The sudden news stunned everyone who heard it, and Lin Dong immediately realized that Yue Lin had been working overtime in the office for two consecutive days because he was investigating the case of Fu Lixin's son.A smile slid across the corner of his mouth, and he sighed silently in relief—it was no use to fish this kid out of the crowd, and he knew to face the difficulties, a bit like a foolish old man moving mountains.

"Go back to the office and talk about it."

Tang Zhexue glanced at the one-way mirror pointingly.Fu Lixin was interrogating inside. No matter what Yue Lin found out, it would be difficult for the news to reach the other party's ears until there was a definite result.This scar will definitely not grow, so don't stab it in again.

Following Tang Zhexue's line of sight, Yue Lin looked at Fu Lixin who was concentrating on recording the confession. Only then did he realize that he was too excited. He quickly clamped the file in Yang's hand under his arm, and quietly slipped out of the monitoring room.At this time, the interrogation had lasted for four hours. As long as Pan Weien uttered a lie that did not match the facts, Fade Chen would immediately expose it. Lin Dong didn't care whether he would listen to the ensuing battle of trapped beasts, and greeted Tang Zhexue. Go back to the office to find Yue Lin.

He has been thinking about that case, but there are no obvious loopholes, so it is difficult to restart the investigation.Just looking at the file, it was an accidental drowning, the body had no obvious trauma, and no drug residue was detected in toxicology.The only puzzling thing is that Fu Jiayi has always been very good, because his father is a criminal policeman, and his safety awareness is stronger than that of ordinary children, so he shouldn't go swimming alone.

At that time, Chen Fei and Zhao Pingsheng were in charge of investigating the case. It was suspected that someone took revenge on Fu Lixin, killed Fu Jiayi elsewhere and threw his body into the sea.This idea was proposed based on the fact that the liquid found in Fu Jiayi's lungs during the autopsy was not sea water but fresh water, and his body was found at the mouth of the sea.After comparing the water quality information, the drowning location was locked in Guanshan Reservoir.However, during the period when the incident occurred, the Guanshan Reservoir had just released a flood, so if the corpse rushed to the sea along the flood, it would be reasonable.

But even if there was a one in ten thousand possibility that Fu Jiayi was killed by someone, Fade Chen still wanted to investigate to the end.But after searching the people Fu Lixin had arrested seven or eight times, none of them had time to commit crimes.During the interrogation, there was a guy who heard that something happened to the policeman who arrested him. He uttered lies and tried his best to ridicule him, which caused Fade Chen to lose control of his hand for a while, and was almost beaten blind by the grandson.It was Fu Lixin who heard that Fade Chen had been punished and took the initiative to say, "Don't investigate, don't involve you again because of my family's affairs", and the case was closed and filed.

Since then, no one has touched the case for many years, because any touch would stab Fu Lixin's wounds.On the day of Fu Jiayi's accident, Fu Lixin was busy looking for the missing child outside, but he didn't know that his own child was struggling in the water until he drowned.So his daughter-in-law divorced him, and his parents didn't forgive him until they died, not to mention that he was revenged for this tragedy, but to say that he was not a competent father.

This can be regarded as a kind of self-defense mechanism of human beings. When something goes wrong, there is someone who can blame it, and other people can feel better.

Seeing Lin Dong enter the office, Yue Lin's ass that had just dropped was lifted up again, his eyes were filled with excitement that could not be concealed: "Team Lin, I have merged the drowning cases of Guanshan Reservoir in the past 20 years, and found that two of them were related to others. Fu Jiayi's case is very similar, he was also a teenager, and the autopsy showed no obvious trauma."

"It was all accidents?"

If it was just such a discovery, Lin Dong would not be able to ignite the enthusiasm to re-investigate the old case.Guanshan Reservoir has always been a good place for wild swimming because of its superior water quality and beautiful scenery.Even if the management has planted signs saying "Dangerous water depth, no swimming" around the reservoir, one drowning per year is considered rare.In the past two years, it has been a little bit better, and the monitoring has been installed. Once someone goes into the water, the administrator can find it immediately.

