Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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After becoming familiar with the rules and regulations, he had to help Xiao Xiaoyu sort out the forms, so by the time Jiang Lan stopped to take a breath, it was already half past ten. Director Cheng didn’t know when he came here, but he was explaining things to Xue Meng. When he finished speaking and was about to leave, he glanced at Jiang Lan, turned his head to Xue Meng and said, “Take Xiao Jiang with you, and let him familiarize himself with the work.”
At the end of October, Jiangcheng would hold an international competition. To prepare for the competition, the sub-district office also had to start collecting information on the residents of the community in advance.
In particular, Hanyang District was far away from the city center. Compared with other central districts, the development was relatively lagging behind, and the residents were more mixed. Therefore, Director Cheng told them, to be sure to do a good job of investigation to avoid unstable factors affecting the construction of the competition area.
Xue Meng was obviously very experienced in this. He brought a thick stack of registration forms and carried a bag on his back. Then he called Jiang Lan to go out together.
The information collection work was divided into districts, and they only needed to be responsible for the few streets under the jurisdiction of the street office. Although the collection work was simple, it was very tedious and time-consuming. Jiang Lan followed Xue Meng to sweep the buildings from the nearest community.
The so-called building sweeping meant knocking on doors and going from door to door on every floor.
Xue Meng was in charge of knocking on doors and confirming information with residents, while Jiang Lan was in charge of recording. When the two finished sweeping one building and moved to the next, Xue Meng suddenly whispered nervously to Jiang Lan: “Did you see it?”
Jiang Lan:?
“What did you see?”
“Bracelets,” Xue Meng raised his eyebrows, his voice rose and was then immediately suppressed: “In the building we just swept, there were at least a dozen households wearing that kind of bracelets. There are also two or three necklaces… I don’t know if the rest are not worn, or they are hidden in the clothes.”
Xue Meng had been communicating with the residents before, and Jiang Lan really didn’t notice this. The building just now was the No. 1 building of this community. He frowned slightly: “Did you find anyone wearing a bracelet or necklace in the previous communities?”
Xue Meng shook his head: “I didn’t see it.”
After finishing speaking, he looked carefully at the building: “Didn’t you say that there is a problem with the bracelet? There are so many people wearing it, so nothing will happen, right?”
Jiang Lan hesitated and said, “Probably not.”
He had already reported to the bureau, so as long as Ying Qiao’s boss acted fast enough to arrest that Tai Sui plant, there shouldn’t be any problems.
Listening to his uncertain tone, Xue Meng panicked, and asked cautiously: “What should it mean? It means that something may happen?”
“It’s hard to say.” Jiang Lan walked towards Building No. 2 with a pile of registration forms in his arms. Seeing his nervousness, he comforted him with words: “The main reason is that even if we are nervous, it’s useless, the choice is in their own hands.”
These beads left by Tai Sui would not directly harm people, the beads were just a medium, if these people couldn’t stand the temptation and made a wish to cross the boundary to Tai Sui, and finally lost their lives, it could only be said that it was a cycle of cause and effect, and fate should be like this.
What outsiders could do was to just arrest Tai Sui as soon as possible. But it didn’t mean that if you catch Tai Sui, those who had made a wish to Tai Sui would be safe.
Wishing was the cause, and the price was the effect. Even if Tai Sui couldn’t collect the price himself, Heavens would collect it for him.
People always had to pay the price for their foolishness.
Xue Meng thought of the people in the dream who made wishes with fanatic expressions, and vaguely understood what Jiang Lan meant. He remembered Jiang Lan’s warning to him and couldn’t help rubbing the goose bumps on his arms vigorously.
During the conversation, they arrived at the second building.
Xue Meng had no time to think about it and stepped forward to knock on the door of the first household.
The person who opened the door was a middle-aged woman with a mean face. She was vigilantly pawing at the door and asked in Mandarin with a strong dialect: “What are you doing?”
Xue Meng showed her the work badge hanging around his neck: “Hello, we are the clerks of the Hanyang Sub-district Office. We come to collect household information. What is your name? How many people live in the house?”
The middle-aged woman frowned tightly, and said impatiently: “Zhao Qunfang, I am the only one at home.”
Xue Meng didn’t seem to notice her impatience and continued: “I still need to register your mobile phone number, please report it.”
Zhao Qunfang reported another series of numbers: “Okay?”
Xue Meng was about to answer, but his back was suddenly poked by a pen. He paused, and then he heard Jiang Lan ask: “On the afternoon of May 4th, you were the one who called to report on the jewelry store ‘All Wishes Come True’ in Wenhua Street. Right? We have gone to the store to investigate and found no feudal superstition or cult organization.”
Jiang Lan felt that his voice was familiar just now, so he asked.
Zhao Qunfang’s complexion changed, and a look of guilt and fear flashing in her eyes. She raised her hand and was about to close the door: “What did I report? I didn’t report it. I don’t know.”
Inserting his leg into the crack of the door, he asked with a smile, “Don’t be afraid, we’re not looking for accountability. It’s just that there’s something else wrong with that store, and we’d like to ask if you can provide any other clues?”
“I don’t know, I don’t know anything! If you make trouble again, I’m going to call the police!”
Zhao Qunfang’s face became more and more ugly when Xue Meng kept asking, swearing swear words in a dialect, and closing the door regardless.
It was just that the door couldn’t be closed. When Xue Meng was struggling to keep his feet inserted, two policemen came over and asked, “Does Zhao Qunfang live here?”
Before Zhao Qunfang could speak, Xue Meng immediately answered for her: “Yes.”
Seeing the police looking at them suspiciously, Jiang Lan quickly showed them his badge: “Hello, Comrade Police, we are the clerks of the Hanyang Street Office, and we come to collect information on the residents of the community. Ms. Zhao told us just now that there are some misunderstandings.”
Seeing the badge, the police dispelled their suspicions, nodded slightly at the two, and knocked on the door.
Zhao Qunfang reluctantly opened the door, obviously not as imposing as before: “What do you want me for? I didn’t break the law!”
The police showed her the officer’s badge and said, “Can we go in and talk about it? About Li Chunhua’s death, we have something to ask you for confirmation.”
Zhao Qunfang looked away: “I, I don’t know anything.”
The police showed her a printed document: “We found your name on Li Chunhua’s mobile phone. Before Li Chunhua’s death, you had the most frequent contact with her.”
Zhao Qunfang was silent for a while, moved her footsteps after a while, let the door open, and said with a stiff expression: “Come in, what do you want to ask?”
The two policemen walked in, and Jiang Lan felt that there was something wrong with it, so he pulled Xue Meng and followed them in cheekily.
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