The fire burned for three days and two nights. All the firefighters were blocked outside the fire scene. No matter which direction they came from, they could not get in. The news was reported to the city and province. Many bigwigs rushed to the perimeter of the fire scene one after another. Each arrival was accompanied by a continuous attempt to break through, but to no avail. The fire scene was an independent world, and ordinary people could not get close.
It was as if they had provoked a raging inferno, determined to burn the evil of this land to ashes before it could dissipate!
Television reporters, as well as various local newspapers, magazines, and provincial newspapers, were all present at the scene, turning this futile rescue effort into an unsolved mystery documentary.
Aside from the inaccessible fire scene, the most incredible thing is how the children and their beds got out! How did they even get out? Who did this?!
The children have been taken away and placed in a safe place, and some reporters went with them, hoping to get some reliable information.
"Captain, something's wrong!!!"
During a routine search, officers suddenly shouted, drawing all eyes to the source of the sound. Reporters immediately tried to follow, but were stopped by their team members outside the cordon.
Zeng Jing, who was in charge, quickly led his team members to the destination.
To the left of the orphanage is a scenic bamboo grove. In the center of the grove is a stone-paved open space where visitors can rest. Stone benches and tables are placed opposite each other. At this moment, the stone tables are piled with diaries and various materials, filling the irregularly shaped stone tables of three or four square meters.
The first police officer to discover the scene was holding a booklet, his whole body trembling, and tears were streaming uncontrollably from his eyes.
Hearing the noise behind her, she turned around and looked at Zeng Jing with teary eyes, "Captain, Captain... Waaaaah..."
Seeing his teammate's reaction, Zeng Jing's heart sank. An ominous premonition made him quicken his pace, grab the booklet from his teammate's hand, and start browsing.
The contents were so shocking that they pierced the heart. Zeng Jing's vision went black, and he almost fell forward!
The people behind him rushed forward to support him, "Captain, are you alright?"
The officers who accompanied him did not dare to touch the materials on the table without orders. They all looked at Zeng Jing. Years of experience in handling cases told them that this fire would likely uncover a dark secret that was hard to look at. But what kind of darkness could have shaken their captain so much?
"Report, requesting backup!" Zeng Jing activated his communicator.
After confirming that the firefighters could not break through, they left behind two vehicles and ten firefighters, while the rest withdrew, but the number of police officers increased.
The arrival of police cars drew the attention of reporters, who excitedly waited outside the police cordon, anticipating a major news story.
Jing Xueming, the leader of the city's fire department, and Pei Jun, the director of the city's public security bureau, each led four clerks into the bamboo forest. Led by the police officers, they arrived at the stone table. Zeng Jing put down the booklet, saluted, and then retreated to the rear.
The piles of materials felt like heavy stones pressing down on their hearts. They exchanged a glance, took a deep breath, and flipped through several booklets in succession.
"asshole!!!"
Perhaps the materials were too heavy, causing Pei Jun's legs to feel weak. He sat down on the stone bench and let out a long breath.
"Little Zhao."
"arrive!"
"Organize all the materials, make a detailed list, and bring them all back to the bureau. This case is now under the jurisdiction of the municipal bureau. What's your name?"
"Reporting to the Director! My name is Zeng Jing!"
"Okay, Zeng Jing, take your team members to assist in the investigation and compile all the materials."
"Yes, Chief!"
Orders were issued one after another, and everyone quickly entered a state of emergency.
Yuan Zhuan didn't go straight home, but went back to the office building. Besides Cao Ming, Feng Sanshui and Feng Shanlang were also summoned in the middle of the night, thus becoming ready-made stay-at-home dads.
Cao Ming felt he had never experienced such a shock in his life. Six children, one whimpering and another pooping, one moment feeding and the next pooping again. The Feng brothers were in a frenzy, and even Wen Xiangying was dragged in as a helper. By the time all the children had fallen asleep, it was already the afternoon of the next day.
"So, what exactly happened to the child?" Cao Ming sprawled on the sofa, completely covered in mud, while everyone else looked over after he asked the question, eager to find out the answer.
That brat stood by his bedside in the middle of the night, and before he could even recover from his shock, she told him to come with her. He got up and grabbed his clothes, and then a speed that seemed to defy technology swept him away, and he was in the second-floor rest room, where six chubby little babies were on the bed.
"I found it."
Cao Ming: ...
It was found by chance!
