Chapter 103 Chapter 103 Xia Qinqin visits her father and mother...

Xia Qinqin saw her parents looking at each other. Instead of answering her question, she asked again, "Mom, was I the one you picked from the hospital? Did you pick me because I'm the best looking?"

Meng Yufei smiled and touched her daughter's head, saying softly, "You were born from your mother's belly, not adopted."

"Ah? I came out of my mother's belly!" Xia Qinqin looked at Meng Yufei's belly in surprise. How could such a flat belly hold her?

Meng Yufei said: "You were very small at that time, and you grew up slowly after coming out of your mother's belly."

"Oh, so that's how it is." Xia Qinqin nodded, then hugged Meng Yufei's shoulders and said sweetly, "Thank you for your hard work, Mom."

Hearing that she was not picked from the hospital but came out of her mother's belly, Xia Qinqin felt inexplicably happy. She wanted to hug her mother and felt that she and her mother had a better relationship.

The couple sitting in the front had finished eating. They stood up, holding their child and were about to leave the dining car.

Xia Junshan glanced sideways and at first glance, it really looked like a normal couple with a child. The woman was holding the child very skillfully and there was nothing unusual about her.

However, Xia Junshan's sharp eyes stayed on the small quilt wrapped around the child, and a line of small words could be vaguely seen on the corner of the quilt.

He stood up and walked over, took the man's arm, and said, "Comrade, I have something to trouble you with."

The man turned to look at Xia Junshan. Seeing that he was wearing a military uniform, a trace of guilt flashed across his eyes. He subconsciously looked at the child in the woman's arms. The woman next to him also unconsciously tightened her hands.

Of course, these anomalies did not escape Xia Junshan's eyes.

The man pretended to be calm and said, "Yes, what's the matter?"

Xia Junshan smiled and said, "It's like this. We need to leave in a hurry, and the national rations we have are not enough. Can we exchange two tickets with you?"

The man was about to shake his head, but Xia Junshan said, "How about I exchange it for cigarettes?"

Cigarettes...

The man swallowed the words of rejection.

The woman quietly nudged the man with her elbow and signaled him to hurry up, but the man looked at Xia Junshan and asked, "How are you going to change?"

Xia Junshan said, "Let's sit down first. The cigarettes are all with my wife. I'm going to ask her."

Leading the couple to sit down, Meng Yufei looked at the child in the woman's arms and said casually, "It's hard for both adults and children to take such a young child on the train. How old is the child?"

The woman said, "One...three months."

Meng Yufei narrowed her eyes slightly and smiled, "This child is smaller than other children. You can give him some milk when you go back. It will help him maintain his health."

The woman just nodded and said nothing more, but continued to pat the child with her hands.

Meng Yufei asked again: "Is this a boy or a girl?"

When the woman heard the question, she finally raised her head and said with her chest puffed out, "It's a boy."

After saying that, she glanced at Xia Qinqin next to Meng Yufei, raised her chin and emphasized: "This is the first boy in our family. Having a boy means we will have a future."

Meng Yufei found it a little funny. Not to mention why she had a successor after giving birth to a boy, this child was not hers.

Next to him, Xia Junshan had already agreed with the man to exchange a cigarette coupon for ten kilograms of national grain coupons. He turned around and motioned for Meng Yufei to take the ticket.

After exchanging the tickets, the man held the cigarette in his hand and looked much more relaxed. He felt that the couple in front of him, although the man was a soldier, should not have discovered their secret.

Seeing the man relax, Xia Junshan asked with a smile: "Brother, where did you get on the bus? We came from Qiongzhou."

The man said, "I, we also got on the bus from Qiongzhou."

Xia Junshan raised his eyebrows and said, "What a coincidence. Where are you going?"

The man just opened his mouth when he was interrupted by the woman, "We are going to our hometown in Tianshi to celebrate the New Year."

The man was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Yes, I'm going back to my hometown to celebrate the New Year."

When the woman saw her husband had exchanged the tickets, she hurriedly held the child and said, "Let's go back to the carriage. The child will wake up soon."

The man nodded: "Okay."

Meng Yufei watched the couple leave and whispered, "The child is obviously only a few days old, but she said it's three months old. There must be something wrong. Also, the woman doesn't look like she just finished her confinement."

Xia Junshan said, "I just took a look and saw a line of small words embroidered on the corner of the child's quilt. It reads: Lincheng Cotton Textile Factory. Both Qiongzhou and Tianshi have their own cotton textile factories. Generally, department stores will not import items produced in neighboring cities."

Meng Yufei thought back and said, "I think the material of the quilt is very good. It should be a silk quilt. This kind of material is hard to find on the market."

Xia Junshan stretched out his hand, only to see a crumpled paper bag in his palm. When he opened it, there was a white pill inside.

Xia Qinqin pointed at the pill and said, "This is it. The uncle just fed this to the baby. Dad, what is this? Does it taste good?"

Xia Junshan said to his daughter, "You can't eat this."

"Ah... I can't eat it." Xia Qinqin was a little disappointed.

Meng Yufei's eyes widened in surprise, "You, you took it from that person?"

"Yes." Xia Junshan nodded.

“When did you learn this?”

Xia Junshan smiled and said, "I caught a few thieves before and learned a few tricks from them. Look, what kind of medicine is this."

Meng Yufei picked up a pill and looked at it. Xia Qinqin also curiously leaned over and asked, "Mom, is this candy?"

Meng Yufei shook her head and said, "It's not candy, it's medicine, and it's very bitter."

When she heard the bitterness, Xia Qinqin shrank back and sat upright in the chair.

Meng Yufei picked up the paper bag again and looked at the words on it carefully. She could vaguely see a few words: □□.

"This is sleeping pills." Meng Yufei said in a deep voice.

