Chapter 112 Where did you go?! You dare to run away!
Ao Daiya knew the person was near the park, but he didn't know exactly where they lived. In fact, he couldn't even confirm whether the person lived in the park.
The three men, with a confidence that came from nowhere, were convinced that the bad guys lived in the park, and began to patrol the park.
The park is quite large. There weren't many people in the park on this rainy day. The group patrolled the area but didn't see the person they were looking for.
“He must be hiding,” An Shisi said.
Ao Daiya: "He doesn't know we've come to seek revenge on him."
An Shisi: "He must have heard us talking."
Ao Daiya thought it made sense: "Yes."
An Fusheng faintly heard a cat's meow: "You two, don't speak yet."
An Shisi and Ao Daiya immediately fell silent.
An Fusheng took a few steps in the direction of the cat's meow, listened carefully, and heard no sound except for the slight rustling of mist falling on the bamboo leaves.
When An Shisi and Ao Daiya saw An Fusheng listening intently to something, they also perked up their ears.
Another faint meow came, and An Fusheng pinpointed the approximate location. He took a few steps toward an arched bridge.
"Big brother, wait for us!" An Shisi shouted in a thieving voice. The steps were too high, wet and slippery, and they were going downhill, which was really unfriendly to people with short legs. He couldn't keep up with his big brother.
An Fusheng stopped to wait for them. The road was slippery, and the two of them, being light-bodied and with short legs, had to walk carefully. An Shisi was also carrying a hearing aid. An Fusheng took a few steps back and picked them up.
The three arrived at the arched bridge. There were no arches under the bridge, but there were two roads along the river. The roads were quite wide, and people often came to cool off on the roads in the summer.
Even in winter, some people like to stay here to play mahjong. In the cold winter, the mahjong players have built a square shed with striped nylon cloth, but it's the kind without a roof. There are tables and chairs inside the shed. Every day, they bring a basin of charcoal fire and hide in the shed to play mahjong around the charcoal fire, which is very comfortable.
There was no sound of mahjong being played inside the shed today, which meant no one was playing mahjong there. However, there was movement inside, and An Fusheng was almost certain that the person they were looking for was inside.
An Fusheng gently put An Shisi and Ao Daiya down, made a shushing gesture to them, and the two nodded solemnly and held their breath.
The nylon cloth wasn't very high, only a little taller than an adult sitting down. An Fusheng was quite tall, so this height didn't obstruct his view, but the shed was small, so you had to get close to see inside.
He approached the nylon fabric step by step until the tips of his shoes touched it. Looking down, he saw a boy of about half a year old sitting huddled together with a group of cats of various colors. The boy and the cats seemed to sense something and raised their heads. As An Fusheng looked at them, they raised their heads, and An Fusheng instantly met countless pairs of dark, shiny eyes.
The other person asked first, "Who are you?"
Upon hearing the voice, Ao Daiya excitedly shouted, "Brother, it's him! Quick, hit him!"
Upon hearing what Ao Daiya said, the other party's alarm bells went off, and they jumped up, darted out of the shed, and ran away.
"Don't run!" three voices shouted from behind at the same time.
But the runners actually ran even faster.
"You two wait for me here," An Fusheng said before chasing after her.
An Fusheng had run all kinds of roads in the village before, from mountains to fields. Although this road was slippery, it was no problem for him. He just didn't expect that the kid could run so fast and was so agile. Several times An Fusheng tried to catch him, but he slipped away like an eel.
Winter nights get dark early, and rainy nights get dark even earlier. Around 4:30 pm, the sky begins to get hazy. At this time, the area under the bridge is already getting dark because the light is blocked.
An Shisi saw that An Fusheng had disappeared while chasing after someone, and the sky was getting darker and darker, so he was a little scared.
An Shisi turned his head and asked Ao Daiya, "Little Ya, where did Big Brother go? It's getting dark, why hasn't he come back yet? Did Big Brother catch the bad guy?"
