half thorns, half joy

In the quiet hotel room, the sound of the phone is like an alarm, affecting the hearts of everyone in the room.

Xiao Zihan glanced at the policeman, who quickly connected to the tracking device and motioned him to pick it up.

Xiao Zihan nodded and pressed the speakerphone.

"what!!!"

A scream came through the phone.

Xiao Zihan's expression changed suddenly, "Tang Xuan!"

"what!"

"what!"

One after another, the screams smashed into Xiao Zihan's nerves like nails.

"Tang Xuan! Stop it! Stop it!" Xiao Zihan's eyes turned red instantly after those screams, and he panicked.

The person on the other side seemed very satisfied with Xiao Zihan's reaction, so he finally stopped and laughed sarcastically.

"Stop it, I can give you whatever you want." Xiao Zihan's tone was unprecedentedly humble.

"Oh, you called the police." The other person said with a sinister smile, "I think you really don't want Tang Xuan's life, and you dare to call the police."

Xiao Zihan bit his lip, almost crushing the phone in anger.But he endured all his anger and replied patiently, "I've already prepared the money. I can withdraw the case from the police. Don't do anything to Tang Xuan."

"Why should I trust you?"

Xiao Zihan closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and said, "Tell me a place, and I'll bring the money there alone. Don't hurt Tang Xuan."

"Then you send the police away first, and I will tell you the specific place."

"Yes." Xiao Zihan agreed without hesitation, and then said, "Let me speak to Tang Xuan, I want to make sure she's okay."

The other side said, "Okay."

Xiao Zihan waited anxiously. After a few seconds, Tang Xuan's faint breathing came.

"Tang Xuan!" Xiao Zihan called out hastily.

"...Zihan..." Tang Xuan's voice was hoarse, and just by hearing that voice, one could imagine the pain she had endured.

Xiao Zihan burst into tears. He bit his lip and softened his voice, "Tang Xuan, hold on. I will definitely come to save you. You must hold on."

"Zihan..." Panting, Tang Xuan spoke intermittently like a rag doll leaking air, "Save the baby first...leave me alone...save the baby first..."

Xiao Zihan: "..."

"Fuck, what are you going to say when you're about to die!" Tang Xuan's breathing suddenly became heavy, and then she let out a muffled snort, obviously saying something that made that person unhappy, and she was beaten again.

"Stop!" Xiao Zihan felt his heart was about to burst, he could only plead one after another, "Stop, stop, stop."

"Zihan! Save the baby first! Please! I beg you, Zihan! I, beep—" The phone was cut off.

Xiao Zihan covered his eyes and took a deep breath.

"Tracked!" On the police's tracking device, a small red dot flashed, "In the suburbs!"

Xiao Zihan wiped away his tears, and said with red eyes, "Tell me the exact address, I'll go there first, and you guys will go later."

Cai Jinyu was still thinking about why Tang Xuan didn't tell Xiao Zihan the identity of the child. Hearing what Xiao Zihan said, he immediately became anxious, "Xiao Zihan, you are dying!"

Xiao Zi said coldly, "If I keep lingering, Tang Xuan will die."

"But……"

"No, but, I can't take it anymore, I can't wait." Xiao Zihan looked calm, and only his trembling and white lips could tell how panicked he was.

Cai Jinyu could understand Xiao Zihan's emotions at the moment, but he couldn't let Xiao Zihan put himself in danger like this, and hurriedly grabbed Xiao Zihan who was walking out, "Zihan! That woman wants you to take the money, obviously she won't touch Tang Xuan for the time being, you Don't worry! Tang Xuan asked you to save the child, let's find a way to save the child first!"

The police who went to the nearby store to investigate came back to report. After listening to the police, the leading policeman also spoke, "This call should be Lin Qiaoer's tip-off. Lin Qiaoer left before we came, and she should not have run far now. She is holding the child. The target It's too obvious, let's save the children first."

"Do not……"

Cai Jinyu pressed Xiao Zihan's shoulder, "Zihan, listen to the police. Besides, if you don't save the child, Tang Xuan will blame you."

This sentence suppressed all Xiao Zihan's impulsive thoughts.

Frustrated, Xiao Zihan followed the police downstairs, and began to search for Lin Qiaoer's whereabouts separately.

