Chapter 141 Scum
Police forces are tight at the end of the year.
Whenever you call the police without clear evidence, the probability of the police responding is very limited, and you will also have to bear the psychological pressure of causing a false alarm and disturbing the police station.
Su Xia has a lot to worry about now.
She is the only one responsible for her own life. She has to try her best in the art specialty examination because no one can do it for her.
At the same time, every minute and every second of the last week before Xu Jiqing disappeared seemed like a countdown.
She didn't know whether the suspicious man in front of the primary school parking lot was related to this incident, but she didn't want to give up even if there was only the slightest hope.
On the morning of New Year's Eve, Su Xia stayed at the Conservatory of Music, and carefully went over the main examination repertoire with Teacher Li before going to Beijing. During the break, she urged Su Lijun several times not to be idle when she came out, but to go to the police station in the attached primary school area and keep an eye on any follow-up news at any time.
In the end, the person went, but there was no news since then.
When she got home, the warm-up program of the Spring Festival Gala was playing on TV. Su Xia was holding the new dress given by her mother with love in her hands. She was very uneasy and couldn't sit still.
The mother and daughter put up couplets and hung small lanterns together.
She paced back and forth in the house holding her cell phone. In order to divert her attention, she moved the flower arrangement on the dining table several times as if she had obsessive-compulsive disorder.
In the morning she asked Xu Jiqing about a math problem, and he sent her a piece of paper with detailed steps to solve the problem. It should be fine, but what about other potential crises?
Unexpectedly, when the New Year’s Eve dinner was served, Su Lijun came by himself.
She took off her formal sweater and down jacket, and her gold chain, and her hands were filled with local specialties, which were quite heavy.
"My parents made the kimchi and sausage themselves. They started working on them right after the beginning of the twelfth lunar month. They sent them to me two days ago and asked me to give you the best ones first."
"...What are you wearing?"
Su Xiaojuan ignored his words and raised her eyebrows while holding the door frame. "Have you changed your ways?"
"It's the New Year, new year, new atmosphere." Su Lijun said vaguely.
What can he say?
The eldest lady asked him to squat outside the police station every day to spy on the situation.
If things were back to the way they were, who would still tell him the truth? It was a good thing they didn't put him in jail.
...Going to that station is like turning yourself in.
My niece was holding a juice cup and peeking over here.
Su Lijun was quite embarrassed. "I'm not here to eat for free today."
"I just thought that since I'm in Jiangcheng this year, I'd like to wish you and Xia Xia a happy new year."
This time he was spending the New Year in Jiangcheng, and Su Xiaojuan treated him as an ordinary employee in the company, handling everything in a completely impartial manner, paying him overtime pay as it should be, and never mentioning any other sisterly love.
But now that he had come to her with such a shameless face, she couldn't chase Su Lijun away.
Driving people away during the Chinese New Year always feels like driving away wealth.
I could only silently ask for an extra pair of chopsticks and a bowl, and at the same time, ask someone to carry Su Xia's exercise bike, which had been broken for a long time, downstairs, and find time to repair it after the New Year.
The mother and daughter had originally eaten the New Year's Eve dinner early.
This year, the senior high school students did not stay up all night to celebrate the New Year. When they clinked glasses and started the banquet, the sky over the river outside the window was still dark blue, and the Spring Festival Gala had not yet begun.
The early fireworks burst into life one after another, and the light rained down in golden red.
Su Lijun tried hard to liven up the atmosphere. The topic shifted from Su Xiaojuan's company's newly opened cotton planting base to Su Xia's college entrance examination next year. After a few changes, he finally couldn't help but bring up what happened yesterday.
"Our Xia Xia was really amazing yesterday, she bravely stood up for what was right."
"So amazing," Su Xiaojuan thought he was exaggerating and looked at Su Xia. "Who did you save? Why didn't you tell me?"
Su Xia's heart skipped a beat.
She waved her hands under the table several times at Su Lijun next to her, but she couldn't stop her uncle's habit of telling tales, and he told Su Xiaojuan everything in front of her.
I went through the whole process again.
Finally, under Su Xia's despairing gaze, she said something that rekindled her spirits, "Yesterday I thought Xia Xia was kind-hearted and overthinking things. But today I passed by the police station again and heard that someone had actually found out something was wrong."
Su Xia paused, biting the tip of her chopsticks.
"...Among those two people, there's a wanted criminal from another province who's been on the run for quite a while."
There were only three people at the dinner table, so Su Lijun still lowered his voice.
It was his niece who gave the order first, but he was the one who handed the girl over to the primary school security office.
He was used to living a lazy life and was not used to doing good deeds. When he was given half of the great achievement from heaven, he was so excited that his face turned red and he couldn't help feeling proud.
"I just came from the west. My ID and driver's license are both fake. I even had my eyelids and moles removed to avoid being wanted."
"He has been roaming around the country for the past few years, and his modus operandi is very sophisticated."
Su Lijun gestured, "First, find a fake license plate car and pretend to be an online taxi driver. Then, go around the city, staking out elementary schools and kindergartens, carefully selecting the most suitable lonely children before making your move. You have a lot of offline connections, and then you sell them back to the mountains."
Su Xia felt her fingertips getting cold and cold sweat running down her back.
"What does most suitable mean?"
She asked.
"That's what the old man at the door said," Su Lijun said as he took a sip of Coke. "That man is really cruel. He specifically picks on children with some physical defects, like those with limps, weak eyesight, and poor hearing. They can't sell at a high price, but they're easy to control and can't run far."
As parents, this is the thing we hate to hear the most.
Su Xiaojuan subconsciously squeezed her daughter's hand and uttered a terrified "scumbag."
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