GBP Chapter 69 It’s hard to persuade the damn ghost with good words
Chapter 69 It’s hard to persuade the damn ghost with good words
Deng Xiuzhen said, "I heard about it a few days ago. There was a woman who pretended to like other people's children on a busy street and gave the children popsicles. After gaining the children's trust, she took them away when they weren't paying attention."
"Could it be that same group of people?"
Zhao Chunyan quickly chimed in, "It's quite possible they're in cahoots. Your Wenyu is young, you need to talk to him properly, lest he be tricked and kidnapped and regret it later."
After Zhao Chunyan finished speaking, she went back, while Fang Mei's family and Tian Guoqiang stayed for dinner.
After dinner, Fang Mei and her family went home.
Tian Guoqiang then got down to business:
First, we asked Deng Xiuzhen why she was talking about child trafficking today.
He hadn't heard anything about children being abducted recently, and when Zhao Chunyan came and said those things, she left right after. He knew immediately that the two of them were putting on an act.
Deng Xiuzhen said, "That's not true. Why would we put on a charade for no reason?"
Tian Guoqiang laughed and said: I'm an old policeman. I may not have heard as many strange things as you have, but I'm very good at judging whether a person is telling the truth.
Deng Xiuzhen laughed and said, "Today I met a woman on the street. She seemed nice and approached the children as if she really liked them."
But I had a gut feeling she had ulterior motives, and I wanted to warn them, but I was afraid they'd think I wasn't speaking well of them or that I was cursing them. That's why I did this with Teacher Zhao.
After listening, Tian Guoqiang pondered for a moment and said, "From what I heard you say just now, I feel that you must have your own reasons."
Since we're talking about child trafficking, it must be related to children, so I observed those two people for a while.
I noticed that they weren't interested in your story about child abduction; they were only interested in Wenjing's studies.
I really don't know what they were thinking. The children are so small, the oldest looks no more than five or six years old, and the youngest is even younger.
Why are you so concerned about academics instead of safety? What can such a young child possibly learn?
Your charade didn't go well; they didn't care at all and definitely didn't listen to what you said.
"I've said what I needed to say, but they won't listen. If something else goes wrong, that's their own fault!" Hearing Tian Guoqiang say that Fang Mei and her husband hadn't listened to their advice, Deng Xiuzhen was a little annoyed, and her words were tinged with emotion.
"You mean this is bound to happen? Someone will kidnap their children? Or have already kidnapped their children?" Hearing Deng Xiuzhen use the word "again," Tian Guoqiang had a feeling that this would most likely come true.
"I don't know, I just feel really bad." Deng Xiuzhen couldn't answer Tian Guoqiang's question and could only give a perfunctory answer.
"Let's not talk about that. I have good news for you. I've been promoted to deputy director," Tian Guoqiang said.
"Congratulations, congratulations on Director Tian's promotion." Deng Xiuzhen was happy for Tian Guoqiang and offered her blessings repeatedly.
"I'm busy with that case of the woman with the suitcase and the corpse. Once it's solved, I'll treat your family to a big meal," Tian Guoqiang said before leaving.
He came today mainly to bring up the female corpse case and see if Deng Xiuzhen had any particular thoughts. Deng Xiuzhen didn't respond, presumably because she hadn't heard anything about it.
Then, he told her about his promotion and that she should go to his home or the bureau if she needed anything, so as not to make a wasted trip to the office.
After returning home, Tian Guoqiang immediately arranged for two police officers to secretly follow Qi Guomin's family, paying particular attention to their children.
Deng Xiuzhen was unaware of Tian Guoqiang's arrangements, and she did not intend to mention them again.
Good words can't persuade a damn ghost.
She had said everything she needed to say and offered all the advice she could, but the people of Qi wouldn't listen. What could she do?
A few days later, Qin Yanlin came back and discussed with Deng Xiuzhen: "Today I heard someone say that it is now possible to buy an urban household registration."
He specifically went to find someone, and it was true that it was possible to buy one. He wanted to buy urban residency for all three of his children.
In those days, even if someone with a rural household registration had a job, they would only be a temporary worker and could not become a permanent employee.
However, urban residents can be officially registered, and urban residents can receive minimum living allowances in cases of illness or financial hardship, while rural residents cannot.
Qin Yanlin said that the current cost is 2,300 yuan per household registration, and 6,900 yuan for three children, which the family can afford.
For the sake of the children's long-term well-being, even setting up a construction team can be postponed; let's get the children's household registrations first. After all, quotas are limited.
Deng Xiuzhen didn't say anything. She knew that the urban household registration that was popular now would become widespread in the future and then it would be useless.
In the future, urban household registration will not only be useless, unable to provide livelihood security or enjoy any preferential treatment, but will also leave people with no way out, no home in the countryside, and their land will be taken back.
"Xiuzhen?" Qin Yanlin saw that Deng Xiuzhen was not speaking and was just staring blankly, and he didn't know what had happened.
"Huh?" Deng Xiuzhen came back to her senses, thought for a moment and said, "Let's not buy the household registration. I always feel that the identity that can be sold is controlled by capital. How can ordinary people like us benefit from something controlled by capital?"
"Xiuzhen, where did you hear that?" Qin Yanlin felt that there was some truth to what he said, but he didn't think that Deng Xiuzhen would not have said such a thing.
"I overheard a customer saying this today; he was advising his brother not to buy a household registration."
Yanlin, the city's construction has just begun, and it's the perfect time to build your career and make money.
We won't buy residency permits; we'll use all the money to help you set up your construction team. We'll earn more money that way; it'll be better than getting a permanent job.
After thinking about it, Qin Yanlin agreed not to buy a household registration.
Since the last incident, Qin Yanlin has set a principle for himself: to consider things more carefully, and to respect Deng Xiuzhen's opinions as much as possible when there are family conflicts.
Even if Deng Xiuzhen's opinion is biased, we should try to resolve it peacefully without arguing or quarreling.
If Deng Xiuzhen doesn't support buying a household registration, then we can wait until we've earned some money before buying one.
"Yanlin! Yanlin! Has our child come to your place?" That evening, Qin Yanlin's family was having dinner when Qi Guomin rushed in, sweating profusely, and asked.
"No? What's wrong?" Qin Yanlin hurriedly stood up.
“In the afternoon, we took the children out to play. When we were in West Lake Park, we sat on a bench watching the children play. Then we ran into an acquaintance, and we talked for a while. When we turned around, we couldn’t see the children anymore.”
We searched for a long time but couldn't find the children. We were thinking they might have come here since they've been to your place. West Lake Park isn't far from here.
"They didn't come. Did you...?" Deng Xiuzhen wanted to ask them if they had encountered a woman who gave their child popsicles.
But before she could even open her mouth, Qi Guomin had already run away.
Deng Xiuzhen sighed and said to Qin Yanlin, "Why don't you help them look for it? I'll go ask Director Tian if we can open a case as soon as possible and help them look for it."
“It’s getting dark, it’s not safe for you to go out alone. I’ll go with you to find Director Tian. I doubt my presence on the Nationalist side will be of much use.” Qin Yanlin chose to accompany Deng Xiuzhen.
The two told the child to hurry back to Chenjiawan, then locked the door and went to Gucheng Street to find Tian Guoqiang.