Chapter 031 Follow-up Processing
It was almost June in the old city, and the sun was already scorching. The air was filled with heat waves, mixed with the sounds of bicycle bells and the noisy chirping of cicadas. Shi Yue reached out and wiped the sweat that was sliding down his forehead, and walked into the gate of the Public Security Bureau with Xiao Wang and Xiao Zhang from the Security Department.
The Public Security Bureau was in chaos at that moment, even noisier than the incessant chirping of cicadas.
The girls, tricked into buying their children by a fake boss, the parents summoned by the police, the police busy registering and interrogating them... The service hall was bustling with people. The receptionist was busy explaining the situation to confused parents and reporting to the incessantly ringing phone line, completely oblivious to Shi Yue and the other two who had just arrived.
Shi Yue stood in front of the reception desk for a long time. Finally, when there was no one in front of the receptionist, he took the opportunity to rush forward.
"Comrade, we're from the security department at the machinery factory. We'd like to hold a legal education lecture. Who should we contact?"
"You have to go to the Propaganda Department for this matter. Go out the door and turn left. The third room on the right is the Propaganda Department office." The female comrade who received her replied to Shi Yue without even raising her head, and then went on to deal with the people behind her.
Shi Yue thanked them and led Xiao Wang and Xiao Zhang to the Propaganda Department. As soon as he explained his identity, a square-faced man appeared from the adjacent room and asked, "You said you were from the Machinery Factory's Security Department?"
Shi Yue: "Yeah, yes, we are..."
The square-faced man slapped his thigh and said, "You've come just in time. Come, give us a hand."
He introduced himself: "My last name is Xu, and I'm the captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment. You can just call me Captain Xu. I'd like your security department to help us find someone. We've already confirmed that several of the children are children of factory workers."
To put it bluntly, Captain Xu wanted Shi Yue to help the Public Security Bureau run errands and call for help.
Captain Xu explained: "Because we rescued too many children this time, we don't have enough manpower, so..."
Shi Yue understood and nodded: "Okay, I'll help you find someone."
Matters involving the machinery factory employees fell within his scope of responsibility, and he couldn't refuse even if he wanted to.
Captain Xu took out a piece of paper and handed it to Shi Yue: "This is the list we compiled. Just help me find the person according to it."
"Okay, I'll go."
Shi Yue didn't think too much about it. He thought it was just an easy job to call for help, so he left Xiao Wang and Xiao Zhang at the Public Security Bureau and went back to the factory alone to call for help. He followed the order of the list written on the paper and started looking for Zhao Liu first.
Zhao Liu and Song Chunsheng were both employees of the factory's fifth workshop. Shi Yue went straight to the fifth workshop after returning to the factory. He called Zhao Liu out and said to him without any nonsense, "Your daughter is in the Public Security Bureau now. You should go there quickly to pick her up."
Zhao Liu pointed at himself in confusion: "My daughter? Why is my daughter in the Public Security Bureau? She should be in..."
Shi Yue: "Where do you think she should be now? In Hong Kong?"
Zhao Liu nodded in confusion: "Isn't it? Isn't she following Boss Hu..."
Shi Yue: "You're overthinking it. There's no such person as Boss Hu. The Boss Hu you know is a human trafficker in disguise. He's already been apprehended by the Public Security Bureau."
"What?! How could this happen?"
Zhao Liu widened his eyes in shock, seemingly unable to understand what Shi Yue said at all.
Shi Yue didn't have the patience to continue explaining to him, and said directly: "If you want to inquire about the news, you can go to the police at the Public Security Bureau to ask. I came here to inform you of this matter. Now that I have informed you, I should find the next one."
After he finished speaking, he turned around and walked out. Only then did Zhao Liu react. He didn't even bother to ask for leave from his leader and ran to the Public Security Bureau.
Shi Yue turned around and went to the fourth workshop and called out Qian Qi from the list. He still told Qian Qi that the child was at the Public Security Bureau and asked him to go to the Public Security Bureau to pick up the child.
