Chapter 5

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Chapter 5 Stars On The Sky (5)

“She is so young, why did she commit suicide?”

“Youngers are now very poor in mental quality, either they are not satisfied with work or they are breaking up with their lovers.”

“Just jumped off in pajamas, why did she take things so hard?”

“She didn’t want to live anymore, does she even care about what she wears?”

After the inspection, the body was covered by the police with a white cloth. People looked at the less horrible scenes and started talking about everything related to Li Ting.

Zhai Chen holding the child’s arm gradually tightened, hurting Mengmeng, who groaned on his chest and whispered, “What’s the matter, uncle?”

To avoid Mengmeng seeing the bloody scene, Zhai Chen turned away from the noisy crowd. Li Ting’s second-hand white car was still parked on the side of the road. There was no sign on this small street. Li Ting wanted to save her face. When she saw that her colleagues had cars, she also wanted to own a car, but she didn’t have that much money, so she bought an 80% new used car. There was no stain on the shiny car’s exterior, apparently just scrubbed. It seemed Li Ting was waiting for her temporary bodyguard to pick her up to work.

Zhai Chen was riding an electric motor in the city during the early rush hour, and he was almost drowned by the raging flames. If he hadn’t inhaled oxygen at the moment, he’d crushed the handlebars. Zhai Chen finally managed to take a sigh of relief after riding to the kindergarten door.

The gatekeeper of the community met Zhai Chen and Zhai Mengmeng, and immediately greeted him, “Why do you get there so early today?”

Zhai Chen took a breath and handed the breakfast in the basket to the gatekeeper, “Bring you a breakfast.”

“Ah, for so many years, you are still so polite,” the gatekeeper answered with a smile, motioned to Zhai Chen to park the electric motor into the courtyard of their community.

Zhai Chen locked the electric car and put Zhai Mengmen in the canteen of the kindergarten for breakfast. He took a pie and sat down on the mushroom bench in the yard. He didn’t eat for a while. Zhai Chen has been staring at the black screen phone, waiting for the police to contact him. He called Li Ting in the morning, and the police investigation would certainly call him first, but when the pie became cold, there was no call in.

“Uncle, don’t we need to take the Sister Rabbit to work?” Zhai Mengmen came over with the white lop-eared rabbit doll. He was too messy at the scene. He was covering the face and saw nothing and understood nothing.

The lop-eared rabbit doll had soft hands and feet, and its hair was so invisible that it was very cute. Li Ting should have hung it on her schoolbag, but gave it to the child without hesitation.

Zhai Chen looked at the rabbit and said dumbly, “She left, we won’t pick her up anymore.”

“Oh,” Mengmeng answered disappointedly and went on a swing by himself.

The police station hasn’t called yet. Zhai Chen wanted to call Fang Chuyang to ask Li Ting’s situation, but this matter was still under the jurisdiction of the regional police station, and he must not be sure about it. Zhai Chen flipped his phone and swiped through the address book, his fingertips stuck on the name “Gao Yusheng”.

Zhai Chen’s corporeity was somewhat against nature. When he was a child, Zhai Jianguo warned him to hide this kind of special power of him, so as not to cause disaster to himself. Ordinary people rarely associated a high concentration of oxygen with an instant increase in strength, only would think that he really has a respiratory disease. Gao Yusheng apparently guessed, which made Zhai Chen instinctively want to stay away from him. But now it was Gao Yusheng who can tell Zhai Chen something about Li Ting.

Zhai Chen finished eating the pancake quickly, and he was so anxious that when he was clear, the phone had been dialed out. Gao Yusheng already picked it up, and it was too late to hang up.

“Have you changed your mind?” Mr.Gao’s voice calmed down, as always.

Zhai Chen held his hair behind his head and exhaled, “Li Ting is dead.”

“…” Gao Yusheng was silent for two seconds, his tone became serious, “What’s going on? When is it?”

