Time passed quietly amidst everyone's nervousness, and the next day soon came.
Tao Zhiyun didn't sleep all night and was very haggard.
Lin Mai sighed and went to the kitchen to cook porridge for her. Tao's mother stopped her and asked her to go back and rest. She stayed up all night with Tao Zhiyun.
Lin Mai smiled and said that she was young and staying up late occasionally would not affect her.
At this time, there was a knock on the door.
Tao's father walked over and opened the door. Seeing Fang Zhuoran standing outside the door, he hurriedly and enthusiastically invited him to come in and sit down.
He also told his eldest son to go downstairs quickly to buy soy milk and fried dough sticks to entertain Fang Zhuoran.
Qiqi's disappearance not only made Tao Zhiyun and her parents extremely worried, but also her brother and sister-in-law felt uneasy.
Last night everyone stayed at Tao's father's and Tao's mother's house to accompany Tao Zhiyun.
Fang Zhuoran said quickly: "No need to be busy, I came here after breakfast.
I came here early in the morning to deliver soup dumplings and chicken soup to Maizi and Xiaotao."
He saw Lin Mai walking towards him quickly from the kitchen, and handed her the thermos bottle and lunch box in his hand.
Seeing that her eyes were a little blue, and knowing that she stayed up late last night, he whispered in her ear: "Take care of yourself." Then he reluctantly left.
Lin Mai poured two bowls of chicken soup from the thermos. She and Tao Zhiyun each had one bowl, and not even Tao's parents and Tao's mother had a share.
This chicken soup was a loving breakfast made by Fang Zhuoran for her. She couldn't give it to everyone. That would be betraying Fang Zhuoran's heart.
Tao Zhiyun didn't want to drink it. Lin Mai drank the chicken soup and said: "This is not an ordinary chicken soup. This is the chicken soup made by our professor. I only drink it a few times a year. Don't cherish it."
Tao's father and others also tried hard to persuade him, and Tao Zhiyun reluctantly drank the chicken soup.
After two sips, I couldn't help but shed tears, and choked with sobs: "I wonder if Qiqi is hungry."
Suddenly, everyone fell silent, and even Lin Mai had no appetite for chicken soup.
At this time, the neighbor next door suddenly ran over and handed a note to Tao's mother.
He said that he saw this note when he woke up in the morning, and he probably slipped it through the crack of the door.
Everyone came over to take a look and saw that it was a note written by Ma Tao.
The note said that he had taken Qiqi away and that he would raise her in the future. Tao Zhiyun only had to pay a hundred yuan a month in support.
Everyone was ecstatic and kept shouting: "Qiqi is missing!"
He also thanked his neighbors repeatedly.
Tao Zhiyun also burst into tears with excitement.
Lin Mai reminded: "Do we have to report this situation to the police?"
Tao Zhiyun and she put down the unfinished chicken soup and drove to the police station.
The note Ma Tao wrote to Tao Zhiyun through his neighbor not only demanded high alimony, but also left the place where the two met so that Tao Zhiyun could send him money.
What the police meant was to let Tao Zhiyun go to the appointment and fish out Ma Tao so that they could arrest him.
Lin Mai suggested that after Ma Tao showed up, let Tao Zhiyun negotiate with him and let him return the child to her, and she could give him five hundred yuan at a time.
Tao Zhiyun was stunned for a moment and said: "If you just give that beast five hundred yuan, he will definitely not agree.
He wants to use me as a cash cow, so how could he give Qiqi back to me for a mere five hundred dollars?"
"If you don't pay him back, he will definitely start talking like a lion. You record the voice, and when you rescue Qiqi, you can go to court to sue him for blackmail.
Maybe we can let him serve a few years in jail, and you can live a stable life."
Tao Zhiyun nodded and went to the appointment with the small tape recorder Lin Mai gave her.
She came to a deserted snack bar designated by Ma Tao.
I finished a bowl of sweet-scented osmanthus glutinous rice balls and didn't see Ma Tao show up.
Her heart twitched, and she wondered if Ma Tao had discovered that she had led the police to ambush nearby, so she did not show up.
If this is true, will he be harmful to Qiqi?
Just as Tao Zhiyun was thinking wildly, a shadow enveloped her.
