Sheng Yuxiao made his first call to his father.
"Li Qingqing has taken Xiaoya," he said concisely.
On the other end, Sheng Jun, who was in a meeting, raised his hand in surprise to pause the proceedings.
He didn't ask what happened, but first stated: "I had the driver take her to the station, but she disappeared en route, at the Yutai Mall on Fuyang Road. That's a property owned by the Qin Corporation..."
"I understand," Sheng Yuxiao quickly hung up the phone.
He didn't question his father about why, after agreeing to send Li Qingqing back, he had allowed her to go find Li Xiaoya.
This would have been a pointless emotional outburst, with no positive impact on what needed to be done next.
Now that he had obtained the necessary information, Sheng Yuxiao immediately called Qin Sui.
Qin Sui had never answered his calls so quickly before.
"Where are you? Li Jiang found Li Xiaoya, and they haven't returned for half an hour," Qin Sui said as soon as he picked up.
Sheng Yuxiao swallowed the question of how Qin Sui also knew about this.
Instead, he said something useful: "It was Li Qingqing who took her."
"Of course, Li Jiang must have given the order. But Li Jiang has been hiding well, how did Li Qingqing manage to contact him?"
"I suspect Li Jiang's hideout is nearby. You should check the security cameras of your properties."
Sheng Yuxiao said this in one breath, while also reporting the location where Li Qingqing had disappeared.
Qin Sui remembered Li Qingqing.
He never believed that evil had an age limit. There were born villains even among young children.
Li Qingqing seemed to be such a person.
Qin Sui said with a grim face: "I'll make a couple of calls."
Qin Sui then called to notify the shops along Fuyang Road to check their surveillance footage.
Yes, the shops along the street.
Because the property rights of the entire road belonged to the Qin Corporation.
Li Qingqing had only thought about avoiding Sheng Jun's eyes this way, but she hadn't considered that she couldn't escape Qin Sui's investigation on this day.
While waiting for news, Qin Sui called Sheng Yuxiao back and asked, "Have you reported it to the police?"
"Not yet."
Hearing these three words, Qin Sui's eyes flickered, and he asked, "Do you still plan to?"
"That depends on the news from your end, Young Master Qin."
Qin Sui understood: "You want to do something to Li Jiang?"
"Someone will do something to him," Sheng Yuxiao's tone was icy.
Being taken away directly by the police would be getting off easy for Li Jiang!
Qin Sui didn't ask further, assuming Sheng Yuxiao would use his own people from the Sheng family.
Since it was an order from the young master, the Qin Corporation's side naturally acted quickly.
But the waiting time still felt exceptionally long.
Just as Qin Sui was unconsciously starting to frown, he received a response.
"This is Li Qingqing's movement trajectory. She disappeared here. Below this is a bridge underpass. According to nearby shops, there are usually some homeless people, fishermen, and construction workers gathering here," Qin Sui shared with Sheng Yuxiao.
"Li Jiang certainly wouldn't be in the mood to fish here, but he might disguise himself as a homeless person," Sheng Yuxiao frowned as he spoke.
Then he immediately refuted himself: "No, he couldn't disguise himself as a homeless person either. Because that would scare Xiaoya, and his primary goal must still be to try and reestablish a father-daughter relationship with Xiaoya."
"Moreover, a homeless person with a little girl by his side would easily attract attention. So..."
Before Sheng Yuxiao could finish speaking.
Qin Sui continued: "I've gone through his records. When he was in school in the county, he often did odd jobs at construction sites. People instinctively hide in the most familiar environments, it makes them feel secure and at ease."
The two reached a consensus over the phone, and immediately sent people to search for the nearest construction sites and quickly contact those in charge to ask questions.
Soon after, several site managers, along with project managers and construction company bosses, all rushed over wearing hard hats.
"No one has been absent without reason, but several have asked for leave... Here, Wang Cheng Tong, and here, Shen Yong and Jiang Li, they asked for leave together. Shen Yong's child is in the hospital, sometimes there's an emergency and he needs to go sign some consent forms..." The person in charge opened the leave record book to show the visitors.
After finishing, he added a question: "Why is the higher-up suddenly asking about this? Has something happened?"
The visitor didn't answer, only asking the person on the other end of the phone: "Did you hear that? I'll take a photo of the list for you to see."
"No need to look, that Shen Yong and Jiang Li are a bit suspicious," Sheng Yuxiao's voice came through the phone. "Why would he bring a coworker to sign an informed consent form for his daughter?"
Qin Sui also joined the call, he could clearly hear all voices.
He spoke up: "Jiang Li, Li Jiang. He just reversed the name. This person is a bit narcissistic. He doesn't want others to discover his whereabouts, yet he leaves a clue to mock others' intelligence."
Sheng Yuxiao didn't respond, he had no interest in analyzing human nature.
