Chapter 18 Chapter 18 Chapter 18
Gu Ting was also surprised. He stepped aside to let them in and asked with a smile, "Officer Yang, why are you in Xiqiong District?"
The police officer Yang in front of him was definitely an old acquaintance of Gu Ting. He was there when Gu Ting called the police to arrest the two kidnappers. He was there during the ancient tomb rescue yesterday. He was still there when the group went to the rental house to collect evidence. Therefore, police officer Yang can be said to be a witness to Gu Ting's "awesome life".
Officer Yang was faintly excited. He quickly glanced around, but didn't see any sign of the child. He whispered, "I was just transferred to Xiqiong District today. I didn't expect to run into an acquaintance on my first day. Is that little girl named Pan Ruoling still sleeping?"
Gu Ting replied: "He went to bed at one or two in the morning, so he probably hasn't woken up yet."
Officer Yang expressed his understanding: "Let her sleep a little longer. We will record the information first."
Gu Ting couldn't stand his own slovenly appearance, so he said, "Give me a few minutes, I'll wash up and come back."
After washing up, Gu Ting came out of the bathroom in high spirits, but found that this time not only did Officer Yang have an inexplicable kind light in his eyes, but even the female police officer Officer Wu, whom he met for the first time, also had a smile on her face, with a kind light in her eyes, staring at Gu Ting with a lot of question marks.
She touched her face: "Is my face not clean?"
Officer Yang chuckled, "I told Old Wu that in three days, five fugitives were apprehended by Miss Gu Ting! This is equivalent to helping us solve more than a dozen major cases at once! Miss Gu also contributed to the elimination of dark forces like Ding Chong and the protection of the people's safety!"
Officer Wu looked at her with a mixture of wonder and admiration. His words finally condensed into one: "If only I had Miss Gu's luck, I could catch a few criminals and throw them in jail every day. If I could keep doing that, why would I worry about social unrest?"
Officer Yang encouraged Officer Wu: "When you're done, grab Miss Gu's hand and shake it a couple of times to improve her luck. Miss Gu's fortune has been good these past few days and she's even on the headlines. It will be good for you if you shake hands with her more." If he wasn't a man, he would never have let go of this opportunity.
It's metaphysics. No matter whether there are dates or not, you should try twice. Anyway, you won't suffer any loss or be cheated by trying twice.
Gu Ting thought they were just joking, but Officer Wu clenched his fist and said, "Old Yang is right. We must catch both criminals and wealth!"
Gu Ting couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth twice.
After the three of them communicated for a while, Officer Yang and his team basically grasped Pan Ruoling's information. However, to their surprise, when the system checked Pan Ruoling's identity information, no matching person was found, which meant that they could not contact her parents and relatives for the time being.
The three of them were analyzing in low voices when Pan Ruoling got up from the bed without anyone noticing and quietly stood behind Gu Ting, "Big liar!"
The three words were cursed loudly and forcefully.
Gu Ting turned around suddenly and met Pan Ruoling's eyes, which were filled with grievance and anger. Instead of getting angry, he replied shamelessly, "The first lesson in society: 'The human heart is treacherous.'"
Pan Ruoling pursed her lips and stared at her with her eyes, like an angry and sad little lion. As she stared, tears welled up in her eyes.
Gu Ting originally just wanted to tease her and let it go, but the little girl was truly heartbroken. She was now at a loss as to what to do and had to desperately try to make amends: "...It's too dangerous for a child of your age to wander around alone. I can't just sit back and watch. You have to believe that the police officers really want to help you. You can tell them if you have any grievances, and they will definitely find a way to help you!"
Officer Wu also tried to persuade her, saying softly, "Lingling, Auntie knows you've been wronged, and that's why you don't want to go home. But if you run away from home like this, not only your father, your grandparents, but also your close friends, your classmates, and your teachers will all be very worried about you. Why don't you tell Auntie the phone numbers of your closest relatives so I can contact them and tell them to stop worrying, okay?"
