When we were having breakfast, this breakfast stall had just been set up.
At the beginning, when the owner of the stall saw the three of us in police uniforms approaching, he thought we were urban management officials. He was so frightened that he didn’t even want to take away the tables and chairs that had just been set up. He turned around and tried to push the cart away.
Fortunately, the third fat man had quick eyesight and caught the stall owner. After explaining, the other party started to cook breakfast for us with some doubts.
This breakfast stall specializes in soy milk and sesame seed cakes. The sesame seed cakes taste very good, and there are common salty and sweet sesame seed cakes. Officer Jiang and I ordered four of them each, and San Pang more than doubled the amount we had.
, ordered ten sesame seed cakes, and two large bowls of soy milk. Seeing that business was so good just after opening today, the stall owner was also very happy.
While we were enjoying our meal, the third fat man suddenly asked Officer Jiang out of the blue if he had the contact information of the children.
After hearing this, Officer Jiang swallowed the sesame seed cake in his mouth and then said: "Yes, yes, Leader Zhu, do you want to...?"
The third fat man took a sip of soy milk and said, "I want to find those children and ask them face to face why they did what they did."
"Looking for those little brats?" Officer Jiang said with a grimace, "Leader Zhu, I advise you to give up this idea. Those brats are simply incompetent. I have looked for them many times, but they are nowhere to be found.
A person who is willing to tell the truth."
"Is it possible that the way you asked is wrong? Officer Jiang, are you still single? Do you know how to communicate with children?"
The third fat man's words made Officer Jiang choke out all the soy milk in his mouth. After coughing for a while, he said: "Okay... okay... then you go and try..."
"Okay, let's go find them now." After the third fat man finished speaking, he immediately stood up and went to the stall owner to pay.
I saw Officer Jiang who was still coughing. I reached out and wanted to say something, but he kept coughing. Seeing Officer Jiang's appearance, I went to the stall and asked for a glass of water to help Officer Jiang. After drinking it, he started coughing again.
After a while, he continued: "But Leader Zhu, if you want to go, don't rush now. Today is a working day, parents have to go to work, and the children have to go to class."
After listening to this, I nodded and said, "Three Fatty, Officer Jiang is right, and you look like you now, with big dark circles under your eyes, you are not suitable for seeing children."
The third fat man touched his cheek. He had rarely encountered someone who stayed up late working like today since he was transferred to the Investigation Division. Therefore, even though he had just said that, the third fat man seemed to be a little overwhelmed at the moment.
In this way, under the persuasion of Officer Jiang and I, the third fat man finally nodded and agreed that we should go back to rest first and then meet up at the children's homes in the afternoon.
I went back to the hotel where I was temporarily staying and slept for a few hours. Around 4 p.m., Officer Jiang came to the door with two lunch boxes. The ones he brought with the lunch boxes also included the delicacies he had collected in the past.
Information and contact details for Children of the Square.
Because there were too many children who had been to the square, it was impossible for us to visit every child, so before we left in the morning, Sanpang asked Officer Jiang to bring all the information in the afternoon. He had to pick a few from them that seemed easy.
asked the child who spoke out.
After getting the information, the third fat man did as he said in the morning. While eating his lunch, he quickly looked through the information brought by Officer Jiang.
Out of curiosity, Officer Jiang asked him what criteria he used to judge which children were more likely to ask questions. As a result, the third fat man actually told him that his criterion was eye contact.
After finishing speaking, the third fat man ignored Officer Jiang's wide eyes and retrieved the information of ten children from the pair of information.
"It's just them. Sijiu, eat quickly, and we'll set off soon after eating."
I looked at the empty lunch box in my hand and said with a wry smile: "I'm fine, I'm just waiting for you..."
After another ten minutes of fussing, we got into Officer Jiang's car and set off for the homes of the children selected by the third fat man.
The first child selected by the three fat men was named Lu, so he is called Xiao Lu here.
