The small car twisted and turned through the streets for over an hour before finally arriving at Jinjiang Community.
The shop owner sister lived in this neighborhood.
She resided in Unit 1, Building 17, on the first floor.
This precise address was given to Feng Yuan by the owner of a flower shop, who had recently visited the pet store and sensed something was amiss.
Though not exactly friends, the flower shop owner and the pet store owner had each other’s contact information and would occasionally drop by each other’s shops to chat when they had nothing else to do.
Lately, however, the messages the flower shop owner sent to the pet store owner had gone unanswered.
After giving Feng Yuan the address, the flower shop owner reminded him not to tell anyone that she was the one who provided it.
Qin Xun immediately nodded and assured her, “We know what to say.”
Qin Xun had a face that naturally inspired trust.
After his reassurance, the flower shop owner breathed a sigh of relief.
Jinjiang Community was a fairly average residential area, with standard facilities and decent greenery.
However, perhaps due to the property management’s negligence, the security cameras in the community had been broken for three months without repair. The gatekeepers were two elderly men who could barely stand straight.
The community gate required an access card, but people who forgot their cards would often ask the elderly guards to open it for them.
After repeatedly being bothered, the guards grew tired of it and simply left the gate open, allowing anyone to come and go as they pleased.
This somewhat irresponsible behavior from the guards ended up being convenient for Feng Yuan and Qin Xun this time.
One drove while the other rode along.
The small blue four-wheeled car, adorned with cartoon stickers, zipped through the gate and into the community.
By the time the car’s rear end was out of sight, the two elderly guards finally realized what had happened.
“Was that little car, the one with the ‘Little Soldier Yuan Yuan’s Scrap Recycling’ sign, from our community?”
“I don’t think so. I’ve never seen it before.”
“Is it a scrap collector? Why are kids collecting scrap now?”
“Who knows.”
The two elderly guards muttered to each other as they sat on their chairs.
They mumbled for a while but couldn’t come to any conclusion.
Meanwhile, Feng Yuan, after asking some aunties in the community for directions, successfully found Unit 1 of Building 17.
They located the east apartment on the first floor and began knocking on the door.
“Bang, bang, bang—”
Feng Yuan pounded on the door with his small fists, making an incredibly loud noise.
At first, no one answered.
Feng Yuan didn’t give up. His little fists were red from knocking when, finally, footsteps could be heard.
A woman with permed hair, looking to be in her forties or fifties, came to open the door.
She wore an annoyed expression and spoke harshly.
“Knock, knock, knock. Did someone in your family die? Why are you knocking so urgently?”
The harshness of her words made even Qin Xun’s small face darken instantly.
Feng Yuan was also furious.
But he clenched his little fists and forcibly held back his anger.
He pointed to the sign on his small car nearby.
“Little Soldier Yuan Yuan Scrap Recycling. Granny, do you have any scrap to sell? We can pay you a lot of money.”
After Feng Yuan finished speaking, Qin Xun deliberately pulled out a stack of hundred-yuan bills.
Qin Xun added, “Our kindergarten is doing a practical activity. We want to experience what it’s like to collect scrap.”
From the moment Qin Xun revealed that stack of red bills, the woman’s previously annoyed expression vanished, replaced by a gleam in her eyes.
She took a closer, more careful look at the two children in front of her.
The two children had delicate skin and tender flesh, both more beautiful than the dolls on TV.
A small car was parked at the entrance. There was a similar one in this residential area.
Ever since that mother bought this car for her son, she had been emphasizing—both openly and subtly—how expensive it was.
The woman looked at the car and then at the clothes the two children were wearing.
Those clothes didn’t look cheap at all!
After observing for a moment, a smile spread across the woman’s face.
She warmly invited the two little ones inside.
“I happen to have some junk at home to sell. I’ll tidy it up and sell it to you two. By the way, how old are you? Are you in school?”
Feng Yuan stepped inside, scanning the room as he replied, “I’m three years old, and I’m in kindergarten.”
“Wow, you’re already in kindergarten!”
