Reborn as the Villain's Wife, I Shine in 80s-Chapter 576 - 560 clues, searching for child, losing temper
The soft and tender "Where is my little brother?" left no one present unmoved.
Tian Sangsang’s heart throbbed with sharp pain as she clung to Meng Shuyan, crying to the point of exhaustion.
Xu Zhengyang, who had come back with Tian Sangsang to investigate the situation, brought along two other officers and began the investigation. Upon hearing Xu Zhengyang’s words, everyone was horrified. "It was traffickers!"
Damn the human traffickers!
They’d only heard of traffickers snatching children in crowded places, but breaking into a home to steal a child? Unheard of! Clearly, they had targeted Tian Sangsang, seeing that she was a single woman with two children and no man in the household. To behave so brazenly in their own neighborhood—how could this not enrage them!
The crowd started muttering among themselves.
"A man in a black suit?"
One person stepped forward and said, "I remember now, I saw someone like that on the street this morning."
Xu Zhengyang’s sharp gaze fixed on her. "Can you describe his appearance?"
The person shook her head. "I didn’t see him clearly, but I did see him talking to Jin Zhi from Tian’s shop on the street."
Xu Zhengyang: "Jin Zhi?"
Tian Sangsang abruptly stood up, her voice trembling. "Jin Zhi?"
"Yes!" the person said. "Jin Zhi was dragging a suitcase and talked with the man in the suit for quite some time. I looked over a few times because it was Jin Zhi. I thought it was strange—wasn’t Jin Zhi your shop’s employee? Why isn’t she working there anymore?"
It seemed this wasn’t just a simple case of traffickers.
Xu Zhengyang seized on the crucial detail. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚
Tian Sangsang took the initiative to say to Xu Zhengyang, "Jin Zhi was indeed my employee, but I fired her this morning for making mistakes. Since that’s the case, we definitely need to go find Jin Zhi!"
Her fists clenched tightly, her eyes turning icy cold.
It better not be Jin Zhi. If it was, this time she wouldn’t hold back.
"Mrs. Jiang, don’t panic just yet."
Xu Zhengyang said, "Could it be that, because you fired her, she harbored resentment and found someone to abduct your child? If that’s the case, we can rule out traffickers as the culprit."
Let’s hope it’s not traffickers!
Personal revenge could still be mediated, but traffickers were much harder to deal with.
Xu Zhengyang had apprehended traffickers in the past, earning recognition for his bravery. Those people lacked any humanity; in their eyes, human beings weren’t people but mere commodities.
They only cared about exchanging commodities for money—it was that simple!
A child so young falling into the hands of traffickers would surely suffer.
As a police officer, he deeply understood that human trafficking existed everywhere. But for something so open like this to happen was rare, especially considering Mrs. Jiang’s complicated background.
The two officers went to retrieve the car.
Tian Sangsang was determined to go with Xu Zhengyang to find Jin Zhi, but the problem was what to do with Meng Shuyan.
"Mom." Meng Shuyan tugged on her sleeve, his big eyes brimming with unwavering determination. "I want to go find my little brother too." His brother had gone missing right under his watch; he had to bring him back.
"Okay." Tian Sangsang gently touched his small head and picked up his tiny body. She would take him along, then.
After locking the shop door and just as they were about to get into the car, Ye Binyi came rushing over out of curiosity.
Her face was pale. "What’s going on? Why are the police here?"
Seeing her eldest grandson’s head wrapped in a white bandage, she immediately cried out in distress, "Oh, Yanyan, let Grandma take a look—did you hurt your head?"
Meng Shuyan said, "Grandma, my brother was taken away."
Ye Binyi staggered, her figure swaying.
Tian Sangsang didn’t have time to explain. She gravely handed Meng Shuyan over to her. "Please watch over Yanyan. Captain Xu and I are going to find Tang Yuan’er." With someone to take care of him, she wouldn’t bring her son along. One child was missing, and the other had to be kept safe.
She quickly kissed her son’s little face, looking at him tenderly. "Mommy’s going to find your brother. Stay with Grandma." With that, she got into the car with Xu Zhengyang and sped away.
Ye Binyi was heartbroken. "Yanyan, tell Grandma, what happened?"
Meng Shuyan bowed his head in guilt and said softly, "Today, while I was holding my brother in the shop, a bad man took him away. Mom chased after him but couldn’t catch up."
After hearing this, Ye Binyi clutched her chest, lamenting repeatedly, "I’ve been telling her to move back home, move back home. But she insisted on living alone. Now she’s lost one son!" She picked up Meng Shuyan and planned to return to the Jiang Family to discuss their next steps.
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Tian Sangsang knew Jin Zhi’s home address not just because Zhao Chun had mentioned it before but also because Jin Zhi had written it on her resume. The atmosphere in the car was heavy with silence; no one spoke first.
Xu Zhengyang didn’t know how to comfort this woman who had recently lost her husband and now had a missing son.
She didn’t wail or cry loudly; she just sat quietly. But that didn’t mean she wasn’t grieving.
Indeed, Tian Sangsang was holding it all in.
Her heartstrings were stretched to their limit, waiting for the final outcome. If that outcome didn’t arrive, those strings would snap.
The car stopped at the village entrance, drawing the attention of many villagers due to it being a police vehicle.
Tian Sangsang and Xu Zhengyang headed straight for Jin Zhi’s home.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!" Knocks on the door.
The door opened quickly, and Jin Zhi’s father froze for a moment.
"Is this Jin Zhi’s house?" Xu Zhengyang showed his badge. "I’m a police officer and would like to speak with Jin Zhi."
"Who is it, Dad?" Jin Zhi was walking toward the door, and when she saw the police and Tian Sangsang, she instinctively flinched.
Jin Yu crossed her arms and watched.
"Sorry to intrude," Xu Zhengyang said as he stepped past Jin Zhi’s father and entered the house.
Tian Sangsang followed him in.
"Are you Jin Zhi?" Xu Zhengyang eyed her carefully.
A crowd had gathered outside, with two officers standing guard. Unaccustomed to such a scene, Jin Zhi grew even more flustered when she saw Tian Sangsang. Stammering, she replied, "I—I am."
Hmm, her evasive eyes made her look very suspicious.
"Here’s the situation: this Mrs. Jiang’s son is missing, and someone saw—"
Xu Zhengyang hadn’t finished when Tian Sangsang cut straight to the point, pressing her. "Where’s my son?"
Sure enough. Jin Zhi shrank back and shook her head timidly. "I don’t know."
"You don’t know?" Tian Sangsang let out a cold laugh, her fury rising as she raised her hand and slapped her hard. "Tell me!"
The slap left Jin Zhi’s cheek red.
Jin Zhi’s mother stepped forward, frowning. "Why are you hitting my daughter..." But she froze under Tian Sangsang’s icy glare and turned to Xu Zhengyang for help. "Officer, look at this—why is she hitting my daughter? You’re police; you have to do something about this. My daughter can’t be hit for no reason."
Since it wasn’t yet confirmed whether Jin Zhi was the culprit, hitting her was indeed inappropriate. However, Tian Sangsang wasn’t affiliated with the police station, so it wasn’t Xu Zhengyang’s place to intervene.
Jin Zhi looked up in disbelief at Tian Sangsang, stubbornly clenching her teeth. "I don’t know. Boss, I’m no longer your employee—you have no right to treat me like this!"
