Transmigration: Flirted with My Childhood Sweetheart
Chapter 134 - 133: Successfully Suspected

Chapter 134: Chapter 133: Successfully Suspected

Wang Shumei had said all there was to say, what else could Liu Jianjun add?

He glanced at them, tacitly agreeing.

Having just edged to the end of the bed, Feng Wei and Zhou Xu, seeing this, promptly sat back down on the hospital bed.

"Both of you, get out!"

Liu Jianjun caught sight of their movement from the corner of his eye and coldly huffed for them to scram.

Zhou Xu he didn’t know well, but Fatty Feng’s mouth... once he knew, it meant the whole of Lan County knew.

Since Liu Jianjun was his superior, Feng Wei could only drag Zhou Xu along and leave, toughing it out.

Upon exiting the ward, they immediately pressed their ears against the door.

Feng Wei whispered with a bit of hope: "Uncle Liu probably just wants to ask about the kidnapping yesterday, right?"

"It doesn’t seem like it." Zhou Xu’s expression was somewhat serious. Then he pushed Feng Wei, "Don’t just stand here, go find Brother Cheng."

Feng Wei frowned: "Why isn’t it you going?"

Zhou Xu rolled his eyes at the door, saying disingenuously, "Because you, Fatty Brother, are stronger than me, faster than me, okay?"

"Oh, then I should go."

Feeling the weight of responsibility, Feng Wei walked away with his chest puffed up and his strides large.

Inside the room, Liu Jianjun flipped open his work notebook, wrote down a date and then looked towards Lin Nianhe: "Comrade Lin Nianhe, could you please go into detail about how you escaped from the scrapyard yesterday?"

"There were firecrackers thrown into the scrapyard," said Lin Nianhe, "I took the opportunity to run."

"They didn’t tie you up?"

"They did, but I had a dagger on me."

"Why did you have a dagger on you?"

"Brother Yuncheng gave it to me for self-defense... is it illegal?"

"It’s not illegal."

"Oh, it’s not illegal."

Lin Nianhe’s eyes darkened slightly, yet the corners of her mouth slowly lifted.

She hadn’t misjudged—this person had come to find fault.

"There’s a dog in the scrapyard compound, did it not chase you?" Liu Jianjun stared into Lin Nianhe’s eyes as he asked.

"It did chase me, but it didn’t catch me."

"Are you familiar with the scrapyard?"

"Not familiar, it was my first time there."

"How did you plan your escape route?"

"No plan, I just picked a direction and ran."

"So, you just happened to guess right?"

"No, there was a wall."

"Then what?"

"I climbed over it."

"The lowest part of the scrapyard’s wall is also two meters high, could you climb over it?"

"How about you take me to the scene, and I’ll demonstrate for you?" Lin Nianhe’s lips curled into a smile, yet her gaze was somewhat cold, "Comrade, I’m still sick, quite tired, so just directly ask what you want to ask."

Liu Jianjun watched her in silence for a moment, then nodded: "Alright."

He paused, then summarized: "Because someone happened to throw firecrackers into the scrapyard, you took this opportunity to outrun the dog, climbed over a wall more than two meters high, and then, despite there being people intercepting on the other side of the wall, you left unharmed. Later, under the circumstance that the town was filled with their watchers, you, alone, managed to get to Zhou Chen’s house."

Liu Jianjun finished speaking, with a touch of mockery in his eyes: "Is that so?"

Hearing this, even Lin Nianhe herself felt that the escape process was so smooth it was as if the kidnappers had opened a back door for her.

Lin Nianhe steadied herself and countered: "Who said I’m unhurt?"

Liu Jianjun replied: "I’ve asked the doctor."

Lin Nianhe pointed to the tip of her nose: "Then why am I here? Is a fever not an illness?"

Liu Jianjun said, "I’m referring to trauma, human-caused trauma."

