when the moon whispers

Chapter 424: Accomplice - Restricted (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
Seventy-seven Restrictions (Part 2)
The ringing phone of Black Cat Sheriff rang three times without giving up.

Fu Xi's family never come to visit without a reason. But Fu Lefeng, a top rebellious player, had half of her body pulled by Liu Shui and stepped on the gray border. He gave up for the moment, fearing that she would really do something that would cost someone's life. Jiang Mo really couldn't escape. He held the phone and hesitated for a long time before he slowly put the phone to his ear with a wrinkled face that was almost as wrinkled as a bun. He forced himself to be professional and endured Fu Xi's unreasonable attack.

"Why don't you answer the phone?!"

"……What's with you?"

"I asked you why you didn't answer my call?! Every time I called you, it was for something important? Is this how you work as a police officer? This is what your master taught you--"

"I asked you what's the matter." Jiang Mo pressed his fingers hard on his forehead, interrupting Fu Xi's unreasonable and arrogant questioning. He took a deep breath and stopped Fu Xi's dissatisfaction that he simply felt ignored and wanted to vent: "Why don't you bother with being a policeman... If you have any emergency situation that needs to be handled by the police, please explain the course of events and the current situation in detail. If you just want to curse, then I won't accompany you here-"

"... Jiang Mo! Please don't, I want to apologize to you on behalf of your father..."

Jiang Mo turned his head away from Fu Xi's angry breath on the microphone, his thumb half hanging on the red button to hang up the phone. Yao Yicai then took the phone sobbingly, and brought the topic back to the right track: "It's like this... If we couldn't find anyone, we wouldn't bother you... It's about your sister Xiaofeng..."

Jiang Mo was not very happy to hear Yao Yicai deliberately pulling those blood relationships that only added to her troubles. She rubbed her eyebrows, which had not been smoothed for a long time, and knitted them even tighter. The tip of her tongue rolled over her molars that were chewing and loosening. "Fu Lefeng didn't go back to school? Or did he run away from home again? Where was he when he last contacted you?"

"She last contacted us a week ago... She had gone back to school obediently, but... you know your father's temper. He doesn't know how to say nice things. He was obviously worried that she would contact her ex-boyfriend again and be led astray by him, but who would have thought that they would quarrel like this—"

Yao Yicai was about to cry again as she spoke, her voice choked in her throat, "I heard from Xiaofeng that Liu Shui - seems to have been arrested. Although we haven't officially broken up, I guess he can't get out... We were chatting just fine at the beginning, but who would have thought that as soon as Xiaofeng mentioned that she seemed to have a new friend at school recently, your dad started to criticize her. He had good intentions at first, fearing that she would be deceived again. The two of them haven't contacted each other since the quarrel..."

"A week ago? Did the school contact you?" Jiang Mo was startled, his back suddenly tensed up, and when he raised his head, he could see Shao Jie's eyes looking around the entrance with concern. His tense nerves relaxed a little for no reason, and after thinking for a while, he asked in surprise, "You couldn't get in touch with me a week ago, so why did you call me now?"

"We just had a fight a week ago. Xiao Feng still posts on WeChat Moments every day, and the school counselor hasn't contacted us, but - but she clearly told me before that she wanted to take a leave to go home in the next two days... But after the fight, we haven't heard from her, and we can't get through to her on the phone or WeChat..."

Yao Yicai finally cried out loud, and Fu Xi, who had calmed down a little, pulled her away from the microphone: "We contacted her college roommate to ask about the situation. The kid kept lying at first, but later he told the truth, saying that Xiaofeng asked for leave to go out with a male classmate, but he said that there was something going on at home. Now it's been two days, and there's no trace of her in the photos..."

Jiang Mo listened to Fu Xi and his wife's long complaints with a sullen face, hung up the phone and sent a message to Fu Lefeng. Half a minute later, he received a message of Fu Lefeng smiling and holding the B&B owner's puppy with the moon halo - Jiang Mo raised his eyebrows and sneered, then fell back on the sofa speechlessly and weakly. When he raised his eyes, he saw Shao Jie also put his phone away with an unexpected look on his face.

She raised her chin slightly to express her concern, but before she could finish her words, her phone, which was still hot from the last call, started to ring again. Jiang Mo's scalp tightened, and he lowered his eyes to see "Gu Xing" on the caller ID. He sat up straight from the soft sofa cushions and said, "Master, is there a message?"

"That's about right. Yuan Lanyin received another anonymous email, threatening her to expose the truth about the frame-up and harm between Song Wanwan and Song Zhiwen. In addition to the email, anonymous posts were also posted on several social platforms—" Gu Xing was probably working in the Internet monitoring technical team. Jiang Mo could even hear the keyboard clicking. "The account that posted the message is online. We should be able to crack the real-time IP address. I'll send the address to your phone later. Meet with Letian'er and take him back to the bureau."

Jiang Mo immediately stood up and clattered to get ready for going out. Then he suddenly remembered that Shao Jie was still standing in the living room pitifully. He turned back a little embarrassedly in his slippers and looked apologetically into Shao Jie's eyes which were bent with a helpless smile.

"I have to go out..."

"You have to get out..."

Shao Jie walked forward calmly, and just breathed a sigh of relief. He took two steps forward and raised his hand to smooth Jiang Mo's hair, which had been flying because of the mess he had made when he was putting on clothes in the room. "Sister Zhao's call just now should be about the same thing. She originally wanted me to remind you."

Jiang Mo tilted his head back and blinked thoughtfully: "Did someone post something online to expose the Blue Bridge Publishing House?"

"Yeah. But this matter does have some cause." Shao Jie nodded and said concisely, "The editor-in-chief of Lanqiao Publishing House was murdered, and the best-selling author was involved in a major murder case. The publishing house is in a mess. Yuan Lanyin, who was responsible for helping them with marketing, is still under police control. The publishing house is eager to clear itself, and I don't know which PR marketing company it hired. It seems that the marketing account first intercepted part of what happened to Song Wanwan, distorted the truth and said that the publishing house cultivated a ghost writer, who took money and hooked up with rich people to get promoted, and then bit the publishing house. Then they used Song Zhiwen's account to publish a statement of quitting writing and retiring, hoping to sell Song Zhiwen's book first."

As soon as Lanqiao Publishing House became the first to file a complaint, indiscriminate ridicule and curses or people just watching the fire from the other side of the river immediately followed. The matter fermented rapidly for several hours, and the posts exposing the issue were posted everywhere in an overwhelming manner with anger.

"The public opinion has become so loud...it has forced the suspect to reveal his whereabouts..." Jiang Mo frowned with a complicated expression, "I don't know if this is a good thing or not."

Shao Jie lowered his eyes and sighed in response. He first sent the person to the entrance. Then he suddenly remembered the rose gold handcuffs that Shao Jie took out from Jiang Mo's pocket when she just threw away the dirty clothes. He took a few quick steps and handed the handcuffs on the TV cabinet to the door: "...Be careful. Don't leave anything behind."

"Police officers' families are not babysitters. If you have nothing to do, go out and play with your teammates or Han Lu and the others. Don't stay at home all day like a snail girl." Jiang Mo shook the collar of his jacket, pushed open the door with his hand, turned around suddenly, grabbed Shao Jie's stupidly high collar without being very "gentle", and tiptoed to give him a kiss.

"Let's go. Send a message if anything happens. Go to bed early."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"I want to see the lake full of fireflies more numerous than stars after the night has passed."