But Yue Lin didn't let him down: "One case was closed by accident, the case from [-], and the other case from [-], which is still unsolved."

"Unsolved case? Haven't you reported it yet?" Lin Dong immediately picked up the file and looked through it.For 30 years in the jurisdiction, major unsolved cases involving death, disappearance, rape/rape, and public safety accidents are all in his hands. Every time he takes on a case, he will go through the file first, and it is impossible not to be unimpressed.

"No, if I don't check in the system, I won't be able to find it. I just transferred this file from the Guanshan County Public Security Bureau. Their archivist said that it might have been missed when sorting out the accumulated case files. I didn't report to us. ..."

The more Yue Lin said, the lower his voice, because he found that Lin Dong's attention was all on the file.Forget it, he thought, now is not the time to claim credit, when the case is solved, the boss will definitely treat me badly.

After reading the dossier at a glance, Lin Dong closed the cover, looked up at Yue Lin, and said solemnly: "Don't tell anyone else about this, especially Lao Fu, you know?"

Yue Lin nodded hurriedly.He knew the boss's intentions. The reason why the case in [-] was not closed by accident was because the forensic doctor found semen in the body of the deceased during the autopsy.Although there was no obvious trauma on the surface of the corpse, the possibility that the deceased was drowned in the water by the suspect after being violated cannot be ruled out, and it is even possible that the whole process was reversed.

This kind of thing is probably unacceptable to any parent.

After instructing Yue Lin, Lin Dong sat back in his seat and calmly analyzed the information he just obtained from the file.The boy on the file, looking at the photo, has similar physical characteristics to Fu Jiayi, and he is also twelve or thirteen years old.Although he hasn't seen the file of the case in [-], he reckons that Yue Lin can join together, and it's probably not far behind.So here comes the question, was there really a perverted child/pedophile hiding near the Guanshan Reservoir, waiting for an opportunity to attack the boy who came to swim alone?Or, the case in [-] was just a single case and had nothing to do with the previous two cases?

While contemplating, the phone suddenly vibrated.

"Team leader, this one...I have to go to the hospital quickly..." Tang Zhexue's voice was extremely dry, "Mom just called me and said... Grandma suddenly died."



In the corridor outside the ICU ward, the Tang family members were all present.Looking at the dignified faces, Lin Dong suddenly felt that he was a bit redundant at this moment.These people are either related by blood or have legal commitments, but he is a complete outsider.But he couldn't leave, firstly out of respect for that loving old man, and secondly because Tang Zhexue needed him by his side.

On the way to the hospital, Tang Zhexue told Lin Dong that grandma had actually been in the hospital for a week, and Lin Jingwen didn't call for fear of delaying their work.Today, the old lady who had been in a daze for several days suddenly woke up, and she was talking about seeing her grandson, which was obviously a flashback.

Only one family member can enter the ICU ward at a time, and everyone else went to say goodbye to grandma, and Tang Zhexue was the last one.Before he went in, he slapped his eyes vigorously with his hands, took deep breaths repeatedly, and tried to hold back crying in front of his grandma.But when I saw my grandma, I heard the old lady say with a smile, "When I see your dad, I must tell him that our Jiji is promising, and we are more capable than him", but I couldn't hold it anymore, and tears flowed down my face. Drop down.

Two hours later, grandma left, with a serene smile, heading to the place where she was reunited with her husband and son.Lin Jingwen cried more than anyone else. Although she was only a daughter-in-law, her mother-in-law said that she had never had a daughter in her life, and she was her own daughter.Sadness spread in the hallway and everyone was in tears.Lin Dong couldn't help turning his back, took off his glasses, and silently mourned the kind and kind old man.The old man didn't know what kind of relationship he had with Tang Zhexue from the beginning to the end, but every time he went back to eat with Tang Zhexue, at the dinner table, grandma wished he could pile up a small mountain in his bowl.