Since it was already night, this area was not considered a bustling area, and there were too many corners and corners, which was not conducive to searching for a person who wanted to hide.

After searching for 10 minutes, Xiao Zihan couldn't wait any longer, so he ordered someone to bring Lin Mingshen over.

"Xiao Zihan! You are breaking the law!" Lin Mingshen's hands were tied behind his back, and his once smiling and kind face was now full of anger.

Xiao Zihan remained silent and gestured.

Immediately, someone stepped forward and punched Lin Mingshen in the face.

Lin Mingshen tilted his head from the beating, and blood dripped from his nose.

"Here, read it to me." Xiao Zihan handed a note under Lin Mingshen's nose, and his men immediately set up the recording equipment.

Lin Ming glanced at the note deeply, and turned his eyes away in disdain.

Xiao Zihan's patience was exhausted, he reached out and grabbed Lin Mingshen's hair, pulled it back, and said through gritted teeth, "Lin Mingshen, I advise you to be sensible, now your precious daughter is challenging my bottom line, you Don't rush me."

Lin Mingshen's scalp was about to fall off, and he whimpered softly in pain.

"Let me tell you, you'd better pray that I find Lin Qiaoer and the child she brought quickly, otherwise, I want all the members of your Lin family to be buried with you! I will do what I say!"

"...Xiao Zihan, you are really capable..." Lin Mingshen had never seen the bloodthirsty Xiao Zihan in front of him, and he was even more frightening than Xiao Mingyuan back then.

Xiao Zihan was too lazy to talk nonsense, so he directly ordered the subordinates who were standing by, "Go, bring me his wife, and his mother in the nursing home, nephews and nieces, I don't believe it..."

"No!" Lin Mingshen was finally afraid and gave in, "I read, I read..."

Only then did Xiao Zihan let go of Lin Mingshen's hair, and handed the note to Lin Mingshen again.

Lin Ming spat deeply on the blood that dripped onto his mouth, looked at the note, and stumbled to read the words on the note.

"Qiaoer, Qiaoer, I am Dad, where are you, come out quickly, Qiaoer, come out quickly, I am Dad..."

There is not much information, just chatter and chatter.

Originally, these few words sounded miserable, but now with Lin Mingshen's unwilling and compulsive tone, it sounded even more miserable.

After reading, Xiao Zihan asked his subordinates to bring in the stereo, put a few recorded sentences in it, turned it on to the loudest, and started playing it in a loop.

Cai Jinyu, who witnessed the whole process from the side, couldn't help but glance at Xiao Zihan with admiration.

It turned out that Xiao Zihan asked his men to arrest Lin Mingshen for this reason.

Sometimes, it really is still possible to treat the person in the same way.

……

Lin Qiaoer hugged the child and squatted in a deserted old carport.

The old carport was dusty and stank of dead wood and garbage.But Lin Qiaoer didn't dare to go out, in front of the old carport was a closed snack bar, and in front of it was the street.

There was the sound of police cars whizzing by on the street, and the sound would sound every few minutes. Every time, it scared Lin Qiaoer out of her wits.

She doesn't know how long she can hide, she can only hide with the mentality that every second counts as a second, and hide like a dog.

She has already contacted Qian Susu, and Qian Susu said that she will deal with Xiao Zihan. She puts all her hopes on Qian Susu now, and only hopes that Qian Susu can lure Xiao Zihan away. She is safer here.

The siren gradually faded away, Qian Susu breathed a sigh of relief, and wanted to get out of the carport to take a few breaths of fresh air.

However, just when she poked her head out of the carport, her familiar father's voice came to her ears in a strange way.

"Qiaoer, Qiaoer, I am Dad, where are you, come out quickly, Qiaoer, come out quickly, I am Dad..."

Lin Qiaoer's eyes widened in an instant, and she was stunned in disbelief.

On the phone just now, my mother said that my father was taken away... This voice...

father!

Lin Qiaoer got out of the carport with the child in her arms, pricked up her ears to listen to the miserable cries, one after another, it sounded particularly worrying.

"Xiao Zihan..." Lin Qiaoer immediately guessed whose idea it was and what it was for, she bit her lips tightly in hatred.

