Chapter 31 Another incident! Officer, my child has been stolen…
The ringing of the telephone broke the tranquility of the dining table. Ji Yu reflexively got up immediately and went to the living room in a few steps.
"Return immediately, something else has happened!"
"Received!" Ji Yu put down the phone, grabbed the car keys from the table, apologized to Chen Mian and the others, and got into the car to return to her workplace.
Chen Mian: "It's alright, you can go."
Sitting diagonally across from Chen Mian, Yu Xiaoyue looked at him apologetically, "Don't mind him, Mian, that's just his personality, he takes everything too seriously."
“I already told him to ask for leave in advance today, but as soon as his workplace called, he went back immediately.”
Chen Mian expressed her understanding, saying, "It's okay, Auntie. The people's police are here to serve the people. My brother is in the army and sometimes he can't come home even once a year. We, as family members, can only silently support them."
The order and safety of this society must be protected by someone. Police officers, soldiers, and doctors all work very hard, but we cannot stop doing it just because we are afraid of hardship.
Their families also silently shouldered the burden of the family, and they all deserve respect.
Yu Xiaoyue sat down next to her, took her hand and stroked it, "Good child, Auntie thanks you on his behalf."
After she finished speaking, a hint of resentment crept into her voice. "At the beginning of the year, I told Lao Ji to think of a way to transfer Ji Yu to another unit, but the father and son absolutely refused."
Other units can serve the people just the same, except they don't have to be on duty and are available whenever needed. These two stubborn people have really put together a pair.
She was still angry about this. Her husband had dedicated the first half of his life to the army, and although he transferred to the court in the second half, he was still devoted to his work and never knew how to take a break.
The son followed suit, and after graduating from high school, he went to the army and even joined some kind of secret group, and then disappeared without a trace.
When she saw her son again, he was already in a hospital bed, which almost scared her to death.
She finally managed to get her son to agree to transfer back to civilian life, but as soon as he recovered, he threw himself back into his job, working overtime or on duty every day.
Ji Feng, sitting in the main seat, frowned and said seriously, "We're charging ahead in battle, and you, as a family member in the rear, should also have the awareness to do so. How can you hold us back?"
Yu Xiaoyue's anger flared up instantly, and she glared at him as she argued, "What do you mean I'm a burden? I have to earn money to support the family and take care of the children all by myself, and you think I'm a burden to your Ji family?!"
"Oh, so you women are the only ones who have careers, and we women are just destined to be single, huh?"
Her eyes were red with anger, and her thin body was heaving uncontrollably. Seeing this, Chen Mian quickly patted her back and comforted her, "Auntie, don't worry, Uncle didn't mean it that way. You are the one who has made the greatest contribution to this family."
After saying that, she looked up and frantically hinted to Ji Feng to say something. Li Cuiping also chimed in to comfort him, "Mumian is right. Auntie, you own such a big farm. We all envy you."
Yu Xiaoyue's already somewhat agitated emotions were completely shattered by the comforting words of the two girls. Crystalline tears kept sliding down from the corners of her eyes, which already had fine lines, and she stubbornly raised her hand to wipe them away.
Yu Xiaoyue wiped her face, sniffed, and pretended to be calm: "I'm fine, you guys go back to work. I'm really sorry for making you laugh today."
She got up to escort the two back, but Chen Mianmian quickly refused, saying that she and her friend could walk back on their own, and that Yu Xiaoyue and Ji Feng should have a good talk to avoid creating any rifts.
As soon as the two left Yu Xiaoyue's house, Ji Feng suddenly knelt down and slid to his knees, saying, "I know I was wrong, wife, don't be angry."
Yu Xiaoyue turned her head away, not wanting to talk to this person, but Ji Feng quietly moved next to her chair and put his big, warm hand on her leg.
Ji Feng sincerely apologized: "Wife, you know that's not what I meant. I've been busy with work and have indeed neglected you and Ji Yu."
"I swear, I'll spend more time with you from now on, so please don't be angry with me anymore. Smile, okay?"
Yu Xiaoyue looked down at him, her anger subsiding slightly. She pursed her lips and said, "You know that's not what I want to hear."
“That’s a matter of principle. The organization has strict discipline, and I can’t make a mistake.” Ji Feng frowned, looking troubled.
Yu Xiaoyue: "I'm not asking you to break the law, you're not even willing to say hello to an old friend?"
Ji Feng knew he couldn't win against his wife on this matter, so he simply changed the subject and used his son as a shield: "Ah Yue, you know Xiao Yu's personality. Even if we get it for him, he won't be happy."
Their son is so outstanding. He became a company commander in the army on his own, a proper captain. He is also very serious and responsible in his work. Promotion is only a matter of time.
Besides, what's wrong with suffering a little and being busy with work when you're young? He has neither a wife nor children now, so if he doesn't work overtime, who will?
Once he has a wife and children, he will know to return to his family, and then new young people will take his place.
Ji Feng gently coaxed his wife for a while, and seeing that her tightly furrowed brows had relaxed, he took advantage of the situation and suddenly stood up and picked her up horizontally.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Yu Xiaoyue glared at him.