He has not enjoyed the love from the elders for a long, long time.Maybe he has experienced more wind and rain than his peers, but in the eyes of his ninety-year-old grandmother, he is still a child, a grandchild who needs love and care.

To appease his mother, Tang Zhexue walked up to Lin Dong and said in a nasal voice, "Team leader, you should go back first, that, I have to stay with my mother today."

"Should be." Although he really wanted to give him a hug, but in front of Tang Zhexue's relatives, Lin Dong restrained his emotions, "These days, you should take care of grandma's funeral and work matters in a down-to-earth manner. Don't worry, I've made arrangements."

As if his nose was stuffed with cement, Tang Zhexue had to open his mouth and take a deep breath: "There are my uncles, uncles, cousins, and cousins. It's not my turn to work, I just have to accompany my mother."

Lin Dong stopped talking and just patted his arm lightly.Proper grasp of proportion, in the eyes of others, is a leader who is considerate to his subordinates.Except for Lin Jingwen, no one in the Tang family knew about the two of them.But Lin Dong always suspected that Tang Hua had seen something, but he didn't expose it.After all, Dongdong and Jiji were sent to foster care at every turn, and they always went to pick them up together. Before Tang Hua was imprisoned, he had been in the upper class all the year round, so it was impossible for him to understand everything.

Besides, who has nothing to do to take the leader home for the New Year's Eve, Lin Dong felt that there was something wrong with the way the big family looked at him.

Before the old lady was sent to the morgue, Shi Yuguang finally arrived at the hospital.As soon as Tang Zhexue received the news, he informed him that he was the godson of the old lady, and he had to be sent to his godmother just because of emotion and reason.But at that time, he was carrying out the arresting mission, and he had no skills at all. After finishing his busy work, he hurried over, but he still missed the last side.

After bowing three times to apologize to the old lady, and muttering a few words of farewell close to his ear, Shi Yuguang squatted in front of Lin Jingwen with red eye circles, and said softly: "Sister-in-law, if you need me to do anything, just talk, Let me do my filial piety for Brother Tang."

"No, the old lady left a message, keep everything simple." Youyou sighed, Lin Jingwen turned her eyes to her son, tearful, "Jiji, you can go back with Dongzi too, I'm fine."

Tang Zhexue still refused to leave, until he sent his grandma to the mortuary and guarded the door for an hour before leaving the hospital under the persuasion of Lin Dong and Shi Yuguang.After entering the house, he suddenly hugged Lin Dong tightly into his arms, buried his head in the other's neck, and cried like a child.There is nothing to persuade him at this time, Lin Dong can only pat him on the back with one hand, and ruffle his hair with the other, letting the fabric of the clothes be soaked with hot tears.

After a while, he heard Tang Zhexue's nasal voice: "Team leader..."

"Huh?" Lin Dong hugged him and swayed slowly, as if coaxing a child, but the child was too tall.

Tang Zhexue straightened up, sniffed, then held his face in his hands, and pressed a salty kiss: "Tell me something."

"what?"

"I just told grandma that you are his granddaughter-in-law."

Lin Dong's expression froze, and he asked in surprise, "How could you tell her this?"

"Because she has already seen it." Kissing the furrows between Lin Dong's eyebrows, Tang Zhexue pressed against his forehead, "Grandma said, 'Giji, Dongzi is a good boy, he loves you very much, he looks at you Happiness is written in the eyes'."

"..."

Lin Dong was speechless and could only thank the old man for his tolerance and open-mindedness from the bottom of his heart.

Tang Zhexue begged again: "So, you should tell me those three words. Now that grandma recognizes it, you are the legitimate daughter-in-law of my Tang family."

"Which three words?" Lin Dong asked knowingly.

"I love you."

"That's four words."

"I love you."

With a hook at the corner of his mouth, Lin Dong replied with three words——

"I know."

TBC

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