A few days later, Zhuang Zhimeng and An Qingbai were reading at home. An Qingbai was reading a book on radio repair, while Zhuang Zhimeng was reading one of the math, physics, and chemistry books, wanting to do some practice problems to see her level.
The captain sent someone to notify the two of them to come to the brigade headquarters.
"Brother Qingbai, what do you think Uncle Baogen wants to talk to us about? Why do we have to go to the brigade headquarters to say it?"
"I don't know either. Nothing has happened these past few days, and there's nothing going on in the village."
"Let's go, we'll find out when we get there."
The two arrived at the brigade headquarters, where An Baogen looked at them with a smile, making them very curious.
"Uncle Baogen, what do you want us to do here?"
"You two are something else! You've brought honor to the village again after just one trip?"
"What do you mean?"
"Alright, stop pretending. They've already sent two letters! One is a letter of commendation from the police station, and the other is a letter of thanks from the agricultural machinery station."
Upon hearing this, Zhuang Zhimeng and An Qingbai exchanged a glance and knew that it was about saving the child.
“We just happened to run into this. It’s everyone’s responsibility to catch the child traffickers. We certainly can’t just stand by and watch them take the child away right in front of us.”
"That's right, we can't let these flower sellers get away with it. They're so despicable, they're utterly inhuman!"
"that is!"
"You've done a good deed, the village will give each of you 20 work points!"
"Thank you, Uncle Baogen!" the two said at the same time.
"Alright, that's all. Take the letter and go!"
"Uncle Baogen, you go ahead with your work, we'll be going now."
An Baogen waved his hand, and Zhuang Zhimeng and An Qingbai left the brigade headquarters.
Back home, Zhimeng opened the thank-you letter. "I was thinking that I would be happy to receive a letter of praise, but it wouldn't matter if I didn't. I didn't expect it to actually come."
"They're probably busy catching people. Flower cops usually have accomplices; one person can't handle a flower cop alone!"
"It should be."
The police station really did go and arrest people.
Through interrogating the person arrested that day, the police learned that they were a gang of four. They targeted lone children who were not accompanied by adults. They would lower the children's guard with candy, then use handkerchiefs laced with sedatives to knock them unconscious. They would then gather the children at a temporary meeting point and transport them away to be sold.
The four of them had only been in this place for a short time, and that day was the first time he made a move that Zhuang Zhimeng and An Qingbai discovered.
The police are now going to the temporary gathering point to arrest the remaining three people.
According to the man's description, they rented a house as a meeting point. The house was in a remote location with no neighbors, making it easy for them to come and go.
Police officer Wang Shouchang was in charge of this area, and he came to the house as the team leader. They had a code word, and following the code word given by the man, Wang Shouchang lowered his voice and said: "One plate of pig's head meat, two ounces of Lao Long Kou (a type of meat)."
Upon hearing the code, someone from inside the courtyard came over and opened the door.
As soon as the door opened, Wang Shouchang led the police officers inside. They subdued the person who opened the door and gagged him to prevent him from shouting.
Someone inside heard the commotion and tried to run away, but failed and was arrested along with the remaining two. Two children were also found in a corner of the room, both unconscious, presumably drugged.
Wang Shouchang quickly had someone take the two children to the hospital, and he took Pai Huazi back to the police station. Recently, two other families had reported their children missing, so he notified them to come and identify their children.
After finishing all that, I remembered that I hadn't delivered the thank-you letter to the Anyang brigade yet, so I quickly sent it out.
In the letter, Wang Shouchang also explained things to Zhuang Zhimeng and An Qingbai.
In his letter, Wang Xiangdong said that if anyone needed help, they should contact him and he would definitely help.
"It's great that they caught all the flower sellers."
Zhuang Zhimeng was very happy to see Wang Shouchang tell them that all the kidnappers had been caught, not one missing.
"Yes, that's really good. This way, we don't have to worry about being robbed when we go to town."
Zhuang Zhimeng nodded, "Alright, let's continue reading!"
Seeing that she had started reading, An Qingbai stopped talking and continued reading his own book.
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As the days passed, the twelfth lunar month arrived, and the festive atmosphere of the New Year gradually intensified in the production team.
After eating Laba rice, we prepare for the New Year.
After dinner on the evening of the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, Zhuang Zhimeng asked Su Mengmeng and Jiang Yanxia to soak the ingredients for making Laba porridge the next day: rice, millet, glutinous millet, sticky millet, glutinous rice, sticky sorghum rice, red beans, peanuts, and red dates.
On the morning of the eighth day of the lunar new year, just as dawn was breaking, Zhuang Zhimeng got up. At this time, Jiang Yanxia and Su Mengmeng also came over to help Zhuang Zhimeng start the fire so that they could cook Laba porridge for breakfast.
Adding firewood to the stove until it glows red-hot is a sign that the coming year will be prosperous and thriving.
Zhuang Zhimeng loves to drink thick Laba porridge, and she cooks the porridge until it's very thick.
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