Chapter 73 - 73 73 Daughter-in-law Comes to Visit

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73: Chapter 73 Daughter-in-law Comes to Visit 73: Chapter 73 Daughter-in-law Comes to Visit In the chairman’s office, Lin Xiaosu and Chang Ye leaned against the window, looking at the crowd below. Lin Xiaosu smiled slightly: “Today, Chief Zhang is quite the spectacle, using your reputation as a tiger’s skin, completely disregarding the status of the deputy county chief.” “If it weren’t for this green ledger of yours, even if he used all of Qianlong as his tiger’s skin, it would be useless!” Chang Ye said, “I still don’t understand, how did you find out there was a secret compartment in this safe?” Indeed, the way Lin Xiaosu opened the safe had overturned her expectations. At the time, they asked the secretary to open the safe, and she cooperated fully, revealing some cash and high-end jade inside. However, Lin Xiaosu closed the safe door again, entered a different set of passwords, and once reopened, a different scene appeared – there was a green ledger inside. A single safe, different passwords, different spaces opened—would you have thought of that? And Lin Xiaosu did just think of it! Of course, Lin Xiaosu couldn’t tell her that he had traveled back in time and seen Du Lifeng use this method once, he could only be pretentious... “So it seems, I’m a natural-born detective!” Chang Ye’s eyes twinkled: “So, genius detective, what did you find?” Lin Xiaosu replied, “Two discoveries, both quite interesting... First, the Changsheng Group’s collaboration with Dell Company shows no record in the ledgers, neither in the regular ledgers nor in this secret ledger.” “You analyzed this issue before, you only saw Du Lifeng meeting with representatives from Changsheng Group, which doesn’t prove they’ve actually reached a substantive deal.” “Yes! That’s also possible!” Lin Xiaosu said, “The second point is, Du Lifeng has changed his secretary.” “Changed secretaries?” “Yes, the last time I met secretary Little Juan, she was beautiful, well-proportioned, and well-mannered, perfect for both personal and professional engagements, so why replace her?” Chang Ye looked at him with a sour expression: “Perfect for hosting? Has she hosted you?” The door outside opened, and Zhou Mei came in: “Sister Chang, there’s a discovery!” The three inside the room went out together to a workshop, where the floor of the workshop was lifted to reveal another workshop below. The workshop was small but exceptionally tidy, and on the shelves, there were finished pharmaceuticals. Chang Ye lightly touched her finger to some powder, then to her tongue, her expression slightly changed: “P39!” Zhou Mei was greatly shocked. On the other side, the yellow powder, Chang Ye also tested: “The antidote for P39!” Now, the circle is complete! Dell Company is indeed the mastermind behind the Wang Changfa case. Their motive matches exactly what Lin Xiaosu had deduced. Just needing this conclusive evidence, Dell Company would be finished, as Lin Xiaosu and Chang Ye were leaving the factory in Zhou Mei’s car, seals had already been placed on various workshops... “Sister Chang, where to?” Zhou Mei asked. “Just find any shopping mall,” Chang Ye replied. Lin Xiaosu stretched lazily: “Now is also the time to do some shopping, eat something good, my life, always hustling around, I really don’t know what I’m chasing...” “You’re still complaining!” Zhou Mei gave him a sideways glance: “What were you busy with? Just came up with an idea, then sat there cup after cup of tea, while you stole leisure, I was busy, and when you finished, I got even busier! With this mess from Dell Company, I don’t know how long I’ll be busy.” “You have achievements from being busy, your police star is about to shine, right?” “Enough of that, Chief Zhang decoys me, and you do too, the police star twinkles, the police star twinkles... Hey, Sister Chang, can you give me a precise answer, when will my police star shine?” Zhou Mei was familiar enough with Chang Ye to joke around. “Very soon!” Chang Ye responded with a smile. Zhou Mei felt like she had been injected with a strong dose of chicken blood, becoming spirited all at once. Lin Xiaosu looked at her: “Fast and slow are relative, compared to a lifetime of lengthy career, three to five years is fast, relative to a tree taking a thousand years to mature, thirty years is but a flash...” “Get lost!” Zhou Mei unapologetically interrupted on the spot. Today, in front of Fengcheng’s commercial trade building, Zhou Mei dropped off Lin Xiaosu and Chang Ye, her car didn’t stop running as she returned back to the Criminal Investigation Team—indeed, as she said, with the Dell Company case breaking, she was in pain and pleasure. Pleased, because behind this significant case, there was her contribution — directly engaging in the first confrontation with Du Lifeng counts as merit, moreover, the merits made by Lin Xiaosu seemed naturally credited to her name, not only her felt this way, but the Criminal Investigation Team did too. Why is there such a confusing method of calculation? It probably originates from a starting point; Lin Xiaosu’s cooperation with the police, Zhou Mei was the initial facilitator. Where did the pain lie? To summarize in a phrase: The following time would involve an upside-down work schedule, mountainous paperwork for case files—an ordeal known by those who have endured it, definitely not an easy task... Lin Xiaosu, however, was much more relaxed. With the case solved, his part was done. Chang Ye, too, seemed to let go of everything, plunging into shopping. When she came out, Lin Xiaosu was surprised. Two big bags, one filled with various edibles and another with clothes, outerwear, underwear, autumn apparel, and even a down jacket. “What are you doing?” Lin Xiaosu took the bag filled with various edibles, puzzled. “Don’t sneak a bite, this isn’t bought for you.” “Then who is it for?” “Your mom!” Lin