CHAPTER 279: CHAPTER 279: VILLAIN: DON’T COME ANY CLOSER!

A five-year-old Tuanzi hugged a much smaller little Tuanzi, creating a cute and heartwarming scene.

But when everyone’s gaze turned to the two people who were frozen, their expressions changed.

Actually, there wasn’t any evidence yet that these two were problematic, but the moment they heard ’police investigation,’ they ran off. Isn’t that a guilty conscience of a thief? Most people were just confidently gossiping, yet they ran away.

Tuanzi hugged the little Tuanzi and ran over with little steps to seek praise.

Si Huai instructed two colleagues to take the suspects away, while he and another colleague came over to deal with the matter.

"They are definitely bad guys."

Tuanzi held the baby very steadily and even teased the little one a bit.

She shared her observations, like how the two looked panicked and hurried downstairs, but the baby in their arms didn’t show any signs of being sick. Also, when they were whispering, the things they said sounded strange.

"They said," Tuanzi tilted her head, thinking, "the man said ’it’s one stick of incense,’ the woman said ’it’s still a tender lotus root.’"

She couldn’t understand it, and they spoke so quietly that even her big brother didn’t hear.

But Si Huai immediately understood; it was a code language.

"I will take them back for investigation."

He thought about it and contacted the mall’s broadcasting station, announcing if anyone had lost a child.

Si Huai’s colleague prepared to apprehend the two frozen people and found them utterly still, their eyes filled with panic, which was quite surprising.

"This is so amazing."

He also had dreams of martial arts.

"But did you also block their mute acupoints? Is there such a thing as a mute acupoint?"

Si Huai had already taken the child, leaving Tuanzi empty-handed. She put her little hands behind her back and strolled over to the bad guys, tilting her face up to smile at them.

The two of them: "Don’t come over here!"

Tuanzi squinted and smiled.

"I insist on coming over, to scare you to death!"

She chuckled: "Are you just too scared to speak, or do you think the more you say, the more mistakes you make? Let me tell you, with a female hero like me here..."

She glanced at Si Huai and his colleague, then quickly included the people standing by, Gu Cheng among them.

"With us here, you can forget about succeeding!"

Hearing the broadcast, a young woman and her female friend hurried over, with the young woman pushing a baby stroller.

Seeing the baby in Si Huai’s arms, the young woman didn’t dare to take the baby directly and started crying.

"It’s all Mommy’s fault, Mommy should have been watching you all the time!"

She covered her face and cried, while her friend looked relieved.

"Thankfully, they were stopped."

The friend remained calm and could still briefly explain the situation.

The two were out shopping with the baby stroller, and as they passed a snack shop, they stood outside the counter to order. The stroller was clearly right beside them, but their gaze only briefly shifted away, and when they turned back, the child was gone.

Seeing the young mother almost out of breath crying, Si Huai couldn’t bear to blame her.

"Could you show some proof?"

The young mother quickly took out her phone, displaying photos and various electronic documents, including a picture of the child’s birth certificate.

Only then did Si Huai return the child, while also asking them to visit the police station.

"Of course we’ll go," the young mother fiercely glared at the two not far away, "I want to see the fate of these two traffickers! Stealing someone else’s child, they deserve to be struck by lightning, never to die well!"

The moment she realized the child was missing, she could have died; how do these traffickers not hurry up and die?

Si Huai turned to take the others back to the police station, only to see his cousin, like a little Douding, covering her mouth and laughing, her large, watery eyes occasionally glancing at him.

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Little Douding moved over, leaning close to him, her soft voice filled with laughter.

"Cousin holding the baby just now, so cute."

Si Huai: "?"

He was confused as he looked at his cousin, how could this "cute" word not be describing her? He had lived so long, met many children, and even as a child himself, it was the first time seeing a cousin so young, cute, clever, and lively.

But Gu Cheng recalled the recent scenes. A tall, strong man holding a small baby, looking slightly awkward. Would this picture be very cute?

He remembered how his sister thought the cousin asleep on a fairy-tale bed was cute, and he could understand it. Perhaps that’s his sister’s aesthetic, which should be respected.

Tuanzi went back to the police station again, finished her statement, and then said to Gu Cheng, "I always feel like Miaomiao will come back in the future."

Gu Cheng: feeling complicated.

"Don’t worry, Miaomiao will protect herself."

Feeling his complicated emotions, Tuanzi gently nudged him, her face full of anticipation, "Will Miaomiao receive more banners? If the house is full of flags, won’t it look great?"

Gu Cheng started thinking about remodeling a room specifically for banner storage.

Thinking about how his sister, only five years old, had already received several banners, by the time she was fifteen, one room might not be enough, and by twenty-five, banners might need a house for storage.

Si Huai was still busy, so the two had to leave.

Before leaving, Tuanzi reluctantly said, "If you need to catch more kidnappers, you can call Miaomiao. Miaomiao is very good at catching kidnappers. Experienced and catches accurately every time."

She proudly recounted how she had precisely detected traffickers in the crowd and later caught two accomplices on a show.

"Including these two, that’s five kidnappers now."

She counted again earnestly and was dissatisfied, "Only five? That’s too few, we need to catch more."

Previously, in ancient times, she caught many thieves; now in modern times, she needs to catch even more, must work hard!

Tuanzi cheered herself on.

Si Huai neither agreed nor refused, and as they parted, he said to Gu Cheng with a smile, "Thank you for your hard work."

Gu Cheng calmly replied, "It’s alright, she’s my sister."

His five-year-old sister was doing justice, he felt both concerned and proud, and this complex emotion would always accompany him.

In the following days, everything was peaceful, and Tuanzi followed her big brother to prepare for the New Year, spending her remaining time either doing homework or learning about forest patrol knowledge.

Even though she hadn’t been on shows recently, the few programs she participated in were still getting good traction. Some channels chose to re-air them, naturally attracting new fans.

Meanwhile, editors like Zhu Fang kept creatively editing her appearances on shows and promoting them on different platforms, rekindling the martial arts dreams of many and sincerely acknowledging traditional martial arts.

The Jiang City Xingyi Boxing Association gained popularity from filming promotional and instructional videos with her, enrolling many members, and making a name for itself, maintaining long-term collaboration with her, creating all sorts of promotional films.

Once, the president even paid out of his own pocket to make a ten-minute martial arts movie, successfully elevating Tuanzi and the association to a new height.

Because of all this, even though Tuanzi mostly stayed home studying during this period, her reputation kept rising, now reaching 85 million.

One day, just as the system revealed the specific numbers, Tuanzi was so excited that she did a triple backflip on the spot.

She started counting, "85 million, soon it’ll be 100 million, and then 500 million, and then 1 billion won’t be far off, then Mommy and Daddy can come back!"

She was so happy she almost flew, and in the end, she really flew up a tree.

The system initially wanted to remind her that the reputation value would increase harder towards the end, but seeing her so happy, it let her be.

Letting the host enjoy a happy moment wasn’t too bad.

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