Reborn in 97, I solved a cold case at the Municipal Bureau

Chapter 481 This Auntie Is Not Normal

Zhou Yi's old partner in his previous life, Lu Zhengfeng, had an uncle who was a veteran police officer in the Luohe Anti-Pickpocketing Brigade, and had spent most of his life fighting wits and courage against thieves.

According to Lu Zhengfeng, his uncle is considered a legendary figure in Luohe. It is said that he once captured a notorious bandit king and was awarded a first-class merit.

To work as an anti-pickpocket, you need to know the various techniques pickpockets use.

Lu Zhengfeng said that his uncle's skills could only be described as divine, even better than those magicians. Even if you stare at his uncle's hands, he can steal things without you noticing.

It is said that his uncle learned as he caught thieves, and many of the thieves he caught later were not as skilled as his uncle.

At the time, Zhou Yi joked that it was a good thing your uncle was a policeman, otherwise, with that kind of talent, he would have been a top thief at the very least.

Lu Zhengfeng learned a few tricks from his uncle and originally thought that one day he would inherit his uncle's mantle and become an anti-pickpocket policeman, but he was later recruited by the criminal investigation team.

According to Lu Zhengfeng, his skills were not even a tenth as good as his uncle's.

But even this level, which was less than one-tenth of what he was capable of, was enough to startle Zhou Yi, because Lu Zhengfeng had only bumped into him and then stolen his ID.

So, Zhou Yi used a week's worth of late-night snacks as an exchange to get Lu Zhengfeng to teach him a move or two.

Although he only learned this one trick, it was enough for him.

The night I was reborn, I used this trick to quietly take the forged will from my second uncle's pocket.

And the bracelet he's holding now is also one.

Jiang Guiyou was startled and involuntarily exclaimed, "Holy crap, how did I get here?"

Only after he blurted out the words did he realize that he had said the wrong thing.

"You, you, you..." Pighead immediately shouted in a moment of inspiration, "So it was you who stole it!"

Those who were initially egging each other on realized something was wrong and fell silent, waiting to see what was going on.

Zhou Yi asked the girl, "Is there any mark on your bracelet?"

The girl immediately replied, "Yes, there's a small leaf on the clasp of the chain, with the letters H and Y engraved on the front and back respectively. The chain was a birthday gift my boyfriend bought me this year. The two letters are the first letters of our surnames in pinyin. My surname is Yang, and his surname is Huang."

At this moment, the girl's companion raised her hand and said, "I...I can testify that what she said is true."

Zhou Yi handed the bracelet to Lao Shen and said, "Could you please check it, officer?"

Old Shen took the bracelet, examined it carefully, nodded and said, "That's right, it's exactly as this young girl described."

Then he handed the bracelet to the girl and said, "Let's return it to its rightful owner."

The girl was deeply moved and repeatedly thanked the police officer and Zhou Yi.

Although Jiang Guiyou is not smart, he is not brainless. The necklace that he gave to his accomplice is now in Zhou Yi's hands. Something must have happened. Could it be that his accomplice has been arrested?

In the crowd, the shifty-eyed man who had been leading the charge earlier winked at him, and Jiang Guiyou quickly said with a forced smile, "That was just a misunderstanding, it's all cleared up now, everyone disperse, everyone disperse."

Zhou Yi said with a half-smile, "How did you figure it out? Your gold ring still hasn't been found, and didn't you say I stole this necklace?"

Jiang Guiyou finally realized what was going on. Recalling Zhou Yi's words and actions in the sleeper car, he shuddered and asked, "You...you...you're a policeman too?"

Zhou Yi flicked his wrist, revealing his ID, and said, "Come with us, let's talk about all the good deeds you've done."

Jiang Guiyou turned to run away, but Zhu Mingxiang reacted quickly, grabbing his arm with one hand and choking him on the back of the neck with the other. He sneered, "What's the rush? Come with us."

Seeing Jiang Guiyou's other hand reach into his pocket, Lao Shen immediately grabbed it.

With a clang, a switchblade fell out of his pocket.

Earlier in the sleeper car, Zhou Yi had noticed that the guy was carrying a knife, which explained his aggressive behavior. However, for the safety of Lu Xiaoshuang and the two men in the upper bunk, Zhou Yi didn't provoke him.

Old Shen picked up the switchblade from the ground and said, "Assaulting a police officer? You're pretty cocky, aren't you?"

At this moment, Jiang Guiyou lowered his head and remained silent, like a wilted eggplant. Zhu Mingxiang simply took out handcuffs, cuffed him, and then took him away.

While dispersing the crowd, Lao Shen reminded everyone to be careful with their belongings.

Jiang Guiyou was taken away, and the onlookers returned to their seats.

The shifty-eyed man who had been stirring things up earlier quietly sat back down, keeping his head down and not saying a word, afraid of attracting the attention of the police.

Suddenly, a pair of large hands pressed down on his shoulders, startling him.

Looking up, he saw Old Shen smiling at him.

This person could only force a smile and act timidly.

But as soon as he smiled, Old Shen immediately stopped smiling.

Because this man already had shifty eyes, his smile made him even more lewd and unbearable to look at.

