Transmigration: I, the Dragon Overlord, start by protecting my beautiful bride!

This is a bad habit that needs to be changed!

After eating and drinking their fill, the two wandered around the streets for a while. Since no one in this area needed their help, they simply let it go and waited until it was time to leave work.

"Remember, don't wear official robes, just wear casual clothes. That way you won't be easily spotted, understand?" Long Aotian instructed Beichuan.

"Yes, sir, I understand." Jiang Beichuan clasped his hands in a salute, and watching his departing figure, Long Aotian felt a surge of emotions.

Although he had only been in this world for three days, he seemed to have completely integrated into it, feeling no anxiety and having no desire to return to the real world.

Perhaps he was already utterly disillusioned with that kind of life...

"Wife, wife, open the door." After returning home from grocery shopping as usual, Long Aotian felt all his fatigue vanish the moment he saw Shen Juanxin.

"You're back." Shen Juanxin smiled faintly at him.

"My wife, why are you so happy today?" Long Aotian looked at her smiling face, took out a package of peach blossom pastries wrapped in yellow paper from behind his back, and handed it to her, saying, "Could it be that you've already guessed that your husband bought you something delicious?"

Shen Juanxin was also surprised to see the peach blossom pastry, but she shook her head and replied, "I'm not happy because of that, but because this afternoon I heard from the neighbors that you caught the thief from the Shi family, and the whole process was described in a very interesting way."

Long Aotian really didn't expect the news to spread so quickly. Although he did want to ask Madam Shi to promote him a little so that his neighbors would come to him for help, he didn't expect it to be so effective. Shen Juanxin already knew about it.

"Oh, hahaha." Hearing Shen Juanxin praise him like that, Long Aotian couldn't help but feel smug. "It's all a small matter, not worth mentioning!"

Shen Juanxin only murmured softly, "Good, very good, our lives will only get better and better..."

Long Aotian looked at her, feeling very sorry for her, and gently hugged her. The two leaned against each other, and neither of them spoke again.

After dinner, Long Aotian sat at the stone table in the courtyard, lost in thought for a long time.

For some reason, he always felt that he had missed something.

He took out the map of Qianzhou City again, which had been stored improperly for some years, and placed it on the stone table to examine it carefully.

"Are you looking at a map of Qianzhou City?" Shen Juanxin came out to pour him tea and happened to see this scene.

“Yes.” Long Aotian nodded, somewhat embarrassed. “It’s related to a case. I feel like there’s something different about this picture, but I just can’t figure out what’s wrong with it…”

“Hmm…” Shen Juanxin glanced at it and said, “Could it be because you’re looking at a map drawn five years ago, instead of the newly made map of Qianzhou City?”

Upon hearing this, Long Aotian suddenly understood, as if a breakthrough was right in front of him!

He quickly grasped Shen Juanxin's hand and asked, "My lady, do you know how this newly made map of Qianzhou City differs from the one I have in my hand?"

“Yes, of course there is.” Shen Juanxin put down the teapot, then sat down beside him, looking at the map. After a while, she stretched out her slender, jade-like fingers and pointed to a place in the west of the city, saying, “Here, I remember my father once said that this place was originally where poor people lived, but because of the great flood in Qianzhou City a few years ago, this place, which was the main channel for flood discharge, was destroyed. The prefectural government of Qianzhou City has not had time to rebuild due to financial problems.”

"So that's how it is." Lin Chuan stroked his chin thoughtfully.

"Then, is Prefect Liu of Qianzhou City the one who organized the flood discharge back then?"

“Yes.” Shen Juanxin nodded. “Back then, he wasn’t the prefect yet, but just the prefect’s deputy. He was promoted for his decisive and meritorious decision to release floodwaters. After becoming the prefect, he repaired the water conservancy system and controlled the floods. He was very good to the people of Qianzhou City.”

“Before my father had his accident, she even came to visit him at my house.” As she said this, a look of sorrow involuntarily appeared on Shen Juanxin’s beautiful face.

Long Aotian sat to the side, unsure of what to say to comfort her, but hearing her words, he suddenly had some guesses in his mind.

Soon, it was the hour of Xu (7-9 PM). Long Aotian looked at his sleeping wife on the bed, tiptoed out of the door, and carefully avoided the curfew soldiers along the way. Finally, he arrived at the South City Wharf without any major incident and met Beichuan at the agreed meeting place.

"My lord, why are you so late?" Jiang Beichuan looked at Long Aotian, who had been waiting there for quite a while.

"There's nothing I can do, my wife is a light sleeper," Long Aotian said. "I was afraid of waking her up and making her worry, so I came a little late."

At this point, he immediately added, "You wouldn't understand even if I told you. You'll understand once you marry your wife."

Jiang Beichuan remained silent upon hearing this. They hid in a corner, quietly waiting for their prey to come to them.

Sure enough, a few moments later, a series of furtive figures emerged from the dock...

"My lord, you are truly a prophet! We actually managed to catch the thieves here!" Kitagawa gripped the hilt of his sword and was about to draw it when he said, "My lord, please wait a moment. Let me capture these thieves and take them back for severe torture!"

"Wait, what's the rush?" Long Aotian stopped him, saying, "These people look like they just came out. If we're going to catch them, we have to catch them in the act. Otherwise, we'll just have to torture them into confessing. Understand?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Beichuan had no choice but to temporarily sheath his sword.

But he couldn't help asking out of curiosity, "But sir, how did you know they would commit the crime tonight?"

“I checked the investigation files of the other patrol officers, and they all believed that these thieves were elusive and unpredictable, sometimes striking and sometimes not.”

"Well..."

Actually, this is quite simple for Long Aotian; he just needs to watch a couple more episodes of Detective Conan to figure it out.

Criminals must follow some kind of pattern when committing crimes.

After Long Aotian obtained those files, he carefully read through them one by one, not only recording the location and number of the crimes, but also the approximate time and time intervals.

But this is not modern times. To find the pattern, he had to follow the way people here think. So he checked the Chinese almanac and found that these people committed their crimes on water days.

Today and yesterday happened to be water days and water hours. Once you figure out the pattern, catching them will be a piece of cake.

"So that's how it is. You truly live up to your reputation, Master. I admire you!" Jiang Beichuan, greatly benefited, respectfully clasped his hands in greeting to Long Aotian.

But what he didn't know was that Long Aotian was no longer Shen Juanxin. Otherwise, given Shen Juanxin's habits, it would be a complete fantasy that he could find out this much.