At the other police station, after the two officers brought the thief back, they discussed with some suspicion, "The success rate of catching criminals in our town has increased quite a bit these past few days. And several cases have involved a teenage girl. Could she be the one who caught this thief today?"
Upon hearing this, another veteran police officer in the station looked at them and asked, "What's going on?"
One of the young police officers who brought the thief back pointed at him and said, "This thief was stealing a bicycle outside an internet cafe when he was caught by a young woman. The onlookers said she was quite a fighter..."
"Hmm? Pretty good at fighting?" Hearing that the young girl who caught the thief was quite capable, the older policeman looked at them and asked, "How old is this girl who caught the thief?"
Young police officer: "He looked about fourteen or fifteen years old, and still looked like a junior high school student."
The veteran policeman said, "Could she be the girl who caught the human traffickers?"
The other two police officers said, "We asked her, and she said she wasn't."
The older policeman thought for a moment, then asked, "By the way, where is this girl from? Does she have an older brother?"
The two young policemen exchanged a glance and said, "Ah... we didn't ask about that. We caught her red-handed, so we didn't ask her anything. But Lao Ma, why did you ask her about her brother?"
"You all remember the incident yesterday morning where a hundred people beat up an elderly woman in the village, right? The villagers said that the young woman who first discovered the incident was returning to her parents' home with her brother and sister-in-law that day. So she should have a newly married brother... If this connection also applies, then maybe she is the young woman who asked the old lady for help." The old policeman sat at his desk, scribbling in a notebook.
The two young police officers looked at Lao Ma and said, "Lao Ma, do you think she's the one who first discovered these recent cases?"
The first person to discover the three cases a few days ago—the teenage girl who was attempted to be raped in the middle of the night, the old lady who was beaten by her daughter-in-law and hospitalized, and the child trafficker who snatched a child on the street—all had one thing in common: this young woman was very good at fighting.
The attempted rape case involved three thugs, and the human traffickers were also three people, one of whom was armed with a knife. She single-handedly took them all down.
This is not something an ordinary junior high school girl could do.
If it were all the same person, then it would be different.
The veteran policeman said, "If it's all her doing alone, then she's a real talent. It's like she has some kind of inexplicable radar for crime; our police station needs someone like that."
"But Lao Ma, she's only a junior high school student... Isn't it too early to call her a talent?"
Old Ma: "There's no such thing as early or late when it comes to talent. It's better to cultivate it from a young age. If we nurture her well now, we might have another good police officer in the future."
Young police officer: "Even if they are trained, they may not necessarily come back to work here in the future. Old Ma, you're overthinking it. It may all just be a coincidence."
Old Ma said, "There's nothing wrong with paying more attention. Even if she doesn't come back to work in the future, she still came from here, which is a way of making our Heshui Town proud."
On the other side, Yuan Mengge rode her bicycle around the town.
It's past eight o'clock now, and most of the shops on the street are closed, except for a few barbecue stalls that are starting to get lively.
She took a walk around and found that the town was quite peaceful today.
The system did not trigger any objectives.
"What's going on? Haven't the criminals left their hideout yet? Sigh, another peaceful day. Never mind, Duoduo, let's go home," Yuan Mengge said, calling out to Duoduo before riding her bike home.
Duoduo jogged after her.
Yuan Mengge rode her bike all the way home without encountering any problems.
When they arrived home, Yuan Xiangyong and the others were still drinking in the kitchen.
Yuan Mengge was used to these people drinking from day to night.
She pushed the stroller back into the yard, and Duoduo ran around the kitchen.
The men were getting drunk and didn't notice Duoduo.
Yuan Mengge walked into the living room and saw Yao Dongqing watching TV.
Upon seeing her return, Yao Dongqing's expression changed, and she glared at her, yelling, "Why did you come back? You think you can just come and go as you please? Do you consider this a home?"
Yuan Mengge said calmly, "If you can't even come and go as you please in your own home, what kind of home is that? It's more like a prison! Whose home isn't a place where you can come and go as you please? If you don't even have freedom, can you still call yourself a writer?"
Enraged by her retort, Yao Dongqing pointed at her and yelled, "Have you been talking nonsense these past few days? If I say one thing to you, you talk back ten times, don't you?"
Yuan Mengge: "If you were reasonable, would I argue with you? I'm not arguing with you, I'm trying to reason with you. Do you still want to argue? I can talk to you until dawn. Even if you're my own mother, you still have to be reasonable!"
Yao Dongqing gritted her teeth and said, "Where have I been unreasonable? Did I say anything wrong? What kind of daughter is like you? Huh? Sprinkling ashes in the food and beating up your brother? You think this is being reasonable?"
Yuan Mengge: "You said that he can eat meat without doing anything, while I have to do everything but can't eat it. Why is that? Does that mean only your son is a human being and I'm not? I'm just telling you that you have to be fair. If you're not fair, then you're being unreasonable."
After saying that, she turned and walked towards Yuan Pingping's room.
Hearing her words, Yao Dongqing was not convinced at all, and said: "He is my son, it is only natural for me to be good to him! He will be the one to take care of us in our old age, while you will be someone else's daughter-in-law after you get married. What's the use of being good to him?"
Yuan Mengge stood at the doorway and turned to her, saying, "You keep saying he'll take care of you in your old age, but who will actually take care of you is still uncertain. Other people treat their children equally, but is yours just a shell? Or are we not your biological children? Or were we adopted?"
After saying that, she pushed open the door and went into the room.
Enraged, Yao Dongqing yelled outside, "If you weren't my child, I would have thrown you into the river long ago! What's the point of me raising you all this time?"
After Yuan Mengge entered the room, she saw Li Xue'e sitting in the room, looking at her.
"Where did you go? Have you eaten?" Li Xue'e asked, looking at her.
Yuan Mengge nodded: "I ate, and then I went to the internet cafe for a bit."
When Li Xue'e heard that she was going to an internet cafe, she asked curiously, "You know how to use a computer? Is it fun?"
In her mind, computer rooms were just like arcades, and people went there to play computer games.
Yuan Mengge sat down at the desk: "There's nothing fun to do now, so I can only use it to search for information and watch news, movies, and TV shows."
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