"These six children are all orphans, their parents are gone. I want to adopt them and use them for my own purposes. I will cover all their expenses, and you can handle the paperwork." All six are children with little to no family ties. Even if they are returned to the relevant institutions, they will not escape the fate of going to welfare homes or orphanages. It is better for them to stay with her than with others. At least they can survive.
“Yuan Zhuan! They are still young, they need a complete family! Besides, you only have two children, and you are also young. Who will take care of them?” Cao Ming stood up with strong disapproval, his expression more serious than ever before. “Tell me first, where did you pick them up from?”
The others didn't speak, but their expressions betrayed their feelings.
"If they don't even survive to adulthood after being sent back, are you still going to send them away for the sake of so-called parental affection?" Yuan Zhuan replied firmly, "There is no problem with their origins." This last sentence was also an answer to Cao Ming's later question.
The six children were supposed to die young tonight, but she saved them and changed their fate. However, things are still not going well. It's as if they are being targeted by something. None of the six will die a natural death! She doesn't want to raise the children, but if the six innocent lives cannot survive without her, her intervention can extend their lives. It won't harm her; on the contrary, it will bring her merit. Why shouldn't she do it?
Her rebirth was already a defy of fate! Now, there are six children like her who can defy fate, how could she bear to let them die like that?
"Can't live?" Cao Ming's face turned to shock.
He knew Yuan Zhuan's abilities; if sending him away meant certain death, then the so-called kinship could be disregarded.
"yes."
The Feng brothers exchanged a glance, then turned to look at their sleeping child, their hearts tipping in favor of Yuan Zhuan.
They weren't good people, but they didn't want all these young lives to perish.
Wen Xiangying didn't know what they were talking about, so she sat silently beside the child, which was her way of showing her attitude.
"Since that's the case, then let's keep it. But you need to give us an answer on where it will be kept, how it will be kept, and who will take care of it."
"Don't worry, I've arranged everything. I just bought a courtyard house in the residential area behind Tenth Street today." While they were busy this morning, Yuan Zhuan went out and found a real estate agent to buy a courtyard house. The house and yard together cover two acres, which is enough for the children to live in. Their family can move there too; otherwise, it's very inconvenient to go out and do errands under other people's watchful eyes.
"What?! You bought a courtyard house?!" Cao Ming's face was shocked again, filled with resentment at being ignored. Buying a house without even being careful—wasn't this a bit too fast? "Why couldn't you buy mine? Do you know how many houses I have tied up in? Huh? I have so many houses I'm too lazy to even collect rent! You didn't buy mine, you bought someone else's! You…you…"
Others: ...
Seeing the landlord's indignant expression after winning without lifting a finger, I silently shifted my gaze. Those wicked capitalists are indeed very annoying.
In the bright and clean office, a short, thin middle-aged man sat leaning back in a leather stool, a cigar dangling from his lips, exhaling smoke rings with his face turned upwards. Opposite him, a man and a woman sat on a leather sofa, both dressed in smart suits. The atmosphere was somewhat heavy; apart from the sounds of the man in the seat constantly puffing on his cigar, the people opposite him dared not breathe too loudly.
"Where have they found out over there?" The man squinted, his Asian face speaking in English.
"The orphanages and welfare homes in Beiyu have been investigated. All four of our hideouts there have been raided, and seven of our own men have died." Their entire supply of goods has been taken away, resulting in heavy losses for them this time.
As soon as he finished speaking, the man who had been smoking leisurely just a second ago suddenly kicked over the heavy desk in front of him. It crashed onto the carpet with a loud thud, shaking the floor.
"waste!"
The two shuddered, shrank their necks, and dared not lift their heads.
"Notify all outposts in other provinces to temporarily withdraw and return once the situation has calmed down."
"Hi!" The two stood up respectfully, bowed, and prepared to leave.
"Don't let anything else happen. If we lose a few more strongholds, you and I will all die," the man warned just as the two were about to step out the door.
"Hi."
They huddled under the dragon's claws, committing their misdeeds with impunity, because there was shade there, but that didn't mean they were fearless.
If they are truly exposed, how many of them will survive?
Standing up from his chair, the man picked up the phone and made several calls. "Do everything in your power to protect the transmission link. Find out who leaked this information to me! I'm going to kill him myself!"
