Chapter 72: Tobacco Shop Robbery

Weekend.

Light rain fell intermittently. The ditches on both sides of the road had water flowing forward, carrying fallen leaves, mud, and insects together, heading towards the distant land of dreams.

Jiang Yuan, wearing slippers and a raincoat, walked slowly across the small square and arrived at the nearby swimming pool.

Ningtai people had a tradition of liking sports, so there was a boss from Changyang who specially invested in building a swimming pool and gym here.

Jiang Village people were the main consumption force within a few kilometers, and they gradually fell in love with this foreign way of consumption, and almost every household had a card. The landlord of the swimming pool, Fifth Uncle, in order to let the swimming pool increase the frequency of changing water, specially reduced part of the rent.

Jiang Yuan didn't have to go to work today. Thinking back to Zhou Lei's various things in the past two days, he simply threw himself into the swimming pool and swam with the dog paddle.

LV4 Shou Xiankan could find every hair in the bathroom. This LV4 dog paddle, applied in the swimming pool, was also like a turbid current, swooshing forward, which was almost like adding a thruster behind Jiang Yuan compared to his usual swimming skills.

The movement of paddling here was large, so more people noticed it.

And the dog paddle wasn't good-looking, which was also really not good-looking.

A few young people, who were about to come over to play together, laughed at Jiang Yuan at this time.

The distance was too far, and they couldn't hear clearly what they were laughing at, but according to Jiang Yuan's guess, what they were laughing at was about his swimming posture.

Jiang Yuan continued to swim, and what came to his mind was Zhou Lei's legacy.

Because he was ridiculed for swimming, it was probably the part that Zhou Lei didn't understand the most and didn't want the most—Jiang Yuan could understand Zhou Lei's feelings at the time, because when he first walked out of Jiang Village, he also encountered similar situations.

For Zhou Lei at that time, he probably found it very difficult to understand why some people would ridicule others for things like swimming posture. Just like the accent of Mandarin, or the accent of English, in the case of not affecting communication, what was the significance of ridicule?

But everyone liked to do this, and it could vaguely prove that ridicule did have its significance, at least, for the ridiculer, it had value.

Splash.

Jiang Yuan turned around and continued to swim fast with the dog paddle.

His own swimming technique, calculated by the most proficient breaststroke, was at most at the LV1 level. By comparison, the newly obtained dog paddle swimming posture had a very large improvement in his swimming technique. This technological innovation might not be conducive to him continuing to practice to win an Olympic championship, but it was absolutely conducive to his daily life.

Several Jiang Village people confirmed that the person being ridiculed in the pool was Jiang Yuan, and immediately surrounded the few young people who were playing by the pool.

Being a demolition household also had troubles, for example, often being ridiculed or something.

Usually, when being ridiculed outside, everyone had no way, but in the village's territory, it wasn't so easy to talk. More than a dozen Jiang Village people in the swimming pool quickly gathered, including a few bored middle-aged people, rubbing skewers in their hands, and looking with their necks crooked—if it weren't for the demolition, these few would be the famous idlers in the village. Now they were wealthy and leisurely people.

"Don't fight." Jiang Yuan saw that there were many people, poked his head out, took a look, and climbed out of the swimming pool.

Three boys protected the two girls behind them, straightened their thin chest muscles, and bravely confronted more than a dozen Jiang Village people.

There were no needle marks on the boys' bodies, their breathing was slightly rapid, but it should be caused by emotions, not drugs. The figures of the two girls were good, and there were no tattoos, no needle marks, and no plastic surgery.

"Scatter. Come to my house to eat mutton later." Jiang Yuan greeted, and the idle middle-aged people all nodded with a smile.

Jiang Yuan and his father were both rooted in Jiang Village and were people who attached great importance to neighborhood friendship, so they had quite a reputation.

Jiang Yuan spoke, and everyone was too lazy to ask more, and the crowd that gathered scattered as soon as they said so.

Jiang Yuan also ignored the few young people who were still in shock, turned around, and plunged into the swimming pool again.

