when the moon whispers

Chapter 431: Accomplice - Entrustment (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
Eighty-one Entrustments (Part 1)

Before the arrest of the suspect in the horrific heart-digging case was finalized, the public opinion questioning the real culprit's execution was already being stirred up by two groundless online self-media accounts, making a fuss and causing chaos.

Several major media groups, fearing to miss out on the front-page headlines, occupied temporary parking spaces near the municipal bureau compound. They worked overtime and took turns to keep watch, carrying steamed buns and egg porridge bought from the snack stalls in the market to the side door exit of the nearby office building, and approached the familiar faces coming in and out, trying to strike up a few conversations with them.

Jiang Mo held the recently printed and still steaming transcript file in her hand, and leaned on the windowsill at the end of the corridor to glance at her master who was smoking a cigarette while chatting with a reporter from a newspaper. She then leaned out a little and saw Old Zhu who had been leaning against the window of the office on the second floor of the laboratory department, trying to stare at Gu Xingxian while he was smoking.

"...Old Gu will be scolded later." Jiang Mo sneered, turned his head and made way for Xiao Letian, who came out dazed and leaned on the windowsill to get some fresh air. He lowered his eyes and checked the time: "You...can only sleep for ten minutes?"

"...I woke up because I was hungry. I just dreamed about eating chicken legs." Xiao Letian squinted his eyes and looked downstairs. He manually opened his eyelids to let the wind blow for a few seconds, and vaguely caught a glimpse of a familiar face under the shade of a tree outside the yard. He waved at her quietly as if to confirm.

"Reporter Zhao is here today too... I don't know if Master's trick will work."

As soon as the vehicles waiting to be scrapped in the dilapidated factory were exposed, the evidence seized in the trunk and the testimonies of the owner and employees of the auto repair shop who were witnesses almost pinned the real culprit of the tragedy on Xue Yilian's head, so that it seemed as if the closed loop of the chain of evidence had been implemented - whether it was the black windbreaker whose silhouette was repeatedly captured by road surveillance cameras, or a fake and inferior takeout uniform that was soaked with Qian An's blood, or a few magnetic deck cards wrapped in the clothes and hidden, or even the glass fragments of bottles that were not cleaned up in the corner of the trunk, the room was full of evidence that could directly prove that Xue Yilian participated in and even committed the crime, but Xue Yilian remained calm and confessed to all the evidence that was favorable or unfavorable to him, but he kept silent about the events of several murders three or four years ago. The testimonies in his mouth were sometimes true and sometimes false, and he fooled the big guys of the Criminal Investigation Detachment's special task force like a group of stupid monkeys just by interest.

"It's not enough to just leak the news that the real murderer has been caught. Song Yike - or the real suspect is not a fool. We believe whatever Xue Yilian says. Why should they worry about being targeted by the police? They have been laying out ambushes long ago..." Jiang Mo shrugged and walked towards the office with a pile of documents. "Such a big scene has been created. If it is revealed outside, it will be that we, a group of incompetent people, have been entangled by a group of media with long guns and short cannons. If Master Chen takes a step back, it will depend on what the suspect will do next -"

"That's right. Xue Yilian is determined to send herself to jail. She rarely speaks the truth. She keeps talking so much that Team Huang instigated Team Lin to borrow a polygraph by showing their faces. They only borrowed the machine and forgot to check the expert's schedule. It seems that she is still studying with the intern who is in charge of the machine in the interrogation room..." Xiao Letian yawned and wanted to laugh helplessly. She followed her senior sister into the small meeting room, stood there with her hands on her hips for a long time before she remembered the completely cooled takeaway fried rice piled on the stool. She picked up the takeaway bag pitifully and looked at Jiang Mo with fake tears.

"Senior Sister, do you still want to eat?"