Despite Zhao Yuxiang's reluctance and the sadness of Liu's mother and son, the entire move was completed that afternoon. Fortunately, the yard Yuan Zhuan bought wasn't far, only a ten-minute walk from Liu's house. The two brothers burst into tears, making Yuan Zhuan both amused and exasperated. He patted Yuan Zhu's round head and said, "Go play." The two little rascals stopped crying and went off to get acquainted with the house.
The Liu couple ran up and down, cleaning and tidying, while the Feng brothers brought several workers to arrange the pile of furniture that Yuan Zhuan had just bought, keeping them extremely busy.
When it was time to eat, Zhao Yuxiang used a steamed bun machine to make more than two hundred steamed buns and cooked a pot of mutton soup. Everyone ate until they were full and extremely satisfied.
As everyone left, Zhao Yuxiang looked at the clean and bright courtyard house and felt relaxed, as if she were in a dream.
"Zhuanzhuan, is this really our home?"
“Yes, Mom, this is our home.” Yuan Zhu smiled like a fool.
Yuan Zhuan nodded and smiled.
Zhao Yuxiang wiped away her happy tears and pulled Yuan Zhu along, "Come on, Mom will take you to choose your own little room. Zhuanzhuan, you can stay in the east wing, it gets plenty of sunlight there."
"good."
"Chief, this is what we found in our recent investigation. Please take a look." Chief Fu Yun, utterly exhausted, placed the materials in front of his superior. He was completely dejected. In the three days he had personally participated in the investigation, he had barely slept. His heart felt heavy, as if a mountain was pressing down on him, making it hard to breathe. In their jurisdiction, in all these years, they hadn't discovered such a vivid case. How terrifying! This was practically a provocation! A provocation against the authority of the state!!!
Pei Jun stared for a long time, then leaned back dejectedly. "We can't hide it anymore. We have to report it." The scope of the case is too broad. They can't hide it, nor can they let it go unchecked. They have to investigate everything! If they can't make an example of the children this time, then more infants and toddlers will likely be harmed. How will they explain that to the people?
He simply couldn't understand what was missing. How could someone be so utterly devoid of conscience? How could anyone eat such a blood-soaked bun?
Can you fall asleep at night? Aren't you afraid of retribution for your evil deeds?
Oh, karma has come to pass. The fire at the Tianzhu Street Nursery was no ordinary fire.
"Yes." Fu Yun accepted the order and left.
When all the evils turned to ashes and the firefighters were finally able to set foot in, two Taoist priests, one old and one young, appeared near the bamboo forest. They were thin and frail, with fair skin and black beards, wearing blue Taoist robes and topknots, and had a rather otherworldly air about them.
Jing Shuo was the first to see it and immediately stepped forward to stop them, saying, "Two Taoist priests, you can't go in here." There were still some sparks on the ground, so it was better to be careful, after all, the fire was burning in a very strange way.
The elder Taoist priest smiled and took a step back. "Young man, I am the great-grandson of Qi Qingshan Taoist Temple. This is my disciple's grandson. We divined many days ago that a yin evil spirit was taking shape here, but we rushed here as fast as we could, and it was still too late. There's nothing we can do now that things have happened, but we still have to clean up the mess. If the infant evil spirit here isn't released, it will transform into a bound spirit in less than a year. The bound spirit that the infant evil spirit has transformed into will prevent any new generation from arriving in the entire Beiyu. That will be the time when Beiyu's fortune will completely decline." Frequent natural disasters are a minor matter; the severing of life is truly terrifying.
Jing Shuo didn't fully understand, but he still grasped the literal meaning: "I'm sorry, Daoist Master, we can't enter here for the time being. We've been notified that this place is to be sealed off. Once we've cleared the site, someone will come to take over." The implication was that no matter what you wanted to do, there was nothing he could do.
Seeing that Jing Shuo had no intention of letting them pass, the two disciples exchanged a glance, then set up small stools at the entrance of the bamboo grove and sat down.
Jing Shuo's lips twitched. He didn't want to drive them away, so he told someone to keep an eye on things and then went into the fire.
This time when they went back in, the fire was finally extinguished, and even the corpses were burned to ashes. "Come here, these are human ashes. Collect some and send them over there." Jing Shuo was busy arranging work when, in a moment of turning his head, he realized that the master and apprentice who had been by the roadside just moments before were gone.
Huh? Where did everyone go?
"Ah Fei, where are they?"
"Captain, they just left. They said they were going to find someone. Huh? They left so fast!" Afei turned his head and looked at the empty road, completely confused.
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