The Mightiest Little Peasant

Panda Novel

Tang Hao blended among the crowd after he got out of the bank, lingering around for a while to see.

He left after seeing the robbers escorted into the police cars.

It was evening when he arrived home.

Tang Hao went to the nearby wet market.

The vendors at the wet market knew him very well. They greeted him warmly when they saw him. A few of them asked about Ling Wei.

“Where’s that girl, Tang boy?”

Tang Hao was at a loss for a reply whenever he was asked that.

It had been a month since the incident. He also wondered how she had been.

‘Her life must be good now!’ Tang Hao thought.

He made dinner for himself when he got back. He chatted with Qin Xiangyi over the phone as he ate, listening to her talk about her business and her everyday life.

He enjoyed the simplicity of it all.

The call lasted for more than an hour.

After dinner, Tang Hao sat down in the living room and took out the raw jade stones he bought earlier that day. He broke the rocks open and cut the jade ore into thin slices.

The night got darker.

Tang Hao sat there, making talismans with full concentration. An unknown amount of time passed before the sudden vibration of his phone broke his concentration.

He was surprised when he saw the call notification.

It was from Officer Zhao.

He held the phone in his hand for about ten seconds before answering the call.

“Hello, Officer Zhao!”

The other end of the phone was silent.

Tang Hao also fell silent. He did not know what to say.

A long while later, she spoke hesitantly, “Come down!”

“What?” Tang Hao was confused.

“I said… come down here! I’m at the entrance of your residential area!” Zhao Qingxue said. She sounded a little tipsy.

“You drank?”

She was silent for a while. “Just a little!”

“I’ll be downstairs soon!” Tang Hao said.

He ended the call and lifted his head to look at the clock. It was already eleven o’clock.

“She’s not asleep yet at this hour? And she’s been drinking too..” Tang Hao mumbled and furrowed his brows.

He left his house and went to the entrance of his residential area. He looked to his left and right and saw a car parked nearby.

He walked toward the car, opened the door, and sat inside.

Zhao Qingue was sitting in the driver’s seat. She turned her head over and looked at him.

She was not in her police uniform, but rather a red dress.

She continued staring at him.

Tang Hao furrowed his brows. It seemed that she took quite a lot of alcohol, but she was not drunk yet.

“That was you earlier, right?”

She suddenly opened her mouth. Her eyes were sparkling.

Tang Hao grimaced. “How did you know?” He asked.

“Hmph, isn’t that easy? Who else could it be other than you? You were the first person I suspected, and I confirmed my suspicions when I saw the security footage.”

Tang Hao scratched his head awkwardly. “Looks like I’ve been found!”

Zhao Qingxue burst out laughing when she saw his face. “Don’t you know? The robbers seemed to have lost their minds when they mentioned you!”

“Well, it’s their fault for robbing a bank. They’re unlucky to meet me!” Tang Hao mumbled.

The atmosphere fell silent again.

…

The next morning.

Zhao Qingxue woke up just after he made breakfast. While they were eating, Zhao Qingxue’s phone started ringing.

“It’s Captain Zhang!” Zhao Qingxue told Tang Hao after she picked up her phone.

Very soon, her expression changed drastically.

“What? Where?” She shot up from her chair abruptly. Her expression was indescribably grim.

A while later, she continued speaking. “Understood. I’ll go over as soon as I can.”

She ended the call after that.

“There’s a case?” Tang Hao asked out of curiosity.

Zhao Qingxue nodded. “It’s a troublesome one!” Her face stiffened, and her hand holding the chopsticks froze in mid-air.

She furrowed her brows and said with some difficulty, “They discovered another girl at a construction site in the north of town. She’s only in her mid-teens, and she’s barely alive when they found her. The doctors are trying to resuscitate her now.

“She was only a bag of skin and bones when she was discovered. There were signs that her blood was drawn over a long period of time. Fortunately, she was alive when they found her, but the other two that we found earlier were dead.”

Tang Hao was silent.

The fires of anger were silently brewing.

Who could be so cruel to a teenage girl?

“What are the chances of saving her?” Tang Hao asked seriously.

“The captain said that the chances are quite high. The girl has a strong will to live. The doctors say that it’s a miracle that she survived,” Zhao Qingxue said.

Tang Hao was silent for a while. “I’ll go with you! Maybe I can help you somehow.”

“Alright!” Zhao Qingxue nodded.

The two people abandoned their breakfast and quickly went out the door. They passed by Zhao Qingxue’s house on the way to the hospital, and she changed into her uniform.