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

Chapter 342 I hate you guys the most

On the way back to the Municipal Bureau, Zhuang Yanzheng arranged for someone to go to the residential building that Lu Xian had last visited.

Lu Xian has already been arrested, so there's no need to worry about alerting him.

Su Miaoyi also saw a house number, so Zhuang Yanzheng arranged for someone to go directly to it.

They returned to the municipal police station, and Lu Xian went into the interrogation room.

Zhuang Yanzheng went to find Director Meng.

Su Miaoyi and Chu Xingrou returned to their workstations to await instructions.

"Have some water." Su Miaoyi filled two glasses with water and gave one to Chu Xingrou.

Chu Xingrou took the drink and drank a few sips, then asked softly, "Sister Miaomiao, how are Captain Zhuang and Brother Zheng?"

"This isn't good," Su Miaoyi said. "I've never seen Zhuang Yanzheng so silent. Nor have I ever seen Brother Zheng look so pale."

Chu Xingrou sighed softly: "Are you alright?"

"Fortunately, I don't have many memories. My feelings weren't very deep." Su Miaoyi added after saying that, "I feel uncomfortable in waves, intermittently."

"I heard he was really good at the city police station," Chu Xingrou said. "He solved a lot of cases and had a lot of potential for promotion. How come..."

"I don't know." Su Miaoyi shook her head.

After the two chatted for a few minutes, Qi Feng came over and called them to the interrogation room.

The two walked together toward the interrogation room. As they were about to cross the corridor, they saw Zhuang Yanzheng standing by the window, smoking.

The two stopped together, and Chu Xingrou went to look at Su Miaoyi.

Su Miaoyi glanced at Zhuang Yanzheng, then pulled Chu Xingrou along, intending to sneak over quickly without disturbing him.

Halfway there, Zhuang Yanzheng suddenly turned around and looked at the two of them.

Su Miaoyi took Chu Xingrou and ran away.

Zhuang Yanzheng watched them disappear in a flash, then pinched his brow and sighed after a while.

After smoking two cigarettes, Zhuang Yanzheng went to the interrogation room.

Zhuang Yanzheng and Brother Zheng interrogated Lu Xian together.

Su Miaoyi and Chu Xingrou listened from outside.

After entering the interrogation room, Zhuang Yanzheng first offered a cigarette to Lu Xian.

Lu Xian glanced at the cigarette; it was the kind of cigarette he used to smoke when he was at the Municipal Bureau.

At that time, Zhuang Yanzheng would often bring him things.

He spread his hands.

Zhuang Yanzheng placed the cigarette in his hand and lit it for him.

Lu Xian took a puff and said, "Thank you for your help, Captain Zhuang."

Zhuang Yanzheng didn't say anything and sat back down in his seat.

Brother Zheng still looked at him with a gloomy face.

Lu Xian said, "I haven't smoked this cigarette in so many years, it's still the best."

This cigarette is quite cheap; he hasn't smoked it since leaving the municipal bureau.

Any other cigarette I smoke is more expensive than this one.

But this cigarette is the best to smoke.

Back when he was at the Municipal Public Security Bureau, Zhuang Yanzheng had brought him all sorts of cigarettes, but he didn't like any of them. He knew Zhuang Yanzheng didn't smoke this particular brand, so it must have been a special purchase he had just made.

"There have been quite a few changes here." Lu Xian looked around.

“Nothing has changed.” Zhuang Yanzheng looked at the recording equipment. “Except for this equipment, everything else is the same. The slogans on the walls are still the same as they were back then, they haven’t been changed.”

“Really?” Lu Xian said. “You look quite different.”

"It's probably because of the different angles," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Lu Xian's expression froze for a moment, then he looked around again.

Zhuang Yanzheng said, "Should I ask, or should you just tell me directly?"

Lu Xian reported his basic information according to the procedure. After he finished speaking, he took the last puff of his cigarette and remained silent for a while: "I don't know what you want to know."

“You’ve told me everything you know,” Brother Zheng said sternly.

“I know a lot more than you do. If you don’t start, where am I supposed to begin?” Lu Xian said.

Brother Zheng glared at him.

Lu Xian said, "It's been years since I last saw you. Why have you become so temperamental?"

Brother Zheng got even angrier. How dare he ask why he was angry!
Zhuang Yanzheng interrupted the raging anger burning in Zheng Ge's heart, saying, "Why? Why did things come to this? Why did you work for them?"

Lu Xian fell silent again, then paused and said, "Can't we ask a different question?"

"No," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "I must answer."

Lu Xian looked at him.

Zhuang Yanzheng asked again, "Why?"

"For the money," Lu Xian said.

Brother Zheng frowned.

“My mother is seriously ill, and the surgery will cost 700,000 yuan.” Lu Xian slowly lowered his head and brought up the thing he least wanted to talk about and never wanted to think about. “700,000 yuan, how much is my monthly salary? When will I be able to earn 700,000 yuan? My wife and daughter still need to live, and none of them need money.”

He nodded as he spoke: "Okay, sure. I can sell the house in my hometown, and my wife and I can rent a place together. They can also come to Jinghai to keep me company, which is fine too." Just as he was preparing to sell the house, his daughter had another medical problem during her checkup.

Lu Xian gestured with his hand: "That one dose of medicine, just that one dose, costs three thousand yuan. It's three injections a day, so you need three doses. The doctor said it needs to be administered for at least a year to observe the child's condition. If the medicine is effective within a year, the child can be saved, but there will still be a large amount of medical expenses afterward. If there is no significant effect, no one can help, no one can save my child."

“Tell us!” Brother Zheng said, “These things! So many things! Tell us! I can’t come up with that much money, but I’ll go and scrape it together for you!”

"Tell you guys? And then what? This one, and the one listening outside," Lu Xian said, "They just waved their hands and pulled out millions. Then they said I didn't need to pay them back, I could keep it, and they'd cover all the subsequent expenses. Giving me charity? What do they take me for?! Just to show off how rich they are, right?!"

Zhuang Yanzheng looked at him and listened to what he had to say.

Lu Xian looked at Zhuang Yanzheng: "I hate rich kids like you the most! Little princesses! Born with a silver spoon in their mouths, you don't know what it feels like to be short of money! You can easily get things that others can never get! Things that others can never even see in their entire lives, you can get if you like them, and throw them away like trash if you don't."

“People like us from the bottom have to go through layers of exams and struggle to have a chance to enter a big city and a good school. We dare not slack off for a single day. We are always working hard, constantly climbing up, climbing up, risking our lives to carve out a path. That's how I got to the position of the detachment.”

"And you? You're so young, yet you've only been training at the police station for a few years before becoming a deputy team leader at the city bureau. What makes you think that?!"

“And what about her!” Lu Xian suddenly turned to look at the one-way glass, “She was able to get into the Municipal Public Security Bureau right after graduation, all because she has a good father!”

Zhuang Yanzheng looked at him without saying anything.

"You actually think that way?!" Brother Zheng couldn't believe it. "So what?! So what?! You chose to give up everything here to make dirty money to pay for your mother's and daughter's medical treatment?! You don't want their money? Tell me. I've even sold my house! I'll borrow money! There's always money! There's always a way!"

Brother Zheng shouted, "You've done this! You've done this! You're not just abandoning this place! You've abandoned the person who went through layers of exams, struggled and fought their way to this position! Didn't you say we were family, that we were the closest brothers? Isn't it our duty to help each other? Isn't it our duty to get through everything together?!"

　Goodnight everybody

　　(End of this chapter)