked at Niu Dali with disdain.

"Tsk! Brother Yuan, you don't understand. This is called love."

"I love your mother's love for you!" Yuan Mu shouted in frustration.

"Hey, Brother Yuan, why are you scolding me?" Niu Dali was confused.

"Come here and sit here." Yuan Mu waved his hand and lit a cigarette for himself.

"what is wrong?"

"How can you be sure that this was written by Yao Yuling to you?" Yuan Mu asked after exhaling a puff of smoke.

"Xiao Nian gave me the analysis, and I thought that the analysis was correct. Who else but Yao Er could write it for me?"

"Let me ask you, how long have you known Yao Yuling?"

"Oh, it's been a long time, at least several years." Niu Dali calculated and said.

"Has Yao Yuling ever looked at you in the eye in the past few years? Or has Yao Yuling ever contacted you on her own initiative?"

"That's not true."

"Isn't it over? How could Yao Yuling take the initiative to write to you? Dali, listen to my advice. You can't control this woman. She won't be with you."

"You are still young, change your goal as soon as possible, there are many better fish in the sea."

"No, that won't do. I will not marry anyone but Yao'er in this life!" Niu Dali shook his head like a rattle.

"I have only been in contact with Yao Yuling for a short time, but I have basically seen through this person. Brother Yuan is a police investigator, and you are definitely not as good as me in judging people."

"There's nothing wrong with Yao Yuling. She's fine as a friend, and she can be quite loyal to you, but she's definitely not a good candidate for a wife."

"Of course. If you own a few hundred acres of land at home, just pretend I never said anything." Yuan Mu had a good impression of Niu Dali, so he wanted to persuade him.

"That's not possible. Yao'er is not the kind of person you said." Niu Dali shook his head.

"Oh! Okay, I guess you won't turn back until you hit the wall. Anyway, I have told you everything I should tell you. Let me tell you one last thing. This love poem was definitely not written by Yao Yuling. You just wait and see." As he said that, Yuan Mu picked up the newspaper and started reading, not caring about Niu Dali.

There's no way to persuade him. That guy can't be pulled back even by eight oxen. He's already trapped, and he won't give up until the last moment.

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Ningyang Railway Public Security Branch Criminal Police Team, inside the office of the fifth team.

"Brother Mu, that group of people showed up." Mingyu walked to Yuan Mu's desk with a document in his hand and said.

"Lu Fei and the others?" Yuan Mu frowned and took the document to look through it.

"Yes! Just three days ago, Lu Fei and his gang of seven returned to Ningyang by train and were seen by the previous victim. According to multiple eyewitnesses, they are currently in the Sunjiagou area." Mingyu nodded.

"Notify everyone and set off immediately!" Yuan Mu said, opening the drawer, taking out the pistol and inserting it into his waist.

"Yes!"

Soon, except for a few people who were away, the remaining five members of the fifth team all arrived at the home of the village chief of Sunjiagou.

"Village chief, have you seen this person?" Yuan Mu took out Lu Fei's photo and asked.

The village chief stepped forward, observed carefully and then nodded.

"Yes, it was two days ago. Someone rented a house in the northern corner of the village from me. When I took him to see the house, I saw the person in the photo."

"Has this group of people gone out recently?" Yuan Mu asked.

"I saw a few people go out, but I didn't pay much attention to them." The village chief thought for a while and said.

"Great, can we use the phone?" Yuan Mu immediately laughed. He had been tracking them for such a long time and finally had some clues.

"can."

"Mingyu, call the team, we need support."

"Yes!"

It’s not that they can’t handle it, but there are seven people on the other side, and it’s easy for two of them to escape. Only by mobilizing more police force to surround them can they be able to catch them all in one fell swoop.

Twenty minutes later, Captain Jiang arrived in person with Team One and Team Two. Yuan Mu reported his plan to Team Jiang, and Team Jiang approved Yuan Mu's plan.

Soon, everyone arrived not far from the house where Lu Fei and others were temporarily living in the north of the village.

Yuan Mu took out a telescope and looked into the yard. He found that there were two people roasting a lamb in the yard, and there were two other people scattered outside the yard. They seemed to be nonchalant, but they were actually their sentinels.

This group of people are quite cunning. They know they have committed a serious crime, so they have set up guards. However, Yuan Mu did not see Lu Fei through the telescope.

The three teams slowly closed the encirclement from four directions, trying not to alarm these people. Yuan Mu had already explained that these people might have weapons, even guns, and if the other party pulled out a gun, they could just shoot.

Time passed minute by minute, and the sky gradually darkened. A bonfire was lit in the yard. With the help of the light from the bonfire, Yuan Mu saw Lu Fei, who was sitting beside the bonfire and gnawing on a lamb thigh.