when the moon whispers

Chapter 443: Accomplice - Restlessness (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
Eighty-seven restlessness (Part 1)
"I've been driving that car for more than ten years... I can't make a mistake. The right door of the car had a chip on the stone pillar at the main entrance of the University of Finance and Economics. I didn't care because the paint didn't fall off and it didn't rust... I should - I don't need to should, I just looked at the two-color headlights and I knew it was my car, no doubt about it."

The original owner of the scrapped car, which had been deregistered and sent to the factory almost two months ago, was named Guo. Ever since he received a phone call and learned that his "former beloved car" had reappeared on the road and was involved in a kidnapping mystery, Brother Guo has been trembling with fear and anxiety. The key chain hanging on his belt made a "clattering" sound as he shook his legs uncomfortably.

Old Brother Guo finished his words haltingly, raised his hand and pushed back the photo that Jiang Mo handed to him for identification. The tension in his head loosened a little, and he pulled his ears that were a little tinnitus, and finally heard the noise that he had blocked all over the room. He nodded apologetically, holding the paper cup beside him, and figured out something on his own. He leaned forward and scratched the edge of the table awkwardly with his dirty nails.

"But I... I really don't know how this car that was sent to the scrapyard got out again... and ran to the University of Finance and Economics - I... won't be arrested, right? Officer, I really don't drive a black car to cheat students, it's just... the child's mother is in poor health and goes to the hospital every now and then, and I... took advantage of my off-duty time to earn some money for gas and food..."

"If you want to take me to the hospital, wouldn't it be convenient to keep this car?" Jiang Mo waved his hand and casually flipped open the paper that the government would not investigate if the people did not report it. He tilted his head and looked at the key of the electric car on Brother Lao Guo's waist. He blinked and thought for a while, then asked gently: "You didn't buy a new car, but an electric car? What model of your car is... The subsidy should be enough for the down payment of a new car, right?"

"This is the surgery for that woman, where are the tens of thousands of dollars going to come from..." Old Guo first casually muttered about the price of scrap recycling, and halfway through sighing, he realized that he was talking too much. The worried expression on his face froze between his eyebrows, and he hesitated for a long time without daring to finish his words. He glanced at the uniformed figures rustling in the corridor outside the reception room, and began to shake his legs nervously again, "That... the owner of the car dealership in charge of recycling said he has connections... so... the price he introduced is indeed much higher than the market price... I... really... need this money..."

Jiang Mo first held down the tip of the pen that the clerk girl beside him was using to record the suspected illegal dismantling and selling of auto parts. He nodded without surprise and raised his eyebrows to look at Lao Guo. "Bai Xing Auto Repair Shop? Is the surgery fee enough?"

"...Uh...right." Lao Guo stared blankly at the movements of Jiang Mo's hands, blinked slowly, raised his eyes and stared at Jiang Mo for a few seconds as if puzzled, swallowed a sob and said, "It's enough. The boss of Baixing said...there are a few spare parts that are urgently needed, and the price is a bit high...I mainly want to use it in an emergency, so I-just accepted it. And..."

Lao Guo scratched the short gray hair on the back of his head, took a few breaths of hesitation, and finally slapped his knee. He rubbed the table to reach Jiang Mo's arm and patted it lightly: "Actually, the sale of the car is partly due to my husband's surgery, but there is another thing that I didn't even dare to mention to my wife."

Lao Guo pushed Jiang Mo twice, then looked at the two policemen in front of him across the table, half covering his mouth mysteriously and said, "In the past six months, I felt that my car was haunted!"

"Haunted?" Jiang Mo was so anxious that he broke his heart in two. He pursed his lips and swallowed a few times before he managed to stop himself from laughing. "The car ran away by itself?"

"Ah! Of course!" Old Brother Guo slapped the table as a matter of course, and then he saw the corners of the clerk's mouth that couldn't help laughing, and then he said "Hi" belatedly, and his face turned red, "No... I'm not saying it's really haunted, officer!"

Jiang Mo licked the corner of his mouth, removed his arm that was blocking the clerk, and raised his eyebrows in a hissing voice: "You mean, someone stole your car?"

"Yes, yes, yes... I have to be serious... someone must have stolen it." Lao Guo rubbed his knuckles, which were probably chapped from winter, and thought carefully for a long time. "I don't remember exactly when I found it, but it must have been before the New Year. As for me, I use the car quite regularly. The factory works in three shifts, and when I'm not at work, I go to the school early in the morning and late at night to squat. Usually I just run back and forth between the subway station and the nearby commercial street, and it's no later than nine in the evening. My husband has to wait for me to eat no matter how late it is, so I don't squat for too long. I'll spend at most twenty or thirty yuan." "What happened that day? My wife stretched her waist while working at the snack bar downstairs. It hurt so much that she couldn't sleep at night, so I thought about going downstairs to buy two expensive plasters - but after walking back and forth with a broken leg, I found that the car downstairs was nowhere to be found."

Jiang Mo was a little surprised and asked in astonishment: "Why didn't you call the police at that time?"

"I was in a hurry to go home and give my wife some plaster. I didn't think about it at the time. I thought I could just wait until the next morning. It's impossible for such a big thing to disappear out of thin air, right?" Lao Guo pounded his fist into his palm. "As a result, when I woke up the next morning, the car was parked there... My wife said I must have been too sleepy the night before. I didn't think much about it, but I kept thinking about it. Once when I got up at night, I happened to see the car disappear in the middle of the night. My wife and I both saw it!"

Jiang Mo nodded affirmatively and asked at the right time: "Why didn't you call the police this time?"

"He...he gave me three hundred dollars' worth of gas."

Lao Guo rubbed his head in embarrassment, "I didn't care about it later. I don't know what that guy did, but he drove the car away and returned it with gas, no bumps or violations... My car is not a luxury car, I just treated it as a taxi for a while. Until about two months ago, I saw a few strange water marks in the car."

Lao Guo's words made a chill run down his spine. He rubbed his arms and hugged himself into a ball: "At first I thought this guy was very particular, but later I felt something was wrong. I don't know what those marks were made by, I guess they soaked into the sponge pad. Anyway, there was always a strange smell in the car that I couldn't tell what it was. That's when I started to think about it. My husband happened to have an operation scheduled, so I took the opportunity..."

Jiang Mo flicked the ballpoint pen on the table and asked, "Why didn't you call the police this time?"

"Because I think that smell... is a bit like the smell of a dead person in the coffin when my mother passed away and her family wanted to bury her."

Lao Guo hung his head in shame, clasped his fist towards Jiang Mo apologetically, and rubbed his head angrily.

"If it's really related to the death... Since this guy knows where our car is, he might know where our house is. What if he - I'm afraid my family will be retaliated against... I thought this matter was over... Who would have thought that it would really bring trouble to me..."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"The clear mountains are visible, and the mist is gone."