Chapter 145: Jinjiang First Launch

Mi Xiaoqin slammed the table angrily: "What are you talking about? Isn't it obvious that you are implying me when you say this? My child has disappeared, I am so anxious, but you are still here saying sarcastic words, do you have any humanity?"

In order not to make the atmosphere more tense, Xia Mang did not speak again, but she was still suspicious of the couple in her heart. Bai Mian repeated again: "Let me take your pulse, and everything will be clear. If you continue to be deadlocked, it will only waste precious time. Every minute of delay will put the child in more danger."

Mi Xiaoqin hesitated for a while, then confronted her husband: "Hurry up and take your hand out for the master to check your pulse. What are you hesitating about?"

Qin Junfeng asked back: "Why don't you let someone check your pulse? Do you have something on your mind that you're afraid the master will tell you?"

Mi Xiaoqin was a little upset by the question. Her face turned red and she started to quarrel with Qin Junfeng: "Feeling guilty? Damn it, what kind of guilt can I have? I am busy every day for you and the child. The child's achievements today are also my credit. I have a clear conscience!"

"Then let the master take your pulse." Qin Junfeng said casually.

Mi Xiaoqin thought for a moment, then suddenly nodded: "Okay, then let the master check my pulse."

As she spoke, she placed her hand on the table. Just when Bai Mian stretched out his hand and was about to touch her skin, she suddenly retracted her hand and pressed Qin Junfeng's hand on the table. To no one's surprise, Bai Mian took Qin Junfeng's pulse.

"You—you—"

After reacting, Qin Junfeng's neck became red and thick, with veins bulging on both sides. He wanted to swear a few words, but seeing that there were many people around him, he didn't say anything.

The next second, he immediately retracted his hand and looked at Bai Mian with some guilt. In his heart, he hoped that Bai Mian had not succeeded in taking the pulse, but in fact, Bai Mian had already seen everything.

"Your daughter was indeed taken away by aliens."

After taking the pulse, Bai Mian said this and everyone was shocked.

Mi Xiaoqin was stunned and confirmed in a low voice: "That's it? There are no aliens in modern society. Are you kidding me? Is this the Master Bai Mian mentioned on the Internet? I remember I found the right place..."

Bai Mian ignored her and continued, "But it wasn't the aliens in the science fiction movies, it was the 'ET' crew that worked with you that day."

Xia Mang patted his head and said, "Haha, I guessed it right. In that movie, the alien's name is ET!"

Mi Xiaoqin patted her chest and said, "It turned out that it wasn't the alien in the sky. You should just say it directly. It was the filming team that took my Lele away. I said so. The excuse they gave was really weird. A loud speaker suddenly appeared, or a big star passed by. It's impossible to think about it. They really treated me like a fool! But what about that video?"

Bai Mian: "That was processed and synthesized in post-production. They took a photo of the child and then added some techniques to synthesize the video, making it look like the child was taken away by some supernatural force. This was done to increase the difficulty for you to find the child. The processing technology of that video is very good, and laymen can't tell it's fake at first. If you had called the police at the beginning, the police would have probably detected it for you a long time ago."

Mi Xiaoqin smiled awkwardly: "I really can't call the police, for fear that the matter will get out of hand and I can't afford the penalty. It's not easy for us either. Then again, why did that team take Lele away? If they wanted to kidnap her for money, why didn't I receive any calls from them? That team included both men and women, and there were several of them who teamed up to kidnap a child. I really couldn't imagine what they would do to Lele..."

Bai Mian corrected Mi Xiaoqin's words: "To be precise, they didn't kidnap, they rescued. They rescued the child."

When Bai Mian said this, Qin Junfeng began to feel uncomfortable. He stretched his neck and looked left and right, as if he had fleas on his body. Bai Mian wanted to continue talking, but he suddenly interrupted Bai Mian and said, "Excuse me, may I ask where is the public toilet near you? I suddenly have to pee and need to go to the toilet. You can just talk to my wife."

Mi Xiaoqin kicked him angrily and said, "You, you always lose your temper at the critical moment. Get out of here!"

Qin Junfeng stood up and prepared to walk out the door, but Bai Mian stopped him: "You don't have to walk so far, there is a toilet in our store."

Qin Junfeng smiled awkwardly: "Oh, that's the toilet for your internal employees. How can I, an outsider, feel comfortable using it..."

Bai Mian looked up at him and said, "We don't mind, so why do you mind?"

Since Bai Mian said so, Qin Junfeng could no longer refuse. He went straight to the toilet and locked the door from the inside. Bai Mian continued to say to Mi Xiaoqin: "They felt sorry for the child, so they teamed up to rescue the child."

