Siheyuan: Struggle in the Red Era

Not to mention that the second uncle was very concerned about Lin Baoyan, which made Lin Baoyan so disgusted that she almost vomited the food she had eaten the night before. After finally sending him away, it was already late at night.

Lin Baoyan took a bottle of boiled water and a full lunch box to Zhou's house in the Central Courtyard. After putting the things away, she replaced the coal briquettes in the stove in Zhou Kangzhan's house.

I don’t know when Zhou Kangzhan will come back, so I have to keep the temperature in the house, otherwise when he comes back, the room will be like a snow cave, and there will be no water to quench my thirst at home.

After finishing everything, she looked across and saw that the light in He Yushui's room had gone out, so she didn't go to say hello, but locked the door and walked to the backyard. When she passed by the door of Jia's house, she saw the curtains move, but she didn't care. Anyway, Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu had been very honest during this period.

After entering the backyard, she glanced at the west wing and went straight home without stopping.

Wang Fuguan's behavior today was very abnormal. She really wanted to find Zhou Kangzhan to talk about the situation, but unfortunately she didn't know where Zhou Kangzhan was now.

Zhou Kangzhan left suddenly three days ago. Who knows if it has anything to do with Wang Fuguan? She rashly ran to the police station to look for him. Not to mention whether she could find him, would it disrupt their arrangements?

It was soon midnight, and Zhou Kangzhan was still nowhere to be seen. Lin Baoyan locked the door and went to sleep.

Before going to bed, she thought of the unusual Wang Fuguan, pushed the table against the door, and then went into the space to rest with peace of mind.

No matter how afraid she was of being discovered, now that she knew there was an unknown person lurking around her, she had to hide. After all, staying alive was the most important thing.

Lying on the bed in the space, Lin Baoyan tossed and turned, feeling secretly regretful. Why couldn't this space be observed from the inside? Once you come in, you have no idea what is happening outside. This is very unfriendly to the owner of the space.

After about half an hour, Lin Baoyan left the space and returned to her bed in the bedroom.

The house was very peaceful, nothing happened, no strange incense, no one broke into the house.

After staying for half an hour, Lin Baoyan returned to the space.

Just like this, back and forth, the sound of the second aunt next door getting up was heard, and Lin Baoyan also got up.

"Happy New Year."

"Happy New Year."

Lin Baoyan greeted him all the way to the middle courtyard. Wang Fuguan was standing at the door. When he saw Lin Baoyan, he smiled at her and said, "Lin Baoyan, your brother Zhou didn't come back yesterday."

Lin Baoyan remained calm: "Yes, he didn't come back. Hey, he originally said he would come back, but he is a police officer, and unexpected things always happen. I'm used to it."

Wang Fuguan smiled and said nothing.

Lin Baoyan also smiled and went to the middle courtyard.

When passing by the Jia family, Jia Zhang even snorted.

Lin Baoyan ignored her and took out the key to open the door.

Before she opened the door, she paused and stared at the lock, looking at it again and again. Something was wrong! This door lock was wrong!

She remembered that when she locked the door last night, she deliberately put a thin white line between the lock head and the lock body. Now the white line is gone, which means that someone has opened the lock.

She immediately put away the key, turned around and walked out.

I met Yan Bugui on the way.

"Hey, Lin Baoyan, are you going out so early in the morning?"

Lin Baoyan forced a smile at him and said, "Happy New Year, Third Uncle. I have something to go out for."

After speaking, he ran away.

"Hey, hey, what are you in such a hurry for? Hey, kid, why are you running so fast?"

The third uncle wanted to ask more, but Lin Baoyan ran too fast.

"Where has this girl been? Why is she going out on New Year's Day?" Auntie asked curiously at the door.

"I don't know either. I just asked, and he ran out without saying anything."

"Don't tell me she's been robbed again. Look how upset she looks."

"Don't talk nonsense. If there really was a thief, he would have cried out a long time ago."

"What if she died in her sleep? She was lucky last time and woke up just in time. She was on guard yesterday and must have been very tired. If she had slept deeply, she would definitely not have been discovered."

"Okay, what's going on? We'll know when she comes back."

Not long after, Lin Baoyan came over with two police officers. Yan Bugui widened his eyes in surprise. Could it be that he was right? He really had been robbed!

By the time Lin Baoyan and two police officers arrived at the door of Zhou's house, people from the three courtyards crowded into the corridor to watch the excitement.

"It's here. I didn't open the door and nothing happened inside." Lin Baoyan took out the key and handed it to a policeman.

Yi Zhonghai squeezed in and asked, "Comrade Public Security, Lin Baoyan, what happened?"

Lin Baoyan said: "I found out that a thief had broken in last night, so I called the police to find out what was going on."

"Thief? No way, I didn't hear any noise last night."

"That's right. I went to bed almost yesterday and didn't hear anything."

"Zhang Xiaohua, your house is next door, did you hear anything?"

"No, no, I went to bed early yesterday and I didn't hear anything." Jia Zhang hurriedly denied and shrank back.

Lin Baoyan looked at her suspiciously. This was not like Jia Zhang's character.

Yi Zhonghai said, "Look, no one heard any sound. Lin Baoyan, how can you be sure that a thief came?"

"The lock has been tampered with." Lin Baoyan was too lazy to pay attention to Yi Zhonghai. When she saw the policeman wearing gloves, opened the door and went in, she stood at the door, blocking it and looking inside.

The chair in the room fell over, the thermos broke into pieces on the floor, and the radio on the cabinet was gone.

Just these words were enough to make Yi Zhonghai and the others standing behind Lin Baoyan shut their mouths.

The Zhou family was indeed robbed.

"Lin Baoyan, look at your shoe prints." A police officer carefully checked the traces left on the floor and furniture. Yesterday, Lin Baoyan cleaned the house, and she was the only one who came in later. There should be only her and the thief's shoe prints in the house.

The marks on the ground were not messy. Upon careful identification, there was a small shoe print that just matched Lin Baoyan's, and there were two large ones, one was almost size 40 and the other was only size 35.

"Two other people have been in this room."

"Judging from the footprints, it is likely that they were a man and a woman. The size 40 pair was a rubber-soled shoe, and the size 35 pair was a cloth shoe. The cloth shoes had also been worn for a long time."

The size 40 shoe prints are widely distributed, found in both rooms, while the size 35 shoe prints are only found in the living room and are concentrated in the area between the cabinets and the doors.

"Besides mine, are there any other clearer fingerprints?" Lin Baoyan asked, raising her hand.

"Yes, there are two palm prints on the cabinet, and the patterns on them are very clear."

“There’s nothing else like it.”

The two police officers looked at each other. It was obvious that this case was committed by two groups of people, one group was very cautious and only left footprints, while the other group was much more reckless and even left clear palm prints.

"Please count first and see if there is anything missing in the room. Please register it." A police officer said to Lin Baoyan.

"Well, this is Zhou Kangzhan's room. I only know the things that are placed outside. We need to wait for him to come back and count them before we know the details." Lin Baoyan began to count the things in the house. Except for the radio, the other things that were placed outside were not lost except for a broken water bottle.

After the police made a record, Lin Baoyan said, "Comrade police, I want to report a case. I suspect Zhang Xiaohua came in yesterday and stole the radio."