Then, he heard the owner of the voice continue in a low voice, "Devil Cultivator, this is my decision. I've made my choice from the very beginning."
When Gu Xizhou heard this, he really wanted to curse out loud. However, he suppressed his anger in the end. No matter how irritable he was, Zhizhi was right. This was Zhizhi's decision. Even though Gu Xizhou was using Zhizhi's body, he had no right to make decisions for Gu Zhizhi.
His body was completely out of his control. He followed the girl closely five or six meters behind her, his palms sweaty.
Gu Xizhou's gaze followed Gu Zhizhi's movements.
Tong Jia didn't walk very fast. In fact, he was a little slow. However, it didn't take long for them to reach home. Gu Xizhou recognized at a glance that this was the neighborhood where Tong Jia lived. Tong Jia's death records had a photo of this neighborhood.
Tong Jia lived in a commercial residential neighborhood. It was an elevator apartment built in 2004. Gu Xizhou remembered that Tong Jia lived in Unit 3, Unit 12, Room 1205.
Tong Jia stood downstairs and stared upstairs for a long time. No one knew what he was thinking. Suddenly, he turned around and met Gu Zhizhi's gaze. Tong Jia was stunned when he saw Gu Zhizhi. He shouted, "Uncle, do you live in our neighborhood too?"
Tong Jia had asked 'junior high' Gu Zhizhi to go back to school during the day. Tong Jia had seen Gu Zhizhi in school before. She didn't think of him as a bad person. Instead, she took the initiative to talk to Gu Zhizhi.
"Yes." Gu Xizhou heard Gu Zhizhi's reply. Then, he walked towards Tong Jia and asked, "Your house is upstairs. Why don't you go up?"
Tong Jia shook his head. His face was slightly pale, and he did not look as happy as he did at school. "I don't want to go home."
Gu Zhizhi squatted down and used both hands to support Tong Jia. He suddenly realized that Tong Jia's body had almost no meat. He lowered his voice and asked, "Why?"
"It's nothing." Tongjia bit her lower lip with her pearly white teeth so hard that it started to bleed. Her eyes were a little red.
At this moment, a woman in a white dress came down from upstairs. She seemed to be very tired. When she saw Gu Zhizhi and Tong Jia talking, she frowned. Her eyebrows, which had been tattooed, looked like an upside-down eight character. She looked very fierce.
"Tong Jia, why are you standing downstairs instead of going home after school?" The woman cursed as she walked over and glared at the Tong Jia. Her tone was an octave higher, and she was filled with hostility.
"You wretched girl! You're just a debt collector!" The woman walked over and grabbed Tong Jia's arm. She was about to pull the Tong Jia away when she pinched Tong Jia's arm.
Gu Zhizhi remembered that he knew this woman. She did not treat Tong Jia like this in the past …!
The woman lectured Tong Jia and lowered her voice. It seemed like she did not want others to hear her conversation with Tong Jia. Gu Zhizhi said loudly, "I'm sorry. It's not that this child doesn't want to go upstairs. It's just that I don't know the way, so I asked her how to go up."
Gu Zhizhi's voice was very loud. It was mainly for the people around them to hear. The woman was slightly embarrassed to be interrupted by Gu Zhizhi. She reprimanded Tong Jia in a low voice for him to not talk to strangers. Then, she stopped Tong Jia and walked into the lobby.
Gu Zhizhi immediately followed them and pressed the button for the 13th floor before them. Without any explanation, the woman pressed the button for the 12th floor. She glanced at Gu Zhizhi but did not say anything.
After the elevator doors opened, Tong Jia left with his mother. Gu Zhizhi continued to go upstairs. When he reached the 13th floor, Gu Zhizhi went down the stairs to the 12th floor. He stood there for a long time.
There was not a single sound in the corridor.
Gu Zhizhi watched all of this quietly in his body. Tong Jia did not cry or make a fuss. Perhaps this little girl would not die today. He had already changed the rules of this world. After waiting for a while, Gu Zhizhi let out a sigh of relief.