But who would have thought that when Qian Qi heard this, his first reaction was: "Daughter? Whose daughter? I don't have a daughter?"
Shi Yue lowered his head and glanced at the name on the list. Yes, it was Qian Qi from Workshop 4?
He asked, "Isn't Qian Lai Di your daughter?"
Qian Qi smiled, showing his large yellow teeth. "Oh, Chief Shi, are you talking about Lai Di? Yes, Lai Di was my daughter before, but, but, oh, she's not my daughter anymore. I've already given her to someone else for adoption."
Shi Yue: "The Public Security Bureau is looking for you because of this. The person who took your daughter away before was a human trafficker. He has been arrested by the Public Security Bureau, so they asked you to go and get your daughter back."
"What? Human traffickers?" Qian Qi opened his mouth in surprise.
Shi Yue: "So you should hurry to the Public Security Bureau to pick up your daughter."
"That won't do, that won't do." Qian Qi shook his head, rubbing his rough, red nose with his fingers, and said, "We're real men. Our words are as good as our spit. We keep our promises. We agreed to adopt her, so she's adopted. Even if the man is a human trafficker, it can't change that. My daughter is his daughter."
Even Shi Yue was stunned when he heard this. He frowned and looked at Qian Qi: "That's a human trafficker!"
Qian Qi: "What's wrong with being a human trafficker? My daughter recognized him as her father, so he is her father! There's no changing that!"
Shi Yue looked at Qian Qi steadily. After a while, he sneered, "Oh, you don't want your daughter anymore, right?"
He was not a fool, so he could naturally see Qian Qi's true intention.
Qian Qi grinned, "Hey, Chief Shi, you can't say that. It's not that I don't want a daughter, but she's already been adopted out. According to the rules, I definitely can't just take her back. If an adopted child can be taken home casually, how can that be justified?"
"Heh, you're quite good at changing the subject." Shi Yue looked at Qian Qi coldly and said this.
Even though he had prepared himself mentally and knew that few people who sell their children truly love them, he was still angered by Qian Qi's attitude.
Compared with Qian Qi, Zhao Liu, who he just disliked for his slow reaction, is simply the best father in the world.
Qian Qi raised his chin and looked at Shi Yue with a smug look.
He really didn't want to take Qian Lai Di back. Although Qian Lai Di was his daughter, she was born to his previous wife who had died. The second wife he found now never liked Qian Lai Di, the burden, and had quarreled with him several times about this. He finally had a proper chance to get rid of Qian Lai Di, this burden, and he definitely didn't want to take her back.
Qian Qi was not afraid that Shi Yue would find out that he didn't want to take Qian Lai Di back home. After all, in his opinion, he was right, and Shi Yue certainly couldn't force him to take Qian Lai Di home.
Although Shi Yue was in a good mood when facing Shi Qiu Shui and never lost his temper no matter how angry he was, he was not a good person to outsiders.
His face was dark, his voice was cold, and he said, "Are you sure you don't want to accept Qian Lai Di?"
Qian Qi nodded loudly: "Yeah."
"OK."
Shi Yue took two steps forward and kicked Qian Qi in the back of the knee. Qian Qi cried out in pain and fell forward involuntarily. Shi Yue took this opportunity to clamp his hands.
Qian Qi didn't expect him to attack suddenly, and he didn't react until he was pushed to the ground.
"Shi Yue, what are you doing! Let me go! Let me go!"
Qian Qi's shouting quickly attracted the workers in the workshop. Before anyone could ask, Shi Yue spoke first: "Please help me go to the security department to call someone. Qian Qi has done something wrong. I need someone to take him to the police station."
Upon hearing this, except for the one who took a step towards the security department to call for help, the others who had stuck their heads out to watch the excitement immediately took a step back.
Qian Qi had done something wrong, so they didn't dare to join in the fun, even though they were extremely curious about what Qian Qi had done wrong.
Could it be that he was stealing from the factory, just like Hou San, who was arrested in Workshop 3? But they hadn't heard of anything being stolen from the factory recently. The workers in Workshop 4 exchanged gossipy glances.
