Film and Television World Life Record

Grandma Zhang said, "Bao'er, look what your sister brought you. You're such a lucky child."

Bao'er quickly went to pick her up, and Grandma Zhang gently patted her on the head, saying, "You didn't even say thank you. How did your mother raise you?"

Bao'er said thank you, took it, and looked at it with great joy.

Xia Jie smiled and said, "Here you go, open it."

Bao'er quickly grabbed it and ran into the house.

Old Mrs. Zhang said, "Young lady, please come inside and sit down."

Bao'er suddenly cheered and ran out of the house with her new schoolbag, overjoyed: "Grandma, look! Look!"

Grandma Zhang gently tapped her: "I told you to call me Mom! If you don't call me Mom, they won't let us register our household." Bao'er smiled shyly.

Xia Jie said, "Grandma, don't worry, there's no problem with Bao'er's household registration. I was just afraid you wouldn't be able to wait, so I came to tell you."

Grandma Zhang said happily, "Good, good! Thank you, thank you so much."

After leaving Grandma Zhang's house, Li Mu took her hand and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to the welfare home to ask around, so you won't worry."

Xia Jie smiled sweetly: "Thank you for staying with me like this."

Li Mu said, "Why are you being so polite with me?"

Xia Jie blushed slightly, rolled her eyes at Li Mu, but was in a very good mood.

Chapter 403 Third-Class Merit and the Theft Case

After leaving Grandma Zhang's house, the two went to a community center to carefully verify the situation of Grandma Zhang's family, and everything was true.

Li Mu said, "The situation is true. Let's go to the welfare home to take a look."

Xia Jie nodded: "Mm!"

Twenty minutes later, the two drove to the welfare home. As soon as they entered the courtyard, they saw a woman carrying a baby out, and a caregiver was seeing her off: "We will visit your home on the 7th of every month, and you can bring her back for a check-up every three months."

"Also, if anything happens, you can contact us anytime. Guoguo, are you going with Mommy? Come here, let Auntie hug you one more time."

The caregiver hugged the child again and handed him back to the woman, who then left with the child, satisfied.

Just as the caregiver was about to leave, Li Mu called out to her, "Hello. May I ask who was that just now...?"

The caregiver said, "Oh, we've found a foster mother for the child."

Xia Jie's eyes lit up and she asked, "What do you mean? Child fostering?"

The caregiver looked them over a few times: "You two are looking to adopt a child, right? You're in good shape, you don't need foster care, you can adopt directly."

Xia Jie blushed: "No...we..."

Li Mu said, "Thank you, but it's okay. If we want children, we can just have them ourselves..."

Before he could finish his sentence, he felt a sharp pain in his waist as Xia Jie pinched him from beside him.

With her cheeks flushed, she whispered, "What are you saying! Who would have a child with you!"

Li Mu smiled, pretending not to hear, and continued speaking to the nurses, "We are police officers, we're not asking for ourselves, we're asking for others."

The caregiver explained, "Like this, foster care involves our welfare home signing a contract with the foster family to entrust the child to their care. Both parties agree on the terms of foster care. We pay a certain foster care fee each month..."

Xia Jie's eyes lit up before she even finished listening. Wasn't Grandma Zhang's situation just right?

……

Half an hour later, the two met with Director Xu of the welfare home. Director Xu asked Xia Jie, "How much is the monthly subsistence allowance for Old Mrs. Zhang?"

Xia Jie thought about the other party's information: "The child costs 680 yuan a month. She is over 60 years old, so add another 30%. Together, it will cost about 1,600 or 1,700 yuan."

Dean Xu calculated and said, "Our foster care fee is 1000 yuan a month. With the minimum living allowance, the grandmother and granddaughter get almost 3000 yuan a month, which is about enough for them to live on."

Xia Jie said happily, "That's enough, that's enough. For them, a little bit of happiness is probably enough."

Over the next two days, with the help of Li Mu and Xia Jie, Bao'er successfully entered the welfare home, and Grandma Zhang also successfully completed the adoption procedures.

The matter has come to a satisfactory conclusion.

That evening, the two went to a restaurant to celebrate a little. After dinner, they dropped Xia Jie off at her apartment building.

Just as Xia Jie was about to go upstairs, Li Mu walked up to her with a smile, wrapped his arms around her soft waist, and gently kissed her on the cheek: "Good night, see you tomorrow!"

Xia Jie's face flushed, and she nodded shyly: "Okay, you can go back now and get some rest."

……

The next morning at the meeting, Li Mu received another piece of good news. Wang Shouyi said with a smile, "Today, I have some good news to announce. Comrade Li Mu, in the incident of medical disturbance at the Second Hospital, remained calm in the face of danger and subdued the suspect on the spot, preventing further harm."

"After deliberation, the bureau has decided to award Comrade Li Mu a third-class merit."

