Abyss of ignorance

Lin Xiaodong sat in the patrol car, bored and watching the people coming and going outside.

"Captain Lin, I heard that you are very familiar with Bureau Zhong?" The policeman on the side asked for information with a playful smile, "Can you help tell Bureau Zhong later? When the city bureau is short of people, I will be happy to help."

Lin Xiaodong looked out of the car and said indifferently: "Just call me Xiaodong, I am no longer the captain. Director Zhong and I have a superior-subordinate relationship, and we are not familiar with each other. Where we work is not work."

The policeman around him was asking for trouble and got out of the car angrily to buy cigarettes, leaving Lin Xiaodong alone in the car, staring at Yunzhixiang not far away.

Now the area is managed in a grid, and each policeman is responsible for one area. Yunzhixiang has a large flow of people and is the most difficult place to manage in the Yunli area. After Lin Xiaodong arrived at the police station, he volunteered to be responsible for this area, and the station readily approved it. .

However, since arriving, there has been no movement here.

Shen Pan has been staying in the room since that late-night mission, and continues to refuse everyone's visits on the grounds of poor health.

Lin Xiaodong was cracking melon seeds and watching the people coming in and out of the Rosa Hotel. He was not in a hurry. If he could keep tabs on until July 7 without anything happening, it would be a good thing for everyone.

But that's the case with many things. When you don't expect it, everything goes well. Once you look forward to it, surprises happen.

Just when Lin Xiaodong began to think that this would be another day spent in boredom, in the square in front of the Rosa Hotel, a person appeared beside the highly designed water method.

Lin Xiaodong immediately noticed this person, first because of his state. People in this square, whether they were in a hurry or strolling, had their own destinations and walked in the direction they wanted to go.

There was only this man, wandering in the square as if sleepwalking. When he turned around, Lin Xiaodong threw away the melon seeds in his hand.

This person was Lu Yin, and he actually appeared at the door of the Rosa Hotel at such an unexpected time.

Lin Xiaodong didn't have time to think too much, he immediately got out of the car and rushed in front of Lu Yin.

"Lu Yin!" Lin Xiaodong shouted at him.

Lu Yin turned around and looked at Lin Xiaodong. The two stood across the water method, their eyes facing each other.

It was a strange meeting.

This was the first time Lin Xiaodong and Lu Yin met, but they recognized each other by chance.

They have appeared in each other's plans too many times.

"Lin Xiaodong?" Lu Yin looked at the man in police uniform, his face still looked like he was just waking up from a dream.

Lin Xiaodong bypassed Dashuifa and ran towards Lu Yin. At the same time, several men in suits and ties also came out of the Rosa Hotel, standing between Lin Xiaodong and Lu Yin.

"I am a police officer from Yunli Police Station. This is the missing person we are looking for. I need to take him back to cooperate with the investigation." Lin Xiaodong said to the burly men standing in a wall of expressionless faces.However, these people seemed to be deaf and had no intention of getting out of the way.

Lin Xiaodong had too many questions to ask Lu Yin, how could he let him go so easily, but these people did not give him any face as a policeman. No matter how hard he squeezed in, he was pushed out, and he could only watch Lu Yin being brought in. Hotel Rosa.

In desperation, he immediately dialed Yue Jianfeng's phone: "Jianfeng, Lu Yin showed up and entered the Rosa Hotel."

However, he waited at the door for a long time, and the police car from Linzhou Public Security Bureau still did not arrive. His cell phone rang, and it was Yue Jianfeng's call.

"Jianfeng, are you on the way?" Lin Xiaodong asked anxiously.

However, Yue Jianfeng's frustrated voice came from the other side: "Captain Lin, we can't come over."

"Ah? Why? Isn't this a case supervised by the province? Lu Yin shows up, we need to ask him who the kidnapper is?!" Lin Xiaodong became anxious upon hearing this.

"That's what the province means. And just after you made the call, people from Shenlu came to ask for the case to be withdrawn. They said that Lu Yin was back and there was no need to investigate." Yue Jianfeng said, "Captain Lin, you know, if the case is withdrawn, , we cannot abuse police power."

"Ha, abuse of police power..." Lin Xiaodong took off his police hat and scratched his already messy hair irritably, "It seems that Shen Pan meant... This is not a good thing. If she doesn't want us to find out about the kidnapping of Lu A hidden person will use illegal means, I don’t believe she just let this matter go."

"Captain Lin, I've thought of this too, but our work must be done legally and compliantly. This is what Director Chen has always taught us," Yue Jianfeng said.

Of course Lin Xiaodong knew. He looked up at the presidential suite. The curtains were tightly drawn, and no one knew what was going on inside.

The door to the presidential suite opened, and as soon as Lu Yin saw the warm lights on in the midsummer, he knew that Paula must be inside.

There was a dress mirror in the entrance hall. He saw a strange man in the mirror, with an unkempt beard and messy hair. The old house in the mountains had no mirrors. He didn't know the sun and the moon, but he, who had always been exquisite, turned out to look so sloppy, which made him even more confused. What seemed strange to him was that his eyes in the mirror no longer had the vain sense of superiority he had before, as if another person was looking at him. "Paula, I'm back." Lu Yin said, just like when he was a child and returned home after sneaking out to play alone, he pretended to be calm. Before seeing Paula, he tentatively called her name, as if to comfort him in advance. She kept her emotions in order to avoid being scolded for her playfulness.No matter what the result was, every time he called out like this, he got no response, but every time he was anxious and looking forward to Paula welcoming him home.

The room was silent. He was used to it. He changed his shoes and walked in. Paula was sitting behind the desk. He hadn't seen her for a while, but she didn't change at all.Lu Yin felt that Paula had not changed since she turned 90, as if she had reached the limit of old age.

Lu Yin tried his best to restrain his guilty conscience and walked cautiously in front of Shen Pan.

He wasn't sure if his betrayal could be hidden from Paula, and he couldn't imagine her being disappointed in him.

The fear of Paula's disappointment was like a curse that had imprisoned him since he was born. Even though he already knew what terrible crimes the great-grandmother in front of him had committed against the Lu family, he still could not overcome this fear.

Shen Pan looked at him expressionlessly. This was not the reaction a person should have when facing the return of a missing relative.

"Paula, I'm back..." Lu Yin repeated it again, but in a completely different tone, as if he was a child who made a mistake.

"Louis, it's okay, I forgive you." Unexpectedly, Shen Pan's vague voice said such a sentence. (End of chapter)