Just as Gu Zhizhi let out a sigh of relief, Gu Zhizhi suddenly heard a sorrowful cry from the room. However, that cry did not belong to Tong Jia. It belonged to a woman!
At the same time, the woman's cry stopped abruptly. However, Gu Zhizhi was sure that he did not hear the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground. Tong Jia had not jumped off the building, so why was this woman crying?
While Gu Zhizhi was thinking, Gu Zhizhi knocked on the door of the house next door. The person who opened the door was an old man in his fifties.
The man had a big belly, a bald head, and a red nose. When he saw Gu Zhizhi, he frowned and asked, "What's wrong? What's the matter? "
Gu Zhizhi hurriedly took out his police badge and showed it to the man. "I am a police officer. I just received a report that a woman was crying in the house next door. Were you the one who called the police?"
The middle-aged man saw Gu Zhizhi's police badge but did not look at it carefully. He was at a loss and explained, "No, it wasn't me!"
"I think I heard the woman next door crying, but she didn't open the door when I knocked. I want to go over from your balcony. Is she being abused by her family?" Gu Zhizhi asked seriously.
"I don't think so … I didn't hear anything. Her husband is a teacher. It shouldn't be, right?"
The middle-aged man scratched his head in confusion. At this time, Gu Zhizhi had already reached the balcony. After estimating the distance, Gu Zhizhi was about to jump over when he suddenly saw Tong Jia rushing out with eyes swollen like walnuts from crying!
Gu Zhizhi's mind was blank. He did not have time to think and jumped over from the balcony next door. He steadily pushed Tong Jia to the ground.
As Gu Zhizhi got up, he hugged Tong Jia, who was crying crazily, and stared at Tong Jia for a while. He grabbed the girl's shoulder and asked in a low voice, "Tong Jia, why did you jump off the building?"
Tong Jia's eyes were red from crying. After being held down by Gu Zhizhi, she was sobbing softly with a blank expression. She turned her head and her gaze fell on the woman who had just stood up from the sofa in the room.
"You, how did you get in?!" Tong Jia's mother's tone was unfriendly. She suddenly shouted, "Help! Someone broke into my house to rob me!"
She rushed out to open the door and shouted towards the corridor. The neighbors who had already returned opened their doors one after another. Some of them wanted to help and came out with knives. "Who is it?!"
Suddenly, five or six men and women appeared in the corridor and followed Tong Jia's mother into her house.
There was a faint sense of hostility in the air.
After Gu Zhizhi walked in, he helped Tong Jia up and squeezed Tong Jia's shoulder with both hands. He asked, "Tell me, why?"
"Let go of that girl!" A man in a black jacket raised his eyebrows as he pointed at Gu Zhizhi with a baseball bat in his hand.
Gu Zhizhi lowered his eyes and glanced at him. Then, his gaze fell on Tong Jia.
"Call the police! Hurry up and call the police!"
Someone in the crowd shouted. Immediately, the surrounding people took out their phones. The man with the Mediterranean hairstyle poked his head out and walked in. He said to Gu Zhizhi, "Officer, you're really good at fighting. Otherwise, this little girl would have been dead!"
A middle-aged man in a white singlet and black shorts walked around the crowd and came in. He looked at Tong Jia and said, "Little girl, what's wrong with you? I saw that you wanted to jump off the building! If this officer hadn't received the call, you would have been dead. What's wrong with you that you wanted to jump off the building? "
Tears streamed down Tong Jia's face. She sobbed and didn't say anything.
However, Gu Zhizhi noticed a detail. Tong Jia jumped off the building from the balcony. Tong Jia's mother was sitting on the sofa in the living room. She could have seen Tong Jia jump off the building. However, when he looked at the interrogation records, he saw that Tong Jia's mother said that she was hanging clothes in the kitchen. Of course, he didn't rule out the possibility that something had happened in the supernatural world.
When the surrounding people heard that Gu Zhizhi was a police officer, they were all stunned. So, the person that the woman thought was a robber was a police officer!
