After playing for a while, the girls here were all overwhelmed by Liu Yuning's skill. They all came over and surrounded Liu Yuning.
"Which class are you from? You're so good!" a girl said with a blush.
"No, we're police officers, just here for an inquiry. Here, I'll give this back to you!"
After Liu Yuning returned the racket, the girls behind her looked at us in surprise. Several boys nearby excitedly said, "Is that girl really a police officer? So beautiful! No way! I want to be a police officer too from now on!"
"You can stop dreaming. With your looks, you want to be a police officer!"
"Why can't I? I swear I'll work hard from today on! Just you watch!"
The boy said resolutely. Everyone thought he was just being impulsive at the time, but they didn't expect that in the near future, this classmate named He Fusheng would indeed become a police officer, and even my disciple.
Of course, that's a story for another time.
Back at the provincial department, we were waiting for news from Xiao Yuanba. From the surveillance footage retrieved from the mansion, He Xin had found two figures leaving. I clearly saw their physical characteristics in the footage; it was indeed the two brothers.
According to the mansion's surveillance, they left around 11 PM on the 26th. This matched the testimony of the mansion's owner. The stuttering man was still at the provincial department and had provided us with a statement.
Although recording it was troublesome, Gao Mingqiang still managed to arrange the sentences smoothly with his fluent writing.
When I received the statement, I carefully read through it.
"Fuming City Provincial Public Security Department, May 29, 2022, 3:00 PM.
Witness: She Jiashu (Mansion Owner)
Testimony: My house was burglarized. Those two scoundrels stole a valuable Terracotta Warrior porcelain from my home.
At first, I wondered why they were holding me, but it was for that thing.
Those two criminals, they're thieves! No! They should be master thieves! Do you know how valuable that thing is? With your police salary, you couldn't afford it in a lifetime!
That's our She family's heirloom!
You must help me get it back!
You must catch those two guys! The Xiao Yuande you mentioned must be that uncle with stubble. I recognize them, they look very similar. The older brother is just a little taller, about one meter eighty-nine. The brother has a scar on his nose, and his nose bridge is quite prominent. Yes, I've already told the sketch artist the specific facial features.
That's all. Fortunately, those two scoundrels didn't kill me. They tied me to the rooftop. I didn't eat or sleep for days and nights. I couldn't sleep at all. It was a storage room, and many rats would come and go near me at night. Fortunately, I was clever, or I wouldn't be able to sit here and talk to you now."
After reading this somewhat unconventional statement, I still gathered a lot of information. She Jiashu said that Xiao Yuande and the other took his family's heirloom?
Was it for this item that they controlled She Jiashu? And how did it relate to the murder of those young models?
"Xiao Yuande, Xiao Yuande, don't really do anything illegal! Otherwise, I won't spare you!"
I said, as if talking to myself, and handed the statement to a nearby police officer. Just then, He Xin came over and said, "Found him, Dad. Xiao Yuanba seems to have returned to school."
As soon as she finished speaking, my phone rang. It was an unknown number, but I remembered that teacher Zhang.
When I answered, a familiar female voice came through, "Are you Officer He? Teacher Xiao is back. Are you coming over now?"
"Okay, thank you! We just found out too."
We left the provincial department, and Liu Yuning and I went to the high school again. In the teacher's office, a male teacher who looked very much like Xiao Yuande knew we were looking for him and calmly walked out of the office.
He led us to the nearby sports field, near a row of poplar trees. The place looked quite quiet. Xiao Yuanba didn't hesitate and quickly said to us, "What's wrong, you two? What brings two police officers to find me?"
"Teacher Xiao, don't you know? Your brother Xiao Yuande is a police officer!" I said first.
"Of course I know that. What's wrong? Is his work not going well?"
"He's been having some trouble lately, and you were there, don't you know? I don't have to say it myself!"
I gave Xiao Yuanba plenty of opportunities, but he acted as if he knew nothing, "I haven't been there. I've been in my hometown recently!"
"Oh? It seems you won't shed a tear until you see the coffin." I took out my phone and showed him the surveillance footage from the mansion. Looking at the figures on the screen, Xiao Yuanba curiously asked, "Who is this? Why are you showing me this?"
Facing Xiao Yuanba's nonchalant demeanor, Liu Yuning became angry, "Teacher Xiao, you'd better be honest. You know what you've done. If you confess now, you might get leniency. If we have to tell you, your treatment will be completely different."
"Oh? Are you trying to be funny? Is this me? Did you see his face clearly? Honestly! Don't assume it's the same person just because the height and weight are the same. There are people with this physique all over the world!"
Xiao Yuanba said as a matter of course, his brownish-yellow eyebrows, like shark fins, twitched up and down, his lips moving rapidly, and his sharp eyes intently scrutinizing us.
Knowing he was lying, I couldn't do anything about it. I pointed to the figure next to him, "This is your brother! You can deny it, but he has already confessed!"
"Heh, trying to trick me again? He hasn't started working yet, so how could he confess?"
"How do you know he hasn't started working? Did you just part ways not long ago?"
I deliberately seized on the loophole in Xiao Yuanba's words, but no trace of fear appeared on his face. He said naturally, "I'm his brother. How could I not know his situation!"
Another seemingly reasonable explanation. Liu Yuning said, "Is that so? What do you plan to do with the Terracotta Warrior porcelain?"
"What, what porcelain? I don't know what you're talking about?" Xiao Yuanba said shamelessly. It seemed he would never admit it. However, with only She Jiashu's testimony, Xiao Yuanba had a hundred ways to refute our claims. Now, if he refused to admit it, we were truly helpless.