Chapter 32: He Was Set Up
The restaurant boss didn’t expect her to suddenly attack and couldn’t react in time. He was grabbed by the collar and slapped.
The restaurant boss also got angry and forcefully pushed her away, his face furious: “You old woman, splashing dirty water everywhere! I didn’t even know who she was before she jumped off the building! Don’t spread rumors!”
Mother Xie took the momentum and sat on the ground, slapping her thigh and wailing loudly: “No justice! My child was working fine here, and just a few days in, she died! If you say you didn’t bully her, I won’t believe it!”
“Compensate! You must compensate for my child! Otherwise, I-I’m going to hang myself in front of your store today!”
Xie Tingting had her back to the restaurant doorway, listening to the loud crying and making a scene sounds, her fists clenched tight, her entire soul body trembling.
Infinite anger and powerlessness surged from her chest cavity, red light flickering in her eyes, turbid grievance appearing on her pure soul body.
Xie Tingting suddenly turned around, waving her sharp ghost claw towards Mother Xie, screaming: “Shut up! Shut up shut up shut up—!”
Her ghost claw stopped just 0.1 centimeters from Mother Xie. Nan Yuanman used all her strength to hug her leg and drag her back: “Sister, calm down, don’t let the grievance control you and turn into a fierce ghost!”
Xie Tingting’s rationality was swallowed by the surging anger, struggling desperately and swinging her claws at Mother Xie’s face, as if to tear it apart.
Nan Yuanman could only hug her tighter and drag her back harder.
The young police officer who had chased after Nan Yuanman watched her hugging the air with both hands, her short legs straining backward, her chubby little face tense, even her hair strands straining: “…”
Young police officer:
The young police officer swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his voice a bit shaky: “L-Little friend, what are you h-hugging?”
Nan Yuanman huffed and puffed with effort, and upon hearing this, she panted and casually brushed him off: “I’m not hugging anything, Uncle Police, you saw wrong!”
Young police officer: “…” I sure hope it’s me who saw wrong! But you don’t look like you saw wrong at all!
Not to mention it’s late at night now, and there’s been a death not far away…
The young police officer’s back hairs stood on end, and he felt awful all over. He quickly stepped forward to pick up Nan Yuanman: “Okay okay, little friend, no more making a scene, be good, let’s hurry and do the statement, call your family to pick you up and go home to sleep.”
He picked her up once, but couldn’t lift her.
Young police officer: “?”
The young police officer looked at her with a face full of existential doubt: “???”
What’s going on? Could it be he’s been slacking on training lately? Can’t even lift a kid??
The young police officer rolled up his sleeves, refusing to believe it, and tried picking her up with full strength.
Nan Yuanman took the chance, under the cover of his hands, pulled the small coffin out a little from the cloth bag and opened it, taking in the about-to-lose-control Xie Tingting.
The young police officer lifted Nan Yuanman off the ground like pulling an onion from dry land. Because he used too much force, he couldn’t control himself and stumbled back several steps before barely stopping.
Young police officer: “…?”
He and Nan Yuanman nestled in his arms stared at each other.
He suspected he was being set up!
The young police officer couldn’t help glancing at the corpse covered with white cloth ahead, shivered, and quickly left holding Nan Yuanman.
Nan Yuanman didn’t make trouble this time, obediently nestled in his arms, her soft little chin resting on his shoulder, gazing at the crowd watching Mother Xie tearing into the restaurant boss, not knowing what she was thinking.
With her cooperation, the way to the police station was uneventful.
When Nan Yuanman arrived at the police station, the family members of Liu Wei and Yu Meimei were already there, arguing fiercely with them in the living room. The two groups centered on each other’s parents, with a radius of eighteen generations of ancestors, reproductive organs as main weapons, fantasizing as main skill, radiating 360 degrees all around, cursing through the entire family tree.
The young police officer timely covered Nan Yuanman’s ears, so she didn’t hear those unbearable filthy words.
