I’ve Got a Knack for Investigation
I’ve Got a Knack for Investigation Chapter 027

What was the concept of a 60% evil value? If you were to draw a Good and Evil Detection System as a circle and divide it into ten equal parts, with each part representing 10%, the first 10% would be good people, and 20% to 30% would be minor evil. Then, after 30%, as the value increased, the evil deeds would become increasingly significant.

For example, Duan Taoyong, Deng Ling, and Yang Hao’an had evil values of 80% because they had more than one life on their hands.

So what about 60%? What was his definition of evil? What crime had Lin Jianxin committed to have such a high evil value?

Furthermore, the word “abducted” was something Lin Shuyue had said many times at home and outside, but it only triggered this keyword when she said it in front of Lin Jianxin. Based on the characteristics of the previous system missions, Lin Shuyue could draw a conclusion.

Lin Jianxin was related to Lin Shuyang’s abduction, and judging from his evil value, this relationship was very significant.

If one were to speculate about a person with the worst intentions, it was even possible that Lin Shuyang had been sold off by Lin Jianxin!

Lin Shuyue’s gaze at Lin Jianxin gradually deepened.

Lin Jianxin sat opposite Lin Shuyue. The forced gentleness on his face had completely disappeared. The look in his eyes as he looked at Lin Shuyue was very unfriendly.

But Lin Jianxin was a man with a very strong sense of male chauvinism, but also knew very well how to be tolerant.

Take his younger days, for example. He couldn’t stand the hardship of farm work. Coupled with his parents’ favoritism towards his elder brother, they often told him that they would separate the family once he got married. So, he started looking for a wife for himself when he was sixteen.

Including Lou Fengqin, he had taken a fancy to four women. He kept observing them, and it wasn’t until he was twenty that he chose Lou Fengqin from those four.

This was because Lou Fengqin was not only capable, managing everything inside and outside the home, but she also had a straightforward personality, and her looks were the most outstanding among the four girls.

Lin Jianxin had always thought of himself as a capable person. He felt that the times had limited his development. He believed that if it were ancient times, he would have been worthy of the emperor’s daughter.

He had taken a liking to Lou Fengqin, and it was Lou Fengqin’s good fortune.

Once he had identified his target, the next step was to approach her. Lin Jianxin was good-looking and knew how to dress. In that era of the great collective, she was undoubtedly a very beautiful sight in the countryside.

Under his careful and attentive efforts, it didn’t take long for him to win Lou Fengqin’s heart. When he married Lou Fengqin, due to his deliberate act of playing the victim, the betrothal money he gave was the least in the entire village.

After marriage, he even tricked Lou Fengqin into using her dowry to build a house. After marriage, the responsibility of earning work points to support the family almost entirely fell on Lou Fengqin’s shoulders.

Later, the great collective was abolished, land was distributed to individual households, and the reform and opening up began. Lin Jianxin felt that his opportunity had come. He started going out to work outside with the people from the village.

He first worked on construction sites and later entered factories.

He was handsome and good-looking. During the years he was away, he was never without women by his side.

Lou Fengqin stayed at home doing farm work and taking care of the children, knowing nothing. At first, he hadn’t thought about divorce, but later he got involved with Zhang Mei. Her family owned a restaurant, and she was the only child. After seeing him once by chance, she pursued him passionately despite knowing he had a wife and children.

Lin Jianxin keenly knew that if he got together with Zhang Mei, he would have thirty fewer years of struggle. But while Zhang Mei was easy to coax, his parents were not fools.

So, Lin Jianxin got Zhang Mei pregnant before marriage. At the same time, he quickly became cold towards Lou Fengqin and frequently picked fights with her. His purpose was to force Lou Fengqin to take the initiative to file for divorce first.

But despite all his scheming, he hadn’t anticipated that Lou Fengqin would make such a big fuss. Even more so, he hadn’t calculated that Lou Fengqin would fight for all the family property and the children.

This made Lin Jianxin’s male ego feel defeated once again.

In the years that followed, he had smooth sailing. By now, he had taken control of all of Zhang’s family’s property. Zhang Mei, who had once been arrogant in front of him, now had to live by giving him face.

Only in front of his ex-wife and their two daughters did that feeling of defeat still exist.

But his unpleasant expression only lasted for a moment. Lin Jianxin quickly put on a smile again. “The food today is very delicious, Ah Yue. When the dishes come, let’s eat and talk, okay?”

Lin Shuyue turned off the Good and Evil Detection System and then nodded slightly at him.

