Be in low spirits

The young man guarding the door pushed Kong Zhixi to the glass window of the ICU and looked at the man lying in the ward with an oxygen tank. She remembered that when they first met, he was looking for files and she was busy in the archives room. She only heard him shout a few words: "Old Qian, I want to see the case file of 0317, help me find it." The voice was rough, anxious, and a little impatient.

At that time, she had just been seconded there for a few days, and she had not yet figured out the things in the archives room. She thought that it was not someone looking for her anyway, so she ignored it.

"Lao Qian, where is the person? If there's no one, I can go find him myself?" Hearing this, he sounded really anxious.

She still came out to meet him and told him impatiently: "Hey, hey, hey, stop shouting, go to the office and ask him to write a note."

"Who are you?" He looked at her with suspicion, as if the person standing in front of him was a suspect.

When Kong Zhixi saw him for the first time, she felt that he didn't look like a criminal policeman. He was a tall man of about 180cm, wearing a black T-shirt, with sharp eyebrows and bright eyes. Apart from a little fatigue on his face, he looked clean.

"I'm on secondment from the Jiangyin Police Station. Just go to the office and ask the Qian Department to issue a note." She didn't want to pay any more attention and started doing her own work.

When Lao Qian brought him to look for the case file, he still asked, "What's the name of the new woman?"

Old Qian glanced at her and said, "Kong Zhixi, she's on secondment from the Jiangyin Police Station. They said she's here to help for three months." The two of them were in that office as if she didn't exist.

The reason why I remember him is because he subconsciously called out, "Xixi."

Old Qian suddenly stopped registering, looked at Li Li, then looked at Kong Zhixi, and teased him as if he was watching a show: "Are you interested?"

Li Li ignored his teasing, took the file beside him, and said, "I'll return it to you after you've read it."

He often forgot to return the files he had read, and Lao Qian didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but he always asked her to urge him to do so. As a result, she always heard him call her Xixi. To be honest, her mother would never call her by that name because it sounded pretentious. A man calling her that would only make people feel greasy, but she didn't intend to correct it because she would only stay there for three months. What's more, she didn't bother to have too much communication with him. The profession of policeman was not in her range of choice for a spouse.

Now as his wife, she should come and see him. If he doesn't wake up, won't she become a widow? Moreover, she hasn't figured out the previous case, and the murderer hasn't been caught. If the murderer knows that they are in a fake marriage, won't it expose the plan of their criminal police team? Li Li didn't tell her before he fell into a coma. If it's really because of her that the murderer ran away, wouldn't she become a sinner?

"Officer Kong, why are you here?" A male voice sounded behind her. Kong Zhixi turned around and saw that it was Dean Jiang.

"Let me take a look." She always felt that she had heard of or seen this Dean Jiang somewhere.

He looked at Li Li lying on the bed and sighed, saying, "It's hard to say whether your wife can wake up now. You have to be mentally prepared."

She couldn't figure out the dean, nor could she figure out Li Li who was lying inside, so she could only say calmly: "I believe in your hospital's medical skills."

Dean Jiang smiled and said politely, "I'll take you back to the ward to rest." Kong Zhixi nodded and thanked him.

Doctor Jiang brought a group of doctors to make rounds and asked about her condition. Kong Zhixi felt that she was recovering well and asked, "When can she be discharged from the hospital?"

"It depends on how your wound recovers. It may take a few more days." Doctor Jiang's answer was unclear.

In the afternoon, the Discipline Inspection Commission sent someone again to ask some details about the explosion.

Kong Zhixi recalled the whole thing from beginning to end. She was on duty that day and received a call at about 1:00 a.m. saying that someone was arguing in the apartment building and it was very loud, and asked them to send someone to check it out. She took a police assistant with her to that floor and saw that the door was ajar. The police assistant said he wanted to go to the toilet, so she let him go. After opening the door, she saw Li Li being pointed at with a gun. She immediately took out her electric baton and was injured by the explosion.

"Didn't Captain Li report this operation to you?"

