Early in the morning, Beverly Hills was quiet and the birds were still singing in the trees, so Raymond drove to wake up a few people, washed up in a hurry, called Coleman to make an appointment for a meeting, and everyone set off again.

The Los Angeles metropolitan area is under construction, and real estate developers have bought a lot of land and are busy starting construction with the slogan of the Los Angeles city government of "building a new community, building a new Los Angeles".

During this time, there were many people marching on the streets and in front of the city government, and many people were kicked out of their homes by real estate developers and slept on the streets. The home where he had lived for years, more than ten years, or even decades was forcibly demolished by an excavator and became a piece of rubble.

The SUV drove through the street outside the city hall of Los Angeles, and many children sat on the side of the road with a large bag of clothes and furniture holding their beloved toys, and there was no innocence in their eyes.

The fat man sighed, no matter which country, it has its limitations, which cannot be avoided. It is enough to do what you should do, even Shakespeare said - love all, trust the few, and live up to all.

A girl holding a bear taller than herself stood on the side of the road in a dirty long dress, she was about 4 or 5 years old, and with tears in her eyes, she kept crying into the distance: "Dad, Mommy, I'm afraid, I want to go home." ”

The fat man glanced at the crowd and saw that the faces of a couple and a little girl standing at the front of the demonstration crowd were very similar, and they were holding a small flag and shouting passionately.

In the midst of their agitation, the young couple took out a few gasoline bottles hidden somewhere, lit them on fire, and threw them at the city gate. In their hearts, all this is righteous, and they will take it back to their home.

This bottle went down, and the hornet's nest was punctured. A few policemen came over, held down the little couple who jumped up with excitement, and dragged them into the police car in handcuffs.

At this time, the couple remembered their daughter on the side of the road, and kept explaining and apologizing to the police in and outside the car.

It was late, the gasoline bottles over there had ignited the decorations at the entrance of the city hall, and the fire brigade was nervously rushing to prepare to extinguish the fire. A policeman pressed the couple's head out of the window into the car, and the police car whizzed away.

When the police car passed by the little girl, the couple cried their daughter's name through the car window, and the little girl saw all this happening with her own eyes and cried so much that she was about to suffocate.

Wang Lei patted Julie on the shoulder, Julie stopped on the side of the road with a foot on the brake, and the fat man pushed the door and walked towards the little girl. The other people all came down, and Raymond saw in the rearview mirror why the SUV didn't leave, so he hurriedly stopped and ran over.

Wang Lei squatted in front of the sad and crying little girl and held up his badge: "Baby, I'm the FBI, you're not afraid." Tell me. What is your name. ”

Glancing at the fat man vigilantly, the little girl hugged the bear tighter: "Are you really the FBI?" Are you here to save my mom and dad? My name is Linna? Heidi, my mom and dad were taken away by the police, woo woo woo woo ......"

Raymond leaned close to the fat man's ear: "This is not something we can interfere with, only the child welfare agency has the right to deal with it." ”

Wang Lei frowned and looked at Kaulman, who shrugged, he understood what Wang Lei meant, however, there are very strict rules for adopting children in the United States.

USCIS publishes detailed adoption policies on its website, some of which are special provisions for "foreign child adoption," while most of them also apply to the adoption of children within the United States.

One of the most striking features of these policies is that they require adopters not only to have a certain level of economic strength, but also to ensure that the psychology of the adopted child is not suppressed and distorted.

Moreover, a pre-adoption home survey is an indispensable step in this. The household survey is done by an officially licensed "household investigation agency". In addition, prior to adoption, the adopter must submit a recommendation for the adoption of the child.

Knowing that Wang Lei didn't know much about the specific provisions of many laws in the United States, Raymond and Coleman patiently explained in detail.

Among the rules for the adoption of a child, there are several that are very unique in the world.

For example, pre-adoptive parents must meet with their child before adoption, which refers to the meeting of people, and videos and videos are not counted.

That's why many Americans travel all over the world to adopt a child instead of taking it over.

The two parties will have an intuitive understanding of each other after meeting, and under this premise, the applicant's psychology will not change much, so as to ensure that the adoptive parents will fulfill their adoption promises in the futureSimilarly, the purpose of the family survey is also to ensure that the adopted child has a good environment for growth and will not be abused because of the adoption.

When it comes to specific family surveys, there is quite a lot to cover: the investigator talks to the adoptive parents in person and asks about the family, such as the number of members of the adoptive parents' family.

The investigator also assesses the physical, mental, and emotional abilities of the adoptive parents and their family members, and if one of the parents has a serious illness, such as cancer, they are not eligible for adoption.

The foster parent's financial situation is also carefully documented, such as income, debts, expenses, and expenses for supporting other members of the family.

The U.S. government requires pre-adoptive parents to have an income level that is at least 25 percent above the poverty line or have solid assets. At the very least, the child asks for a separate room.

