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The Bank Burglary Case (9) Chapter 9 Yun Song slept until the afternoon. When she woke up in a daze, a group of children happened to be having a physical education class on the playground outside the school dormitory. She woke to the rhythmic "one, two, three, four" of the children's drills. Upon waking, her clothes were almost entirely soaked with sweat. Her neck and forehead were covered in perspiration. The sunlight was still struggling to force its way into the room. Yun Song stood up to…- 162.8 K • Completed
- The Bank Burglary Case (8) Chapter 8 This house had been built by the old couple when they were young. It started as a simple thatched hut, but through years of constant repairs and additions, it had evolved into a house with earthen walls. Only the two of them had ever lived here. When relatives visited, they were never invited inside. The couple guarded this old house, slowly growing old within its walls. At first, their relatives had been understanding, knowing they had lost their children…
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- The Bank Burglary Case (7) Chapter 7 People always tend to anticipate what might happen next. Take Yun Song for example. Before coming here, she had imagined this would be a simple story of rescuing a poor old lady who had been imprisoned. She had been worried about how two elderly people could survive forty-something days in a cellar-like place, especially since the couple only provided one meal per day at night. Surely, both the physical and mental health of the elderly must have suffered…
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- The Bank Burglary Case (6) Chapter 6 When Yun Song heard the couple mention that they went to the mountains every night and that they might have clues related to the bank burglary case, she roughly guessed that the couple might have encountered another group of criminals while committing their own crimes, either on their way to or from their activities. These would be the bank robbers. In the inner room, three children and the elderly were sleeping. Meanwhile, in the living room, the three…
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- The Bank Burglary Case (5) Chapter 5 How could people let their lives turn out like this? In the cellar, the Old Lady was freezing. They lived in the mountains, where it was naturally cold in the mornings and evenings, and the cellar only made it worse, being both pitch-black and frigid. Old Lady nudged the old man beside her. "Old man, are you cold? I feel like today is even colder than yesterday." She was getting on in years, and for the past few years, whenever the cold set in, her…
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- The Bank Burglary Case (4) Chapter 4 October in Tonglin Town was sweltering. Yun Song had traveled to the hometowns of the two workers - one in Sanli Village about twenty kilometers away, and the other in neighboring Yulan Town. By the end of the day, she was so exhausted her throat felt like it was smoking. Neither worker had returned to their hometowns. On her way back, she kept wondering: if these two men really were the ones who stole the bank's money, where would they go now? Clues…
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- The Bank Burglary Case (3) Chapter 3 The seventh grade students were always the best informed. The class had originally been using Xiao Mei's situation as gossip material, but now they had "the bank was robbed" and "police from the city are here" to talk about. The news about Xiao Mei became a thing of the past. The students in the class were now more familiar with these few police officers than they were with Xiao Mei. Xiao Mei was a sharp child, and she immediately caught onto this shift…
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- The Bank Burglary Case (2) Chapter 2 Xiao Mei's mother really couldn't understand how a child who had been so well-behaved since she was little could change so much after just one month of studying in town. First, she had been expelled from school for no apparent reason. When asked why, she stubbornly refused to say a word. And now, she wanted to run away from home. It was three in the morning. The sun hadn't even risen, and neither parent could sleep. They didn't hit the child again,…
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