She quickly raised her head and saw Ma Tao's ugly face that made people want to stab him.
Ma Tao sat down opposite her and shouted to the proprietress: "Cook me two bowls of dumplings and two baskets of heavy oil siomai."
When the landlady brought him the dumplings and siomai he ordered, he looked like a starving ghost and ate them ferociously.
The family of three relied on the little money given by his two sisters and could hardly afford food and clothing, let alone eat meat.
Naturally, it looks ugly when you eat dumplings and siomai.
After eating, I asked Tao Zhiyun to pay the bill, and he looked satisfied.
Tao Zhiyun paid the money and couldn't wait to ask Ma Tao if Qiqi was okay.
Ma Tao looked at him sideways with a scoundrel expression: "How well Qiqi lives depends on how much child support you give her.
The more your child support is, the better off Qiqi will be."
The implication is that if the child support is too small, Qiqi will not live well.
Tao Zhiyun dealt with him according to Lin Mai's instructions and asked him to return Qiqi to her, and she gave him five hundred yuan.
Ma Tao was furious and almost flipped the table: "Are you just giving me a mere five hundred yuan? Are you sending a beggar away?"
Tao Zhiyun also said angrily: "I don't want you to raise a child. I gave you five hundred yuan for free. You still think it's too little. You are too greedy!"
Ma Tao's eyes revealed a fierce look, and he spat out shit: "I'm so greedy, what can you do to me? Don't forget that Qiqi is still in my hands!"
Seeing that the evidence collection was almost complete, Tao Zhiyun smashed a cup on the ground according to the case number agreed upon before.
Two police officers immediately rushed out of the store's kitchen and quickly took control of Ma Tao.
A policeman asked him sharply where Qiqi was.
Although Ma Tao was frightened by this sudden situation, his face turned pale, but he did not lose his composure.
Instead, he asked the police: "I brought my son to my own home and I didn't break the law. Why do you arrest me?"
A policeman said sternly: "Stop pretending to be confused. The last time you went to the kindergarten to snatch your son, the policemen talked to you about it.
Your son's guardian is your ex-wife. If he doesn't agree to take the child away, you can't take it away, otherwise you'll be breaking the law.
If this is your first time doing this, I think you don’t understand the law and you can just be accommodating.
But if you commit it again, you will commit it knowingly."
Another police officer said: "If you want to go to jail, just pretend that we didn't say anything and just resist. The maximum sentence is three to five years."
When Ma Tao heard the word "prison", he felt a little scared, so he had to take the police and Tao Zhiyun to his residence to rescue Qiqi.
As soon as he went out, Ma Tao saw Lin Mai standing next to a Mercedes-Benz and secretly glared at her.
He suspected that she had ruined his good deeds, and he hated her deeply in his heart.
When a group of people drove to Ma Tao's new residence, a dilapidated house in a village in the city, they heard the sound of an old woman beating and scolding a child, and the child's hoarse cry.
The child's voice sounded like Qiqi's.
Tao Zhiyun was so distressed that her heart almost broke. Before Lin Mai's car stopped, she opened the car door, jumped out, and rushed straight into the house.
Then came her crying and cursing: "This old beast, Qiqi, is a child of your Ma family after all, and you actually stabbed him with a needle. Are you still a human being?"
The police and Lin Mai then rushed into the house and saw Tao Zhiyun fighting with the old beasts from the Ma family.
But he was outnumbered and was pushed to the ground and rubbed by the pair of old beasts.
Poor Qiqi wanted to help her mother, but was kicked away by the cruel father Ma.
When Lin Mai saw it, his blood surged upwards. He rushed over and used all his strength to kick Ma's father away.
After all, she had been learning martial arts from a martial arts instructor for a few days, and her beating skills had improved a lot. This kick made Father Ma scream in agony.
After kicking the child, Lin Mai didn't even bother to help Tao Zhiyun and picked up Qiqi. The little child was already unconscious.
She told a police officer: "I want to take my child to see a doctor."
Two police officers came to rescue Qiqi.
One police officer asked another police officer to accompany Lin Mai to the hospital to see the child and conduct an injury assessment on the child.
Without police escort, the injury assessment is invalid.
By this time, Tao Zhiyun had already struggled to get up from the ground, and drove to the children's hospital with Lin Mai and the police officer.