CHAPTER 53: CHAPTER 14: HOW CAN IT BE WORTHY OF LUO FEI (PLEASE BOOKMARK AND VOTE FOR MONTHLY TICKETS)

Zhao Donglai, Luo Fei, Zhou Weimin, and Zhang Haiyang just came out of the city bureau.

"Donglai." A middle-aged man in his mid-fifties caught up from behind Luo Fei and the others. Luo Fei noticed the man’s shoulder epaulets, two bars and three stars, a first-class police officer, and had a guess about the man’s identity in his heart.

"Lu Captain." Zhao Donglai immediately greeted the man, then introduced him to Luo Fei and others. It turned out the man was the captain of the city’s criminal investigation team, Lu Jianfei, Zhao Donglai’s former superior.

Lu Jianfei greeted Luo Fei and the others and then said to Zhao Donglai, "I didn’t drive here, give me a ride, take me to the criminal investigation team."

"Sure," Zhao Donglai thought Lu Jianfei wanted something from him, but it turned out he just needed a ride back to the criminal investigation team.

In the car, Luo Fei proactively took Zhao Donglai’s keys and drove, while Zhao Donglai and Lu Jianfei sat in the back seat.

"Young man, being able to catch Jiang Sanqiang is quite impressive, your future is boundless," Lu Jianfei complimented Luo Fei as soon as he got in the car and then started chatting with Zhao Donglai.

"What case is your detective team working on lately?" Lu Jianfei asked Zhao Donglai.

"The Wang Fu case was just solved, not long ago, the suspect was handed over to the prosecution." Zhao Donglai replied.

"You did well with the Wang Fu case. Cross-province cases like these are quite challenging to investigate; many cases become cold cases. For your team to solve it quickly is impressive." Lu Jianfei affirmed.

"Lu Captain, Luo Fei, who’s driving in front right now, played a crucial role in our team solving this case so quickly." Zhao Donglai then shared some details of the investigation process with Lu Jianfei.

After listening, Lu Jianfei couldn’t help but sigh, "You can’t judge a person by their appearance, nor measure the sea with a cup, didn’t expect Comrade Luo Fei to be so young yet so capable!"

"Just luck, it’s all luck." From the front, Luo Fei modestly replied.

"By the way, Lu Captain, have you solved that robbery-murder case?" Zhao Donglai suddenly remembered and asked.

Lu Jianfei nodded, "The suspect has been caught. After the last robbery, it wasn’t long before the suspect came out to commit a crime again, committing home robbery and shooting an employee from the power bureau. That’s how we caught him. But..."

"What happened?" Seeing Lu Jianfei frown, Zhao Donglai asked.

"We caught the suspect, but he still refuses to confess and adamantly claims he didn’t do it." Lu Jianfei said in a low voice.

Not long after, Luo Fei arrived at the criminal investigation team. After dropping off Lu Jianfei, Luo Fei and Zhao Donglai drove back to Ningjiang County.

Luo Fei got home at six o’clock.

When he arrived home, his second aunt, aunt-in-law, and Wu Yan were cooking in the kitchen. His uncle and second uncle were drinking tea and chatting in the living room. Luo Hao was watching TV on the sofa, while his second aunt’s daughter, Zhao Zhenzhen, and Luo Xiaoxiao were on the side scrolling through Douyin on their phones.

Wu Yan had already told them about Luo Fei’s second-class merit award, which was why they came over today to have a meal together and celebrate Luo Fei’s achievement.

His uncle and aunt-in-law had completely moved on from the incident with Wu Yu. After all, life goes on. Wu Yu’s case was also sentenced some time ago. Wu Yu was sentenced to eight years, and with good behavior in prison, he might get a reduced sentence.

"Luo Fei is back." As soon as Luo Fei entered the house, his second uncle, Zhao Changfa, stood up and smiled, calling out.

"Second uncle, uncle, you’re all here. Look, I specially bought you two some wine, tonight the three of us have to have a good drink." Luo Fei walked over with a smile, placing two bottles of Guojiao on the table.

"You kid, when it’s just us, a casual drink of Erguotou is enough, why buy such expensive wine?" Wu Zhiwei pretended to be displeased.

"Yeah! Luo Fei, you’re too polite." The second uncle chimed in.

Luo Fei sincerely replied, "Thanks to second uncle and uncle over the years, what’s the big deal about two bottles of wine?"

"Alright, alright, the kid’s already bought the wine for you two, why are you still pretending?" The second aunt came out of the kitchen at some point, disdainfully saying.

Making both the uncle and second uncle laugh awkwardly.

However, the second aunt, being straightforward, didn’t care about them, she looked at Luo Fei and asked, "Luo Fei, where’s your medal and certificate, quickly take them out for a look."

"Here, here, second aunt." Luo Xiaoxiao had already taken the bag from Luo Fei’s hand at some point, and took out the medal and certificate.

"It’s second-class! Brother got a second-class merit this time." Luo Xiaoxiao exclaimed excitedly, looking at the certificate.

"Let me see. So this is a second-class merit medal and certificate!" The second aunt took the certificate and medal from Luo Xiaoxiao, with a very curious expression.

"Here, let me have a look too." The second uncle was equally curious.

Everyone took turns looking at it, with Wu Yan being the last.

"The certificate and medal look exactly the same as for third class," Wu Yan remarked.

"Of course, it’s just the content that’s different," Wu Zhiwei replied with a smile.

The second aunt looked at Luo Fei and said, "Our Luo Fei is truly outstanding now, personal commendation, personal third-class merit, personal second-class merit, and he’s in the detective team. I wonder what kind of girl will be good enough for him. I was thinking of introducing Liu Quan’s daughter, a colleague of Zhao Changfa, to Luo Fei. That girl works at the power bureau, I’ve seen her, she’s pretty too."

The second uncle wasn’t pleased, "What nonsense, Liu Quan’s daughter is just a temp in the power bureau, how’s she good enough for Luo Fei."

"Ah, Liu Quan’s daughter is a temp? I thought she was permanent!"

In the evening, the meal was a joyous affair. Luo Fei, along with his second uncle, and uncle drank, and the two bottles of Guojiao were all finished. Luo Fei drank about half, not because he likes drinking, but because he feared his uncle and second uncle would drink too much and get drunk. With only two bottles, if he drank a bit more, the other two would drink less.

The next day, Luo Fei received a wave of congratulations and well-wishes at the detective team.

"Luo Fei, now that you’ve got a second-class merit, are you going to treat us to a meal? You’re the only one besides Leader Zhao in our detective team to have ever gotten a second-class merit." Wang Lei laughed slyly from his seat.

"With a second-class merit, you have to treat us, no question." Xia Zheng chimed in from the side.

"No problem, I’ll treat our group to a meal in the next day or two," Luo Fei agreed. Luo Fei was not someone who skimpily scrimps. It was just that he had debts before, and had little money, so he didn’t have the confidence to treat others. Now, with most of the debts paid, he had some money, treating the group to a meal was no issue.

"Generous!"

"The boss is grand!"