Ao Daiya often goes out to collect garbage at night, so she is not so afraid of the dark. "Don't be afraid, we can wait here. Brother will be back in a little while."
An Shisi: "Mm."
The cats in the shed were huddled together with the humans for warmth, but then the humans suddenly ran away. Without humans around, the cats got colder and colder and started meowing in dissatisfaction.
Upon hearing the sound, Ao Daiya said, "The cat is inside."
An Shisi's attention was instantly drawn: "Is it Liu Liu?"
Ao Daiya: "Let's go take a look."
Ao Daiya led An Shisi around to the side with the door. The bad guys hadn't had time to close the door when they ran out, so it was wide open. Ao Daiya and An Shisi immediately saw the six cats huddled together inside.
"It's one, two, three, four, five, six!" Ao Daiya exclaimed in delight.
An Shisi counted on his fingers, "One, two, three, four, five, six, really!"
The two rushed inside to rescue the cat.
An Shisi: "Were you captured by bad guys?"
The cat cannot answer An Shisi's question.
An Shisi, like a hero, said, "Don't be afraid, I'm here to save you."
Because Liu Liu is not very capable of supporting itself, it often relies on humans for food. It is quite affectionate towards people, and since Ao Daiya and An Shisi are people it knows, it will actively approach them when it sees them.
An Shisi picked up Liu Liu and felt its body trembling. He asked, "Are you scared? Don't be afraid, I'm here to save you."
The two men carried the cats out of the shed one by one. As the cold wind blew, all the cats arched their backs, hunched their necks, and meowed in protest.
Neither of them was aware of it.
An Shisi: "You guys go home quickly, or the bad guys will come back and it won't be good." He never imagined that the other party didn't even have a home.
Ao Daiya said, "Don't worry, brother will catch the bad guy. We'll take him to the police station and have the police officers lock him up. Then he won't be able to escape."
An Shisi: "Hmm!"
As night fell and the temperature dropped, a cold wind howled, carrying drizzle. It was so cold outside that the cat's fur stood on end. The cat wanted to hide inside the shed, but the two humans wouldn't let it.
The cats got angry, but their grumbling and cursing were useless. So they just squatted upright in the cold wind, letting the winds blow from all directions—no, only the raging north wind—and see when these two bad humans would have a change of heart.
An Fusheng chased the person from the park to the residential area, but lost them in a small alley. It was already getting dark, and the lights in the alley were not yet on, making visibility poor. An Fusheng searched around but couldn't find them before finally remembering that Ao Daiya and An Shisi were still waiting for him in the park.
He quickly returned to the park.
Ao Daiya and An Shisi obediently squatted down and waited for him. A row of cats squatted in front of them, but the cats all had their backs to them and looked rather unfriendly.
...
Seeing that it was getting late, Grandma Ao said she had to go home. Grandma was chatting happily, so they tried their best to persuade Grandma Ao to stay and have dinner at the welfare home before leaving. After dinner, they asked their eldest grandson to drive them home in a tricycle. Grandma Ao's knees were uncomfortable because of the rain, so she agreed.
Lou Lan heard that Grandma Ao was staying for dinner, and thought she would tell An Fusheng to cook more food for the evening. However, when she went to the kitchen, she found that only Wen Yue and Wen Xinglin were cooking.
"Where is your eldest brother?" Lou's mother asked.
Wen Yue said, "I don't know, wasn't he playing on the second floor?"
Lou Lan thought back and realized that she had indeed been playing with Ao Daiya and An Shisi in the living room on the second floor when she came back in the afternoon, but she didn't know when they had disappeared. Wen Yue looked like she had just come downstairs to prepare dinner. Lou Lan asked, "Didn't you see them in the room when you came downstairs?"
Wen Yue said, "No, their room door wasn't closed, and there was no one inside."
Lou Lan: "Did you go for a ride on a tricycle?"
Wen Yue: "Maybe."
"This child, running outside in the rain without even saying a word," Lou Lan muttered before leaving.
...
