hotmtlnovel Chapter 940: Empathy
Chapter 940: Empathy
Chapter 940: Empathy
During the next two days of vacation, Qin Hao finished making the furniture that his neighbors wanted him to make, and then he refused other people's requests on the grounds that he had to tutor Ma Yan.
In a blink of an eye, it was time to go to work again. After the train passed a few stations, Qin Hao and Wang Xin made their usual inspection and saw a commotion in the carriage in front of them. They hurried over to check the situation and saw a middle-aged woman asking the passengers around her in a panic if they had seen her child.
"Sister, your child is missing, right?"
When the middle-aged woman saw Qin Hao and Wang Xin in police uniforms, she grabbed their sleeves as if they were saviors and said, "Comrade police, you must help me find my child. My son is missing."
"Missing? When did he disappear?" Wang Xin asked hurriedly when he heard that the child was missing.
"Just half an hour ago."
"You only started looking for the child half an hour after he was missing? Why didn't you call our flight attendants earlier?"
The middle-aged woman sobbed as she told the story.
Originally, she was preparing to go to Harbin with her child. On the way, the child clamored to go to the toilet. At that time, she thought that the toilet was so close and she was standing there watching, so there should be no problem, so she let her son Xiaotao go by himself. As a result, her son went in and didn't come out for a while, so she went to knock on the door, but the person who opened the door was an adult man. Her son Xiaotao was not in the toilet at all.
Qin Hao frowned and asked, "Are you sure you saw your son go into the toilet with your own eyes?"
The middle-aged woman wiped her tears and said, "There was a man standing in the aisle at the time, blocking the view for a bit, so I couldn't see clearly."
Wang Xin slapped his thigh and said, "It's over. Maybe someone would have dragged him away right then."
"Comrade police, I beg you, you must help me find my child. Xiao Tao is my life. How can I live without him?" The middle-aged woman burst into tears.
Qin Hao helped her up, and then said to Wang Xin in a serious tone: "Wang Xin, take her to make a statement first. Time is tight. Uncle Ma and I will go find someone. Also, tell Yao Yuling to help mobilize everyone on the radio to help look for her."
"Okay." Although Wang Xin also wanted to catch the human traffickers, he resisted the urge and took the middle-aged woman to find Yao Yuling to make a broadcast.
Soon, Qin Hao found Ma Kui, whose expression became extremely solemn when he heard it.
“Are you sure the child was abducted?”
Qin Hao nodded: "From the current point of view, it should be premeditated. I suspect that this is a gang crime. The mother and son should have been targeted a long time ago. The man who blocked the mother's view is likely a member of the gang. It's a pity that the mother didn't pay attention to the suspect's physical characteristics at the time, and the person disappeared long ago."
"So, now all we can confirm is a child of five or six years old. There are no other clues." Ma Kui said solemnly.
At this moment, Yao Yuling's voice came from the radio. Before she finished speaking, the anxious cry of a middle-aged woman also spread in the carriage.
After the broadcast was over, Qin Hao and Ma Kui looked at each other and said, "We should split up and search the carriages one by one. We must find the child even if we have to dig deep into the ground."
According to the time reported by Yao Yuling on the radio, there were only more than twenty minutes left before the next stop. Qin Hao and Ma Kui both knew that once the train arrived at the station, a large number of passengers would get off, and the hope of finding the child would be even slimmer.
Qin Hao's eyes kept scanning the carriage, and he carefully questioned every child who met the characteristics of the missing child. Unfortunately, none of them was Xiao Tao. Seeing that time was passing by, Wang Xin also came over.
"Lao Qin, the train will arrive in ten minutes."
Qin Hao was at a loss at the moment. There were too many people on the train. Even if he searched one carriage for five minutes, it would take at least an hour to roughly scan more than a dozen carriages.
At this moment, a fellow villager was about to get off the bus carrying heavy luggage, and Qin Hao suddenly came to his senses.
"Box, check the box."
Wang Xin didn't react for a moment: "What box?"
"Xiao Tao is already five or six years old. It might be okay to let him leave his mother for a short period of time. After such a long time, he will definitely want to find his mother. What is the best way for the traffickers to avoid arousing suspicion?"
"Dizzy?"
"That's right. The human traffickers must have heard Yao Yuling's broadcast just now and know that we are looking for the child. The safest way is to knock the child unconscious and stuff him into a box or bag and take him out of the station quietly."
