Be in low spirits

The auxiliary police received a call back from the local police station, saying that no one was at home and it seemed that the old man and the child had been kidnapped together.

It was already past seven when the criminal police team showed up. Li Li had a beard on his face and looked tired. He must have been very busy in the criminal police team in the past half month. When he saw her, he held her hand and asked, "Tell me the details."

"The nanny went to pick up the child at six o'clock, and the people in the kindergarten said that the child had been taken away by someone. We checked the surveillance footage and found that a car with a fake license plate took him away. According to the reaction of the comrades at the rural police station, it is very likely that the grandfather was also kidnapped." She broke free from his hand, her face serious.

"Xiao Zhao, go to the traffic police and see which direction the car went. Xiao Li, go to the kindergarten to find the principal and teachers to find out what happened." He quickly assigned the tasks and sat in front of Fu Yan to question him.

Seeing that the problem had been explained, Kong Zhixi planned to go back to the station with the auxiliary police. Fu Yan said, "I don't believe you. She stays." He pointed at her who was walking out the door.

She looked at the auxiliary police in front of her, then at the two criminal police officers next to her, and finally turned to look at Li Li. Li Li sighed, nodded and said, "Okay, stay."

"Mr. Fu, if this is a kidnapping, the kidnappers will definitely contact you. We now need to monitor your mobile phone, landline, and various other communication tools."

She waved her hand, asked the auxiliary police to go back, and stood next to the two criminal police, waiting to receive orders.

After getting Fu Yan's consent, the two criminal policemen began to install monitoring and tracking tools in his home. Li Li also stood beside her, waiting for the kidnapper's call.

"Why do you want to kidnap the child and grandfather?" Kong Zhixi asked.

"I've asked, and he found out that the child and grandfather are his last relatives. If they kidnapped him not for money, then they did it for the things in his hand." He smelled of cigarettes, and she felt a little disgusted. She moved her feet away from him.

She looked at Fu Yan's dejected expression, then glanced at him again, "Have you been busy in the team these past two weeks?"

"Of course I'm busy. I have meetings and I have to solve cases within a time limit. Every day when I get home, you're sound asleep."

She is a police officer who has to work night shifts several times a week and only goes home a few days. He is still complaining about it. "Actually, I always feel like he has something to say."

"What?" He stared at the man who was taking the nanny's statement.

When Fu Yan's phone rang, it shook everyone in the house. When it rang for the third time, criminal police officer Liu Yanjun motioned him to answer the call, and he pressed the answer button. Li Li also sat down next to him.

"Hey."

"Fu Yan, you must be anxious to find your child." The voice on the other end of the phone was processed.

"Where did you put Qiqi?" He stood up nervously, his voice full of concern.

"The child is not with me. Remove the police from your home first, and I will tell you who took the child away."

"who are you?"

Liu Yanjun wrote in the notebook: Try to delay the time as much as possible.

"What do you want? Money or people, you tell me."

"I said, withdraw the police first." Then he hung up the phone.

The location has not been tracked and no one knows who abducted the child. The only thing that is certain is that the child was indeed kidnapped.

"You said you've offended a lot of people recently. Is it possible to start with those people?" Kong Zhixi suggested the direction of the investigation. Li Li glanced at her, and she shut up again.

"If they really wanted to take revenge on me, they wouldn't have spared the child's life." Fu Yan was no longer as excited as he was at the beginning, only loneliness remained.

"Would you mind talking to us about the kids?" She found a stool and sat in front of him, wanting to share his emotions.

"The man just now said that he would only tell me who took the child away if he asked you to leave. What do you think?" There was a hint of sincerity in his eyes, as if he was begging.

"We can evacuate, but we have to leave some people behind. Xiao Liu, you take the machine away, and Zhixi and I will stay."

Kong Zhixi looked at the police uniform on herself. No matter who was left behind, she should not be left behind. Could it be that the child was kidnapped by people from their criminal police team?