"But I've already called the police!" A girl in red stuck out her tongue and said.
Gu Zhizhi said to the girl in red coldly, "It's okay."
Because of the middle-aged man's question, everyone's gaze fell on Tong Jia. Tong Jia rubbed her eyes and said, "Brother, brother is sick again. Mom said that it's all my fault."
"Eh? Brother? " Hearing Tong Jia's words, the middle-aged man who lived next door to Tong Jia was stunned. "You have a brother?"
"Yes."
The middle-aged man turned to look at Tong Jia's mother. If he remembered correctly, Tong Jia's father was a primary school teacher. If he had a second child, he would lose his job!
The middle-aged man's confusion only lasted for two seconds. Then, they heard Tong Jia continue, "I argued with mom. I asked mom to bring my brother back from his hometown. Mom refused … She hit me just now."
"Where did she hit you?" Gu Zhizhi looked down and grabbed Tong Jia's hands and feet. Tong Jia didn't have any injuries on his body!
Tong Jia gritted her teeth and whispered shyly in Gu Zhizhi's ear, "M-my butt!"
Gu Zhizhi frowned slightly. Could it be that Tong Jia's death was because of this? If it was really because of this, wasn't Tong Jia a little too weak?
At this moment, Gu Zhizhi heard the familiar sound of police sirens coming from downstairs. Gu Zhizhi hurriedly looked downstairs and said to everyone, "My colleagues are here. I'll go out and welcome them. You guys take good care of Tong Jia."
Gu Zhizhi walked out. When he was entering the elevator, he bumped into Li Yaomu. Gu Zhizhi lowered his voice and said, "Tong Jia's injury is on her butt."
"Ah?" Li Yaomu was stunned. Then, Gu Zhizhi walked into the elevator and closed the door.
Li Yaomu had a headache. He had just received a call saying that a man had broken into his house to commit robbery. How did it turn into a weak junior high school student jumping off a building when he arrived?
After he understood the whole story, he finally understood that the man had pretended to be a police officer!
The girl who had been beaten didn't say a word, and they didn't find any injuries on her body. Finally, he thought of what the guy who had stayed in the police station last night had said. He asked a policewoman to take Tongjia to a room to take off all her clothes and check the girl's injuries.
After the female police officer came out, her expression changed. She was silent for a long time before she told him what she had seen.
Needle marks, big and small, were all on the girl's butt. Some of them were just right, and some of them were very new!
Obviously, they were all from a while ago.
He swallowed his saliva and walked into the interrogation room. He looked at Tong Jia, who was sitting on the bench and frowning in pain. His heart couldn't help but tremble. He walked in and whispered, "Little kid, the uncle you mentioned has already told me what happened. Can you tell me what happened? Why did you jump off a building? "
Tong Jia hesitated and said, "My grandma and dad wanted a younger brother. My mom was often scolded by my grandma because she gave birth to me. Later, I felt that my mom didn't like me. It was all because of me that she was scolded by my grandma and beaten by my dad.
"My grandma never liked me. She often pinched me." Tong Jia said angrily.
"My mom and dad ignored me at home and didn't talk to me. During the summer break when I was in fifth grade, my grandma suddenly pricked my palm with a needle for no reason. I told my mom and dad about it, but they didn't care about me.
"At that time, I wanted to end the break as soon as possible. Later, I found out that my grandma pricked me with a needle because she wanted a grandson."
Li Yaomu's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. He had heard of this saying before. To be precise, it was a feudal myth. Some people would prick a baby girl with a needle because they believed that the second child would be a son.
Li Yaomu's fingers creaked. "What happened after that?"
"After the summer break, I went home … At first, whenever I made a mistake, my mom would prick me with a needle. Later, I don't know what happened … My mom started to prick me with a needle for no reason.
"After a while, my mom went back to her hometown to give birth to a younger brother." The little girl slowly recounted her experience. Li Yaomu didn't know how her young heart could take it, but there was a teasing tone in her voice and a smile on her face.
