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At 12:30 in the evening, two groups of students from No. 1 Middle School and No. 4 Middle School were led out of the Dongxin District Police Station by their respective parents. Everyone was covered in dust and dirt, and was being scolded by their parents like defeated roosters.
Only Lu Xiye walked in front carelessly, without even looking at the person following him.
"Xiaoye, slow down."
"Secretary Yin, why didn't my dad come?" Lu Xiye walked to the side of the road and turned back to ask unhappily.
"Your father went to Jinghai and didn't have time to come back."
"He went to see that woman again?" Lu Xiye's anger suddenly flared up.
Yin Huai quickly comforted him, "Xiao Ye, your father went to Jinghai for the recent company listing. He was busy with official business. You misunderstood him."
"Official business? His official business is to please that woman!" Lu Xiye gritted his teeth and said coldly: "Even if I die here, he doesn't care at all!"
"You really misunderstood your father. I'm his secretary, and I can see it most clearly by his side. He really loves you. He's busy with company matters every day for you."
Lu Xiye said impatiently: "Don't talk nonsense, I'm out now, your mission is completed, you can go back!"
Yin Huai said worriedly: "Xiao Ye, I'd better take you home."
"I can go back by myself. They've all left. Are you still afraid that I'll get into a fight with others?"
"It's too late now. If you go back alone and something happens, how can I explain it to your father?" Yin Huai said in embarrassment.
Lu Xiye looked at him coldly, "If you don't leave, I will die now. After I die, you won't have to explain anything to him anymore."
"Xiaoye..."
"Go away!" Lu Xiye pushed Yin Huai away, turned around and walked back along the road.
Yin Huai had no choice but to run over, drive the car, and slowly follow him.
Lu Xiye was very irritated. "Can you please stop following me? I just want to be alone for a while."
"You can be alone and quiet when you get home." Yin Huai said.
Lu Xiye rolled his eyes and was about to say something when a woman in a blue plaid short-sleeved shirt suddenly ran past him crying.
He felt that this person looked very familiar for a moment, and then he suddenly realized that this seemed to be Jiang Zhizhi's mother.
"Comrade police officer, I can't find my daughter. She usually goes home at 9:30 in the evening, but I waited and waited today and she didn't come back. I have been looking for her since 9:30 until now, but I still can't find her. I can't get through to her on the phone. Something must have happened to her..." Cheng Yuping said as she broke down and cried.
"Don't cry, come in first and talk."
A policeman helped Cheng Yuping into the police station.
Lu Xiye watched them walk in and paused.
Jiang Zhizhi is missing?
But before coming, he saw Jiang Zhizhi at the entrance of the alley opposite the stadium.
It should have been around half past nine at that time, and it would only take a few minutes to get to her house from there.
Lu Xiye picked up his phone, clicked on the address book page, and turned to Jiang Zhizhi.
He hadn't called Jiang Zhizhi for a long time. After a pause, he sent a message first.
I saw your mother at the police station.
He waited for a while, but when he didn't get a reply from Jiang Zhizhi, he called her.
"Xiao Ye..." Yin Huai called out to Lu Xiye when he saw that he didn't move.
There was only a beeping sound on the phone, and no one answered.
Lu Xiye turned around and ran back to the police station. He turned back and said to Yin Huai, "Secretary Yin, I won't be going back yet."
At the police station, Cheng Yuping was sobbing as she took notes. Lu Xiye ran in and said, "Auntie, I'm Jiang Zhizhi's classmate. I just heard you say Jiang Zhizhi is missing?"
Cheng Yuping was stunned for a moment and looked at Lu Xiye. She did have a vague impression of him.
But she didn't understand why Lu Xiye appeared here so late.
"Auntie, I just saw Jiang Zhizhi, it was around half past nine." Lu Xiye said.
Cheng Yuping stood up excitedly, "Where did you see her?"
"She's at the entrance of the alley in front of the stadium." Lu Xiye pursed his lips and said a little embarrassedly, "I saw her when I was brought back by these police uncles."
"The entrance to the alley? Isn't that right in front of our house? But I've been waiting for her at home, and she hasn't come back at all!" Cheng Yuping pulled Lu Xiye to confirm, "Is that really Zhizhi you saw?"
At that time, Lu Xiye just glanced in the direction of Jiang Zhizhi. He felt very guilty and did not dare to look into her eyes. He hurriedly avoided her sight.
But even for a moment, he would not be wrong.
"It's Jiang Zhizhi." He said with certainty.
A police officer said, "Doesn't that mean your daughter disappeared between that alley and your home? That's only a few minutes."
"You can first go to the houses nearby and ask if anyone has seen anyone suspicious." said another policeman.
A few minutes later, Lu Xiye came out with Cheng Yuping and two policemen.
