Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 163

If it was a coincidence, even if the story had been artistically processed, many things were very different from the cases they had handled, and the description was more story-telling and exciting, even involving Jianghu, martial arts, court, fighting, etc. They were all different from reality, but he still had an intuition that it was the same case.

But the time when the novel was published was slightly ahead of the time when their case took place and when they were investigated.

Unless they could predict the future.

Or maybe their colleagues discovered these clues, but why didn’t they tell them directly but wrote a novel to remind them? It was illogical.

Amidst all kinds of mixed emotions, Mr. Wu finally fell into a deep sleep.

He slept for more than ten hours before getting up. After shaving and washing, his wife had already gone to work, and the children had gone to school. The breakfast left for him on the dining table was already cold, so he went to heat it on the stove and then returned to work.

Several other colleagues who were responsible for pursuing the case with him also returned.

This magazine was first shown to them by Public Security Wu, and they all turned their attention to him.

Public Security Wu couldn’t help but remember that the first time he read the magazine, after a few days of tracking down the murderer to no avail, he came back to smoke and look for a lighter. A lighter fell out of the magazine, and he later opened the magazine casually. The magazine happened to be on the page of Catcher in the Song Dynasty.

When he opened the magazine again, the traces of the lighter on the page were already very faint. He told how the lighter had fallen out and how he opened the magazine and saw Catcher in the Song Dynasty.

Several of his colleagues couldn’t help but frown, “So, someone deliberately placed the lighter there for you to find.”

A police officer asked another young police officer, Xiao Chang, if it was him.

The young police officer who was called Xiao Chang was shocked. He pointed at his nose and said, “Me?” And waved his hands again and again. “It’s not me. I don’t know how it could be me. I haven’t read this magazine.”

The older police officers originally thought that the young Xiao Chang had discovered the clues and was too shy to go tell them, so he used that method to remind them to solve the case.

The young policeman Chang’s face turned red.

“You know who put this magazine here and who bought it?” Asked another middle-aged police officer.

“I asked about this. It was Xiao Zhao from the archives. Xiao Zhao said that she was a loyal reader of Catcher in the Song Dynasty and found that many criminal investigation methods written in it were very professional. She suspected that they were written by high-level officials within the system. Some investigation techniques may be helpful to us. She happened to buy a copy from a nearby newsstand that day. She didn’t take it home after reading it, so she put it on the coffee table in the lobby outside. Anyone who wants to read it can read it at any time.”

Everyone looked at each other again, feeling that this person was definitely not Xiao Zhao.

Xiao Zhao was only twenty-four years old. He had just graduated from college two years ago. He was assigned to work as a clerk in their public security bureau, in charge of the organization of the archives. He was not a police officer who pursued the front lines on a daily basis. There were many detailed descriptions in Catcher in the Song Dynasty, so without personal experience, one would not be able to write in such detail.

For a moment, everyone really couldn’t figure out who that person was, but they all became interested in the Wuxia magazine and wanted to find out all the previous issues of this magazine.

It was a pity that the recent issues were easy to buy, but the earliest ones were really not easy to buy on the market. They went to all the newsstands and bookstores nearby, but they didn’t find all the previous issues. But unexpectedly, they found one in the bookstore that contained the published book.

That was really an unexpected surprise. They quickly spent money and bought several books of Catcher in the Song Dynasty and returned to their work. Several people held the published books and read with gusto.

Suddenly, an old policeman exclaimed, “Old Wu, Old Wu, come and take a look at this case. Doesn’t it look like the case a year ago that still has no clues and has been left unsolved?”

When several people heard it, they all leaned their heads. After seeing the page number, they quickly turned the book in their hands to this page and looked at it carefully.

The first to announce the monthly exam results was actually the third year of high school.

Studying in the senior year of high school was so stressful. How could they have so much time to focus on the joint examination? For them, the most important thing was the final exam and the college entrance examination in January next year.

If they passed the HKCEE, they could basically get a high school diploma. In his previous life, Jiang Bai slacked off a bit after taking the HKCEE. He didn’t want to go to college anyway. He just wanted to graduate quickly. After getting his diploma, he went out to work and earn money.

(HKCEE: Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination)

Now his need to work, earn money, and have enough to eat had been met before he graduated. Moreover, his sister said that as long as he did not regress in every exam, he could stay and work. He usually studied very hard and actively as he was afraid that if his grades declined he wouldn’t be able to work in his sister’s shop.

Unexpectedly, when he worked too hard, he was too excited and rushed too much. His previous weekly and monthly exams were better than the last, which required him to work harder to surpass the previous exam results, and devote more time and energy to study. The more devoted one was, the better they would learn and the better they would do in the exam. That time, the county-wide joint examination, the county’s results had not come out yet, but the ranking results of their class had come out. Yes, Jiang Bai directly ranked sixth in the class. With this score in the entire joint examination, although he did not enter the top 200 in the county, he unexpectedly broke into the top 200 in his grade.

 With that result, except for the two key classes in his senior year, he ranked among the top eighty in the parallel classes. That result not only surprised the class teacher, but also made the classmates in the class turn to look at Jiang Bai in disbelief.

They felt that Jiang Bai was different before, but the feeling was getting even more obvious, making Tong Jingang howl with excitement.

Tong Jingang’s grades were among the lowest in that class. He was taking the sports route and was preparing to take the physical education college entrance examination. At this time, seeing his good friend’s grades improving so fast made him even happier than ever. He knew that before, Jiang Bai didn’t want to go to college and only wanted to work to make money. Since the kid finally figured it out as a good friend, how could he be unhappy?

“Brother, I’m happy today. I’ll treat you all to meat buns. Tomorrow morning, everyone will get a big meat bun. My treat.” Tong Jingang, who had just received a huge sum of ten yuan from Jiang Ning, used it in a blink of an eye.