The baby in the nursery behind him cried sharply, and Ji An's face changed, and then quickly became more desperate and collapsed.
"Is there a child?" Liu Jiayi tilted her head slightly. She had always been very good at identifying the location by sound, and she quickly made a judgment, "In the last room of the house. It should be Su Yang's child."
Ji An's mind went blank. She didn't have time to think carefully. She turned around and stumbled into the nursery.
She locked the room with trembling hands, turned around, picked up the baby, and paced back and forth in the room with rapid breathing, tears of fear flowing from the corners of her eyes.
She opened the window and yelled at the empty street: "Is there anyone here? Help! Is there anyone here? Please!"
No one responded to Ji An.
She buried her face in the baby's swaddling clothes and cried hysterically, but she covered the baby's ears with her hands and kept kissing and comforting the frightened baby: "It's okay, baby, just sleep well, mommy is here, mommy will not let anything happen to you."
She locked the door from behind with a click, and then there was a sound of a key being inserted into the lock, and then it slowly turned.
Ji An's breathing stopped. She reached into her pajamas pocket with shaking hands and placed the key to the nursery in it.
Now it's just like a cell phone, it can't disappear, it was stolen by those two people.
Ji An let out a long sob, her face full of tears, and she closed her eyes in despair.
The door of the nursery slowly opened.
There was no one inside, only the crib bell was still jingling.
Mu Sicheng uttered a strange sound. He looked around the room and bent down to look under the bed. "Where is she? I clearly saw her run into this room."
Liu Jiayi raised her hand to stop Mu Sicheng from moving forward: "The breathing sound is still there."
She half-closed her eyes and "surveyed" and listened, then raised her head and "looked" out the window. "There's someone outside the window."
"Outside the window?!" Mu Sicheng was shocked.
He walked forward, opened the window and looked outside, then turned around and saw Ji An kneeling on the air conditioner external heater holding her baby and the baby tightly in her arms.
The night was cold and hot, blowing Ji An's white nightgown into a bulging and shaking state. She looked like a dandelion that was about to be blown off at any moment, holding on to its seeds tightly, with tears rolling down from the corners of her eyes.
Ji An stared at Mu Sicheng with red eyes. She gritted her teeth and threatened Mu Sicheng like a mother beast whose cub was about to be snatched away: "Even if I jump down with the child in my arms, I will not let you catch me and use me to threaten Su Yang!!"
Mu Sicheng was suddenly confused: "Sister, we don't have this intention for the time being! Of course we don't deny that there may be such arrangements in the future, but we mainly want to find Su..."
As she was speaking, Ji An shook her head and took two steps back on her knees. The screws of the old air-conditioner heat pump were rusted and twisted, and as Ji An stepped back, it suddenly tilted to one side and collapsed. She fell down the stairs in panic.
But when Ji An, who had just said that he would jump down with his child in his arms, was on the verge of life and death, his subconscious reaction was to wrap the baby in his arms and send it to Mu Sicheng.
Her eyes were filled with despair and pleading, her voice choked with sobs: "Please! Save my child!"
Mu Sicheng's pupils shrank, and his motor nerve reflexes were so fast that he hooked one foot on the window. With a sharp look, he stretched out his other foot and firmly hooked the collapsing air-conditioning shelf to prevent it from hitting the child and Ji An.
The heavy weight on his ankles made the veins in Mu Sicheng's forehead pop out. He stuck to the outer wall, holding the window with one hand and the other hand around Ji An's waist as he fell down.
“Fuck!” Mu Sicheng’s face flushed red, and his carotid artery was beating rapidly due to excessive force. “You’re so heavy, big sister!!”
The baby in Ji An's arms had already loosened as Mu Sicheng pulled and tugged at it.
The baby was confused and babbled happily, then moved his little hands and feet and slowly slid out of the package.
"Fuck!" Mu Sicheng looked at the baby who was slowly sliding down with bloodshot eyes, but he no longer had any hands to hold him back. "Hold on to your child!"
"Aiya!" The baby slipped completely out of the package.
The little baby slid down from the air with her round eyes wide open, her hands and feet opening and closing as if trying to grab her mother's fingers. She didn't understand what was happening, she just fell down with her innocent eyes wide open.
"Child!" Ji An turned around and stretched out her hands to grab the baby. She looked like she was going crazy, with tears all over her face. "My child!!!"
Liu Jiayi stepped over Mu Sicheng, supported herself on the window with one hand and climbed down without hesitation.
Mu Sicheng was shocked: "Liu Jiayi! Hey! You can't see it!"
Liu Jiayi didn't even turn her head. As if she could see it, she hung lightly on the air conditioner supported by Mu Sicheng and jumped a few times. Finally, she hung on an air conditioner with one hand and grabbed the feet of the child who fell.
The child was hanging upside down in the air, still seemingly unresponsive, swaying with all four legs in the air, babbling and asking Liu Jiayi for a hug.
Liu Jiayi held the child steadily in one hand, and after a few jumps, she landed steadily on the first floor. She stood at the bottom of the stairs and waved casually to Mu Sicheng, then walked away from the stairs holding the child, probably going up from that side of the stairs.