"Oh, there was indeed none of that," Lin Nianhe said. "Maybe it’s because I have a ’touch me and I’ll die just to show you’ delicate appearance, they planned to exchange me for a person, naturally afraid that something would happen to me."

Liu Jianjun’s breath hitched.

He looked at Lin Nianhe with scrutinizing eyes for a while, and had to admit, she was right.

The hospital room fell into brief silence.

Liu Jianjun suddenly asked, "The day you encountered Qian Guozhu and the others fighting, was that also a coincidence?"

"Of course not," Lin Nianhe said, then looked at Wang Shumei with an apologetic gaze, "Brother Qian is Sister Shumei’s cousin, it’s only logical for the siblings to meet up when he was passing by Ten Miles Team, right?"

Wang Shumei nodded immediately and said softly, "Indeed, that day I was originally planning to wait for my brother at the village entrance, but the team leader told us to go haul bricks... We dilly-dallied until the afternoon before we had to go. I thought I wouldn’t be able to see my brother, but then we encountered their fight."

Wen Lan was getting a bit confused, she propped her head with one hand, looking at Liu Jianjun with a hint of irritation in her eyes, "Didn’t we already go over this before, why are you asking again?"

Liu Jianjun cleared his throat, "Both of you, stop talking."

This was a common interrogation tactic he used, shifting the topic suddenly to elicit a subconscious response often revealed unexpected surprises.

Yet Lin Nianhe’s answers were watertight.

In this situation, either she was truly innocent and unrelated, or she had repeated these words so many times that she herself believed them.

Wen Lan wanted to argue but was pulled by Wang Shumei.

"Xiao Lan, let’s not disturb the Public Security officer’s work, let’s not talk."

When she said the last three words, her hand unconsciously gripped a little harder.

Wen Lan took it as her truly fearing to disturb Public Security’s work, and with a sullen "hmph", she closed her mouth.

Lin Nianhe secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Wang Shumei truly was a "key lady", always able to speak the right words at the right time, preventing the situation from spiraling out of control.

Liu Jianjun coughed twice and looked at Lin Nianhe, "Do you have anything else to say?"

Lin Nianhe looked innocently at him, "Comrade, it’s you who’s asking me."

Liu Jianjun closed his notebook, looked at her and said, "If that’s the case, then let’s stop here for today. Since Comrade Lin is still ill, you should rest and recuperate here in the clinic."

Lin Nianhe frowned, "What do you mean?"

"Before I can verify the authenticity of your testimony, you cannot be ruled out as a suspect," Liu Jianjun said with an official-looking expression.

He had been observing this young lady for a while.

In this case, her appearance was abrupt, and her departure too smooth.

He couldn’t help but suspect she was in cahoots with those guys, putting on a show for them to see.

Lin Nianhe had already anticipated Liu Jianjun’s conclusion, but she still cooperated and widened her mouth slightly in surprise, then after a moment expressed indignantly, "I want to see Su Yuncheng!"

Liu Jianjun shook his head directly, "He can’t see you, he needs to avoid conflict of interest."

Lin Nianhe clenched the corner of the blanket, appearing somewhat guilty, "On what basis do you suspect me?"

"Well, I’d like to know too, Uncle Liu, on what basis do you suspect her, why are you interfering with my case."

The hospital room door was pushed open, and Su Yuncheng walked in.

He was carrying a net bag with a lunch box and two cans inside.

He glanced at Liu Jianjun indifferently, then walked straight past him to Lin Nianhe’s bedside.

He looked down at her, hesitated for a moment, then raised his hand to gently rub the top of her head.

"Don’t be afraid, I’m here."

"Mhm!"

Lin Nianhe nodded strongly.

Su Yuncheng turned to look at Liu Jianjun, "Your dad is looking for you."

Liu Jianjun was stunned, then frowned, "Don’t use my old man to pressure me, even he can’t..."

"His exact words were, ’if that deflated calf doesn’t come, I will break his legs’."

"..."

"If you don’t want to go, I’ll let someone inform your old man right now."

"...!"