Hou family.
After listening to his son's story, Hou's father sat upright in his chair, smoking and cursing: "You son of a bitch, you can't even support yourself, and you bring a child back home."
"She was so pitiful. When I saw her, the soles of her shoes were leaking." Hou Guoyu wiped the rain from his head and said, "I wanted to put her in the relief agency, but she had a serious fever and I thought the staff there was irresponsible, so I brought her home."
Father Hou put out his cigarette butt, and without saying much, he stood up, put his hands behind his back, walked to the little girl and touched her head: "It's useless to take medicine. Let's call someone to stay at home and give her an injection, otherwise the child will be easily burned."
"I have no money, Dad." Hou Guoyu replied with a grin.
The father glanced at this worried guy and scolded him impatiently: "Go away, go back to your room and go to sleep!"
"Then you take care of her. When the rain stops, I'll take her to the police station." Hou Guoyu was really sleepy. He said this and went back to the room to sleep.
Mr. Hou was a man with a bad temper and bad words, but he was very careful in his work. He walked to the sofa, picked up his mobile phone, fiddled with it for a long time, and dialed a number: "Hello, is this Jiayuan Jingdian? Yes, I'm Mr. Hou. Please come to my house and bring some antipyretic medicine. It's for the child. She caught a cold after being caught in the rain..."
After finishing the call, Hou's father silently walked to the kitchen and quickly made a bowl of ginger soup for the little girl.
…
Three hours later, in the office hall of the Coast Guard Task Force.
Su Tianyu sat in a chair, drinking coffee to refresh himself: "How is it, Captain?"
Fang Zheng walked over and replied softly, "Your feeling is right. There is indeed something wrong with Tianlan Company. All the managers of the company have fled. We have interrogated all those who have been arrested so far, and it can be basically confirmed that they are all small fry."
"Don't these people know where the upper echelons have gone?" Su Tianyu asked.
"I don't know." Fang Zheng picked up the cigarette box and lit a cigarette. After thinking for a long time, he said, "Xiao Su, look, this case is very strange. The gunfight happened last night, but the legal representative of Tianlan Company and some small leaders did not run away. Instead, they waited for us at the scene and cooperated with us to give confessions. But after a whole morning, none of these people can be found. Why do you think this is?"
"Because maybe some things were not dealt with cleanly last night, and they need time?" Su Tianyu raised his eyebrows and replied.
"Yes, that should be the reason." Fang Zheng immediately stood up and ordered, "Xiao Su, take someone to check the legal representative and investor information of Tianlan Company. Hurry, now!"
"Okay!" After receiving the order, Su Tianyu immediately took his men away.
This afternoon, Su Tianyu was tracking the Tianlan Company line, but the information obtained by the Coast Guard was rather scattered. In addition, the logic of the case was very strange, so the task force was almost racing against time during the investigation.
…
In the evening, around 6:40, the heavy rain had stopped, but it was still cloudy outside and a cool breeze was blowing.
Father Hou was sitting in his living room, watching the news.
At this moment, the little girl lying in the room pushed the door open with difficulty, and walked out barefoot wearing dirty clothes.
Her eyes were clear, but her expression was obviously a little timid.
"You're awake!" Hou's father stood up with a smile and walked over.
The little girl instinctively dodged two steps back, blinking her big eyes at Hou's father.
Father Hou walked over slowly, put one hand behind his back, and smiled, "Look how dirty you are."
After saying that, Father Hou pinched the little girl's face.
The little girl seemed to sense that the other party had no ill intentions, so this time she did not dodge but just stood there quietly.
Father Hou touched the little girl's forehead and felt that her fever had obviously subsided a lot: "Haha, children recover quickly. The fever will go away after a good sleep."
The little girl lowered her head, looked at her dirty little feet, and her stomach growled.
"Hahaha, are you hungry?" The old man smiled happily, stretched out his hand and took her to the bathroom door: "Go in and wash yourself, I'll take you downstairs to eat something."
The little girl seemed not to understand and made a few gestures with her hands.
The old man opened the bathroom door, pointed at the sink and said, "Go wash up."
This time the little girl understood and walked into the bathroom timidly.
…
Fifteen minutes later.
The little girl, wearing the baggy clothes that Hou Guoyu wore when he was in his teens and slippers that didn't fit her feet, went downstairs with the old man.
Hou's father's wife passed away many years ago, so the family has always been lived by the father and son. In addition, Hou Guoyu was not very obedient in the past few years. When he was in the army, he joined the navy without telling him and was away for more than three years.
During this period, Hou's father was alone at home, eating alone, and thinking about his son alone. It can be said that his life in his later years was very lonely.
On the street, Hou's father led the little girl to a snack shop. On the way, they saw a children's products store. He stopped for a while and said simply, "Let's go and buy some!"
In the bright children's products store, Hou's father was secretly shocked when he saw the not-so-cheap children's clothes. After hesitating for a long time, he bought a discounted dress and a pair of white sandals for the little girl based on his own conditions.
The little girl was very resistant at first and refused to wear it, but as soon as Hou's father squatted down and looked at her with a smile, she calmed down again.
After shopping for about half an hour, the old man led the children out of the store and rushed to the snack street.
The sun sets in the west and the sky is filled with colorful clouds.
The little girl was wearing new clothes and holding a colorful windmill given for free by the children's store in her right hand. She showed a rare happy expression.
In a nearby community pharmacy, Hou Guoyu, who had woken up at six o'clock, sat on a chair and played with his phone and shouted, "You haven't picked up the medicine yet?!"
"Coming, coming!" the clerk walked in.
There were endless streams of pedestrians on the streets after the rain. Two Eastern Europeans were patrolling this dilapidated neighborhood with a set of surveillance photos.
After walking back and forth for a while, the two Eastern Europeans gradually approached the Hou family.
"This way!" At the intersection, Mr. Hou pulled the little girl and prepared to cross the road.
The Eastern European man was walking towards them from the opposite direction and when he lowered his head he saw the windmill and the little girl.
The two groups of people crossed each other. The strong Eastern European man on the left smiled and said directly while holding the headset: "I found the goods."
"Who's there?"
"There was only one old man. I didn't see the young man."
"Take the goods and leave."
“Okay, boss!”
After receiving the order, the two Eastern Europeans turned around abruptly.
“Swish!”
Just then, the street lights on the sidewalk turned red, and cars on both sides of the street started moving.
When Mr. Hou was leading his child forward, he suddenly felt someone patting his right shoulder.