Chapter 128 Chapter 128 Interrogation

After Yin Guixiang spoke to the caregiver next to her, she immediately ran to the back door of the cafeteria, but when she went out to look, there was no one there.

The firefighters used wooden basins to collect water and poured water over and over again, but the fire was too big and this was just a drop in the bucket.

Seeing Yin Guixiang coming back after going out, Xia Qinqin hurriedly asked, "Aunt Yin, did you find Brother Yannan?"

Yin Guixiang shook her head: "No. Qinqin, do you remember what the person who took him away looked like, a man or a woman?"

Xia Qinqin wiped the tears from her face and said, "It was a girl. She had her hair in a braid. It seemed, like... wuwuwu, I can't remember... wuwuwu."

Yin Guixiang asked: "Could it be that his family came to take him home?"

"No, they were not Brother Yannan's family." Xia Qinqin shook her head quickly and said fearfully, "It was a bad guy. It was a bad guy who took him away."

Yin Guixiang comforted her, "Don't worry, I'll go out and look for her. There are guards at the gate of the family compound, and they won't let strangers take the child out."

Yin Guixiang ran out again. She looked around and could only see people running back and forth to put out the fire. Where was the person holding the child?

She thought about it and decided to go to the gate of the family compound first to ask if anyone had just gone out.

Halfway through the walk, I met Principal Tian who was rushing to the kindergarten.

In the morning, after Principal Tian and Principal Yang had apologized at Zhou Wenqian's home, Principal Yang suddenly suffered a leg injury. Principal Tian originally planned to send her to the military hospital, but when he went out, he saw that the kindergarten was on fire.

Principal Tian was worried about the children's safety, so she asked Principal Yang to go to the hospital by herself, and she hurried over to check the situation.

Principal Tian hurriedly shouted, "Guixiang, where are you going? Is the kindergarten on fire? Are the children okay?"

Yin Guixiang stopped and said, "Principal, the kindergarten is on fire, but don't worry, the children are fine and no one is injured. Everyone has been moved to the cafeteria."

Hearing that the child was fine, Director Tian felt relieved and asked, "What is the current situation of the fire?"

Yin Guixiang said: "It's still very big. When I just came over, I saw that it had already spread to the Women's Committee next door. Everyone is now over there trying to put out the fire, but the wind is too strong and it won't be put out in a short time."

Director Tian frowned as she heard this. She asked hurriedly, "Have you notified the troops?"

"Someone has already gone to notify them." Yin Guixiang nodded in response.

"So where are you going now?"

"A child saw a little boy being carried away, so I went to the door to ask the soldiers on guard if they had seen anything," Yin Guixiang explained hurriedly.

"What? The child was taken away?" Director Tian's eyebrows jumped.

Yin Guixiang quickly told her what Xia Qinqin had just said to her. Director Tian felt his scalp tingling after hearing this. What day was it today?

"Go quickly. If they don't see anyone carrying a child out, remember to remind them not to let any suspicious person out of the family home today, especially those with children."

"Okay, I'll go right away." Yin Guixiang nodded and immediately ran towards the gate of the family compound.

Director Tian opened his mouth and wanted to ask who the child was who was taken away, but Yin Guixiang had already run far away, leaving thick smoke behind her. Director Tian hurriedly continued to run towards the fire.

In the cafeteria, the firefighting is still going on.

"Quick! Pour more water, the fire has already spread to the Women's Committee's house!"

"Are there any more barrels? Are there any more wooden barrels?"

“Be careful with the water!”

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In the noisy crowd, Xia Qinqin finally saw Meng Yufei holding a wooden basin, and hurriedly shouted with all her might: "Mom! Mom! Mom... wuwuwu... where are you?"

Unfortunately, the surrounding noise is too loud.

The crying of children, the shouts of adults directing the firefighting, and the sound of running footsteps drowned out Xia Qinqin's cries.

After running back and forth between the cafeteria and the kindergarten several times with a wooden basin, Meng Yufei inhaled a lot of cigarette ash and felt a little dizzy. While she was filling the basin with water from the faucet, she reached out and splashed the water on her face.

Suddenly, the movement of her hands stopped. Meng Yufei blinked and felt as if she heard her daughter crying.

Listening carefully, it was indeed Qinqin's voice.

Meng Yufei turned her head sharply to look at the children, and immediately saw Xia Qinqin standing there, crying and calling for her - the little person tried hard to run over, but the adults coming and going in front of her blocked her steps.

When Xia Qinqin saw her mother looking at her, she cried even more sadly, with tears dripping on her cheeks like pearls.

Meng Yufei hurried over, squatted down and whispered, "Don't cry, Qinqin, don't cry, Mommy is here."

While comforting her daughter, she tried to wipe the tears from her face, but as soon as she raised her hands, she stopped and her hands were covered in dust.

"What's wrong? Stop crying, or your throat will hurt."

Xia Qinqin sobbed and said, "Mom, Brother Yannan, he was taken away by a bad guy..."

Meng's heart sank, and he had a feeling that this matter was not simple. Today's fire inexplicably started in the kindergarten. In such a chaotic environment, someone took Lu Yannan away. It was too much of a coincidence no matter how you looked at it.