Mu Sicheng breathed a sigh of relief and helped to pull Ji An up.
Ji An took two breaths in shock, turned around and stumbled towards the door.
When the door opened, Liu Jiayi was already standing outside. The child's diaper was held far away from her by Liu Jiayi, but the baby seemed to find it very fun. He was giggling while being held and even wanted to reach out to grab Liu Jiayi's face.
Liu Jiayi pushed away the child who tried to get close to her with a look of numbness and disgust, and quickly handed the child in the diaper to Ji An: "Here, she peed all over me."
Ji An took the child, hugged the child, and sat down on the ground weakly. After taking a few deep breaths to calm herself down, she still couldn't help but covered her face and burst into tears.
Mu Sicheng came out rubbing his shoulders. He looked at Liu Jiayi in surprise: "You are quite skilled. You can't see, right? How did you manage to jump on those air conditioners so accurately?"
"Listen to the sound." Liu Jiayi said naturally, "It's very quiet at night. If there is a loud noise, I can judge the location of the obstacle by the echo of the sound. The air conditioner is a box-shaped unit, so the echo will be very loud and strange. It's very obvious. Don't you know how to do this?"
At the end, Liu Jiayi couldn't help but show a bit of contempt on her face.
Mu Sicheng: "..."
Don't talk about this strange skill of mine as if it's a matter of course!
Isn't this something that only bats can do? It's normal that humans can't do it! It's weird that you can jump to the sixth floor easily, you monster kid!
When Ji An came out after putting the baby to rest, her pajamas were still stained with rust from the air conditioner shelf.
Mu Sicheng and Liu Jiayi sat on the sofa very comfortably. They probably didn't even know how to write the four words "I'm sorry". On the contrary, Ji An, who came out of the nursery, looked a little embarrassed.
Especially when he saw the wounds on Mu Sicheng's face caused by her, and Liu Jiayi's palm which was a little red and swollen from being squeezed by the rack while holding the baby, Ji An held his wrist, lowered his head and opened his mouth, but he couldn't utter those sharp questions.
After being silent for a while, she turned around, went into the room, took out a small medical kit, half-knelt in front of the coffee table, and placed the disinfectant, Band-Aids and bandages on the coffee table.
Looking at the things on the coffee table, Mu Sicheng looked up at Ji An in surprise.
Ji An lowered his head and said nothing. He just tilted his head slightly and pursed his lips to avoid looking directly into Mu Sicheng's eyes.
Ji An's hair was disheveled and her eyes were red and swollen. It was obvious that she was crying in fear in the room just now.
In the end, Mu Sicheng picked up the disinfectant on the coffee table and handed the disinfectant to Liu Jiayi.
After Ji An calmed down, she took a deep breath and turned to look at the two uninvited guests calmly: "What do you want to see Su Yang for?"
"His colleague arrested us..." Mu Sicheng was ready to find a precise word in his mind to describe the relationship between Bai Liu and them, but before he could find it, Liu Jiayi took over the conversation calmly: "His colleague arrested my father without any warning."
Ji An's face turned a little surprised: "Is it your...father?"
Liu Jiayi admitted it without changing her expression: "Yes."
Mu Sicheng covered his mouth and let out a startling cough. Just as he was about to speak, Liu Jiayi's hand under the tea table tightly pinched the flesh beside his waist and twisted it in a circle. Mu Sicheng couldn't help but gasp and covered his waist.
Liu Jiayi blinked, and tears immediately flowed from her large, hollow eyes. She bit her lower lip tightly, sniffed twice, and said in a low voice: "Big sister, we really don't want to do anything to you, but my most important father has been arrested. I only heard them shouting that one of the people was Su Yang, that's all I know."
"I'm really looking for my home. I searched for a long time before I found your home." Liu Jiayi reached out to grab Ji An's sleeve pitifully. "We don't want to hurt you and your child. I just want my dad to come home. You are also waiting for your child's father to come home, right? You also have a child. You know how it feels for a child to be forced to leave the only father she can rely on."
"I know he seems to be doing a very dangerous job, but I swear, everything he did was legal, all for the sake of giving me a better life. Even for me, he would not do bad things." Liu Jiayi wrinkled her nose, tears rolled down her face, and she choked up. "I just thought of him. I don't understand why he was arrested when he did nothing."
As a new mother who was worried about Su Yang day and night but never knew exactly what Su Yang was doing, Ji An found it difficult not to empathize with what Liu Jiayi said, and the originally repulsive look on her face became hesitant.
When Liu Jiayi was sobbing with her hands covering her face, Ji An was finally moved by this little girl who had just risked her life to save her child. She saw the shadow of her own child in this fragile child.
Ji An leaned forward, hugged Liu Jiayi gently, and touched Liu Jiayi's hair with a sigh.
"...Don't cry." Ji An patted Liu Jiayi's shoulder soothingly and said with a sigh, "Your father...should be fine."
Liu Jiayi raised her head from Ji An's shoulder, with tears still on her face, but she expressionlessly mouthed to Mu Sicheng: Learn from this.
Mu Sicheng was stunned: "..."