Film and Television World Life Record

After taking a couple of steps, Ms. Wu suddenly stopped and looked at Jingjing's friend's grandmother with an unfriendly gaze, saying, "You're so old, I'll spare you some face and not say anything. Please don't let my daughter come to your house without my permission in the future. Even if she does come, you must notify me immediately, otherwise I will sue you."

Jingjing's friend's grandmother was a little confused. She stood there awkwardly, opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say.

Cheng Hao quickly tried to smooth things over: "Dr. Wu, the child has run away again. Xia Jie, you two keep an eye on him."

Xia Jie quickly went downstairs with another policewoman.

Ms. Wu persisted: "I hope this kind of thing won't happen again. You have to promise me that! Otherwise, don't blame me for being ruthless in the future."

Grandma said, feeling wronged, "I didn't invite your daughter..."

Ms. Wu ignored her completely and turned to leave.

Cheng Hao quickly explained, "Grandma, it's like this..."

Xia Jie and another policewoman came out of the building, but did not see the child, so they split up to look for him.

Turning the corner, Xia Jie saw Jingjing sitting quietly on a swing in a corner. She slowly walked over and sat down on another swing nearby: "Your name is Jingjing, right?"

Ignore her quietly.

Xia Jie extended her hand, trying to shake hands with Jingjing: "My name is Xia Jie."

Jingjing glared angrily at Xia Jie: "I hate you! Why did you bring my mother to see me!"

Xia Jie paused for a moment and said, "I'm sorry, Jingjing, I'm a police officer. Your mother asked us to find you, so we can't not."

Jingjing, tears welling in her eyes, said aggrievedly, "But now I can't even face my friends. Are you satisfied now? You adults are all bad people!"

Hearing the noise, Ms. Wu rushed over, grabbed Jingjing from the swing, and angrily shouted, "Why are you running away! Are you trying to drive me crazy?! I'll beat you to death today, you troublemaker!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and slapped him.

Xia Jie instinctively rushed to protect Jingjing: "Please don't hit the child!"

Ms. Wu became even angrier: "Why are you meddling in my parenting? Get out of the way!" She slapped her hard again.

Seeing Ms. Wu's attack, Xia Jie instinctively hid Jingjing behind her back, but unexpectedly, the slap came back at her instead. Judging from the fierce look on Ms. Wu's face, this slap was definitely not light.

Xia Jie couldn't dodge in time, and the slap was about to land squarely on her face.

Suddenly, a hand reached out and gripped Ms. Wu's hand tightly. A cold voice said, "Ms. Wu, are you trying to abuse a child, or are you trying to assault a police officer?"

Ms. Wu was taken aback when she saw Li Mu, who appeared out of nowhere. Seeing him in his police uniform, her expression immediately relaxed.

He roared, "Who assaulted a police officer? I was disciplining my daughter, what business is it of yours? You deliberately stood in my way, you deserve to be slapped."

Li Mu said, "Don't speak so bluntly. By saying that, are you admitting that you're abusing the child?"

Ms. Wu became even angrier: "Who abused her? This is my daughter. I was disciplining her."

Li Mu said, "You slapped me right off the bat, and so hard at that. My face swelled up after just one slap. Is this discipline? You're breaking the law."

Ms. Wu looked incredulous: "You say I broke the law? How is disciplining my daughter a violation of the law? You police are the ones who are meddling, especially this policewoman. My daughter is perfectly fine, yet she still wants me to draw blood. What evil intentions does she have?"

"In my opinion, what you're doing is damaging the relationship between my daughter and me. I'm going to file a complaint against you!"

Li Mu said calmly, "Ms. Wu, please don't be so short-tempered. We police officers are human too, not punching bags for you to vent your anger on. Of course, if you feel there's a problem with our work, you can file a complaint at any time; we welcome it!"

"I just want to remind Ms. Wu not to take our police officers' tolerance and patience for granted. The fact that we remain calm and composed despite your attitude shows that we consider you a law-abiding citizen."

“If you break the law and provoke the police at every turn, this attitude will not be there. We will act in accordance with the law and regulations, and we will not wrong an innocent person nor let a bad person go unpunished.”

