Chapter 67: Clear Conscience

"Comrade Li Xuewu, please come over and sit."

Li Xuewu nodded, walked to the desk, and sat next to Liu Guoyou.

At this time, it was best to be cautious in speech and action; the fewer words, the better. If you could avoid speaking, don't speak.

The cadre in the Zhongshan suit glanced at Li Xuewu and tapped the notebook on the table with the pen in his hand.

"Comrade Li Xuewu, I work in the Foreign Affairs Department. My surname is Zhou. This is Bureau Chief Liu. We have some situations that need to be understood from you. Please answer the questions we raise truthfully."

"Yes."

"You participated in handling the accident encountered by the train you were escorting the night before last, right?"

Seeing everyone in the room looking at him, Li Xuewu felt as if they were all waiting for his answer.

"Yes, I was there."

"When you checked the deceased under the train, did you discover any identity features of the deceased?"

"No, it was very dark, there was only one flashlight, and besides..."

The cadre knew what Li Xuewu meant; the deceased's head had already been crushed.

Bureau Chief Liu asked, "We know your resume. Based on your experience in the reconnaissance battalion, what was the reason the deceased hit the train?"

Li Xuewu carefully recalled the scene at that time and replied, "The time was urgent, I didn't carefully examine the scene, thinking it was just an accident. But judging from the state of the deceased under the train..."

Speaking of this, Li Xuewu earnestly recalled the person's body posture, and his words paused.

Bureau Chief Liu and Zhou Ganbu both stared at Li Xuewu's eyes, as if a single wrong word would cause a great panic.

Even Liu Guoyou and the other person sitting on the side looked at Li Xuewu with pale faces.

Li Xuewu narrowed his eyes and recalled, unaffected by them. After confirming again, he said affirmatively, "I think it should have been an accidental incident. The deceased was lying between the two rails, protecting the child tightly in their arms. There were no signs of restraint on the body, and there was no forced passive death."

"I said so! Our train was temporarily added, the time was uncertain, the villagers didn't know a train was passing." Hearing Li Xuewu's words, Liu Guoyou slapped his thigh and confirmed excitedly.

Zhou Ganbu and the others all breathed a sigh of relief, their eyes glancing toward the sofa.

Li Xuewu continued, "As for that woman, she seemed to have been hooked and dragged. There were no wounds on her body, only a hole in the top of her head knocked by a stone on the roadbed."

Liu Guoyou and Han Dache both nodded in agreement.

Zhou Ganbu nodded at Li Xuewu and asked again, "Can you see if there was any... um, for example, conflict or contradiction between the two?"

Li Xuewu gave a bitter smile and replied, "I am from the reconnaissance battalion, not the investigation team. I haven't done criminal investigation, so I really can't tell. I can't speak randomly about things I'm not sure of. But what I can be sure of is that the man under the train loved the child very much, and that woman did too."

Zhou Ganbu and Bureau Chief Liu looked at each other and nodded.

Bureau Chief Liu asked, "How did you discover the child?"

"Habit."

"Habit?"

"Yes, a habit formed on the battlefield. Every time... I had to check if the comrades lying on the ground still had vital signs."

【Author's note: siluke.】

Bureau Chief Liu, who was asking the questions, and Zhou Ganbu, who was sitting on the side, didn't expect the young security guard in front of them to give such an answer, and they couldn't help but feel awe in their hearts.

Bureau Chief Liu's tone paused, and he asked again, "Did you see the child's appearance and physical features clearly?"

Li Xuewu was stunned for a moment, not knowing why Bureau Chief Liu asked this, but he still replied truthfully: "Not at the time. It was discovered by the attendant when handing over at the station. Train Captain Liu also said it might be the child of a minority brother."

Hearing Li Xuewu's words, Liu Guoyou grinned awkwardly.

Zhou Ganbu looked at Liu Guoyou and continued to ask Li Xuewu, "You were the one who carried the child out? Did you discover anything?"

Li Xuewu looked at Zhou Ganbu, who was asking the question, with suspicion and said, "It was me. There was no discovery, just carried the child out from the deceased's hands. Train Captain Liu and the others were also there at the time."

The cadre narrowed his eyes. When looking at Li Xuewu, he also swept a glance at Liu Guoyou and Han Dache.

Li Xuewu guessed that it might be the hand of the deceased holding the child... that matter was told by Liu Guoyou and the other, but Li Xuewu couldn't admit it. At this time, he couldn't say such strange things.

"Did you see it when Comrade Liu Guoyou handled the deceased by the road?"

"I saw it."

"Can you tell me about it?"

Li Xuewu didn't look at Liu Guoyou and the other, and told the truth about Liu Guoyou's handling actions, but didn't mention what Liu Guoyou said on the train.

Hearing Li Xuewu finish speaking, Liu Guoyou clearly breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Xuewu naturally knew what could be said and what couldn't.

Zhou Ganbu nodded, glanced at the bedroom, and asked, "Why did you stuff a note and money into the child's package in the station duty room?"

Li Xuewu was silent for a moment before answering, "From the moment I carried the child out from under the train, the child didn't cry. When I was coaxing the child, the child looked adorable, which reminded me of what my younger brother and sister looked like when they were young. I intuitively judged that the child's parents might be gone, and I was afraid the child would have problems, so I put the note and money there."

The two people asking the questions were noncommittal about Li Xuewu's answer and the emotion in his words.

"When did you put the note and money?"

"During the handover at the station..."

"Was it after discovering the child's features?"

"Yes, but the note was already written on the train."

The cadre was silent for a moment and asked solemnly, "Are you sure you didn't know the nationality of the person under the train when handling the accident?"

"I didn't think about the nationality issue when I was saving people, let alone it was a deceased person. The deceased is the most important; if I can help, I will help."

"What about the child? Did you do that because you thought it was a special child?"

Li Xuewu turned his head silently and stared at the foreigner who suddenly interrupted to ask him questions. This person's Chinese was a bit off-tune.

That foreign affairs officer, wearing a suit and tie with an inquisitive expression, didn't fear Li Xuewu's gaze, staring straight at Li Xuewu with blue eyes.

"I have a clear conscience."

The two foreign affairs officers looking at Li Xuewu didn't expect Li Xuewu to say this.

Zhou Ganbu nodded and asked the Bureau Chief Liu beside him, the foreign affairs officer on the sofa, and the two couples, "The last person in charge of the scene has already described the process of handling the matter. His character has been tested. We believe the content of what he said. Do you have anything else to ask?"

The foreigners on the sofa looked at each other and were silent.

The middle-aged man opposite frowned and said hoarsely, "Nothing to ask. Those who shouldn't have been saved were saved, and those who should have been saved are gone. What else is there to say?"

"Who do we know this is? We only know my sister is gone. What does that... that man have to do with our family? Besides, my sister is already like that. Are these two old brothers really not giving compensation?" The young man sitting on the side asked with his neck held high.

This family was truly strange. The young woman had a cold face. Only when the young man mentioned compensation did she look at the foreign affairs officer and Zhou Ganbu and the others sitting on the sofa.

The woman wearing a headscarf just wiped her tears and cried, but her eyes looking at Li Xuewu were complex. Gratitude? Or something else?

Li Xuewu didn't know the identities of the few, but regarding saving the child, there was nothing he could be criticized for. Should he have let that little life freeze on the tracks?

Although very suspicious and depressed, it wasn't easy to say anything on this occasion, so he could only frown and remain silent.

Cadre Liang, who brought Li Xuewu in, led Li Xuewu, Liu Guoyou, and the other out of the room and to the room opposite under Zhou Ganbu's gesture. ===== CHAPTER 68 =====