Chapter 32 Chapter 32 The fourth drawing
The weather forecast always likes to play jokes on people. When it says there won’t be rain, it usually rains, and when it says there will be rain, it usually doesn’t rain.
It was supposed to rain today, but it didn't.
As a result, the fire in Shiliang Bay continued. By the time Pei Qing and Xu An rushed over, only a few flames were left, and the martial arts school was burned down.
The surrounding residents were whispering and pointing at the martial arts school teachers who were surrounded by police.
Xu An glanced around, walked towards the policeman and asked, "Where is the child inside?"
The police officer at the police station said hesitantly: "No."
Xu An frowned: "What do you mean by no?"
Police: "They just disappeared. Only these few people came out."
He hurriedly pointed at several teachers from the martial arts school, and several sturdy men avoided his gaze, reeking of alcohol.
Xu An laughed angrily: "You guys just ignored the students and ran away?"
While Xu An was arguing with several men, Pei Qing walked towards the martial arts school. After taking a few steps, he was stopped by a smoking policeman.
"Hey, what are you doing? Don't go in. It's choking."
Pei Qing: "Where are the students inside?"
The policeman had a cigarette in his mouth, and smoke rings were floating up layer by layer.
"Who knows? I didn't see it."
He glanced at the gray-black walls of the martial arts school and said, "This place is ruined anyway."
Pei Qing was incredulous: "Why don't you look for it?"
Policeman: "We did. Are you from downtown? We searched everywhere before you arrived, but we didn't find anything. Don't make it sound like we didn't do anything."
Pei Qing's eyelids twitched, and he ignored his dissuasion and walked towards the martial arts school.
The smoking police officer did not stop her or follow her, allowing her to walk into the smoking martial arts school.
Pei Qing walked around the martial arts school. The smell after the fire was suffocating. She walked out of the martial arts school not long after, her eyes red.
The policeman was still smoking at the door. When he saw Pei Qing coming out with red eyes, he said sarcastically: "I told you it was choking inside, but you insisted on going in. I told you but you didn't believe me. It's true that people can't teach you, but they can learn it once they are taught."
Pei Qing glared at him fiercely.
"There are students here, right? Why don't you look for them?"
The smoking policeman said slowly: "Why rush? Maybe the child ran away by himself. He didn't run away in the chaos, waiting to be beaten. He is just young, not stupid. But you can't say for sure. If he is beaten too many times, he will become a fool."
Pei Qing thought his words were particularly unpleasant: "Hey, how can you talk like that!"
Pei Qing was arguing with him when Xu An came over.
"Have you looked inside? No one?"
Pei Qing: "No one, no children."
Xu An's frown didn't loosen: "Why are your eyes so red? I have mineral water in my car, use it to rinse your eyes."
Pei Qing: "It's okay."
She was stubborn and refused to leave, so Xu An had no choice.
"That's fine."
Xu An looked at the smoking policeman and asked, "Your name is Yang Xingping? Were you drinking with your martial arts school teacher when the fire started?"
Yang Xingping took a puff of his cigarette and said, "Yeah, this is just a coincidence. If I had known there would be a fire here today, I would have run far away. Knowing it earlier is worth a fortune."
He was filled with the aura of giving up.
Xu An looked at him and said, "I just asked your director, you should be at work today, why did you come out to drink?"
Yang Xingping: "I told him that I needed leave for something, but he didn't agree. If he didn't agree, what can I do? I sneaked away. I used to sneak away often, but today I was just unlucky."
His face looked calm, as if nothing had happened.
Pei Qing: "You will be punished."
Yang Xingping: "Then I won't do this. This is a place where nobody cares. I will mess up if I have a little power. I don't want to do this any longer. If you punish me, I will leave."
Pei Qing looked at him and thought of the IPs close to Youliang Education. Her eyebrows suddenly relaxed and she looked at Yang Xingping thoughtfully. Xu An listened to Yang Xingping's resignation speech and said "Oh" softly. He didn't say anything else, but called Fang Jie.
Fang Jie was looking for onlookers to take statements when he heard Xu An's words and hurried over.
Xu An: "His name is Yang Xingping. Follow him and get his computer from home. We want to requisition it."
Fang Jie: "Okay, Brother An."
The cigarette in Yang Xingping's mouth almost fell out, and he bit it with his teeth again.
