Be in low spirits

"Will he come in the evening?" Li Li was a little anxious.

"It's hard to say. What do you want? If you come, I'll ask for you." The old man refused to cooperate again. Kong Zhixi looked at the sun in the sky, went to the store opposite to buy a bottle of water, handed it to the old man, and asked, "Uncle, what time does he usually get here?"

"It's hard to say. The boss brings his friends here from time to time. Sometimes he comes early, sometimes late. But recently he comes quite late, after 10 o'clock, and his left hand is injured." The old man took the water and started talking.

"Do you know how you got hurt?" Kong Zhixi squatted beside the old man, opened the water and started drinking.

"He's our leader, he wouldn't tell us these things. But he's been a little different lately, he didn't bring any friends with him. Did something happen, girl?" The old man sat on a stool, lowered his head and looked at her gently.

"We also want to know what happened to him. That's why we came to you because we couldn't contact him." Kong Zhixi began to deceive.

"No, even though he came a little late these days, he will still come." The old man began to wonder.

"Uncle, could you please call us when he comes?" Kong Zhixi found a piece of paper and wrote down Li Li's phone number.

The old man took the number, looked at it for a few seconds, put it in his pocket, and said, "Okay, I'll call you in the evening." The two men thanked him and went back to the bureau.

I checked the owners of the bar. I didn't know until I checked that none of them were innocent. The one with the surname Liu was not the most eye-catching. The one with the surname Zhuo was a ruthless person. His wife and children died inexplicably abroad 8 years ago. He returned to China alone and went to Southeast Asia for a while. After returning, he started to do well.

"Has no one checked this Zhuo?" Kong Zhixi asked while looking at the information on the household registration.

"I checked and they said there is no problem. My wife and child died in an accident. My first pot of gold was the house. I went to Southeast Asia to do foreign trade and started many companies after returning home." Li Li has looked very tired recently and he no longer has the previous enthusiasm for handling cases.

"What about Lin?"

"This Lin...his path to wealth was not glorious either. He made his fortune through gambling. I heard that he laundered his money back to China with the help of this Zhuo. We couldn't find any actual evidence against the two of them, so...that's it." He spread his hands, expressing his helplessness.

"So only the Liu guy was checked at night? Actually, I think all the dead guys were pretty extravagant. These guys should have been pretty extravagant too. Maybe this Liu guy is actually a normal guy."

"We have to find a breakthrough." The two men were now out of energy.

"Do you still remember the previous Mr. Shu?" Kong Zhixi lay on the table and suddenly remembered.

"It's written in the file, have you read it?" Li Li also lay on the table.

Kong Zhixi looked through the file and saw: Shu Bole, 35 years old, head of Cheung Kong Group. From the conversation, it was clear that Shu Bole looked down on his younger brother, belittling him in every sentence, and even felt that his brother's death was a shame to the family.

A middle-aged woman's sharp cry was heard at the door of the police station: "Give me back my son! The murderer, who is the murderer? Kill him! I will kill him!" Li Li sighed, took the hat on the table, put it on with great determination, and said: "Sure enough, what is coming will come." Then he walked out with heavy steps.

"Tsk tsk tsk, middle-aged woman, you can just sacrifice a little bit of your looks and it will be done." Kong Zhixi teased, looking at his back.

While Li Li was comforting the family of the deceased, Kong Zhixi drove to Cheung Kong Group. It was really hard to meet this so-called Mr. Shu, but she saw a bodyguard downstairs who looked very similar to the one who kidnapped her. He was standing by the cafe downstairs of the office building, smoking and talking on the phone. Kong Zhixi wanted to go up to see his face clearly, but at the corner, he stepped on a cigarette butt and left.

She was still a little scared and didn't dare to act alone, so she drove back to the bureau to find Li Li.

Li Li stared at the computer screen in a daze, as if he had just gone through a tough battle.

"I saw it! The person who kidnapped me." She deliberately raised her voice a little, waking Li Li from his haggardness.