Xia Junshan said, "Sure enough, I'll go find the conductor right away, you guys go back to the carriage first."

"Okay." Meng Yufei nodded and walked towards the sleeper compartment holding her daughter.

Xia Qinqin asked in confusion: "Mom, why isn't Dad with us?"

"Dad is going to catch the bad guys."

Xia Qinqin's eyes lit up, "Mom, I want to catch the bad guys too."

Meng Yufei smiled and touched her daughter's head, saying softly, "Catching bad guys is for adults. Children should hide well when they encounter bad guys. Don't let them find you. Do you understand?"

Xia Qinqin nodded: "Oh, I see."

The mother and daughter returned to the carriage. The person in the berth opposite them was playing cards on the small table. He was delighted at first when he saw them, but then he felt disappointed when he realized there was no one behind him.

"Um, sister-in-law, hasn't brother come back yet?" - We are still waiting for him to come back to play cards.

Meng Yufei explained: "He went out for something and will be back in a while."

The man nodded and didn't ask what else could happen on the train. He just lowered his head and continued to stack the cards. A few cards were put together to form a small house.

Xia Qinqin found it interesting, walked over curiously, and stared at it with her big eyes blinking.

Seeing that she was interested, the man smiled and invited her to play with him. Xia Qinqin nodded happily and started to join the team playing cards.

Meng Yufei had no mood to read now, so she sat aside and watched her daughter playing cards.

After a long while, Xia Junshan finally came back. Meng Yufei asked hurriedly, "Is the matter done?"

Xia Junshan nodded: "Yes, it's done."

Xia Qinqin stopped playing cards when she saw her father coming back. She turned around and asked with concern, "Dad, did you catch the bad guy?"

Xia Junshan lifted up his daughter's braid, smiled and nodded, "We have handed the bad guy over to the police uncle."

"Wow, Dad is so awesome." Xia Qinqin jumped and clapped her hands happily, tilting her head and asking, "What about the baby? Should we send him back to the hospital?"

Xia Junshan said: "The police will send him back to his real parents."

Xia Qinqin smiled and said, "That's great, the baby can go back to mom and dad."

The man opposite listened to their conversation and asked in surprise: "Brother Xia, did you go to catch a trafficker just now?"

Xia Junshan said: "A couple stole a child from Lincheng People's Hospital under the pretext of visiting relatives."

"Stealing a child?" The man's expression froze, and he stood up and asked, "Brother Xia, you just said it was Lincheng Hospital? How old is the child? Is it a boy or a girl? What does it look like?"

He asked a series of questions, Xia Junshan and Meng Yufei looked at each other. What a coincidence, did he know that kid?

Xia Junshan said, "It's a boy, less than a month old. The couple specifically stole a baby from a family that had just given birth two days ago. As for what the child looked like, I only remember that he was white and tender."

"Oh, by the way, there are words on the corner of the quilt that wrapped the boy. It says Lincheng Cotton Textile Factory." Xia Junshan added.

Meng Yufei followed up by saying, "The blanket is made of silk. The family must love this child very much."

The man said anxiously, "Brother, sister-in-law, where is the child now? That could be my nephew. My sister gave birth to a child in Lincheng People's Hospital a few days ago, and I am here to see her this time."

"And that quilt. My sister is the workshop manager of the Lincheng Cotton Mill. The quilt she prepared for her child was a silk quilt."

Xia Junshan said, "How about this, I'll take you to the flight attendant to see the child first."

The man nodded. "Thank you."

The child was in the duty room, and a female flight attendant was holding the child. When the man arrived, he looked at the child, then looked at the quilt wrapped around the child, and nodded in confirmation.

"That's him! This is my nephew!"

He went to the hospital yesterday to visit his sister who had just given birth. He held the child in his arms for quite a while at that time. He never expected that the child would be stolen from this train today.

The conductor was also surprised to hear such a coincidence: "We have already notified our colleagues at the next station by radio, and they will escort the criminal directly back to the police station. My colleague will send the child to Lincheng People's Court to verify the situation."

The man immediately said, "I'll come along." He took out his work ID and said, "I'm a police officer from Lingcheng City."

The conductor looked at his work ID, nodded and said, "Okay, you can come along."

The man glanced at the sleeping child, breathed a sigh of relief, and said to Xia Junshan: "Brother Xia, thank you. If it weren't for you, my nephew would have been stolen. My sister has had great difficulty in having this child. If she had lost him, I don't dare to think about how she would live in the future..."

Xia Junshan patted him on the shoulder and said, "This is what I should do. I also have a child, and I will definitely not let go of anyone who steals my child."

"However, when you get to the hospital, it's best to have the child checked. Those two people gave the child sleeping pills." As he said this, Xia Junshan handed him the paper bag containing the medicine.

"Take it back and ask the doctor to check if it will have any effect on the child."

The man gritted his teeth and said angrily, "This is too much! They are so vicious that they actually gave drugs to such a young child!"

I will never let these two people go!

At the next stop, the police from the police station boarded the train and took the couple away. Another police officer was left holding the child on the train to Lincheng, and the man got off the train with the child.

After this incident, Meng Yufei watched Xia Qinqin even more closely, not daring to miss a single glance at her, for fear that she might have been kidnapped.

At night, Meng Yufei brought her daughter to the upper floor.

Xia Qinqin had never slept on such a high bed before. She curiously stuck her head out and said with a smile, "Wow, I'm so tall, even taller than my dad."

Xia Junshan reached out and touched his daughter's forehead, and said with a smile, "Yes, I see you almost looking up at me now."

"Hehe, mom and I are both very tall now, Dad, you have to sleep well down there by yourself." Xia Qinqin warned seriously.

Xia Junshan smiled and nodded: "Okay, you should get some good sleep too."