When the other men heard Joy crying, they looked at the man in embarrassment. “Big Brother, you seem to have made the child cry.”
“Tch, children are so troublesome. They cry all the time. It’s so annoying.” The moment the man finished speaking, he felt a chill on his back. When he turned around, he saw the woman in the front passenger seat staring at him, her dark eyes were filled with a sense of murder.
The burly man suddenly felt uncomfortable all over. He felt as if he was being haunted by a vengeful spirit. He subconsciously moved to the side and suddenly realized that what he did was a little too unmanly, so he quickly moved back and stared at the woman fiercely with his big eyes.
Zhao Youxi stared at the man coldly for a long while before suddenly reaching out her hand to him. “Give it to me.”
“What?”
Zhao Youxi furrowed her brows and said in an unfriendly tone, “I said, give the child to me.”
The burly man’s face darkened. He was about to flare up, but when he thought of the price this woman had paid, he took a deep breath and held back his anger. Then he unceremoniously handed the child over.
Zhao Youxi looked at the child in her arms, who looked like Mu Tingfeng but was many times cuter than Mu Tingfeng. Her cold face could not help but reveal a trace of warmth. She held the child in her arms and patted the child lightly. “Don’t cry. We’re not bad people. We were sent by your parents to pick you up.”
Joy was crying so much that he burped. When he heard Zhao Youxi’s words, he looked up and saw the person in front of him clearly. He was surprised to find that this person was actually the bad woman who had come to cause trouble for him and his mom before.
Joy was flustered, but he pretended to be innocent and not recognize the other party. He said carefully, “Did my parents call you to pick me up?”
Seeing that Joy seemed to believe in her, Zhao Youxi’s smile became more sincere. She smiled and said, “Yes, we were all called by your dad and mom to take you home.”
Joy looked up and said with some hesitation, “But I’ve never seen you before. Moreover, those bad men attacked Sister Yuemei just now. They are bad people.”
Zhao Youxi then remembered that when those men brought the children here, a little girl had seen it all, and they even seemed to have kicked her.
Zhao Youxi’s face turned gloomy. She turned to the big men and said, “Didn’t I tell you not to involve the other children?”
The big men were also stunned when they saw Zhao Youxi getting cross. Some of them wanted to flare up, however, they were temporarily stopped by their boss. “It was dismissal period. There were so many children at the entrance of the kindergarten. The girl happened to be feisty. There were so many people just now. If she clung on to me just a moment longer, we would not have gotten away.”
Zhao Youxi looked at them coldly. Although she did not like them, it was indeed not the time to make enemies out of them.
With that thought in mind, Zhao Youxi looked away and comforted Joy, “The uncles didn’t do it on purpose. I’ve already taught them a lesson for you. Don’t cry. Come, I’ll give you candy.”
As Zhao Youxi said this, she took out a pink candy-like object from her pocket and handed it to Joy.
Although Joy liked to eat, he also knew that he couldn’t eat the food of strangers, especially since this stranger had a grudge against his mom.
But now that he was surrounded by such a group of people, even if he didn’t want to eat it, these people would still force it into his stomach.
Joy hesitated for a moment, but he still obediently swallowed the object.
Zhao Youxi and the others did not think that children could be so narrow-minded. They only thought that children were afraid of strangers, but in the end, they could not resist the charm of snacks. In the end, they succumbed to the temptation of candies.
Not long after Joy ate the candies, he felt dizzy. Then, his eyelids grew heavy.
The child persisted for a while, but in the end, he could not resist the instincts of his body and fell asleep.
When he completely fell into the darkness, Joy clearly heard the woman say to him, “Be good. You’ll be home after a nap.”
Zhao Youxi held the child who had fallen asleep, and her expression suddenly changed. She said in a deep voice, “Stop the car.”
The burly men were frightened by Zhao Youxi’s sudden change in attitude. It took them a long time to react. They reined in their anger and said, “Ms. Zhao, it seems that we can’t park here.”
Before they could finish their words, Zhao Youxi’s eyes had already swept over them and she asked coldly, “Don’t you want the rest of the money?”
The burly man choked and said with a sullen face, “Stop the car.”
The car stopped. Zhao Youxi held the child in her arms and hailed a taxi, leaving the group of burly men looking at each other in dismay.
“Brother, aren’t you afraid that the woman will go back on her word?”
“Yes, yes. That woman is obviously not a good person. What if she leaves with the child and doesn’t give us the money at all?”
When the leader of the group heard this, his face darkened. He raised his hand and slapped the heads of the two underlings who spoke. He shouted coldly, “She wouldn’t dare! If she dares to try running off, I’ll definitely kill her!”
On the other side, after Ling Ran lost track of the car, he immediately called Zhao Youlin and Mu Tingfeng.
When Mu Tingfeng received the call, Zhao Youlin was in his car. Just as she was about to tell him about her new discovery, the phone rang.
After Mu Tingfeng answered the phone, his expression became more and more unpleasant. In the end, he simply replied to the other end of the phone, “I got it. Take care of your niece first. Youlin and I will go back immediately.” Then he hung up the phone.
When Zhao Youlin saw that Mu Tingfeng had hung up the phone, she immediately asked curiously, “Who called? Did something happen?”
Mu Tingfeng’s face darkened. When he saw Zhao Youlin’s curious gaze, he hesitated for a moment before he spoke with great difficulty, “Ling Ran called. Joy… was kidnapped.”
The smile on Zhao Youlin’s face froze.
“What happened? How did Joy get kidnapped?” Zhao Youlin could not care less about her belly belly. She quickly walked into the house and could not help but ask Ling Ran loudly the moment she saw him.
Mu Tingfeng had a dark expression on his face as he stood by the side. He carefully protected Zhao Youlin so that she would not hurt herself.
Ling Ran looked at the concerned faces of the two of them. He did not have the time to say anything. Ling Yuemei, who had insisted on coming along, rushed out first. She hugged Zhao Youlin’s thigh and started to cry. “Auntie Zhao, Joy… Joy was taken away by the bad guys. I wanted to fight them, but… but they threw me away. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, sob sob…”
The child had been feeling guilty for not being able to rescue Joy. When she saw the grief on Zhao Youlin’s face, she instantly burst out, hugging Zhao Youlin’s thigh and crying.