Xiao Lu is a boy, less than ten years old, and only a primary school student. However, in Officer Jiang’s record, this child is one of the children he first caught from the food court, and in Officer Jiang’s record
Among the children recorded, Xiao Lu’s number of visits to the food court ranked first. After catching him for the first time, although he and his parents had been criticized and educated, not long after that, Officer Jiang came again
I caught Xiao Lu in the food court more than once.
In addition, according to Officer Jiang, before San Fatty, he had asked Xiao Lu about matters related to the food court, but Xiao Lu refused to let go and refused to reveal any information, so for San Fatty
Officer Jiang is really not optimistic about the choice.
However, in response to Officer Jiang's concerns, the third fat man just waved his hand and said: "Relax, Officer Jiang, I am better at dealing with children than you. I think back then, I was still the king of children in our community!"
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"You brat, let's see if I don't beat you to death!"
Seeing that Mother Lu was about to slap Xiao Lu again, Officer Jiang and I quickly stood up to stop her. As for the third fat man, he looked helplessly at Xiao Lu who was covering his face and crying.
"Classmate Xiao Lu, just tell me honestly what you did over there, right? My brother promises you that he will never tell anyone what you said!"
"Huh!" Xiao Lu, who had tears in his eyes just now, immediately rolled his eyes at San Pang.
The corners of Sanpang's mouth twitched, and he said again: "Classmate Xiao Lu, if you tell me what happened, how about my brother giving you a Transformers? I guarantee it is the latest model, and it is also genuine!"
This time, Xiao Lu seemed to be a little tempted, but he just hesitated for a while and then threw the back of his head at San Fatty again, making San Fatty's forehead veins jump in anger.
In fact, a full hour has passed since we arrived at Xiao Lu's house, but we still didn't get a single word out of Xiao Lu's mouth even though we had praised the three fat men in Haikou before.
At this time, seeing Xiao Lu's stubborn look and not letting go, his mother suddenly jumped up again, trying to slap Xiao Lu in the mouth again.
It seems that since we came to Xiao Lu's house, this is the tenth time that Xiao Lu's mother is preparing to do something to her son. This makes Xiao Lu, who has been alone since childhood, only felt father's love from Lin Aiguo, but never felt mother's love.
I was shocked and thought, are all mothers in the world like this?
Officer Jiang, who was well prepared, quickly stood up and persuaded Mother Lu to move her to another room so that he wouldn't be disturbed.
In fact, Xiao Lu's family is a single-parent family. His mother does not have a regular job and relies entirely on the property left by her ex-husband to live the life of a renter.
It is such a family where mother and son are supposed to be dependent on each other, but the affection between them surprised me. Except for rent collection day, Mother Lu actually doesn’t have anything to go out on weekdays, but she actually stays at home.
I spend very little time with my children, and most of the time I spend playing mahjong with my friends outside.
When we came to visit this time, Mother Lu was also preparing to go out. When she saw us coming, Mother Lu was not happy because she felt that we had delayed her poker game and wanted us to come back tomorrow until the third fat man produced his ID.
He forced Mother Lu to stay for questioning, but she gave up.
However, after knowing that the purpose of our visit was for her son, Mother Lu did not dare to vent her anger on the police, so she took it out on her son.
Ten times, the first few times were the most violent, even the three of us adults were dumbfounded. I even asked Officer Jiang at one point, were the mother and son really their biological mother and son? How could a mother beat herself like this?
His own flesh and blood? If we hadn't intervened in time later, Xiao Lu might have been beaten to death by his mother.
After finally coaxing this weird mother and son away, the third fat man began to question Xiao Lu. However, just like what Officer Jiang said, this little Lu kept silent to our questions. No matter whether the third fat man was using coercion or inducement,
He refused to say a word to us, and his grumpy mother intervened from time to time, which made the three fat men's inquiries difficult and made no progress at all.
Of course, as a bystander, I still saw some clues, that is, when the third fat man asked Xiao Lu if they went to the food court for any special purpose, although Xiao Lu still said nothing,