Chew Slowly Chapter 23

Chapter 23 Chapter 23

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The Beiguan Town Police Station starts work at eight o’clock in the morning. Normally, no one comes through the door. The unusual one is Kang Heying.He always enters the office at the exact moment and every second.

He bought some xiaolongbao this morning and was in a very good mood until he saw Chen Zongqian in the office.The little policeman sat solemnly, and Chen Zongqian sat upright. Kang Heying looked at the two of them and was speechless. She said to them respectively: “Troublemaker, debt collector.”

“Is something wrong?” After cursing, Kang Heying took the initiative to share the steamed dumplings. When she noticed that Chen Zongqian’s eyes were wrong, she took the food bag back and had a bad feeling.

Chen Zongqian took out the appraisal report issued by Cining Hospital, turned to the appraisal page and said, “I found Xiao Ran.”

“Huh? Isn’t that a good thing?” Kang Heying looked at the words carefully. Why did Chen Zongqian have such a ghost expression?He knocked on the table, “Is this the wrong person?”

“It’s Xu Qiaochuan.” Chen Zongqian sighed slightly.

Kang Heying is a household registration police officer. The thing he sees most every day is people’s names. At first glance, they sound familiar, but he cannot immediately contact the specific person.Chen Zongqian continued: “He is Xu Jian’s son now, the one who asked you to investigate some time ago.”

“How did your brother get to his house?” Kang Heying thought of the disappearance case that was hastily settled. It was wrong, everything was wrong.What Lu Xiaoyun brought back was not her child at all, but Xiaoran.

This was a major mistake in the investigation process and had a very bad impact, causing great trouble.Kang Heying had a headache and checked the files from that year. There was very little information in them. Finally, Lu Xiaoyun signed and agreed to close the case.There is nothing wrong with everything, but the result is wrong.

“I’m going to do a forensic appraisal.” Kang Heying rubbed his eyebrows.The results of the appraisal report in Chen Zongqian’s hand are for personal reference only and are not applicable to judicial procedures. Forensic appraisal requires the presence of both parties. Does Xu Qiaochuan know this?

Kang Heying expected that Chen Zongqian didn’t say anything, and the answer was as he expected.The lawyer is very thoughtful and naturally has many considerations.He thought it was due to consideration, but Chen Zongqian felt that he was hesitant.

“I’ll go back and ask the people back then. You have to tell them as soon as possible… that you need to go through the procedures.” Kang Heying sighed, subconsciously touching the cigarette case in his pocket and finding it empty. “More than ten years have passed, and Lu Xiaoyun is no longer here, so it’s hard to check.”

Xinhe District is far away from the villages under Beiguan Town. Chen Zongqian wants to know who and how Xiaoran was brought there. How did Lu Xiaoyun come into contact with Xiaoran? Where is her own child?

The matter cannot be kept secret for too long. Chen Zongqian just wants to find out the truth as soon as possible, and then use the safest way to reduce the harm to Xu Qiaochuan.

“I’ll check with Lu Xiaoyun’s family first, and I’ll let you know the results… By the way, what about Xu Jian’s side?”

Chen Zongqian made a special trip to Beiguan Town, not only to trace the past events.He received a call from Xu Jian a few days ago. Whether it was because of drinking or winning money, Xu Jian was particularly excited and said noisily that he had found a way to kill Xu Qiaochuan.

“He is a liar. I want him to pay back my money and put him in jail.” After Xu Jian finished speaking, he burst into laughter. No matter how much Chen Zongqian asked, he would not give details.Worried that something might happen, Chen Zongqian decided to meet Xu Jian today.

Xu Jian works in an auto repair shop. This is a job he got for the sake of his relatives. Otherwise, how could he stay with his alcoholic and gambling temperament?

Chen Zongqian’s car was very eye-catching. When Xu Jian saw it, he rushed out of the store and leaned against his car window and shouted, “You’re here, let’s wash the car.”

The people in the car shook their heads. Xu Jian didn’t get the business, so he secretly kicked the tires.

When Chen Zongqian waited, Xu Jian immediately stopped working, threw away the tools and went out.They sat down at an open-air food stall. There were few customers here in the afternoon, but it became really lively in the evening.

Although Chen Zongqian doesn’t come to places like this very often, he can cope with the environment naturally.He sat on a plastic stool, not touching anything at hand, and asked Xu Jian what he wanted to do.

