Be in low spirits

Kong Jianping also looked at him, thought for a moment and said, "It makes sense." He reached for the bottle of wine again, and Li Li quickly poured him another glass of wine. Only Kong Zhixi was like a bomb in the head, "Ah?" She put down the bowl, "No, Dad, do you really believe it?" Li Li picked up a piece of pork ribs for her, tapped her bowl and said, "Come on, eat."

Kong Jianping did not pursue the matter any further and continued to eat. Kong Zhiting tapped her sister with her knee and said, "Dad is giving you a way out. He is really satisfied with my brother-in-law."

Kong Zhixi lowered her head and said, "She recognized his son-in-law but refused to believe his daughter." Kong's mother also said, "When do you two plan to have a baby?" A meal would eventually become a scene of urging marriage and childbearing. "Mom!"

Li Li tried to smooth things over again: "Well, Mom, my injury hasn't healed yet. I'll make plans after I get better." Kong's mother nodded and said, "That's right, that's right. I'll do it after I get better."

After dinner, Kong Zhixi packed up some things and went home with Li Li. On the way, she thought of the child she met today and said to him, "I met a strange person today. He seemed to know me and his last name was Fu." She suspected that the person might be Fu Yan mentioned by Uncle Qi and Uncle Jiang, but because she had never seen him, she was not sure.

"You suspect it's Fu Yan?" Li Li also guessed. "Uh, does he have a child? Is his name Fu Xinqi?"

"I haven't heard of him. He's been missing for more than two years and no one knows where he is now." As far as Li Li can remember, the last time he saw him was at the barbecue stall. "That shouldn't be him. The child should be five years old."

"A five-year-old child, that shouldn't be him." Li Li also confirmed. "But he knew my last name was Kong and greeted me, which is very strange." She recalled the man's appearance and couldn't remember where she had seen him before.

"Is there any surveillance? We can check it tomorrow." Li Li gave an idea. There should be one at the entrance of the kindergarten. She nodded and decided to copy it back tomorrow.

"Is the psychological evaluation report out? Are you ready to return to the team?" She remembered the WeChat he sent today, which contained his psychological evaluation. "Well, I don't know if I can still have time to cook for you." Li Li was a little worried. He might have little time to go home after returning to the team.

Speaking of cooking, she remembered the spareribs she had eaten at home today. It was indeed the same taste she had eaten before. It turned out that they had known each other for a long time. "Did the doctor say when your leg will be healed? Oh, by the way, you have to find time to go for a checkup every week. The doctor said that the bullet fragments in your body cannot be completely removed, and you may get sick at any time. Also, I told you not to drink today, why didn't you listen?" She became more and more angry. At such an old age, he didn't know how to take care of his own body.

"Are you so worried about me?" To him, these nagging words were what he wanted to hear but never heard before. "You said that you would tell me when the case is solved. Now I don't have any answers in my mind. So, what if the case is not solved and you... your body collapses first? What should I do?"

"Okay, okay, I'll tell you when the case is solved." Li Li didn't expose her, but just looked at her with a smile.

After returning home, Kong Zhixi saw the two boxes and asked, "What are these?" He quickly picked up the things and hid them in the kitchen, explaining, "My mom sent them to me to replenish my body." She could still see the words on the box, not to mention that the packaging of the seahorses was transparent. She couldn't stop smiling, so she had to hold on to the wall, lower her head and cover her face, and said, "To replenish my body, Captain Li needs to replenish his body, hahaha..."

Li Li stood behind her and said maliciously, "Is it funny?" She nodded, not knowing that he was standing behind her. "Don't you know whether I am in good health or not?" He hugged her from behind and said in a low voice.

She didn't dare to laugh anymore, and stopped laughing in an instant. She pried his hands apart and begged for mercy: "No, no, no, I get it. I won't laugh anymore, I won't laugh anymore." Li Li refused to let her go, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise. "Do you want to give it a try?"

