Chapter 21: The Child
In front of the old man, Tang Guo couldn't ask Qin Cang why he was able to conclude that the person in front of him was Kong Xiaotong's father, so he could only sigh secretly in his heart, he didn't expect his luck to be so good, and before he could find Kong Xiaotong's father's home, her father actually appeared directly in front of them. It's just that in addition to the excitement brought by this kind of good luck, looking at the back of Kong Xiaotong's father's faltering steps, as well as the gray hair on his head that was already a little sparse, Tang Guo felt a little uncomfortable in his heart, judging from the reaction just now, it is obvious that Meng Junmao has not told his father-in-law the bad news of Kong Xiaotong's murder, and the old man still doesn't know, I don't know if he will go to his house for a while, and tell the other party about it, whether Kong Xiaotong's father can withstand this kind of blow.
However, no matter what kind of reaction the other party will have, this iron-clad fact will not be reversed, originally Tang Guo was still thinking about whether to discuss with Qin Cang for a while, and find a more tactful way to let Kong Xiaotong's father know this fact, but as soon as this idea came out, Tang Guo rejected it. What are you kidding, who is the person who came with you? Qin Cang! Will he consider the feelings of others and express himself tactfully? Tang Guo sighed, if Qin Cang was the second person he knew in this matter without considering the feelings of others, then I am afraid that no one would dare to rank first.
Forget it, leave it to fate, I just hope that Old Man Kong's heart is better and there are no problems.
I don't know if it's because I realized that the police came to the door, it would definitely not be a good thing, so Kong Xiaotong's father's footsteps seemed to have secretly slowed down, and walked from the place where they met to the residence, walking for more than ten minutes, Tang Guo followed behind him, and couldn't bear to urge, and Qin Cang seemed to be extra patient this night, and also walked quietly behind Kong Xiaotong's father, none of the three of them spoke, and they were very quiet all the way, until they followed Kong Xiaotong's father to the door of his house, The not-so-pleasant silence was broken by the faint sound of an argument coming from inside the door.
Kong Xiaotong's father heard the quarrel in the house, sighed, frowned, the key that had been touched out was in his hand, did not open the lock, but raised a hand that clenched his fist, knocked heavily on the door panel a few times, the knock on the door made the quarrel in the house stop instantly, quietly, Kong Xiaotong's father just inserted the key into the lock hole, the moment the door opened, Tang Guoleng, who was following Kong Xiaotong's father, was in chaos, and there was everything on the floor. What clothes and pants, what pillow slippers, as well as a few apples and a plastic fruit bowl, looking at this posture, there should have been a very violent quarrel at home, and Kong Xiaotong's father also hid out because he couldn't bear the noise.
In addition to the mess in the living room, there were two people, a middle-aged woman who looked a few years younger than Kong Xiaotong's father, and should be in her early fifties, and the other was a young man, in her early twenties, who should be about the same age as Tang Guo, and the facial features of the two were very similar, and they knew at a glance that they were mother and son.
Tang Guo suddenly understood, why Qin Cang would say his guess so firmly, in fact, if you look closely, it is not difficult to find that Kong Xiaotong's father and Kong Xiaotong also have relatively similar facial features, and there is some similarity between the eyebrows and eyes, but it is not as clear as the mother and son in the house.
I didn't see it, Qin Cang's observation was quite keen, if Tang Guo hadn't been inspired by this mother and son, she might not have guessed why Qin Cang was so determined, even so, she still felt that Qin Cang was very bold, and he dared to draw such a conclusion from only such a slight similarity.
Of course, who is the mother and son in the house, there is no need to ask Tang Guo to already have an idea, the middle-aged woman must be Kong Xiaotong's stepmother, and the young man with an angry face is Kong Xiaotong's half-brother. Looking at the tense appearance of the two people, the quarrel must have been very intense.
"Alright, you two don't quarrel! The police came to our house to find out the situation, so you all should be quiet! Kong Xiaotong's father yelled at his wife and son with a gloomy face, then turned his head and beckoned Tang Guo and Qin Cang to enter the door, introducing by the way, "This is my wife, and my unfilial son." โ
"Lao Kong!" As soon as Kong Xiaotong's stepmother heard her husband's words, she immediately panicked, and hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Kong Xiaotong's father's arm, "How can you do this!" Yuan Zheng and I are just petty quarrels, isn't this all a housework! You said that if you feel upset, go out to hide and be quiet, my son and I can't educate it! Why did you call the police indiscriminately and bring the police to your home! โ
"You're good at it!" Kong Xiaotong's father glared at his wife angrily, and then at his son who was standing in the middle of the living room, "If you know how to educate, can he be the dead like he is now?" And I didn't call the police, it was the police who took the initiative to find me, and this matter has nothing to do with Yuan Zheng, it is Xiaotong's business. โ
After speaking, he turned his head and asked Tang Guo and Qin Cang: "Two, what's wrong with my daughter?" What's the matter? โ
"Would you like to sit down first?" Tang Guo asked cautiously, for fear that if he told Kong Xiaotong's story for a while, Kong Xiaotong's father would fall to the ground because he was too stimulated.
Kong Xiaotong's father slowly sat on the sofa in the living room with some doubts, Kong Xiaotong's stepmother and Kong Xiaotong's half-brother stood aside, and there seemed to be some confusion about the situation. โ
"Did Meng Junmao contact you and tell you?" Tang Guo asked tentatively first.