Soon, the food was served. Lin Shuyue held a knife in one hand and a fork in the other, struggling with a medium-rare steak. Lin Jianxin opposite her, picked up a wine glass and took a sip of the red wine inside.

“Ah Yue, time flies, you’re already in your twenties, aren’t you? If I remember correctly, you’re 23?” Lin Jianxin said with certainty. In fact, he didn’t remember the birth dates of his two daughters at all. The reason he said Lin Shuyue was 23 was because he had calculated it.

Starting first grade at the age of seven, it would take 16 years to graduate from university. Lin Shuyue was currently in her senior year of university, in her internship period. 16 + 7 was exactly 23, wasn’t it?

Lin Shuyue forked a piece of cut steak into her mouth and nodded without refuting, “Yes, you’re very right in your calculation.”

Lin Shuyue wouldn’t correct Lin Jianxin about the fact that the original owner had started school at six and skipped two grades, so she was only 20 now.

Lin Jianxin wasn’t her old man, and the original owner didn’t care for Lin Jianxin’s fatherly love.

Lin Jianxin wore a confident smile on his face. “Ah Yue, 23 years old is not young anymore. Your mother married me at 19, and your sister was already born when she was 23. Look at you, you haven’t even had a boyfriend yet, have you?”

Lin Jianxin thought about things from a man’s perspective. He felt that if Lin Shuyue had a boyfriend, then her boyfriend would definitely not let Lin Shuyue write those reports!

What kind of reports did Lin Shuyue write? They either criticized other people’s parents or spoke up for those indecent women.

To be honest, Lin Shuyue had indeed become famous, but Lin Jianxin didn’t dare to say that Lin Shuyue was his daughter when he went out socializing, for fear that people would say he didn’t know how to raise children and had raised such a rebellious daughter.

As soon as this familiar sentence came out, Lin Shuyue already knew what Lin Jianxin was up to.

She forked pieces of steak one by one and ate. Although she didn’t like Western food and found it too bland, not wasting food was a good virtue that her grandparents had taught her since she was young.

“No, what do you want to say?”

Lin Jianxin felt uncomfortable seeing Lin Shuyue’s lazy appearance. He really felt that this daughter was rebellious to the core! Although the eldest, Lin Shuxing, wasn’t willing to pay him much attention, she would still have the basic politeness. Unlike Lin Shuyue, who had no respect at all!

From the moment he picked her up, she hadn’t shown him any respect!

But thinking of his plan, he suppressed the dissatisfaction in his heart. “It’s like this, Ah Yue, Dad has met a lot of successful people over the years. Do you know about Pengcheng’s Guangsheng Group? They want to find a daughter-in-law for their son and want to choose someone from the cultural circle.”

“Look at you, you’re beautiful and educated, a top student from our Provincial Capital University. You perfectly fit their criteria. So Dad wants to set you two up…”

Guangsheng Group? Lin Shuyue found the name very familiar. After thinking about it again, she remembered. Wasn’t this the gossip Li Mingfang had told her about when she had just transmigrated? The big news about Li Weisheng, the one about the Guangsheng Group’s boss traveling with his beautiful wife.

Lin Shuyue clicked her tongue. She was only 20 years old in both her previous and current life, and she wasn’t interested in men.

With such great times ahead, why should she invest her limited energy in love or marriage? What’s so good about men? Isn’t building a career more appealing? Aren’t the red bills from salary increases and promotions better-looking than men?

Lin Shuyue had believed in a saying since she was a child: “With no man in your heart, your sword will naturally be divine.”

So, blind dates were out of the question. Never mind the son of the Guangsheng Group’s boss, even if the man she was supposed to go on a blind date with was the Emperor of Heaven, she wouldn’t be interested.

Having figured out Lin Jianxin’s purpose for today, Lin Shuyue didn’t want to play along with him anymore. Moreover, Lin Shuyue felt that getting information about Ah Yang’s whereabouts from Lin Jianxin’s mouth might be even harder than climbing to the sky.

“Keep such a good marriage opportunity for your younger daughter. I’m not interested. I’m going home. Don’t look for me if there’s nothing important in the future, and especially don’t look for me if there is something important. It’s useless to look for me anyway.” Lin Shuyue opened her bag and pulled out two soft sister coins. But after thinking about it, she put one back and directly placed the money on the table.

“You ordered so much food, but I didn’t touch anything except this steak. I just checked, one steak is 100 yuan. Here it is.”

