Chapter 177 Calling the Police
The two sides were deadlocked, and in the end my brother-in-law and his family still didn't get to see my cousin.
My brother-in-law always felt that my cousin would not listen to her family, so he persuaded his parents to stay in the county town for one night. He went to her house again the next day, but still could not see my cousin. My cousin's car was parked in the yard and had not moved.
"Grandma, tell me the truth, did you hide Jundi? Illegal detention is against the law." The brother-in-law patiently reasoned with the old lady.
"What do you mean by hiding? Look for yourself, my house is so small, where can I hide it? I told you she went to visit relatives and didn't come back, but you didn't believe me. If you pay the betrothal money, I will ask her to come back." Grandma said with confidence.
"You said she was visiting relatives. Why is her car parked here? Why is her phone turned off?"
"She left in a relative's car. She said she gave the car to her brother to drive and forgot her cell phone at home." Grandma said this without any guilt, but the brother-in-law was not so easily fooled. Of course he didn't believe it. He was almost certain that his cousin was hidden.
But there was really no one at home, and he couldn't think of anywhere else.
My brother-in-law wanted to call the police, but his parents comforted him and said that no matter what, his cousin would definitely not be in danger, and at most her freedom would be restricted.
There was no way her biological parents would kill their daughter, right? They were still waiting to exchange her for a betrothal gift.
My cousin hasn't shown up for three consecutive days and her phone has been turned off. It's already the sixth day of the New Year and she has to go back to work on the eighth day. It's impossible for my cousin to give up her job. My brother-in-law knows how much she cares about this job.
My brother-in-law was extremely anxious and thought something must have happened.
He asked his parents to go back first while he went to the county town to call the police.
But when the police went to my uncle's house to ask, the whole family said that my brother-in-law had made a false report.
The grandmother complained to the police: "Comrade police, he wanted to kidnap my granddaughter without any reason. He filed a false police report because my granddaughter wouldn't see him. How could my granddaughter be missing? She just went to a relative's house and is in contact with us every day."
"Yes, comrade police officer, Jundi is my own daughter. If she was really missing, how could I not call the police? This guy just wanted to kidnap her, so he deliberately said she was missing." My uncle also said so.
Xia Junliang said directly: "This man wants to be my brother-in-law but doesn't want to give a betrothal gift. He is trying to coax my sister to elope with him. Don't believe him."
The police looked at my brother-in-law with a complicated look, "You said your lover is missing. Do you two have a marriage certificate?"
My brother-in-law was stunned for a moment, "They haven't got the marriage certificate yet. This time she came back to get the household registration booklet to get the marriage certificate from me."
The police interrupted him, "That means Xia Jundi is not your legal wife yet. Her family says she is not missing, so we cannot file a case.
Since you can't see the person, you should discuss the betrothal gift with the elders. We police can't interfere with this."
My brother-in-law was almost crying. "She must have been locked up. She has to go back to work soon after the holiday. There's no way she hasn't shown up yet."
The police looked at him sympathetically and said, "This can't be used as a basis for filing a case. You should try to discuss it with her family."
In desperation, the brother-in-law remembered that his cousin had told him that her uncle worked in the tax bureau in the county town, so he rushed to L County and used his father's connections to find a staff member named Xia in the local tax system.
Fortunately, there are not many people with the surname Xia. There are only two in the entire L County tax system, and the other one is a woman, so my brother-in-law quickly contacted my uncle.
My uncle asked my brother-in-law to come to his house and told him the whole story. My good earwitness, Xiao Wensong, heard it all.
"Have you found your cousin now?" This is what I care about most.
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