The aloof beauty always has weak legs; the crazy boss is too ruthless.

Chapter 179 Warmth
Neither Lin Chen nor Duan Zi expected Lu Siqi to come.

Lu Siqi turned the doorknob and entered, appearing before the two of them in camouflage clothing. Duanzi stared wide-eyed.

Lin Chen kicked Duan directly, "Hey kid, where are you looking? Sit up straight!"

"Cuiying, my sister." Duanzi had just uttered the old name when he quickly corrected himself, "Wrong, wrong, it's Xiaoqi! Look at my mouth! I'm so clumsy!"

With his handcuffed hands slapping his mouth, Duanzi said apologetically, "Why did you and Brother Sen make such a big fuss over this little thing just because of me?"

Duanzi lowered his head and laughed self-deprecatingly, "Besides, it's a fact that I killed someone. Even if you come, you can't help me, and you'll only get yourself into trouble."

"Just because you were afraid of implicating us? That's why you kept it a secret?" Lin Chen first pulled up a chair for Lu Siqi to sit down, then looked intently at Duanzi across from him: "Do you know? If the police hadn't called me, Siqi and I probably wouldn't even know you'd been sentenced."

Hearing him call Siqi, Duanzi's eyes practically lit up. "Brother Sen, you and Sister Xiaoqi, you...you two..."

"Don't change the subject! We're talking about your business!" Lin Chen demanded sharply, "Confess right now! Why did you stab someone? Where did you get the knife? Who told you to kill him?"

Lu Siqi felt that he was speaking a bit too seriously, so she quickly reached out and tugged at his sleeve, "Don't scare Duanzi."

"This kid dared to stab someone with a knife, and he thinks he can be scared by me?"

"You sit down first."

Lin Chen took a deep breath. If it were anyone else, he would have exploded by now, but it was this woman.

Knowing full well that she had him completely under her thumb, Lin Chen sat down, lit a cigarette, and took a few puffs before suppressing his anger.

Duanzi didn't want the two of them to argue over him, so he had no choice but to tell the whole truth about stabbing someone: "Brother Sen, I didn't want to stab anyone either, they forced me to."

Having just said those words, the usually goofy Duanzi's eyes were filled with hatred: "Their hearts are so black! They don't even deserve to be human!"

Seeing that he was very emotional, Lu Siqi, who remained calm, asked, "Is Grandpa Duan's death related to them?"

Duanzi immediately nodded: "My grandfather was driven to his death by them!"

When Duanzi mentioned her grandfather's death, her eyes instantly reddened. "They tricked my grandfather into depositing money, saying that the interest rate was high. They said that if he deposited 200,000 yuan, he would get 2,000 yuan in interest per month. Because of this 2,000 yuan interest, my grandfather took the money that I had prepared for him to build a house and deposited it in that bank."

"But a month passed, and the foundation of the house was laid. When my grandfather went to withdraw the money with his passbook, they told him that the previous 20 yuan was not deposited, but invested in financial products. Financial products have high returns, but also high risks. They told my grandfather that the 20 yuan had been lost."

"20 yuan! My grandfather has lived for over 60 years and has never seen so much money. He went to the bank to deposit some money, and they tricked him out of it all!"

The man cried and wiped away his tears, saying, "I looked at the deposit slip, and it is indeed an investment product. But they took advantage of my grandfather's illiteracy and lied to him, saying that he was depositing money, but actually they invested it all in investment products."

“I don’t really care about the money, because there’s over a million in the card that Brother Sen gave me. But my grandfather is heartbroken. He thinks that I’ve only earned this much money after working away from home for over ten years. He feels guilty towards me and can’t forgive himself. So, when I went to supervise the construction of the new house the next day, he actually hanged himself with his belt.”

Hearing Lu Siqi's heart-wrenching pain...

Lu Siqi tried her best to remain calm and continued to ask, "Besides Grandpa Duan, has that bank also deceived many elderly people into buying wealth management products under the guise of deposits?"

"There are 13 in our village alone!" Duanzi cried out in anger. "My great-uncle committed suicide by lying on the railway tracks last year. They cheated him out of 50,000 yuan from the bank. 50,000 yuan may seem like a small amount to you, but we're poor here! That 50,000 yuan might have been my great-uncle's life savings!" "Brother Sen! I really hate them!" Duanzi's clenched fist trembled. After wiping away his tears, his eyes welled up again. "I went to them, and they called us illiterate and said my grandfather deserved to die. They said that if he hanged himself over such a small amount of money, it meant he had lived long enough and was planning to blackmail them with his death!"

"They even called the police, who beat me with batons, saying I was a terrorist and was trying to rob their bank illegally."

“My grandfather was clearly driven to his death by them! They not only refuse to admit it, but they also called the police to arrest me! They called us poor bastards and accused us of being sore losers!”

"I can afford to lose! But my grandfather can't!"

With tears streaming down his face, Duanzi cried out in agitation, "Brother Sen, do you think this is retribution? In the past, I committed fraud at Huaxi Group. Is it because I defrauded other people of their money that my grandfather is suffering this kind of retribution in my place?"

"But Brother Sen, I really haven't cheated anyone out of a single penny! I'd rather get beaten up every day than cheat anyone out of a single penny!"

"But why, God! Why did you do this to me! Why did you do this to my grandfather! My grandfather never did a bad thing in his life. When the mud house he lived in leaked, he would rather run several miles to dig mud from our fields than touch anything belonging to others!"

"But God still let him die like that! His eyes weren't even closed when he died!"

"Because he's unwilling to accept it! 20 yuan! That's his life!"

……

The cold of the Western Hills is a dry cold.

It was cold and dry, and the wind was strong.

As Lu Siqi stepped out of the police station, she felt a strong gust of cold wind, only to be immediately enveloped in warmth from behind.

Lin Chen took off his coat and draped it over her shoulders, saying, "The wind is stronger in the Western Hills than in the Northern City, don't catch a cold."

After giving a brief instruction, he turned and went into the police station, having stayed up all night. "Gu Shi arranged for a senior colleague to come and pick us up. Let's go in and wait."

Lu Siqi followed behind him and noticed his thin suit jacket. "Wait a minute."

She called him to a stop, took off her coat and draped it over him, saying, "If you catch a cold, I'll have to take care of you."

"Your reason is really..." Lin Chen was amused by her words. He didn't care that there were people watching them in the duty room. He reached out and pinched her cheek. "Couldn't you just say you were worried that I was cold? Why did you have to pretend to be disgusted with me?"

Lu Siqi quickly stepped back, not wanting people to speculate about their relationship.

Knowing her taboo, Lin Chen didn't follow her and went into the duty room, closing the door behind him.

When Sun Wei saw him suddenly come in, he quickly stood up.

"Please have a seat." Lin Chen pulled up a chair and sat down in front of him, getting straight to the point: "When is your bureau chief coming?"

Knowing that Duan Qiang must have told this important figure the whole story behind the stabbing, Sun Wei lowered his head guiltily and pondered for a moment. But then, thinking that he had also provoked these two important figures, he raised his head and said meaningfully, "I know you must be resentful right now, but no matter why Duan Qiang stabbed someone, three people were injured. Even if you and that person outside want to protect Duan Qiang, I reckon it will be difficult. I advise you not to get involved. If this matter blows up, it will not do you or that person outside any good."