Back at the Zhongshan Police Station, Chen Shu arranged for trainee police officer Xu Lei to go to the inquiry room to write notes for the supermarket manager, while he himself took the woman to the office on the third floor.
The woman was obviously literate. Seeing the words "Deputy Director" hanging beside the office door, she knew that the young policeman in front of her was the leader of the police station.
After entering the office, as soon as she sat down, she told her boss with snot and tears about her years of unfortunate experiences. Her husband was paralyzed, and she was a child who came out of an orphanage. She had no one to rely on at home. It was a complete miracle that she could survive until now.
Because of the girl in the family.
When talking about her children, the mother straightened up her back slightly, took a breath and stopped choking. Her eyes were full of light. The first thing she said was that her children had good grades.
Now her child is a sophomore in high school and will be a senior in the second half of the year. She decided to work hard and work an extra night job, hoping to save some college tuition for her child.
The child is well-behaved and never mentions his difficulties in school. When he gets home from get out of class, he usually rushes to help his mother with cooking and laundry. He comforts his mother with words that after he goes to college, he can also work part-time to support the family.
After hearing this, the woman felt warm to the child's understanding, but also felt ashamed of her own incompetence.
Later, one time when the woman was working, she overheard the chat between the boss's wife and his son, and realized that if this high school student had brought a calculator, his grades would definitely be much better.
After thinking about it again, I had never seen such a thing in my daughter's schoolbag or when doing homework, so I took the time to find the landlady and asked about the price of the calculator and where it was sold.
The landlady knew about her family's situation, so she told the woman the model of calculator suitable for her daughter and the place where it could be sold. In the woman's mind, it was completely incomprehensible that such a gadget would cost several hundred yuan. This was for her whole family.
A month’s worth of food money. After thinking about it, I did something I shouldn’t have done.
Chen Shu lit a cigarette, and under the smoke, told the woman that she might be detained this time, and then he would notify her family members, that is, her husband, and hoped that she could provide her husband's mobile phone number.
The woman who had calmed down burst into tears. She didn't want her husband and daughter to know that she had done such a dirty thing. She knelt on the ground and kowtowed and prayed like she did in the supermarket office.
Chen Shu felt very uncomfortable after hearing this, but his previous reasoning in the supermarket reminded him that this woman might be acting on the occasion, and that the stories about her husband and daughter were all fake, just to avoid legal punishment.
Arranging for Zhu Chaoran to send the woman to the detention room behind the office building, Chen Shu took out the police pass and searched her identity information. Looking at the rental address that popped up, he decided to go and see the woman's home in person.
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At night, 401, Building 4, Maple Leaf Community, Xicheng Road
Chen Shu and Zhu Chaoran knocked on the door, and what came out was a gentle, middle-aged woman wearing white-rimmed glasses and speaking in a very gentle manner.
"Hello, police officer. What can I do?"
Chen Shu looked over the woman's shoulder and glanced inside the room, where he saw a family of four sitting around a round table eating dinner.
"Hello, we are from Zhongshan Police Station. I would like to ask, do you know a person named Lin Xiaomei?"
The woman thought for a while and shook her head: "I don't know."
"Well, excuse me."
Chen Shu nodded and prepared to leave.
Zhu Chaoran on the side suddenly said: "She is a woman whose husband is paralyzed. Please think again, is there such a person?"
At this moment, the woman suddenly showed an expression of realization, pointed downstairs and said: "You must be talking about the woman downstairs. She originally rented my house, but later she couldn't pay the rent, so the landlord evicted her.
Lived in the firewood room downstairs."
Chen Shu glanced at Zhu Chaoran approvingly, and then asked the woman, "What firewood room?"
"It's the row of small houses directly opposite our first floor down the stairs. Oh, this is also a poor family. I heard that my husband fell to paralysis while working, and the boss doesn't know where he went. The whole family
People are now living their lives pointing to that woman. Hey? Comrade police, what on earth did this woman commit?"
Chen Shu waved his hand: "We just came here to register in a rental house."
The two went downstairs, and there was a row of low houses three or four meters across. Except for one room on the west side, the door was open and there was a little light coming out of it. The other houses had their doors closed, and they didn't look like they were inhabited.
The place.
Zhu Chaoran wondered: "Brother Shu, isn't this just a warehouse? There are no windows, how can anyone live here?"
Chen Shu didn't answer and led Zhu Chaoran to the only room with an open door.
After entering the door, there is a room inside. There is a big bed at the end. A man wearing glasses is sitting on the back of the bed reading a book. A girl of sixteen or seventeen years old wearing a uniform from a nearby middle school is sitting at the door.
On the small bench next to it, I was writing my homework on a round table that looked a little older.
The room was small, but there were a lot of things. There were neat piles of cardboard in the east, a few woven bags filled with empty plastic bottles in the west, and a large number of pots and pans in the middle. Chen Shu and others were stunned.
I can't find a place to put my foot down.
The girl raised her head, opened her big eyes, and looked at the policeman in front of her curiously. Except for the landlord who was begging for money, no one had been to her house for a long time.
The man put down his book and asked doubtfully: "Officer, I'm sorry. There's a chaos at home. What's wrong with you?"
Chen Shu smiled and said casually: "It's okay. I'm from the police station. I'm just here to take a look. By the way, are you the only two living in your house?"
Man: "And my wife, the three of us live here. What's wrong, are we not allowed to live here?"
There was only one incandescent lamp on in the room. At this moment, his face looked particularly clean under the light, and his eyes were bright and clear. If he wasn't lying on the bed, you wouldn't have seen anything wrong with him. It was obvious that he was being taken good care of.
Zhu Chaoran stood next to the girl, looked at the practice papers on the table that were full of writing, but had different colors of handwriting, and couldn't help but ask: "Hey, why do you have two kinds of handwriting and colors on this paper?"
The girl blushed, turned her head and remained silent.
The man inside must have heard Zhu Chaoran's question, he laughed, and said ashamedly: "These are all exercise books that the child picked up from outside, and they have been used by others."
Although he was not rich or powerful, Chen Shu, who had never been hungry since he was a child, felt a little unable to stand when he heard these words.
He squatted down and touched the exercise papers on the table and was speechless. Out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly noticed that there was a question paper from the National Middle School Physics Competition in previous years lying on the corner of the table.
Chen Shu knew the importance of this competition. At that time, their whole class was cast a shadow for a whole year by the competitive class next door in the grade examination ranking competition. It was not until the second year that the competitive class was separately ranked by the school that everyone could relax.
Get angry.
Those people are all ruthless people. In addition to struggling to compete in sprint competitions, they can also handle all-round examinations with ease.
He was surprised and said: "Little girl, does your school recommend you to take this exam?"