It was still the dog paddle, but this time no one laughed at him.

Monday.

The atmosphere in the Criminal Police Detachment was obviously much more relaxed again.

In Jiang Yuan's view, the life of the criminal police team was similar to that in the village. When there were major cases, it was like the busy farming season, and all the big livestock would be valued, eating and drinking until they were busy like calves; while when there were no major cases, the big livestock seemed to be free-range, the whip was still waving, but most of the time it wasn't drawn down so anxiously.

The footsteps of the big livestock would naturally slow down a bit.

Like Wu Jun, he danced the feather duster again and organized the desk, not because of the almanac, but to "get rid of the bad luck."

Jiang Yuan opened the computer himself and filled in the previous reports.

"Do you want to boil some red bean and barley porridge at noon? It can pull out dampness and get rid of bad luck." Wu Jun said, and took out red beans and barley from the corner of the wall.

Jiang Yuan's eyelids jumped: "You have red beans in the office? And barley?"

"Better safe than sorry."

"Not afraid of the captain seeing it." Jiang Yuan said helplessly.

"If he really sees it..." Wu Jun simulated the scene in his mind, sighed, and said: "If it really doesn't work, just invite him to drink together."

Jiang Yuan was speechless.

Wu Jun smiled and said: "It's okay, as long as the two of us commit the crime together, it's safe."

"Master, you are over fifty. We have to be reliable." Jiang Yuan listened to Wu Jun's words and always felt it wasn't so safe.

Wu Jun patted Jiang Yuan's shoulder: "Rest assured, when I retire, you will be safer. It's not easy to recruit a forensic doctor in our small county."

"Then when you retire, I'll put a barbecue stove in the office." Jiang Yuan also started chatting, bragging, demolition households couldn't lose.

Just as they were joking, Lu Jianfeng of the Criminal Science Squadron knocked on the door and entered.

In larger units, such as the Changyang City Criminal Police Detachment, there would be a Criminal Science Technology Detachment inside, and there could be a scene investigation squadron, trace examination squadron, etc. Relatively speaking, the captain of the Criminal Science Detachment, or the director of the Criminal Science Technology Center, would be stronger and more powerful.

But in a small unit like Ningtai County, the title of squadron leader was equivalent to a group leader in school, and it was really hard to be tough.

For forensic doctors, Lu Jianfeng's attitude was even warmer, with a smile on his face, saying: "You've worked hard in the past few days. This unnatural death was more complicated than a homicide case, and everyone didn't expect it. Fortunately, you confirmed the deceased early, otherwise, the whole detachment would have been tired and turned over..."

Wu Jun nodded and said: "I thought it was a dismemberment case at the time, and I don't know which boat caused it. Now people's courage is really big. If it were 20 years ago, I guess they would have reported it to the police."

"Maybe they didn't see it." Lu Jianfeng didn't continue, coughed twice, and said: "That... two days ago, there was another case, Jiang Yuan, why don't you go and take a look."

"What case needs Jiang Yuan to do?" Wu Jun asked directly.

"Just the tobacco shop robbery two days ago. The police force was all sent out, and the scene investigation wasn't done well. Now, since the homicide case is gone, this robbery case has to be taken out and looked at carefully." Lu Jianfeng was also helpless. Cases all had timeliness, but when homicide cases and robbery cases occurred at the same time, it was difficult for robbery cases to get a little more resources.

Wu Jun asked: "What about the few from the scene investigation?"

"Two are busy with other cases, one has a fever. My meaning is, let Wang Zhong follow Jiang Yuan for a trip." Lu Jianfeng spread his hands and said: "Running cases in the heavy rain, people are all wasted."

Letting a forensic doctor and a trace examiner run the scene investigation was very unreasonable, but very realistic.

The manpower of the county bureau was never enough.

"Set off now?" Jiang Yuan stood up.

Lu Jianfeng hurriedly said: "Set off now, I'll find you a car..."

"No need, I drove a car here today." Jiang Yuan took the key of the G-Wagon from the drawer. ===== CHAPTER 73 =====