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The Bank Burglary Case (18) Chapter 18 Xiao Mei counted again and again, finally confirming the total: 189 bills. 189 bills meant 18,900 yuan. It was truly a fortune. Her family had once borrowed 200 yuan from her maternal aunt, which had caused her aunt to be treated with cold disdain by her in-laws. Xiao Mei stroked the stack of cash gleefully and, with a sudden burst of generosity, pulled out three hundred-yuan bills! She would pay back three... no, four bills to her aunt. When the…- 162.9 K • Completed
- The Bank Burglary Case (17) Chapter 17 The location of Yun Song and the others was quite peculiar. It and the surrounding mountains formed the shape of a ladle. The area where the villagers lived was the depression of the ladle, so leaving the residential area in any direction meant walking uphill. Mei Qiang did not lead the group toward the caves in the south. Instead, he headed in the opposite direction. His logic was simple. He planned to lead them in circles around the mountain, believing…
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- Chapter 277 – Safety Guidelines Section Chief Wang quickly disassembled part of the machine and immediately discovered the issue—one of the components had been severely worn down, which was why it had been making abnormal noises. “Director Fang, get Engineer Tan to machine this part,” he instructed. Upon hearing this, Director Fang quickly went to find Engineer Tan so as not to delay production. Engineer Tan was one of the few Level 8 fitters in the rice cooker factory. Level 8 workers were…
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- The Bank Burglary Case (16) Chapter 16 That police officer still hadn't left. She had arrived yesterday, and he had originally thought she would be gone by this morning. When Xiao Mei's Second Grandpa, Mei Qiang, returned, not only had the officer not left, but she was in their courtyard talking to his wife. Wang Jiawang hadn't been found, and there was still a corpse in town. Why wouldn't she just leave! Had she discovered something? Could his wife have said something? He watched from…
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- The Bank Burglary Case (15) Chapter 15 Yun Song should have returned to town. There was a body there, along with the young Liao couple. Yun Song's original plan had been to visit the village herself to scout the situation. A forensic doctor was supposed to come from the city, and she would definitely have headed back by then. But now, she had found a lead and couldn't easily leave. Meanwhile, back in town, once the forensic doctor arrived, the news would spread with the speed of local gossip.…
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- The Bank Burglary Case (14) Chapter 14 Yun Song did not sleep well during the latter half of the night. While awake, she kept thinking about the case, and by the time she finally managed to drift off for a short while, dawn had already arrived. After eating breakfast at the Village Party Secretary's house, she headed over to the home of Mei Yue's Second Grandpa. "Ma'am, is Mei Qiang at home?" Mei Qiang was Second Grandpa's formal name. In the courtyard, a woman was holding a wooden stick,…
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- The Bank Burglary Case (13) Chapter 13 Ning Xiangxiu had learned what Yun Song wanted to know, but night was falling, and there was so much to say about Wang Jiawang that it couldn't be finished in a short time. Besides, the two didn't dare say too much on the hillside. After all, if she only spoke to others for ten minutes but couldn't stop talking once she was with Ning Xiangxiu, it would be far too obvious. Thus, Ning Xiangxiu whispered, "Let's talk tonight. Where are you staying?" "I'm…
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- The Bank Burglary Case (12) Chapter 12 The suspect Yun Song was looking for belonged to the second group of Sanli Village. Sanli Village was divided into six groups in total. Because the village was nestled deep within the mountains, each group had its own cluster of homes, and while the groups didn't know much about one another, things were different within a group. The members knew each other intimately; if a family slaughtered a chicken or ate a piece of meat, everyone would know about it. Life…
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- The Bank Burglary Case (11) Chapter 11 The family was even a bit tempted to go up the hill and see exactly who it was. Without clearing the matter up, their curiosity felt like a cat clawing at their hearts. Tonglin Town was poor, and usually, an entire extended family lived close together to look after one another. Consequently, all the adults and elders of the Li Family showed up. Most likely, no one could resist a sentence like this upon waking up: "A corpse was found over by our pigpen…
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- The Bank Burglary Case (10) Chapter 10 The corpse was somewhat bloated from the water, but through the clothes, build, and height, Yun Song could identify who it was. This person was one of the two missing workers she had been investigating earlier. The man's name was Tian Gui, a forty-year-old native of neighboring Yulan Town. Over a decade ago, he had married a woman from his own town. He had a foul temper in his youth and enjoyed beating his wife after drinking; unable to endure it, she…
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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…
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- 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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- The Bank Burglary Case (1) Chapter 1 October 15, 2001, Tonglin Town, Pingcheng. Over the past two days, two things happened in Tonglin Town. First, the town's bank was burglarized. Second, a young girl named Mei Yue dropped out of school. For the people of Tonglin Town, everyone was discussing the former, while the latter was a trivial matter that went unnoticed. However, for thirteen-year-old Mei Yue, being forced out of school was a monumental disaster. She was a girl from Sanli…
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- Chapter 119: Intersection Liang Jian finally tore open a corner of his career's starting point. Qin Qing was pleased to see his success and felt gratified that she could help. Leaning back in her chair, she gently tapped her fingertips on the table. Looking at the young man before her, she recalled the evaluation given by the fortune-telling system—"a catalyst for industry transformation." That fortune-telling session had earned her quite a few Experience Points. Now, the talents and skills…
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