National Forensic Doctor

Chapter 1324: Chapter 1250: Today’s Young People

"Hello everyone!" Qiao Shengli entered with a lively greeting to the group of detectives.

A group of people, either with disheveled clothes, distracted expressions, or unresolved gossip, scrutinized Qiao Shengli with detective-like eyes.

Preliminary judgment: this person just washed her hair, changed into new clothes, wore new shoes, and had a full face of makeup.

Consequently, everyone’s gaze unconsciously drifted towards Jiang Yuan.

Jiang Yuan cleared his throat twice, "Add one more set of chopsticks, and make more dumplings."

After saying this, Jiang Yuan patted the head of the police dog Stallone for reassurance to prevent it from thinking someone was going to steal its food.

Qiao Shengli took two quick steps to catch up with Jiang Yuan, glancing around. After everyone else turned their heads shyly, she said to Jiang Yuan, "Captain Jiang, I seem to have come just at the right time, as there is good food right as I arrive."

"It’s still being prepared, you’ll need to wait a bit," Jiang Yuan handed someone a pair of slippers.

Qiao Shengli changed into the slippers and entered. Although there were many people in the room, it was spacious and in a great location. Legend had it that Doctor Jiang had a good family background and was a forensic doctor out of interest. Indeed, he owned a house in Beijing.

Qiao Shengli studied biology and often dealt with the police. Previously, she felt that one should never date a co-worker, but now she thought that being in the same industry seemed quite good.

She boldly entered, and seeing everyone busy, rolled up her sleeves to help out too.

With her present, several people in the small kitchen silently retreated.

Ding dong.

The doorbell rang again.

"Did you invite many colleagues today? Is there a gathering?" Qiao Shengli asked curiously while peeling bamboo shoots nearby.

"It should be my dad," Jiang Yuan said as he left the kitchen to open the door, finally calling out "Dad" as he wished.

Qiao Shengli blinked her eyes, unable to help but look at Miao Ruixiang next to her: "Doctor Jiang’s father is here?"

Miao Ruixiang nodded silently, also curiously watching Qiao Shengli.

Unexpectedly, Qiao Shengli washed her hands graciously and then went out of the kitchen to greet Jiang Fuzhen and Uncle Qiang, who just entered, "Hello, Uncle. I’m Qiao Shengli."

"Oh, hello, hello." Jiang Fuzhen was already accustomed to seeing a roomful of police, just like seeing a herd of cattle when opening the corral on his ranch. However, a black-haired, straight university girl like Qiao Shengli was not commonly seen.

Qiao Shengli smiled again and returned to the kitchen.

Jiang Yuan took the beef and other goods his dad brought and handed them to Wen Ming to store downstairs.

His dad changed shoes and washed his hands, joining Uncle Qiang in wrapping dumplings!

Jiang Yuan went back to the kitchen, took over Miao Ruixiang’s work, and began adding vegetables to the pot.

"Is so much prepared to freeze for the dog to eat later?" Qiao Shengli was slightly curious. Even among Jiang Yuan’s accumulated case team, few had seen the scene of nearly immovable food in a large iron pot from collecting dozens of pounds of meat.

Jiang Yuan shook his head, "We eat what’s left from the dog."

"Huh?" Qiao Shengli thought she heard wrong.

"The meal is actually prepared for the dog; everyone else is here for a free meal," Jiang Yuan explained.

Qiao Shengli was incredulous, "Is dog food this rich?"

"It just looks rich, but in fact... the police dog needs roughly ten basic ingredients per meal. It’s just one meal a day unless there’s a night patrol or morning training, then we’ll add more. Today, we need to prepare an extra meal for it," Jiang Yuan said while stirring the food in the pot and adding seasoning.

Various pre-prepared ingredients also started going into the pot in order.

Soon, everything was in the pot.

Jiang Yuan checked his watch, pressed the lid onto the pot, and said, "Two minutes, and it will be ready to eat."

"Then we’ll start boiling the dumplings." A detective with keen ears in the living room immediately began organizing the order.

The room suddenly became lively, with people shuttling between the kitchen and grabbing dishes and vinegar, taking the opportunity to glance at Qiao Shengli.