Meng Yufei no longer had the energy to put out the fire. Saving lives was the most important thing now.

She carried Xia Qinqin out of the cafeteria and went upstairs. All the people from the logistics department had gone downstairs to put out the fire, and the office was empty.

Meng Yufei came to the Propaganda Department's office, where there was a phone that could be used to call the troops.

I called the front desk and asked the operator to transfer me to Xia Junshan's office.

"Hello, who is this?" Xia Junshan's voice came from the other end of the phone.

Meng Yufei said anxiously: "Junshan, Yannan was taken away!"

Xia Junshan's expression changed. Hearing Meng Yufei's anxious tone on the other end of the phone, he hurriedly said, "Don't worry, I'll go find him right away. Nothing will happen."

After hanging up the phone, Xia Junshan immediately called the dock and asked them to stop all ships from leaving the island. He also contacted the patrol ships on the island to intercept all suspicious ships for search.

He personally took people to the family compound to look for the person.

When Meng Yufei went downstairs, Xiao Cui finally came with his troops to put out the fire. With their participation, the fire was quickly brought under control.

Meng Yufei carried Xia Qinqin towards the gate of the family compound.

Now she dared not let her daughter out of her sight.

When Yin Guixiang ran to the gate of the family compound, she saw a woman limping out of the compound. Her back was unfamiliar, and she was not from the compound, but her hands were empty.

"Comrade Xiao Wang, was there any stranger leaving the family compound just now?" Yin Guixiang asked the soldier standing guard at the gate.

"Stranger? Only the female comrade who just left is an employee of Huanxian Textile Factory." Soldier Xiao Wang said while pointing at the back of the woman who just left.

Yin Guixiang looked over again and saw that she had nothing in her hands, so she was not the one who took the child away.

Yin Guixiang thought for a moment and asked again, "Well, did anyone carry the little boy out just now?"

"A little boy..." Warrior Xiao Wang shook his head: "No. But there was someone who left with a little girl in his arms. Captain Fang's wife took her daughter to the hospital."

"Captain Fang's family, is it Tong Caifeng?"

"Yes, it's Sister Tong."

Yin Guixiang frowned. It was basically known in the family compound that Tong Caifeng was not nice to her daughter. Last time, her family had lost a daughter, and she hadn't been found yet.

This time, her daughter fell ill again for unknown reasons. What a poor child.

Yin Guixiang didn't ask about Lu Yannan's whereabouts, so she decided to go back and tell the director. She asked Soldier Xiao Wang to keep an eye out and stop the person who was carrying the little boy out.

Meng Yufei was holding Xia Qinqin when she met Yin Guixiang who had turned around. After hearing what Yin Guixiang said, Meng Yufei felt something was wrong.

Sending her daughter to the hospital... Would Tong Caifeng be so kind?

When Meng Yufei was carrying her daughter to the gate of the family compound, Xia Junshan also rushed over with his men.

"I feel something is wrong. Could it be that Tong Caifeng took the person out?" Meng Yufei whispered her guess to Xia Junshan.

Xia Junshan said: "I will take people to chase them, you and Qinqin stay here."

Meng Yufei nodded. She was very familiar with Lu Yannan. Even if someone wanted to disguise Lu Yannan, they would not be able to fool her.

Xia Junshan led people to chase Tong Caifeng, checking footprints and asking passers-by along the way, and finally arrived at the hospital.

The moment Xia Junshan saw Tong Caifeng holding the child in her arms, he was stunned for a moment. The child turned out to be Tong Caifeng's second daughter, Fang Xiangdi.

Wasn’t she the one who carried Lu Yannan?

Tong Caifeng glared at them angrily and said in a frustrated tone, "You, why are you holding me back? Can't my child come to see a doctor when he's sick?"

Xia Junshan cast a scrutinizing gaze on her face, and keenly caught a hint of guilt in her eyes.

"What's wrong with the child?" Xia Junshan asked coldly.

Tong Caifeng looked away and said, "Why do you care so much? It's not your child."

Xia Junshan turned to his subordinates and said, "Take the child to see a doctor." After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave.

Tong Caifeng was not happy, and she pulled Xia Junshan's arm and shouted, "What's wrong with you? You always meddle in other people's affairs. You want to know if my child is sick, right? Okay, we need to see a doctor, right? Let's go together. If we don't find out today, none of us can leave the hospital!"

Xia Junshan frowned, and his subordinates beside him hurriedly pulled Tong Caifeng's hand away, but Tong Caifeng actually put the sleeping child on the ground and held Xia Junshan tightly, refusing to let go.

Sizzle, sizzle.

"Hey, hey! This is number seven. This is number seven."

The walkie-talkie in Xia Junshan's hand rang.

"Hello, this is number one." Xia Junshan hurriedly raised the walkie-talkie and said.

"Report No. 1, a suspicious vessel was spotted at point X."

"Stop it immediately. I'll be there right now."

Xia Junshan turned around and said, "Keep an eye on her. Don't let her and the child leave the hospital."