"Who?" Li Li was stunned and didn't hear everything she said.

"The person who kidnapped me was Shuberle's bodyguard." She leaned forward and said again.

"Why are you acting alone? Your wounds haven't healed yet!" Li Li couldn't help but worry about her safety again.

"Oh, that's not the point. The point is that he is Shuberle's bodyguard!" She raised her voice again. "This means that Shuberle is related to the kidnapping case!"

"Have you gone to see Shu Bole?" Li Li was still worried about her acting alone.

"I haven't seen the person, but this bodyguard is definitely a suspect in the kidnapping case!" Kong Zhixi said with certainty.

"So what are your plans?" Li Li asked.

"Plan? I never make plans, but I think I should meet this Shuberle and talk first."

She began to look at him expectantly again. He stared at her for a long time. The white bandage on his neck reminded him to wake up quickly. He swallowed and said, "Let's talk about it tomorrow. I have to go find that Liu tonight."

"Did the master call you?"

"No, let's go eat." Li Li was a little impatient. Her hoarse voice was really unpleasant.

Around 10 o'clock in the evening, they received a call from the old man. Li Li looked at the clothes she was wearing, then looked at his own clothes, and felt that they did not look like clothes for going to a nightclub or a bar, but more like clothes for provoking a fight.

He drove to the night market and took Kong Zhixi to pick out two sets of clothes that looked relatively more textured and like they were suitable for going to a nightclub.

The two went to the bathroom to change clothes first. Kong Zhixi looked at herself in the mirror and felt for the first time that this job could occasionally bring surprises and was not boring.

Standing at the toilet door, Li Li was also wearing a white shirt, black pants, and polished leather shoes. He even scratched his hair, a look that Kong Zhixi had never seen before. In comparison, the pair of loafers on her feet and the black sleeveless dress seemed a bit shabby.

Li Li walked towards her, just like he did on their wedding day, but this time he was at the bathroom door.

"Here." Li Li took out a box that looked like a necklace.

"Where were you hiding? How come I didn't find you?" She was very surprised and walked around him.

"Hehehe, let's open it and take a look first." Li Li found it funny. Her train of thought was always weirder than others.

"What is it?" She had never been so happy since she came here. She opened it and saw that it was a pearl necklace that matched the dress very well.

"I didn't expect you to be so picky." The corners of her mouth never drooped.

"I'll help you put it on, come." Seeing that she was having a hard time putting it on, he fastened it for her himself. She had a faint scent of osmanthus on her body, and she would have looked better if there was no white bandage on her neck.

They entered the booth and ordered two drinks. It was a bit awkward for them to just sit there. Kong Zhixi's clothes didn't look like those of a nightclub girl. The dance floor was very noisy and there were many people. They couldn't see their faces clearly, only the red and green lights reflecting their appearance.

Li Li coughed twice, put his hands on the sofa, leaned quietly towards Kong Zhixi, lowered his head and asked, "Is there any way to lure them out?" His breath sounded beside her ears, with the smell of that cocktail and a little sweetness. She unconsciously stepped back.

"We'll see what happens." She threw her cup on the table. "What are you doing? I'm telling you not to do anything rash. I'm not that kind of person!"

All of a sudden, the eyes of the entire bar were attracted to her, and her tears fell without stopping. Li Li was stunned, and the bar manager also came over.

She lay on the sofa, crying and crying. Li Li stood by, at a loss. The bar manager asked, "Miss, are you okay?" She didn't answer, but just kept crying and pointed at Li Li with one hand. "Do you need help?" She just cried and didn't say anything, pointing at the broken glass on the ground. Li Li thought for a while and yelled, "Don't talk nonsense, I didn't do anything, don't try to extort money from me!"

"You still talk! If I really drank this wine, who knows where you would have taken me. Where is your General Manager Liu? I want to find your General Manager Liu. How could someone poison this bar?" Kong Zhixi sobbed and expressed her needs.