Chapter 36

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Temporary Bodyguard Chapter 36

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“This is the police station, you two calm down!” Seeing that they were about to fight, the police immediately stopped them.

Zhai Chen pushed away the man in black-rimmed glasses. The other side holds his glasses with one hand and glares at him angrily. It turned out to be a coward. Zhai Chen sneered and returned his words: “Yaoyao was lost since yesterday but you are only here today, are you worthy of being a father?”

“I sent a message to my circle of friends yesterday!” The ex-husband was righteous and felt no shame.

“Stop arguing!” Yaoyao’s mother suddenly shouted and stared at her ex-husband with red eyes, “He’s a kindergarten teacher and he came with me seeing I was pitiful. Yaoyao lost but you act like nothing happened and even sent a Moments, can you see for yourself that what you say in your Moments is human language?” [1]

Yaoyao’s mother opens her circle of friends to show Zhai Chen and the police.

[Ex-husband: I lost my daughter (crying), please share this. The person who provided the clue will get a box of hairy crabs I was selling. 】[2]

“What do you mean it is not human language. Naturally it is only right that I provide some prizes to encourage others to help find her.” The father does not realise that it is inappropriate for him to post these.

“…” Zhai Chen didn’t bother with him anymore. How could he put an advertisement for his child’s missing person notice? He is truly impressed.

The police were alerted to the situation and quickly searched the area, calling the train and bus stations to stop any suspicious persons. When the police asked the shops near where the children were lost, none of the vendors had seen them, as they were busy with their business. When the police arrived, there were only two children left playing together and they didn’t find anything.

At present, they are still looking for the rest of the children. There are people standing guard at the train and bus station. For the others they are still working on it. The police told Yaoyao’s parents to go home and wait for news.

The former husband-wife who had long become enemies, parted ways when they walked to the door. Yaoyao’s mother missed her daughter so much she even ignored the embarrassment caused by this domestic scandal and rambling to Zhai Chen.

“His father is, to put it nicely, an overgrown man, but to put it badly, he’s a mama’s boy. I thought he was cute before we got married, but after we got married, I realised that this kind of person has no sense of responsibility, and he doesn’t care about the children he has, treating them like a small dog or cat, teasing them when he wants to, but ignoring them when he doesn’t. I couldn’t stand it anymore, so I divorced him.”

Yaoyao’s mother wiped her face and thanked Zhai Chen. She took a deep breath and straightened her back, saying that she would go to the radio station to send a missing people notice so Zhai Chen should go back first.

“Don’t worry, I can hold on. Before I find Yaoyao, I will definitely not fall.” Seeing her rude ex-husband actually encouraged her. She is relying on herself to raise Yaoyao all this time, she will be able to find Yaoyao back by herself.

The look of Yaoyao’s mother reminded Zhai Chen of Gao Yusheng’s mother. When he first met Auntie Ye back then, she also had the same demeanour, her back straight and her face tense. She looks fragile as if she is on her last straw yet also as strong as tall mountains that even tsunamis could not blow her over. Before that time, he never knew that a person could be strong and vulnerable at the same time.

Humans are really contradictory and magical creatures.

“Uncle, has Yaoyao been kidnapped by the traffickers?” Zhai Mengmeng refused to attend the class, he sat stubbornly on the swing and when Zhai Chen came back, he immediately grabbed his trouser legs and asked.

“That’s probably the case,” Zhai Chen squatted down and touched his head, “you know quite a lot.” Because he was afraid that children would not understand, he referred to human traffickers as bad people, but this guy could guess accurately.

“I know everything,” Zhai Mengmeng pushed away his uncle’s hand that messed up his hairstyle and clenched his small fist tightly, “Can you help the second uncle find her?”

“At present, the case is still under the jurisdiction of the district so it is not your second uncle’s case,” Zhai Chen pulled up the little hand that was clearly holding something, “What’s in your hand?”

Zhai Mengmeng sighed and opened his hand. Inside was a metal ring, which was sold in a small shop outside for three yuan each. This is the highest level of all toy rings in the shop. The silver white stainless steel ring has a small rhinestone stuck in the middle.

He had planned to propose to Yaoyao today.

“I had planned to go out and buy a present for my sister.” When Gao Yusheng was a child, the first time he told him about the story of his abduction, he was also bewildered and dishevelled.

A small seedling that has just sprouted needs plenty of sunlight and stable soil. It is cruel to force a seedling to move to another place. This is as true for the seedling as it is for the little ones who miss it.

