critical

The policemen at the counter stood up one after another:

"You come down first!"

"what happened?"

"Get her down quickly!"

Yan Ji nimbly dodged to grab her hand, stepped on the counter and rushed to the top, raised his hand and climbed up the vertical air conditioner: "Listen to me first!"

All the staff and staff in the Public Security Bureau were dumbfounded and shouted at her:

"Come down first, kid." "What are you kid doing!" "Come down, come down!" "Who cares about the child!" It's so wild." "Who brought her down, it's outrageous!"

Yan Ji squatted on the top of the air conditioner and listened to the sounds from all around. Her head was buzzing. She clenched the beads around her neck to gather herself and shouted loudly: "Stop talking! I want to report the crime! Report the case!"

A young policeman in uniform came over: "Student, don't get excited, just speak slowly."

Yan Ji said eagerly: "Uncle, my classmate is gone, and so is my grandpa. Yesterday, no, my grandpa answered a call the night before and never came back. I dialed it again, and the number was the public phone in front of my classmate's house." .My classmate and her mother are not at home, there are man's footprints at home, and there are words on the public phone booth, let me go find her."

The police brother who was the first to recognize Yan Ji came over: "Didn't I tell you? We have contacted your school. Your classmate is going to study abroad, and he has gone abroad."

"Impossible!" Yan Ji blushed with anxiety.

The police brother laughed: "How is it impossible? Yes, yes, a good friend should say something and tell you, right?"

Yan Ji shook his head, feeling extremely wronged in his heart: "Impossible, impossible, Yan Deng will definitely not go, she has already gone..."

She suddenly calmed down, jumped off the air conditioner, and rushed out of the gate of the Public Security Bureau without saying a word, the gaze and disgust behind her...

It's no big deal!

Yan Ji stepped on her bicycle and drove all the way back to the rest place. She pulled the bicycle aside and parked it. She subconsciously glanced at the wall and then ran home.

After dismantling a photo frame, he took out a pencil drawing from his schoolbag, and Yan Ji put the drawing in carefully.Put the photo frame into the bag and take it out.Put it in a glass case and take it out.Finally, solemnly placed in front of the desk.

After doing all this, Yan Ji dug out an empty homework book and wrote——

Last night, Deng Deng called me.

Grandpa received the call and went out.

Just finished writing two lines, Yan Ji stopped writing: If there is danger, why didn't Dengdeng call 110?Why would she call me if it wasn't dangerous?

Yan Ji scratched his head, rubbed his belly, walked into the kitchen, lit the gas and put in dried noodles.Staring at the water in the pot, Yan Ji's eyelids became heavier and his head was bit by bit like a chicken pecking at rice. He was about to hit the gas stove when suddenly the phone rang in the living room.

"jingle bells! jingle bells!"

Yan Ji grabbed the phone: "Hello?"

Lu Yan's voice was mixed with excitement and frustration: "Yan Ji, do you know? I asked Lao Ban, and she said that Yan Deng was going to study abroad..."

"Impossible!" Yan Ji yelled, "Absolutely impossible! It is impossible for Fat Daqiu to take the first place in the exam!"

"It's true! It's true!"

Lu Yan also yelled: "Old Ban said it himself, it is definitely not wrong. Old Ban said that Yan Deng refused to go at first, and Yan Deng's father came to persuade him in person. I saw Yan Deng's father that day, alas, it is I didn't know he was Yan Deng's father..."

Yan Ji was dumbfounded: "Father Yan Deng?"

Yan Deng's father!

How could Yan Deng have a father?

No, no, everyone has a father, so Yan Deng's father is still alive?

Yan Ji sat down on the sofa: "Lu Yan, you, did you see Yan Deng's father?"

Lu Yan was still distressed that he didn't say a few words to Yan Deng's father at the time: "I don't know who he is, and I visited Yan Deng's registration form. But it's strange, why doesn't Yan Deng's father know where she lives?"

Lu Yan's eyes lit up suddenly, and he began to gossip: "Did Yan Deng's parents divorce? Yan Ji, you have the best time with Yan Deng, did you already know?"

Yan Ji faltered and didn't know what to say, after all, Yan Deng never mentioned her father.The sudden appearance of this man disrupted all Yan Ji's guesses.

If Yan Deng really went to study abroad, where did grandpa go?

As soon as this idea appeared, Yan Ji immediately shouted in his heart: Impossible!