Pan Ruoling sat on the sofa, staring at her toes with her eyes downcast. After a long while, she raised her face, revealing a pair of rabbit-like red eyes. "Auntie, I know that as long as you contact someone, my father will definitely know. If my father really cared about me, he would have found me long ago. Since he doesn't care about me and doesn't want me as his daughter, why should I go back?"
She stood up and said, "Auntie Police, Uncle Police, thank you for your concern. I've made up my mind. At worst, I'll just continue wandering."
Officer Wu and the others looked at each other and sighed. Although Pan Ruoling spoke very logically, her last sentence still exposed her childish nature. A little girl of seven or eight years old was thinking about wandering alone, and she had no concept of the dangers of society at all.
Officers Wu and Yang tried their best to persuade her, but the little girl kept saying one thing over and over again: I don't want to go home! This made Officer Wu and Officer Yang quite anxious. In the end, they had no choice but to put their hopes on Gu Ting.
Gu Ting understood what the two people's gazes meant. He crossed his arms and said to Pan Ruoling in a bad mood, "What are you wandering around for? You little brat, you don't go to school or go home, and you're still wandering around! Don't worry, I still have three meals of instant noodles a day..."
Before she could finish her words, she had already attracted the sidelong glances of Officers Wu and Yang. Gu Ting felt strangely guilty, wondering if instant noodles were really that unnutritious. When she was in high school, instant noodles were a luxury, and now they were even more expensive. She could only add arrogantly, "Instant noodles with braised eggs and ham, all you can eat!"
Officer Yang and the other two: “==” Can she really take good care of the children?
Pan Ruoling didn't say anything, but her eyes were brighter than before. Although Gu Ting had lied to her, she still brought her home from outside, which showed that she was still very kind.
Pan Ruoling refused to cooperate, but it was obvious that she was somewhat dependent on Gu Ting. Officer Yang and the other man had no choice but to temporarily entrust Pan Ruoling to Gu Ting's care, waiting for Gu Ting to dig out useful information from Pan Ruoling, or waiting for Pan Ruoling's father to issue a missing person notice, so that they could contact Pan Ruoling's relatives.
Gu Ting took the opportunity to send the two people downstairs to chat with Officer Yang and others for a while. In addition to Pan Ruoling's matter, he also asked when the reward for the capture of Erdao and Dawei would be paid out. Officer Yang said that it would probably take until within five working days after the holiday. Gu Ting was relieved after getting the answer.
Before leaving, Officer Wu held Gu Ting's hand for a long time and didn't let go. Even Officer Yang had the audacity to shake hands with Gu Ting.
Gu Ting was left in tears and laughter by their behavior. Although she felt that it was useless, as long as they were happy, that was enough.
When he came back upstairs, Gu Ting saw Pan Ruoling sitting at the table with a bowl of seafood-flavored instant noodles, a braised egg, and a sausage in front of her.
Gu Ting walked up to her and took her hand, smiling helplessly: "I was just joking, but you took it seriously? Let's go downstairs and take you to eat dumplings, and bring one for your sister Mengmeng."
Lin Mengmeng can really stay up at night and sleep well during the day. Even such a loud noise didn't wake her up.
Pan Ruoling didn't care that her clothes were too big for her. She followed Gu Ting downstairs to have breakfast with brisk steps, because she hadn't eaten meat for several days.
There is a braised pork bun shop downstairs in the community. There are a lot of customers in the morning, and the shop is packed with people, full of the atmosphere of life.
Gu Ting bought two servings first, and sat at a small table with Pan Ruoling to eat. The little girl picked up a braised pork bun and started to enjoy it. Seeing that she was eating so happily, Gu Ting also picked up a braised pork bun, but frowned after taking a bite - the bun filling had a bit of a hard texture. Why didn't it feel like eating meat, but more like eating paper?
She immediately tore open the bun to look at the meat filling inside, and then her expression changed from suspicion mixed with disgust to disgust mixed with shock - there was meat filling, and there was also paper, a piece of pink paper sandwiched in the meat filling. She leaned over to take a closer look, and it turned out to be a folded 100-yuan bill?
Gu Ting: “…” Nowadays, buns have their own personalities?
Gu Ting took the buns to the boss and asked, "Boss, are there any contraband in your buns?"
