Be in low spirits

Then he took the medicine and cotton swabs, walked to Kong Zhixi, and half-knelt to treat the wound on her hand. Kong Zhixi walked to the French window, sat on the stool she usually sat on, raised her head and wiped her tears. Li Li also accommodatingly sat beside her and applied medicine for her. "I don't want you to check, because I don't want you to leave."

"You remember it, right? You know who is involved in this case, you know Jia Jia has evidence, and you also know that something will happen to her grandmother, right?" She still didn't believe that Li Li would be a person who would watch someone in need without helping.

Li Li nodded and said nothing. Kong Zhixi grabbed his hand, looked at him, and asked, "Why? Why don't you tell me?"

"Hiss, ah!" Jia Jia cried out in pain after being poked by Cheng Xi with a cotton swab. Cheng Xi quickly stood up to apologize, but ended up knocking over the medicine box. Kong Zhixi let go of Li Li's hand, walked over to Jia Jia, and asked her with concern: "Does it still hurt?" Jia Jia nodded, shook her head, and then started crying.

Li Li stood aside and said, "It's too late today. I'll clean up first. You guys stay here for one night and we can discuss it tomorrow." He glanced at the clock. It was almost three o'clock in the morning.

Cheng Xi interrupted: "Why don't you send Jiajia to me first, and we'll meet up here later tomorrow. No one can find her there." Kong Zhixi nodded. Cheng Xi and Jiajia had never had any connection, so no one should be able to find her. It would indeed be safer for Jiajia to stay with her.

After Cheng Xi and Jia Jia left, Li Li packed up the medicine box and took out gauze from it. He pulled Kong Zhixi to sit on the sofa and helped her bandage her wound. She didn't know whether it was because the wound was scratched during disinfection or because of Li Li's concealment, but she began to feel aggrieved again.

"I know you have seen the evidence and know who is involved behind this. What you are experiencing now is exactly what I have experienced since I joined the police force, but I don't want you to put yourself in danger. Xiao Zhao is already dead, and I don't want you to end up like him." He must have thought about this for a long time, and it turned out that he remembered everything.

"Xiao Zhao?" She raised her hand to wipe away her tears again, wanting to hear every word he said.

"Well, Xiao Zhao uncuffed you. He has already sacrificed himself. I don't want to see anyone die." He kept his head down, not daring to look her in the eyes.

It turned out that without Cheng Xi, he knew why he was here and why he encountered these people and things. "Why did you hide it from me?"

Li Li sighed, "You'll understand." He rubbed her palm. In fact, there was no love between them. From the beginning to the end, it was just his wishful thinking. Her appearance might just be his instinct for survival.

Kong Zhixi wanted to ask for clarification, but her stomach started growling. Li Li smiled and said, "I'll make you a bowl of noodles. Eat and have a good rest. I'll go find Cheng Xi tomorrow. Don't worry."

Feeling Li Li's warmth in her palm, Kong Zhixi clenched her palm. The pain in the wound felt anxious and real.

Cheng Xi was sad. She thought time could make everything fade away, but years of waiting only brought a crueler fact. Time fades away the unimportant things, and the truly important things only make people more profound. Jia Jia couldn't sleep all the time. Even if she closed her eyes, she had nightmares. She had to give her two sleeping pills, and she slept peacefully for a few hours.

She held the red wine glass and drank one glass after another. Even the bright moonlight could not dispel the depression in her heart. At dawn, she just went to bed. When Kong Zhixi saw her, one of her hands was hanging under the stool, and the wine glass was shaky.

She went to the lounge to find a blanket to cover her, tiptoed to take away the wine glass, and asked the cleaning lady to go somewhere else. She sat beside her and looked at her sleeping face. She must have shed a lot of tears, and the traces of tears were still on her face. The world is unpredictable, and she did nothing wrong. She just wanted her brother Li to accompany her. Now, she owed him.

"Brother Li!" She had a dream, and suddenly she sat up and shouted. Turning around and seeing that it was Kong Zhixi, her eyes immediately turned to disappointment. "He went back to the police station and will come over later."

