Sheriff Uncle, open the door quickly! I've come to solve a case!

Bai Zhizhi cried even louder.

Li Ku and several other men hurriedly tried to appease him.

"Captain Qin, we haven't eaten all day either. We're not busy right now, so why don't we take this kid with us?"

Qin Qingzhou's expression was not good, but she didn't say anything.

They all knew Qin Qingzhou's personality; if he didn't say anything, it meant he agreed.

Qin Qingzhou looked unhappy, but her heart had already softened, and she nodded "reluctantly".

"Shut up and go eat."

Bai Zhizhi immediately pouted and stopped crying.

With two streams of tears still on her face, she proudly stretched out her little arms: "Hug~"

Qin Qingzhou hesitated for a moment before swallowing her words, but seeing Bai Zhizhi's red and swollen eyes, she could only lift her up.

Bai Zhizhi laughed heartily: "Hehe, Uncle isn't a big bad guy."

Qin Qingzhou would rather be the bad guy.

The rough-looking men didn't have the habit of eating out, so they took a young girl and headed to the cafeteria.

Bai Zhizhi's mouth watered at the sight of the big chicken leg. She hadn't eaten meat for many days since coming down from the mountain!

Qin Qingzhou silently added an extra chicken leg and stuffed it into Bai Zhizhi's bowl.

"Uncle is the best!" Bai Zhizhi hugged the big chicken leg and started gnawing on it.

Li Ku secretly sized up Bai Zhizhi and said something surprising: "Captain Qin, the more I look at this kid, the more he looks like you."

Everyone says children resemble their uncles, and the more I look at it, the more it seems to look like him.

Qin Qingzhou ate her food indifferently: "When did you go blind?"

Li Ku felt that he would get beaten if he continued talking, so he decided to shut up and eat his food.

After a moment of silence, Bai Zhizhi quietly placed some bok choy from her bowl into Qin Qingzhou's bowl.

Qin Qingzhou clicked her tongue, and Bai Zhizhi immediately grinned and acted cute: "Hehe, Zhizhi doesn't like to eat it~"

But Qin Qingzhou paused for a moment when their eyes met.

so similar.

But he quickly dismissed the idea.

My sister left home when she was very young, and we don't know if she's alive or dead. Even if she's still alive and has children, she wouldn't recognize me.

But this child looks too much like her older sister when she was little.

Qin Qingzhou ate Bai Zhizhi's vegetables absentmindedly.

"Uncle! Mom says eating more vegetables will help you grow taller, so eat more! If you grow taller, you won't die!"

Qin Qingzhou: "..."

He threw the vegetables back into Bai Zhizhi's bowl.

After Bai Zhizhi had eaten until her belly was round and full, Lin Yuhe coaxed and tricked her, "Zhizhi, how about you go home with your auntie today?"

"Auntie has a little sister at her house. She has lots of pretty dresses. Shall we go to Auntie's house and play with her?"

Girl! Cute skirt!

Bai Zhizhi's eyes lit up, but her joy lasted only a second before she pouted and said very seriously, "No! Zhizhi has to protect Uncle!"

Qin Qingzhou frowned deeply: "I'm not going back today."

How about it? Compared to the boring police station, a little skirt is much better, right?

"Zhizhi won't leave either; Zhizhi wants to stay with her uncle."

"I haven't slept all night, and you have nowhere to sleep."

Bai Zhizhi: "Zhizhi has a place to stay."

Li Ku asked curiously, "Where else can they stay?"

Bai Zhizhi put down the bundle her master had given her and pulled out a small wooden box, about the size of her palm, from a pile of random things.

The wooden box is exquisitely decorated with gold trim, but...

This looks exactly like an urn, doesn't it?

Qin Qingzhou's eyelids twitched, feeling like she had been tricked.

Lin Yuhe, a mother herself, couldn't bear to see this and was on the verge of tears: "Captain Qin, Zhizhi likes you, please take her home. This child is so pitiful..."

Li Ku chimed in, "Yes, yes, taking care of abducted children is also our job as police officers. Just consider it as completing a mission."

"Yeah, can't you, a grown man, handle a kid?"

Seeing their conversation gradually turn into a provocation, Qin Qingzhou rubbed her temples and said, "Today."

"Yay!" Bai Zhizhi jumped up and down on the spot.

That's right! Bai Zhizhi rummaged through his bundle again and pulled out three small red cloth bags, which he handed to Lin Yuhe, Li Ku, and another police officer.

Qin Qingzhou was the only one not given one.

"This is a good luck charm, uncles and aunts, you must take it with you."

Why would a group of police officers need this?

However, in order not to damage the girl's confidence, I accepted it anyway.

Qin Qingzhou's expression was grim as she did not receive the amulet.

He kept calling me "uncle," but wouldn't even give me a lucky charm.

The jealous guy turned and left.

"Uncle, wait until you know!" Bai Zhizhi picked up his small bundle and chased after him with all his might.

As soon as Bai Zhizhi sat down after getting into the car, Qin Qingzhou pinched her cheek, making her face look like a small glutinous rice ball.

Why don't I have a lucky charm?

Bai Zhizhi mumbled indistinctly, "Zhizhi protects Qiuqiu."

Qin Qingzhou felt a strong urge to try it.

It seems he's not an ungrateful wretch.

He sat up straight, pretending not to care, and said, "I don't need it," before stepping on the gas.

After returning home, Qin Qingzhou gently carried Bai Zhi, who was asleep in the car, upstairs.

This little round ball is so light, it's like it's starving.

I put her in bed, and I could still faintly hear her talking in her sleep: "Uncle, don't be afraid... Zhizhi will protect you..."

After everything was settled, Qin Qingzhou went to lie down on the sofa in the living room.

There were family photos on the cabinet next to the sofa. He picked one up casually; he was still a little kid in the photo.

Standing next to her was a ten-year-old girl, the older sister.

Bai Zhizhi is still very young, but she really looks like her older sister when she was little.

If she really is her sister's child...

impossible.

Qin Qingzhou put the photo frame back. Taking care of the child was more tiring than going on a police call. She closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.

Qin Qingzhou slept more soundly than ever before.

But at that moment, he suddenly felt that he couldn't breathe.

Qin Qingzhou: "?"

When he opened his eyes, a little dumpling with messy hair was pinching his nose.

"Uncle, wake up! Do you know how hungry you are?"

Qin Qingzhou stood up with a dark face, feeling exhausted.

"Walk."

"Yay!"

……

On the way to the police station, Bai Zhizhi, with her frizzy hair, leaned against the car window and looked out.

She had never left the sect before, and everything outside was new and exciting to her.

"Uncle! Why is the person locked in a cage?"

"That's called a television."

"Uncle! Is that your sword-riding technique where people can ride it and run away?"

"Royal...that's called an electric car."

"uncle……"

Qin Qingzhou, unable to bear it any longer, said: "Shut your mouth."

"Oh." Bai Zhizhi shut up obediently and looked at a pretty young lady crossing the street.

The young woman looked very sad; she was wiping away tears as she crossed the street.

Bai Zhizhi watched for a while, then anxiously tugged at Qin Qingzhou's sleeve: "Uncle!"

"I told you to be quiet, don't disturb me while I'm driving."

"Uncle! That pretty girl is going to die!"