Moreover, through reading and learning, he picked up the knowledge that his master had previously taught him.
"Ring ring ring"
Li Chu, who was immersed in the ocean of knowledge, was startled awake by a piercing telephone ring.
He had just stood up from his chair when he heard Ding Qiunan answer the phone outside.
Um?
They didn't call me, so why wasn't it a call for me?
Li Chu was muttering to himself, just about to go out and take a look, when the study door was pushed open.
"Xiao'e is coming right away. She said in a hurry that Da Mao has been arrested, but she didn't explain what happened. She just said she would talk to him when she got here."
"What? Da Mao has been arrested? Who arrested him?"
"I don't know, she just said she'd be right over."
"Okay, go change your clothes. I'll wait at the door so the doorbell won't startle the child."
"It's alright, Dazhuang has wrapped up the doorbell, so the sound is very quiet." With that, Ding Qiunan walked out of the study.
Li Chu stood there, raised his hand and rubbed his temples. What was going on? What had Xu Damao done?
How could he have been arrested when he was perfectly fine when he brought him lunch today?
With these questions in mind, he left the study and walked straight outside.
As soon as I stepped out of the covered walkway and into the front yard, Liu Dazhuang came out of his house.
"Director, are you going out?"
"No, a friend is coming over soon, I'll go get him."
As he spoke, he turned on the main light outside the door, then opened the door and stood outside.
Seeing the little black dog squatting beside him, he squatted down as well, stroking its head. The little black dog was so happy that its eyes narrowed into slits with comfort.
On the other side, Chu Yi got a little anxious and raised his front paws to put them on his owner's leg, indicating that he wanted to be petted too.
Li Chu smiled and raised his other hand to stroke its head as well.
Within two minutes, Ding Qiunan came up from behind: "Hasn't the person arrived yet?"
"It can't be that fast. It would take her ten minutes to ride her bike over."
After thinking for a moment, he raised his hand and patted Xiao Hei's head: "Go, follow the road and find Lou Xiao'e."
Xiao Hei was clearly stunned for a moment, but still stood up, tilting its head and looking at its owner with a puzzled expression.
"Go find Lou Xiao'e."
This time it understood, barked a low bark, then turned and ran, turning north at the intersection.
And what about Lou Xiao'e at this time?
She was struggling to get up from the ground. She had been rushing over on her bicycle, but somehow she had fallen.
Fortunately, I'm not seriously injured, but I cut my hand on the ground and it hurts a bit.
At this point, she didn't care about the pain anymore. She picked up the bicycle and prepared to ride it again, only to find that she couldn't push it at all.
The chain was in the box, and she couldn't figure out what the problem was. Feeling wronged, all she wanted to do was cry.
But thinking about how her husband had just been taken away by the police, and how she was still keeping it a secret from her family, she knew now wasn't the time to cry; she needed to get to Qiu Nan's house quickly.
The Fairy Tree Romance
She moved the car to the side of the road, locked it, and didn't care if it would be stolen.
I took a step forward, my leg still a little sore.
She had only walked a few steps when she heard a rustling sound ahead. Following the dim streetlights, she could vaguely see a dark figure running towards her.
Before she could react, the dark figure had already run up to her.
"Phew..." Lou Xiao'e breathed a sigh of relief the moment she saw the dog.
After running up to her, Xiao Hei sniffed her twice, then looked up at her, barked once, and turned to walk back the way it came.
Seeing this, Lou Xiao'e gritted her teeth and followed.
Having not seen him for half a day, Ding Qiunan anxiously went to the intersection to wait.
From afar, she saw Xiao Hei slowly slinking back, with a figure walking slightly unsteadily not far behind.
She quickly went to greet them.
When Lou Xiao'e saw her best friend coming to greet her, the tears that had been welling up in her eyes could no longer be held back and streamed down her face.
"Xiao'e, what happened to you? Did you fall? Are you hurt anywhere?"
Ding Qiunan immediately understood what had happened when she saw the dirt on her body, and quickly went over to help her up.
"Qiu Nan, I'm fine, I just cut my hand."
Seeing her tearful face, Ding Qiunan put her arm around her shoulder with heartache.
"Alright, Xiao'e, it's alright, it's alright. Come on, let's go home and talk. By the way, where's your car?"
"The car was just entering the alley on the north side when it fell and I don't know what happened. I can't push it anymore."
"Give me the key in a moment, and I'll have someone bring it over for you."
Seeing her disheveled appearance, Li Chu didn't ask anything. He simply took the bicycle keys from Ding Qiunan and asked Liu Dazhuang to go and get the bicycle back.
As soon as she entered the living room, Lou Xiao'e, without even cleaning the wound on her hand, hurriedly said, "Brother Chu, Da Mao has been taken away by the district police. They say he's... involved in smuggling?"
What did he sell?
"I don't know, but I haven't seen him go out except to buy supplies for the restaurant during this period."
"What else did the police say?"
"They didn't say anything else, just that they were taking him back for investigation."
Which branch office?
"They said they were from the east of the city, but I've never seen a single one of them."
Didn't you check their work IDs?
“As soon as they entered the house, they pinned Da Mao down on the sofa, handcuffed him, and gagged him. I was terrified. One of the men did show me his work ID, but I wasn’t in the mood to look at it at the time.”
Since Lou Xiao'e said she hadn't seen any of them, these people couldn't possibly be from the Chengdong Branch Bureau.
Their family has been running a restaurant here for so long that people in other districts might not recognize them, but there are probably very few in the entire eastern part of the city who would have never even met them.
"Let Qiu Nan treat your wound first, and I'll call someone to check it out."
Jia Dong is on duty at the bureau tonight, so he picked up the phone and called his office directly.
"Jiadong, it's me."
...
"Check it out. Just now, a group claiming to be from the East City Branch broke into Xu Damao's house and took him away, saying he was involved in smuggling. But Lou Xiao'e said she had never seen any of those people before. I suspect they might not be from the East City Branch. Can you find out where they are from and why they took him away?"
...
"Okay, I'll wait for your call."
"Alright, Xiao'e, wait a moment for Jiadong to call back and let him check it out first."
As he spoke, he stood up, poured a glass of water, and placed it on the coffee table. He then glanced at the wound on her hand; it was nothing serious, just a minor abrasion.
"Xiao'e, is Da Mao doing some other business behind your back?"
"I don't think so, Brother Chu. If he were doing something behind my back, it would take at least some time. But besides buying goods, he spends most of his time at the restaurant. What could he possibly be doing?"
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