Yan Ji stood up abruptly, and emphasized into the phone: "It is impossible for Yan Deng to study abroad! Even if he goes, he can't go without saying a word, without telling me!"

Lu Yan faltered: "I don't have to tell you, Yan Deng wants to talk to you more, but between you girls, friends..."

Yan Ji put the handset on the phone, and hung up the phone with a "click".

Pooh!

She won't tell the dwarf that Deng Deng kissed herself!

Yan Ji got angry for a while, rushed into the kitchen, turned off the gas, scooped up noodles, and sat in the kitchen in a daze with a bowl and pestle: Could it be that Yan Deng's father wanted Deng Deng to study abroad, so he took them away? Grandpa found out To follow Yan Deng's father?right!Grandpa is the most powerful scout!

Yan Ji was sucking on the rotten noodles, and suddenly heard someone talking in the corridor outside, as if his name was mentioned, and hurried to the door to open it.

"This kid is too skinny. He fought with someone before, and his head was bleeding..."

"Yes, it's not like a girl's house at all. I don't know if Mr. Yan is at home."

Yan Ji let go of the hand holding the doorknob, and stood by the door without saying a word.

dong dong dong, dong dong dong.

"Old Yan? I'm Xiao Wang from the rest house."

"Old Yan, are you at home? Did you miss the call from the police station?"

"Aren't you home?"

"Can the old and the young go there?"

The task assigned by the leader above, which was thought to be done in one trip, is a bit troublesome now.The two people at the door were afraid that it would be difficult to explain when they went back, so they knocked on the door for a while, and then left with peace of mind.

Yan Ji tiptoed, bent over and ran into the yard.

"Shall we return to the unit?"

"This point? Back to what."

Xiao Wang took out a cigarette and handed it over: "The police station said that the little girl called the police and said that Mr. Yan didn't come back after going out the day before yesterday? There must be something serious."

"It rained so much the night before yesterday, and old man Yan is so old. I heard that he still has a gunshot wound on his body. If he slipped and fell into a puddle, he can still get up?"

"That's troublesome, once Mr. Yan leaves, the little girl in his family will do this..."

"Cold salad, send it to the orphanage. Can we raise it?"

"What about this house... I don't know..."

"...Which is our turn..."

Yan Ji clenched his fist and slammed it hard at the sandbag. "Boom", the sandbag was hit flying and then swung back, "Boom", it hit her.Yan Ji was hit several times, and the anger in his heart gradually subsided.

After eating the noodles in a daze, Yan Ji went out with his schoolbag, and met Lu Yan before entering the school gate.When Lu Yan saw her, he hurriedly glanced back, dragged Yan Ji and ran outside.

"You still dare to come? Old Ban is about to die of anger. You are too powerful. If you dare to make a big fuss at the Public Security Bureau, Old Ban says he will go to your house after work."

Yan Ji pushed him away: "Where does Yan Deng's father live?"

Lu Yan staggered before standing still, and tugged at his clothes: "I knew you wanted to ask this, so I deliberately asked Lao Ban on the sidelines. Lao Ban said that Yan Deng's parents were not in love with each other and divorced. Don't let him see Yan Deng, so he doesn't know where Yan Deng lives now. And Yan Deng's father works in the Planning Bureau."

Yan Ji was so angry that he scolded: "Big liar!"

Lu Yan said anxiously, "I didn't lie to you."

Yan Ji pushed the bicycle and left, teeth itching in his heart: Yan Deng's mother stuttered like a kindergarten child when she was not sick.People can't recognize each other when they are sick, so how can they quarrel.

Lu Yan followed behind and asked, "Where are you going? You're not going to the Planning Bureau, are you? Hello, Yan Ji."

Yan Ji turned his head and said angrily, "Don't bother me."

Lu Yan pedaled to keep up: "You don't really want to go to the Planning Bureau, do you? I went back too late yesterday, my dad and I attended class for half a day, and said that the last night was not perfect. Hey, are you really going? "

Lu Yan glanced at Yan Ji's leaving back, struggled for a while, and turned back home.

Yan Ji rushed to the Planning Bureau and was dumbfounded when he saw the crowd getting off work one after another. He hurried to the gate guard and shouted to the gate guard: "Grandpa, hello."

She is handsome, with clean eyebrows and eyes, and she is very cute when she is good-looking.The doorman responded with a smile, walked out and asked, "Girl, who are you looking for?"