Yin Huai had just parked the car and hurried over to pick up Lu Xiye, "Xiaoye, what are you doing..."
"Secretary Yin, please go back. One of my classmates is missing and I want to go with them to look for him." Lu Xiye said.
"Ah? This..." Yin Huai was in a dilemma. It was already so late, why were there more complications?
Cheng Yuping pulled Lu Xiye's arm and looked at Yin Huai pleadingly, "You are this child's parent, right? This child saw my Zhizhi. Please let me take him with me. Maybe there will be some clues. Don't worry, I will definitely send him home after I find Zhizhi."
Yin Huai didn't dare to make a decision himself, so he had to call Lu Hengshan and explain the matter clearly over the phone.
"The missing girl is called Jiang Zhizhi?" Lu Hengshan asked.
"Yes, her name is Zhizhi."
Lu Hengshan said, "Give the phone to Jiang Zhizhi's mother."
Yin Huai hurriedly handed his phone to Cheng Yuping and said, "Our President Lu wants to talk to you."
Mr. Lu?
Cheng Yuping was stunned for a moment and picked up the phone.
Lu Hengshan said politely, "Hello, Zhizhi's mother, I am Lu Xiye's father. Xiaoye and Zhizhi were in the same class in elementary school. We met at the parent-teacher conference."
Cheng Yuping still didn't know who this person was, but when she heard they had attended a parent-teacher conference together before, she nodded quickly and said, "Hello, hello, Zhizhi..."
"I already know what happened. It happens that tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are weekends, and Xiaoye doesn't have to go to class. Since he has seen Zhizhi, let him follow you to find Zhizhi. I also know a few people in Nanshi, and I will ask them to help look for her. Don't worry, we will definitely find Zhizhi." Lu Hengshan said.
"Thank you! Once I find Zhizhi, I will send Xiaoye home safely!" Cheng Yuping said gratefully.
"Thank you for your help."
Cheng Yuping felt that this person was too polite. They were clearly helping her, so she should be the one saying "thank you for your help".
But the most important thing now is to find Zhizhi, so she didn't think much about it.
After Lu Hengshan handed Lu Xiye over to Cheng Yuping, he asked Secretary Yin to go back.
Lu Xiye followed them and asked around a dozen households around the alley to see if anyone had seen the suspicious person. Surprisingly, one family had seen one.
"Tonight, there were three men outside the stadium. Usually, there are elderly men and women in the stadium, as well as women like us with children. There are very few men in their thirties or forties like them. I was afraid they were child thieves, but a child was actually stolen?"
"What do they look like?"
"I can't really put my finger on it. He doesn't look very friendly, and his clothes are dirty. He looks like a laborer doing manual labor."
"How long were they outside the stadium?"
"I don't know. I was afraid they were bad people. I played with the baby for half an hour and came back before it got dark. They hadn't left yet."
"How about this, tomorrow we'll find an artist, and you can describe their appearance and I'll draw them."
"Don't we have surveillance cameras in this stadium? It should have captured it, right?" the woman asked.
"The stadium's surveillance broke down some time ago and has never been replaced."
"We have to change it quickly. This kind of thing can't happen again!" Thinking of her own baby, the woman couldn't help but urge.
After coming out of that woman's house, Cheng Yuping couldn't help but lower her head and wipe away her tears.
She originally held out a glimmer of hope, but after hearing what the woman said, she realized that Zhizhi had really been captured.
Thinking of her daughter being held captive somewhere and suffering, she felt as if her heart was being cut by a knife.
"Uncle Police, could it be that Jiang Zhizhi was arrested by someone her father hired?"
In the dark alley, Lu Xiye suddenly spoke.
"Her father?"
"Jiang Zhizhi's father went to the school to find her today. I don't know what they talked about, and her father left very angrily. Classmates all said that Jiang Zhizhi's parents were fighting over her custody, and her father was cheating on her." Lu Xiye didn't care that Cheng Yuping was here, and directly told all the rumors in the school.
The police officer looked at Cheng Yuping and asked, "Is this true?"
Cheng Yuping nodded. "Yes, her father did tell me to let Zhizhi stay with him. But I just called her father, and he doesn't know anything."
"Auntie, if Jiang Zhizhi's father really wanted custody of Jiang Zhizhi, he would definitely come out to help find her when he heard that Jiang Zhizhi was missing, right?" Lu Xiye said.
"Did her father help find her?" asked the police.
Cheng Yuping thought of Jiang Guozhong's attitude just now, and her heart was even more sad. "No, he has married another woman. But... this matter may not have anything to do with him. He has always been like this and doesn't care about me and Zhizhi at all..."
"Where does he live now?"
"It's in Green River Village next door."
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