Ji Feng said matter-of-factly, "We haven't seen each other for so long, and it's rare that no one's home, so let's get intimate." After saying that, he raised his hand and bounced up, which made Yu Xiaoyue exclaim again. Then he smiled and hugged his beloved wife back to the room to do naughty things.
Two flowers bloom, each representing a different branch.
At this moment, Lin Zhongjun was holding an emergency meeting at Jiangjin Road Police Station. "This afternoon, someone came to the station to report that when they took their grandson out to buy groceries, the child disappeared in the blink of an eye."
"This is not the first case. We must take it very seriously and find the child as soon as possible within the golden time frame."
Lin Zhongjun assigned tasks to everyone: "Everyone, except those who stay on duty, go out in pairs and split up. Remember to get a portrait from Sadiq before you leave."
"Received, departing immediately!"
Kalikzi raised an eyebrow at Ji Yu, "Let's go, Adasi, it's the two of us again."
Ji Yu nodded, and the two walked toward the Han Chinese street in the jurisdiction. He looked at the simple portrait in his hand: curly hair, big eyes, double eyelids, no different from other Uyghur children on the street.
He frowned. Could they really find it? Fortunately, Sadiq had written down other clues on the paper: a five-year-old boy, wearing a blue shirt and black pants when he went missing, and the boy's grandmother had called the police just two hours after discovering that her grandson was missing.
He must have searched with family and friends first, and only came to the police station after finding no clues. He carefully observed his surroundings, not missing a single detail.
Kalikzi, on the other hand, was nonchalant, wearing a police uniform, and even flirting with a familiar girl by the roadside.
Ji Yu frowned and scolded, "Pay attention to your work. This is a matter of life and death, not something for you to do while you're out shopping and flirting with girls."
It's one thing for him to flirt with young girls at work, but he even teases the cafeteria ladies while they're getting their meals. Now that he's on field duty, representing the image of a public official, what kind of behavior is this, laughing and joking around like this?
Upon hearing this, Kalikiz toned down his tone and said impatiently, "I know, sir. Stop nagging me and hurry up and find it."
The two split up and went to each of the shops along the street, asking if anyone had seen the little boy in the portrait, but everyone just shook their heads.
Only one person recalled seeing a little boy being led by an old woman as they walked past a shop. He happened to be splashing water at the time and almost got splashed on them, and was even scolded a few times, so he had some recollection of it.
But they couldn't say where the two went; all they knew was that they were walking to the left, and that was all.
Ji Yu shook hands with him and thanked him: "Thank you so much, you have helped us a lot."
After saying that, he and Kalikiz ran to the left side of the shop.
But as darkness fell, they searched almost the entire street, but still couldn't find it.
Kalikiz squatted down, panting with his hands on his knees: "Let's rest for a while, Adasi. Let's go get something to eat. I don't think we'll be able to find you anytime soon."
“Recently, there have been several cases of missing children in the city, all of them boys. I suspect it is another organized crime.”
He sighed and said, "This is beyond our control. We are just two ordinary police officers, not criminal investigators."
Ji Yu said righteously and sternly: "As long as it has not entered the investigation and case filing stage, it is all within our scope of work."
After saying that, he seemed to suddenly remember something, and abruptly pulled Kalikiz and ran in a certain direction.
Kalikiz gasped for breath, "Adasi, slow down, I can't keep up..."
A few minutes later, they stood in front of the "good movie theater". Ji Yu kept thinking about what they had missed. There must have been some details that they had overlooked. Just now, he finally thought of it.
The five-year-old boy was at the age where he was being mischievous. When he got lost, the old woman was buying vegetables at the market. It was indeed crowded and noisy, but more importantly, "the darkest place is under the lamp." Not far from the market was a movie theater, "a good movie theater."
When they inspected this place before, they overlooked it because the movie theater had already closed and the simulation focused on possible escape routes for criminals.
Ji Yu climbed over the iron gate outside the cinema, turned on his flashlight, and went inside alone. Kalikzi made an excuse that she was too weak to climb over and stayed outside to wait for him.
The cinema wasn't big, with only one screening room. He pushed open the tightly closed door, held a flashlight, and scanned the room one by one. "Is anyone here?"
Suddenly, the beam of the flashlight cast a small shadow on the wall. He quickly walked to the back and saw a five or six-year-old boy with curly hair, wearing a blue shirt and black pants, fast asleep on a chair.
He breathed a sigh of relief, said nothing, and simply picked up the little boy gently and walked out.
Kalikiz, who was pacing around outside bored, saw him come out carrying a child and exclaimed with delight, "Wow, brother, can I finally go home from get off work now?!"
She had barely finished speaking when she took off running. Helpless, Ji Yu had no choice but to take the little boy back to the office alone. She had just finished reporting to her superior and sat down to catch her breath when someone else came in—a young woman with a flustered expression.
"Officer, please help me! My child has been stolen..."
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Author's Note: A-Yue: Men are all the same.
Ji Feng: I was wrong, wife.
So, did the crucian carp learn to kneel so skillfully from his dad? Haha
Just wanted to give you guys an update. Peach Milk didn't update yesterday because she revised the outline again and improved the storylines for each couple. There are currently 170 chapters.
Yes, I'm ready to update daily like crazy after the paid version is released, but I'm still a little short on my collection QAQ
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