As the woman tidied up the junk, she noticed Feng Yuan wandering around the house and even approaching the door of one room. Her expression suddenly changed.
“Little one, come over here. That room belongs to my daughter-in-law. She’s resting, and you might wake her. She has a bad temper.”
As she spoke, she reached out to pull Feng Yuan away.
Before she could grab him, Feng Yuan stepped back on his own. “I’m not going in.”
Seeing how well-behaved Feng Yuan was, the woman relaxed again.
Qin Xun nudged Feng Yuan’s arm.
Without needing to exchange words, Feng Yuan immediately ran over to the woman.
He followed her to the balcony to help tidy up.
“Grandma, is this a cat tree? Are you selling it? I want to buy it.”
“I can sell it, but it’s quite expensive. This is an imported item.”
“Little one, can you afford it?”
Feng Yuan patted his chest proudly. “Of course! I have lots of money! Can you help me take it apart? I want to put it in my car.”
“Alright. Since you like it so much, I’ll sell it to you. By the way, how much money do you have?”
Feng Yuan shook his head. “I haven’t counted it.”
He had already noticed that this grandma was greedy for money, so he gestured earnestly.
“Yuan Yuan has money. A backpack this big, full of money.”
Feng Yuan’s small backpack had indeed been briefly filled with money once.
But that backpack of money had long been spent. Now, he was using it to trick the grandma in front of him.
“A whole backpack of money? All red bills? Hundreds?”
“Yes.”
“That’s enough.”
Suppressing her excitement, the woman estimated how much money a backpack could hold.
Then, she named the amount she wanted.
“If you give me a small portion of that backpack of money—just about half—I’ll give this to you. How about that?”
“Okay! Grandma, help me take it apart first!”
Feng Yuan insisted that she dismantle the cat tree.
The cat tree on the balcony was quite large. Taking it apart would take some effort.
But for half a backpack of money, the woman was determined.
She began dismantling the large cat tree with great effort, while Feng Yuan chatted nonstop beside her.
Feng Yuan’s childish voice babbled on and on without pause.
The woman wasn’t familiar with the cat tree to begin with. Now, she had to focus on dismantling it while distracted by his chatter. It was no surprise that the process was slow.
Several times, her temper flared, and she wanted to tell the child to shut up.
But thinking of the money, she swallowed her curses.
While Feng Yuan kept the woman busy dismantling the cat tree, Qin Xun had already picked up the screwdriver he had found earlier and began removing the door lock of the room.
His movements were swift.
Before long, the lock on the room’s door was dismantled.
Qin Xun smoothly entered.
As soon as he stepped inside, he saw the shop owner sister, bound hand and foot, with tape over her mouth.
Qin Xun didn’t immediately untie her.
He took two seconds to first activate the recording function on his smartwatch.
Only after starting the recording did he untie the ropes binding the shop owner sister and tear off the tape covering her mouth.
“Xiao Xun.”
“Shh, don’t make a sound. Yuan Yuan is buying time on the balcony. Let’s get out of here first.”
“Okay.”
To exit through the main door, they had to pass by the balcony.
Qin Xun instructed the shop owner sister to follow closely behind him.
He stepped out first and called out to Feng Yuan, “Yuan Yuan, we still have things in the car. I won’t wait here for you. I’ll go keep an eye on the car first.”
Feng Yuan nodded. “Alright.”
Their conversation didn’t arouse the woman’s suspicion.
She was still busy.
While she was occupied, Feng Yuan sidled over, pretending to check her progress, but actually knocking over the tools she was using to dismantle the cat tree.
The tools rolled forward.
The woman watched as the tools rolled toward the balcony’s sink and, in a fit of anger, seethed silently.
She cursed inwardly but kept her mouth shut.
Just as she crouched down to pick up the tools, Qin Xun grabbed the shop owner sister’s hand and quickly led her out of the house.
The shop owner sister’s legs were trembling.
If not for the firm grip of the small hand holding hers, she felt she wouldn’t have been able to leave the room.
“It’s okay.”
As soon as they were outside, Qin Xun reassured her, “We’re out now.”
