Li Jing and I were sitting in the vacant classroom of the school, my hands were a little cold, my fingers were rubbing the tabletop, and my eyes were looking at Li Jing: "What should I do?" We don't have any hole cards anymore. ”

"How much longer?" Li Jing didn't answer me, and his eyes never took off the screen.

"There are less than twenty minutes left until the promised deadline."

The tension we are in now begins with the commission we received two days ago. Because the hospital knew that Li Jing had been the perfect assist for the Xiao team recently, even the cafeteria aunt would give Li Jing two more ribs when she saw Li Jingjing to show her admiration and love for him. But a lot of trouble comes with it.

Yesterday when we were having dinner, we received a commission from a colleague of Li Jing a long time ago. This colleague has left his job and gone to other hospitals, but when he was chatting with others, he learned that Li Jing was now helping the police solve the case. When their party ended, he called Li Jing for help.

Li Jing agreed to his dinner invitation, and as what he called 'pig teammate', I also went with him. It's an ordinary Hong Kong-style restaurant, but the crystal steamed dumplings in the store have been on a TV food show.

The visitor's name is Wang Liwen, who is a very cheerful person, and without too much speech, he directly told us about his difficulties: "Actually, this time I asked you to help because of my neighbor's matter." ”

He paused to see that we were all focused on him before he continued, "Actually, I'm a nosyman, and my neighbors don't live in much of their house except for their children and the hired nanny. Because I've been neighbors with that kid for a long time, I've watched that kid grow up. It may be because of the negligence of parents that children become rebellious when they reach the age when they should be sensible. He often comes home late, and the nanny at home can't take care of him, and I don't go back often because of work. A few days ago, his nanny and my wife said that the little master of the family had not returned for two days and was in a hurry to get in touch. Originally, I wanted to call the police, but because his parents were afraid of losing face by saying it, they never called the police, saying that the child was not sensible and would come back by himself in a few days. But I heard from my wife that since his nanny took care of him and we came to discuss, I haven't seen the child for 5 days. My wife asked me if I wanted to call the police for their family, after all, the child hadn't been home for several days, and I didn't know what was going on. I didn't want to get into trouble, but when I heard from my former colleague that you are now helping the police solve the case, I wanted to ask if you could do me a favor. Probably a little tired from saying a long list of words, he picked up the napkin at hand and wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead.

"That child's parents haven't been in a hurry yet?" Li Jing put down the chopsticks in his hand and asked.

"Nope. They don't usually care much about the child. Wang Liwen served himself a bowl of pumpkin sweet soup.

"Are his parents related to him?"

"I haven't heard the nanny talk about this. Their nannies are always changing, so I don't really know what the situation is in their house. When I was young, he would come to our house to play, but now he rarely comes, and he doesn't let us talk about the strange clothes he wears. Wang Liwen smiled bitterly on the other side, the child in his mouth was really in the rebellious period.

"How old is that kid?" Li Jing asked him.

"I'm fifteen years old. I started school a year later than other children, and I just started my second year of junior high school this year. ”

"Has his school been in contact with the babysitter? Students have not come to class for so many days, the school should call home or do a home visit to Xu Xu to hear about the student's situation, right? Li Jing asked.

"I have done home visits before, but the number of times the child skips school is too much, the effect of the home visit is not obvious, and the parents have not cooperated with the school's work to talk to their children, and the work of finding children is often done by the little nanny at home. In the end, even the teacher gave up, and as long as the parents were not in a hurry, the teacher connived at the child's depravity. After Wang Liwen finished speaking, he sighed, and his mouth was still reading, "It's a pity, it's a pity." ”

After Li Jing listened, he ate the things on the plate again, and Wang Liwen sat opposite and watched Li Jing stop talking, and turned his puzzled gaze to me. I smiled helplessly, Li Jing has always been like this, he will only react because of other information that he pays attention to, and the rest of the time he thinks about things like a piece of wood, I have never disturbed him at such a time. Now I realized that his sudden silence was really embarrassing to the people around him. Because I had no experience raising children, I couldn't stir up the atmosphere at all this time. I had no choice but to hand Mr. Wang a friendly smile and continue to shrink into the corner of the table to fight the food in front of me.

It wasn't until all the dishes were cleaned up by us that Li Jing asked, "By the way, you should know where this child goes to school, right?" ”

Wang Liwen saw Li Jing speak, and nodded quickly: "In the city's sixteenth middle school, I dropped him off when he was just in junior high school. ”

"And what about later? Have you ever dropped him off at school again? Li Jing suddenly became interested.