“She fell from upstairs last night. When I went to pick her up this morning, she was dead. I am waiting for the police’s call. It is estimated that the police will soon find you to investigate the situation,” Zhai Chen stood and leaned on the railing, watching the students and office workers hurrying on the street, stating the facts objectively. Zhai Chen didn’t give his personal opinion, didn’t judge suicide or homicide, and kept calm with full of swear words in his mind.

“I see, you … take it easy,” said Gao Yusheng, Zhai Chen thought he would answer coldly, persuaded Zhai Chen with a little caution, with a slightly angry tone.

Zhai Chen suspected that there was something wrong with his ears, but he felt that the phrase “Don’t be angry” was a little sweet and waxy. Because he didn’t have any resistance to the young and soft creatures, he instantly softened. He exhaled for a long time, only to reflect that his emotions were too exposed, and sat back on the mushroom bench again, “I’m not angry.”

Parents sent their children into the garden one after another. Zhai Chen put on a pink blue apron and smiled to welcome the children in the kindergarten.

“Yaoyao!” The little girl with a bow and horn braid came in, and Zhai Mengmen, who was sitting alone on the swing, immediately spirited, and ate the little biscuit that Yaoyao gave with worry.

However, adults cannot eat up their worries. In the morning, the police station turned to Zhai Chen to investigate. This matter was currently accepted by the police station in the district. Relevant personnel in the community had also been brought over for questioning. Several policemen were too busy.

“What did you ask me for? Could I have the ability to kill someone as an old woman?”

“I went to my mother-in-law’s house with my wife last night. I wasn’t home at all. You saw it, too, and I came back in the morning.”

“I didn’t hear any strange sounds. You don’t know, our building is poorly soundproofed and has all sounds, quarreling, child-riding, and dancing. Noisy every day, I can hear nothing whien something happened.”

Middle-aged women and young couples live on the same floor as Li Ting, as well as neighbors who went up and down the floor, were all found, and they all made a mess.

“Zhai Chen, right? You called the deceased in the morning. What happened?” The police officer knocked on the table and stared at him with suspicion.

Zhai Chen looked away from the neighbors, leaned back against the table, and said absently, “I was a bodyguard she hired in private to pick her up to work.”

“Oh, the bodyguard… the bodyguard?” the policeman suddenly raised his head, slapped it on the table, and rattled the old-fashioned enamel cup on the table, “Be serious, why would an office worker hire a bodyguard! Are you her friend? “

“I’m telling the truth,” Zhai Chen supported her face with one hand, and moved closer, “she was entangled and tracked by her ex-boyfriend, and was beaten twice. Your policemen didn’t care about that, she could only hire a bodyguard.”

“Entangled by the ex-boyfriend…” The police suddenly felt the important clue and recorded it carefully. “What is the name of her ex-boyfriend?”

As Zhai Chen was describing, he took a glance at the few pages of the policeman who had not had time to cover them.

[Site preliminary survey: no obvious trauma; the body basically meets the conditions for free fall. There were no signs of fighting in the corridor, no signs of intrusion into the deceased’s room, and fingerprints of the door handles were to be identified. Suspected suicide …]

“She couldn’t have committed suicide,” Zhai Chen pointed at those two words.

The policeman quickly hid the paper under the folder，”Don’t look at it!”

“How could that be impossible?” behind the computer monitor at the desk behind Zhai Chen, a middle-aged man who was out of step with the busy scene and holding a cup of hot tea was a sophisticate that was common in various institutions, “many young people like to stay up at night to entertain foolish ideas. They may jump off the building after reading an article. How serious could by an ex-boyfriend get entangled with? She must hire you as a bodyguard for something else.”

It seemed that this man’s analysis was normal, but there were infinite malicious speculations on the dead. Zhai Chen squeezed the oxygen cylinder in the bag across the fabric and took a deep breath，”Li Ting is a person who likes to save face very much. Although she has no money, she also lived very delicately. In order not to lose face in front of colleagues, she bought the second-hand car which was polished every day; for the sake of freshness, she would rather dress up than to have breakfast. How could it be possible for her jumping off the building in pajamas? “

The police dutifully recorded the words what Zhai Chen said, found that he covered his heart seemed very sad, asked him what happened. Zhai Chen waved his hand and took a sip of the oxygen cylinder from his bag.