The shop owner sister stood outside, took in the surroundings, and suddenly burst into tears.
Qin Xun dialed 110.
Right after he made the call, the woman inside the house somehow sensed something was wrong.
She strode out from the balcony to the room’s entrance.
Upon seeing the broken lock and the empty room, she flew into a rage.
She realized she had been tricked.
Just as she turned to confront Feng Yuan and chase after them, Feng Yuan’s small figure was sneakily trying to slip away.
Their eyes met.
In the next second, Feng Yuan took off running.
“You little brat, stop right there! How dare you mess with me! You’re in cahoots with Yi Chun!”
Yi Chun was Feng Yuan and Qin Xun’s shop owner sister.
The woman, with a ferocious expression, charged after them.
Feng Yuan, moving his short legs as fast as he could, dashed out and immediately hopped into his toy car.
In the car, Qin Xun was already seated in the passenger seat.
Yi Chun had taken a seat in the back.
Fortunately, it was a deluxe four-seater toy car. With three people inside, there was still plenty of room.
Feng Yuan was an expert at driving his toy car.
He stepped on the accelerator and zoomed away.
The toy car wasn’t very fast. If the woman had run straight after it, she might have caught up.
But Feng Yuan knew how to zigzag.
He swerved the car skillfully. The woman, who tried several times to lunge at the vehicle, failed each time.
“Yuan Yuan, hold on a little longer. The police will be here soon.”
“Yuan Yuan copy that!”
At that moment, Feng Yuan’s chubby face was filled with righteous determination, like a little hero.
Qin Xun had reported the situation gravely to the police, mentioning intentional harm and unlawful confinement, among other things.
So, the police arrived quickly.
Several police cars showed up. As they arrived, they witnessed Feng Yuan driving his toy car and bumping into the woman.
Since the woman was throwing things at the car, Feng Yuan couldn’t exactly get out and fight her to defend himself.
To protect himself, and to protect his shop owner sister…
Feng Yuan drove straight into the woman.
His little car was essentially still a toy car.
So even if he hit someone at the highest speed, it wouldn’t cause any real harm.
When the woman was hit, she didn’t even fall to the ground.
“How dare you hit me! Do you even know who I, Wang Hua, am? I’ve dealt with brats bigger than you, and you dare hit me!”
The woman was full of energy. It looked like she could withstand a few more hits without issue.
Just as the situation was getting chaotic, a police car pulled up right between them.
“Everyone, stop!”
The police officers got out of the car.
Wang Hua, who was still worked up, wasn’t intimidated by the police’s arrival.
She still tried to grab Feng Yuan.
But the police officer directly grabbed her wrist, rendering her unable to move.
“Assaulting someone right in front of the police, do you have any respect for the law?!”
Wang Hua was scolded by the police and finally calmed down a little.
Once she calmed down, she immediately played the victim and lodged a false accusation.
“These two kids broke into my house, destroyed my door lock, and kidnapped my daughter-in-law. You police came just in time. I demand compensation!”
As soon as Wang Hua finished speaking, Yi Chun, holding back tears, interrupted her.
“She’s lying.”
“I never married her son! We were just dating! After I broke up with her son, she and her son came to my house, locked me up, confiscated my phone, and wouldn’t let me leave.”
“She wanted me to marry her son, but I refused. So she locked me in a room and forced me to have a child.”
“She said once I had a child, I’d settle down.”
Yi Chun’s explanation made the female police officer on the scene tense up.
The female officer walked over to support Yi Chun and comforted her gently.
“Don’t be afraid. With us police here, we will definitely ensure justice is served.”
Yi Chun needed to go to the hospital for a physical examination.
Wang Hua and her son were both taken into the police car.
Since Feng Yuan and Qin Xun were involved, they had to go as well.
Wang Hua came from a village deep in the mountains. It was unclear whether she genuinely didn’t understand the law or was just too bold to fear it.
Even after getting into the police car, she kept insisting to the officers that this was a family matter.
“Just arrest these two kids and make them pay for my door. Why are you arresting me?”