Liu Yanjun removed the machine, nodded to Li Li, and left. Li Li glanced at his mobile phone, which contained a message from Xiao Zhao. The car with the fake license plate turned into four urban areas and finally got on the elevated road, and then there was no trace of it.

Everyone had left, leaving only four people sitting in the room waiting for a call.

"Officer Kong, if you have met Xin Qi, you should know that he is a loner and has few friends." He poured tea for both of them. The couple looked at each other, not understanding what he meant.

"so what?"

"So...if something happens to me, can you please take care of him?" There was hesitation, determination, and a fearless attitude in his eyes.

"Okay." She agreed without thinking too much.

Li Li was very surprised. Did these two people treat him as if he didn't exist? He looked at his wife, wanting to hear what she had to say to him. Fu Yan felt relieved, stood up, smoked a cigarette, blew out smoke rings, and let Liu Ma go first.

"Captain Li, can we remove all the monitors now?" He had his back to them, his face hidden in the darkness, so his expression could not be seen clearly.

"Fu Yan, we are also trying to find children and the elderly." Li Li didn't understand what he meant.

"I know where they are." When he said this, both of them were shocked.

"You kidnapped them?" Kong Zhixi stood up, in disbelief.

Fu Yan turned around and looked at Li Li without answering. Li Li took the intercom and said two words to Liu Yanjun: "Withdraw." Then he asked: "Why do you do this?"

He sighed deeply, and the smoke rings were somewhat conspicuous in the darkness. Kong Zhixi frowned and held her breath, wanting to hear his explanation.

"Only in this way will they trust me. Exposing children and the elderly to you will keep them safe."

"What about the child?" Kong Zhixi was more concerned about where the child was and whether he was safe.

"There has been internal fighting among several families, and the boss of the Southeast Asian money laundering group has been unwilling to hand over his overseas accounts, so I have been mediating with him for the past two years."

"What you mean is..." Kong Zhixi wanted to step forward and ask clearly, but Li Li covered her mouth and used the intercom to ask them to retreat.

"But why haven't you been in touch with the team?"

"For more than two years, I have been jumping back and forth between right and wrong. You have no idea what I have been through!" He grabbed Li Li's collar, his eyes red and his nostrils changing with his breathing.

"Fu Yan, calm down first. Where are the children and the elderly? Let's go release them first and make this matter a reality, okay?" Kong Zhixi pulled the two of them, thinking that if they really started fighting, she was afraid she would not be able to stop them.

"In a deserted house on the south viaduct."

Kong Zhixi ran outside and wanted to drive over, but Li Li pulled him into his car and said to Liu Yanjun on the intercom, "We found the child. He's in an abandoned house under the southbound elevated road. I'm going over there now. You can take a few people with you as well."

Although the child was found, Fu Yan was not close to him. Kong Zhixi stood at the entrance of the kindergarten and watched him come to pick up the child every time, but he never got out of the car and would not even say goodbye to the child.

Since returning to the team, except for helping to find the child last time, the couple had not seen each other for more than a week. This was good, saving a lot of trouble between the couple. Li Li's father and mother were also bored at home every day, so they thought about finding a shop to do some small business, and began to run around and conduct market research.

Kong Zhixi went to find Fu Yan after get off work. He was still sitting on the sofa, silent and with a lot on his mind.

She wanted to ask clearly, if he really wanted to kill Li Li, he would not give him the chance to return to the detachment.

"If the child is really just a pawn, why do you keep him with you?"

"Is it not up to you police officers to tell me how to discipline my children?" He did not even raise his head, still staring at the meaningless newspaper.

She looked around and couldn't see anything wrong. Only Aunt Liu was preparing in the kitchen. The child was locked in the piano room practicing, and from time to time she could hear the teacher's guidance.

Fu Yan doesn't look like a master here, but more like an eagle trapped in a cage. Under the newspaper is a helpless face that is eager to break free from its restraints.

"Can you tell me about your wife?" She wanted to test it, but she didn't know where to start.

"Officer Kong, what identity are you using to question me now?" He was completely different from the day he was looking for the child, as if he was deliberately keeping a distance.