Wang Lei was silent, this is not domestic, there is money and ability, pick up a child and come back and go through the formalities slowly, in the United States, this is unimaginable.

A policewoman walked over, her hand pressed on the holster, obviously a little wary of a few men and women surrounding the little girl, Raymond was a policeman, but he was wearing civilian clothes, and the police car was parked more than ten meters away.

"What are you doing? Lina, come here. "The policewoman was notified that she was in the care of the girl until someone from the child welfare agency arrived.

Raymond and Coleman took out their respective documents, and the policewoman checked them carefully, and after reading them, the person relaxed: "You guys want to?" ”

"Corman, I'd like to adopt Lina for the time being, and you'll see what you can do." Wang Lei interrupted the policewoman's questioning, and expressed his wishes in an affirmative tone.

Julie and Yang Qian were overwhelmed by the little girl's big round eyes and short hair, and they were busy shushing the cold and asking for warmth, but Wang Shui'er was talking to Yago on the side.

"Baby, I'll take you shopping for beautiful clothes, okay?" Yang Qian wanted to hold the little girl's hand, but Linna shrank her hand and hid behind the fat man, revealing half of her head and looking at Yang Qian with big eyes.

"Is this your girlfriend? Which of the three of them is your girlfriend? Lina pushed the fat man's back and asked in a milky voice.

Turning around, the fat man's small eyes and Linna's big eyes glared at each other: "They are not my girlfriends because they are not as beautiful as you." ”

The fat man's seriousness startled the policewoman, and she pulled Lina over: "Now you have no right to adopt, and you can't get close to Linna." ”

Coleman and Raymond also couldn't understand the fat man's joke, which was a domestic feature that Americans couldn't accept. Julie didn't make such a fuss, she just asked Yang Qian quietly, and smiled after understanding.

Reaching out to Julie for a call, the fat man dialed Robert's office: "I'm going to adopt a child, and they're all here to suspect me of pedophilia, Robert, I think you've seen my profile, you know better than they do, and I owe you a request, whatever it is." ”

Robert attaches great importance to the fat man's promise, you know, the fat man himself promised whatever he wanted. Of course, Robert wouldn't let him commit suicide.

No matter how many laws there are, there are loopholes to exploit, and in order to do this perfectly, Kunticio's best legal experts took off from Virginia with all of Wang Lei's documents and supporting documents.

Hanging up the phone, Wang Lei asked Ya Ge and Wang Shui'er to stay with Linna, and the others continued to go to their destination, as compensation, Wang Lei promised to go to the police station to pick up Wang Shui'er after finishing his errands and invite everyone to drink.

Wang Shui'er is hostile to Linna, strong hostility. The reason Wang Shui'er didn't know, she just found that she hated this little girl from the bottom of her heart.

The child is perceptive, although in the eyes of outsiders, Wang Shui'er and Linna stand side by side, and the woman's hand caress the girl's hair, and both are happy.

Linna shook her head vigorously, resolutely wanting to leave Wang Shui'er's side, she held the palm of the policewoman's hand, and asked timidly, "How long will it take for that fat man to pick me up just now?" ”

"The fat man." The policewoman was happy, she doted on her and took out a piece of chocolate and stuffed it into Linna's hand: "Hungry, eat some first." ”

Linna's dark hands made the policewoman frown, she took out a pack of tissues from her bag, pulled out a piece of paper and wiped Linna's hands, tore open half of the chocolate package, and fed it to Linna's mouth.

Ya Ge was very careful to understand Wang Shui'er's subtlety, and he asked softly: "Wang Shui'er, don't you like her?" Why? ”

Stubbornly looking at the demonstrator team in front of him, Wang Shui'er didn't say a word. If you don't like it, you don't like it, where do you need any reason, Wang Shui'er thought disdainfully.

The second deceased was a white-collar worker at a real estate company, and the alley where he died was also in tatters, surrounded by rubble.

In broad daylight, the alleys are also eerie, with shacks and a 3-storey old building that have not yet had time to be torn down.

The smell in the alley is stinky, and it seems that there are many people who have the same hobbies as this white-collar worker in the city and like to solve physiological problems on the spot.

Raymond had already been here once, he didn't want to go in again, and the two women definitely didn't want to smell the stench, so Cowman had to pinch his nose and accompany Wang Lei in.

The fat man seemed to have no sense of smell, so he walked slowly from the mouth of the alley to the bottom of the alley, and then walked back from the bottom of the alley. Without saying anything, he waved his hand: "Go to the first death scene." ”

In China, the fat man will go to the forensic office to watch the autopsy in person if he has nothing to do, this smell is really pediatric, he is not as tsundere as Coleman, who has been staying in the FBI, and he has no cleanliness fetish, as long as it is needed to solve the case, he can endure anything.