He couldn’t help but call Gao Yusheng and asked him if Yaoyao’s last location could be displayed on the Punctuation map.

“It’s too late.” Gao Yusheng told the truth.

The key to finding lost children is that it must be done fast. The location should be released as soon as the child is lost so that people around can help find the kid immediately. Now a night has passed and the traffickers have long run away.

“But…” Gao Yusheng paused, as if hesitating whether to speak.

“What?” If this was Fang Chuyang, Zhai Chen would have already scolded him but facing Xiao Tianci, he could only be patient.

“Little boys who are kidnapped are usually sold to remote villages and traffickers will definitely transfer them away as soon as possible; while little girls may be sold elsewhere or they may still be in the city.”

The second half of the sentence made Zhai Chen shudder: “You mean…”

“This is just a theoretical analysis, we still have to rely on the police for the details.” Gao Yusheng interrupted his thoughts, not wanting him to worry too much.

The disappearance of Yaoyao had stirred up many memories for Zhai Chen, causing him to be in a bit of a daze throughout the afternoon. It was only when he finished dropping off all the children and looked up to see President Gao, who was leaning against the side of the car waiting for him, that he managed to come back to his senses.

“Why are you here?” Zhai Chen was in a much better mood when he saw him.

“The car is not with you today and I was afraid you would forget to pick me up.” Gao Yusheng said with a serious face.

“So you came to pick me up yourself.”

Gao Yusheng hesitated and nodded: “Hmm.”

Zhai Chen suddenly felt amused and followed him back to the bungalow in Yutang Bay.

After dinner, Gao Yusheng cut a plate of fruit and handed it to Zhai Chen: “The bulletproof glass is still on the way so it hasn’t been installed yet.”

Zhai Chen squinted at him.

President Gao looked back innocently.

“Understood, I’ll stay with you.” Zhai Chen forked a piece of fruit and stuffed it into his mouth.

A faint smile appeared in Gao Yusheng’s eyes.

The two adults who talked to themselves didn’t ask the third person on the scene for their opinions, but Zhai Mengmeng, who was sad, didn’t have any opinions, just sighed at the TV.

Today’s local news was being broadcast on the television, and the missing child in the mall was reported, urging nearby residents to keep an eye out to help find her.

“Yaoyao must be very scared now,” Zhai Mengmeng covered his heart, “My heart hurt so bad that I can’t breathe.”

“My man, you’re going to have a heart attack.” Zhai Chen quickly told him to stop thinking about it and put him on the bed in the guest room, coaxing and threatening to put him to sleep. He tiptoed out of the guest room and found that Gao Yusheng had returned to the master bedroom, so he went over to look at him.

The master bedroom was brightly lit, Gao Yusheng leaned on the head of the bed, bent one of his long legs to support the heavy hard cover book and quietly flipped through it.

“Still awake?” Zhai Chen knocked on the door with his fingers.

“Wait for you.” Gao Yusheng put down the book and looked over eagerly.

He doesn’t know if it’s an illusion but the little boy in front of him seems to need more company than the four-year-old Zhai Mengmeng. Confused, bodyguard Zhai climbed onto his employer’s bed again.

When the lights went out and everything went dark, thoughts drifted away uncontrollably. It was already past the 24-hour golden time for the recovery of a missing child. There was still no news of Yao Yao, Zhai Chen couldn’t help but sigh and touched Gao Yusheng beside him, “When you were a child and got trafficked, were you scared?”

“Of course I was scared, every minute was a nightmare.” Gao Yusheng turned his head to look at him, the light from the night light was not enough for Zhai Chen to see his expression, but he could see Zhai Chen clearly.

Zhai Chen frowned.

“However, children are very resilient. A child doesn’t know much and is easily distracted by something else, so it won’t go crazy by thinking unnecessary thought.” Gao Yusheng’s calm tone of voice made people trust him easily.

“That’s good.” Zhai Chen breathed a sigh of relief.

“But I’m different. I can remember things since I was three years old,” Gao Yusheng’s voice became much deeper as the topic of the conversation changed, “I still dream of it from time to time.”

Zhai Chen froze, remembering that Tian Ci had long nightmares when he was a child, crying every time that he did not want to take the train, and he had to hold and coax him for a long time before he could fall asleep again. Those horrible experiences became a nightmare that would linger for the rest of his life. If he hadn’t met him, the precocious Gao Yusheng might really have gone mad.

“Tian Ci ……” Zhai Chen couldn’t help but reach out and take him into his arms.

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[1] Link for more info about Moments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moments_(social_networking)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_mitten_crab

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