“Yi Chun and my son are a couple. Matters between couples have nothing to do with the police.”
As Wang Hua rambled on, Qin Xun, who was sitting in the police car with her, suddenly spoke calmly. “They never registered their marriage. They are not a couple.”
“Her house does not belong to you, and she does not belong to you.”
“You occupied her house and harmed her. You committed a crime.”
“You will go to jail.”
Wang Hua scoffed at Qin Xun’s last remark.
“What do you know, you little brat? Yi Chun lived with my son before. Since they lived together, they’re a couple.”
“It’s only natural for my son to tie her up and make her bear him a son.”
“What harm are you talking about? It’s normal for a husband to hit his wife.”
Wang Hua’s outrageous remarks made even the male police officer in the car unable to stay silent.
“Stop talking nonsense! Violence is a crime at any time!”
“Your son never married her. What he did is a crime!”
The police had nothing more to say to this despicable mother.
All they wanted was to quickly return to the station, take statements from the mother and son, and then detain them.
Once the hospital’s assessment came out, the two would be waiting for their sentencing!
The officers’ attitude gradually made Wang Hua sense that something was wrong.
“You… you’re really going to send me to jail?!”
It wasn’t until the police car had pulled up at the station that Wang Hua, after riding in it the whole way, belatedly realized the severity of the situation.
A chill ran down her spine, and fear finally set in.
“I’m not going into the station! I want to go home!”
Wang Hua clung to the car door, refusing to get out. Wang Hui, who had been in another car, saw this and rushed over.
He seemed to know his mother’s tendencies all too well.
As soon as he reached her, he immediately demanded, “Mom, did you say anything stupid to the police?!”
If his mother had kept her mouth shut, he might still have had a chance to twist the truth and fight back.
But if she had blabbered something…
Police cars were equipped with surveillance and recording devices. Every word could be used as evidence!
Wang Hui stared intently at his mother, desperate for an answer.
Under her son’s harsh questioning, Wang Hua guiltily averted her gaze.
Seeing her reaction, Wang Hui’s heart sank like a stone.
He was done for!
If he had known it would come to this, he never would have brought his mother to meet Yi Chun.
Yi Chun was an only child. Her parents had passed away, leaving her a house, a car, money, and a shop.
He could have had it all!
But his mother’s interference had made Yi Chun break up with him resolutely.
In his panic, he had actually listened to his mother’s advice and tried to lock Yi Chun up at home to bear his child.
There were precedents in their village.
Some women brought back to the village were unruly. But once they had a child, they were tied down for good.
The police spent the entire morning investigating Yi Chun’s case.
They focused their interrogation on Wang Hua.
And the more they dug, the more horrifying the case became. By the end, it had even uncovered human trafficking connections in Wang Village.
Wang Hua was also implicated in a murder case. She had drowned her own daughter due to her preference for sons over daughters.
The case was far from over.
As for the little heroes of the incident, Feng Yuan and Qin Xun, after giving their statements at the station, the police called their parents to pick them up.
Feng Yuan and Qin Xun were too young. Minors needed guardians to take them home.
When Feng Qi answered the phone, he didn’t quite catch what the officer said, only hearing that his son was at the station giving some kind of statement.
By the time the call ended, Feng Qi was nearly faint with shock.
“What has Yuan Yuan done now?!”
How had he ended up at the police station this time?!
Feng Qi dragged Li Sheng along, not daring to alert Li Heng or Frida.
The two dads rushed to the station in a hurry.
On the way, Li Sheng received a message from Little Deer.
Little Deer: “[Photo]”
Little Deer: “One of my fans snapped a picture of a little car today. Is this Yuan Yuan’s?”
The photo Little Deer sent didn’t show Feng Yuan or Qin Xun.
The two little ones had parked the car and gone off to collect scrap.
The car they left behind had been photographed.
On it, the words “Little Soldier Yuan Yuan’s Scrap Recycling” were scrawled in large, crooked, and eye-catching letters!
Sam Williams On TYMIMA Chapter 152