“Bye-bye.”

Lin Shuyue put her bag on and left.

She didn’t care at all how ugly Lin Jianxin’s face was behind her.

Before going out the door, Lin Shuyue habitually glanced back into the restaurant. She saw Zhong Jiali, the daughter of Shengda Foreign Trade next door, who had two different faces for men and women, was also there. She was smiling like a flower while having dinner with a foreign man in his forties.

Lin Shuyue didn’t look any further and went straight out.

Across from the Western restaurant was a malatang stall. Many people were sitting around the stove, eating with gusto.

A piece of steak really wasn’t much. Lin Shuyue lifted her foot and walked towards the malatang stall.

The skewers for malatang were all cooked in the pot. You could just take whatever you wanted to eat. But vegetables and noodles were in the refrigerated display case, and you had to choose them yourself.

Lin Shuyue handed the vegetable sprouts she had chosen to the proprietress, found a place to sit down, and took the cooked skewers from the pot to eat.

When eating malatang, she especially loved the soft and glutinous chicken feet. Halfway through eating, someone sat down beside her. Lin Shuyue turned her head to look. “Team Leader Hang?”

Hang Jiabai, dressed in plain clothes, smiled and nodded at Lin Shuyue. “Reporter Lin.”

“On a mission?”

“Yes, I’ve been out since morning and haven’t had a bite to eat yet. I happened to pass by here and saw you eating so happily, I really couldn’t resist and came over too. Do you mind?” Hang Jiabai’s eyes were smiling when he said this.

Lin Shuyue turned her head to look at him and happened to see the lights from the malatang stall reflected in his handsome eyes, like stars falling into them.

She picked up a bottle of mineral water and took a sip. “I don’t mind, I don’t mind. These chicken feet are delicious. I strongly suggest you try them.”

After that, the two started eating voraciously. If they found anything particularly delicious, they would recommend it to each other. Finally, Hang Jiabai was called away by a phone call, and Lin Shuyue also went home, holding her slightly full stomach.

Lou Fengqin had been waiting for her at home. After learning that she had eaten, she asked about her outing with Lin Jianxin.

Knowing that Lin Jianxin wanted to introduce her to someone, Lou Fengqin directly sneered. “I knew that was what he was up to.”

“That damn shameless man! When your sister and you were born, he was very angry and kept telling me what use girls were. He even wanted to listen to your grandparents and give you two away.”

“If I hadn’t told your grandma, and your uncle hadn’t beaten him up, he might have done it behind my back at any time!” Speaking of this, even after so many years, Lou Fengqin was still angry.

Lou Fengqin had thought countless times that perhaps it was precisely because of this that when she found out Lin Jianxin was picking fights to get a divorce, she was so calm and went to the city first to investigate what he had been doing during that time.

“He didn’t care about you sisters before, and now that he needs you, he wants to arrange things for you two. He’s got a face as big as a basin! Ignore him. If he looks for you again in the future, don’t meet him alone.”

The speaker didn’t mean much by it, but the listener took it to heart. Lou Fengqin’s words moved Lin Shuyue.

“Mom, how was he to Ah Yang back then?”

“He favored boys over girls and was particularly good to Ah Yang. Even when I was arguing with him about the divorce, he would still remember to buy things for Ah Yang when he came back from outside. I wanted Ah Yang’s name to be in the order with yours, and he got very angry about it.” Lou Fengqin was an open-minded mother. As long as her children wanted to know something and asked her, she would tell them in detail as long as she knew.

From Lou Fengqin’s words, Lin Shuyue also understood that Lin Jianxin’s opposition was useless to Lou Fengqin. Lin Shuyang still followed their order.

Lin Shuyue continued to ask, “Then how was Ah Yang abducted?”

Lou Fengqin sighed. “It was around the Mid-Autumn Festival. Their family came back for the holiday. Because your younger brother was his only son, he took your younger brother with him to celebrate the festival.”

“The three children from your eldest aunt’s family kept pestering him to go to town to see things, so he took your younger brother along too. Your younger brother was young at that time. When he went to a strange place with him, he said he wanted to find his mother and sister. Then, he ran away while your dad was buying noodles. By the time he bought the noodles, your younger brother was gone. They reported it to the police and searched the town for a day, but couldn’t find anyone.”

“He hasn’t had an easy time all these years either. Every time I went out to look for Ah Yang, he would send money over. Ah Yang is also his son. I feel at ease accepting this money.”

MidnightLiz[Translator]

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