Finally, the day dawned. At 5:30 in the morning, Mo Xiaoqing got up in a hurry.

She walked out of the hotel and wanted to take a walk on the street to breathe the fresh air.

After walking a few steps, she saw their car on the right side of the road of the hotel. When she passed by the car, she couldn't help but look inside and saw a familiar figure.

There was a shadow faintly shining through the glass. Mo Xiaoqing leaned on the glass window and took a closer look. It turned out to be Xu Yao, who was sleeping in the front driver's seat with his neck tilted and his eyes closed.

Looking down again, she saw cigarette butts scattered on the floor of the driver's seat.

Mo Xiaoqing couldn't help feeling a little guilty. It turned out that there was no other room last night. Xu Yao just stayed in the car all night.

She coughed twice to relieve her nervousness and knocked on the window vigorously.

There was no movement. Mo Xiaoqing shouted loudly,

"Captain Xu, Captain Xu, wake up."

After several shouts, Xu Yao finally raised his head, opened his sleepy eyes, and shook the window down.

Mo Xiaoqing's heart began to beat fast. The scene of last night once again appeared in her mind. In order to relieve her nervousness, she laughed foolishly.

"Hey, good morning, Captain Xu! Why don't you go to your room and sleep for a while? We still have to go to the old village to investigate later, and you have to drive.

The roads in the village are bumpy, so you have to be careful."

After hearing this, Xu Yao jumped down from the driver's seat, raised his eyes and stared at Mo Xiaoqing for a long time, making her blush and embarrassed.

It couldn't be that Xu Yao discovered her dark circles, because she didn't sleep all night last night.

"That... Mo Xiaoqing, I'm really sorry about last night, don't take it to heart."

"Captain Xu, don't worry, let's forget about what happened last night. Being drunk makes people unconscious.

But Captain Xu, it's better to drink less in the future, otherwise, if you go out to drink, you will tarnish the innocence of many girls." Mo Xiaoqing deliberately joked.

Unexpectedly, Xu Yao replied: "I am clear-minded when I am drunk. I know what I am doing. Unlike someone..."

Mo Xiaoqing was furious when she heard this. Xu Yao, since you are clear-minded and know what you are doing, why do you take advantage of me?

She only dared to glare at Xu Yao's back and pout, and did not dare to question him face to face.

Xu Yao went back to the room to sleep, and Mo Xiaoqing went to the breakfast stand outside the store to buy dumplings, steamed buns, steamed buns, porridge and other breakfast.

Mo Xiaoqing thought that Xu Yao must have stayed in the car last night and did not sleep well, so she brought him breakfast so that he could eat his fill and take a rest to refresh himself.

She walked to the door of the room with breakfast in hand, only to find that the door was not locked. She pushed the door open and heard soft snoring.

Xu Yao really did not sleep well all night. Mo Xiaoqing stood beside the bed, staring at Xu Yao who was sleeping soundly, and was stunned.

His face was as handsome as a knife, and his long and thick eyelashes could be seen through his tightly closed eyes.

Since Xu Yao was sleeping soundly, Mo Xiaoqing didn't want to wake him up, so she ate some breakfast by herself. It was really boring to sit aside and wait silently.

So Mo Xiaoqing closed the door and went for a walk outside.

Mo Xiaoqing walked out and found that the owner of the hotel was chatting with the villagers.

"Brother, our cousin from the old village may not be able to survive. The villagers told us that he has been ill for several days.

It is so pitiful that there is no one to help take care of him."

"Hey, I brought a child back from an orphanage. I thought that when he was old, I could help him pour a glass of water or empty his urine, but it didn't happen in the end."

"Who knew it would be like this? When I first brought him back, I thought he was innocent, clean, and smart, but he turned out to be a fool."

"You can't say he's completely stupid. I heard from others that he has depression. Don't look at him as a man of few words. He is very good at painting. He can paint anything. He was almost recognized as a child prodigy by the villagers. But he suddenly ran away in the end. We couldn't find him no matter how hard we tried. Otherwise, he should be around 25 or 26 years old now."

Mo Xiaoqing heard that there was a lot of information in it. There were several pieces of information that matched the painter she was looking for.

He could paint, grew up in an orphanage in his early years, and his age was also consistent with the person they were looking for.

Mo Xiaoqing hurriedly approached them and asked, "Hello, your cousin you just talked about once adopted a child. What was his name?"

The hotel owner turned around in confusion. Mo Xiaoqing found that she was wearing casual clothes and had not revealed her identity yesterday, so she quickly took out her police ID from her pocket and showed it to him.

She also took out a blurry photo, "Look, do you know this person?

What's the name of your cousin's child you just mentioned?"

The hotel owner answered respectfully: "The child is Li Tieer, he and the son of the shop next to mine went to junior high school together."

After the boss said this, Mo Xiaoqing immediately stood up, "Then please introduce me to them, I want to go to your shop next door to talk to them."

The boss did not refuse, and took Mo Xiaoqing directly to the shop next to him, which was a shop selling dumplings and vermicelli.

When Mo Xiaoqing walked in, she saw a middle-aged man cleaning the table.

"Old Jiang, your son should not be at home now. Did he go to work?"

The noodle shop owner Jiang turned around and looked at them in confusion. The hotel owner quickly explained, "Oh, it's like this. This is Officer Mo. They are criminal police from Kangsar City and are investigating a case."

Mo Xiaoqing showed his ID and quickly walked over to shake hands with Mr. Jiang. "Hello, Uncle Jiang. It's like this. I just heard that your son was in the same class with a boy named Li Tieer when he was in elementary school, right?"

The noodle shop owner politely led them to the back of the store. The room in the back was more spacious and was used for family living.

"Officer Mo, my son has gone to work. I'm not sure if there was such a person in his class when he was in elementary school.

How about this, you sit down first, I'll show you his elementary school photo album."

Mo Xiaoqing sat on a wooden chair, "Then there's Uncle Jiang."

The noodle shop owner searched back and forth on a wooden shelf. After three minutes, he had a smile on his face, "Ah, I found it."

The noodle shop owner took out an album and walked over, "Look.

This is a group photo of my son's elementary school graduation. There seem to be the names of those children on the back."

Mo Xiaoqing took the group photo and put it together with the blurry photo she brought for comparison.

The group photo provided by the noodle shop owner showed dozens of children huddled together, staring at the camera with a smile on their faces. They all wore red scarves around their necks. The photo was yellowed, and in the middle it was written "Class 8, Grade 2, XXX Elementary School."

The noodle shop owner looked at the group photo and pointed to the fifth person from the right in the second row and said, "Is this my son, Li Tie'er? I remember now, he should be the third one after my son."

Because the photo was old and had turned yellow, the child's face was blurry.

Mo Xiaoqing turned the group photo over, and fortunately the names behind were very clear. He looked at the name behind the person pointed by the noodle shop owner and found that it was Li Tie'er.