“Actually, the most important thing right now is to catch these people first…” Sheng Zexi said.
As long as they caught this group and interrogated them, they would know whether someone had been working with them from the inside—and if so, who that person was.
“You’re right. I’ll report this immediately and have the organization expedite their arrest. By the way, can you and Dr. Gu provide portraits of those people? If we have portraits, the arrest will be much more efficient.”
“I can draw the one called Aunt Zhou for you now. As for the others, I’ll need to ask the children.”
“Alright, then draw Aunt Zhou first.”
Since they were outdoors and conditions were rudimentary, Sheng Zexi could only use simple paper and a pencil to sketch.
Though Sheng Zexi wasn’t professionally trained in drawing, as a soldier, he was capable of roughly outlining a suspect’s facial features.
So, before long, under Sheng Zexi’s strokes, Aunt Zhou’s facial contours took shape on the paper.
It looked about seventy to eighty percent accurate.
“Good, I’ll take this with me,” Chen Han said as he accepted the portrait.
“You should head back to Dr. Gu. Things are manageable on my end for now, and I can handle it.”
Fortunately, up to this point, the severe typhoon had only brought one major wave.
Although some people who hadn’t evacuated were swept into the sea by the wave, all of them had been rescued.
Even though the typhoon was still intense, the situation was still under control.
“Alright, I’ll head back then. My wife just gave birth, and there’s no one taking care of her right now.”
“Dr. Gu delivered? A boy or a girl? Congratulations!”
“A boy. Thank you.”
Without further delay, Sheng Zexi left after reporting the crucial matters.
Chen Han didn’t want to keep Sheng Zexi any longer.
After all, he had already approved Sheng Zexi’s one-month leave to take care of Dr. Gu earlier.
But when the typhoon hit, he had called Sheng Zexi to assist on the front lines.
As a result, Sheng Zexi and Dr. Gu’s children were targeted.
If Sheng Zexi had been with them the whole time, perhaps those criminals wouldn’t have been so brazen.
So, truth be told, Chen Han felt somewhat guilty.
Thankfully, the children were unharmed.
…
By the time Sheng Zexi returned to the hospital, Gu Jianing was still asleep.
It couldn’t be helped—she had just given birth and then endured the fear of her children possibly being kidnapped or harmed. Her nerves had been stretched to the limit.
It was already remarkable that she hadn’t broken down.
Now that she had finally relaxed, she needed to sleep deeply.
While Gu Jianing was still asleep, the newborn in the crib beside her woke up.
Sheng Zexi picked up the child with one hand and began preparing a bottle of formula with the other, his movements practiced and effortless.
And for good reason.
Back when Xingxing and Yueyue were babies, Sheng Zexi had taken care of them the same way—especially at night.
He never let the children disturb Gu Jianing’s sleep.
So every night when Gu Jianing was resting, it was Sheng Zexi who fed the babies formula and changed their diapers.
Only when Gu Jianing happened to be awake would she breastfeed them.
Xingxing and Yueyue had been raised on a mix of breast milk and formula.
This little one would be no different.
Once the formula was ready, Sheng Zexi placed the bottle’s nipple into the baby’s mouth. The hungry little guy immediately began gulping it down eagerly.
Perhaps he was truly starving—he drank so forcefully and quickly that Sheng Zexi worried he might choke.
Gently, he coaxed the baby to slow down.
The little one didn’t know if he understood his father’s words or if he had drunk the first few sips and wasn’t as hungry anymore, but his feeding speed gradually slowed down.
After finishing the bottle, the little guy fell soundly asleep again.
Sheng Zexi gazed at the newborn, who still hadn’t opened his eyes.
He noticed that this little one looked different from Xingxing and Yueyue.
Xingxing took after him.
Yueyue resembled Ningning.
But this little guy didn’t lean toward either parent—instead, he seemed to blend the best features of both Sheng Zexi and Ningning’s faces.
He looked like both of them.
No matter what, though, he was undoubtedly going to be a beautiful child.
Yes, beautiful.
Even though he was a little boy, Sheng Zexi had a strange feeling that he would grow up to be strikingly pretty.
After gently placing the sleeping Tuantuan back in the crib, Sheng Zexi checked on Gu Jianing and carefully tucked her in.
He then glanced over and saw that Lin Shu, who had long since changed clothes, had already dozed off in a chair.
Yueyue was quietly draping a blanket over her.
Once Yueyue finished covering Lin Shu, Sheng Zexi called Xingxing and Yueyue aside and asked if they remembered the appearances of the two men besides Aunt Zhou.
As it turned out, Xingxing and Yueyue had excellent memories.
Though they had only seen the men briefly before being “drugged,” they still recalled their faces clearly.
Sheng Zexi borrowed paper and a pen from the doctor.
He had the children describe the two men while he sketched their features based on their descriptions.
After half an hour of adjustments and refinements, he finally completed the facial outlines of both men.
Xingxing and Yueyue confirmed that the drawings were about 70-80% accurate.
“Good job, you two. Thank you.” Sheng Zexi patted their little heads gently.
He knew that Xingxing and Yueyue had been through a terrifying ordeal today.
Being thrown into the sea…
It was practically a brush with death.
Sheng Zexi understood that he couldn’t blame the children for misjudging those people and following them.
If anyone had misjudged, it was him.
He was the one who had been deceived by Aunt Zhou and inadvertently led her to Ningning and the children.
The thought of what could have happened to them made his blood run cold. He would have lost his mind.
Now, all he could hope for was that the authorities would quickly track down this group and bring them to justice.
….
Meanwhile, in Huaihua Village…
Yao Chunhua and Old Man Gu were on their way to the village committee to call Gu Jianing.
Along the way, Yao Chunhua chattered nonstop.
“Second daughter-in-law really had a risky birth this time—it was a difficult delivery. Thankfully, she had that smooth-delivery pill Ningning gave her, or else things could’ve gone very badly.”
Old Man Gu nodded in agreement.
“I wonder how Ningning is doing?”
“Yeah…”
At the mention of her daughter, Yao Chunhua felt a pang of longing—and guilt.
She hadn’t even been able to go help Ningning during her postpartum month.
She didn’t know if her daughter had given birth yet, whether it went smoothly, or if she had suffered.
Had she been able to rest properly after delivery?
“She hasn’t called in a while. We have no idea what’s going on over there.”
In the end, the worried parents decided to take the initiative and call first.
Soon, they arrived at the village committee and began making the call.
At this time, phone calls still required operator assistance for connections.
But this time, no matter how many times they tried, the operator couldn’t connect them to Huansha Island…
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