Speaking of which, she seemed to have never heard anyone mention the auxiliary police officer Xiao Zhang: "I didn't receive any specific notice. Where is Xiao Zhang?" The person questioning the Commission for Discipline Inspection glanced at her, did not answer, and continued to ask: "Do you know who called the police?"

"do not know."

The two members of the Discipline Inspection Commission looked at each other and said, "After the explosion, we checked the communication records in your phone. The alarm number was a temporary card. As for Xiao Zhang, he has been detained."

She was surprised and asked subconsciously: "Huh?"

The two stopped answering her and said politely: "If you remember anything about the bombing, you can contact us at any time." They thought the matter was over, but as soon as the people from the Discipline Inspection Commission left, people from the Criminal Police Team came.

"Sister-in-law, we still want to ask you about what happened that night, and we also want to know if Captain Li has talked to you about any case." It was the temporary captain. He looked the kind that you would hardly find in a crowd, but he deliberately made himself look righteous and impartial.

She was a little impatient. "We never talk about work, so I don't know what case he is investigating. In our police station, if there is a criminal case, it is the criminal police who connect with the people in your detachment."

He was serious and stressed: "We also hope to prove Captain Li's innocence as soon as possible."

Kong Zhixi snorted through her nose, raised her eyebrows and looked at him, but didn't respond, letting him continue. "I hope you can cooperate." He still felt a little guilty, lowered his eyes, and touched his nose.

"There are many things that only he knows. You should wait for him to wake up." She wanted to rest and didn't want to say anything more to them.

It started to rain heavily after she fell asleep at night. The sound of rain and thunder outside the window was crackling, and Kong Zhixi felt a dull pain in her heart. She dreamed that she returned to the scene before the explosion. After she pushed open the door, Li Li yelled at her, "What are you doing here?" She glanced at the man with the gun. His face was pale and thin. He was not surprised at her arrival. Instead, he smiled a little pervertedly. There was a person lying on the ground who had been shot. It was Xiao Zhao from the criminal police team. If he was not sent to the hospital quickly, he would not survive.

She slowly raised her hand and wanted to say something to the walkie-talkie on her shoulder. Li Li shouted, "Be careful!" Then she was carried downstairs. She heard gunshots before she fainted.

Thunder roared, and she sat up, her heart and wound aching. In the dark night, she wiped the sweat off her face with her hands, took a deep breath, and heard Li Li's voice in her ears: Xixi, Xixi...

She smelled the smell on her body and was afraid that it would be difficult for her to fall asleep. She stared at the window in a daze. After a few minutes, she fell asleep, but the pain in her body made her sleep and wake up from time to time.

Li Li returned to the abandoned chemical plant, looking at the two pools of water. He tried to jump in many times, and each time it was like a replay that took him back to the past. He couldn't find the murderer of the kidnapping case, nor could he find the person who brought them to the chemical plant. Everyone disappeared, leaving only him, unable to die or live. He found two iron barrels, put them in front of the gate, and lay there. Since he couldn't die, he would stay here and wait until those people came.

When Kong Zhixi got up in the morning, she went to the glass window again to look at Li Li lying inside. Doctor Jiang said that when she could move more easily, she could wear protective clothing and go in to talk to him. She smiled awkwardly. Go in and talk to him? What to say? Remind him that the Commission for Discipline Inspection and the Criminal Investigation Bureau were suspicious of him? His mother was helping him wipe his body inside, but she was a little overwhelmed.

"Sister, if you want to cry, you can cry." Kong Zhiting looked at her and felt that she was pretending to be strong.

Kong Zhixi's face was full of question marks. To be honest, they didn't seem to have spent much time together after they got married. At most, he would ask her to go home for dinner or something like that. What's more, she only had a few pieces of clothes left in his house. Speaking of this, she didn't seem to have heard Li Li's mother ask about this. Would she be exposed?

"Mom and Dad, are you busy today?" The hospital gown she was wearing was getting bigger and bigger. She couldn't keep losing weight like this. She had to find a way to find herself something delicious.