Qian Qi, who was being held down, finally realized that Yue was not joking. He roared, "What do you mean? How did I commit a crime? What did I do wrong?!"
Shi Yue: "You don't want your own daughter. You've committed the crime of abandoning a child."
Qian Qi: "What the hell?!"
Shi Yue said mockingly, "Don't you know that abandoning your own child is also a crime?"
Qian Qitou was pressed to the ground by Shi Yue in an extremely awkward position. He couldn't even breathe comfortably and his face was red from holding it in. But even so, one could still see a hint of doubt about life on his face.
"No way, no way, you really don't know that abandoning a child is a crime?" Shi Yue said disdainfully, and it didn't seem at all that he had just learned about this legal policy not long ago.
Shi Yue's interest in studying local laws and policies stemmed from the day Li Juan and Song Chunsheng argued, and the police officer explained that even parents selling their children was illegal. This realization, coupled with the difference between the laws and policies of the 1990s and those of the Great Yu Dynasty, sparked his interest in research. The security department happened to have a copy of the Criminal Law, and he'd been flipping through it with some free time. He happened to come across the page on abandonment and memorized it.
Qian Qi really didn't know that abandoning a child was a crime, and he was shocked when he heard Shi Yue say that.
He opened his mouth hesitantly, wanting to say that he was just joking and had no intention of abandoning Qian Lai Di, but before he could open his mouth, people from the security department arrived. Shi Yue called them over, tied his hands, gagged him, and took him to the Public Security Bureau.
Inside the Public Security Bureau, Captain Xu watched Shi Yue, who had just left a short time ago, return with great fanfare. He frowned and asked, "Comrade Shi, what are you doing..."
Shi Yue: "Captain Xu, I'm here to deliver a prisoner to you. It's Qian Qi. He wants to abandon his daughter!"
He told Captain Xu the whole story in detail, and Captain Xu fell silent.
Hearing Shi Yue's retelling of Qian Qi's nonsense, his face inevitably darkened. He kicked Qian Qi with a "bang", and the hard pointed leather shoes made a muffled sound when they hit the flesh. Qian Qi wanted to scream in pain, but his mouth had been blocked by Shi Yue, so no sound came out.
Captain Xu snorted coldly. If his clothes didn't prohibit him, he really wanted to kick Qian Qi, the beast, to death.
He was angry, but...
Captain Xu looked at Shi Yue and sighed helplessly. This kid only knew the law on abandoning criminals, but he didn't know that the crime of abandonment was not so easy to judge. To be convicted of abandonment, the abandonment behavior must reach a serious level. Qian Qi was not at that level yet.
Captain Xu pressed his throbbing forehead, thought for a moment, and then waved to someone, "Xiao Liu, come and put this guy in the detention room."
Although it is not that easy to put Qian Qi in jail, it is still possible to put him in the detention room and scare him.
He specifically instructed Xiaoliu, who had just been called over, "Lock him up in detention room number two."
Detention Room No. 2 was specially reserved for the troublemakers who lived there regularly. He instructed Xiaoliu to put Qian Qi in Detention Room No. 2, implying that Xiaoliu should take special care of Qian Qi.
Of course, this care didn't mean hitting Qian Qi. There were many ways to play a trick on him. They could dim the lights, deliberately patrol around him at night, making him extremely sleepy but unable to fall asleep; give him water but not time to go to the bathroom, deliberately making him feel uncomfortable; add more salt to his food but not water, deliberately making him thirsty... These little tricks, though not very ostentatious, could actually make people feel so uncomfortable that they were speechless.
"Okay, Captain Xu, I understand." Xiaoliu nodded and left with Qian Qi.
After the others left, Captain Xu turned back to Shi Yue and said, "You, you're really causing me trouble. Do you think abandonment is so easy to punish?"
Shi Yue raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Whether the sentence is good or not, didn't you put him in jail?"
Captain Xu suddenly realized: "Okay, you are waiting for me here?"