"No, why are you always like this, uh hehe..." She was about to cry, trying to escape this time by acting like a spoiled child. "Then let me try your health, okay?"

"No, I'm not in good health, I'm not good, I can't make up for it." She never thought that she would shoot herself in the foot, and now she can only regret it. "Then you accompany me to a place tomorrow." He stopped teasing her and changed his mood to discuss with her seriously. "Where to?" Seeing that he became serious, she was relieved. "To see Xiao Zhao." Li Li walked to the sofa and sat down, took the longan on the coffee table, peeled it and put it in a clean bowl, and handed it to Kong Zhixi who sat down with him.

She nodded and took Longan, thinking it was time to go and see him. "Are you going alone? No one from the team will go with you?" He sighed, wiped his hands with a tissue, and said, "I want to go by myself first, and then go with them when I return to the team." Since he was discharged from the hospital, he rarely talked about the team's affairs, and never took the initiative to mention the case. The psychological evaluation report was probably just something he used to deal with his superiors. "Whether it's Xiao Zhao or Fu Yan, if you don't want to face it, don't force yourself." Kong Zhixi saw the loss in his heart and comforted him. He took the bowl from her hand, put it on the coffee table, and said with red eyes: "Wife, what should I do without you?"

The next morning, the two set out to Xiao Zhao's grave together. Li Li looked at the tombstone and felt sad. Xiao Zhao had no parents and was admitted to the police force from an orphanage. He was the most active one in every operation. When others had to go home for the New Year or other holidays, he was always the one who stayed on duty. He always smiled and said that he had no worries. He was only 27 or 28 years old when he died, and his life had just begun. The two presented flowers, and Li Li opened the bottle of wine, poured wine in front of the grave, and said: "Xiao Zhao, I'm sorry, I will definitely bring them to justice."

The sun was scorching, and the wine disappeared on the stone slab in an instant. The sound of pouring wine rang out again. Kong Zhixi patted Li Li on the back and comforted him, "Yes, we will find the murderer." The two of them sat in front of his grave. For the first time, she looked at him seriously and seemed to understand why he was afraid of her leaving. It turned out that he had sent away almost everyone around him personally.

After leaving the cemetery, the two went to the supermarket to buy vegetables. Li Li also picked and chose and bought a lot of candies. "Why buy these?" Kong Zhixi was puzzled. "Give them some when you return to the team." Li Lixiang was thoughtful. "You have been married for more than two years. Isn't it too high-profile?" She still didn't know how to make the marriage public. In her opinion, it was just a matter between the two of them and didn't need to be made public.

"You don't understand, we are both newlyweds all the time." He picked out a big bag, threw it into the shopping cart, put his arm around her waist, kissed her, and left.

Fu Yan, who was standing behind the shelf, was wearing a black hoodie and sunglasses. He looked at the two of them and snorted contemptuously. "Captain Li, you're awake after all."

"Dad, can I have some chocolate?" The child who was picked up from kindergarten pulled his trouser leg and asked for his opinion expectantly. "No, you'll die if you eat it." The man in sunglasses didn't even look at him, but just responded coldly, winking at the bodyguard behind the child. The bodyguard then held the child and put the chocolate back. The child didn't cry, but just looked at the chocolate in his hand disappointedly and said, "Okay."

On Sunday, after Li Li finished his rehabilitation, the two went to Wuting Mountain again and met Qi Bo and Uncle Jiang. Uncle Jiang said, "Although Changshi is the real culprit behind the scenes, why should these families listen to them? We haven't found the evidence in Accountant Tian's hands yet, and the people of the Shu family are still at large."

The night scene of the city can be seen from the mountain. Under the lights, it is all dark. "Hasn't any of the gangs that have been taken down betrayed the Shu family?" Li Li also knew that the opponent was powerful, but he didn't know that they had not yet touched the core.

Qi Bo shook his head and said, "Even if we can prove Changshi's guilt, we may not be able to find the person behind it."