"I'm looking for an uncle surnamed Yan, one day above, and Yan Yan below." Yan Ji gestured deliberately.

The doorman shook his head directly: "No, definitely not. This surname is too rare, so I will definitely remember it."

Yan Ji was dumbfounded, momentarily at a loss: "Grandpa, think again."

The old man outside the door answered decisively: "Definitely not!"

All of a sudden, Yan Ji felt weak all over, walked back to the bicycle with dragging hands and feet, touched a piece of milk and stuffed it into his mouth.The bustling stream of people around them opened and closed their mouths, but there was no sound at all.

Yan Ji walked to the gate of the cadres' rest center in a daze, and was immediately surrounded by people. Seven or eight people surrounded Yan Ji and returned home.A group of adults pass cigarettes to each other, introduce each other and say hello.

"This is Officer Wu."

"This is Director Liu of our cadre rest center."

……

"Hi, just call me Xiao Wang."

……

"You're welcome, you should."

……

Yan Ji thought they were annoying, so he grabbed the glass and threw it on the ground.

"—Bang Lang!"

The shards of glass shattered all over the floor, and all the adults were stunned. Xiao Wang tried to solve the problem for the leader, and opened his mouth with an awkward smile to smooth things over, but was choked by Yan Ji's stare.

"Are you coming to my house for a meeting?" Yan Ji put his hands in his trouser pockets and leaned against the door, "If you want to educate me, it's okay, but whoever speaks, I'll come and stay at his house tomorrow."

Yan Ji is also famous, a room full of young and old men, no one dared to speak first, you look at me, I look at you, the eyes are full of encouragement, but no one wants to add such a big girl.

Seeing that no one spoke, Yan Ji licked his tooth socket with his tongue: "Uncle, you are all very busy people, just tell me if you have anything to do, I'll listen."

Director Liu also wanted to ease the atmosphere. Police officer Xiao Wu from the Public Security Bureau didn't give him a chance to speak in an official tone, so he showed some photos to Yan Ji: "Student Yan Ji, take a look and see if this is your grandfather."

The photo is a surveillance screenshot, and the torrential rain at night made the picture extremely blurry.

Yan Jizai carefully looked at it several times, and then slumped the photos one by one on the table: "It's my grandfather, this is the gate of the prison for cadres, this is opposite the district government, this is the corner of the [-] shopping mall, this is China Resources Supermarket parking lot.”

Yan Ji is very familiar with this road, every time he goes to Yan Deng's house, he has to pass these places.

Police officer Xiao Wu listened to her words clearly and clearly, and knew that the child was not a fool.He put away the photo: "Student Yan Ji, don't be too anxious, we will definitely help you find grandpa."

Yan Ji didn't say a word.

Officer Xiao Wu asked again, "Tell me again what you did and said before Grandpa left? Is there anything different from usual?"

Yan Ji took him to the provincial capital from his grandfather to the public telephone booth in front of Yan Deng's house.

Police officer Xiao Wu put away the notebook: "Okay, I've written it all down. Yan Ji, please stay at home these few days and wait for our call, okay?"

Seeing that Yan Ji was silent, he half-coaxed and half-deceived: "What if we find Grandpa and call you, but you are not at home? You must wait for our call at home."

Yan Ji hung his head, nodded after a while, and said in a muffled voice, "There is also Yan Deng."

The first call Yan Ji received was a condolence call from the National Museum.The voice of the young woman is even and steady, which makes people want to trust it.In order to compile historical materials and anthologies, Zhang Gongyu had visited Yan Lao several times, and Yan Ji liked her very much.

The second call Yan Ji waited for was from the Xinjiang Military Region.Hearing the familiar voice, Yan Ji couldn't stop crying.

She bit her arm tightly, refusing to cry out.If it wasn't because of this fight that broke his head, he accidentally learned that they were just the children of his grandfather's comrades-in-arms, and he could happily mark the word "positive" and wait for his parents to go home to visit relatives.

But if you know it, you will never go back.

Yan Ji didn't wait for Officer Xiao Wu's call.A few days later, police officer Xiao Wu stumbled and knocked on Yan Ji's door at night, carrying a bag of dirty Wangwang gift bags in his hand.

The drunk Xiaowu policeman talked a lot, but Yan Ji only heard a few words: Missing persons...can't be found...it's hard to check...Yan Deng and Yan Qing's mother and son...study abroad...Dianjin Pharmaceutical ...