Qiao Shengli moved to the other side and whispered, "Captain Jiang, the silicon database project of 20 kilometers upstream of the Tai River you assigned us is almost completed. Professor Su has made several trips to Beijing, and an article will likely be published soon." noveldrama

"Oh, that fast?" Jiang Yuan was slightly surprised.

"The professor wants to secure more projects, so we’ll have to work hard like cattle and horses," Qiao Shengli said, seemingly complaining, before adding, "Our professor suspects you’ll want to create a silicon database for the entire Taihe Basin, right?"

Jiang Yuan smiled, without hiding it, and said, "Indeed, we plan to do it, but the project is too big to be led by Ningtai County. It might require the provincial government."

The main stream of the Tai River is about 400 kilometers, but including tributaries and so on, the total length of the water system is 600 kilometers. The silicon database needed for criminal investigation cannot assume criminals only kill on the main stream, not on tributaries. Besides, lakes, reservoirs, marsh wetlands, and distributaries within the water system should also be sampled.

Such a project’s scale is already more than 30 times the 20-kilometer silicon database, and the required funding is beyond Ningtai County’s capability. Given Shannan Province’s situation, it would be logical to have the province lead it.

Qiao Shengli silently glanced at Jiang Yuan and said, "Whether the province does it or not is up to you, right?"

Jiang Yuan was surprised, "Where did you get that idea?"

"Isn’t it?" Having been fully involved in the silicon database project, Qiao Shengli naturally knew how effective mentioning Jiang Yuan was. Even for a project issued by the Ningtai County Taihe Working Group, the provincial and municipal levels have ways to influence it.

For other county-level projects, the counties can mostly only control personnel and funding. If personnel is fixed and expenditure reasonable, the county’s control is limited. In technical issues, provincial and city-level experts have a say because they are indeed technical experts, capable of spotting and addressing problems.

This is comparable to renovations; knowledge is needed to manage personnel and funding reasonably. Understanding technology allows one to scrutinize and find problems, controlling renovation processes and details.

For silicon database projects, Shannan Province’s provincial and municipal levels were unwilling to interfere with the Taihe Working Group’s project.

Succeeding would offend people, failing would be embarrassing, and being a criminal investigation system project, the one who could speak most authoritatively became Jiang Yuan.

"I will review the database you’ve created later," Jiang Yuan did not make a firm statement.

"There will definitely be no problem," Qiao Shengli hastily said.

Jiang Yuan shook his head with a smile, "Whether there’s a problem, your opinion doesn’t count; the case decides."

Qiao Shengli was taken aback, "You want to use it directly to solve cases?"

"Otherwise, this type of database is too time-consuming to check randomly. I have no time for that. Moreover, our police station’s silicon database is meant for solving cases. A database that solves cases is useful, but if it can’t solve cases, the data is meaningless," Jiang Yuan said, completely beyond Qiao Shengli’s expectations.

Moreover, thinking it over carefully, this verification method is much harder than random checks.

She even further considered that Jiang Yuan or Ningtai County obtaining this database was probably not just for solving cases but surely to solve cases.

In other words, the database they created was now linked to the drowning case-solving rate in the Taihe River.

This determination method seemed unreasonable. What if the police failed to solve the case? However, facing Jiang Yuan, even an outsider like Qiao Shengli knew the reputation of "Ningtai Jiangyuan," so she didn’t know how to voice opposition.

Moreover, nowadays, aren’t most projects controlled by the client, who often makes unreasonable demands—normal for a client.

Qiao Shengli could only say, "A bit of pragmatism—I thought you’d be more concerned about authorship in papers or something..."

"Authorship is needed, and also to note that Ningtai County Bureau’s Taihe Working Group is a co-builder," Jiang Yuan unwaveringly requested.

At this moment, as the party B, Qiao Shengli could only keep nodding.

Outside the kitchen.

Jiang Fuzhen and Uncle Qiang, who had been paying attention to the kitchen, saw Jiang Yuan talking down to Qiao Shengli. The girl kept nodding, her long sleek hair moving like a waterfall, resembling a submissive party.

"Could this easily go wrong?" Jiang Fuzhen hesitantly whispered.

Uncle Qiang shook his head blankly, "I don’t understand. Maybe this is how young people are nowadays?"