Kong Zhixi turned around to find the kettle, poured a glass of water and handed it to her. She took the cup and whispered, "Thank you."

"I know you've had a hard time over the years." Kong Zhixi felt ashamed. Compared with her feelings for Li Li, she seemed insignificant.

"It doesn't matter. It will be mine in the end anyway." Cheng Xi didn't want to look like he had lost so miserably.

Kong Zhixi nodded and said, "Yeah."

"Jia Jia has been having nightmares, so I gave her a sleeping pill. She is sleeping in the B&B now and will wake up later."

Kong Zhixi nodded again, hesitated for a while, and asked, "Actually, is it possible for Li Li to go back?"

Cheng Xi widened his eyes, thought for two minutes after hearing her question clearly, paused, and laughed out loud: "What do you think?" When he said this, he was just like the first time he provoked her, with a bit of sarcasm.

Kong Zhixi lowered her head and said nothing. She knew there was no answer, but she still wanted to hold on to hope.

When Jia Jia came out, it was already 10 o'clock in the morning. Her complexion was slightly better, but her eyes were still numb. Kong Zhixi showed her the evidence on the computer, and she nodded.

It started to rain outside the window, crackling, and the three people looked at each other in silence. Before Li Li came, Kong Zhixi put away the evidence and gave Cheng Xi a look. Cheng Xi understood and put it away.

"The school sent a worker here, saying he was here to turn himself in and confirmed that he murdered Jia Jia's father." Li Li said to the three people.

"What? Turn yourself in?" Kong Zhixi didn't expect that someone could turn themselves in. Li Li nodded. Jia Jia was a little excited and cried, "They are talking nonsense! They are all scapegoats. It's not true. It's not true!"

Kong Zhixi held her hand, patted her back, and comforted her: "Jia Jia, we all know, we all know." She was only slightly better and there was no way to completely relieve her pain. Cheng Xi arranged for someone to take her to rest. After returning, she said to them: "Jia Jia's condition may require seeing a psychologist to help her get over it. She took sleeping pills to fall asleep last night." The three of them looked at each other in silence. Kong Zhixi sighed and spoke first: "This matter is related to the people in the Education Bureau, right?" As she said this, she looked at Li Li, who nodded.

"Jia Jia, how should we arrange it?"

"I will find a psychologist tomorrow. Cheng Xi, she may trouble you for a long time." Li Li looked at Cheng Xi and told him about his arrangements. Cheng Xi nodded thoughtfully.

"Let's analyze this..." Kong Zhixi was about to analyze the case when Li Li grabbed her hand and said, "Come with me back to the bureau to see the person who surrendered himself."

"Hey~~Hey, you..." She was pulled away before she could react.

In the police station, the worker was indeed repenting, or rather he was afraid. He admitted to killing Jia Jia's father and also admitted to killing Jia Jia's grandmother. His whole body was shaking. He could answer every question and his voice was full of affirmation, as if he was reciting lines he had memorized in advance.

Regarding the evidence that Jia Jia mentioned his father found, he never mentioned it. He only said that it was because his father came to the construction site late at night to make orders, and there were not many people on the construction site at night, so he accidentally killed him and buried him on the spot. Later, he learned that Jia Jia and others went to the police station to claim the body, and he was afraid that what happened that year would be exposed and he would lose his job, so he wanted to get rid of them as well.

This is complete nonsense! Kong Zhixi looked at Li Li in disbelief. Li Li sighed and said, "This is the best result at the moment. Even if you produce the evidence, you can only catch those foremen. It's useless."

"Then wouldn't Jia Jia's father and her grandmother have died in vain?"

"What we need is more direct evidence. We need to find someone from the Commission for Discipline Inspection. Do you understand?"

"I don't understand! They broke the law! What we have to do is bring them to justice!" She didn't know why Li Li had become so timid. He used to fight with the murderer when he saw him, but now he started asking her for evidence.

"Where is the evidence? Do you know who they are? Who are you going to arrest?" Li Li yelled at her, hoping that she would remember the reality, but also afraid that she would remember it and leave here.