Chapter 44 — Let Me Tell You a Secret — Please Vote With Recommendation Tickets and Add to Your Collection, Summoning, Summoning, Old Fish Thanks You

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After they finished eating, the two girls went upstairs. It was already very late, about eleven o'clock, and with school the next day, they should have been resting early at this hour.

Wei Zhao stood up and walked over to the dining table, a handsome curve crossing the corner of his mouth. Although he had not heard what Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu had said before, he had seen everything clearly that happened after Shen Yushu called him to eat and sat back down at the table.

The two girls had kept their voices very low, but they could never have guessed that Wei Zhao could read lips, so he had caught every word Gu Mengyao said without missing one.

So the young miss was sharp-tongued but soft-hearted after all. Wei Zhao smiled faintly as he cleared away the girls' leftovers, though they could hardly be called leftovers. Neither girl ate much, and hungry or not they could never finish four big boxes of dishes. They had only taken a few bites of the braised chicken, clearly because they were afraid of getting fat.

In truth, to be able to eat what Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu left behind would be heaven-sent luck in the eyes of many boys at No.1 High School. Take Zhong Yongliang for example. He would never get tired of it even if he ate it every day.

Wei Zhao was truly hungry. He swept away all the food on the table like wind rolling up clouds, then let out a very satisfied burp.

Footsteps sounded behind him, and Wei Zhao did not turn around. From the footsteps alone he could tell the person coming was Shen Yushu. The two girls walked a little differently, but Wei Zhao could still tell them apart with perfect accuracy.

"Wow, Arrow Brother, are you a pig? How can you eat so much?" The person was indeed Shen Yushu. She had felt a little thirsty and come down to get a bottle of drink to take upstairs, only to see a table full of completely empty boxes, which gave her quite a fright.

"Hehe." Wei Zhao smiled. "Not bad. But you two are wasteful enough, leaving this much every day."

"Now that we have you, it does not matter, does it?" Shen Yushu said dismissively. Growing up in such wealthy families, it was clearly hard for them to understand the feeling behind 'every grain in the bowl comes from bitter toil'.

Wei Zhao said no more. He understood the difference their backgrounds had created between them, so saying such things would be useless. Shen Yushu and Gu Mengyao would never understand.

"By the way, Arrow Brother, let me tell you a little secret." Shen Yushu took a bottle of black tea from the cooler, then said to Wei Zhao with a mysterious look.

"What secret?" Wei Zhao froze for a moment and looked at Shen Yushu in bewilderment.

"Sister Yaoyao said she never said she disliked you. Next time you can eat with us." Shen Yushu said in a low voice.

"I see. I understand." Wei Zhao nodded. "Thank you. But next time I will still wait until you finish before I eat."

"Why?" Shen Yushu asked, puzzled.

"I am afraid I would eat it all and leave you without enough." Wei Zhao smiled and pointed at the empty boxes on the table.

"Ha!" Shen Yushu burst out laughing at once. "I am going upstairs. You should rest early too." With that, she waved goodbye and ran upstairs.

Wei Zhao watched Shen Yushu's figure disappear into the stairwell and shook his head. This girl gave him a feeling he could not see through. She looked sweet and lovely, but she was actually very shrewd.

Because of the wound on his leg, Wei Zhao did not shower, but wiped himself down with a wet towel before getting into bed. He had not expected to get hurt here. He had not brought any of the herbs from home, so there was no way to make the wound on his leg heal quickly.

Closing his eyes, Wei Zhao began to practice the Xuanyuan Dragon Art. Although every day he hoped for a breakthrough, there was still no progress at all.

Warm sunlight poured freely into the room and shone upon Wei Zhao. He stretched lazily, opened the window, and breathed in the fresh air.

It was another beautiful day, and Wei Zhao looked forward to life with hope. This kind of student life was what he had dreamed of before, and now it had finally come true. He would cherish it well. Who knew on which day the young miss might chase him away.

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In the interrogation room of the criminal police team at the Songshan City Police Bureau, Qiu Lingshan looked helplessly at the motley crowd before her, feeling truly powerless.

A whole night had passed with no progress in the case. Everything they had gotten from questioning was useless stuff.

The drivers of those black Hyundai vans with the fake plate "Song A74110" had all been caught one by one, but all of them were people who knew nothing when questioned.

At first Qiu Lingshan did not believe it, but the later investigation into these men's backgrounds left her deeply disappointed. They were either laid-off drivers or bus drivers on leave.

Driving cars with the plate "Song A74110" was entirely work they had been hired to do. Someone had paid each of them five hundred yuan to drive to a designated place at a designated time.

Before these men could even drive to the designated places, they were caught by the police. At first they even thought the men arresting them were traffic police, because their vehicles had no legal papers. They had only accepted the job because five hundred yuan seemed like a high price.

Only when they learned it was connected to a bank robbery did they realize they had been cheated and used by criminals. These men could only be sent to the traffic police to be dealt with for ordinary traffic violations, and Qiu Lingshan could hardly vent her anger on them.

A night of exhaustion had gone to waste, and Qiu Lingshan was in a very gloomy mood. After all, this was the first time she had taken the lead to crack a case on her own, and the pressure was easy to imagine.

"Captain Song, should we step up the search?" Liu Wangli, captain of the first squad under her, asked.

They had already searched all night without finding any trace of the robbers. If they kept up such a search after dawn, it would surely interfere with normal life in society, so Qiu Lingshan hesitated as well.

Once the search was intensified, it would in effect mean setting up checkpoints on major traffic routes to check passing vehicles and the people inside them.

"I will ask Captain Yang for instructions." Left with no choice in the end, Qiu Lingshan dialed Yang Huaijun's number to ask him what should be done in a situation like this.

At times Qiu Lingshan felt she was truly incompetent. Yang Huaijun, also a captain transferred from the army, had insight a hundred times sharper than hers. No matter what case fell into his hands, it could not escape his careful analysis and reasoning, and the truth would soon come to light.

But as for herself... Qiu Lingshan felt she still had far too much to learn. This post of deputy captain... Well, Wei Zhao was right. It really did look like she had gotten it through connections.

Although Qiu Lingshan knew that by her military rank before demobilization she fully deserved the post, her ability was still a notch below.

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