"Then there really wasn't." Wang Liwen sat opposite and scratched his head embarrassedly, "When he was just in junior high school, he caught up with me to go to study in other places, and when he came back, he had already become like this. Later, because of the adjustment of working hours, I didn't send him off. In fact, it would be nice if I could talk to him without fear of trouble at that time. ”

"Have you ever seen anyone your age go to his house? He must have some friends at his age, right? Li Jingxiang asked as if he suddenly thought of something.

"I have seen a few children go to his house, but they seem to be older than him, and they are dressed in the same way as him, with dyed hair, and some of them are smoking, very much like the little hooligans of society. I said a few words to him about this, but he didn't listen, but he listened politely before leaving. Wang Liwen is a rare kind of chattering man, but from his words, you can still feel that he cares about the neighbor's children.

"Did he tell me where these friends were?"

After listening to Li Jing's question, Wang Liwen frowned and thought about it: "When I talked about him, he didn't refute me much, but when he was just in the second year of junior high school, I saw a child looking for him, wearing their school coat, it should be his classmate, right?" ”

"Did those kids, or his classmates, look for him during the few days he's gone?" Li Jing's expression was not much different from just now.

Wang Liwen thought for a while and shook his head: "Maybe it's because I came home late, I haven't seen anyone looking for a child." My wife hasn't mentioned it to me either, so she probably hasn't looked for it, right? It's all fox friends. ”

Li Jing's face sank for a moment, but when he raised his head again, his expression was still very calm: "You just said that you watched this child grow up, and he has only begun to become more rebellious in recent years. So what was he like before? ”

"I was good before, but I was a little introverted. I don't like to deal with people, but I'm really a good boy. Even now in the rebellious period, our Wei Zong is also a good boy, and I think it is still very powerful if we guide it well. Wang Liwen said that the child was really proud, and it seems that the feelings should be quite deep.

"I see you're getting along pretty well." Li Jing teased Mr. Wang with a smile, "I thought you were still an indifferent person before, but I didn't expect you to care so much about the people around you." ”

"The kid moved across from us when he was 4 years old. We are an old-fashioned house, and there are only two residents per floor of a unit, so he is the one who can usually say hello. When he was a child, there was no one to take care of him except the nanny, so he always came to my house to play, at that time my wife and I did not have children, seeing him felt very festive, so he often let him come to our house to play, and he became familiar with each other. If it weren't for the sudden disappearance of the child this time, I wouldn't have realized that we had been neighbors for 11 years, and I felt that he was still the same kid who would call me uncle in a super low voice. Speaking of this, Wang Liwen suddenly sighed.

"Don't be in a hurry." Li Jing comforted, "I'll go back and ask my friends to help check it first, and I'll notify you immediately if there's any news." Maybe it's really just a child's rebellious behavior, there are many children at this age who run away from home, and I will try my best to help find this child. ”

Wang Liwen had something to do and left first, and the moment he opened the door and left, Li Jing's face suddenly became stern: "Xiaozhi If you have time tomorrow, I will go to the sixteenth middle school in the city, I need you to help me check some things." ”

I nodded in agreement, looking at his not very good face, I cautiously asked, "Li Jing, did you think of something?" ”

Li Jing glanced at me, and then his eyes fell on his arm for a long time before he sorted out his expression, and he smiled at me, as if he was saying to me, and as if he was saying to himself: "I just thought of something, and I will tell you when I sort it out." Tomorrow at noon, I will help you write down what I want to know, and you can help me go to school. ”

"Okay." I promised him. I looked at his pale face, slightly distressed, and I guessed that his sudden decadence might have something to do with the commission, but I didn't know how much it would have to do with it.

"I'm sorry." He suddenly apologized to me.

"What's wrong?" I didn't react, I think he has apologized to me a lot more recently, and suddenly I want to shake his shoulder and ask him to return to me the original arrogant, poisonous superhuman Li Jing.

"Did it scare you?" He turned around and asked me with a snicker, his face still as pale as before.

"Sort of." I'll tell you the truth, but I swallowed that sentence of what happened to you back into my stomach, and I knew he didn't want to say it. Sue me when he wants to, I just hope that when this case is resolved, he will become as 'annoying' as before.