Upon hearing Li Mu's words, Ms. Wu immediately jumped up and down: "What did you say? Are you threatening me? How dare you police officers say such things?"

"Fine, fine! You wait, I'm going to file a complaint against you, I'm going to report you. You just wait."

After saying that, seeing that Li Mu remained unmoved, unlike Cheng Suo and the others who immediately compromised and apologized, she became even angrier. She grabbed Jingjing, snorted, and left without looking back. She decided that she would definitely go and demand an explanation and an apology from them tomorrow.

Chapter 373 Incident

The following morning, Li Mu arrived at the police station and overheard several police officers who had gone to the Wenyuan Garden residential area the previous night chatting there. They had heard numerous complaints and comments about Ms. Wu's family while visiting Ms. Wu's neighbors to search for Jingjing's whereabouts.

Ms. Wu is well-known in the community for her eccentric personality and volatile temper; almost all of her neighbors have argued with her, and some have even fought with her.

Every neighbor who mentioned her looked displeased. Even these neighbors said her husband was a decent man, and that he simply couldn't stand Ms. Wu anymore, which is why he left the family.

Her husband's departure made Ms. Wu's personality worse and her temper more volatile.

These events were similar to the plot Li Mu knew. Next, Ms. Wu would vent her anger on Xia Jie, beginning a frenzy of reporting and petitioning.

Furthermore, because of what Li Mu said yesterday, he could also become the target of Ms. Wu's report.

Since we know this will happen, we need to prepare in advance. If Ms. Wu really wants to play the old game, Li Mu will play along and see who can't take it anymore.

However, since he's no longer a free agent, Li Mu doesn't want to use certain methods, even though they're available. As a police officer and a civil servant, it's best to resolve this matter within the bounds of the rules.

Li Mu worked as a criminal police officer for four years, and he dealt with all sorts of people from all walks of life, so he knew a wide variety of people.

Among them were several local self-media and amateur gossip reporters.

By giving himself a false identity and using connections, Li Mu got in touch with a self-media outlet that specializes in uncovering local hot topics, people's livelihoods, and gossip.

Ms. Wu's search for her child last night caused quite a stir. So many police officers searched together and went door-to-door asking questions. People thought something serious had happened, but in the end, the child was found at a classmate's house.

In retrospect, this is quite an interesting little local gossip.

Li Mu secretly commissioned them to investigate and report on this matter, and the focus of the report was naturally on Ms. Wu, who had extremely poor interpersonal relationships and was cursed by everyone.

Let's dig deeper into Ms. Wu's background by talking to her neighbors in the community, and see what other bizarre things she's done, so that everyone can see her character.

Even if she reports them in the future—reported by someone with such poor character, misconduct, and unreasonable behavior—even higher-ups would likely assume Ms. Wu is causing trouble and wouldn't overly reprimand the officers handling the case.

Naturally, reporting on Ms. Wu's case openly was also a spontaneous act by this self-media outlet.

The commotion yesterday was quite loud; almost everyone in the neighborhood was alerted. Many people even posted about it on social media. Although it wasn't a big deal, quite a few people know about it.

It's perfectly normal for a self-media outlet that specializes in uncovering local hot topics, people's livelihoods, and gossip to hear the news and come over to report it as a local gossip story. No one would doubt the self-media outlet's motives.

And so, Li Mu used the excuse of going on patrol to arrange the matter in just over an hour.

With a faint smile, let's see what Ms. Wu chooses next.

Sure enough, while he was out on patrol, Ms. Wu came to the police station again.

Over here, the auxiliary police officer on duty was instructing a member of the public on how to fill out a police report when the voice came from over there.

The auxiliary police officer looked up. He had participated in the search for Jingjing yesterday, so he naturally recognized Ms. Wu. Knowing that this woman was not to be trifled with, he quickly put down his work and said warmly, "Ms. Wu, is there anything I can help you with?"

Ms. Wu's face hardened as she said, "Get your manager out here, I'm going to file a complaint!"