“Your accomplice has already left with us, why don’t you come along and keep him company?”

When the people around heard that there was more juicy gossip to be had, they all gathered around again.

Old Shen glanced at the crowd and shouted, "What's going on? You all love watching the excitement so much? Let me tell you, while you're watching the excitement, that's the perfect time for thieves to steal from you."

As soon as he said that, the people who had surrounded him could only shrink back in embarrassment.

The man argued, "Officer...you must have made a mistake..."

Old Shen glared at him and said, "Kid, don't force me to use force. If you know what's good for you, come with me. Stealing is no big deal, but if you're like that kid from before, you'd better think about the consequences. Can you handle them?"

The man was stunned for two seconds, then gave the old man a thumbs up and said, "Man, you're straightforward. Fine, we brothers admit defeat today."

Zhou Yi knew that this was actually a futile, desperate struggle, because unlike the streets, trains are not as mobile. Trains are completely closed off until they reach the next station, and Jiang Guiyou had already been arrested and would soon implicate his accomplices.

Old Shen led the man back, and noticing that Zhou Yi didn't seem to be following, he asked, "Aren't you coming?"

Zhou Yi said, "I'll come back later, with a little gift."

Old Shen was taken aback: "A small gift?"

Zhou Yi smiled but didn't say anything more.

After Lao Shen escorted the man away, Zhou Yi walked to a seat.

There were six people on each side of the seats. On the far right, a woman holding a child sat with a headscarf wrapped around her head. Her skin was very rough, and she looked like a rural woman.

The woman was sleeping, her head bowed, holding her child.

Zhou Yi stared at the woman for a moment, about to speak, when he suddenly felt someone gently tugging at his clothes.

Looking back, I saw a young man sitting on the far left of the seat. He looked to be underage, probably only sixteen or seventeen years old.

She was holding a schoolbag in her arms.

The young man seemed a little nervous and waved to Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi didn't know what he was planning to do, so she went over to him.

"Officer," the young man whispered, his voice barely audible, "I think there's something strange about that lady over there with the baby."

Zhou Yi glanced at him curiously and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong with you?"

“The child she was holding hasn’t cried since she got on the bus; she’s been sleeping the whole time,” the young man said earnestly. “I suspect the child isn’t hers; she might be a child trafficker.”

Zhou Yi was surprised; he hadn't expected the young man to have such good observation skills.

Because he had the same suspicion, but not because he found out that the person was still sleeping, since he wasn't sitting here.

He noticed by chance that during the commotion, the woman holding the child had been sleeping in a corner.

It's true that some people don't like joining in the fun, and that's normal.

However, her body posture presented a defensive stance. She hid the child against the wall, pressed her head against the wall, and turned half of her back to face the crowd.

Anyone who has ever held a baby knows that infants in swaddling clothes are very delicate, and this position can easily crush the baby, which is not a normal mother's reaction.

Therefore, Zhou Yi felt that there was something wrong with this person.

Just as the young man was speaking, the woman holding the child seemed to sense something and opened her eyes to look.

Zhou Yi's gaze remained fixed on her the entire time.

In that brief moment of eye contact, the woman immediately looked away in panic.

Zhou Yi was certain that this woman was suspicious.

He straightened up, patted the young man on the shoulder, and said, "Well done, thank you for the clue."

Then he took out his ID and said to the woman, "Officer, could you please show me your ID?"

……

There was a knock on the door of the railway police's duty car. Zhu Mingxiang thought it was Zhou Yi returning, but when he opened the door, he saw a train attendant with a terrified expression.

"Officer Zhu... Officer Zhu..." The train conductor's lips trembled.

Zhu Mingxiang immediately realized something was wrong and quickly asked, "What happened?"

"There is...there is a person named Zhou...Zhou..."

"Zhou Yi?"

The train conductor nodded repeatedly: "Yes, Zhou Yi! He told you to hurry to that carriage, something terrible has happened!"

……

In the sleeper car, Lu Xiaoshuang was reading when she suddenly heard a commotion outside.

After a while, the older brother in the upper bunk came back.

The refined-looking middle-aged man asked curiously, "What happened? Why is there such a commotion?"

The older brother said with a look of horror, "Holy crap, something terrible has happened! I heard someone died, and it was a child!"

……

The hard-seat carriage where the arrest was made is now half empty.

People scattered like grease from dish soap in a pot after cooking, staring in horror at the empty space.

Zhu Mingxiang and Lao Shen pushed through the crowd and rushed in. What they saw immediately made their scalps tingle.

Zhou Yi gritted his teeth and pinned the woman to the ground, holding her down. A dagger lay nearby.

On the floor of the carriage next to it lay a small, pale-skinned baby.

To be precise, it was a stillborn baby.

The baby had a long, shocking wound on its back.

The two were stunned for a moment, then instantly understood what was going on!

Yes, Zhou Yi originally thought this was a case of infant trafficking, and that the middle-aged woman was a human trafficker.

But the truth sent chills down his spine.

This isn't human trafficking, it's drug trafficking!

This woman was a drug dealer. After eviscerating the stillborn baby, she hid the drugs inside the baby's stomach.

