Chapter 183 - Sister Hongs missing daughter (1/2)
Translator: Sparrow Translations Editor: Sparrow Translations
On the opposite side of the road, at Sister Hong’s shop, there were several policemen in the shop. The doorway of the shop was surrounded by the shop owners and there were even townsfolk preparing to buy scallion pancakes.
Lin Fan asked curiously, “Fraud Tian, what happened over there at Sister Hong’s shop?”
Fraud Tian took a puff from his cigarette before putting his phone down. He replied, “I don’t know. I’ll go over and check it out.”
Zhao Zhong Yang pointed his phone camera outside and he said, “Looks like there’s some commotion across the road. I have no idea what is going on.”
“Brother Yang, let’s go check it out.”
“When there’s trouble, there’s Brother Yang. Brother Yang, hurry up and bring us there to take a look.”
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Lin Fan stood at the doorway and looked on with a puzzled expression. Suddenly, Fraud Tian rushed over and told him, “Something big has happened, Sister Hong’s daughter is gone.”
“How can it be?” Lin Fan remembered that when he had reached the shop just now, she had still been playing with her poodle, how could she suddenly disappear?
Wu You Lan walked over to the other side and Lin Fan followed her as he was also curious about what was going on.
When they got to Sister Hong’s shop, the people surrounding the shop were all in deep discussion. They were wondering if the child had been kidnapped, something which was appearing more and more frequently on the news.
“What happened?” Lin Fan stood outside and asked some of the shop owners.
“Little Boss, Sister Hong’s daughter is missing. She searched for her for 20 minutes, searching the whole of Cloud Street to no avail. Afterward, she reported it to the police and they came down to see what’s going on,” one of the owners replied.
Lin Fan kept squeezing his way until he made it into the shop. He saw Sister Hong’s face streaming with tears, looking completely stunned while she was being questioned by police officers.
“My little girl…” Sister Hong did not know what to do, she was just pinning all her hopes on the police.
Lin Fan stepped forward and asked, “Sister Hong, what in the world happened?”
When Sister Hong saw Lin Fan, it was like she saw a glimmer of hope. She grabbed Lin Fan’s hands and said, “Little Boss, you’ve got to help me. My little girl is gone. I’ve searched all over Cloud Street and I still can’t find her.”
Lin Fan sympathized with Sister Hong and understood how she was feeling. At that moment, Sister Hong grabbed onto the policeman next to her and very anxiously asked him, “Have you found her? Have you guys found her yet?”
The policeman’s palm had been squeezed by Sister Hong until it was red but they were also very anxious themselves. They said to her, “Calm down, this is not the time for panic. We are going through the video footage right now.”
Lin Fan walked to the small room in the back and saw a policeman looking at the screen, staring at the footage from the past half an hour.
“Officer sir, how is it? Did you find anything new?” Lin Fan asked.
The policeman saw Lin Fan and he was stunned for a moment. He recognized Lin Fan. He had seen him before when he had been working with Chief Liu.
“Still nothing so far, Master Lin. I’m still at the part where she is playing with the dog. I’ll be reaching the important part soon,” the policeman replied.
Lin Fan looked at the monitor and saw a few women in the shop looking at clothing. The little girl was outside the shop playing with her poodle and Sister Hong was interacting with her customers, who were looking at various pieces of clothing.
“Hold on,” Lin Fan said.
The policeman paused the video and on the screen, there was a lady looking down and walking out of the shop and for some unknown reason, the poodle started following her. Naturally, the little girl followed as well.
The screen also showed Sister Hong still interacting with her customers, oblivious to the fact that her daughter had left the shop.
If only they could capture the lady’s face and scan it, then they would be able to find her. However, the images captured by the camera were unclear and they could not see the face at all.