"Where is Xiao Yanbao?"

The eldest brother, Li Muxing, arrived at the milk tea shop first, but didn't see Xiao Yanbao. Just then, the other brothers entered. Li Muxing frowned and asked the brothers who had just entered with some anxiety.

The brothers, who were chatting and joking around, immediately scanned the milk tea shop upon hearing their eldest brother's words. Seeing that Xiao Yanbao was indeed nowhere to be seen, they looked at each other and shook their heads.

"My phone is dead, Third Brother, call Xiao Yanbao right away."

As the eldest brother spoke, the other brothers took out their phones to call Xiao Yanbao's smartwatch, and the receiver kept playing the "You have dialed a number that is currently in use" notification.

"Don't fight, let me fight myself."

The third brother, Li Muhao, quickly told his brothers to hang up the phone and then redialed Xiao Yanbao's number.

"Sorry, the number you dialed is currently switched off..."

Li Muhao angrily threw his phone on the table next to him and turned to look at his younger brothers who had called earlier.

"If you hadn't called earlier, maybe the call would have gone through. Now, Xiao Yanbao's phone is definitely out of battery. What are we going to do?"

The younger brothers, ignoring their argument with their third brother, anxiously looked towards the school gate and the small shops along the roadside. Just then, the sixth brother, Li Mushen, suddenly spoke up:

"Where's Second Brother? Why hasn't he come yet? Could it be that Second Brother took Xiao Yanbao and left first?"

Everyone then realized that they hadn't noticed that the second brother, Li Muchen, wasn't there because they were too anxious. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. Since Li Muchen wasn't there, it was very likely that Xiao Yanbao was with Li Muchen.

"I'll call my second brother right now."

The fifth brother, Li Mufeng, took out his phone and dialed the number of the second brother, Li Muchen. The call was disconnected after ringing twice, and the call was disconnected again when he dialed again.

The brothers' anger flared up instantly; the more urgent the matter, the more likely the second brother was to fail them.

If Xiao Yanbao is really with him, I'll definitely give him a good talking-to when I get home tonight and make him deliberately not answer the phone.

"Quickly call the driver and ask if they're together. I'll go ask the shop assistant if they've seen Xiao Yanbao."

Just as the eldest brother, Li Muxing, was about to speak to the third brother, Li Muhao, the voice of the second brother, Li Muchen, came from the shop entrance.

"What are you doing? You keep calling me. It's all your fault that I lost this game."

The second brother, Li Muchen, stared intently at his phone, which was emitting a "doublekill" notification. Upon seeing Li Muchen appear, the other brothers immediately surrounded him and began asking him questions.

"Where is Xiao Yanbao?"

The second brother, Li Muchen, looked at his brothers with a puzzled expression. Wasn't Xiao Yanbao in the milk tea shop?

"She's not here? I didn't know. I walked this way after school and played a game on the way, but I didn't see that little brat!"

Upon hearing the second brother's words, the group all frowned and anxiously jogged to follow their eldest brother to the counter, simultaneously shouting loudly at him:

"Eldest brother, second brother did not see Yanbao."

At that moment, the third brother, Li Muhao, who had just finished a phone call with the driver, shook his head at the eldest brother, Li Muxing. The eldest brother grabbed the phone of the second brother, Li Muchen, opened the photo album, found a picture of Xiao Yanbao, and handed it to the waiter who had come closer.

"Excuse me, have you seen this little girl? She's really cute."

"Yes, yes, Xiao Yanbao is extremely cute, can't you see?"

The waiter glanced at the photo and immediately remembered the little girl drinking milk in the corner earlier. He nodded and said:

"Is this the little girl you're looking for? She was taken away by an older man. Ask her if her parents took her away."

“Uncle? Impossible. Xiao Yanbao was waiting for us here after school so we could go home together. How could someone have taken her away alone?”

The third brother, Li Muhao, immediately retorted when he heard the waiter's words, but his mouth was immediately covered by his eldest brother.

"Big brother, are your store's security cameras working? Could you let us see who took my sister away?"

When the waiter heard that Li Muxing wanted to see the security footage, he hesitated for a moment, but then worried that the little girl had really been taken away by a stranger, which would probably cause trouble for the store. Thinking of this, the waiter immediately said:

"I'll call the boss first, and you guys can also check if your sister has been picked up by her family."

The seventh child, Li Mujun, had already gotten through to her father, Li Qicheng. Upon hearing that Xiao Yanbao was missing, Li Qicheng's forehead instantly broke out in a thick layer of sweat. While asking about their location, he hurriedly came down from the second floor to the first floor.

Zhong Jingyi was playing with the eighth child, Li Mulang, in the living room. Li Qicheng wiped the fine beads of sweat from his forehead and tried to remain calm as he entered the living room.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing Li Qicheng rushing downstairs, Zhong Jingyi couldn't help but ask curiously. However, Li Qicheng didn't want his wife to worry, so although he had mentally prepared himself, he still answered somewhat guiltily:

"Honey, I have to go out for a bit."

Although Zhong Jingyi felt strange, seeing that Li Qicheng seemed to be in a hurry, she didn't ask any more questions. Instead, she held Li Mulang and said to Li Qicheng:

"Come on, say goodbye to Dad."

Li Qicheng didn't have time to say much to Zhong Jingyi. He waved and hurriedly left. Zhong Jingyi, carrying Li Mulang, came to the door and called out to Li Qicheng, who was already in the car:

"Drive slowly."

"good."

Li Qicheng's car sped away like an arrow released from a bow. Zhong Jingyi's heart also became somewhat flustered with the roar of the car, as if she felt that something was about to happen, and she suddenly felt a little agitated.

Looking up at the clock on the wall, she saw that it was time for school to end. After hesitating for a moment, just as she was about to dial Xiao Yanbao's number on the screen, Li Mulang in her arms suddenly started crying.

"Baby is hungry, right? How about Mommy makes you some milk?"

Zhong Jingyi disregarded everything else and carried Li Mulang back to the bedroom on the second floor.

At the milk tea shop near the school gate, Li Muxing and her younger brothers were watching the surveillance footage they had just pulled up. After school, Xiao Yanbao appeared at the milk tea shop on time.

"Little Yanbao, it's Little Yanbao!"

The moment Lao Qi, Li Mujun, saw Xiao Yanbao's figure on the monitor, he immediately shouted. All the brothers stared intently at Xiao Yanbao, who was sitting in the corner.

"Someone's there!"

When the third brother, Li Muhao, saw a long-haired woman walking towards Xiao Yanbao in the surveillance footage, he immediately alerted her. However, a few seconds later, everyone was disappointed. It turned out that the woman was another employee in the store, who had just been delivering milk to Xiao Yanbao.

Just then, everyone's hearts tightened again as a figure in a black jacket appeared on the monitor...