After sending away policeman Xiao Wu, Yan Ji stayed up all night.

Lu Yan felt flattered that Yan Ji would call him, and rushed to the gate of the planning bureau in the rain without thinking about it.

"Yan Deng takes her mother's surname, her father's surname is not Yan, and Lao Ban doesn't know what his surname is."

Only then did Lu Yan understand why Yan Ji asked himself "Do you still remember what Yan Deng's father looked like?".He looked up and looked left and right, those who were holding umbrellas, those who were wearing raincoats, and those who were driving.

Lu Yan licked his lips: "Are we going to sit on the sidelines?"

Yan Ji rolled his eyes at him.

Lu Yan never knew that Yan Ji could lie so well, when he said "Mom asked me to bring an umbrella to Dad", Grandpa the doorman let the two of them in easily.

The planning bureau was not big, and it was an idle yamen. The two of them searched from office to office. They ran upstairs and downstairs three times, but they didn't see the man Lu Yan had seen before.

"Could he be talking nonsense?" Lu Yan lost his confidence at the moment, "I'm sure I heard it right, it's the Planning Bureau. Huh?"

Yan Ji shook off his hand: "Don't pull me."

Lu Yan pointed to the car that had just entered the yard: "That's him."

A man with a bandage around his neck got out of the car, straightened the ribbon on the mirror, and walked towards the office building.The man is not young, but he is upright and gentle, with a pleasant smile on his face.

Lu Yan said in surprise: "He was fine before."

Yan Ji held up the umbrella, pulled Lu Yan to the gate, and passed the bandaged man.After waiting for a few seconds, Yan Ji turned his head and watched the bandaged man walk up to the second floor and enter the westernmost office.

Yan Ji patted Lu Yan: "You go home."

Lu Yan looked over his shoulder and asked in a low voice, "What about you?"

Yan Ji replied: "You don't need to worry about it."

Of course, Lu Yan refused to leave, especially Yan Ji said impatiently, "Your mother is waiting for you to eat at home", but Lu Yan heard the sarcasm, which aroused the teenage rebellious temper.

Yan Ji put down a sentence: "Whatever you want, just don't bother me."

Lu Yan fully agreed, followed Yan Ji to hide and seek, stayed until the planning bureau got off work, opened the door lock with an IC card, and entered the office.

The staff of the Planning Bureau still used an old-fashioned desk with three drawers on top, the middle was large, the sides were small, and the table legs on both sides were cabinets.Only the large center drawer was locked with a small round lock set in the wood.

"Yan Ji, which one is Yan Deng's father's table?"

"He's not Yan Deng's father." Yan Ji said angrily, "Which man would put toner on the table? And there are reading glasses and a wormwood box on the table."

Yan Ji glanced at the family portrait under the glass, squatted under the desk, and took out the Mitsubishi cone from his schoolbag.The bottom boards of the drawers are very thin, and they were punctured by Yan Ji in just one stroke.

Lu Yan asked in surprise, "What are you doing?"

Yan Ji took a look inside with a flashlight. Although only a small corner was exposed, it was clearly a hundred-yuan bill.She stuck her finger in and poked it wrong, but she didn't push it.

so much money?

Why would you keep so much money in your office drawer?

Yan Ji ignored Lu Yan's questioning, and silently stuffed the pried wooden block back into the hole: "Let's go."

"Where?"

"go home."

Lu Yan didn't believe it at all, and showed an expression that you thought I was an idiot.Yan Ji blinked his dry eyes, and told him his doubts: This man sold Yan Deng.

Lu Yan was dumbfounded, until he heard what happened to police officer Xiao Wu, and suddenly felt a sense of mission: "Then let's find it ourselves, and let's rescue Yan Deng together!"

"Okay." Yan Ji raised his hand to give him a high five.

The two made a plan and began to investigate the man who claimed to be "Yan Deng's father".Yan Ji followed and monitored around the clock, Lu Yan would take over in the morning or afternoon, and Yan Ji would go back to sleep.

The two quickly figured out the man's routine and discovered something strange at the same time.That man seemed to be investigating something too, and would sneak out in the middle of the night.

This should have been an ordinary day in the summer vacation, but it changed the fate of countless people.

Yan Ji took out a piece of milk from his pocket and put it in his mouth, and asked in a low voice, "What date is it today?"

Lu Yan thought for a while: "August 8th."