Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 72: Arrival
"Then... let's go over and take a look now." Le Miao pointed to the alley behind him and said to Fang Yan.

Fangyan shook his head:
"The person has probably gone far away by now."

Le Miao did not agree, but said:
"This road is straight ahead, and few outsiders walk here except for the residents of this alley. If they don't enter a courtyard in the alley, they will definitely exit from another exit."

"There's a tailor shop over there. I'm pretty familiar with the people there. They're sweeping the steps in front of the door right now. If a stranger walks out of the alley, he'll definitely be seen."

After she finished speaking, she paused, then added with some concern:
"And they showed up in the alley in front of my house... I was a little concerned."

Hearing this, Fang Yan thought for a moment and nodded in response:

"Okay, let's go take a look."

Soon the two entered the alley and walked all the way to the exit on the other side.

There is a street here. At this moment in the morning, there is a lot of traffic. Bicycles, pedestrians, and carts carrying goods all pass by here. As Le Miao said, there is a tailor shop next to the exit.

Two girls in their twenties were watering and cleaning the steps in front of the door.

Seeing Le Miao and Fang Yan walking out of the alley, they both stopped what they were doing and greeted Le Miao, calling her "Miao Miao" one after another, and it seemed that they were very familiar with each other.

Fang Yan followed Le Miao and heard her ask the two if they had seen a stranger coming out from here. The two immediately responded that they had indeed seen one.

There were three people in total, two young people and one middle-aged man, and they seemed to have just left for a few minutes.

Hearing this, Le Miao asked them to describe the appearance and speaking accents of these three people.

After listening to their descriptions, Fang Yan and Le Miao both found that one of them looked very much like Gu Siqi, and another had an obvious gap in his teeth. One had a yellow rubber shoe and the other had a new cloth shoe, which was the same as what Fang Yan had judged from the cigarette butt.

This basically confirms Fangyan’s judgment just now.

The two didn't say much. After saying goodbye to the two people in the tailor shop, they returned the same way.

Walking in the alley, Fang Yan said in confusion:
"After committing a crime, Gu Siqi was released so quickly?"

Le Miao shook his head and said:
"No, I inquired yesterday. This matter is only about Gu Xiutang. Gu Siqi has nothing to do with it."

Fangyan suddenly realized, and quickly connected the clues in his mind, and then said:
"Then the matter is almost clear. He must have found someone to do something bad to me or both of us."

"I think he was just pointing me out to the person who did it, or observing my route to work..."

Le Miao stopped at this time, frowned and looked thoughtful.

Fang Yan looked at her and saw Le Miao suddenly slap his forehead and said:

"No, they should be coming for me first!"

"I just happened to run into you at the intersection when I was about to leave."

"Otherwise, there is no reason for them to appear in this alley. If you want to bring someone here to identify me, why not just wait until work starts and let them walk around the store? Wouldn't it be easier to identify you at the consultation counter than on the street? The reason they appeared in this alley is probably because they wanted to wait for me."

"They retreated only because they happened to see you passing by and were accidentally discovered by you."

"Do you think this is true?"

Fangyan listened to Le Miao's analysis and felt that it made some sense.

"So, I saved you unintentionally?" Fang Yan looked at Le Miao.

Le Miao nodded and said:

"If this is what I speculated, then your alertness did save me."

"I'm the one who implicated you in this matter." Fang Yan said to Le Miao.

Le Miao smiled and shook his head, but there was no sign of solemnity on his face. He responded, "Don't say that. I was the one who reported the matter of Gu Xiutang being dealt with to the higher-ups. So they should really hate me more."

What she said was true. Fangyan only asked the patient and his apprentice to go to the hospital to complain. For the sake of their own reputation, the Chinese medicine hospital would not make a big deal out of it.

But because Le Miao brought the matter to Tongrentang’s superior unit, it was no longer an internal matter of the Chinese Medicine Hospital.

Gu Xiutang would definitely not follow the previous internal processing procedures, so Le Miao's move was a real fatal blow.

"Even though they didn't succeed this time, they will definitely not give up. They will definitely find another chance to strike again. We should all be careful recently, especially you. When you have nothing to do in the afternoon, try not to go to places with few people." Le Miao did not forget to remind Fang Yan at this time.

Fang Yan was a little amused when he heard Le Miao's words:
"Don't worry about me. A girl should be more careful. If it's really as you said, and they want to attack you first, then you'd better find someone to go with you when you go to and from get off work during this period."

After that, he thought for a moment and suggested:

"If it really doesn't work, I think we should just call the police and say that we saw Gu Siqi and his men waiting outside your house. We seriously suspect that he has ill intentions and is looking for revenge."

"Even if we don't catch him in the act, we can't do anything to him, but if the police talk to him, it can still intimidate him."

"And the two people smoking Pegasus cigarettes next to him are probably not good people. If they were the kind of people who had committed crimes, the police might pay more attention to them."

In fact, if Le Miao had not been involved, Fang Yan would have planned to confront Gu Siqi head-on, catch him and beat him up, and have a real fight with the people he called, just in time to strengthen the system.

The malice just now made him want to find the other person and have a fight.

But now that Le Miao has gotten involved, we have to reconsider.

After listening to Fangyan's words, Le Miao thought about it and nodded:

"That's a solution..."

Then she said:
"Then I'll go to the street police station to report the case after I finish the roll call."

Fangyan pointed to the police station not far away:

"Don't wait until the roll call is over. We're all at the door. Let's go report the crime together now."

As he said this, he took the lead and walked towards the police station.

……

Twenty minutes later, Fang Yan and Le Miao walked out of the police station. The chief of the police station had an impression of him because Mr. Lu and Fang Yan had caught a robbery gang last time. In addition, there was also Le Miao, the store manager of Tong Ren Tang. When he heard that the two were going to report a case, he immediately took it seriously.

According to the two people's description, the police station made a registration and then told them the process. After a while, they would send someone to contact the street police station near Gu's house, and then find Gu Siqi together and bring him to the police station there for questioning.

Fangyan didn't really understand their process, but he felt that it was somewhat different from the vigorous and decisive approach he had imagined.

He had a feeling that maybe in the end, he would have to rely on himself.

The two of them arrived at the store together, and there were already two patients waiting for Fangyan's follow-up visit.

After calling Jia Dapeng to get ready, Fang Yan took the patient to the back hall for acupuncture rehabilitation treatment.

They tacitly agreed not to mention what had just happened to anyone else.

Just when Fang Yan finished acupuncture and started to time the needle retention, Le Miao suddenly opened the door curtain and walked in. She walked to Fang Yan and whispered:

"There was a man outside who came to buy medicine. He was wearing a new pair of cloth shoes and had a gap in his teeth. He was dressed exactly as the tailor had said."

Fang Yan was stunned. He didn't expect that this person would come to his door directly.

(End of this chapter)