8: Chapter 8 Learning Makes Me Happy, and Another Red Name Appears

Lin Ning felt a slight, tipsy sense of being overstuffed, and he didn't want to do anything.

After thinking about it, he called Lawyer Zhang and headed straight to the law firm, bringing along all the various documents regarding the company and his ex-girlfriend that he had organized over the past two days.

After discussing these pieces of evidence with Lawyer Zhang.

Lin Ning couldn't help but ask Lawyer Zhang, "Lawyer Zhang, I heard that you lawyers sometimes need to find clues and evidence yourselves, just like solving a case, is that right?"

"Did your school offer a course for this?"

Lin Ning felt that if he wanted to make a living off of reporting, he would definitely need to learn some professional skills and techniques.

Surveillance, evidence collection, and especially the mindset of solving a case.

He didn't need to solve a case; he might already know the result—that the person was a criminal.

But he needed to deduce the process backward.

At the very least, it would allow him to distinguish between a spy and an ordinary criminal, so that when he reported them, he could speak with substance and point out exactly what was suspicious about them.

Instead of just making baseless accusations—like 'That person doesn't look like a good guy to me.'

The Public Security University should have corresponding courses, but that kind of school probably wouldn't allow auditing.

He had heard that lawyers often found evidence and solved cases themselves, so he wanted to see if Lawyer Zhang had any recommended ways or methods for him to learn.

Lawyer Zhang had originally thought Lin Ning was just asking out of curiosity, but seeing the seriousness in Lin Ning's eyes, he was taken aback.

"What's the matter? You need to tell me something. If you're looking for evidence that your ex-girlfriend cheated, there's really no need. Because cheating is a moral issue, and what we are dealing with now is a legal issue. It's about getting back the marriage fund you saved for the purpose of getting married."

Lin Ning was stunned; Lawyer Zhang had misunderstood.

Liu Qingbei had cheated; he was sure of it himself, and he didn't want to find evidence.

Lin Ning couldn't really explain in detail or make it clear what his purpose was for wanting to learn these things, so he could only vaguely say, "I'm just quite interested in this area recently..."

Seeing Lawyer Zhang's speechless expression, Lin Ning thought for a moment and added, "You also know that I'm working as a runner now."

"I run into a lot of weird people and things. I previously reported a group engaging in illicit sexual activities, and the Public Security Bureau even rewarded me with 1,000 yuan."

"I was thinking that I should observe more and pay more attention while I work. This is also a path to getting rich, so I wanted to learn things like surveillance, the mindset for solving cases, and so on."

Lawyer Zhang felt that young people these days really just come up with ideas on a whim.

But seeing Lin Ning's unusually serious expression, and recalling his experience, he felt that it was actually quite good for him to have something to do and to study a bit.

"Then I'll recommend a few books for you."

When he handed the book list to Lin Ning, he warned him very seriously, "Investigation, evidence collection, and surveillance—in China, this is a gray area. Whether you are acting with good intentions to fulfill your civic duties or doing it for the reporting bonus, you must abide by the law."

"First, focus on reading the first book I recommended to you, so you know where the legal boundaries are. You must not break the law; absolutely do not cross the red line."

Lin Ning nodded, thanked him repeatedly, and accepted the other person's well-intentioned reminder.

With the book list given by Lawyer Zhang, Lin Ning ran to the bookstore.

These books were really expensive!

At the moment of payment, Lin Ning was almost moved by his own sense of copyright awareness. Actually, thinking about it, pirated e-books online wouldn't have been impossible.

Lin Ning found a random spot, sat down in the bookstore, and flipped through the books.

He was thinking about his future time, plans, allocation, and so on.

If he wanted to learn and catch 'red names', he couldn't schedule his delivery orders as densely as before; the frequency of taking delivery orders had to decrease.

He needed to plan his daily reading and study time well. If he encountered a 'red name', he would have to temporarily adjust his order taking; after all, that was the fastest way to make money and was his primary job. Now, running errands had instead become his part-time side job.

However, the errand-running job still had to be continued for now. After all, this uniform made it reasonable for him to appear anywhere; it counted as a natural protective camouflage.

Lin Ning took out his phone.

He didn't dare to search for 'spy equipment' online, so he searched for 'detective equipment' instead.

He could only say—it was an eye-opener!

He hadn't paid much attention before, and he really didn't know there were so many useful and interesting little things.

Things like self-defense tools, pinhole cameras, flashlight cameras, patch-style bugs, long-range audio recording devices, light wave evidence collection instruments...

It was dazzling!

But seeing the prices—uh, sorry for the interruption!

He didn't deserve them yet.

He calmed his mind and began to read the book in his hand seriously.

"Hmm, logical reasoning is the most useful for me."

"Deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, analogical reasoning. For someone like me who knows the other person committed a crime first and then deduces backward to investigate what they actually did, these three techniques are the most helpful to me."

