Chapter 244

Zhao Mengmeng only shook her head. "You forgot you're an old man nearly sixty... how can you... it's not allowed, not allowed... let me go! Let me go!"

Director Liu Zhiguo looked at her and smiled; his smile at that moment suddenly became very kind.

This was a smile Director Liu had never shown at the Donghai City Bureau.

He had always kept a stern face.

"Mengmeng, you are still young. You still have a very long road ahead of you. You haven't even fallen in love yet, right? But I am different," Director Liu Zhiguo sat up straight. "My child has grown up and can already stand on his own. I have been divorced for so many years, and my parents passed away many years ago."

"I am light as a feather now."

"But people, deep in their bones, are cheap. What was that saying again? —The Unbearable Lightness of Being—haha, yes, that's the one. So, I must find some weight for myself."

"Sitting in the office all day is truly unbearable."

"As a people's policeman, I cannot simply watch an ordinary common citizen walk ahead of me, can I?"

"Indeed, there are people now who have set their sights on me in the name of law and order, but I do not care, nor do I regret having protected Ning Chen and concealed Ning Chen's affairs," Director Liu Zhiguo slowly sighed, raised his hand, and stroked the police badge on the police cap on the table. "That young man... he did the thing I wanted to do in my life but could not."

"I admire him, so I must do something."

"Perhaps it is already impossible to pull him out of the swamp, but at the very least, we must do something, right? After all, I know, and you know, he is different from those true criminals, right?"

Director Liu Zhiguo spoke.

Zhao Mengmeng, sitting on the sofa nearby, lowered her head and listened to his words; her tears kept flowing.

Ten o'clock at night.

Zhao Mengmeng finally left the unit.

By the time she returned to her residential compound, it was nearly half past ten.

She was just about to enter the building entrance.

Suddenly, she felt someone behind her.

She turned around sharply!

But she saw, not far away, under a large tree.

A black shadow.

170. (Text revised) You will take me away! You said so!

Ning Chen's RV.

Arrived in Donghai City the next evening.

Returning to this city once again.

Driving through the streets, the tall buildings on both sides of the road still felt familiar.

Ning Chen looked ahead.

His gaze seemed touched by the street scenery on both sides.

But very quickly, the barely perceptible ripples vanished.

Ahead.

Far in the distance, he saw a row of neon red characters.

【Donghai City Children's Fuli Academy】.

When he saw these characters.

Distant memories resurfaced.

He thought of that little girl.

The little girl named Zhang Xiao.

The RV slowed down.

Finally, at the intersection near the Fuli Academy, he turned and drove into an empty lot nearby.

He stopped.

At this moment, it was seven o'clock in the evening.

He thought for a moment; perhaps he should buy a gift?

After all, it had been a long time since they last met.

But what should he buy?

What would a girl of that age like?

Thinking thus, Ning Chen got out of the car.

The husky in the passenger seat stared at him.

"Behave," Ning Chen said to it. "I am back; I do not want to see anything missing, understand?"

The husky wore a serious expression, frowning as it looked at him.

Seeing a shopping mall in the distance, he walked there, circled around, and bought a small pink schoolbag.

A little girl should like this kind of thing.

Hmm... whatever.

Holding the small schoolbag, he walked all the way to the Yuanzi Sect of the Fuli Academy.

The Datie Sect was locked; beside it was a Yigexiao Sect.

Ning Chen entered.

The security guard at the gate asked a few questions, learned he had come to visit, registered him, and let him in.

The courtyard was pitch black.

The building ahead was lit up.

Ning Chen first went to the small classroom where he had seen her before.

But no one was in the small classroom.

In the hallway, he met a staff member who told him.

Little friend Zhang Xiao Nian should be on the third floor.

So, he went to the third floor again.

He did see quite a few children, currently free to move about.

They must have just finished eating; this is the free time before bed, and no one is watching them.

Ning Chen searched around, finally caught a child, and asked.

The other person said, he seems to be outside.

Ning Chen went downstairs; he had made up his mind.

If he still couldn't find him, he would leave the schoolbag behind and then depart.

But the courtyard was pitch black; the only streetlamp had a bulb flickering on and off.

The big tree in the courtyard was bare.

A cold wind blew; one could hear the rustling sound.

There was no one in the courtyard.

Forget it.

He walked toward the gate, preparing to hand the schoolbag to that old security guard; handing it over then would suffice.

Then, he heard a rustling sound in the corner.

Someone was speaking.

It sounded like a boy in his voice-breaking period.

And there was a little girl's voice.

Ning Chen's body flashed, entering the nearby shadowed area.

He gradually approached that direction.

He could hear clearly now.

"Give it to me!" the boy said.

"On what grounds do you steal my things!" the little girl's voice.

"If you dare speak, I'll beat you! Try it!"

"I didn't say I would speak!"

"Was it you who snitched on that cafeteria incident last time?"

"I didn't!"

"If not you, then who?! Do you want to die or what?!"