That evening, when Lu Bochuan returned, Shu Qingqing immediately told him what had happened in the afternoon and Wen Xin's suspicions.
Lu Bochuan's face darkened, "Mom's guess might make sense. I'll immediately have someone check the mall's surveillance cameras and find these two people."
After locating the pair, Lu Bochuan immediately looked into their backgrounds. He found they had no criminal records, but he still arranged for someone to keep an eye on them.
Xiao Zhao, who was in charge of monitoring them, reported their daily activities and the people they met every day.
This afternoon, when Shu Qingqing opened the photos sent by Xiao Zhao, she was suddenly stunned. Why was Wang Yafang in them?
But upon closer inspection, it seemed Wang Yafang was just passing by and didn't interact with the two.
Perhaps it was just a coincidence?
Shu Qingqing suppressed this thought.
Two days later, the subordinate monitoring the two suddenly reported that they had used the same tactics to harass a parent at the mall, attempting to take away a child in the confusion.
However, this parent was also very vigilant and did not let them succeed.
Upon hearing this, Wen Xin's heart immediately tightened, "Then call the police quickly. We can't let them harm any more children."
Shu Qingqing immediately called the police, recounting Lu Xun's experience that day and what Xiao Zhao had observed.
The police took the matter very seriously and quickly dispatched plainclothes officers to tail the two.
Two days later, as the two were preparing to commit the same crime again, the police caught them red-handed.
When first brought in, the two refused to admit their crimes. However, it didn't take long for the police to find fingerprints left by a suspect in a child trafficking case in the south a few years ago through their networked system.
After comparison, it turned out to be the fingerprints of the woman named Liu Wenjing among the two.
Now Liu Wenjing dared not argue anymore and immediately confessed to her crimes.
The police managed to pry information about three child trafficking incidents out of them.
Liu Wenjing knew she couldn't escape this time. For what she had done, she would be sentenced to at least ten years. She didn't want to spend that long in a dark prison.
Just as the police were about to have her taken away, she suddenly asked, "Can I make up for my crimes with good deeds?"
Captain Zhang, who was in charge of the case, sat back down, "Tell me what you have first."
Liu Wenjing, "It was just last week. A woman contacted me and asked me to help her abduct a child named Lu Xun, saying she would give me one million once it was done. But the child's parent was quite vigilant, so we failed at the time."
Captain Zhang was astonished. So Mrs. Lu, who reported the case, didn't guess wrong; someone really wanted to abduct her child?
He immediately asked, "What's the woman's name? What does she look like?"
Liu Wenjing shook her head, "I don't know her name, and I've only seen her once. She was wearing a mask, so I didn't see her clearly. Officer, if you catch this woman, does that count as me making a meritorious contribution? How many years can be reduced?"
Captain Zhang said, "We have to catch this person first."
Liu Wenjing gritted her teeth, "My brother knows that person!"
Captain Zhang told her to continue.
Liu Wenjing, "I used to be a good person too, always farming honestly at home. It was my cousin who dragged me into this business. More than twenty years ago, my cousin abducted a child at the train station, and it was also this woman who hired him to do it. My cousin is... Liu Wenwu. He was arrested by you guys eight years ago. If you go find him, you might be able to get this woman's name."
Captain Zhang certainly knew of Liu Wenwu. More than twenty years ago, criminal investigation technology was not yet advanced. Liu Wenwu had abducted a total of eleven children and wasn't caught until eight years ago.
He immediately applied to interrogate Liu Wenwu.
Liu Wenwu initially denied it, as an additional trafficking incident would mean an extra layer of punishment for him. But when the police told him that his cousin had identified him, Liu Wenwu knew he couldn't argue his way out of it and had to confess.
He recalled for a moment before saying, "That was the second child I abducted. She was a girl, and very pretty. I originally wanted to sell her abroad so I could get a high price, but she later fell ill and looked like she wasn't going to make it. Afraid she would drag me down, I dumped her at the entrance of an orphanage."
Captain Zhang asked again, "Your cousin said someone else asked you to abduct this girl?"
Liu Wenwu nodded, "It was almost the Lunar New Year then, and I was worrying about having no money. A woman approached me on her own. She gave me a hundred thousand and told me to go to the train station to abduct a child. It was my first time encountering someone paying for an abduction. So I agreed. That woman told me that the nanny looking after the child would intentionally lose her, and all I needed to do was take the child away quickly. So that time went particularly smoothly."
Captain Zhang then asked for the person's appearance and name.
Liu Wenwu shook his head, "You can imagine, she wouldn't tell me her name. Plus, we only met twice, and she was tightly bundled up both times."
Captain Zhang, "Then... what about the nanny? Did you see her?"
Liu Wenwu still shook his head, "I only know what the child looked like."
Captain Zhang asked a few more questions but couldn't get any more useful information, so he could only have someone take Liu Wenwu back for now.
After leaving the interrogation room, he immediately told Shu Qingqing about this matter.
When Shu Qingqing heard about Liu Wenwu abducting a child over twenty years ago, she was stunned. The Spring Festival, the train station, the nanny, being abandoned at the orphanage entrance—how could this be so similar to the original host's experience?
After returning, she kept thinking about this.
If the child Liu Wenwu abducted was the original host, that meant the person who ordered the abduction of the original host and Lu Xun was the same person.
As soon as Shu Qingqing arrived home, Wen Xin and Shu Jingcheng came over to greet her, "How is it, Nannan? Did those two admit to the abduction?"
Shu Qingqing nodded, then asked, "Mom, Dad, I remember you telling me before that when I was lost, it was at the train station, and you were planning to take me back to our hometown for the New Year, right?"
Wen Xin and Shu Jingcheng nodded at the same time.
Shu Qingqing's expression grew a bit more solemn as she relayed what Captain Zhang had just interrogated out of Liu Wenwu, "Mom, Dad, I reasonably suspect that the child Liu Wenwu abducted back then was me."
Wen Xin and Shu Jingcheng's faces also turned grim.
Yes, the child Liu Wenwu described matched the exact time and place of Shu Qingqing's disappearance back then.
Moreover, there was also the nanny.
Shu Jingcheng clenched his fists, "That Liu Wenwu said the nanny lost the child on purpose?"
Shu Qingqing nodded.
Shu Jingcheng said to Wen Xin, "I'll immediately have someone look for our family's nanny from back then. Whether it's her or not, we have to ask to have peace of mind."
Wen Xin and Shu Qingqing were both very supportive, and they also told Lu Bochuan about the matter. That very night, Lu Bochuan's men set out to find the person.
