The girl cautiously glanced at Li Shaoquan and, seeing that he wasn’t looking at her, let her gaze fall and murmured sadly, "It was WeChat... the ’People Nearby’ feature."
It really was the routine of an online romance.
Li Qiao gazed deeply at the girl and then thoughtfully looked over at her brother. Judging by their clothes and appearances, their family was probably not well-to-do.
Furthermore, when they handed over their belongings at the police station, the cellphones they took out were very old and off-brand models.
If it was for money, the matter would be easier to handle, but if they really just wanted an outcome with Li Shaoquan, then...
With that thought, Li Qiao eyed Li Shaoquan, who was squatting in the corner drawing circles on the wall, and analyzed the situation before her with profound meaning in her gaze.
At this moment, two slightly older men began to panic. After exchanging glances, they shouted at the girl’s brother, "Big brother, what do we do now? We haven’t even finished moving today’s cement. You’ve got to compensate us for the lost work time."
Hearing this title, Li Shaoquan raised his head blankly and said deliberately, "Aren’t you two his big uncle and second uncle?"
"Get real, we three are just workmates from the same construction site. We just came today to back him up!"
The stunned Li Shaoquan, with hands cradling his head, said, "..." Fuck.
Elsewhere, Qiu Huan had left the police station not long ago. Sitting in the car, he pondered playfully for a moment, and then called Shang Yu.
"Boss Shang, are you busy?"
The man’s low and slightly husky voice came through, "What’s the matter?"
With an easy-going posture, Qiu Huan rested his ankle on his left knee and looked out the car window at the streaking streetscape with an unabated smile, "Can’t I contact you if there’s no issue?"
After his words, Shang Yu didn’t respond. Accompanied by the sound of a lighter, he seemed to have lit a cigarette and took slow drags.
Qiu Huan touched his thick eyebrows with vexation and straightforwardly spoke, "I saw your niece at South Sea Police Station."
"Hmm, did she go there for business?" Shang Yu asked, exhaling smoke and speaking in an even tone.
At this, Qiu Huan sneered and clicked his tongue, "That I don’t know, but I heard from the investigating officers that she seems to be suspected of kidnapping, and moreover..."
The words that Qiu Huan was about to say were abruptly cut off by the busy signal on the phone.
He was stunned for a moment, then laughed and cursed while holding the phone, thinking that he had still underestimated Boss Shang’s level of concern for that girl.
At the police station,
About fifteen minutes later, the door of the holding room opened, and Xiao Wang walked in slowly with the deputy chief.
When they stopped, the deputy chief slammed the documents onto the table, "Who is Li Qiao?"
Everyone else in the holding room instinctively looked towards the left side of the bench by the wall.
Li Shaoquan also stood up, warily watching the deputy chief who was throwing his weight around, "What are you going to do?"
The deputy chief gestured towards Li Shaoquan and said sharply, "Shut your mouth. I didn’t ask you."
The next second, he flipped open the file folder, sat in the office chair, glanced at the eye-catching girl, and was momentarily stunned. Desire quickly flickered in his eyes.
Then, he cleared his throat and imperiously requested, "Li Qiao, right? The department needs to question you. Come to the front."
As his words settled, the room fell silent.
Li Qiao didn’t move but remained seated on the bench, solid as a rock. Her dark, deer-like eyes, filled with sharp light, flicked towards him, "And you are?"
In the past six months, she had been busy with graduation from school and hadn’t kept up with the staff changes at the South Sea Police Station.
This man called himself ’the department’, had there been a change in leadership?