"Analogy, right, the sameness and similarity of identical objects in certain attributes can be used for analogy. For example, a turned spy is nothing more than about money, sex, or fame. There must be something abnormal. And spies sent by foreign countries should at least have one characteristic: striving to contact various 'resource-type' nationals. Others still need to be summarized."

He was reading with great interest and felt he was benefiting greatly.

He received a WeChat message from Yang Weifeng, just an address and the words 'grabbing skewers'.

Lin Ning nodded apologetically to the readers who had been disturbed by the phone sound.

He quickly packed up his things.

Since his sworn brother invited him, he had to go~~

But before going...

...

The gathering place was where they often ate together during their university days.

The cooking was superb, the prices were fair, but it was a street of street food stalls that was a bit dirty and messy.

When Lin Ning arrived, he saw Yang Weifeng at a glance—truly the 'old place'.

This guy was like his name; he was like a bear. Upon meeting, he gave a hug that almost strangled Lin Ning.

Struggling free from this unwanted enthusiasm, he gave Yang Weifeng a punch in annoyance. He then handed him a small bag with a gold shop logo on it.

Yang Weifeng took it and looked at the contents; it was a gold bracelet for a child.

Yang Weifeng frowned, "Why buy this stuff?"

"A belated birth gift for my son."

Yang Weifeng: "Do you have money to burn? Gold prices have hit the sky. Wait... where did you get the money?"

"I just earned it," Lin Ning said helplessly.

"What did you do? You got money in just these two days?"

Lin Ning knew Yang Weifeng was worried that he might have gone down the wrong path, so he could only explain briefly, "I just saw a suspicious person while running errands, reported them, and then got a 100,000 yuan reward."

"Really?" Yang Weifeng opened his mouth wide in disbelief.

Lin Ning: "Would I get money for lying to you? It's real~~"

The matter of making money by reporting crimes was indeed very far from ordinary people.

As Lin Ning spoke, he picked up his phone to show Yang Weifeng, "The payer, did you see clearly? It's the 'State' surname."

"Whoa, not bad," Yang Weifeng relaxed and felt amazed at the same time.

Lin Ning smoothed his hair, "That's right~ Brother is now a good citizen and a beacon of justice!"

Yang Weifeng couldn't stand his smug look, so he stretched out his arm to put Lin Ning in a headlock, "Still 'Brother'? Who are you acting as a brother to?"

After playing around, Yang Weifeng picked up his phone to show Lin Ning photos of his son, showing off endlessly, "Look, look, is he cute? Is he handsome! You don't even know... when he smiles... and when he cries, it's so loud..."

Lin Ning hadn't lived past twenty-four in his two lives combined, so he didn't understand the joy of family life and couldn't comprehend how one becomes a 'baby-showing maniac' after having a child.

But Lin Ning took the phone to be polite and started flipping through the photos. Hey, come to think of it, the little thing was quite cute.

After flipping through a few, the next second, he saw a selfie of Yang Weifeng wearing a pink lace-trimmed dress, holding his son in front of a mirror. "Pfft~ Hahaha..."

Have you ever seen a bearded fitness fanatic? And the image of him holding a baby while wearing a dress was enough to make Lin Ning die of laughter...

Yang Weifeng snatched the phone back. Damn, he had forgotten about that photo.

Seeing Lin Ning laughing uncontrollably, he let it go; anyway, he had already seen it. Besides, among the brothers, over their four years of university, they had plenty of each other's dark history and embarrassing photos to use as leverage against each other.

Yang Weifeng forcibly changed the subject, "You'll have a day like this too, what are you laughing at."

"And you need to hurry up. Didn't you hear what the experts said? The younger you are, the better the quality of 'that'. The children born are smarter and healthier."

Lin Ning was speechless. You're the first person to skip urging marriage and go straight to urging procreation.

"You having a child is like joining a pyramid scheme. What's the matter, do you have a quota to recruit downlines?"

Yang Weifeng: "Hey, this little mouth is like it's been dipped in poison. You don't listen to the wisdom of your elders..."

As the two were joking and laughing, the stall next door suddenly became lively.

Two women started fighting for some unknown reason.

These two guys quickly stretched their necks to watch the excitement. When women fight, some say it's ugly, some say it's good to watch.

How should I put it, as long as you aren't the type of domineering CEO who likes the aloof and unworldly type, you would definitely be like these two guys, Lin Ning and his friend,

Watching and watching, the expressions on their faces gradually became lewd. Those who have seen it know which stage the battle had reached.

Unfortunately, the police arrived in a few minutes and took the two of them away.

The two, still feeling unsatisfied, turned back to continue eating. Yang Weifeng: "Why, aren't you a good citizen and a beacon of justice? Why didn't you go and stop the fight when people were fighting?"

Lin Ning: "Is it any of my business? Just tell me, was it exciting or not, was it 'fair-skinned' or not!"

The two looked at each other and laughed out loud.