"Congratulations, Comrade Li Mu! Let's give him a round of applause."

In an instant, a round of enthusiastic applause erupted from the audience.

Wang Shouyi said a few more words, and as the morning meeting ended and people gradually dispersed, he called Li Mu back.

"Director Li, I also want to thank you personally this time. Dr. Zhuo is an old friend of mine, and a very good person. In that critical moment, if it weren't for your timely intervention, the consequences would have been unimaginable."

Li Mu said, "Chief, don't be so polite. What are we? We're police officers. Isn't it our duty to do this kind of thing?"

Wang Shouyi said with a look of relief, "Yes, we are police officers, this is our duty."

……

The next morning, shortly after I started work, a policeman ran over to the emergency call center: "Chief Li, someone reported a crime in Xiao Xin's neighborhood. Someone broke into his house last night."

Li Mu said, "Thieves have broken in!"

Zhao Jiwei, who was standing next to him, was also a little surprised: "Could it be a burglary?"

Li Mu said, "Never mind whether it's true or not, come with me."

Zhao Jiwei quickly responded.

Xiao Xin's family home is a resettlement community. There are many illegal structures built in the community, and many people set up stalls on the roadside, making it look very messy.

Li Mu looked around at the surroundings: "There aren't many surveillance cameras in the neighborhood."

A community worker explained, "There aren't many security cameras in this community. The property management company said the property management fees are too low and they don't have the money to install cameras."

Li Mu said, "Without enough surveillance cameras, it will be difficult to find clues."

Zhao Jiwei chimed in, "Exactly! Alas, of all times, the higher-ups are launching this '100-Day No-Burning-Home Campaign'."

Following the address provided by the police, the two arrived at Ms. Sun's home, knocked on the door, and Ms. Sun opened it.

Li Mu asked, "Did you call the police from your home?"

Ms. Sun nodded: "Yes. Where's Brother Zhang? Zhang Zhijie didn't come!"

Li Mu said, "Officer Zhang is handling another case; we will take over this one."

Ms. Sun said, "Oh, come in quickly."

The two entered the house, and the couple stood in the living room, explaining the situation to Li Mu and Zhao Jiwei.

Ms. Sun said, "I checked the door last night before I went to bed. It was definitely locked from the inside, and the windows were all closed. I don't know how someone got in."

Li Mu asked, "How did you determine that someone had come in?"

Ms. Sun pointed to a kitchen knife on the coffee table: "Look at this. The kitchen knife was on the coffee table in the living room early this morning. Someone must have come in and moved it."

Li Mu gestured, and Zhao Jiwei put on gloves, took out a plastic bag, and carefully put the kitchen knife into the plastic bag.

"Did you lose anything?" Li Mu asked.

Ms. Sun shook her head: "That's the strange thing. We checked the house thoroughly and found nothing missing."

Li Mu searched the house inside and out, but found nothing.

Mr. Jia said fearfully, "Officers, you can see for yourselves, the doors and windows were all locked properly. How did he get in? It means he either has a key to my house or knows how to pick locks. It's terrifying."

Li Mu checked around again, looking at the kitchen and the door leading to the balcony, but found nothing unusual.

Zhao Jiwei, standing nearby, asked in confusion, "Mr. Jia, this situation is a bit strange! If the kitchen knife came from the kitchen to the coffee table in the living room, it means the thief entered the kitchen first. But he didn't come in from the kitchen. This is a bit hard to explain."

"Furthermore, if he intended to steal and was prepared to use a knife if discovered, he should have brought a weapon with him. But he clearly didn't. Did he run to the kitchen to grab a knife and leave it here after entering the house?"

Ms. Sun said, "That's possible!"

Li Mu then asked, "Based on your understanding, are there any signs of disturbance inside the house?"

Mr. Jia said, "No, we searched the house again, but we didn't find anything missing. Of course, there's nothing to steal from our house. It's just that we don't feel at ease until we find out the truth. That's why we called the police!"

Li Mu nodded: "You did the right thing. If you discovered that someone might have broken in, you should have called the police first. However, since you called the police, you should have waited for them to arrive. Searching the scene yourself could easily destroy the traces and evidence left at the scene."

Mr. Jia said awkwardly, "Ah! We didn't know, we were terrified at the time."

Li Mu nodded, then asked, "Are you home today?"

Mr. Jia said, "I had some work to do today, but she was scared and wouldn't let me go out. Officers, you must catch the thief!"

Li Mu said, "Don't worry, I'll definitely resolve this for you. Since you're home, please wait for us for a while. We'll go to the property management office to check the security footage and ask for some clues."

Mr. Jia said, "Good, good!"

After going downstairs, the two went directly to the property management's monitoring room to review the nighttime surveillance footage. After searching for a long time, they found no relevant clues and could only make a copy of the relevant video to study back at the station.