Seeing the crime scene flashbacks made me the darling of the police station.

Chapter 299 Tian Ming is in trouble

“All the streets run east-west. Besides the people patrolling back and forth, we have one person on duty on each side of the street, and they stay there and don’t move,” Duan Wenrui said. “The people on duty will change shifts at 2 a.m. If someone wants to leave, how do they leave? The patrolmen go west, and they are on the west side, so the person certainly won’t go west. So if they go east, they will meet the people on duty on the east side.”

“What if this person turned on the stereo and hid in some corner? The stereo only started playing a minute later, giving him plenty of time to hide,” Lu Zhishen said. “When we came over, all the patrol officers on this street were at this house. Suppose this person is hiding somewhere next door, could they take advantage of everyone being at their door and leave? And just two houses to the east, there’s a mountain.”

“This is too risky. What if the person on duty doesn’t come?” Duan Wenrui said. “Then this person won’t be able to leave. Will he just stay hidden forever?”

Lu Zhishen did not speak.

This risk is indeed too great.

The stereo system definitely needs to be turned on by someone, but where does that person go after they turn it on?
Duan Wenrui told the people around him to take people and check every household on this street, and also to expand the search area to the mountains.

"Team Leader Duan, Tian Ming shouldn't be in the village. We went to the place where he played cards the night before last and asked, but he didn't go there today. There are no other places to play cards in the village. We found out about a few places in other villages where people play cards and have sent people over to look for them."

"Understood." Duan Wenrui had just heard Tian Ming's name called over the loudspeaker. "You go with them to look for people and see if there are any signs that anyone has left the mountain."

"Yes."

Su Miaoyi looked at the speaker; the police officers were all wearing gloves when they touched it.

No fingerprints were found on the buttons on the speaker.

The entrance was covered with wooden planks, and it was very clean, with no footprints left.

Su Miaoyi looked up at Tian Min and Yue Hong again.

Yue Hong sat in the chair, her expression blank, the fear in her eyes not yet completely gone, and her complexion was very bad.

Tian Min stood to the side, clutching her phone, shrugging her shoulders, listening to their conversation. Her hands were shaking as she typed.

A little while later, Tian Min typed on her phone and showed it to Su Miaoyi: "[Why did you choose to do this in front of my house? Are you trying to kill us?]"
"Did you hear anything before the song started?" Su Miaoyi asked.

Tian Min thought about it carefully, then shook her head.

Su Miaoyi looked at Yue Hong.

Yue Hong paused for a moment and said, "I went to bed early today. If this girl hadn't come over and shaken me, I wouldn't have heard the song at all, let alone any other noise."

[Could you arrange for someone to protect us? You came very quickly tonight, but we might not be so lucky next time.] Tian Min showed Su Miaoyi her phone.

Su Miaoyi looked at Duan Wenrui.

Duan Wenrui said, "We will arrange for people."

Tian Min bowed to Duan Wenrui and the others to express her gratitude.

Chu Xingrou helped her up.

After asking all the questions, Su Miaoyi and the others stayed at Tian Min's house to wait for news.

About thirty minutes later, Duan Wenrui received a phone call.

News has arrived from the people who went to the outer village to look for Tian Ming.

Tian Ming did indeed go to a card game this afternoon.

However, they dispersed after dark, and Tian Ming went home.

Afterwards, I went to ask at several other places, and I knew Tian Ming at all of them, but Tian Ming hadn't been there today.

They also arrested a group of gamblers.

Several people knew Tian Ming and said that Tian Ming owed them money that he hadn't paid back. As it got dark, one of them saw Tian Ming walking towards Yanjing Village.

They are now searching for Tian Ming along the road.

Tian Min and Yue Hong were sitting together. Hearing their conversation, she typed, stood up, and walked over to Su Miaoyi to show her her phone: [Will my father be alright?]
“We’re already looking for him,” Su Miaoyi said. “Let’s wait for news. Do you know where he likes to go besides playing cards?”

Tian Min shook her head again.

"Who knows where he's been gallivanting all day? Maybe he'll get drunk and fall into some ditch," Yue Hong said. "It would be better if he died out there. Living would only cause trouble for others."

Tian Min looked at Yue Hong and gestured to her.

They couldn't understand it, but it seemed like the voice was telling Yue Hong to stop talking.

Yue Hong said, "What? Am I wrong? You're acting like a good person now? I've never seen you being that close to him before, but now you're protecting him? Fine, fine, you're all family, okay? I'm the outsider! I'm the bad guy!"

Tian Min gestured anxiously, her hands moving very quickly.

Duan Wenrui sent someone to find a translator, but they couldn't find one.

They could only watch.

Yue Hong watched her gesture for a while, then turned her head away and stopped looking.

When Tian Min saw that she wasn't watching anymore, her hand gestures gradually stopped as well. Since she wasn't watching, there was no point in her gesturing anymore.

Tian Min suddenly burst into tears, whether from feeling wronged or from fear and worry.

Su Miaoyi and Chu Xingrou pulled her to sit down and gave her tissues.

“Cry, cry, all he does is cry. He’s been crying since he was little, it’s so annoying to listen to!” Yue Hong cursed. “What’s so good about such a rotten person? It would be better if he died, so it would save people the annoyance of seeing him. Wasn’t it the time when he was going to sell you off? He didn’t care about you back then, so why are you worried about him now? If he died, I would be laughing my head off. That bastard, all he does is gamble, he’s got a mountain of debt.”

"If the God of Goat Horns doesn't kill him, who should he kill? He deserves to be torn to pieces. He has never contributed anything to this family, but the whole family has been dragged down by him and is penniless every year. Whenever they have a little money, they gamble it all away. He's a good-for-nothing, he never wins."

"Why are you crying? I'm the one who should be crying. I've suffered so much here all these years. If it weren't for the three of you, I would have left long ago. Your brothers are about to reach marriageable age. What good girl would come to such a broken family? If he died early, we could save some money and have a good reputation, and it would be easier for your brothers to find wives."

"Alright, that's enough," Duan Wenrui said.

Yue Hong fell silent.

Tian Min cried for a while and then stopped.

After waiting for another twenty minutes, Duan Wenrui's phone rang again. He answered it immediately, and his face turned ugly as soon as the other person finished speaking.

Su Miaoyi and the other two exchanged glances, all with a bad feeling.

Duan Wenrui responded a few times and hung up the phone. Then he looked at Tian Min and Yue Hong and said, "Tian Ming's body was found in a cornfield 100 meters outside the village."

Upon hearing this, Yue Hong immediately stood up from her chair.

After hearing this, Tian Min was stunned for a moment, and then she started crying again.

She cried as she grabbed Su Miaoyi's arm and looked at her.

She couldn't speak, she just looked at her with tears streaming down her face.

Su Miaoyi felt as if she was asking why.

(End of this chapter)