Xu An looked at him calmly: "Brother, cooperate with us, or you will be sent to the interrogation room of our city bureau. We are all colleagues, and it will not be good if there is a quarrel."
Yang Xingping said nothing.
＊
After Yang Xingping's computer was taken away, through data comparison sent by professionals, it was determined that Yang Xingping had sent messages to an account on Zhuo Pancai's computer.
The message was very simple, it was a time and address. Coincidentally, this address was very close to Xu Qianyu and Zhuo Pancai's school, just a 500-meter walk away.
Xu An said to Yang Xingping, "Hey, buddy, what a coincidence that you went to see Xu Qianyu. Okay, where is Xu Qianyu now? I won't say any more nonsense about her mother being very anxious. Xu Qianyu must be injured, right? Where did you find a black clinic for her? Don't give the little girl tetanus."
Yang Xingping took the cigarette out of his mouth.
Xu An: "I'm not trying to make things difficult for you, but what about the kids in the martial arts school? What are you going to do when their parents come looking for you?"
Yang Xingping: "It's none of my business. They dumped the child here and now the child is missing. If they don't blame themselves, who else can they blame? Even if you got kicked in the head by a donkey, you wouldn't do such a bullshit."
Xu An shook his head: "Tsk, luckily I'm not the captain."
He instructed Fang Jie: "Take them back to the Municipal Bureau. Also, take away the drunk guys over there. Don't leave any of them behind. Xu Qianyu might sue them if she's not careful. Don't let them get away."
Fang Jie asked several police officers to take the man away, and then looked at Yang Xingping in embarrassment: "Do we need to torture him?"
Xu An glanced at Yang Xingping and said, "Forget it. Let's save some face and leave like this."
Fang Jie: "Okay, by the way, Brother An, why don't you come back with me? It's time to get back to work."
Xu An: "I don't see you thinking about me at other times, but you only come to me when you start working."
Fang Jie chuckled a few times: "Brother, you are wrongly accusing me. This time it's not the case. It was obviously you who came over here by yourself."
Xu An asked him to go: "I'll go look for Xu Qianyu and Zhuo Pancai. Zhuo Pancai's grandmother is still waiting for her granddaughter at home. You go back first."
Fang Jie wanted to ask how to find it, but before he could say anything, he was driven away by Xu An.
Xu An looked at the martial arts school that was burned to black and ashes, and felt a little weird.
He started looking for Pei Qing and found that Pei Qing was looking for surveillance.
Xu An: "Have you finished counting?"
Pei Qing nodded, pointed to him, and said, "I've counted them, but I don't know how many of them can be used."
Apart from the surveillance cameras installed by the martial arts school, there are only small town roads here. Shiliangwan is originally located in a remote area. Pei Qing guessed that the martial arts school chose this place to prevent students from escaping.
But now there is a new problem. The area is remote and most of the roads are small town roads. You have to drive a long way to see the provincial road. It is even more uncertain how many road surveillance cameras before the provincial road are still usable.
Xu An: "Go ask the traffic police. It should be a big car. A four-seater car can't take all these children away."
Pei Qing: "Let's find Xu Qianyu."
She pulled out her tablet and flipped back to the one about the masquerade.
"She must be in this picture. Then ask her what mask she is wearing."
After that, she turned over a new page of canvas and said to Xu An: "If I can draw it, I will definitely be more efficient than you."
Xu An: "Draw your own picture, don't step on it."
The two of them relaxed now. Xu Qianyu was probably hiding somewhere. Even though she was injured, she was not going to lose her life.
Pei Qing painted very quickly this time and finished a place with just a few strokes.
White walls with polka dots, lush trees outside the walls, and the hospital name prominently displayed among the trees and above the retractable doors.
"Overpass Mental Hospital."
Pei Qing: "Where is this mental hospital?"
Xu An pressed his forehead and asked, "Why did she go to the mental hospital?"
The two looked at each other, looked through the car window at the burned-down martial arts school, and suddenly had an idea.
Maybe someone from the martial arts school is in a mental hospital.
＊
Pei Qing and Xu An did find Xu Qianyu in the Overpass Mental Hospital.
In addition to Xu Qianyu, there were also Zhuo Pancai and Yan Wenxing who appeared in the bar that day.