"That analysis makes sense. That is to say, as long as we focus on checking the luggage that can hide children, we may be able to find Xiao Tao."
The two men immediately split up and headed to the front and rear of the train respectively. On the way, Qin Hao met Ma Kui again and told him his analysis. Ma Kui went to find other train attendants for help without saying a word.
Not long after, the train slowly pulled into the platform.
"Please do not leave the platform. A mother has lost her child on the train. Passengers with large luggage please wait aside for our police officers to check before leaving. Thank you for your cooperation."
Under normal circumstances, passengers would definitely not like having their luggage searched, but when they heard that someone's child was lost, most of the passengers cooperated and lined up on the platform, with only a few complaining.
Qin Hao walked up to a few passengers who were complaining and unwilling to cooperate, and without saying a word, forcibly opened their luggage for inspection.
"I ask you, comrade, what is wrong with you? What right do you have to rummage through our luggage?"
"If your child was lost, how would you feel?" Qin Hao glanced coldly at the uncooperative passenger.
At this moment, a passenger in the crowd suddenly dropped his luggage, jumped off the platform and ran away.
Wang Xin was the closest to him, so he jumped off the platform and ran after him. Ma Kui almost subconsciously wanted to chase him as well, but before he could jump off the platform, Wang Xin and the man had already crossed the tracks and disappeared.
At this time, someone shouted: "This person must be a human trafficker, can we leave now?"
Immediately, a passenger echoed: "Yes, this person has been exposed, why are they still detaining us?"
Qin Hao walked up to Ma Kui and whispered, "Uncle Ma, something is wrong."
Ma Kui nodded with a gloomy face, and then the two of them came to the wooden box that the man had dropped. When they opened it, they found a pile of miscellaneous items, and there was no sign of Xiao Tao at all.
At this moment, Cai Xiaonian came over to remind him: "Lao Qin, Uncle Ma will start driving in ten minutes."
Qin Hao walked up to the people who had just started the commotion and said, "Open it."
"Comrade police, that person has already escaped. Why are you still bothering us?"
"That's right. If you have the ability, go catch the human traffickers. Why bother competing with us?"
Qin Hao ignored the two people's words and directly opened their suitcases. The next moment, the passengers around him exclaimed.
I saw a child of five or six years old curled up in a box woven with vines.
"Run, run again."
The two human traffickers wanted to escape, but Qin Hao and Ma Kui grabbed their wrists one by one, causing them to kneel and roll on the ground in pain. This time Qin Hao really wanted to kill them. If it hadn't been in front of so many people, he would have wanted to twist the heads of the two human traffickers off.
"Comrade police, this is a misunderstanding. I don't know why there is a child in the box."
Qin Hao handcuffed him directly and said, "Keep making up stories. Can a child grow out of this box of yours?"
The human trafficker caught by Ma Kui also cried out in injustice: "Comrade police, this is none of my business. The child is in his box, not in mine. Why are you arresting me?"
The other human trafficker got angry when he heard this: "Bah, you knocked Wang Laonian unconscious and stuffed him into the box, and then asked me to bring him out. Now you're putting all the blame on me. Are you still a human being?"
"Behave yourself, you will be held responsible later."
Qin Hao and Ma Kui discussed and decided to interrogate them separately. Just as the two of them escorted the human trafficker back to the carriage, a burst of warm applause broke out in the carriage.
Soon Xiao Tao's mother came over, hugged her child and burst into tears, and kept kowtowed to Qin Hao and Ma Kui.
"Sister-in-law, you scared the child like this. If you have anything to say, please get up and tell me." Qin Hao helped the middle-aged woman up.
The middle-aged woman held her lost and found son in her arms, tears streaming down her face. She couldn't bear to imagine what her future would be like if her child hadn't been found.
At first, it seemed that the drug had not completely worn off, and Xiao Tao looked around in a daze. After a while, he came to his senses and recounted the process of how he was abducted by human traffickers.
Combined with the confession of the traffickers, it basically means that the traffickers had already targeted the mother and child at the station, but the middle-aged woman was more vigilant at the time and never let the child out of her sight. They waited until they got on the train before finding the opportunity to take action.
