Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo' Chapter 1236 597: The Ever-Changing Hidden Form Space (3)

Li Banfeng continued to chat with Ai Xiafen casually, while Chuuni completed collecting evidence from the bedroom and then opened the refrigerator.

Ai Xiafen was a bit puzzled: "In the fridge, do we need to collect evidence too?"

Chuuni shook his head and said, "I'm thirsty, checking if there's anything to drink in the fridge."

Dumpling frowned slightly, feeling embarrassed on behalf of Chuuni.

Ming Xing stifled a laugh, he really couldn't understand what Chuuni was thinking. At such a time, rummaging through the fridge, isn't this a bit of a slap in the face for the Dark Star Bureau?

But then again, this couple doesn't know they're from the Dark Star Bureau.

Light Bulb felt the situation was special, Chuuni's approach was indeed a bit unorthodox, but he's not the type to take advantage, nor do meaningless things.

Li Banfeng also knew Chuuni had another purpose, but had to put on a show and scold him: "What kind of work attitude is this? Don't you have any sense of discipline?"

Ai Xiafen hastily got up and said, "It was my oversight, there's no drink at home, I'll pour some tea for you guys."

Li Banfeng stood up and said, "We've pretty much understood what we needed to, it's about time for us to leave. Ms. Ai, take care of your health."

Zhang Qinghai stood up again: "I want to find my son, I want to find my son!"

Ai Xiafen chastised her husband a bit and saw Li Banfeng and the others out to the door.

As they reached the door, Li Banfeng heard the sound of the Projector: "Seventh Guide, I'm suffocating, the lighting and colors in this house make it hard for me to breathe."

Out of the neighborhood, Li Banfeng went to the pharmacy to ask the shopkeeper what medicines Zhang Peiwen usually bought.

Ming Xing asked from the side: "Bureau Chief Li, are we really buying her medicine?"

Li Banfeng gave Ming Xing a glare: "Isn't that what we're supposed to do? Where's your sense of service?"

Ming Xing dared not speak, the shopkeeper checked the ledger, and he wrote down the medicine names.

Li Banfeng wasn't very familiar with the medicines either, so he asked Dumpling to send the names directly to the medical department.

Light Bulb was taken aback: "Chief, you're not buying her medicine, you're investigating her?"

Dumpling didn't quite understand either: "Why are we investigating her?"

Chuuni said: "I think Bureau Chief Li's thinking is correct."

Ming Xing frowned: "Don't always just support Bureau Chief Li's ideas, share your own thoughts for once?"

Chuuni hesitated to speak, but when everyone got back in the car, Director Sui Qijun from the medical department had replied.

"Bureau Chief Li, the medicine names you provided, their functions and primary uses are relatively vague, it's hard to deduce what illness the patient is suffering from based on these medicines."

"What kind of answer is that?" Li Banfeng was very dissatisfied, "The prescriptions are right in front of you, yet you can't identify the illness?"

Sui Qijun was a bit embarrassed: "Bureau Chief Li, I don't want to give a too arbitrary response, but based on what I know, the names you provided don't really qualify as medicines."

"If they're not medicines, what are they? I saw these at the pharmacy."

"These items should be considered health supplements with certain therapeutic effects, but their compositions are relatively complex, their efficacy is hard to determine, and they're quite expensive."

Li Banfeng hung up the phone and was silent for a while.

Ming Xing remarked from the side: "People eat whatever they like, it's not our concern. But since they're health supplements and not essential medicines, we don't really have to buy medicine for them."

Light Bulb thought for a moment: "Director Sui said these health supplements are quite expensive. Considering their family's condition, they don't seem wealthy."

Dumpling said: "That's because you're not aware. Many elderly are quite superstitious about health supplements, even if the family isn't well-off, they'll find a way to buy some."

Chuuni shook his head: "It's not that simple."

Li Banfeng looked at Chuuni: "What evidence did you find earlier?"

Ming Xing said: "You probably won't find any valuable evidence in his house."

Chuuni ignored Ming Xing, handed the evidence to Li Banfeng, and Li Banfeng looked it over, further confirming his thoughts.

Back at the bureau, they went to the meeting room, and Chuuni took out a plastic bag: "I previously speculated that Zhang Peiwen wouldn't be willing to take a cab, this is what I found in the crevice of his mattress."

Light Bulb looked at the plastic bag and saw that it contained various denominations of change, the largest denomination being a ten-yuan note, just one, along with some ones, fives, and quite a few rare coins.

"This should be the change left from buying medicine," Ming Xing roughly counted, and the change added up to over a hundred yuan.

"Or it could be leftover from buying groceries," Chuuni took out a schedule, "this schedule was stuck on his desk, I had to put in quite an effort to pry it off."

Light Bulb looked over the schedule, and his eyebrows furrowed.

Monday, get up at 7 AM, go to the bathroom from 7:15 to 7:30 AM, have breakfast from 7:30 to 8 AM, take a walk with dad in the community from 8 to 10 AM, go to the market for groceries from 10 to 11 AM.

Cook lunch with mom from 11 to 12 AM, lunch at 12, take a nap from 12:30 to 2 PM, watch TV from 2 to 3 PM, buy mom's medicine from 3 to 3:30 PM, and watch TV at home from 3:30 to 4 PM.

Go to the market for groceries from 4 to 5 PM, help mom with dinner from 5 to 6 PM, clean from 6:30 to 7:30 PM, do the laundry from 7:30 to 8:30 PM, and go to bed at 8:30 PM.

Dumpling glanced at the change in the plastic bag and said to Li Banfeng: "Chief, regarding the taxi ride, I still maintain my opinion. I believe the taxi driver didn't lie, Zhang Peiwen is just frugal, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have the capacity to spend."

Chuuni shook his head: "If he had the capacity to spend, he definitely wouldn't be spending it on taxis, you can see from the schedule that every Wednesday afternoon, his mom checks the shopping receipts with him. Ai Xiafen also tallies these coins with him."