Chapter 59 A Lesson
Gu Nanxing hung up the phone and went into the dilapidated warehouse again in stealth.

The people detained here are all workers who have been deceived. There is a special office inside for making phone calls. One person is brought in and tortured every ten minutes. First, they find out the family situation of the person, and then ask them to call their family or friends for help and money to redeem them.

The wealth of a wealthy family is over a million, while the minimum for a poor family is one hundred thousand.

Can you release him as long as you pay a ransom?

Whether this is true remains to be verified.

At the moment, all Gu Nanxing saw were thugs whipping people with whips, and cutting fingers was just to scare people. No one imprisoned inside was injured.

Gu Nanxing looked around but couldn't find her father. A six-man team was patrolling to another warehouse ahead, so she followed them.

The people locked up in the container here were all ordinary people with ragged clothes and dark skin. The back of the man squatting in the corner looked familiar. Gu Nanxing leaned forward and tilted his head to look. Isn't this his reckless father?

The familiar smell of medicine lingered at the tip of his nose. Gu Wenlin took a deep breath. It was very familiar.

I have been following my father around since I was little, picking herbs. He has a very sensitive nose, but he can’t do anything else. The tears I had been holding back started to flow again. Dad, I miss you so much.
When Jiao Zuoshu heard Wenlin start crying again, he silently shook his head and closed his eyes to pretend to be asleep. He could no longer persuade her.

Well, as long as you are okay.

Gu Nanxing wanted to teach his father a lesson. During the Chinese New Year when he went home, he was yelling and shouting at home, and went out to play cards and have fun with a group of young people during the day. He was in his thirties and almost forty and still doing nothing. He was unstable and couldn't calm down to learn a skill to take care of the elderly. How could he work for the rest of his life?

She had about 800 yuan in her New Year's red envelopes and her savings from selling herbs. It would be a waste of money to stay in a hotel. She might as well find a corner and stay comfortably in the space.

She came out of the warehouse, walked through the woods and came to the urban area, and then she slipped into the space.

The sky was turning pale as Gu Nanxing left the space and headed towards the downtown area. The three-wheeled stalls were selling breakfast, rice rolls, pig-killing rice noodles, buns, fried dough sticks and soy milk.

Gu Nanxing entered a clean little shop and ordered rice rolls and soy milk. Since it was a rare trip to Lingnan, of course he had to try the local specialties.

After breakfast, she went to the city to find out what was going on. Every time she passed by a park or at an intersection, she was questioned by police officers if she had seen the person in the portrait.

She glanced at the portrait from a distance and it was indeed her father. It seemed that the police had been called back home and had even contacted the local police.

Gu Nanxing pulled up a large scarf to cover her mouth and nose, and walked straight over there pretending to pass by.

"Little girl, have you seen this person?" A female police officer in a dark blue uniform called out to her.

The person in the portrait was none other than his father. Gu Nanxing was shocked. "I've seen him before. He was in Mayong Village. Yesterday, I went back to the countryside to visit my grandmother. I saw a van parked on the road. The man leaning on the passenger window to look at the scenery looked exactly like the one in the portrait."

"When I passed by, the man whistled at me. It was so annoying." Her face turned red as she said this.

Hearing that someone had seen her, all the police officers gathered around and asked, "Little girl, have you really seen her?"

"Of course it's true, believe it or not." Gu Nanxing pushed through the crowd and slipped away.

Before leaving, she always felt like she had forgotten something.

No matter what, she will tell the police her whereabouts and see if they have the ability to catch the bad guys at once. If they can't, she will take action.

The investigation team was just hoping for a needle in a haystack in the crowd, but they didn't expect that someone had actually seen it. The female police officer took out her pager and reported to her superiors that the person had appeared in Mayong Village.

With the clues, the police sent people to Mayong to investigate house by house, but the results were not satisfactory.

The people who went to Mayong came back after a day of running and cursed the Xiangshan Park investigation team without saying a word.

The captain pointed at the female police officer and spitted, "You believe what a little girl says, and you, an adult, can't even tell the difference between good and bad words!"

"That's right, that little girl looks like she's in junior high school, right at the age when she loves to lie." "I'm not going tomorrow, you five go."

"If you can't find anyone, I'll skin you alive!"

The humble five-member group didn't dare to say a word in response to the oncoming curses.

After traveling all night and a day, Zhou Chen finally arrived in Guangdong Province. He remembered that a good senior from the police academy was assigned to Lingnan, so he called him without hesitation to make a dinner appointment.

After a conversation, Zhou Chen learned that his senior brother is now a city or department-level leading cadre. He couldn't help but smile bitterly. He is now just the captain of a police station in a small border county.

There was no other way when the time came, so Zhou Chen shamelessly coaxed the person out.

He pulled the car over and found a hotel to stay in. He was exhausted after driving for a whole day and night. Of course, he couldn't go to see his senior brother in this state. He took a comfortable hot bath, changed his clothes, shaved and went out.

Arriving at the private restaurant that his senior brother had mentioned, a familiar face stood at the door. Zhou Chen recalled the joyful days on campus and jokingly said, "Senior brother is still as handsome as ever."

Gao Pingxing was wearing an executive jacket. He was tall and straight with regular features. As a leader for many years, he had developed an aura of authority without even getting angry.

Seeing the junior brother who used to be so caring, he rarely smiled and scolded him, "Stinky boy!"

Zhou Chen just smiled and let it go.

The two were led into the reserved private room by the restaurant concierge, and Zhou Chen explained the whole story before the dishes were served.

"Xiaochen, I haven't seen you for so many years, and you're still so warm-hearted." Gao Pingxing smiled and poured him a cup of tea. "Since the police over there have contacted us, I'm sure the work is already underway. For this kind of small matter, I can take you to the Ministry of Public Security tomorrow to investigate and follow up."

To be honest, it's difficult to find someone in this kind of needle-in-a-haystack situation.

Zhou Chen also knew that the matter was not easy to handle, so he gave up the idea of chasing his senior brother to the Ministry of Public Security at night and accompanied him for tea. He thought that one cannot become fat by eating one bite, so it would not be too late to go and investigate tomorrow.

As a professional habit, neither of them drank any alcohol. They talked about their college days while eating.

On the other side, Gu Nanxing was hiding and watching the warehouse to make sure his father didn't get beaten as much as possible.

If the person who made the phone call doesn't receive the money within one day, he will be punished with three lashes.

Gu Wenlin had been beaten twice because she didn't come back in the morning or at noon!
At night, Gu Nanxing couldn't stand it anymore and threw an invisibility talisman at him. Since the strong man couldn't find anyone, he naturally got a bye.

In the warehouse, the whipping ended in the middle of the night and the place became quiet. Gu Nanxing was about to go out to the woods to practice in the space when he pricked up his ears and seemed to hear the leader talking on the phone.

She dodged into the office where she was making the call. Standing by the window, a man in a flowered shirt was smoking a cigarette and cursing at his PHS phone. "What the hell are you doing? I want money over my life. If this gets out of hand, it'll be tough on the higher-ups."

"If you keep whining at me, come over tomorrow and I'll rip your mouth off!"

Toot——
"You bastard." The leader was so angry that he almost smashed the phone, but he held it tightly and finally didn't throw it away.

"Boss, calm down. What made you so angry?" The man in a suit made tea and respectfully handed it to the boss with both hands.

The leader felt the teacup was just the right temperature, raised it and took a sip, "Mu San called and said he wanted us to provide ten months of dry tea."

 The last word of this chapter is "liver"

  All for the sake of living...

  
 
(End of this chapter)

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