Chapter 21: Lost

I fell asleep groggily against the wall, it was cold, and the police only gave me a thin blanket.

I rarely slept like this before, but I remember the events of last night so vividly that I could not have been meditating and spitting in the police station and posing like a monk.

The cold, the occasional noise, and the shouting of the prisoner next door made it impossible for me to sleep, and I closed my eyes in a daze at dawn, but before seven o'clock I was awakened by the sound of the door opening, and it was the same policeman who had come, but his face was very unsightly.

"You can go." He said to me.

"What?" I could hardly believe my ears, in fact, under his repeated threats, I was ready to stay in the detention center for a while.

And now he suddenly told me I could go?

"Don't get complacent too soon, I'll keep an eye on you." He said to me.

"What's your name?" I suddenly thought he was an interesting person, so I asked.

He was stunned for a moment, then sneered: "You want to deal with me? I'm afraid you're not qualified. ”

"Officer, your imagination is too rich." I had to shake my head. "I'm just wondering what your name is."

"Ma Bin." He apparently didn't believe me at all. "Do you want to write down the siren?"

"What am I going to do with the siren? I'm not going to complain about you. I shook my head helplessly and walked out after him.

My parents, Lu Xiaoling, and Wang Kai were all waiting outside, and my father was holding my personal belongings that had been confiscated by the police.

"Sun Yang!" My mother wiped her tears and rushed up and hugged me tightly, which made me look at Lu Xiaoling a little embarrassed.

But there was no usual ridicule in her eyes, but a little envy.

"Thank you!" After appeasing my mother, I finally had the opportunity to walk over and talk to Lu Xiaoling and Wang Kai.

"You don't have to thank us, it was Master Cao who found the top of the Provincial Police Department." Wang Kai shook his head. "People go to tea and cool, and those relationships before Master Lu ignore us at all."

Lu Xiaoling's face was not very good.

"He already knows?" I couldn't help but look at Lu Xiaoling.

"Well, he just couldn't pull away all of a sudden, and said he was coming next week." Lu Xiaoling said with a slight frustration.

I don't know what to say, Master Cao was Master Lu's most trusted companion and friend during his lifetime, and I don't know how angry he would be about the two of us blatantly violating Master Lu's last wishes.

"It's useless to think about this now, have you already gone to the place that Wu Ling said?" I had no choice but to change the subject.

"Where can I take care of it!" Lu Xiaoling said. "I'll go and finish this matter in a moment."

She didn't seem to be in good spirits, and I didn't know how to comfort him, so I had to say a few casual words and part ways with them.

My mother hugged me tightly all the way, and as a housewife, she probably never thought that she would go to the police station one day, and because her son was suspected of murder.

Dad has always had something to say, but he can't find the right opportunity to say it. I can probably guess what he wants to say, and he didn't want to hide the matter from them in the first place, and it seems that it will be time for a showdown when he goes home.

But as soon as we walked into the hallway, we saw a group of neighbors gathered in front of our house, not knowing what they were talking about.

"Ladies and gentlemen...... This is? Dad's face changed.

"Master Sun, you came just in time, I don't know how to inform you!" The head of the community's security guards squeezed out of the crowd. "Your home has been burglarized! We also patrolled here before and found out that the door was open! Hurry up and see the loss! ”

Stolen?

The three of us glanced at each other and pushed the crowd into the room.

There are almost no traces of being turned over in the house, and if it weren't for the fact that the door lock was broken and couldn't be locked, we probably wouldn't have seen a thief coming.

My mother was busy going into the bedroom to look at her jewelry, and I habitually walked into my room, and then my whole body was cold all at once.

My room has been turned upside down, the safe under the bed has been opened, it is empty, and all the scriptures passed on to me by Master Lu are gone!

"Sun Yang?" When my parents saw that I was standing still at the door, they hurriedly walked over and screamed when they saw this.

"What's missing?" Dad asked.

"Book ......," I replied weakly.

"Precious?"

I nodded blankly and slowly walked into the room.

The house had been turned over so thoroughly that not even a single corner had been spared, not only the scriptures, but also the few Taoist scriptures I had copied from the store.

"Hello? Police? Our home has been burglarized! Yes, last night...... There is no one at home...... Okay, you write down the address. "Dad called the police, and I dialed Lu Xiaoling's number blankly.

The police came in and investigated the scene, and they concluded that the thief should be familiar with our family and had a clear purpose.

"Your safe is full of ancient books?" The policeman who handled the case asked. "How much is it worth?"

I shook my head, those books were Master Lu's lifelong collection, and many of them took a lot of effort and a huge price to get their hands on. Decades after the implementation of the Anti-Feudal Superstition Law, many books are solitary. The key problem is that the thief not only took the original, but also the copy!

"As a rough estimate, the value of similar books in the auction market should be more than 20 million." Wang Kai, who came with Lu Xiaoling, replied on my behalf.

When my mother heard this number in the back, her feet were weak and she almost fell directly to the ground.

I couldn't help but feel a shock in my heart.

Master Lu gave me such a precious thing?

"Twenty million?" The policeman looked at Wang Kai suspiciously. He probably thought that Wang Kai was deliberately inflating the value of the case in order to claim compensation from the insurance company or to make the police pay more attention.

"I am from Zhenyuan Law Firm, and this batch of ancient books is the inheritance of another gentleman, which was given to Mr. Sun Yang not long ago, and the relevant documents are kept in our firm."

The police no longer doubted it, but suddenly became excited.

It is no wonder that such a huge case value can definitely be regarded as a big and important case.

"Does anyone know the value of your books?" His attitude suddenly became unusually serious, and he pulled me aside and asked.

I shook my head blankly.

Not many people know about the existence of these books themselves, and most of them are still here. The only ones who weren't there were Master Cao and Uncle Yuan Zhen, who were all people that Master Lu trusted very much, and they didn't have the slightest reason to steal the book.

"You own an antique book shop? Could it be that you told people about the value of these books when you were in business? The officer asked further. Customers, or people who have a store nearby? ”

The shopkeepers around me always thought I was selling the same fakes as them, but as for the customers? I smiled wryly, for months, there had never been a few customers in the store, and even if there were, I had never talked to them, the only one who could talk to me......

I suddenly remembered someone.

Qi Mingfei?

He knew I had these books at home because he had heard about me and Lu Xiaoling looking for a solution.

He was very interested in these things and always wanted me to show him and teach him how to get started.

But he is a professor at Far Mountain University...... And I never thought about it......

I called him.

"Dut...... The long sound of "......" was connected after a long time.