Chapter 535 Catching a Thief

The man in the baseball cap was wandering around Jiang Xiaoxiao's school. He had just seen Jiang Xiaoxiao and her friends taking a car to participate in the competition. It would take several hours if nothing went wrong.

He had plenty of time to search the house and find anything he needed.

If he couldn't find it, his boss had instructed him not to act rashly and alert the enemy.

Maybe the thing was in the safe, but people were usually not so careful with valuables. They just hid it in a place they thought was safe at home.

He returned to the car, took out the map he had just bought, and found the street where Jiang Xiaoxiao lived.

He could arrive in fifteen minutes at most, and there was still plenty of time to complete the task.

He drove past the neighboring community and observed whether there were any neighbors planting flowers or weeding in the yard.

These houses were small and had long passed their heyday.

He only saw some children playing, indicating that most of the residents were older and their children had already started families and careers, or they were newlyweds who bought their first house and had no children yet.

The empty corridor showed that people had gone to work.

This has both advantages and disadvantages.

There weren't many people at home in the community, but those who were at home were all elderly.

Elderly people are nosy, they know who belongs to the community and who is a stranger from outside, and they have nothing to do but peek out the window to kill time.

If someone sees him, the trick is to make himself look ordinary, as if he has the right to be there.

It's even better if no one sees him.

He is very good at hiding himself, so the boss picked him for this job.

He walked around until he found a remote basketball court, where no one was exercising at this time, and parked the car as close as possible.

He left the car there and quickly walked three blocks to Jiang Xiaoxiao's house.

When he arrived at the street where her house was, he began to go around to the backyard, using bushes and fences as cover.

Climb up quietly along the drainpipe.

Just now, he called Jiang Xiaoxiao's home according to her phone number, but no one answered, proving that no one was at home now.

It is said that there is a child at home, but the couple is not at home during the day. The child must be sent to the elderly or the nursery, so the whole house will be empty.

Entering someone else's home was a piece of cake.

The lock on the door would not stop a determined ten-year-old, and it took him only seconds to open it.

There were children's voices next door, and he didn't want to alarm anyone.

God, people really couldn't imagine how easy this was.

He walked around the house first, checking the most obvious hiding places, the refrigerator's cold storage, the top shelf of the cupboard, under the chair.

He didn't know exactly what the notebook he was looking for looked like, no one knew.

The boss said to find only one notebook, and it would be old and dirty.

There were no dirty old notebooks in the obvious hiding places.

The Peaked Cap began to systematically search the contents of the house.

He checked every drawer, pulling out each one to see if there was anything hidden behind or at the bottom.

He felt the curtains to see if there was anything sewn to the bottom, and looked at all the cushions and pillows for signs of re-stitching or unusual bulges.

He didn't damage anything, that was the trick of malicious amateurs.

The real art was to enter and leave the house without leaving any trace of his presence.

He did not destroy any furniture, and after checking, he put everything back in place.

He was quite efficient. In less than two hours, he finished the search, but he still didn't find the notebook.

Unless the woman was really smart, the house was so small that there was no extra hiding place. Unless they made a secret room, it would be impossible to miss it.

He was sure that the notebook was not in the house, so he left the house immediately and took the usual cautious steps to get back to the car.

No one knew that someone had been here.

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Tangyuan raised his head suddenly, grabbed the plastic knife in his hand, and gestured to Mr. Song.

"Grandpa, there is a thief!"

Mr. Song smiled. His great-grandson has recently liked the game of police catching thieves.

Every time he picked up the knife, he had to play this game. Of course, every time he was the thief, and his great-grandson was the policeman who caught the thief.

Old Master Song got up and ran away quickly. Although he was exhausted from playing this game so often, he had no choice. The child liked him and he couldn't bear to hurt the child's heart.

Tangyuan stood there and pointed at the house opposite, "Thief!"

Old Master Song said from behind the door, "Come and catch me!"

Old Mrs. Song looked at her old man and Tangyuan funny, fighting and making fun of each other.

"This kid will probably be a policeman when he grows up. He has been playing this game since he was a child, and he enjoys it. And people can always catch you. You, a thief, have no sense of accomplishment. It's a pity that you have been on the battlefield in the future, and you can't even deal with a child with such skills."

Old Master Song held his waist, "How old am I, and you still let me go to the battlefield, that was when I was young. If you have the ability, you can play with this kid for a while, and you will know. Don't look at his short legs, this guy runs faster than a rabbit."

As he said that, Tangyuan had already poked his head out and stared at the great grandmother and great grandfather cutely.

He pulled Mr. Song hard and insisted on pulling him out of the door.

Old man Song followed Tangyuan out the door helplessly.

"You little brat, aren't you going to play police catching thieves? Why did you run out again?"

Tangyuan looked at the door and was stunned for a while, "The thief ran away."

Old man Song was speechless, it turned out that this kid had not given up.

"Okay, okay, the thief ran away, you hurry back with great grandfather. Are you missing your parents? Don't worry, your mother will go to participate in the competition for a few days, and she will be back after the competition.

Your mother said she would call you in the evening, and you will stay at great grandfather's house for the next few days.

By the way, your great grandfather Wu and great grandmother Wu will come over later. Your great grandmother Wu said she made you your favorite date cake."

The old man picked up Tangyuan and carried him back to the house.

Old lady Song held a bowl of egg custard, "Come on, little Tangyuan, it's time for lunch."

Tangyuan slowly climbed onto the chair by himself. He was a very independent child.

He glanced at the door with some disappointment. Why didn't great grandfather understand what he said!

There was a thief, but he ran away without taking anything.

Soon Tangyuan forgot about all this and started to eat egg custard happily.

The arrival of Mr. Wu and Mrs. Wu immediately made the house lively.

They came to take Tangyuan to the zoo for fun. The four old people took Tangyuan directly to the zoo by car.

No one knew that such an episode had happened in the family.