The Life of a Son-in-Law in a Courtyard House

Yang Dalin, who was leaving Qi Desheng's office, did not expect that the black bear spirit had already guessed his plan.

Qi Desheng, the giant black bear spirit, was able to become a leader, so his mind was certainly not that simple.

Despite his burly appearance, Qi Desheng is a man of meticulousness and shrewdness.

Otherwise, do you really think that a seemingly clumsy and rough man like him could become an officer in the motor transport unit and a leader of the freight station after being demobilized?

How could that be? Don't be fooled by Qi Desheng's appearance. This big guy is also very clever. Getting to this point is not just because he has a good father-in-law.

He didn't have the skills to get to this point, and the beautiful Gong Xuemei wouldn't have been interested in him.

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On the other hand, Dr. Lin Shangnan felt uneasy after returning home from his shift yesterday.

After thinking it over, apart from encountering a rash young man from my hometown, Yang Dalin, there wasn't much else going on.

After tossing and turning for a long time, I finally drifted off to sleep.

The next day, when he went to work, he made a point of being careful on the way, and no one followed him.

Then I wondered if I was just being paranoid.

However, it's always better to be cautious; it's best to be careful lately.

Several more patients came to the hospital today, including men and women, young and old.

Many colleagues were busy, and Dr. Lin was no exception.

However, he still wrote a note using a special pen.

He threw it into his own trash can.

After a short while, Lin Shangnan went to work, and a person wearing a mask came in to clean.

They've collected all the trash.

In a large office of the Dongcheng Branch, Dou Xiaolong, Wu Tiejun, and several other people from the Dongcheng Branch were having a meeting.

A police officer stood up and reported: "Target: Lin Shangnan, a doctor, 30 years old, from Lincheng, western Shandong. When he was 14, his family was attacked by war and he was the only one who survived."

Then, he fled to Beijing with other villagers and met a kind cloth shop owner who took him in.

Then I went to school, studied medicine, and later joined this hospital.

However, the cloth shop owner has now disappeared without a trace and cannot be contacted. The fellow villagers who came with him have either died or scattered over the years, and no one has contacted him again.

Lin Shangnan's wife was a woman he picked up in 1949.

He was from the Central Plains, and he brought a little girl with him when he arrived.

The couple has not had any children over the years.

According to the comrades from the neighborhood office, Lin Shangnan has a very good temper and treats his wife and children well.

They live in a separate courtyard house and don't have much contact with their neighbors.

I haven't seen him interacting with any outsiders.

He's usually a very honest and law-abiding person, and he's never argued with his neighbors. If there's a conflict, he always tries to smooth things over.

Dou Xiaolong listened to the report from the Dongcheng Branch and began to analyze: "All of his relatives in his hometown were killed in the war, so there is no way to prove whether this person is still the original Lin Shangnan, right?"

Secondly, living alone in a small courtyard, even though he has a wife and children, makes it easier for him to do some discreet things, right?

Third, the cloth shop owner who adopted him has disappeared, or perhaps he fled because of the war. His fellow villagers haven't been in contact for so many years, so no one can verify his identity, right?

These things seem to be caused by the war years, but the more you look at them, the more they seem to be preordained.

It's too much of a coincidence. I think we can send someone to his hometown to find his childhood friends and investigate thoroughly.

There's probably not much to investigate around his residence, but I think we should focus our investigation on his workplace and the patients who go to him for treatment.

After listening to the captain's words, Wu Tiejun added, "I think our captain's suspicions are correct. With his identity, he can come into contact with strangers every day."

As long as the person passing on information to him pretends to be a sick patient and seeks his medical attention, it becomes very easy to pass on information.

I suspect he might be an intelligence intermediary, someone who delivers intelligence pretends to be sick, and then he passes it on to the person receiving the intelligence.

There's a good chance he has accomplices or associates in the hospital.

The officers from the Dongcheng branch nodded in agreement: "I agree with the two captains' points of view. Based on the characteristics of this person discovered by the informant, he looks too much like a Japanese soldier."

We need to investigate this thoroughly, but we must be discreet and avoid startling him.

On his commute to and from get off work, I felt that anyone following him should either be a highly skilled individual or, better yet, none at all. Otherwise, if he turned out to be a big fish and we startled him, it would be very troublesome.

Everyone began to express their opinions.

The more you look at this man, the more he seems like a spy, even though he married a woman to cover his identity.

However, given his circumstances at the time, finding a virgin wouldn't have been out of the question.

They picked up a woman with a child to cover their identity, but she hasn't had any children of her own all these years.

This makes people even more suspicious.

The more you discuss this person, the more suspicious things become.

After analyzing the situation for a long time, the group of police officers decided to split into three groups. One group would go to his hometown to see if they could find Lin Shangnan's childhood friend.

It would be best to find out if Lin Shangnan has any physical characteristics.

If there is such a thing, but Dr. Lin doesn't, then at the very least we know that Dr. Lin is impersonating Lin Shangnan.

Secondly, we secretly investigated Dr. Lin's school by asking his teachers and classmates.

Let's see if there are any clues.

Third, track and monitor Lin Shangnan, and investigate his patients, especially those who come at fixed times and have been seeing him for a long time.

Since Dr. Lin has been doing this for so many years, it's impossible that he only passed on information once.

Therefore, only patients who come to him regularly are more likely to arouse suspicion.

Doctors, leaders, and support staff who frequently come into contact with him will also be secretly investigated.

The two branch offices set their goals and cooperated closely.

The freight station security department, which naturally discovered suspicious individuals, also participated in some operations.

Although the activities were mainly peripheral, the freight station made significant contributions.

It's because they were the first to discover it.

Yang Dalin was unaware of the arrangements made by the police officers.

When he was leaving get off work, an undercover officer came to him and told him that he could go to the hospital to see Ma San as usual today.

Yang Dalin nodded to indicate that he understood.

I went to a nearby restaurant and ordered some food before riding away.

Upon arriving at the hospital, Yang Dalin keenly sensed several pairs of eyes watching him casually.

Yang Dalin knew that those were people arranged by the police. Ma San's fellow patients in the ward hadn't changed much.

It was the same group of people, all waiting to be discharged from the hospital, much like Ma San.

Ma San knew nothing, and when he saw Yang Dalin come again, he acted as usual.

Yang Dalin chatted with Ma San for a while, then left as usual.

He didn't take the initiative to find Lin Shangnan to ask how he felt about being stepped on yesterday, or if his foot was any better.

Yang Dalin was afraid that if he looked at him, his expression would be off and the man would notice something.

After all, he was an old spy. If he were to deal with an ordinary person like Yang Dalin who had never experienced anything like this, Yang Dalin might very well mess up his performance.

Therefore, Yang Dalin felt it was best not to make any rash contact with the other party.