The man who blocked the middle-aged woman's sight before was the human trafficker who suddenly jumped off the platform just now. He was responsible for covering the team, and the other two men were responsible for taking action. According to the two human traffickers, they had an accomplice, a middle-aged woman, who did not come this time because of something at home.
When Qin Hao finished taking notes and gave the trafficker his signature, he suddenly slapped his forehead and said, "Oh no! Wang Xin hasn't gotten in the car yet."
At the same time, Wang Xin finally caught the human trafficker. When he brought the trafficker back, he found that the train had disappeared.
A day later, when the train returned, Qin Hao met Wang Xin at the Ningyang Station Railway Police Station.
"How can you be such a good friend? I worked so hard to catch the thief, but when I came back, you all ran away. You didn't even notice that I was a big man and didn't get on the car."
Facing Wang Xin's long complaints, Qin Hao touched his nose awkwardly and explained, "It's not something I can control when the train leaves. Besides, considering the situation at the time, we were anxious to interrogate the two traffickers to see if there were any other children who needed to be rescued."
"Then you could at least have someone leave me a message. My wallet was still in the flight attendant's room at the time. If it weren't for the help from my comrades in Haihe, I would have almost had to beg on the street." Wang Xin became angrier the more he thought about it.
Qin Hao could only smile and say, "How about this, when we get home later, I'll treat you to a drink and cook a few hard dishes for you myself."
"How many?"
"Three ways."
"not enough."
"Then add one more dish. Four dishes are not enough for you? Don't push your luck."
“All of them have to be solid dishes.”
"Okay, they are all hard dishes."
"That's pretty much it."
The two of them entered the conference room laughing and joking, and as soon as they entered the room, there was applause. Wang Xin had never enjoyed such treatment before, and he straightened his chest unconsciously. If it weren't for the earth's gravity, he would have floated into the sky long ago.
After the applause stopped, Captain Hu cleared his throat and said, "Ahem, comrades, our Ningyang Station has made an appearance again. Ma Kui, Qin Hao, and Wang Xin encountered a gang of human traffickers kidnapping a child on the train. They remained calm and collected, and finally captured the three traffickers on the spot in less than an hour, and successfully rescued the child. The child's mother wrote a thank-you letter to us, and the child's family also sent us a silk banner."
"Lao Ma, you are their master, please say a few words."
Ma Kui waved his hands repeatedly: "What's there to say? It's only natural for the police to catch thieves."
Captain Hu said seriously: "Tell us about your ideas for solving the case, so that the rest of our comrades can learn from you."
"I really don't have much to say about this idea of solving the case. The reason why this case was solved so quickly was entirely due to Xiao Qin. He thought that the traffickers might use large luggage to transport children."
Seeing this, Captain Hu had no choice but to let Qin Hao speak.
Qin Hao then explained his ideas for solving the case.
"To sum it up, it can be summed up in one sentence. If I were a human trafficker, what would I do to avoid the police search under such circumstances?"
Captain Hu led the applause: "Comrade Xiao Qin's summary is very good. How about this, Xiao Qin, you can work hard to combine this idea of solving the case with the two gang cases that were recently solved, and write a report for me. I will take it to the superiors and see if it can be promoted in the area."
For a moment, everyone in the conference room except Lao Ma looked at Qin Hao with envy. District promotion is not just an honor, it may also attract the attention of superiors, and if done well, it may lead to rapid promotion.
However, no one was jealous, because after all, the case was solved by Qin Hao himself, and the atmosphere between the police and the army was somewhat similar. As long as you have real skills, everyone will respect you.
After coming out of the police station, Qin Hao and Wang Xingang returned to the railway compound, and Aunt Cai, Aunt Wu and others started gossiping.
"Xiao Qin, I heard that you are going to be promoted. Is that true?"
"I heard that you busted a human trafficker gang. Well done. The sentence for these damn traffickers is too light. If they are caught, they will be sentenced to death. I wonder who would dare to make this dirty money again."
Everyone was talking at once, and Qin Hao couldn't help but sigh that there really were no secrets at all in this acquaintance society.
In the crowd, Yao Yuling's eyes were always fixed on Qin Hao. She had always had a good impression of Qin Hao, and there was a possibility that Qin Hao would be promoted soon.
But at this moment, a girl with a ponytail walked up to Qin Hao.
"Lao Qin, my dad asked you to come to his house for dinner."
Yao Yuling's face turned gloomy in an instant.
(End of this chapter)