Not long ago, when Zhou Yi asked the woman to show her ID card, the woman's hand, hidden under her swaddling clothes, suddenly stabbed him with a knife.

Fortunately, Zhou Yi was prepared, and with the advantage of being standing while his opponent was sitting, he skillfully dodged the thrusting blade and then disarmed the attacker with his bare hands.

Just then, the child in the woman's arms fell to the ground during the struggle and rolled out of the swaddling clothes.

When they realized it was a stillborn baby, everyone around them went crazy with fear and scattered like birds and beasts, screaming.

Upon seeing this, Zhu Mingxiang and Lao Shen immediately rushed over and restrained the middle-aged woman.

Zhou Yi then let go of his hand and stood up.

Perhaps he exerted too much force just now, or perhaps he was angered by this horrific scene, which caused his old injury to flare up.

As soon as Zhou Yi stood up, he felt dizzy and his vision blurred. He immediately grabbed the chair next to him and slumped back down.

Upon seeing this, Zhu Mingxiang quickly helped him up and asked with concern, "Zhou Yi, are you alright?"

Zhou Yi waved his hand.

Should I call an ambulance for you?

"No, I just had a slight concussion, it's not fully healed, it's nothing serious."

"Concussion? How did you get a concussion?"

"He fell off a cliff in Wuguang at the beginning of the month," Zhou Yi replied casually.

Zhu Mingxiang and Lao Shen were startled: "Fell off a cliff?"

Zhu Mingxiang quickly called the train attendant over, helped Zhou Yi back to his carriage to rest, and then immediately called his superiors to report the case and handle the aftermath.

When Zhou Yi was helped back to the sleeper car by the train attendant, Lu Xiaoshuang was startled. She put down her book and rushed to help Zhou Yi, asking anxiously, "Brother Yi, what happened to you?"

Zhou Yi looked a little pale and waved his hand, saying, "It's nothing, I'm just a little dizzy."

So Lu Xiaoshuang and the train attendant helped him to bed, and Lu Xiaoshuang took off his shoes and covered him with a blanket.

The train conductor told her to call him anytime if she needed anything, and then left.

The two guys in the upper bunk looked at each other, wondering what had happened.

But they were all well-mannered people, and seeing Zhou Yi's demeanor, they didn't ask any further questions.

Lu Xiaoshuang sat by Zhou Yi's bedside, looking at his closed eyes, and gently massaged his temples with two fingers.

Soon, Zhou Yi's tightly furrowed brows gradually relaxed.

Then, seeing that he had fallen asleep peacefully, Lu Xiaoshuang was no longer so nervous.

……

Zhou Yi was woken up by her phone ringing. When she opened her eyes, she found that it was already pitch black outside the car window.

When the alarm rang, Lu Xiaoshuang in the next bed woke up.

Seeing that Zhou Yi was awake, he immediately threw off the covers, got up, and asked, "Brother Yi, are you feeling better?"

Lu Xiaoshuang gently touched his forehead with her warm hand, making him feel very comfortable.

"I'm much better now, I'm fine."

Then he picked up his phone and saw that it was Zhu Mingxiang calling.

Both parties have already saved each other's numbers.

"Hey."

"Zhou Yi, this is Zhu Mingxiang. Are you feeling better?"

"Thank you for your concern, I'm fine now."

"I'm calling you to talk about that female drug dealer. After I reported to my superiors, they said that this case was solved jointly by both sides, so you should get a share."

This case was indeed a joint operation, involving not only railway police and criminal police, but also anti-drug police.

It's estimated that Wu Yongcheng has already received the message. I wonder what Captain Wu thinks about the fact that he was able to bring a case even though he had taken a long leave from Hongcheng.

Zhu Mingxiang said that after reporting to their superiors, they took the female drug dealer off the train at the next stop and interrogated her on the spot at the station.

This middle-aged woman was not as honest as she appeared; in fact, she was very cunning. One moment she claimed that she was forced into it, and the next she said that she had found the child herself.

The ID card he carried was also fake.

After her identity was finally confirmed, it was discovered that the woman had been arrested twice for drug use and was a serious addict, essentially selling drugs to support her habit.

Years ago, there were even cases of people being prosecuted for prostitution.

They removed two bags of drugs from the dead infant's body, with a total weight exceeding 800 grams.

Zhou Yi was most concerned about the origin of the stillborn baby.

Zhu Mingxiang said that according to the drug dealer's confession, she bought the dead baby for 300 yuan. She didn't know where it came from, only that it had just died.

"To be honest, whether the information she provided is true or false still needs to be verified," Zhu Mingxiang said on the phone.

Zhou Yi had already gotten out of bed and walked outside the sleeper compartment to answer the phone.

"Is that child a boy or a girl?" Zhou Yi asked.

"It's a girl... The leadership has already arranged for an autopsy, and your municipal bureau said they will be responsible for investigating the source of the body."

Zhou Yi gasped, looking out at the dark night, and said, "If it's a girl, then she might be lying."

"what do you mean……"

"Hmm, maybe she didn't buy a stillborn baby."

(End of this chapter)