Zhou Zichen and Xiaohua returned to the hotel after leaving the police station. Xiaohua didn't say anything along the way. Zhou Zichen was a little worried. He was afraid that Xiaohua would be upset.
"Xiaohua..." As soon as she returned to the hotel, Xiaohua went directly to her room and locked herself in. Zhou Zichen knocked on the door outside, but Xiaohua never responded to him.
Zhou Zichen quickly used his powers to check the situation inside the room. Xiaohua was sitting on the floor-to-ceiling window, looking down with her eyes in a trance. The window was still open, and the breeze was blowing her hair.
"I'm fine, just have a good rest. We have to go find Ma Chengchao tomorrow." Xiaohua heard Zhou Zichen's question and responded lightly.
Zhou Zichen sighed, he really didn't know how to comfort Xiaohua, Xiaohua's situation was similar to his but not similar.
They are similar because they all have the same life experience. They were both orphans since they were young, with neither father nor mother to love them. Even the situation of the family is somewhat imaginary, but the Zhou family has long been destroyed and split into other forces, and the Sun family
It's still built.
After thinking for a long time, Zhou Zichen really had no choice, so he went back to the room and went to sleep. Xiaohua was right. He had to investigate Ma Chengchao tomorrow. Ma Chengchao had treated him like this, couldn't he think of a way to get revenge?
In the middle of the night, while Zhou Zichen was sleeping soundly, he noticed someone opening the door and coming in. Zhou Zichen quickly checked and found that it was Xiao Hua.
After Xiaohua walked in, she got directly into Zhou Zichen's quilt, but Zhou Zichen was shocked. What was Xiaohua going to do? Are you trying to tempt him to make a mistake?
Zhou Zichen pretended that he was not awake, but Xiaohua blew a gentle breath on his face, apparently knowing that Zhou Zichen was awake now.
"Hold me and sleep." Xiaohua's voice was actually a little gentle, a little... pleading?
Zhou Zichen felt distressed and hugged Xiaohua tightly. Even though he was wearing pajamas, Zhou Zichen could still feel the residual warmth of Xiaohua. But Zhou Zichen didn't have any evil thoughts, he just held Xiaohua. Compared with the prince
He felt much more comfortable when he was with Qi. Wang Ziqi always teased him, and it was very difficult for him to endure it.
In this way, the two slept together all night. When Zhou Zichen woke up the next day, Xiaohua was already washing up. Zhou Zichen touched his chest and it was a little moist. This little girl must have cried again last night.
"Good morning, Xiaohua." Zhou Zichen walked out of the room and said to Xiaohua with a smile.
"Morning." Xiao Hua's voice was still cold, but there was always a warm smile on her face. Zhou Zichen was quite happy that Xiao Hua could have such a change, but he didn't know if it would cause the consequences of things going to extremes.
"Let's go, go out for something to eat, and then go find Ma Chengchao later." After Zhou Zichen finished washing, he said to Xiao Hua who was nesting on the sofa.
Xiaohua nodded, got dressed and went out with Zhou Zichen. This was already the third day they came to Songcheng. They spent the first night in the hospital and witnessed such terrible things. The next day
In the evening, I learned about Xiao Hua's life experience and the clues about the two human traffickers. Since Xiao Hua didn't object, Zhou Zichen had to investigate to the end. After all, Zhou Zichen said that he would definitely help Xiao Hua.
The two of them had a quick bite of breakfast in the hotel restaurant. It was indeed a star-rated hotel and the taste was quite good. After eating, Zhou Zichen took Xiaohua out and went to a place where Ma Chengchao might appear.
"I really didn't expect that a person like Ma Chengchao would also study antiques?" When Zhou Zichen heard Gao Feng say that Ma Chengchao might appear in the antique market yesterday, Zhou Zichen almost laughed out loud. He was still doing such shady things.
Have time to pick up antiques?
"Didn't he say that Ma Chengchao often went to see Bodhisattvas and the like in order to feel at ease?" Xiaohua thought about it seriously and then explained it to Zhou Zichen.
"I know, I just think he is a bit funny. He does such immoral things. Which Bodhisattva dares to protect him?" Zhou Zichen naturally remembered what Gao Feng said. He just felt that people like Ma Chengchao might be false believers in Buddhism.
It's just for peace of mind.
Zhou Zichen and Xiaohua took a taxi to Antique Street. This place is different from the Antique Street in Jiangdong City, but it is still roughly the same. Moreover, Zhou Zichen had an incident here before and had a quarrel with a boss here, which later turned into a quarrel.
The police station just stopped.
In fact, Zhou Zichen went to pick it up and missed it, but the other party refused to admit it. So Zhou Zichen could let him take it back?
"I remember that the boss was here before. Why are all the stores closed now?" Zhou Zichen took a look at this location at the intersection of the street. This place used to be Zhang Cunli's store. Unexpectedly, the stores are now closed.
"What's wrong?" Xiaohua didn't know these things. When she saw Zhou Zichen paused here, she asked curiously.
"It's okay, I just remembered some things from before." Zhou Zichen smiled, thinking that he was quite majestic here before, but unlike now, he has to be more low-key in everything he does.