Although this conspiracy to alert the enemy was in front of them, Xue Yilian's nonsense was not completely without any breakthroughs. The stack of cards that tried to cover up their whereabouts was there. As long as the two cars did not disappear while driving, the screening route would always be able to find one or two scattered mistakes. Jiang Mo and Xiao Letian stayed in the dim and stuffy room of the interrogation room for half a night, and then turned around and threw themselves into the "grand cause" of checking the road surveillance. They spent an unknown amount of time in the small conference room in a daze. They struggled for a few minutes with their chests and backs pressed against each other while holding the cold fried rice that was oozing with oil. In the end, they still had a conscience to cherish food. They both blocked in front of Lao Liu, who was preparing the food in a leisurely manner in the cafeteria, and pitifully asked him if he could help boil water for a bowl of instant eggs.

Old Liu was peeling a potato halfway when he saw two takeout boxes. He looked up and asked them when was the last time they had a proper meal. When they stammered, he slapped his thigh and stood up from his stool. He snatched the two boxes of pre-made fried rice indignantly and was about to put them on the fire to cook them. Then he waved his arm and chased the two people to the front of the dining table. Next to each of them was a small can of sweet milk sago that was not distributed in the cafeteria at lunch.

Jiang Mo didn't hesitate. He took the can and drank most of it in one gulp. He smacked the sweet taste of condensed milk in his mouth and his eyes went blank for a few seconds. Suddenly, he remembered the important trust that he had almost forgotten. He took out the phone from his trouser pocket, glanced at the message notifications, and directly called the "culprit" who had reported dozens of messages.

"Just finished eating?" The call was answered almost immediately. Shao Jie's excited voice floated into Jiang Mo's ears, "...It's almost three o'clock in the afternoon."

"Isn't this serving the people..." Jiang Mo smiled silently, and when he lifted his eyelids, he saw Xiao Letian's mouth curved up meaningfully across the table. He held a can that was about to be empty and pretended to knock it on his head. He paid a little attention to the rustling noise on the other end of the phone, and asked hesitantly in a hoarse voice: "I just saw you send a message saying that there is a campus promotion activity today. Can I bring my child with the people from your club? How is Zhou Nanyi doing? Do you need me to bring him back to the team?"

The task of taking care of little Zhou Nan was really temporary and hasty.

The finalization meeting and the contract signing for the casting of the dance drama that were suddenly put on the agenda kicked Jiang He and Zhou Huaiyu out of their sweet dreams early in the morning. As luck would have it, "it rains and it pours". Just as they hurried to the kindergarten gate with Zhou Nan, who was still sleepy, the two of them received a temporary suspension message from the after-school teacher on their phones, saying that a child in the kindergarten had developed hand, foot and mouth disease in the community, and the kindergarten had decided to close the school for epidemic prevention and disinfection. Parents were kindly requested to take the little ones back the same way.

At the moment of formal work on the important decision, Jiang He and Zhou Huaiyu could not carry Zhou Nanyi, who was still sleeping with snot bubbles, to the negotiation table of the partner company. Jiang Mo was so busy that he had not been seen for who knows how long. The couple stood at the entrance of the kindergarten and thought for a while. They immediately thought of their future cheap son-in-law who seemed to have just finished a season and was suspected to be on vacation. While Zhou Nanyi was sleeping soundly, they briefly consulted the child's opinion, and then packed up the little guy and sent him to Shao Jie's base. They left a phone number for contact and disappeared in the morning rush hour traffic.

"Manager Xu was quite happy to be coaxed by him. Today's event is not a particularly formal occasion, and the location of the school auditorium is not close to the teaching building and the library... Lao Huo and the others had already informed the organizers before bringing him here. Are you still worried about this little rascal? Besides... I heard Sister Zhao mention that there seem to be a lot of reporters and media in your detachment recently-"

Shao Jie didn't say much, and stopped at the point to reassure Jiang Mo. Then he raised his hand and snapped his fingers at Zhou Nanyi, who was "wandering around in the flowers", and tapped his phone lightly, "Officer Jiang's instructions, do you want to listen?"

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"How can you live in emptiness? Emptiness is also dust."