investigative chronicle

Chapter 11
When it was approaching summer, the days were already long, and Ji Si'an wanted to take advantage of the last rays of the setting sun to rush home.Yuan Mu insisted on sending her off: "It's not safe for you as a girl, anyway, I have to go on patrol anyway, so I just dropped by to see you off."

"You said it as if you weren't a girl." Ji Si'an was in a good mood.

"When you become a policeman, there will be no gender." It was that nice male voice.

Yuan Mu pointed to the tall, but rather bookish, handsome boy behind him and said, "He is my partner, Muzi Li."

Li Muzi?Yuan Mu?There is some fate in their names.Ji Si'an secretly slandered in his heart.

"Our names are too relative, so the director put us in a group." Yuan Mu seemed to have guessed what Ji Si'an was thinking.

Ji Si'an smiled awkwardly, not daring to look at the male police officer's expression.

"If you're so poor-mouthed, just drive."

Yuan Mu stuck out his tongue and led Ji Si'an to the police car.The smell was still bad and the seats were dirty. Yuan Mu looked at Ji Si'an's light-colored clothes and said with some regret: "It seems that you have to do laundry again when you go back."

Ji Si'an didn't take it seriously, in her opinion, the sense of security brought by the police car surpassed everything else.

"Xiao An, wait for me for a while, I'll post a reminder and I'll be back." The police car stopped near the simple house.

Ji Si'an looked at Yuan Mu's back and said worriedly, "Is she alone? It's getting dark."

Li Muzi has long been used to such things. "This is her jurisdiction. Besides, I'm still here, so there's nothing to be afraid of."

"Dad, my sister is broken. She went to play in the subway again and didn't take me with her." The immature child's voice sounded beside the police car.

When Ji Si'an turned his head slightly, he saw the boy, still in the same clean clothes, the difference was that he was holding a bunch of candied haws in his hand, riding on the shoulders of a middle-aged man.

"Leave her alone. She's a wild girl. Our Tianlong is different. We Tianlong will study and become big men in the future." The man was carrying the child with difficulty, and he would stop and straighten his waist after walking a few steps.

"Father, why are you so slow, I'm hungry." The boy was very dissatisfied with his stop and go.

"I know, I know, why worry, you are eating." The man's neck was flushed, but his tone of voice was full of pampering that could not be mistaken.

"How do you feel now? Is your belly feeling better... I think you're just too greedy..." Their conversation gradually faded away.

"What are you looking at, so engrossed." At this time Yuan Mu had already boarded the police car.

Ji Si'an came back to his senses, "It's nothing, it's just...seeing that the child is already so big, and he has to carry it like this...".

Yuan Mu followed Ji Si'an's angle and recognized the man with just one glance. "He is Li Guangcai, from the province of W, and he is very patriarchal. The boy is 6 years old this year and his name is Li Tianlong. He also has a daughter who is 9 years old and his name is Li Zhaodi."

"Zhao Di, once you hear this name, you know what's going on. It's been so old, and you're still so patriarchal." Li Muzi answered.

"There are so many things like this. People who live here have this kind of thinking. I often come here to pay attention to the population here." Yuan Mu said.

"You worry a little too much. Are you afraid that they will be born again, or that they will abandon their children?" Muzi Li said.

"I'm afraid they will drown the baby girl to get a boy." Yuan Mu said softly.

"So serious?" Li Muzi was obviously startled by Yuan Mu's words.

"I lied to you." Yuan Mu lowered his head and smiled.

Muzi Li breathed a sigh of relief: "I said that I haven't seen such a case in my work here for several years. You girl is getting worse and worse."

Ji Si'an listened to their conversation, observed Yuan Mu's expression silently, and told her intuitively that Yuan Mu was lying.But Ji Si'an is not a busy person, since Yuan Mu didn't want to talk about it, she naturally wouldn't ask.

But one afternoon not long after, the secret was gradually presented to her in a sad way.

That day was a rare day for Ji Si'an to rest. She was sitting in her "safe" house, thinking about earning more money and changing to a house with a balcony.When Yuan Mu called, Ji Si'an was still a little excited. She thought it was news about her mother's case.

"Xiao An, can you do me a favor?" Yuan Mu said hesitantly on the phone.

Because of asking her to do something before, Ji Si'an agreed without asking anything. "Of course. What do I need to do?"

Yuan Mu on the other end of the phone breathed a sigh of relief: "Do you still remember Zhaodi? Something happened to her house, please help me take care of her for a while, and I will pick her up tomorrow after the night shift."

Ji Si'an had full trust in Yuan Mu, she asked the location directly and set off immediately.

The early summer sun had begun to show its heat, and when Ji Si'an was sweating profusely and ran outside the community, Yuan Mu was already waiting for her outside under the shade of a tree.

Ji Si'an only took one look at the girl before being pulled aside by Yuan Mu.After making sure that the girl would not hear, she said in a very low voice: "It's like this... Zhaodi's younger brother Li Tianlong is dead. Her father called the police and suspected that his son was killed. Her mother has already been hospitalized. ... Her father is almost crazy now, and I am afraid that Zhaodi will be hurt. So I want her to stay with you temporarily tonight, and take her away tomorrow when I finish my work."

The shocking news made Ji Si'an a little overwhelmed, and Yuan Mu's words were extremely cryptic.She straightened her mind and was still at a loss, "Wait, I don't understand, that little boy died? How did he die..."

Yuan Mu glanced behind her, and she continued to lower her voice and said, "The boy ate unclean food with his sister... and died of food poisoning. His father thought it was the intention of the shopkeeper."

owner?Ji Si'an thought of something and asked in a low voice, "That fast food restaurant outside our community?"

Yuan Mu looked at Ji Si'an in surprise. "how do you know?"

Afraid of Yuan Mu's misunderstanding, Ji Si'an hurriedly explained: "I occasionally go to that fast food restaurant to buy hamburgers, and I often see children stealing the free sauce there."

Yuan Mu sighed: "That's the store, the ketchup has expired. Other children also have diarrhea, but Tianlong..."

Speaking of this, Ji Si'an understood Yuan Mu's worry.Judging from Li Tianlong's clean clothes, it should be impossible for him to go there to steal the sauce.If he goes, he must follow his sister Zhaodi...Now her younger brother is dead, her mother is hospitalized, and her father is extremely patriarchal... Yuan Mu entrusted her to her because she was afraid that her family would be unfavorable to her.

Looking at Ji Si'an's eyes, Yuan Mu knew that she understood.Talking to smart people is easy.She stuffed the bag in her hand to Ji Si'an. "There are things I bought for her in it. Take her to take a bath first when you get home. I still have something to do in my office, so I'll go back first."

When Ji Si'an saw Zhaodi, she was still wearing the skirt she wore a few days ago, and she could only see clearly when she got closer. It turned out that there were small flowers on the skirt, but it was too dirty to see clearly.

The girl was sluggish, she was led by Yuan Mu and handed over to him like a marionette, and she had long since lost the look of a big sister in the subway station.

"Hi, my name is Ji Si'an, and I'm a friend of police officer Yuan Mu. You will stay with me tonight." Ji Si'an tried to communicate with her.

The girl lowered her head, no matter what she said, she would remain silent.Fortunately, except for not speaking, she cooperated with him in everything else.Ji Si'an felt like he was holding an invisible thread, leading a lifeless puppet back to his residence.

(End of this chapter)