Brother Niu and his accomplices kept shouting their innocence, but with the video on Nan Yuanman’s watch as evidence, her as witness, plus their prior records, detention was certain.
The police at the police station had heard earlier that the reporter for this human trafficking case was very young, but didn’t expect her to be that young—tiny, only five years old.
Nan Yuanman was welcomed by the female police upon arrival.
When having her dictate the statement, they also tried to keep the atmosphere relaxed to avoid scaring her.
On the other side, Jiang family.
Jiang Lixuan lay on the ground for nearly two hours before slowly waking up: “Mm…”
He opened his eyes, stared blankly at the pitch-black wall in front of him for a moment, his brain not yet reacting. When he did, he scrambled up from the ground: “Damn!”
Jiang Lixuan looked at the room that looked like it had been bombed by an airplane, his vision going black: “Nan Yuanman! What’s going on?!”
What did this little girl do in the room? Make explosives? How could she wreck the room like this!
No one in the room responded.
Jiang Lixuan clutched his aching head, looked around left and right, didn’t see any trace of Nan Yuanman in the room, his heart sank, a bad premonition gradually rising.
Jiang Lixuan called out several more times, checked the bathroom, stuck his buttocks out looking under the bed, even ran to the living room and garden, checked the rooftop, still no trace of Nan Yuanman.
He panicked—could that little girl be afraid of him blaming her and run away from home?
Jiang Lixuan quickly had Butler Li bring the iPad to check Nan Yuanman’s watch location.
The little red dot quickly appeared on the map on the iPad.
Butler Li kept zooming in on the little red dot’s location on the map, his brows slowly furrowing: “Young Master, this… this seems to be the police station in Taigu District. How did Miss Yuanman go to the police station?!”
Jiang Lixuan: “…” He really wants to know too!!
He was about to call Nan Yuanman when his phone rang first: “Hello?”
Hearing the female voice from the phone, Jiang Lixuan quickly responded: “Okay okay okay, I’m coming right now, have her stay put, don’t let her run around!”
With that, Jiang Lixuan hung up, didn’t even change clothes, and hurriedly ran out.
Jiang Hengzhi, who had jogged back at night, nearly collided with him, watching his urgent back, frowned and asked: “Why’s he running so fast? In a hurry to reincarnate?”
Butler Li looked at Jiang Hengzhi with a complicated expression, and said eerily: “Nothing, just that little Miss Yuanman went to the police station.”
Jiang Hengzhi: “?”
“Wasn’t she at home? How did she end up at the police station? What heinous thing did she do to get caught?”
Butler Li: “…”
His face darkened: “Second Young Master, little Miss Yuanman is only five years old.”
What heinous thing can a five-year-old do!
“So what about five? Plenty of five-year-olds do bad things, she even called me retarded today!” Jiang Hengzhi snorted with laughter, wiped the sweat from his forehead, turned and followed Jiang Lixuan.
“I’m going to see how she got into the police station, hope she didn’t lose face for the Jiang family.”
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Police station doorway.
While waiting for Jiang Lixuan to pick her up, Nan Yuanman found a relatively hidden corner and released Xie Tingting who was rattling around inside the small coffin.
Xie Tingting had a piece of straw stuck in her head, her entire soul body especially disheveled as she ran out.
Nan Yuanman blinked her eyes, her voice soft and glutinous: “Sister, are you okay?”
Xie Tingting whipped her head around to look at her, rushed over and knelt down with a thud, hugging her short legs: “Little Heavenly Master, I was wrong! I shouldn’t have been impulsive earlier! Don’t put me back in that weird place anymore, okay?”
That place has zombies ahhh!!
“Okay.” Nan Yuanman nodded, touched her head, and asked: “Sister, do you know what your obsession is now?”
Xie Tingting’s soul body stiffened, hugging Nan Yuanman and silent for a long time. After a while, she said with a slightly bitter voice: “I know.”
She wanted… her parents to love her.
On PK1 now, new book is delicate, babies don’t stockpile for now (*￣3￣)╭