Once it got dark, it quickly became dark. The streetlights outside came on, and the misty water vapor turned into a drizzle. Under the dim streetlights, Ao Daiya walked ahead carrying two cats, while An Fusheng carried An Shisi on his back with one hand and the two cats in the other.
An Shisi lay on An Fusheng's back, holding two cats in his arms.
An Shisi was wearing a woolen hat, and An Fusheng also told him to put on the hood of his down jacket, but the inner hood was pressing against the outer hood and couldn't be put on properly. "Big brother, my second hat has run away."
An Fusheng: "Hold it tight, don't let it run away, or the hat inside will get wet."
An Shisi: "But I don't have any hands."
An Fusheng put him down, took a cat from his arms, and let him hold the cat in one hand and grab the hat with the other.
"Can Xiaoya still walk?" An Fusheng asked.
Ao Daiya: "Brother, I can do it."
Then the three of them walked home in the drizzle.
The three of them left the orphanage full of high spirits, but returned in a sorry state.
It was completely dark and the child still hadn't returned. Lou Lan tried calling An Fusheng, but couldn't get through after several attempts. If she couldn't get through by phone, what other way could she find out where the child was?
No.
As darkness fell and the rain intensified, Lou Lan pulled her father along to go find the child.
The group returned at that moment.
Lou Lan heard the sound of the iron gate opening and closing. Looking into the distance, she saw the gate being pushed open a crack through the rain and mist, and several shadowy figures, one by one, like dogs, sneaking in through the crack.
Lou Lan, ignoring the rain, rushed over, asking, "Where did you go?"
At first, she thought they had gone out for a drive in their tricycle, but later she discovered that the tricycle was just sitting in the garage.
The three were caught red-handed as soon as they entered the door and were all given a beating.
An Fusheng forced a guilty smile: "Aunt Lou?"
Lou Lan pulled the group back to the light outside the kitchen. Once under the eaves, An Fusheng put An Shisi down.
The group was soaking wet, and An Shisi still couldn't catch his second hat; the pom-pom on top of his wool hat was drooping into a clump from the water.
Lou Lan saw the group of people, all soaking wet, holding equally soaking cats, and An Fusheng's shoes and trousers covered in mud. She demanded, "Where have you been?!"
The three of them trembled in fright, and An Shisi and Ao Daiya looked at An Fusheng at the same time.
An Fusheng lowered his head and met their eyes: "..."
Lou Lan knew from his three glares and the pushing and shoving that nothing good was going on, and she instantly flew into a rage. She grabbed a broom and started waving it around, yelling, "You're really something else, you'll climb onto the roof and tear off the tiles if you don't discipline you for three days!"
An Fusheng threw the cat aside and instinctively ran away.
His running away only fueled Lou Lan's anger. She pointed a broom at An Fusheng and said, "You dare to run away!" She had only meant to scare him, but now she really wanted to hit him.
In fact, An Fusheng regretted it as soon as he ran away. He knew that Lou's mother couldn't possibly hurt him. If he had beaten Lou's mother, her anger might have subsided. Now, Lou's mother was even angrier. What should he do?
But his instincts didn't give his brain any time to think, and he couldn't run back to tell Mrs. Lou to continue. He could only stand there blankly in the rain, looking at Mrs. Lou innocently.
Grandpa quickly pulled his daughter back, saying, "The child's clothes are all wet. We can talk about it later. Let her change her clothes first, so she doesn't catch a cold."
Although Grandpa stopped Lou's mother and told him to change his clothes, An Fusheng didn't dare to move because Lou's mother was watching him.
Lou Lan saw him standing there, dazed and soaked in the rain, and her anger flared up: "Hurry up and go!"
An Fusheng quickly ran to change his clothes, but after taking a few steps he remembered An Shisi and Ao Daiya, so he turned back and picked them up.
Wen Yue watched the commotion from the kitchen with amusement. She never expected that her older brother would make a mistake and get beaten. Why did she find it so exciting?
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