Zhou Zichen and Xiaohua came here just to see if Ma Chengchao would come here, but they both knew that the chance of Ma Chengchao coming here was very small. After all, Ma Chengchao was not a frequent visitor, and if he really wanted to seek peace of mind,
He should go and live in a temple.
But Zhou Zichen has not forgotten what he promised Bai Bing before. Next month is Luo Qi's birthday. Zhou Zichen still has to think about how to prepare a gift for Luo Qi. After all, they are younger siblings. Bai Bing is not just with Zhou Zichen.
Is it the same as his younger brother?
"Xiaohua, if it were you, what would you like your birthday gift to be?" Zhou Zichen suddenly turned to Xiaohua and asked, it's not that he has never bought birthday gifts before, but he has never bought them for others.
"I don't know, I haven't celebrated my birthday." Xiaohua shook her head and said a little lonely. She didn't know when her birthday was, let alone a birthday gift.
Zhou Zichen sighed and took Xiaohua around the antique street for a long time. As he walked, he asked Xiaohua if she liked this or that, but Xiaohua didn't like jewelry at all. She thought these things were flashy.
Zhou Zichen felt helpless. Since Xiaohua didn't like it, let's see if there was a birthday gift suitable for Luo Qi. Bai Bing texted Zhou Zichen everything Luo Qi liked, and Zhou Zichen probably understood.
Zhou Zichen initially considered giving jade as a gift. After all, Zhou Zichen was quite good at jade, but he wanted to go back to the provincial capital. After all, Wang Yuzhu was there. Zhou Zichen asked him for a rough stone with better material.
It was carefully carved and was much more valuable than the jadeite on the market, and it was specially made according to Luo Qi's preferences.
Sure enough, Zhou Zichen walked around the antique street and found no trace of Ma Chengchao, nor did he see any gifts that he thought were suitable. As for jade, let alone the jade, most of them were already carved products, but the original stone was not as good as the original one.
The raw jadeite at Wang Yuzhu's place is of good quality.
"Forget it, let's move to the next place." Zhou Zichen walked around twice, but still found nothing. He didn't want to waste time here. He planned to go to the next place with Xiaohua.
Zhou Zichen looked at the documents in his hand. He copied all the documents Gao Feng gave him. They were Gao Feng's own personal collection and had nothing to do with the police station. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Zhou Zichen to know these things.
"Ma Chengchao's hobbies are quite extensive. He also goes to the gym? But he shouldn't go there now, right?" Zhou Zichen looked at the thick documents in his hands and said helplessly.
Zhou Zichen felt that since Ma Chengchao was hiding, he would no longer participate in activities like this, right? Unless he was really big-hearted and felt that others could not find him.
"Let's go and have a look." Xiaohua hesitated for a moment and finally said.
Zhou Zichen thought about it and it was the same. He went over to take a look at what happened for a while. If they really could run into each other, forget it. They would think of other ways.
After making up his mind, Zhou Zichen and Xiaohua took a taxi to the stadium. However, Zhou Zichen regretted it when they got there. He originally thought it was just a smaller stadium, but he didn't expect it to be the Olympic Sports Center!
"I'm really..." Zhou Zichen looked at the crowds of people in front of him. It's a bit too hard to find someone, right? There are people of all ages here. It would be absolutely impossible for Zhou Zichen to see them all clearly.
.
"Forget it, let's go for a walk first." Zhou Zichen glanced at the people in front of him helplessly. He might as well take Xiaohua to relax, fearing that she wouldn't be able to bear so many things.
Xiaohua nodded, and walked in the square with Zhou Zichen. The place inside was really big. There were people playing basketball and everything. There were venues inside the stadium and outdoor courts outside.
"Is there such a place in Jiangdong?" Xiaohua suddenly asked.
"Yes, I will take you back to play when I have time." Zhou Zichen said without thinking. The development of Jiangdong City is similar to that of Songcheng, whether it is economy or anything else, so Jiangdong City will naturally have it.
The two walked around the square twice, but found nothing. Who knew where Ma Chengchao would hide. Finding a needle in a haystack like this was not an option.
But Zhou Zichen still hasn't been to many places, such as nightclubs and other places that fit Ma Chengchao's identity. It's not that people like Ma Chengchao can't come out to exercise, but that even if he hides, he wants to secretly
You can't relax in a place like this.
But now that the nightclub is not open, Zhou Zichen can only look elsewhere to see if he can encounter him.
At noon, the two of them found a restaurant. Xiaohua and Zhou Zichen didn't have very high requirements for food. It's not like Wang Ziqi clamored to eat all kinds of things every day. Xiaohua just liked some snacks.
"It is said that Ma Chengchao owns two mahjong parlors? How about we go to the mahjong parlor this afternoon?" Zhou Zichen couldn't make his own decision, so he could only ask Xiaohua for her opinion.
"Okay." Xiaohua nodded. It was too difficult to find Ma Chengchao in these places. It would be okay if he could find Ma Chengchao's younger brothers in a mahjong parlor. Maybe he could be able to interrogate Ma Chengchao's whereabouts.