The boss was at the cashier, and when he heard this, he quickly glanced at Gu Ting. His eyes seemed to be looking at a fool: "Little girl, if you ate the money and kept it for yourself without saying anything, why would you come to me? Isn't a hundred yuan enough to compensate you?"
Gu Ting chuckled and raised his voice: "Boss, shouldn't you apologize to me?"
"I'm sorry..." Halfway through the sentence, the boss was like a chicken with its neck strangled by fate. Without much struggle, his attitude suddenly changed. He pulled out a stack of banknotes from the drawer at an astonishing speed and stuffed them into Gu Ting's hand. At the same time, he apologized with a tearful face: "I apologize, I'm sorry, please forgive me, beautiful lady, okay?"
Gu Ting returned to his seat in a daze, holding the money. As soon as he sat down, he saw a group of people approaching the door. They were wearing uniforms and came up to the boss and said, "Market Supervision Department, routine inspection."
The boss nodded and smiled: "Feel free to check. My shop is always clean and tidy. I do business honestly. I guarantee there won't be any problems. Hehehe..."
Gu Ting: "..." Boss, you should publish a few books, "How a Dishonest Businessman is Made", "The Dishonest Businessman's Self-cultivation", "Five Ounces of Morality and Three Pounds of Face"...
After coming out of the bun shop, Gu Ting counted the money in his pocket. It was exactly six hundred yuan, no more, no less. Together with the money in the bun, the total was seven hundred yuan.
With a free breakfast and a few hundred bucks to his name, Gu Ting decided to forgive his boss this early in the morning. It's a great kindness to admit one's mistake and give him money.
After breakfast, Gu Ting and Lin Mengmeng had no choice but to take Pan Ruoling with them to Cheng Gong Entertainment. When they were practicing dancing in the dance studio, Pan Ruoling felt itchy and couldn't sit still for a moment, so she secretly followed behind and started dancing with them.
Min Qingluo was now even more depressed. It was bad enough that his dancing talent was not as good as Gu Ting and Lin Mengmeng, but a little girl of seven or eight years old could actually dance better than him.
Gu Ting didn't dance too seriously, and she couldn't blame herself. If she had to blame someone, she should blame the little goblin money. Ever since she started her daily "picking up money" schedule, her desire to become a superstar has become increasingly dampened. After all, signing a contract with an entertainment company to become an artist or becoming an online anchor were not her first choices.
As he was dancing, Gu Ting felt that several pairs of eyes were staring at him. He looked towards the door and saw two people there. One was Luo Yuan, and the other man was dressed very fashionably and looked handsome. However, when Gu Ting made eye contact with him, the other's eyes were cold.
Gu Ting and Lin Mengmeng whispered to each other for a few words, and then they realized that the other person was Lin Yi - the dog-skin plaster that couldn't be shaken off. But when Gu Ting looked again, the other person had already left.
During the break, Luo Yuan came up to them with a big smile on his face, his loud voice rising again: "Tingting, I heard you paid back the 5.5 million in one go? That's great!"
Gu Ting was not at all flustered. He took a sip of water and turned around, his eyes full of resentment like a female ghost: "Brother Luo, last night the fans in the live broadcast room said that you helped me to borrow this 5 million yuan and you were setting a trap for me."
The smile on Luo Yuan's face seemed to freeze, and quickly turned into a look of grievance: "Tingting, how can you believe what netizens say? How would they know the whole story? Besides, you were desperate and asked me for help, so I helped you. You can't not thank me and instead blame me!"
Gu Ting looked miserable. "Brother Luo, you really shouldn't have helped me borrow money. Without you, I wouldn't have been able to borrow 5 million. If I hadn't borrowed 5 million, Li Xingzhou wouldn't have run away, and I wouldn't have been burdened with a 5 million debt and high interest... You've really screwed me over!"
Luo Yuan had a constipated expression on his face, and after a long while he said, "Didn't you pay it all back?"
"How can I pay back the 5.5 million? It's just like robbing Peter to pay Paul..." As he was speaking, a piece of breaking news suddenly popped up on the TV in the dance studio, instantly grabbing Gu Ting's attention.
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