Siheyuan, my new life

Bai Wu was happily hugging his wife in his arms and was still asleep when he was awakened by a sudden phone call. He knew very well that no one would call him in the middle of the night unless there was an emergency.

Bai Wu didn't even bother to put on his clothes. He got up from the bed and walked barefoot into the living room. He grabbed the microphone and said directly: "I'm Bai Wu. What happened?"

After listening to the content of the phone call, Bai Wu gritted his teeth, went back to the bedroom, put on his clothes, waved to his wife who had been awakened, and said: "There is an urgent case, I have to leave right away, you continue to sleep." After that, he turned and left.

When Bai Wu walked out of the tube building, a jeep was already waiting downstairs. After he got in, the jeep sped away immediately.

Walking into the Criminal Investigation Office, Deputy Director Han Dongfeng and several public security officers were already waiting there. Bai Wu asked directly: "What happened?" Han Dongfeng had only told him on the phone that Lou Cheng had been killed, and the man in black who was suspected to be the murderer was knocked unconscious at the door of the detention room where Lou Zhenhua was held.

The Criminal Investigation Department is really short of manpower recently, so in order not to affect the daytime work, the two directors can only take turns to work the night shift. Last night it was Han Dongfeng's turn to be on duty, and when he heard the patrolling security guard's alarm, he rushed over immediately.

Hearing Bai Wu's question, Han Dongfeng rubbed his temple and said, "At 2:10 in the morning, I heard the security guard's alarm outside, and immediately rushed to the detention room on the second floor. I found a masked man in black lying at the door of the detention room where Lou Zhenhua was detained. The man was unconscious at the time. Judging from the direction he fell, he was suspected to have been shot in the back of the neck, causing coma. The security guard at the scene found a Browning pistol with a silencer in the hand of the man in black. Lou Zhenhua, who was detained in the detention room, also fell into a coma, and no signs of damage were found on the door of the detention room; in the detention room where Lou Cheng was detained not far away, Lou Cheng was shot in the forehead and died, and his body fell less than two meters away from the door. The forensic doctor has been contacted, but Doctor Jiao went to the police station downstairs today, and can only return to the Municipal Bureau tomorrow morning at the earliest."

Bai Wu lit a cigarette, took a deep breath and said, "According to Director Han's introduction, we can confirm that in addition to the man in black, there were other people at the scene. I suspect that it was the missing person who knocked the man in black unconscious, otherwise Lou Zhenhua would have been killed. Now we can only rescue the man in black and Lou Zhenhua first, hoping to learn the truth from them."

After emergency treatment by medical staff, the man in black finally regained consciousness, but he ignored the questions from Bai Wu and the criminal investigation department personnel and has not uttered a word since he woke up.

Now that Lou Zhenhua was finally willing to confess, Bai Wu felt a little relieved. He took out a red paper with golden writing from his briefcase and handed it to Lou Zhenhua, saying, "After our investigation, we have confirmed that your wife Lou Tan and daughter Lou Xiao'e have nothing to do with this case. After asking for instructions from the superiors, we will return Lou Tan and Lou Xiao'e's personal belongings, and assign a courtyard house confiscated from the Lou family's real estate to Lou Tan and her daughter. Lou Zhenhua, take a look, is this the list of Lou Tan's dowry?"

Lou Zhenhua took it, glanced at it, nodded, and said, "Yes, this is indeed the dowry given by the Tan family. At that time, because someone was eyeing the Tan family's property, in order to get my protection, the Tan family married their daughter to me as the third concubine and gave me a lot of property as dowry. We in the Lou family never touch the dowry brought by women. No matter which wife's dowry, it belongs to her and can be given to her children in the future."

Bai Wu did not doubt Lou Zhenhua's statement, because this batch of valuables was not obtained from the search of the Lou family's warehouse, but was found in Lou Tan's own room. According to what he learned from the servants, although Lou Tan is now nominally the mistress of the Lou family, the master bedroom originally lived in by the first wife has been vacant until now, and Lou Tan still lives in the room where she lived when she was the third concubine.

Bai Wu took the red paper back from Lou Zhenhua, put it back in his briefcase and said, "We have notified your original driver Xu Fugui to pick up Lou Tan and your daughter when he came to pick up his wife this morning. As for Lou Tan's personal belongings, all of them will be returned."

Lou Zhenhua hesitated for a moment and said, "I want to divorce Lou Tan and sever the father-daughter relationship with my daughter. I don't want them to be affected because of me. In addition, please tell Lou Tan that Xu Fugui is too cunning and unreliable. Tell her not to let Xu Fugui know about returning the property. I'm worried that Xu Fugui will covet those properties."

Bai Wu agreed to Lou Zhenhua's request after a brief thought. He directly instructed a public security officer beside him: "Go and notify the security department to let Xu Fugui pick up his wife and tell him that Lou Tan's mother and daughter still have things to deal with, so he doesn't need to pick her up."

Bai Wu made such arrangements, firstly, to relieve Lou Zhenhua's worries and let him explain the mastermind who wanted to kill people to silence them. From Lou Zhenhua's words just now, it can be heard that the mastermind must be a leader in an important position. If this kind of black sheep cannot be removed from the revolutionary team in time, I am afraid it will cause greater harm in the future. In addition, according to incomplete statistics, the assets of the Lou family seized so far have exceeded 73 million dragon coins. The leaders above are ready to make the case of Lou Zhenhua an example, which will not only deter those big and small capitalists, but also tell the outside world by properly placing Lou Tan's mother and daughter that the new Longguo government strictly abides by the constitution and will never implicate innocent people.

Bai Wu took a stack of letter paper and a pen and handed them to Lou Zhenhua: "Lou Zhenhua, since you want to divorce Lou Tan and sever the father-daughter relationship with Lou Xiao'e, then you should write a divorce application and a statement of severing the father-daughter relationship now. I hope you won't let us down. In addition, I will ask Director Wan of the Municipal Bureau to come and listen to your explanation." After that, he walked out of the interrogation room.

More than 20 minutes later, Bai Wu accompanied Director Wan and Deputy Director Yao of the Municipal Bureau into the interrogation room. Because what Lou Zhenhua was going to tell him next was too important, in order to prevent leaks, in addition to the two directors of the Municipal Bureau, only Bai Wu was left in the interrogation room to be responsible for the record-keeping work. Deputy Director Han Dongfeng led other personnel to stand guard about five meters outside the interrogation room.

More than an hour later, Director Wan and Deputy Director Yao walked out of the interrogation room with serious expressions. Director Wan was still holding a stack of papers tightly in his hand. After the two directors left in a hurry, Bai Wu handed a divorce application and a statement of severing father-daughter relationship to a public security officer, whispered a few words, and then asked someone to send Lou Zhenhua back to the detention room.