when the moon whispers

Chapter 429: Accomplice - Abandoned Factory (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
Eighty Abandoned Factories (Part 1)

“…Wha—what?”

Xue Yilian blinked in bewilderment, not knowing whether she hadn't heard Jiang Mo's almost clear and melodious words clearly, or simply couldn't believe it. The "gulp" sound of swallowing heavily broke the silence in the interrogation room, and she stuttered out a sentence: "What did you just say?"

Jiang Mo didn't respond at first. He stared at Xue Yilian, who was dazed for a moment, then deliberately avoided the eyes and glanced at the side. He raised his eyebrows with a little speculation, "Song Yike was initially invited to the Municipal Bureau for investigation as a suspicious person. It was really not because he was suspected of coming from the same welfare home as Song Wanwan and you - but because... before Chen Zuoyi was killed, he was dragged by Boss Chen in the name of moving the car and was violently assaulted in a secluded alley near Guangyuan Street to Xiaotai Town. We took him to a medical examination and obtained evidence, and the situation is basically true."

Jiang Mo paused for more than two seconds, tilted his head and looked at Xue Yilian's nervous scratching of the edge of her nails, "When did you and Song Yike meet again? He was working odd jobs at the Shanqian Bar... Chen Zuoyi was a regular customer there, so you two were reunited after a long time, but you didn't get together for Song Wanwan's matter - to catch up or something?"

Xue Yilian's nails almost dug into her flesh, scratching her fingertips so that they turned white and red. She lowered her head, trying to figure out these seemingly random words, then slowly raised her eyelids and looked at Jiang Mo intently. After a moment of silence, she deliberately loosened her clenched hands and shook her head lightly.

"As I just said, there's nothing much for Xiao Ke and I to talk about except Wan Wan, not to mention the way Wan Wan is - I did meet him before at the Shanqian Bar... but firstly, the guy named Chen was always there, and secondly... I didn't want to involve him, so apart from occasionally saying a few words to him and asking him how he's doing, there's nothing else. Xiao Ke doesn't talk much, and he won't tell me bad things... He was hit by something while dismantling scraps before, and his walking posture is uncoordinated. If I hadn't asked him so much that he couldn't stand it, he probably wouldn't have told me."

"Is that so..." Jiang Mo didn't care whether he believed it or not. He just paid attention to Xue Yilian's mention of Song Yike's injury, and asked: "If what you said is true, then it really wasn't you who introduced Song Yike to the Shanqian Bar?"

"I wasn't the one who introduced them." Xue Yilian smiled helplessly. "Although I'm not sure about the specific channels, the owner of Shanqian Bar, Luo Shi, is indeed very willing to find kids who have just been released from prison to work as waiters in his place. Maybe he thinks... he can control the place?"

"Since you probably know that Song Yike was in jail for three years—" Jiang Mo nodded thoughtfully, picked up the ballpoint pen and tapped it twice, then suddenly raised his head: "Then was the revenge action that suddenly stopped three years ago because of Song Yike?"

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Huang Xingjun leaned his head out and listened halfway through. He hissed and slammed his fist on the conference table: "If you ask her like that, she will definitely say 'no'... She's going through so much trouble just to get rid of that security guard Xiao Song!"

"If it's 'no', Xue Yilian can answer anything." Gu Xing drank two sips of hot tea and was shocked by Huang Xingjun's sudden movement. He raised his hand and slapped his startled shoulder, "But if it's 'yes', then she will definitely say 'no'." Huang Xingjun raised his eyebrows and reacted for two seconds. He glanced at Xiao Letian who was obviously still mumbling, and grinned and rubbed his shoulders that were numb from the beating, "What did Xue Yilian say?"

"Just say 'no' directly." Jiang Mo shrugged, "Xue Yilian advocated a coincidence, saying that Song Yike got drunk and made trouble because of Song Wanwan's matter and was put in jail. Xue Yilian stopped because Song Wanwan showed signs of waking up during that time, and she put her revenge plan on hold in order to take care of the patient."

"Listen to her talking nonsense there - one coincidence is a coincidence, a bunch of coincidences are purely intentional. Do you think she is playing Go next to Chen Zuoyi?" Huang Xingjun turned his head and said "Pah", with a look of disgust on his face. He rubbed the stubble on his chin with his arm, "But speaking of this... do you think Chen Zuoyi really doesn't know the identities of Xue Yilian and Song Yike, or is he pretending to be so, and ended up getting himself into trouble?"

"It's hard to say about Song Yike. After all, he didn't have any direct dealings with the two Chen brothers. As for Xue Yilian, it's not certain..." Jiang Mo frowned slightly, obviously not agreeing with the explanation he heard from Xue Yilian: "She explained it herself, saying that Chen Zuoyi had really asked her in person, saying that she had the same name as the person who wanted to cheat him of his money, but that Xue Yilian had a husband who died in vain, and this Xue Yilian had nothing - she said Chen Zuoyi believed it, and after being vigilant for a while, it was nothing."

"...I tend to think that Chen Zuoyi knew about it...Fuan Xingcheng and Shengcheng International are similar, both of them belong to people with connections. Chen Zuoyi may spend money and play around, but he was able to support the company after his brother's sudden death and not let it go bankrupt. He is definitely not a complete idiot. He is not completely ignorant of the people around him or even his bedmates. He probably kept Xue Yilian by his side to keep this "dangerous item" with unknown intentions under his nose, which is better than being stabbed in the back by her at any time. Although he was stabbed several times after all-" Gu Xing flipped through the transcript of the testimony, holding the paper documents and crossing his legs on the conference table: "I just went out halfway and received a call from Lao Gao. Xue Yilian didn't leave after killing someone. Where did she run from?"

"Storage room." Jiang Mo snorted, "To the semi-underground storage room in the alley behind the bar. It just so happened that there was a car blocking the view, and the body had been cleaned up before it was discovered. No traces were found when the scene was re-investigated."

Gu Xing also chuckled twice, leaned back, and sank completely into the office chair: "There is a loophole... Doesn't this clearly show that Song Yike is her accomplice?"

"So... I couldn't make it up anymore, so I guessed it was almost noon and I was clamoring to eat."

Jiang Mo raised his hand and rubbed his face in a dull manner, listening to Huang Xingjun taking over the conversation and muttering a few vague words that he had just dug out from Song Yike in the emergency room of the hospital. She pursed her lips and was about to ask him if he knew the exact time when Song Yike was hit by the demolished renovation waste, but her cell phone, which she had casually placed under a pile of files, started buzzing non-stop.

Jiang Mo dug out her phone from the mess like digging a hole and a grave. Seeing the caller ID, she raised it to her master and swiped the phone to answer it, putting it to her ear. "Wang Jiahao? My car is in the yard, so there won't be a ticket, right? Is there something urgent?"

"Bai Xing Auto Repair Shop, remember?" The person on the other end of the phone shouted directly, "After the illegal modification of the car and the disassembly of parts were seized, haven't we been investigating the source of supply? We dug deep into the ground and finally found an unregistered warehouse. Guess what? We just happened to find two cloned cars with Chen Zuoyi's name on them, stored in this broken factory."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"The cloud has no me in its heart, and the cloud has no me in its heart."