Step by step ABO

"Hey boy, here we are."

More than two hours later, the sky turned gray, but the street was still dark.

The moon has not yet set, and the silver one hangs on the other side of the rising sun.

From city C to city F, it took two hours by car, nothing more, nothing less.

Ni Xiangping wept uncontrollably in the car. At first, he was anxious, but later all kinds of emotions came.The more he told himself that Haihai would be fine, the more he cried.

He opened the car door, and the umbrella popped up with a clatter. The rain stopped long ago, and he didn't notice it.The water droplets falling from the leaves of the trees are regarded as rain.

The phone was vibrating all the time, and Ni Xiangping didn't dare to pick it up. Perhaps it was because of the cold, coupled with fear, his hands were shaking all the time, and the handle of the umbrella couldn't be held tightly, swaying in the wind.

He was afraid that if he picked it up, what Qiu Songqi told him was bad news.

He also couldn't think of what would happen, how could such a good person disappear.

Ni Xiangping walked to the door of the house he had not returned for a long time.The familiar anti-theft door is also pasted with the Chinese New Year's Chinese New Year sticker on it.

The phone paused for a while, then buzzed again in his pocket.

"..." Ni Xiangping picked it up, grabbed the phone tightly, and his fingertips turned white, "Hello..."

"You finally answered the phone!" Qiu Songqi's voice was loud, and compared with Ni Xiangping, he seemed much more certain.

"Where is Haihai...?" Ni Xiangping only cared about one question. It didn't sound like he was too flustered, but because he was physically and mentally exhausted, he was really speechless.

"Where are you?" Qiu Songqi asked, "Let's meet."

"The door."

Then he heard footsteps, and the door of the house opened.

When Qiu Songqi saw him, the temperature in the morning was the lowest in the day, Ni Xiangping was wearing unlined clothing, and his hair was drenched in water.His face was quite pale, and he raised his head and looked at Qiu Songqi with red eyes.

"Come in quickly." Qiu Songqi pulled him into the house, Ni Xiangping broke away, "Qiu Songqi pulled him again, "It's cold outside. "

"Where's your son?" Ni Xiangping opened his eyes, filled with fear.

In contrast, Qiu Songqi looked calmer.In fact, he was also panicked.

"Where is Haihai..." He spoke with a crying tone, "Speak up, you bastard."

"I'm a bastard, you come in first."

"You tell me where he is first..."

"The police are looking for it. I've reported the crime. I already have clues. You come in first." Qiu Songqi forcefully pulled him in, "We'll go there later."

After Qiu Songqi recognized Qiu Baiqi and Haihai in the monitoring room of the community, the police went to the police station to call the street monitoring, saying that they would notify if there was any situation.

Qiu Songqi came back first, first because Ni Xiangping didn't answer the phone, he was afraid that Ni Xiangping would be waiting here alone.

The second is to wonder if Qiu Baiqi will come back by himself. This person does not have a mobile phone and cannot be contacted. If he comes back, there is no need to bother the police station.

Ni Xiangping shook his head desperately, dragged Qiu Songqi to the door, and said vaguely: "Go now, go now..."

"Xiangping, wait, wait, go get dressed first." Qiu Songqi grabbed his arm, and Qiu Songqi felt a little cold, "Calm down, the police are looking for you."

"No, they, it's useless, I'm going to find him..." Ni Xiangping was about to cry as soon as he spoke, and couldn't stop, sobbing, "Let go of me, I beg you, I beg you, I'm going to find Haihai——!"

"Change your clothes first, there's no need to be anxious now. Don't fall down before you find him." Qiu Songqi grabbed his wrist and finally pulled him into the room, closing the door.

The cold wind outside did not blow in.

"I beg you, I want to see him right now..." Ni Xiangping pushed down the doorknob, and was about to break through the door. Qiu Songqi stepped forward to lock the door, and pulled Ni Xiangping away. He was not sure what would happen if Ni Xiangping went out in this state. thing.

"You calm down!"

"How do I stay calm? How do you want me to stay calm!"

Ni Xiangping got mad at Qiu Songqi desperately, and the anger and fear that he had held back along the way suddenly broke out.

"That's my son! My son! The son I've taken care of for so many years..." Ni Xiangping's mouth drooped, his expression twisted and he burst into tears, "You bastard, you bastard..."

"I am I am, but don't do this now, it's useless!" Qiu Songqi pressed Ni Xiangping's shoulders with both hands, trying not to quarrel with him.

Qiu Songqi was also flustered and anxious, and his lips trembled when he spoke.

But he felt that if he acted more scared than Ni Xiangping at this time, Ni Xiangping would probably really go crazy.

Ni Xiangping couldn't listen to what he said, so he cried even louder, cursing him vaguely while shouting to find Haihai.Feeling delirious, Qiu Songqi called him several times.He didn't respond either.

"Ni Xiangping!" Qiu Songqi finally raised his voice several decibels before Ni Xiangping was silenced.

"Calm down! I said the police station is investigating, I'll go there later, you put on some clothes and wait at home." Qiu Songqi pulled his shoulders and said, "You have to believe that my son will be fine. .”