Mi Xiaoqin found it funny: "Ahaha, our Lele is pitiful? What a joke! Lele has us taking care of her full-time, and we have so much money to spend. She has endless beautiful clothes to wear every day, and lives in a house in Beijing. I don't know how much better than other children. Others envy her so much that they can't wait to feel sorry for her. How can we feel sorry for her?"

Bai Mian shook his head: "As her parents, you have given her a lot of filming jobs. She needs to shoot day and night, almost 24/7. She doesn't even have time to sleep. The haggardness on her face is visible to the naked eye. How can she not be pitiful? At this age, other children are playing or studying, but Lele is facing endless work. All this is because of her beauty and your greed."

Mi Xiaoqin blushed: "Are you saying that I gave Lele too many jobs? But there is no other way. We still have car and house loans to pay off. Besides, how tiring can her filming job be? She just needs to change clothes and sit there for others to take pictures. It's not like she has to move bricks!"

"You think I'm cruel, but that's because you don't understand the rules of this industry. Parents of child models will let their children take as many jobs as possible when they are young. After all, children grow up in the blink of an eye. How long can they maintain their cute appearance? This industry is just like being an internet celebrity. After becoming famous, they quickly become out of fashion. Everyone wants to make more money while they are popular."

Mi Xiaoqin argued to justify herself, and Lu Xue beside her sighed quietly: "Beauty is such a tragedy for this child."

Bai Mian described what happened in detail: "That morning, you and your wife put Lele in the studio and left. Lele came to Studio No. 2 skillfully, ready to start a day of shooting. The clothes that needed to be changed for the day had been delivered to the table by the merchant in advance. A female staff member from the photography team took Lele to the dressing room to change clothes."

"When changing clothes, the woman found that Lele was unusually thin, as if she was malnourished. Then Lele changed her clothes, sat on a small chair, and made cute poses. Before the photographer could take a few photos, Lele suddenly turned pale and fainted. It turned out that she didn't eat breakfast in the morning and had hypoglycemia. So the photography team hurriedly found a few slices of bread for her to eat."

Mi Xiaoqin interrupted, "Well, I'm helping Lele lose weight. Child models, like men, have to strictly control their diet. If I feed her until she becomes a fat girl, will anyone still ask her to take photos?"

Xia Mang couldn't bear it any longer: "You are simply abusing children!"

Mi Xiaoqin knew she was in the wrong and didn't want to argue any more: "Okay, okay, I was wrong. When I find the child, I will feed her well."

Bai Mian continued, "After all this trouble, the photography team noticed that Lele was not in a good condition, so they stopped filming and gathered together to discuss countermeasures. This is a photography team composed of college students. Today is their first day of receiving orders. They didn't expect to encounter such a situation. If it were another team, they might have turned a blind eye to this situation, but this team couldn't stand it, so they came up with a plan."

"They wanted to take the child away, let the child have a good rest for a day and have a few good meals, but if they communicated with you directly, you would definitely not agree, so they staged such a drama. They sent the child to the hotel, then set up a loud speaker, made up a story for you, and finally synthesized the video to make Lele's disappearance mysterious, so that you couldn't find her for a while."

Mi Xiaoqin couldn't understand: "No, why are they doing this? A failed shoot won't do them any good. They are such a bunch of fools. The same goes for that Taobao merchant. Where did they find such an unreliable team? I want them to pay me back, all of them!"

Bai Mian: "They are still college students, so they don't see things that utilitarian. Even if this thing doesn't benefit them in any way, as long as it can help someone, they are willing to do it. Besides, they all come from well-off families, and they do photography just for fun, not to make money from it, so they are not afraid of offending the merchants, nor are they afraid of losing the income from this order."

Mi Xiaoqin still didn't understand: "That's enough, a bunch of idiots, they are just full and spoiled, they destroyed my daughter's career, I will never forgive them! Which hotel did they hide my daughter in? Why haven't they come back yet? Didn't you say they just wanted my daughter to rest for a day? After she rested enough, they should release my daughter, right?"

"They haven't released Lele yet," Bai Mian said solemnly, "because they found a bigger problem with Lele - someone hopes that Lele will never grow up."

"What?" Mi Xiaoqin took a breath, a hint of panic flashing across her pupils.

Bai Mian: "After Lele rested in the hotel for a day, the photography team planned to send her home as agreed. But at this time, someone suggested taking Lele for a physical examination. After all, she was too thin and frail. She would collapse if the wind blew. The others agreed, so they took Lele to the hospital for a full-body physical examination at their own expense. The results showed that -"

"Lele had an injection in her knee that blocked her height, causing her to grow very slowly. In other words, someone wanted Lele to remain a child her whole life."