"Do you know where he lives?" Xu Yanhong asked, puzzled. This was their first meeting, wasn't it?
Xu Minghe, holding the hands of his two nephews, said as they walked, "Just bring the children and follow us."
Xu Yanhong, still somewhat doubtful, pulled Xiao Jun's hand and followed Xu Minghe forward. She couldn't very well betray them, could she?
"Alright, we're here, let's go in!" Xu Minghe said, pointing to the police station with the police emblem in front of them.
Xu Yanhong looked at the police station gate, then at Xu Minghe, and hesitated before asking, "So you want me to bring the child here to the police station? Is that alright?"
"Why not? If you're in trouble, go to the police. Isn't that what your teachers taught you? Now his family hasn't come to pick him up, and he can't find his way home. Isn't that a good thing?"
Xu Minghe thought he was incredibly clever; leaving the child at the police station meant the child wouldn't get lost, and the police would always be able to find the child's parents.
"I don't want to go, I don't want to go, I want to go home, Teacher Xu, take me home."
At this moment, Xiao Jun realized that his grandma always used the police to scare him, so he didn't like the police. Knowing that they needed to find the police, he shouted that he wanted to go home.
"Hey, what are you doing?" A policeman walked in from inside the door, looking at the group suspiciously.
When Xu Minghan saw that the police had really arrived, he quickly explained, "Officer, it's like this, there's a little child who can't find his way home, so we brought him to the police station."
The police officer, seeing the child crying uncontrollably, was already half convinced, but still questioned, "Then why did I hear the child call you Teacher Xu? What, are you teachers?"
"Officer, this is what happened. I am this child's teacher, but his family didn't come to pick him up today, and we don't know his phone number or his home address, so I had no choice but to bring him to the police station."
Xu Yanhong looked at the police with a troubled expression, thinking that she hadn't done anything wrong, so she became even more self-righteous.
"Okay, then you can come in first." The police officer gestured for them to come in through the side door. Xu Minghe was strong and pulled Xiao Jun's clothes to drag him inside.
The police officer led them to the office and asked Xiao Jun softly, "Son, do you know the phone number near your home? Or do you know where you live?"
Xiao Jun looked up at the policeman, then immediately lowered his head again, and answered softly, "I don't know the phone number, but I know where I live."
The police officer looked at Xu Minghe and his companion with a puzzled expression. "Didn't you know that?"
Xu Yanhong looked helpless. "We asked him, but he just wouldn't tell us. He's like a gourd with its mouth sawed off. Maybe you're just more capable, officer!"
Police officer: "..." You might as well just say he looks scary.
"Alright, alright, you can go now. I'll take him home."
"Teacher Xu, I don't want him, I want you to stay with me." Xiao Jun looked unwilling and hid behind Xu Yanhong.
"What should we do? Why don't you come with me, teacher?" the policeman asked Xu Yanhong helplessly.
Xu Yanhong then looked at Xu Minghe and asked shyly, "Xu Minghe, why don't you come with me?"
Xu Minghe was about to agree when he heard an old woman's wailing outside, "Oh dear, I'm going to die! Why did they bring my grandson to the police station? This is going to terrify my grandson!"
The police officer chuckled, "No need for that, the main character has arrived."
Xiao Jun heard his grandmother's voice and immediately pushed open the office door and ran out, crying and shouting, "Grandma, Grandma, please save me! The police are coming to arrest me!"
The old lady hugged her grandson who ran towards her, checked him over from head to toe, and asked with concern, "Xiaojun, tell Grandma, did they hit you?"
"Mom, what are you saying? How could the police hit someone?" The young woman next to her frowned at the old lady. These words were just too hateful!
"How could he not? Look at my grandson, he's crying. Who knows where he hurt himself. You, as his own mother, don't even care about him." The old lady pouted, and when she caught sight of Xu Yanhong standing there silently out of the corner of her eye, she got angry.
With his hands on his hips and glaring at Xu Yanhong, he shouted, "Teacher Xu, what's wrong with you? I asked you to take care of my grandson, and what did you do? You brought him to the police station! If anything happens to my grandson, can you afford to compensate me?"
"Me?" Xu Yanhong pointed to herself, then looked at Xiaojun, and quickly explained to Xiaojun's mother, "Xiaojun's mother, your mother-in-law didn't say anything, she just told Xiaojun to come with me, and even said that I should take Xiaojun to have dinner with your brother-in-law. Tell me, I'm an unmarried young woman, isn't this deliberately ruining my reputation?"
"I'm only making you my daughter-in-law because you're Xiaojun's teacher, so you can teach him. Otherwise, I wouldn't even consider you," the old lady retorted immediately when she saw Xu Yanhong still daring to complain.
If it weren't for the fact that she was quite patient in teaching Xiao Jun several times and that she was a teacher, she wouldn't have looked down on Xu Yanhong. How dare she act so arrogantly?
"Mom, what are you saying? I told you to pick up the child, and this is how you do it? What does this have to do with the teacher?"
Xiao Jun's mother was furious. Her mother-in-law was such a nuisance. As soon as her son made some money, she got arrogant and looked down on everyone. She had offended so many people because of this, and Xiao Jun's mother had to keep apologizing to her.
"How can it not be a problem? She's a teacher, so it's her duty to take care of her students. What's wrong with me asking her to watch the child for a while? She should just take the child back to her home and teach the child the homework while she's at it. Wouldn't that save us a lot of trouble?"
The old lady felt she hadn't done anything wrong. Aren't all teachers like this? When her son was in school, he often went to his teacher's house for meals! She had only asked this teacher, Ms. Xu, to watch her child for a while, and this had happened. She was really unworthy of her youngest son.
“Old lady, if you say that, I’ll call the police and have you arrested. The police are right here. There’s no such thing as a teacher helping to take care of children. If your family isn’t afraid of losing face, I’ll come to your house and have a good talk with you.”
Xu Minghe pushed his two nephews toward Xu Yanhong, then stood directly in front of the old lady, staring straight at her as he spoke.
The old lady was startled and took a big step back, but she still wouldn't let it go, "Who are you to stand up for her? Oh, I know, you're her lover, right? I knew it, you don't even want my son. Teacher Xu, you're an unmarried old maid and you're seeing a man with two kids. Be careful, I'll report you to your school."
"Madam, this is a police station. Watch your words. I'm still standing here." The police officer found this increasingly inappropriate and quickly intervened.
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