Ni Xiangping closed his lips tightly, stared at Qiu Songqi, took a breather, and did not speak again.Just a slight tremor in the shoulders.

Seeing that he was quiet, Qiu Songqi picked up a coat from the sofa, put it on him, and said with a long sigh of relief: "My cousin took him out, although I don't know what he's up to, but he still doesn't want to Hurt a child. Maybe I took it with me to play. He doesn’t have a mobile phone and can’t be contacted. I hardly contact him. So don’t be too nervous.”

Qiu Songqi was just worried that Qiu Baiqi would get into trouble if he took him out to make a fuss, and worried that Qiu Haihai would be hurt by Qiu Baiqi's cronies.

He thought of the kindergarten teacher saying today that Qiu Haihai is a child who can't ask for help, and his heart tightened.

Qiu Songqi gritted his teeth and didn't tell Ni Xiangping this.

After he buttoned Ni Xiangping's coat sternly, he looked into his eyes, and Ni Xiangping looked like a swamp with smoke.It was so silent that Qiu Songqi couldn't even hear his breathing.

Qiu Songqi couldn't deal with this silence, he raised his hand to wipe the corner of Ni Xiangping's eyes, Ni Xiangping didn't even dodge.

"You have a fever." Qiu Songqi pressed the back of his hand to his forehead, and Ni Xiangping nodded, "Go to sleep, I'll go to the police station. If Qiu Baiqi comes back, you can call me."

"Hmm." Ni Xiangping made a difficult voice, without any disturbance on his face, much calmer than when he first came here.

He was a little hopeless.The temples hurt the eyes, and there was tinnitus.

Ni Xiangping returned to the bedroom where he had bid farewell for a long time, without looking at the furnishings, without lifting the quilt, he fell directly on the bed, curled up into a ball, his body bones nestled in the large coat.

Seeing that he was asleep, Qiu Songqi called the policeman who took the case just now, and the other party said that the monitoring is currently being adjusted smoothly, and there are no blind spots yet.

"We have preliminarily determined their whereabouts, but it is possible that they have already gone back. Would you consider coming over?"

"Okay, I'll go over now. There is someone at home. I will let you know if I come back." Qiu Songqi was half-hearted when he heard the police say that things were going well.

Before leaving, he boiled a pot of boiling water, and the kettle gurgled for a while, then stopped heating with a click.

Qiu Songqi opened the medicine box, found a packet of antipyretic granules inside, soaked it, and went to the bedroom with a water glass.

Ni Xiangping was lying on the bed like a stone, he raised his eyelids when Qiu Songqi came in.

"Lie in, I'm going to the police station now." Qiu Songqi put the water glass on the bedside, Ni Xiangping didn't move, Qiu Songqi knew that he was a little distracted now.

Qiu Songqi also knows how important Haihai is to Ni Xiangping.He was almost too worried, not to mention Ni Xiangping.

"Drink some medicine." Qiu Songqi helped him sit up straight, Ni Xiangping took the cup and drank it in one gulp, then turned around and lay down again, with his back to Qiu Songqi.

"Cover the quilt." Qiu Songqi pulled the quilt under Ni Xiangping, but he couldn't move it, so he went to the guest room to get a quilt from Qiu Baiqi to cover him, and found that his shoulders were always exposed, thinking about it , pulled the quilt up a little, and tucked it under Ni Xiangping's shoulders.

It was the first time Qiu Songqi knew that this action was meaningful.

"I'll go to the police station. You have a good rest."

"Go quickly." Ni Xiangping said something unprecedented.

When Qiu Songqi arrived at the police station, he was just in time for them to leave for a place called Yuerong Hotel.

"Yuerong Hotel?" Qiu Songqi followed a few police officers who were on duty in doubt, and got into the police car.

Yuerong Hotel is a five-star high-consumption hotel that provides a full range of services. It is comparable to the nightclubs in Emerald City. It does not rest at night and is open all day long.

Except for meeting big clients, Qiu Songqi usually doesn't go here.

Qiu Songqi wondered what Qiu Baiqi was doing there.

"Are you sure it's there?"

"Yes, the surveillance showed that they went to Yuerong Hotel in the end, and didn't come out again." The policewoman spoke tiredly, and she was on the night shift. She didn't expect such an urgent case.

In a daze, Qiu Songqi followed to Yuerong Hotel. The neon lights at the entrance of the hotel were much more conspicuous than the light just exposed. Four or five policemen sneaked into the hotel, and several guests were startled.

"Excuse me, have you seen this person?" The policeman showed his police ID in his left hand, and held up the photos of Haihai and Qiu Baiqi in his right hand, facing the lobby manager.

The manager looked carefully and shook his head: "I haven't seen this kid...but I know this boy."

But he hesitated to say anything.

"where?"

"This..." The manager hesitated for a while, looked at the policeman following several people, and finally breathed out, "In the kitchen, working."

"Work?" Qiu Songqi raised his eyebrows.

"Child labor. The police, you can do it. I felt sorry for this kid when he came to work here. He said he owed a loan shark." The manager thought the police were here to investigate child labor, so he hurriedly begged for mercy.