Xiaosu from Heavenly Tao Wisdom Eye pierced through the plastic bag, staring at the various clothes inside, and indeed, they were what a middle-aged woman would wear: “Are you planning to visit my mom?” Chang Ye rolled her eyes at him: “Yeah, didn’t she hear rumors that I’m ready to elope with some rich guy at any moment? I’ll show her with my actions that my character isn’t that bad, and I haven’t run off.” Lin Xiaosu scratched his head lightly, “That excuse at the time was just a benevolent lie to stop her from nagging me to take civil service exams. Now she has almost forgotten about little Ye’s existence, aren’t you just provoking her most sensitive nerve?” “You really think she’s forgotten? Then you are underestimating the determination of rural old ladies in finding daughters-in-law. If I don’t go and reassure her, believe it or not, she’ll show up at the Detective Agency tomorrow, continuing to nag you about civil service exams. You wouldn’t want problems in the backyard just as our agency is starting to do well, would you?” Lin Xiaosu pondered for a while before tentatively accepting her plan: “Even if you want to reassure her, there’s no need to spend so much money.” Chang Ye said, “Don’t worry, it’s just over two thousand, and grandma gave me a red envelope that is one in ten thousand, I net eight thousand...” “Wishful thinking...” Each carrying a large bag, they hailed a taxi and headed straight for Old Tashan Village. Old Tashan Village, behind the county town, life there is worlds apart from that of the county town. The county town is bustling and constantly changing. Old Tashan Village witnesses sunrise to sunset routine, with hundreds of market stalls, three mountain tops, where buffaloes roam freely on the slopes, and roosters strut proudly within the courtyards. Lin Mu was planting vegetables in the field, with the black soil turning under her feet, her heart also churned like waves. In the past, preference was for boys over girls, everyone tried various means to have sons. It seems the bitter fruits of that era are now being solidly realized by the new generation. When it’s time for children to marry, having sons versus daughters is worlds apart. For families with only daughters, life is easy; no worries about housing or jobs for daughters, just peacefully await the son-in-law’s dutifulness. Take Old Liu from the swamp below, he spent half his life feeling inept with three daughters but now? During festivals, his daughters and sons-in-law come with loads of gifts, making everyone else in the village green with envy. Less cushy than that, are families with one son and one daughter—it’s a different lifestyle; rural parents without much means, whatever the daughter-in-law wants, the daughter asks from her husband, aiming for a balance of income and expenses. The real tough luck falls on families with only a son. There’s no balance of income and expenses, parents have to cut their coats according to their cloth. Even tougher are the families with two sons... The Lin Family was unfortunate to have two sons, so Lin Xiaosu’s dad still works outside, and Lin Xiaosu’s mom still labors in the fields... Even more pitiful is that no matter how hard the old couple works, facing exorbitant dowries and the overt and covert expenses of marriage, it’s all but a drop in the bucket... Only one situation is exceptional, that’s if the son himself excels. In Lin Mu’s heart, the elder son is commendable. He got into a military academy, joined the army, and a stable job awaits him after his service. But this younger son, he’s just too unconventional, gave up civil service exams all of a sudden, and started a Detective Agency in Fengcheng. The old lady once inquired while selling vegetables what this Detective Agency does? Someone said, it’s about finding cats and dogs for people, and sometimes eavesdropping under people’s walls to listen to marital disputes, tsk tsk... what decent family would do such things... This set of opinions with a dismissive tone chilled her heart by half. She wanted to go to the Detective Agency there and then to discuss with her son the topic of “ancestral dignity”. But she held back. Why? Because the Detective Agency was a joint venture between her son and his future daughter-in-law... Scolding her son was one thing, but annoying the daughter-in-law and if she eloped with some rich man, what then? Wouldn’t that be a disaster on both ends? Pfft! Perhaps because her mind was filled with various thoughts, her accuracy slipped, and with one hoe down, she accidently chopped off half of the newly grown nori seedlings, Lin Mu felt so distressed, she dropped the hoe, gathered the soil, trying to salvage what she could. Suddenly, a voice came from outside: “Mom!” Lin Mu’s heart jumped, and she looked up sharply. Standing at the head of the field was indeed her son, Lin Xiaosu, who hadn’t been home in a month. A whole month, and he had finally returned. “You rascal, still know to come back...” Before Lin Mu could finish her sentence, she suddenly stopped speaking, stared in surprise behind the big tree coming around was a pretty girl, Chang Ye, gently smiling. “Little Ye came to see you,” said Lin Xiaosu. “Ah... you... you could have called first!” Lin Mu’s face turned from cloudy to clear skies: “Mom’s heading home now!” “Auntie, let me help you with that!” Chang Ye jumped into the field, grabbing the picked vegetables. Lin Mu quickly stopped her: “Little Ye, don’t get your clothes dirty, let me do it.” “No worries, I like doing some farm work...” When Lin Mu first met Lin Xiaosu, she was internally furious, wondering why she gave birth to such a rascal, but now, as Lin Xiaosu carried a hoe and Chang Ye carried vegetables following her home, she looked around, her heart thinking: look everyone, I too have a daughter-in-law, and such a good one at that...

Chapter 73 - 73 73 Daughter-in-law Comes to Visit

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