“If she was killed by someone else, who could she have seen in her pajamas? Now it’s time to focus on her personal relationship, oh, now the little girl…” the man was still chattering, but was suddenly grabbed by Zhai Chen from the table directly in the next second. A pile of debris on the table was swept to the ground, with loud sound.

“Hey, what are you doing!” the other policemen were stunned, and hurried over to pull Zhai Chen, and the police station was in a mess.

Zhai Chen dragged that man to the front easily, sneering with the unusual tone of words, not light lying, “You dare say it again!”

On the other side, in the Punctuation Map company, Gao Yusheng and the personnel manager have just sent away the police who came to investigate.

“The police will notify Li Ting’s parents, the hr should also be informed, and the employee insurance, ” Gao Yusheng was going back to the company while commanding his subordinates.

“Okay, Li Ting’s parents will be notified right away. The insurance will have to wait for the police to close the case and show a death certificate before it can be declared,” the hr manager reported clearly and coherently, and with Mr. Gao’s consent, he left in a hurry.

Gao Yusheng came back to the office. The sun shone through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows, making the rat-shaped towels on the table hairy. Gao Yusheng went to the window gently closed his eyes, looking up to the cloudless sky. How much courage did Li Wei have to jump off from the 18th floor?

“Mr. Gao, this is the information of Zhai Chen, I have sorted it out,” the secretary, Zheng Jing, came in and handed Gao Yusheng an A4 sheet of paper.

Gao Yusheng turned back, closed his eyes once again, looked at the information form, frowning gradually frowned, “A criminal police, is Zhai Chen’s biological father?”

“Well, it should ask his mother to know the truth,” Secretary Zheng replied. He was a young man with a thick eyebrow. This was a very serious statement.

“Ask his mother,” Gao Yusheng nodded thoughtfully, and suddenly rolled the paper in his hand. He slammed on the secretary’s head, “I asked you it is Natural or Adoption on his household register book!”

“I don’t know the household register book, but I heard that the neighbor said it was natural,” Secretary Zheng answered, as quickly as a bamboo tube poured beans, “my aunt knew an old lady who lived opposite Zhai’s. She went to enquire about Zhai Chen’s situation last Saturday. Zhai Chen’s father is Zhai Jianguo; his mother is a teacher, and her neighbors have not met her in recent years. He has a deceased sister named Zhai Xiyue and a brother adopted by his father called Fang Chuyang. Zhai Chen has lived in that community since he was a child. He should be born naturally. “

“Impossible,” Gao Yusheng flattened the A4 paper and sat back in his chair for a long time with silence.

Zheng Jing slipped quietly to the door, “Mr. Gao, if it is okay, should I leave first?”

“Zheng Jing,” Gao Yusheng held the towel and rubbed his fingertips, stunned Zheng Jing who had already stepped out of the door, “what if you have something that you are not sure but you really want it to come true?”

Secretary Zheng turned around and scratched his head. Suddenly he had an idea on his mind and went to the front desk to pick a chrysanthemum from the flower basket and hand it to the boss, “Count the petals!”

Gao Yusheng slowly looked up and looked at his secretary calmly.

“It’s all done in TV dramas, whispering and reading: real, fake, real, fake, the last one is the result,” Secretary Zheng suggested sincerely.

“That makes sense.” Gao Yusheng nodded.

Secretary Zheng laughed with relief, feeling that he was indeed the boss’s confidant. Look, he was like a 23-year-old youth in front of himself, innocent and cute. The secretary left the office with a satisfied smile like an old father. When he just touched the door with one hand, he heard the eerie voice of the boss behind him, “Secretary Zheng, your bonus for this month is canceled.”

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