"Are you sure it was him?" one of the men asked the woman.
"I'm sure. He was standing outside the women's restroom for a long time," the woman said. Afraid the criminal would retaliate later, she hadn't even been holding her child; she had handed the kid over to an auntie with a red armband to watch for a bit.
"He doesn't look the type," the other man said.
"You can know a person's face, but not their heart." The woman was convinced he was the bad guy.
The two men exchanged a look and walked toward Jie Jingchen.
"Comrade, please come with us." Their tone was still polite. Until they could confirm the man before them was a criminal, they couldn't just assume he was one.
Jie Jingchen froze for a moment, but he quickly understood what was happening. Pointing at the women's restroom, he explained, "My wife and child are in there."
"He's lying! There's no child in there," the woman said urgently.
