Chapter 367 - Encountering Zhao Ruxue at the Hospital

Two female nurses accompanied Butcher He to undergo a full-body checkup, and the attending doctor followed suit.

Ye Qiu knew that whether Butcher He was checked or not, he had completely recovered.

But having one more full-body checkup was just for extra assurance.

Ye Qiu and his wife, Ye Weidong, were waiting when Ye Qiu saw a familiar face approaching.

It was Zhao Ruxue, in uniform, whom he hadn’t seen for some time.

Zhao Ruxue was now the main officer in charge of the investigation regarding Li Lanfang being robbed at the hospital entrance, and she had come to the hospital to personally investigate Li Lanfang’s case.

Though the surveillance video from outside the hospital entrance had been taken by Zhao Ruxue, it could roughly determine who the suspect was through the same footage.

“Officer Zhao, what brings you here?”

Ye Qiu asked.

“Ye Qiu, what are you doing here?”

Zhao Ruxue, accompanied by two subordinates, was equally surprised to see Ye Qiu there.

There had been quite a few incidents between her and Ye Qiu, and their relationship seemed to have a subtle complexity.

However, what left the deepest impression on Zhao Ruxue was the night they captured the murderer, Zhang Yi.

A man who was already dead turned out to be the culprit of several murders.

If it weren’t for Ye Qiu, Zhao Ruxue would find it somewhat unbelievable.

But after returning, she didn’t report the incident; instead, she secretly investigated and discovered that the world was much more complex than she had imagined.

For some reason, seeing Ye Qiu now brought her an unexpected sense of delight.

Having previously encountered Zhao Ruxue during an attack by the Motorcycle Gang at the porridge and noodle shop, Ye Weidong and Chen Fang were surprised to find that Ye Qiu and Zhao Ruxue seemed quite familiar with each other.

“Uncle, Auntie, hello.”

Zhao Ruxue greeted Ye Weidong and his wife.

“Hello.”

Ye Weidong hastily replied.

Ye Weidong had a natural fear of officials, including police officers from the local station, possibly a deep-seated sentiment that had accumulated over thousands of years and was hard to change in the hearts of ordinary people.

Now, seeing Li Zhiguo gave Ye Weidong that feeling, and so did seeing Zhao Ruxue, the officer.

“I came here to treat someone.”

Ye Qiu said.

“I am here to investigate a case.”

Zhao Ruxue sat down beside Ye Qiu.

She had already heard that Li Lanfang and Butcher He went for a checkup, so Zhao Ruxue wasn’t in a hurry about the timing.

She instructed her two subordinates to check when Li Lanfang would be available, then decided to sit there for a while.

In fact, Ye Qiu felt more at ease with Zhao Rubing, probably because her personality was completely different from Zhao Ruxue’s.

“Ruibing, then?”

“She’s the same as before.”

After the issues at Norwegian Forest were settled, Zhao Rubing usually oversaw the bar at night, slept very late, and then woke up late, probably not until noon when she naturally woke up.

“Still sleeping?”

“What else do you think she would be doing?”

When Ye Qiu inquired about her sister, Zhao Ruxue felt a tinge of displeasure.

She suspected that there was something between Ye Qiu and Zhao Rubing, but Rubing denied it.

And Zhao Rubing believed there was something going on between Ye Qiu and Zhao Ruxue, which Ruxue also denied.

However, at this time, Zhao Ruxue saw her two subordinates calling Li Lanfang over.

Li Lanfang hadn’t expected that Ye Qiu was so familiar with this beautiful policewoman.

“Are you the Ms.

Li who was robbed at the hospital entrance?”

“I am Li Lanfang, I was robbed of five hundred thousand yuan at the entrance of the hospital,”

Li Lanfang said.

The day before, when people helped her to report the robbery, a nearby police station officer had come to ask her about it.

She hadn’t expected that today, another officer would come.

“I am the deputy captain of the division’s criminal police squad, and I’m in charge of investigating this robbery case involving you.

I have some questions I’d like to ask you, and I hope you can cooperate so that we can solve the case faster and help you recover that money,”

When Zhao Ruxue showed her work badge to Li Lanfang, seeing Zhao Ruxue in uniform made it clear to her that she was police personnel.

Zhao Ruxue took out her notepad and then pulled several photos from a file bag—they were the ones captured by the hospital entrance surveillance camera and then developed by the police.

Now Zhao Ruxue was showing her the photos taken of Li Lanfang just after she got out of the taxi, showing the moments she was robbed.

“Are you sure it’s this suspect?”

When Zhao Ruxue handed the photos to Li Lanfang, perhaps because the surveillance camera’s angle was not very good, the face of the suspect in the photos was somewhat blurry, and the face hadn’t been captured from the front, so the facial contours weren’t very clear.

But Li Lanfang could still make out that it was this stranger who had snatched her bag.

“It’s him!”

Li Lanfang said.

Now, besides confirming that this robber was the main suspect, the police also thought that the taxi driver might be a suspect.

“Who else knew about the money when it was withdrawn from the bank?”

Zhao Ruxue asked.

“The staff at the credit union,”

Li Lanfang said.

She had taken out the half-million from that rural credit union, so the staff there definitely knew about it.

After recording this, Zhao Ruxue asked, “Who else?”

“Also, the doctors and nurses here at the hospital, they were the ones who asked me to take the money out for payment,”

“Which doctor?

Which nurse?”

As Zhao Ruxue asked in detail, Li Lanfang recalled the doctors and nurses she had talked to; after Zhao Ruxue had noted them all down, she asked further, “Did any other person know you were going to withdraw the half-million yuan for the emergency?”

Upon reflection, Li Lanfang realized that besides the staff of the rural credit union and a few doctors and nurses at Jiangbei First People’s Hospital, no one else knew.

Of course, she and He Xiaoqing definitely knew; as for the group led by the butcher Zhou, it was only after her money was stolen that she told them.

Li Lanfang shook her head to indicate that there was no one else.

“Ms.

Li, thank you for your cooperation.

We, the police, will catch the suspect as soon as possible and recover your money,”

Having asked all the necessary questions, Zhao Ruxue had Li Lanfang sign the statement and then prepared to go back and continue investigating the case.

As she stood up to leave, she greeted Ye Weidong and his wife, and as Ye Qiu was leaving with her, Ye Weidong and his wife wondered when Ye Qiu had become so familiar with this beautiful policewoman.

Once outside the hospital, Zhao Ruxue and her two subordinates drove away in the police car.

Ye Qiu waited at the entrance for a while until Ye Weidong and Chen Fang came out and then Ye Weidong rode his motorcycle to take Ye Qiu and Chen Fang back home.

Just moments ago, despite Zhao Ruxue appearing energetic on the surface, Ye Qiu noticed that her hall of brightness was somewhat gloomy.

Was Zhao Ruxue about to encounter some violent misfortune or run into some bad luck?

Yet, Ye Qiu knew that even if he wanted to warn her, it probably wouldn’t be useful; what was going to happen would still happen.