Shi Yue smiled faintly and said nothing. In fact, when he tied up Qian Qi at first, he just wanted to take him to the police station to scare him. Unexpectedly, Captain Xu also couldn't stand Qian Qi's behavior and arranged for him to be put in the detention room.
Captain Xu didn't know what Shi Yue was thinking. He really thought Shi Yue had tricked him into doing this. He nodded and said, "You're such a cunning fellow."
Shi Yue chuckled and thought to himself, I am very thoughtful, and you are not so thoughtful either.
Captain Xu waved his hand and said, "Alright, I've locked this guy up for you. Isn't it time for you to leave and continue looking for someone else for me?"
Shi Yue: "Okay, I'll go right away."
He left the message and turned to walk out. When he reached the door, he suddenly heard Captain Xu shout from behind him, "Take it easy, kid. Don't bring any more people to me!"
Shi Yue turned around and smiled: "Okay, I'll try my best."
"Hey, trying your best won't work! You have to be sure!" Captain Xu shouted behind him.
Shi Yue smiled and waved, but did not nod in agreement.
Shi Yue returned to the factory eager to get his hands dirty and was ready to send a few more irresponsible people to jail. However, Qian Qi's previous experience had spread throughout the factory, and no one dared to challenge Shi Yue anymore. Those who were found by him would obediently report to the Public Security Bureau.
The only one who was brave enough to stop Shi Yue was trembling.
Shi Yue curled his lips, really looking down on such a coward.
He kept a straight face and asked, "What's the matter?"
The man hesitated, "Deputy Section Chief Shi, well, I'm going to take the child back. So, um, Boss Hu—no, not Boss Hu, but the human trafficker—gave me child support. Do I have to pay it back as well?"
"No need to return it." The man in front of him just breathed a sigh of relief when he heard Shi Yue say, "But you have to hand it over to the police."
"Ah, why do we have to hand it over to the police? Can we just not hand it over..."
Shi Yue: "Don't hand it over? Don't even think about it. The money given by the trafficker is all stolen money. The police will definitely confiscate it. I advise you to hand it over on your own initiative, otherwise..."
"I will hand it in, I will hand it in, I will definitely hand it in, I will definitely hand it in voluntarily."
"snort."
Shi Yue ran around all afternoon, and only notified everyone on the list when the bell rang. He was delayed for a while because of reporting the situation to his superiors. When he arrived at the kindergarten gate, it was already a while since school was over.
Shi Qiu Shui, who was getting impatient, pouted the moment she saw him.
"Dad, why did you come to pick me up so late? I've been waiting for you for a long time!" Shi Qiu Shui complained dissatisfiedly.
Shi Yue took two steps forward, took Shi Qiushui's hand and apologized sincerely: "Xiaoqiu, I'm sorry. Daddy is late today. I'm really sorry."
He thought for a moment and said, "How about this, to express my apology, we eat your favorite roast chicken tonight?"
When he heard the word roast chicken, Shi Qiu Shui couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
She put forward a condition: "Then I want to eat chicken legs, two!"
Shi Yue: "Okay, you can eat both chicken legs. I won't eat any."
Shi Qiushui pretended to be reserved and hesitated for a while before nodding and saying, "Alright, since you are so sincere, I will forgive you."
After saying that, she no longer had a stern face, but returned to her usual smiling face. She approached Shi Yue and asked curiously, "By the way, Dad, you haven't told me yet, what did you do today?"
Shi Yue: "Don't mention it. I've been running around all afternoon, looking for someone."
He knew that Shi Qiu Shui wanted to hear gossip, starting from when he heard that Song Chunsheng was arrested this morning, and continued to talk about the weird parents he met in the afternoon.
Shi Qiu Shui clenched his fists throughout the whole process, listening with an indignant expression, and then heard her speak in dissatisfaction.
"Why are you letting those parents take their children back? They were the ones who sold the children! Aren't you afraid they'll sell the children again?"
Shi Yue: "Strictly speaking, they were tricked into selling their children, so they are also victims deceived by human traffickers, and the police can't do anything to them."
Shi Qiushui grabbed his hair, looking mad: "Ahhh, I'm so upset. They are obviously bad fathers and bad mothers, but there is no punishment at all."