The three of them sat together, staring blankly at the ward behind the iron gate opposite.
In the opposite ward was a young boy with messy hair and no visible face. He was yelling on the bed. Several male nurses were trying to hold him down, but he shrank his head, tilted his body, and crawled under the bed, muttering, "Don't hit me..."
Pei Qing and Xu An stood there without moving, watching the young man being pulled out by the nurse, and after being injected with medicine, he lay quietly on the bed.
The air was silent.
Xu Qianyu was immersed in her own thoughts and did not see Xu An and Pei Qing. It was Yan Wenxing who saw them first.
Yan Wenxing carefully pulled Xu Qianyu. He was still wearing the same frame glasses he wore that day and did not try to wear invisible glasses again.
Xu Qianyu saw Pei Qing and Xu An, and they were finally able to sit down and have a good chat.
Xu An decided to start with the simplest topic. He said to Zhuo Pancai, "Your grandma is waiting for you at home. When will you be home?"
Zhuo Pancai no longer had the rebellious look she had when they first met. She pulled her bangs and said, "I will definitely go back tonight."
Very good, this child is quite cooperative, so Xu An doesn’t need to talk at length about her grandmother being seventy years old.
Then the next one - Xu An looked at Xu Qianyu. There was no need to worry about Yan Wenxing. He was not very courageous and did not dare to refuse anyone. He could just bring him back to the bureau when the time comes.
Xu An began to ask Xu Qianyu: "How did you find Duan Jin?"
Xu Qianyu looked at the policeman she had seen in the photo, and without thinking, she asked, "You are not a policeman from our police station, why are you looking for me? Are you a criminal investigator?"
Xu An: "Now are you asking me or am I asking you?"
Xu Qianyu: "Let me ask you."
Xu An was very happy.
"You and Yang Xingping also talk like this?"
Xu Qianyu stared at him.
Xu An: "Why are you looking at me like that? Don't you know Yang Xingping? Don't make it sound like I'm guilty of something heinous. This is the first time I've met you. Besides, it's not my fault that Yang Xingping can't be a policeman anymore. Didn't you guys come up with this? He went to get drunk, and one of you went to set the fire, and you picked up those unlucky kids. I just don't know who set the fire, but arson is a serious crime."
Pei Qing coughed and said, "Let's go to the hospital first."
Xu An sighed: "Stop coughing, I'm educating them on the law."
He then said seriously: "And you and Duan Jin, this is called false accusation and framing—"
Xu Qianyu argued with him: "I didn't make a false accusation."
Xu An: "Oh, that's a frame-up. Just tell me, did you want to fabricate facts and make Duan Jin think he killed someone?"
Xu Qianyu: "That's what he thought. I just accidentally left something at his house."
Xu An: "This is the first time I've heard something like this from a minor."
He had a headache and just wanted to take these people to the bureau first to let Ji Wu worry about it. I was still suspended from work, so what work should I do for Ji Wu every day?
Pei Qing saw that he didn't want to talk, so he continued.
She looked at the ward behind the iron door and asked Xu Qianyu, "Do you want to stay? Have you bandaged your wounds? I suggest you go to the city hospital for another checkup. What do you think?"
Xu Qianyu looked at her and asked, "Aren't you a police officer?"
Pei Qing: "I'm not, what's wrong?"
Xu Qianyu: "I said, as long as they are police officers, no matter whether they are old or young, they all want to educate me, but you don't want to educate me."
Xu An was implied.
Pei Qing smiled and asked, "Does Yang Xingping want to teach you?"
Xu Qianyu: "He is the same."
Pei Qing: "Oh, I can't teach you. If you don't want to see your friend, I will take you to the hospital to check your wound. You must have lost a lot of blood."
Xu Qianyu looked at the person sleeping on the bed and nodded.
"He doesn't even know me, there's no need to look."
Pei Qing: "Let's go then."
Xu An followed Pei Qing exhausted.
Pei Qing said: "Don't look so sad."
Xu An: "Go ask Xu Qianyu where she sent those kids from school."
Pei Qing: "Go to the traffic police to check the surveillance. I won't ask."
Xu An: "What if something goes wrong along the way..."
Pei Qing: "Thinking of something good is better than being sent to a mental hospital."
Xu An sighed.
It's difficult.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com