Be in low spirits

Kong Zhixi rolled her eyes, then quickly regained her composure towards the teacher and said, "Do you know about Yanan's family situation?"

"Well, I just know that his parents don't seem to have a very good relationship, but it's hard to say whether it's true or not." The teacher hesitated.

"You said Yanan is always alone, doesn't he have any friends at school?"

"Yes, but she's from another class, and her name seems to be Zhang Jiahui. Otherwise, I'll go get her." The teacher said as he was about to go out to look for someone.

"Hey, no, no, no, let's just go find him. Let's go talk to Director Liao first. Don't be anxious." Kong Zhixi quickly stopped them.

Lao Sui had almost found someone to deal with the situation on the scene. As for the child's parents, the principal also found a psychologist to comfort them. It was getting dark by then.

The two returned to the bureau. Kong Zhixi couldn't help but pick up the red hair on Li Li's shoulder and threw it away in the forensic room. Old Sui looked at him meaningfully and said, "Oh~ things are getting interesting."

"The dead are the greatest, what are you talking about!" Kong Zhixi walked to the corpse and tried to cover up the past.

"Are you the captain or is your wife the captain?" Lao Sui walked to Li Li and whispered to him.

"This child is still so young, how could he be so depressed?" She murmured around the child.

"Did you find out anything today?" Li Li also asked.

"He just said that he was a loner, didn't have many friends, wasn't a good student, but was a hard worker. I guess he had stress from studying, but the teacher said there was no bullying. If he was just studying, he wouldn't have jumped off the building."

"I'm talking about your kidnapping case." Li Li explained again.

Not sure if it was because of the red hair or because of Li Li’s expression today, Kong Zhixi always felt that he was a little unpleasant to the eye. She looked up at him but didn’t respond.

Old Sui said: "Now we can conclude that he fell from a building, but this child... is a homosexual."

"Ah?" Both of them were surprised.

"From the anus, he is a gay with sexual experience." Lao Sui continued to explain. "That is to say, he has a sexual partner, but such a young child..." Kong Zhixi found it a little unbelievable.

"Have your parents learned anything?" Li Li also asked.

Kong Zhixi lowered her head and took a deep breath. She probably couldn't figure out anything at this moment, so she said, "Let's go home. I'll ask again tomorrow."

Kong Zhixi sat on the sofa, watching the video she copied today over and over again, trying to see which one was the child who sold the van. Li Li was cooking in the kitchen, glancing at her from time to time.

During the meal, Li Li felt that he should explain, so he said, "Actually, Cheng Xi and I are not what you think."

"What am I thinking?" Kong Zhixi didn't care, but she thought the food today was a little too salty. She was a little hesitant about whether she should spit out the vegetables she was chewing.

"We knew each other when we were young, but that was when we were young. She was in poor health, so I always treated her like my own sister." Li Li was a little afraid that she would be angry, so he kept looking at her while saying this.

"Yeah." She swallowed the vegetables in her mouth, drank a sip of water, and then picked up a piece of pork ribs.

"You...don't mind, do you?" Li Li asked her tentatively.

The ribs were even more unpalatable, so she spat them out and asked, "Did you mistake salt for sugar?" Li Li picked up a piece and tasted it, then put down his chopsticks and said, "Then don't eat it. Let's go out to eat. All this has been thrown away." Then he started to clean up.

The two ordered some barbecue at the barbecue stall. In the distance, a man in a baseball cap walked past them quickly with his head down. Then he made a phone call and said to the person on the other end of the phone, "The person is still there, but the operation has failed." These actions were lost in the bustling crowd.

The young lady in the distance also lowered her head and sat in the small restaurant opposite the barbecue restaurant. She called Cheng Xi and said, "They are eating barbecue together. I can't hear what they are talking about."

The next morning, the two drove to the victim's family's home. Only the child's mother and aunt were at home, and the father was nowhere to be seen. The furnishings in the house were a bit messy, with only two rooms, a bathroom and a kitchen, and it didn't look very big.

There were a lot of study materials in the child's room. A fitness coach's calendar was hung on the wall. May 5 was circled in red. There was no computer on the desk, only some textbooks and exercise books, and unfinished test papers. The mother squatted in the room in a daze, her face haggard, and there was unfinished breakfast on the dining table. It was this aunt who opened the door.

"Isn't Mr. Guan at home?" Kong Zhixi looked around and then asked the aunt who opened the door.

"My brother-in-law doesn't live here. He...they have been separated for a long time." The aunt glanced towards the room and said nervously.

Li Li winked at Kong Zhixi, who pretended not to notice and continued to ask, "How long is a long time?" The aunt brought hot water and sat opposite, blocking the door of the room where her mother was.

"I don't remember exactly, but it should have been several years. Yanan is usually very well-behaved and studies very hard. He has never said anything negative. He would not commit suicide for no reason." When she mentioned the word suicide, she deliberately lowered her voice.

"Yes, we are investigating this matter now, don't worry." Kong Zhixi comforted. "Does Yanan have any friends? Did he talk about anything at school?"

"He doesn't have many friends in school, and he only talks about things the teacher told him to do. I...actually I don't know much about him." The aunt covered her face with her hands and glanced at her sister who was in a daze in the room.

"So your sister is the only one who lives here normally?"

"I... live here, but not permanently. My sister has been emotionally unstable since her divorce from my brother-in-law, so I often come to see her." This aunt gives people the feeling that she has something to say but dares not to.

"Does Yanan live on campus?"

"I don't live there. I go home every day, but I'm busy with high school studies, so sometimes I come home late."

"How late?"

"Sometimes I don't get back until almost 12 o'clock, and sometimes it's around 11 o'clock."

"Does he always reply by himself?"

"Yes, he rode his bike back by himself."

"I saw May 5th circled on his calendar. Do you know what day it is?"

"I don't know. He often circles some dates on his calendar, but he never tells us." I don't know if this aunt really doesn't understand or is just unwilling to say more.

Kong Zhixi looked at the room again and again, then asked, "Can your sister talk to us now?" She was a little embarrassed, looked at the people in the room, and said to them, "Let me ask, you wait a moment." Then she walked towards the room and whispered a few words to her sister.

My aunt closed the door, and my sister came out after changing her clothes. She sat on the sofa and said, "You guys ask." Kong Zhixi glanced at Li Li and said, "Does Yanan have any friends?"

"Yes, there's a kid next door who goes to the same high school as him. His name is Zhou Yue. Sometimes they come back together after evening self-study." She looked very haggard, probably because she didn't eat or sleep well.

"Sometimes?" Li Li asked.

"Yes, Zhou Yue's academic performance is very good, while Yanan's is average, so it takes more time to do homework."

"The teacher said that Yanan has a somewhat withdrawn personality. Have you noticed anything about that?" Kong Zhixi is a little unsure now. Is it the mother or the child who jumped off the building who has psychological problems?

"Impossible, he always tells me everything, and he gets along well with Zhou Yue and the others. How could he be so withdrawn? Their school must have said that to avoid responsibility!" The mother became excited as she spoke.

"Don't get excited. We will check whether it is true or not." Li Li stretched out his hand and pressed towards the air, wanting the mother who stood up and shouted to sit down first and have a good talk. The aunt also helped her sister sit down.

"Or should we talk about your husband?" Kong Zhixi mentioned, she sounded like an emotionless robot when she said this.

"We are divorced. Apart from Yanan, I have no relationship with him." The mother took a breath and replied.