Chen Ke was worried that the child would catch a cold if she was exposed to too much wind, so he sent Chen Rou back home around noon.
She also wanted to visit Li Xia, so she parked her car outside Li Xia's school and waited for her to come out after school.
She won't be home all day tomorrow. Nie Zhao and Nie Jiajun won't be there either, and Nie Han will be at work during the day. She'll probably worry about Xiao A Yuan not seeing his family. She wants Li Xia to take a day off tomorrow and go to the Nie family to help her look after the child.
With her, along with a wet nurse and a nanny, that should be enough.
But she was playing with little A-Yuan in the back seat, teaching him to say "ba-ba" by blowing bubbles. The mother and son were having a great time when her phone rang. She answered it and heard, "Mr. Huo?"
Huo Qi, like Chen Ke and the others, has been trying his best to find Zhang Zi in the past few days.
The two had a fight a few days ago and even made a bet, so Chen Rou naturally had to ask, "Has Inspector Huo found Cheung Tze-keung?"
Huo Qi said, "You stay at home. Is it convenient for you to come out? If not, I'll come to your house."
Chen Rou countered, "And you, where are you?"
The police station is located in Central, and Fok Kei usually works in Central as well. He said, "Hong Kong Police Station."
Chen Rou gave her address and said, "Come and find me."
They weren't far apart, and about 5 minutes later, Huo Qi arrived on his big motorcycle.
As soon as he arrived, the vehicles illegally parked on the roadside mistook him for a traffic cop, and all of them, except for Chen Rou, sped away.
It was 20 minutes before Li Xia was supposed to get out of school at noon. Chen Rou glanced at her watch and said, "If you still want to spout threats, then forget it. I need to spend time with my son and don't want to listen to you. But if there's any news about Zhang Ziqiang..."
Huo Qi leaned against the motorcycle, looking out the window with a half-smile: "I actually do have news about Cheung Tze-keung."
Actually, if Cheung Tze-keung wanted to carry out a kidnapping, he would release a false message to the police beforehand to divert the main police force. That's a common tactic used by kidnappers.
Chen Rou immediately realized that Zhang Ziqiang was releasing false information in preparation for tomorrow's kidnapping case.
She smiled and said, "Then I'll congratulate Mr. Huo in advance on winning the bet."
Huo Qi smiled and nodded. Seeing that Xiao A Yuan was talking and reaching out, he took off his police badge and handed it to the little guy. Then he said, "Actually, I didn't expect at first that all the mainland police officers would be infected with pneumonia. You probably don't know, but my living environment when I was a child was even worse than that."
Although he deliberately gave the house next to the public toilet as a prank, he didn't intend to make anyone sick.
Seeing that Chen Rou remained silent, Huo Qi continued, "Besides, I already arranged for them to change dormitories a few days ago."
Chen Rou retorted, "So, you think you can just let the matter of framing the password book go so easily?"
Huo Qi was also a stubborn person. After a moment of hesitation, he said, "We finally managed to send away the white police officer, but now we have to become second-class citizens. Mrs. Nie, I have my own principles on this matter, and I will use Cheung Tze-keung to prove my ability."
In other words, he refused to back down and refused to submit to the management of the People's Public Security Bureau over him, the royal police officer.
There's not much point in continuing to be so stubborn. Besides, Huo Qi is one of the more prestigious young officers. If we really want to use force to suppress him, we can either suppress him or have Nie Zhao use his connections to kick him out.
But because he knew he was a second-class citizen and came from a poor background, Chen Rou still tried to persuade him.
After thinking for a moment, Chen Rou happened to see an advertisement for Ceylon tea across the street. She pointed to the billboard and said, "I remember that Mr. Huo seems to really like drinking black tea. He should know about Ceylon, right?"
Huo Qi laughed and said, "Of course I know. Like Hong Kong, it's a colony and a resort. It's the place that white old men like to go. Our white police officers go there twice a year, and each time they hire a temporary girlfriend."
He's quite fond of gossip, and added, "He even had several mixed-race children, but he doesn't acknowledge any of them."
Chen Rou then asked, "Do you know what the per capita income is in Ceylon? Do you know that a warlord is overthrown there every month? Apart from the beach resorts, the indigenous people are starving and even eat dirt every day."
Huo Qi chuckled and said, "Of course, all the resources are in the hands of white people, and the natives in places like Ceylon are stupid and don't know how to unite like we do to fight."
Chen Rou countered, "Isn't the warlord era also part of the War of Resistance?"
Before Huo Qi could think, she continued, "Are those indigenous people really so stupid that they'd rather starve than fight back?"
Huo Qi was also puzzled and asked Chen Rou, "Then what do you think is the reason?"
Chen Rou pointed towards the mainland and said, word by word, "Because when you are resisting, there are 1.3 billion pairs of eyes watching you from behind, and millions of soldiers with guns watching you."
Furthermore, "In the eyes of the white lords, we are no different from the natives of Ceylon, just second-class citizens. The difference is that you have a huge country behind you. You think they are afraid of you? No, they are afraid of the continent!"
Huo Qi was born in Kowloon and grew up in Hong Kong. He loved this land and was proud of the bravery and courage of its citizens. He always believed that Hong Kong was able to stand out among hundreds of British colonies and maintain a voice in the British side because the citizens of Hong Kong were strong and brave enough.
He wanted to refute Chen Rou's argument, so he looked for examples in all the British colonies.
However, the more he thought about it, the more horrified he became, because he discovered that among all these British colonies located in key ports around the world, although some had become independent, their economies were still controlled by the British. The rest were poor, chaotic, and living in poverty, with local natives struggling to make ends meet despite their wealth. Hong Kong was the only exception.
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