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Chapter 55 The missing child

Tetsuya Uehara and Saeko Fujiwara came to the entrance of the garbage station.

The door was rusty. Uehara Tetsuya knocked on the door. He waited for a minute, but no one opened the door.

From a God's perspective, Tetsuya Uehara saw that the person inside was standing quietly at the door. He looked at himself through the peephole and seemed to see the police uniform on Fujiwara Saeko. He didn't dare to move for fear of making any noise.

Fujiwara Saeko was a little uneasy. She was afraid that the abducted child had been killed.

She said, "Tetsuno-kun, this door looks pretty thin, just break it down and get in."

Uehara Tetsuya nodded.

He said, "That's exactly what I meant."

Just as he was about to kick the door open, the middle-aged man who heard their conversation came hurriedly to open the door.

He pretended to have just walked out and said, "I'm coming, I'm coming, who's knocking so loudly?"

Ichiro Watanabe opened the door. He had an ordinary look, was skinny, and his left leg looked a little unnatural. When he saw the police uniform that Fujiwara Saeko was wearing, he pretended to be surprised.

He said, "What do you want to talk to me about?"

Fujiwara Saeko walked into the room and took a quick look, but didn't see anything obviously wrong.

She asked suspiciously, "Why did it take so long to open the door?"

Watanabe Ichiro replied: "Officer, I was sleeping and I'm a little late."

Fujiwara Saeko suddenly got angry and asked, "Where is your child?"

The man's body visibly stiffened, his face turned pale, and he said in a rather charming voice, "The child, the child is in school."

"Which school?"

"Baidi Primary School."

"What year and class is it? What's the teacher's phone number?"

Fujiwara Saeko didn't give the man a chance to breathe and kept asking questions.

Ichiro Watanabe was stuck. He stood there in a daze like a stupid goose.

He rubbed his face and smiled bitterly: "Officer, do you know everything?"

Fujiwara Saeko gave Uehara Tetsuno a look and put one hand on the stun gun on her belt.

She demanded, “Where is the child?”

Seeing what Fujiwara Saeko did, Watanabe Ichiro quickly raised his hands to indicate that he did not intend to resist.

He defended himself: "Officer, the child ran away on his own. I really don't know where he went."

"Did you know that buying and selling children is illegal?!"

Ichiro Watanabe said, "Officer, I am very kind to children."

Uehara Tetsuno laughed and said, "If you treat the child well, will he run away?"

The man was speechless, and then he defended himself: "His parents are worthless and beat him every day. I am really good to him. If he didn't always want to run away, why would I beat him?"

"I hit him very lightly!"

Uehara Tetsuya said indifferently: "If you don't restrain the child every day, how can the child want to run away?"

At this time, Fujiwara Saeko asked: "What is the child's name? How long has he been missing? Why did he disappear?"

“Is there a photo of him?”

"You have to think about it. Buying and selling children is illegal. If something happens to a child, you will bear greater responsibility."

Fujiwara Saeko's words were half threat and half intimidation.

Watanabe Ichiro was surprised and asked, "Is buying a child illegal?"

"if not?"

Ichiro Watanabe was helpless. He took out his cell phone and looked through the photos.

He said: "After the child went missing, I wanted to call the police, but I didn't dare to because I was afraid that the police would question me. In fact, I was also worried about the child."

Fujiwara Saeko chuckled at the man's statement.

She looked at the photo given by Ichiro Watanabe, and her pupils shrank. It was a family photo.

A woman who looked a little abnormal, dressed shabbily, but had a pretty face. She was holding the little boy's hand with one hand and the man's hand with the other, smiling foolishly.

The woman in the photo looked like a disabled person, and the boy... Fujiwara Saeko felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

She showed the phone to Uehara Tetsuya and asked, "Tetsuya, look at this little boy. Does he look familiar to you?"

When Uehara Tetsuno saw the photo, his eyes lit up and he said, "We have seen him before. He was the kid who called me mom at the comic convention."

Fujiwara Saeko suddenly realized.

She said: "I'll ask my colleagues to find it right away!"

Fujiwara Saeko went out to make a phone call.

Tetsuya Uehara pointed at the woman in the photo who looked unintelligent.

He said, "Who is this lady?"

Whether in his previous life or this life, Uehara Tetsuno has never been a policeman. He finds it interesting to investigate cases occasionally.

Suddenly, Ichiro Watanabe, a middle-aged man in his forties whose skin should be thicker than a city wall, blushed.

He said, “She is my love.”

Uehara Tetsuya nodded and said, "She looks..."

Watanabe Ichiro generously admitted: "Yes, she is a disabled person."

Uehara Tetsuno glanced at Watanabe Ichiro and asked, "Logically speaking, a normal man wouldn't marry a disabled person, right?"

Ichiro Watanabe smiled and patted his left leg. From the beginning, Tetsuya Uehara noticed that there was something wrong with the movement of his left leg.

The man unzipped his trouser legs, revealing his legs, only to see a fake leg underneath.

Watanabe Ichiro blushed and said, "Officer, we are all disabled people, who is looking down on whom?"

Uehara Tetsuno thought to himself, as he had guessed, this man was a disabled person.

At this time, Fujiwara Saeko came back from outside.

She said: "I have asked my colleagues to find the child."

Fujiwara Saeko continued, "Sir, please ask your wife to come out and meet us."

Ichiro Watanabe was helpless, he knew what the two police officers were worried about.

He said, "Okay, I can let my wife come out, but don't scare her."

Ichiro Watanabe pulled down his trouser legs and limped into a room. He turned the doorknob and opened the door.

"Shh, husband, Xiaobao is asleep."

A woman wearing a bright red cotton-padded jacket on a hot day, holding a dirty rag doll in her arms, with a silly smile on her face.

The woman was surprised to see Tetsuya Uehara and Saeko Fujiwara.

She asked, "Honey, who are these two people?"

Watanabe Ichiro came to the woman, ruffled her messy hair, and said lovingly, "It's the neighbor."

"Why did you get yourself so dirty again?"

"I'll give you a bath later."

Fujiwara Saeko looked at the woman carefully, and it seemed that she was indeed not playing dumb.

However, we cannot be careless.

After Watanabe Ichiro coaxed the woman, Fujiwara Saeko asked, "Do you still have your wife's ID card?"

"Take it out, let me check it."

"Yes, yes."

Watanabe Ichiro kept talking, he came to a drawer, rummaged through it, and found the woman's ID.

It says Oda Maki. The portrait on the ID card shows a woman who looks not much different from now. But unlike her dull look now, her eyes in the photo are lively and clear.

Fujiwara Saeko was surprised that there really was one. It seemed that this woman did not look like the one bought by Watanabe Ichiro.

But, we still can't be careless.

She planned to find the woman's hometown based on the household registration information and ask her parents whether their daughter was missing.

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(End of this chapter)