Shhh, the night is coming

Chapter 129 The Strange Child

A burst of rapid cell phone ringing woke Xu Ran from his sleep, he rubbed his sleepy eyes and glanced out the window, it was not yet dawn.

The phone was still ringing rapidly, Xu Ran stopped suddenly, and immediately picked up the phone from the bedside table, Wen Lan's name was displayed on the screen, and it was beating flickeringly.

Xu Ran quickly sat up and connected the phone, "What's wrong?"

"I was on duty last night. I fell asleep in the middle of the night. I vaguely heard a child crying. I got up to check and found a little boy squatting at the entrance of the lobby of the police station. I comforted him for a long time before he was willing to go with me. into the hall, but would not say anything."

"That's why you called me so early?"

"No, I really can't handle this kid, he won't say anything, even if I want to send him home, I don't know where to send him!"

"When I go to work, parents will naturally come to find them. Nowadays, parents of bear children can't beat or scold them. They know how to call the police to scare their parents at a young age. It's okay, just wait for his parents."

Xu Ran was about to hang up the phone when he heard the angry voice of the little boy's grandmother from the receiver, "I am not a bear, you are the bear's parents, you are all bears' parents!"

"Hey kid, how can you snatch my phone? Give it back to uncle, or uncle will be angry. It's no fun for police uncle to be angry!"

Wen Lan's voice was vaguely heard through the receiver, as if his mobile phone had been snatched by a little boy, Xu Ran was startled for a moment, then laughed again.

He glanced at the time on his phone, and then out of the window. The sky had gradually brightened, and it seemed that he would not be able to continue sleeping today.

Xu Ran didn't care about the quarrel between Wen Lan and the little boy on the other end of the phone, and hung up the phone directly, got up and went to the bathroom to take a shower. After coming out of the bathroom, Xu Ran immediately became much more energetic.

Putting on his favorite white shirt and black trousers as usual, tidying up his hairstyle a little bit, looking at himself in the mirror, he remembered the message Yao Yao sent him last night.

Sighing to himself: "Always thinking about how to push me away, if this continues, I'll be old."

Standing blankly in front of the mirror for a moment, looking at a pair of swollen eyes, he seemed to smile helplessly, but his heart was instantly filled with sweetness.

When Xu Ran arrived at the police station, the two men, one big and one small, were still chasing each other and practicing Tai Chi. Xu Ran was stunned at the door, thinking that the child was really strange, he hung up the phone, why didn't he want to return it? Wen Lan.

"Still grabbing the phone?"

He swaggered up to the two of them, dragged a chair and sat down, put his right leg on top of his left, put his arms on the back of the chair behind him, and looked at the little boy carelessly.

The little boy also looked at him, and suddenly became timid, "You, that is, called me a brat, uncle?"

"Yes," Xu Ran put back the arms crossed on the back of the chair, put his hands on his knees and looked at him with some seriousness.

"I have something to tell you. I will return the phone to this uncle. Can you listen to me?"

Still timid, the little boy approached Xu Ran step by step, and put Wen Lan's cell phone on Xu Ran's table.

"What do you want to say to me?"

Xu Ran suddenly noticed that the little boy's eyes were flustered, with a trace of red blood in them, and his tone became softer immediately, "Did you get angry with your parents last night and ran out?"

"Yes, I hate them."

"So you ran out and stayed at the gate of the police station all night? It's dangerous. Do you know that your parents will also worry about you? Tell me where your home is, and uncle will take you home, okay?"

"I don't want to go home, so they won't worry about me. They only love money, not me."

The little boy held back for a long time, his face turned red, and finally he said this sentence that had been held in his heart for two days.Xu Ran immediately felt that something was wrong, and squatted down gently, keeping the same height as the little boy.

He took his hand, stroked it twice and said, "What's your name, how old are you?"

The little boy suddenly withdrew the hand held by Xu Ran, took two steps back in fear, lowered his head and began to say nothing again.

"He's like this. He keeps silent when he asks his name and age." Xu Ran looked up at Wen Lan in doubt. Wen Lan was very helpless and sighed helplessly.

Xu Ran moved two steps towards the little boy, and once again reached out to grab his hand, but this time the little boy quickly dodged it.

Xu Ran was very puzzled by the little boy's behavior. When he showed a serious attitude towards him, he was not afraid, and even resisted and grabbed the phone.Treat him a little warmer, but instead he repelled it, looking very frightened.

So Xu Ran chose to follow the little boy's 'preferences' to ask questions, and immediately stood up quietly, looked down at the little boy and said, "Hurry up, if you don't tell me, I won't talk to you."

After finishing speaking, Xu Ran turned around, sat back on the chair she was sitting on just now, and continued to raise her legs and look at him seriously.

"This is the police station. The uncles are all policemen. If you encounter difficulties or dangers, the police uncles will naturally help you. If you come to the police station to make trouble because you are a child, the police uncles have the right to arrest you and put you in jail. "

The little boy froze for a moment, then walked up to Xu Ran timidly again, and said, "Uncle policeman, everyone in the police station must be uncle policemen, right?"

The little boy's question made Xu Ran's scalp tingle suddenly. He put down his crossed legs, and instinctively wanted to hold the little boy's hand to comfort him.Suddenly remembered the little boy's reaction just now, and gave up again.

He leaned his chair back to the table and said to the little boy, "Sit on the opposite side of my table and talk."

The little boy glanced at Xu Ran's serious face, then obediently walked to the table and sat down, "Uncle, the police uncles are all good people, right?"

Facing the two questions raised by the boy who looked only seven or eight years old in front of him, Xu Ran didn't know how to answer them.

Paused for a moment, said: "Of course, you can trust me, can you tell me your name now?"

The little boy smiled, since he walked into the police station in the middle of the night until now, this is the only time he has smiled. Before that, he was either very timid or mischievous.

A child's smile is really beautiful and bright, as long as he smiles, there is no falsehood, it is a genuine smile from the heart, a joy from the heart.

"Uncle Policeman, my name is Qi Jiaqi, I am seven years old..."

The little boy smiled and said his name and age. He seemed to want to say something more after he finished speaking, but he kept opening and closing his mouth and couldn’t say anything. Then his eyes became red, and he opened and closed his mouth desperately, but he couldn’t say anything. come out.

Suddenly he began to breathe rapidly, his face gradually turned pale, Qi Jiaqi suddenly covered his mouth with his hands, big drops of tears dripped down the corners of his eyes onto his hands, his eyes were full of fear.

Xu Ran was shocked, and Wen Lan was also stunned.

(End of this chapter)