Li Yaomu suspected that the little girl in front of him was a smiley personality. She only knew how to laugh and not cry, so no one noticed her true emotions.
"Mom gave birth to a younger brother. I was so happy," Tong Jia said. "I thought … That way, they wouldn't prick me with a needle anymore!
"I don't know why my mom and dad didn't want my younger brother to go to the city. They wanted him to stay in their hometown. They also didn't want me to tell anyone that I had a younger brother … But later, my younger brother fell sick …"
After listening to Tong Jia's story, Li Yaomu finally uncovered the mystery. This was a typical patriarchal family.
The older generation believed in feudal superstitions, so when the woman was pregnant, they would prick the little girl with a needle. After the son was born, the little girl's father hid his son in his hometown to keep his job.
Not only could the little boy not be registered, but he also had to be hidden. If someone didn't like him and reported him to the authorities, the Tong Jia's father would lose his job.
Because of his parents, the little boy had problems seeing a doctor. In the end, he had a fever of 40 degrees Celsius. They used traditional methods to lower his body temperature, but his brain was damaged. Now, he was two years old and still couldn't speak. He was obviously mentally handicapped. This incident caused the Tong Jia's parents to collapse.
The two of them blamed everything on Tong Jia. If it weren't for Tong Jia, they wouldn't have left their son in their hometown, and their son wouldn't have had a fever!
They didn't think that it was their fault.
The two of them beat and scolded the Tong Jia, but because of their jobs, the man didn't want others to find out. Therefore, the two vicious men and women used needles to prick the little girl.
When the people outside heard this, they were all stunned. Wang Ao, who also came to work, stood up and roared, "What the f * * k are they? How dare they be parents?"
"That's right. This is too despicable. What should we do with this little girl?" As she spoke, a policewoman wiped away her tears. "After this investigation, her father will definitely lose his job. If this girl is sent back to the evil couple, I think he will commit suicide!"
"Let's collect evidence first. I think we can sue the little girl's parents. Even if they don't get sentenced, we can't let the little girl continue to be raised by them. Otherwise, she will be abused," Wang Ao scolded coldly.
One of them said, "That's right!"
"By the way, I heard from the interrogation that a policeman found the little girl was about to commit suicide. Who was the one who saved her?" Wang Ao asked.
Everyone quickly waved their hands and said, "Speaking of which, it's strange!
"The person who called the police said that a male police officer saved this poor little girl, but when we went upstairs, we bumped into a man. He was quite handsome. We thought he was a resident, so we stopped him. Later, we found out that he was our colleague, but he was not from our police station!"
"That's right. If he was from our police station, I would definitely recognize him!"
After Gu Zhizhi left, Gu Xizhou didn't see the door. He let out a long sigh. Gu Zhizhi, who saved the Tong Jia, didn't disappear immediately. Could it be that this wasn't Gu Zhizhi's wish? Or could it be that he wanted to wait for the Tong Jia case to come to an end before disappearing?
A few days later.
Gu Xizhou finished his breakfast and glanced at Ningqing's local newspaper on September 28, 2004. The huge headline was: School teacher is superstitious. He pricks a girl with needles just to give birth to a son. What's wrong with this world?
Gu Xizhou glanced at the content. Finally, his eyelids fell on the last paragraph: The public security bureau, the prosecutor, and the court will sue the girl's parents!
This matter seemed to have blown up quite a bit.
Gu Xizhou rubbed his forehead. He didn't understand what Gu Zhizhi was trying to do. In the supernatural world, even if the Tong Jia case had a happy ending, what was the point?
Just as Gu Xizhou was complaining in his heart, his body lost control again. The person whispered, "Yes, there is."
Gu Zhizhi, who had disappeared for a few days, appeared again.
Gu Xizhou watched as Gu Zhizhi's body began to move again. She put down the money and walked out of the restaurant. The surrounding environment seemed to have changed drastically in an instant. Walking past the street corner again, Gu Xizhou was stunned.
The digital screen on the street had the date: June 18, 2010.
June 18, 2010. It was the day before Gu Zhizhi's parents died.
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