Shi Yue smoothed his daughter's frizzy hair and said, "Don't worry, the Public Security Bureau will definitely criticize them. I don't think the machinery factory will let this go easily. And then there's the Women's Federation. I heard from Secretary Li that the director of the Women's Federation and the factory director were both called in and scolded several times because of this. Do you think they'll let those people off so easily?"
Hearing this, Shi Qiushui finally calmed down a bit. She wrinkled her nose and said, "Hehe, that's more like it."
But she was still a little angry. She pouted and said, "Since here we have to take exams to go to school and work, why not hold a parent exam before having a child? Only those who pass the exam are qualified to be parents. Those irresponsible parents who don't love their children should just not let them have children."
Shi Yue was amused by her fantasy.
He asked, "If there really is such an exam, what kind of questions will be asked?"
Shi Qiushui frowned, pouted her round face, and said distressedly: "I don't know either. It seems so difficult to come up with a question."
Shi Yue rubbed Shi Qiu Shui's head and smiled.
He had been dealing with those irresponsible parents for a whole day and was feeling a little depressed, but now, looking at his daughter's adorable appearance, all the unhappiness in his heart disappeared.
Shi Yue: "If you can't think of it, forget it. Let's go buy some roast chicken!"
He pulled Shi Qiushui into a trot and said, "Hurry up, let's go quickly, otherwise we'll be late and the roast chicken will be sold out!"
Hearing this, Shi Qiu Shui tried her best to take the biggest steps possible, although her short legs couldn't take big steps no matter how hard she tried.
Shi Qiu Shui and his friends were lucky today. When they arrived at the roast chicken shop, a batch of roast chickens had just been made. There were more than enough, so they didn't have to worry about not being able to buy any. Shi Yue was the fifth one in line to buy a roast chicken, and then took his daughter home.
The news that Song Chunsheng colluded with human traffickers to abduct children had spread to the compound. When Shi Yue and Shi Qiu Shui, father and daughter, stepped into the compound, they heard Yao Dazui vividly describing the scene of Song Chunsheng's arrest. Her face was full of disdain and indignation.
"You don't know how cowardly that bastard Song Chunsheng was when he was caught by the police. His legs were as weak as noodles and he fell to his knees on the ground, begging for mercy from the police..." Her loud voice attracted the neighbors from several nearby courtyards.
Shi Yue:......
Wasn’t it said that Song Chunsheng was arrested outside? How did Yao Dazui know the scene of Song Chunsheng’s arrest?
The people present obviously didn't notice this. They were talking to each other, and they were cursing Song Chunsheng excitedly, saying that he was not a good person and that human traffickers were not good people.
Hearing the dirty words about genitals and ancestors, Shi Yue quickly reached out and covered Shi Qiu Shui's ears.
Shi Qiushui listened to the lively conversation with excitement in his eyes: "Dad?"
Shi Yue: "Be good, let's not listen to this."
Shi Qiu Shui pouted in dissatisfaction. Fortunately, the old men and women had almost vented their anger and stopped swearing. Yao Dazui continued to share the news he had heard.
"Hey, you don't know how wicked that trafficker is! In order to prevent the parents from contacting the police, he pretended to be a rich man and said he was adopting a child. He then gave the parents a sum of money. The parents didn't think much of it, thinking their child would live a good life, and they didn't think he was a trafficker. In fact, he took the children away..."
Hearing this, Shi Yue already had a premonition that there would be a lot of swear words, so in order to prevent Shi Qiu Shui from joining in the fun, he quickly pulled Shi Qiu Shui into the house.
"Dad~~" Shi Qiu Shui was reluctant to leave and tried to act like a spoiled child.
Shi Yue was unyielding and refused without hesitation: "Let's go home."
He held up the roast chicken in his hand and tried to tempt Shi Qiushui: "Let's go home and eat roast chicken. It's delicious hot now. If it gets cold later, it won't be as delicious as it is now!"
"All right......"
Once again, the roast chicken triumphed over the desire to join in the fun.
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