The auxiliary police officer was taken aback: "Ms. Wu, if you want to file a complaint... didn't your child return home safely last night? You even personally took him home."

Ms. Wu slammed her hand on the table and yelled, "Did I say we were discussing the children? I'm going to file a complaint? Call your manager out to see me."

Cheng Hao and Xia Jie had just returned from a police call when this incident occurred. The auxiliary police officer who was there ran over and, seeing that Xia Jie was also there, quickly and secretly waved to Cheng Hao, who then went outside.

The two entered the corridor, and the auxiliary police officer said, "Chief Cheng, Ms. Wu from yesterday came again. She was very aggressive and said she was going to file a complaint."

Cheng Hao was stunned, then sighed, "Who is this person?"

The auxiliary police officer said helplessly, "You should go and take a look. I think this woman is not someone to mess with."

When Cheng Hao arrived at the interrogation room, he saw Ms. Wu sitting there aggressively. After thinking for a moment, he grabbed Ms. Wu's hand and said, "Ms. Wu, you're here? I just found out you work at the Second Municipal Hospital. Guess what? What a small world! My wife's sister's aunt works at your Second Hospital."

Seeing that Ms. Wu's face was cold and unmoved, Cheng Hao continued, "Ms. Wu, wasn't yesterday's matter over? We used so much police force to resolve this for you, do you still have any questions?"

Ms. Wu wasn't buying it at all. She stood up and said coldly, "Director Cheng, is that right? Now that you're here, where's that policewoman from yesterday? Where did she go?"

Cheng Hao said, "What do you want with her? If there's anything, just tell me."

Dr. Wu said, "She cursed my child to die. I demand that she apologize to me in person!"

Cheng Hao advised, "Oh, that's too harsh. She's just following the work procedures!"

Dr. Wu sneered, "Director Cheng, are you still protecting her? I'm so worried about not being able to find my child, and she's asking me to do a DNA test? Isn't that cursing my child?"

"It's one thing for her to curse me, but she cursed my child! I can't forgive her! She must apologize to me today!"

Cheng Hao said speechlessly, "Ms. Wu, she's still young, and she might not have been careful with her words, but she did nothing wrong in her job. If you're going to report this as a criminal case, a blood test is a necessary procedure..."

Ms. Wu's face turned cold, and she questioned, "What do you mean by that? You don't want to take responsibility, do you? You don't want to apologize, do you? I only said the child was missing, what do you mean by asking me to give blood? Under what circumstances is a DNA test necessary?"

Pointing at Xia Jie in the distance, he said, "Wasn't she cursing my child? No way, today you have to make her apologize to me in person, or we're not done yet."

Cheng Hao said with a forced smile, "Ms. Wu, how could you think like that! This is the normal procedure. How could she curse your child? Have you forgotten that we were the ones who helped you find your child yesterday?"

"I think the most important thing is that my child was found safe and sound."

Dr. Wu snorted and said, "Whatever you call 'normal procedure,' it's your choice! To you, the child may be important, but to me, dignity is more important than anything else. She hurt my dignity, and you must bring her out today to apologize to me."

Cheng Hao looked at Ms. Wu with a grim expression. He had thought she was difficult to deal with yesterday, but he hadn't expected her to be this difficult.

Just then, Xia Jie calmly entered through the back door.

"Master, I'm here."

Cheng Hao grew anxious, glared at Xia Jie, and said, "Xia Jie, what are you doing here? Have you finished the task I gave you? Go back now."

Dr. Wu stepped forward and grabbed her: "Fine, you finally dare to show your face. And what about the policeman who was with you yesterday? Today, you must apologize to me!"

Xia Jie said seriously, "We didn't do anything wrong, why should we apologize? You came to report the case, I took the call, and you called the wrong number?"

Knowing that Ms. Wu was difficult to deal with, Cheng Hao quickly said, "Xia Jie, go back right away! Ms. Wu, let's talk this out. If you want an apology, I'll apologize to you on her behalf."

Xia Jie was equally furious, stubbornly standing there and saying, "Director Cheng, you don't need to try to smooth things over. I didn't do anything wrong. I won't apologize, and no one can apologize on my behalf!"