"No, how could he call me anything," Kong Xiaotong's father replied, his face turned a little pale, "Is there something big wrong with Xiaotong?" She hasn't come to pick up the child after the night shift until now, and she hasn't called, so I feel that something is wrong, is something wrong with her? โ
"What's wrong with Mommy?" Tang Guo was thinking about how to tell Kong Xiaotong's father this cruel truth, when suddenly a milky voice came out, a crack in the originally closed door of a room, and a little boy with a tiger head poked his head out of the room, looking about four years old.
Kong Xiaotong's father's face suddenly turned gloomy from worry, and he glanced at Kong Xiaotong's stepmother and his son with displeasure, and asked loudly, "Who brought the baby back?" I just sent him downstairs to my neighbor Xiaohu's house to play! You two are arguing like crazy at home, why do you want to bring the child back? The baby is just four years old, what can you do if you are arguing so fiercely and scaring him?! โ
"I didn't pick him up," Kong Xiaotong's stepmother pursed her lips, as if she was a little aggrieved, "You sent him away with the front foot, and he had to make trouble with the back foot to let the family send him back, what can I do!" Could it be that I can still give your precious grandson and not be allowed to come in at the door! I'm already enough, I'm anxious here, I have to send the child to the room, let him turn on the TV to watch cartoons, and then come out to solve his problems with your son, Lao Kong really didn't say anything to you, you were so attentive to Yuan Zheng but to your grandson, my son will not be so old and not small, and he is so unserious! โ
Kong Xiaotong's father glared at Kong Xiaotong's stepmother, stood up again, walked up to the little boy with a pleasant face, picked him up gently, and said to him softly: "Baby, your mother is fine." Did you finish watching the cartoon on that channel just now? Grandpa will find you a new cartoon? โ
The little boy looked like a tiger and looked quite smart, he frowned and shook his round little head: "Don't." Grandpa, why hasn't my mother come to pick me up yet? I want to go home! If Mom is fine, why do you say that the police are coming to our house? Aren't the police here to catch the bad guys? โ
"No, it has nothing to do with your mother when the police come, it's your uncle who is disobedient, and grandpa can't control him, so he called the police to help grandpa criticize and educate your uncle. Your mother called grandpa, she has something to do at her unit and has to be on duty, so the baby is still sleeping at grandpa's house tonight, okay? Grandpa will take you to the flower and bird market tomorrow and buy you a little goldfish, didn't you say you want a little goldfish? Kong Xiaotong's father continued to persuade, and seeing that there was still a puzzled expression on the child's face, he said again, "Then you see, those two people are the police uncle and the police aunt of the Public Security Bureau, the police uncle and the police aunt can't lie, you ask them if what their grandfather said is right?" โ
The little boy immediately turned his attention to Tang Guo and Qin Cang, Tang Guo nodded, even Qin Cang rarely ignored it, nodded to the little boy, and smiled, Tang Guo almost dropped his jaw on the side.
After all, the child's mind is simple, listening to his grandfather say this, even the police have proved it to his grandfather, so he believed it, and breathed a sigh of relief, and stroked his chest with his fleshy little hand, and said like a little adult: "Oh, it scared me, and I thought something was wrong with my mother!" Then, grandpa, you said okay, take me to buy a little goldfish tomorrow! I'm going to buy three, two big ones and one small one, the big one is my dad and mom, and the smaller one is me...... No, no, I have to buy another big one, it's grandpa! โ
Kong Xiaotong's father hurriedly agreed and sent him back to the room, Tang Guo felt that his eye circles were a little hot, Kong Xiaotong's appearance when he was killed was still vivid, and then seeing the young child who didn't know the truth, Tang Guo felt that it was not a special taste, and he was very sad in his heart. But she always remembered her identity and role, so she had to try her best to suppress her emotions, so as not to accidentally wet her eyes.
When Kong Xiaotong's father sent the child back to the room to watch TV, Tang Guo and Qin Cang were standing in the living room, Kong Xiaotong's stepmother and her son were also standing there, and the four of them looked at each other and didn't speak.
"Hey, what's wrong with my sister?" The young man named Kong Yuanzheng suddenly asked, his tone was very frivolous, and his expression was full of banter, and he didn't see the slightest worry and concern at all.
With Qin Cang's arrogant personality, he naturally ignored him, Tang Guo glanced at him, and didn't say anything, she felt that Kong Xiaotong's father was right, this Kong Yuanzheng was really very uneducated, otherwise he wouldn't be in his twenties, his speech and demeanor were so rude and impolite, and he didn't even have a title when asking others, and all this responsibility, I'm afraid Kong Xiaotong's stepmother really has to account for more than half, because Kong Yuanzheng asked such a sentence in a daze, and she didn't notice the slightest inappropriateness and correct it.
Seeing that Tang Guo and Qin Cang ignored him, Kong Yuanzheng snorted contemptuously with his nose and rolled his eyes at them with a slight sense of provocation.
After that, no one spoke, and after a while, Kong Xiaotong's father walked out of the room, the sound of the TV was turned on by him very loudly, and he carefully closed the door of the room, and then walked back to the living room and sat on the sofa.
"What the hell happened to Xiaotong? Now give me a letter. As if he had made a lot of determination, he said to Qin Cang and Tang Guo.
Tang Guo didn't know how to speak, so he turned his head to look at Qin Cang.
Qin Cang opened his mouth and said to Kong Xiaotong's father: "I'm afraid Kong Xiaotong is unlikely to come to pick up the child." โ
Kong Xiaotong's father's expression froze, although he may have had the worst guess in his heart, but this kind of answer really came out of the other party's mouth, which was still a little unacceptable.
"Poofโ" At this moment, an untimely sneer suddenly appeared in the living room.
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