She exerted force on her hands, and the child was pinched and hurt, and his lips grew wide and he began to cry loudly.

Lin Qiaoer subconsciously blocked the child's mouth, but when she put her hand on the child's mouth, she lost her mind, became cruel, and firmly covered the child's mouth and nose.

After all, the child was still young, so he didn't have much strength to struggle, and soon he couldn't even cry.

Lin Qiaoer suddenly woke up, quickly withdrew her hand, and frantically helped the child calm down.

Fortunately, the child was not covered for a long time, it was only a short period of hypoxia, and soon he was relieved, crying heart-piercingly.

Lin Qiaoer breathed a sigh of relief.

Now the police outside are frantically searching for her. If the child dies in her hands, then she will be a murderer. This crime cannot be cleared up no matter what.

And after all, this child is not Xiao Zihan's. Xiao Zihan traded her father for this child. She killed the child because she hated Xiao Zihan, and it didn't hurt Xiao Zihan much.

Maybe Xiao Zihan and Tang Xuan's relationship would become better without this child.

No matter how she looked at it, she couldn't afford to take care of herself for this child.

What's more, now, his father is in Xiao Zihan's hands.

After thinking it through, Lin Qiaoer didn't hesitate anymore, she carried the child onto the street, and walked in the direction of the father's voice.

The child was still crying, and Lin Qiaoer didn't bother to coax her, letting the crying child attract the attention of passers-by.

When he was about to reach the place where his father's voice came out, a police car drove over and stopped in front of Lin Qiaoer.

Lin Qiaoer stopped in her tracks, watched with cold eyes several policemen getting on and off the police car, stepped forward and surrounded her vigilantly.

At this time, Lin Qiaoer didn't panic anymore, and the heart she was holding fell down instead.

She calmly handed the child over to the police, and let the police handcuff her with her hands up.

"I want to see Xiao Zihan," she said.

The policeman looked at each other and nodded.

In fact, it was very close, Lin Qiaoer was pressed down, and after walking hundreds of meters, she arrived in front of Xiao Zihan's car.

With his hands in his pockets, Xiao Zihan exuded a frightening aura.

As soon as Lin Qiaoer raised her head, she saw Xiao Zihan's embarrassed father whose arms were twisted by two people.

"Father!" Lin Qiaoer cried out in a broken voice.

"Qiaoer!" Lin Mingshen also became excited.

Xiao Zihan signaled his subordinates to subdue Lin Mingshen, walked up to Lin Qiaoer step by step, and looked at Lin Qiaoer with a cold face.

"Who is that woman who kidnapped Tang Xuan together with you?" He resisted the urge to do something to Lin Qiaoer, and asked seemingly calmly.

"Xiao Zihan, I have already handed over the child to you. Your goal has been achieved. You let my father go!" Lin Qiaoer roared.

Xiao Zihan glanced back at Lin Mingshen, "Tell me what I want to know, and of course I will let it go."

"I don't know." Lin Qiaoer looked at Lin Mingshen nervously, "That crazy woman came to me by herself, how do I know who she is!"

"Lin Qiaoer! I don't have time to waste with you, you'd better tell me the truth, otherwise, I can show you my methods!" Xiao Zihan lowered his voice and warned Lin Qiaoer.

The subordinate understood, and immediately tightened the hand that twisted Lin Mingshen's arm, and Lin Mingshen moaned in pain.

Lin Qiaoer couldn't bear to see her father being tortured, so she immediately compromised.

"I really don't know who she is! But I secretly took a picture of her! It's in the album in my hand!" Lin Qiaoer shouted anxiously, "Let go of my father! Let go of him!"

Xiao Zihan glanced, and immediately withdrew his strength.

Cai Jinyu stepped forward and took out the phone from Lin Qiaoer, turned it on, squeezed Lin Qiaoer's fingerprint to unlock it, and opened the photo album.

In the photo, it was a woman wearing a hat with half of her face exposed.

Xiao Zihan stared at the photo for a few seconds, but didn't recognize it. He sent the photo to his mobile phone, ordered his men to check it immediately, and then handed it over to the police.

"Let's go, take the two of them with us, let's go rescue Tang Xuan now."