He instructed the person on the other end of the phone: "Verify their identities immediately. After verification, I will send a technical team to meet with you. Then have someone from the construction site call Shen Yong, and use the call to locate his position."
Qin Sui interjected: "Remember, it must be a coworker who makes the call, not a supervisor from the site. That would alert him."
The person on the other end didn't dare to respond.
He was Sheng Yuxiao's man, how could he listen to someone else?
It wasn't until Sheng Yuxiao asked, "Did you remember what he said?" that the person dared to answer: "Yes, I remembered."
This person was actually quite clever.
After hearing Qin Sui's tip, he immediately thought of an explanation.
Shen Yong's daughter was sick, and he was still working at the construction site, which meant he was in desperate need of money.
"It's like this, we're actually looking for a good Samaritan who did a good deed a couple of days ago. Our boss wants to reward him with 100,000 yuan..." the person said to Shen Yong's coworker.
He didn't say 800,000 or a million, just 100,000, because generally speaking, this amount isn't enough for medical treatment, but it can alleviate immediate difficulties. In other words, this amount wouldn't provoke jealousy or false claims from coworkers.
Moreover, too large an amount would seem strange.
Sure enough, after hearing this, the coworkers were all happy for Shen Yong and quickly went to get their phones to make the call.
Meanwhile, Sheng Yuxiao was still busy. He made another call to "Secretary Wang".
"Has Ke Muning contacted you?"
"Just finished the call. He said Xiaoya is missing. He's not familiar with the country after all, so he hopes I..." Xu Ji hadn't finished speaking.
Sheng Yuxiao quickly followed up: "I will pinpoint the location on my end. I need you to synchronize with Ke Muning in real-time."
Secretary Wang sighed: "Alright, good nephew."
In the warehouse.
Shen Yong had fully realized that he had gotten onto a sinking ship.
Jiang Li was actually Li Jiang, the man the whole internet was looking for!
From what he said, it seemed he had kidnapped the daughter of a rich family!
Just as Shen Yong was sweating profusely, wondering how to extricate himself... his phone rang.
At this moment, everyone looked at him.
Shen Yong suppressed the nervousness in his heart and still answered. No matter who was calling, it could give him an excuse to leave...
"Brother Yong, come back quickly, there's great news! Hurry!"
Shen Yong was stunned: "What news?"
The coworker on the other end quickly explained.
Shen Yong really believed it, his face instantly lit up with joy he couldn't hide.
"Jiang, I have to go," Shen Yong said, "I need to get back to the construction site."
Li Jiang cursed the naive fool in his heart, but still patiently asked: "What's wrong? Did something happen?"
"It's not that something happened, it's that a boss is looking for me, saying he wants to reward me with 100,000 yuan."
"Why would they reward you out of the blue?"
"Uh, maybe, oh, maybe it's because of what you said the other day! Maybe it's her family who came looking, they know I took her in, so they want to reward me." Shen Yong turned to look at Li Qingqing.
Li Qingqing's heart went through a brief struggle.
She really wanted to stay and see what would happen to Li Xiaoya, but Li Jiang looked too crazy, and she couldn't be sure he wouldn't implicate her later.
Li Qingqing said: "Then I'll go with you, uncle. It's perfect, let them have some father-daughter time to catch up."
But Li Jiang stared at her and sneered: "Do you think Sheng Yuxiao's father would come looking for you with money?"
Li Qingqing's expression froze: "Uncle Li Jiang, what are you saying?"
Li Jiang scoffed without hiding his contempt: "You think you're Li Xiaoya?"
Li Qingqing was so angry she gritted her teeth. "Whether it's for me or not, Uncle Li Jiang, you can't stop him from leaving. He needs to go back and get the money."
"That's right, I need to go back and get the money. I have to save my daughter. Jiang Li, we're both people who love our daughters, you've always understood me, right?" Brother Yong said anxiously.
Li Jiang stared coldly at Li Xiaoya, but his words were directed at Brother Yong: "My daughter is already gone. What daughter do you still need?"
Brother Yong's face immediately turned ashen. "How can you do this?"
At that moment, Shen Yong's phone rang again.
"Brother Yong, have you left yet? Hurry up, the boss is on a tight schedule," a coworker urged on the other end.
Shen Yong responded repeatedly on this end, then turned to Li Jiang and promised that he wouldn't say anything about his situation if he left.
Li Jiang shook his head. "Whether you say anything or not doesn't matter anymore... That phone call is a trick, you fool. It's obvious that someone has come looking for me."
"I don't believe it!"
"How could there be such a good thing as money falling from the sky?"
"You're talking nonsense! Just because you say they're coming for you, it means they are?"
An argument broke out on this side.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Sheng Yuxiao had already obtained the coordinates he wanted. After passing through Xu Ji's hands, they had reached Ke Muning.