“I’m going to sue him!” Mentioning that man Xu Jian will make him feel infinitely indignant. “He’s not my biological child, he’s a bastard who doesn’t know how to live with a bitch…”

Xu Jian’s face turned red quickly after drinking liquor, making him look ugly.He took something out of his breast pocket, dipped his fingers in wine and twisted it. It was a piece of paper folded into a square.Thinking that this piece of paper was worth eight hundred yuan, Xu Jian became even more angry: “I went to check it as you asked.”

The report showed that Xu Jian and Xu Qiaochuan were not related by blood. Chen Zongqian glanced at the words on the paper. He no longer cared about the result, he just wanted to know how Xu Jian checked.

Xu Qiaochuan had blocked Xu Jian’s number long ago and did not tell anyone which factory he signed up for after graduation.He thought he could get rid of Xu Jian in this way, but he never expected that that person would bring his household registration book to the school and force him to find out the specific whereabouts of Xu Qiaochuan.

Xin’an Hardware was no better than Lu Xiaoyun’s place. Xu Jian couldn’t get in easily. He walked around for several days before finally catching Xu Qiaochuan.

They pulled a few tufts of hair from his head and finally beat him severely. When Xu Jian came back, he thought that he dared to threaten him with harsh words, and thought that the attack was too gentle. He was completely upset.

“So his injuries that day were all because of you?” Chen Zongqian’s voice was surprisingly calm, even though his heart was filled with anger, “Do you know that intentional injury is illegal? He…”

The voice suddenly paused.

Xu Jian didn’t care and spat on the ground: “How dare he call the police? He owes me, they owe me.”

The resentment accumulated over the years has become extremely terrifying in Xu Jian’s heart, and the appraisal report is just another addition.

He and Lu Xiaoyun once worked outside. Although they were in the same factory, their schedules were inconsistent because they worked day and night.Working on the assembly line, people are like machines. Xu Jian is tired every day and has no intention of looking after her, so he doesn’t know that Lu Xiaoyun is very close to the workshop supervisor.By the time he came to his senses, the gossip had automatically labeled him a cuckold.

He questioned Lu Xiaoyun, but he forgot what the woman argued and only remembered that Lu Xiaoyun told him to get lost.Things got ugly. Lu Xiaoyun happened to be pregnant at that time, so she quit her job and went home to have a baby, which she raised for a year before she came back.

Xu Jian always thinks of those rumors, and there is no conclusion as to whether they are true or false.Later, he was relieved and thought it was some kind of malicious teasing. After all, Lu Xiaoyun had the best face, so how could she do such a shameful thing?He thought he was relieved, but little did he know that this incident had turned into a sharp thorn buried in his flesh, torturing him to this day.

Every time he saw that woman and child, Xu Jian would think of countless sarcastic faces, making him hate them even more and scold them repeatedly.The information density of his words was extremely low. It took Chen Zongqian a long time to get the general idea, and he could barely guess where his hatred came from.

Alcohol and tobacco numbed his cognition, and Xu Jian did not realize that he would use violence in a state of madness.He would repeatedly ask Lu Xiaoyun if she had any?Yes or no?But none of the answers satisfied him.The woman hit the wall until her face was covered in blood, screaming for Xu Qiaochuan to hide, but in such a big house, where could he hide?

“All my money was spent on that bastard, and I’ll never make it back again. Damn it.” The white wine burned his stomach, and Xu Jian turned all this discomfort into unpleasant swear words.

Chen Zongqian felt that he didn’t even care who Xu Qiaochuan was: “How much did it cost you?”

“Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands? Even after spending so much, it can’t be cured…” Xu Jian laughed crazily, his eyes full of resentment, “Let him die, who made him born with a low life!”

Chen Zongqian felt nervous and followed his words and asked what kind of disease it was.

“The health center couldn’t save the burn, so he was transferred to a hospital in the town or city…it was only enough to save his life, and there was no money for skin grafting.” Xu Jian burped, and the odor of alcohol in his stomach made him want to vomit.At that time, Lu Xiaoyun was crying and scolding him. How could she just watch her son die?

He really couldn’t watch Xu Qiaochuan die, but the more he watched, the more painful he became.The child grew up slowly, but looked nothing like him. Xu Jian had no idea who he had raised and where his money had been spent.