Looking at Xia Junshan's leaving back, Tong Caifeng's eyes darkened, hoping that he had succeeded.

The intercepted ship claimed to be a fishing company ship, and it also carried a special guest, Principal Yang of Huanxian Textile Factory Kindergarten. Normally, if she wanted to leave the island, she should go to the pier to take a passenger ship and should not be here.

Although the crew members produced their work permits with the fishing company's seal on them, Xia Junshan still took them all back to the unit. He also searched the ship carefully several times, but did not find Lu Yannan.

After returning to the unit, Xia Junshan called the fishing company to verify and found out that the ship was indeed the company's ship and the crew on board were also employees of the fishing company. Even today's trip to the sea had been approved.

"You are out fishing, why do you bring strangers on board?"

"That headmaster Yang is a friend of our director. She came to the island today for something. There is no boat from Huanxian County to the island, so she has to take a bus to the city pier to take a boat. To save trouble, the director asked us to take her there."

"This is a military restricted area. It is illegal to bring people to the island without permission. Don't you know that?"

"I, I really don't know. I just followed the director's order to take someone with me! Besides, Director Yang is an employee of the textile factory. She came to the island to see people, not to be a bad person."

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Xia Junshan stood silently in the next room. There was no sound insulation between the two walls, so he could clearly hear the sounds next to him.

He walked out with a frown on his face. Opposite him, the person who was interrogating Director Yang said the same thing as the crew members, insisting that he came to the island to apologize and had no other purpose.

Zhao Zhengliu walked out of the interrogation room and sighed, "Captain, we didn't get anything out of this."

Xia Junshan said with a sullen face: "Just use the method directly."

Zhao Zhengliu paused, a little hesitant: "But... we have no evidence now..."

Xia Junshan raised his hand to interrupt him and said directly: "Do as I say, and I will bear all the consequences."

"Okay, got it."

…

Half an hour later, Zhao Zhengliu hurried out of the interrogation room.

Xia Junshan had been sitting in the interrogation room next door. When he heard what Xia Junshan said, he immediately stood up and asked, "What did they say?"

"That woman said that she was paid by another woman and threw the child into the sea at the woman's request!"

Xia Junshan was startled and asked hurriedly: "Where are the crew members? What did they say?"

"A crew member revealed that he did see the woman throwing a large bag into the sea."

Xia Junshan immediately said, "Quick, notify all ships to immediately go to the sea area near point X to salvage."

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Commander Li stood on the shore with a gloomy face, looking at the large and small ships gathered on the sea, and asked: "Are there any more ships that haven't arrived yet?"

Xia Junshan said: "All available ships of the division have been transferred here."

Commander Li frowned and said, "Contact the town and ask them to send more fishermen to help."

"yes."

The movement here naturally aroused the curiosity of the people on the island, and many people quietly gathered around to observe from a distance.

"Hey, what's going on? The troops suddenly brought so many ships here."

"I guess there's some kind of training."

"I think they are collecting something."

"That seems to me."

The loudspeaker in the town suddenly sounded, asking the fishermen who did not go out to sea to fish today to gather in the town quickly. Now many people realized that something was wrong.

Something seems to have happened to the troops...

Meng Yufei sat in the living room holding Xia Qinqin, looking out the window with a worried look. The sun was about to set and the sky was getting dark.

The fire in the kindergarten had been put out long ago, but Lu Yannan was still not found.

Xia Qinqin's eyes were red from crying. She held Meng Yufei's hand tightly and asked again, "Mom, haven't you found Brother Yannan yet?"

Meng Yufei patted her daughter's back gently and said softly, "Don't worry, everyone is looking for him, we will definitely find him."

"Mom, I should have held Brother Yannan's hand tightly. If I had held it tightly, the bad guys wouldn't have been able to take him away." Xia Qinqin felt more and more aggrieved the more she thought about it.

Meng Yufei hurriedly comforted her: "It's none of your business. It's all the bad guy's fault. When we catch the bad guy, we will definitely punish her."

The mother and daughter sat on the sofa for a long time, but Xia Junshan still didn't come back. Xia Qinqin finally couldn't hold on and fell asleep.

After it became completely dark, the hauling at sea stopped, and nothing was brought up except for a sack.

"Commander, it's getting dark. You should go back and have a rest first. I will notify you as soon as there is any news." Xia Junshan walked up to Commander Li and advised him.

"Let's go back to the interrogation room. Didn't they say they brought in another suspicious person for questioning?"

This suspicious person is Tong Caifeng.

After trying for a while without any results, Xia Junshan had Tong Caifeng taken back to the interrogation room.

After all, Tong Caifeng was the family member of a military officer, and there was no evidence that this incident had anything to do with her. The people in the interrogation room just asked the same questions over and over again during the interrogation.

"I've already told you, I know nothing! I just took my child to the hospital for a checkup, what grounds did you use to arrest me? My husband is the head of the group!"

Tong Caifeng made a big fuss in the interrogation room.

When Commander Li arrived, he gave an order: "Interrogate these people again. No matter what means you use, I want them to spit out useful information as soon as possible!"