Awakened by the crowing of a rooster, Lu Jiaxin got up, opened the curtains and looked outside. It was pitch black. She didn't get up, covering her head and continued to sleep until she heard a child crying outside.

When the eldest aunt saw her coming out, she stepped forward and said, "It's just dawn, you don't have to get up so early. I'll ask Xiaoqiu to call you when breakfast is ready."

It was also because Lu Jiaxin always slept until noon every time she came, so I told her to sleep a little longer. Girls in the family are not allowed to sleep so late, otherwise people will gossip about them.

Lu Jiaxin smiled and said, "It's okay. I also got up around six in Sijiu City."

She goes to bed at 9:30 every day, gets up at 6:00, washes up, walks for half an hour and starts to memorize English. She thinks that when she returns from Pengcheng, she must let everyone know that her English has improved rapidly.

Seeing that her help was not needed, Lu Jiaxin went back to the house. Seeing that Xiaoqiu was not there, she locked the door, pulled up the curtains, and did yoga.

I haven't done yoga for a long time. I can't do the difficult movements now. I feel pain all over my body after doing the easy ones for a while. I did it for half an hour and sweat dripped down.

"Aunt, it's time to eat."

Lu Jiaxin wiped the sweat from her forehead and went out to wash her face before going to the table. Seeing her aunt brought her a large bowl of dumplings, she immediately said, "Aunt, I can't eat so much. One third is enough."

"It's okay if you can't finish it, just leave some in the bowl."

The Lu family lived better than ordinary people, but they were not so extravagant as to throw away the dumplings. Lu Jiaxin never ate other people's leftovers, nor did she want others to eat her leftovers. Seeing that her aunt disagreed, she stood up and prepared to go to the kitchen to get a bowl to serve.

The eldest aunt had no choice but to take the serving chopsticks and share half of the dumplings in her bowl with her five grandchildren. Seeing that there were still a lot of dumplings in the bowl, Lu Jiaxin scooped a few for Xiaoqiu.

After taking a bite, Lu Jiaxin exclaimed: "These dumplings are fresh and fragrant, so delicious. Auntie, your cooking skills are still so good. Please teach me when you have time."

She also knows how to make steamed buns and steamed buns, which taste pretty good. But the mutton has a strong mutton smell and is inedible if not properly prepared.

The wrinkles on my aunt's face were smoothed out with laughter: "If you want these dumplings to taste good, the filling is the key. I'll teach you how to mix the filling later."

Lu Jiaxin agreed with a smile.

Just after dinner, Lu Jiajie came over with his brother and two older nephews, but Uncle Lu and his wife and Sister-in-law Lu did not come.

Uncle Lu didn't waste any more time and began to assign tasks to them. Two people went to each commune to inquire about the news. The key point was to find out whose son had been admitted to university and stayed in the north to work seventeen years ago. At the same time, each group received a portrait.

The second wife's husband, Lu Jiacai, asked, "Jiaxin, did you really draw this?"

"Yes, about 70% similar."

Lu Jiacai was relieved when he heard this: "Jiaxin, don't worry, as long as she is from Feng County, we will be able to find her."

There are 19 communes in Feng County. After removing Uncle Lu, there are still eight male members in the family. They will go to the four neighboring communes first. Uncle Lu will take Lu Jiaxin to the county police station to report the case.

After the explanation, everyone set off. Zhao Dajun's mission was to protect Lu Jiaxin, so he naturally followed her. Uncle Lu was old, so he was still responsible for pulling the cart.

After leaving the village, Uncle Lu asked her to sit on the cart. Seeing that she was unwilling to do so, he persuaded her, "We have to walk back later. It will take more than four hours to go back and forth, and we have to walk to the county town. You have never walked such a long distance, and you will get blisters from it."

If we don't find any clues today, we'll have to continue tomorrow. Lu Jiaxin didn't dare to show off and got on the cart obediently. She had a good sleep last night and was very energetic. She listened to Uncle Lu's stories along the way.

After more than an hour, she arrived at the county town. Seeing the dilapidated house and the narrow wooden door, she asked in disbelief, "Uncle, this is the Public Security Bureau. Are you kidding me?"

After entering the Public Security Bureau, Lu Jiaxin saw a middle-aged man in an old military uniform sweeping the floor. When he saw three people coming in, he stopped what he was doing and asked, "What can I do for you?"

Lu Jiaxin said in standard Mandarin: "We are here to report a case."

From the tone and demeanor of his speech, it can be seen that this person is definitely a leader. But it’s better to be a leader. As long as this person takes her case seriously, the human trafficker will be caught soon.

"What case?"

"Kidnapping case."

“Who trafficked?”

Lu Jiaxin pointed at herself, then briefly described the process of being abducted and told the other party about her suspicions.

After listening to her story, the middle-aged man's expression became serious. He placed the broom on the tree trunk and led the three people into the office.

The office is very simple, with only a desk and two chairs.

After sitting down, the middle-aged man took out a notebook and a pen from his chest pocket: "Little girl, tell me the details of the process."

Lu Jiaxin described the process in detail and then took out the portrait from her canvas bag.

The middle-aged man saw the portrait and asked, "Who painted this?"

"I drew it. I started to learn to draw at the Children's Palace when I was four years old, and I stopped drawing temporarily until last year when I was in my second year of high school because of the busy academic schedule. My teacher said I was very talented, but my mom said it would be hard to get a good job as a painter, so she told me to just do it as a hobby. Don't worry, I look 70% like the portrait."

Wu Hanping looked at Lu Jiaxin with a strange look in his eyes. The similarity was so high, he must be from Feng County, so it would be easy to find him.

Lu Jiaxin also expressed her thoughts in great detail: "Leader, I hope you can catch the human traffickers as soon as possible."

Wu Hanping looked at her strangely. This kid had analyzed the trafficker clearly and logically just now. "You are so smart, how could you be fooled by the traffickers?"

Lu Jiaxin said: "At that time, I didn't know there were so many bad people out there. During this period of time, I have witnessed the sinister and ugly nature of human beings."

Wu Hanping felt that protecting a child too well was not love, but harm, and Lu Jiaxin was a living example. The child was lucky to have escaped, otherwise her life would have been ruined: "Don't worry, as long as this person is from Feng County, we will definitely catch her and bring her to justice."

Just at this moment, someone knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Someone came in with a document, handed it to him, and said, "Leader, this is a document that the district has just issued, please take a look."

Lu Jiaxin thought that this uncle was a captain or something like that, but she never expected that he was actually a cadre of the Public Security Bureau. Thinking that he was just sweeping the yard, Lu Jiaxin instantly recognized a saying in later generations: cadres nowadays really have no airs at all and completely regard themselves as public servants.

(End of this chapter)