when the moon whispers

Chapter 472: Accomplice - Turning Back (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
One Hundred and One Turns (Part 2)

"Who did you learn this skinning habit from this week? Where is the eagle here?"

Before Gao Ligang went to the provincial bureau to report but was actually criticized, he tucked his briefcase, which had been in the job for almost as many years as Gu Xing, under his armpit and strolled a few steps towards the small meeting room of the criminal investigation department that had been forcibly occupied by Gu Xing.

"In two months, there will be a few new soldiers coming in. How can you keep them with the way you are using them? No one will pay attention to you when the time comes for the double selection."

Lao Gao forgot to take his blood pressure medication when he went downstairs. He picked up Gu Xing's teacup and poured it into the trash can. He added a sip of warm water and swallowed the capsule stuck in his throat with his neck stretched out. He glared at Gu Xing who was about to say something rude, and waited for his old apprentice to swallow the words "a toad has no hair but its roots follow it" back into his stomach. He turned his head and looked out the window of the corridor for a while. The sky was finally clear after drizzling for half a day. He waved his hand to signal Xiao Letian and Jiang Mo who were working so hard late that they looked weird, and sat down to eat the leftover pork ribs from last night's supper.

"Song Yike, this little bastard, is still begging for mercy, asking to let this one go and let that one go—"

Lao Gao took the file that Gu Xing handed to him and roughly flipped through a few pages. He couldn't see clearly with his reading glasses on. "He killed and stole drugs. Many brothers were thrown into prison because he put his head on his belt and got drunk and caused trouble. The case, which was already hopeless, was dragged on for five years. Lao Li and I almost lost our faces and clothes because of him. He really thinks of himself as a savior...Did you tell the neighbors about Song Yiting's matter?"

"If there hadn't been the live broadcast of the murder, there might have been some leniency, but the current situation - it doesn't matter whether the brother unit is a leader or not. If you can withstand the pressure, you have to do it."

Gu Xing raised his chin and crossed his legs. He was swung by Lao Gao with his briefcase before he sat down obediently. He just said seriously, "I just sent you a message saying there is something going on" when a group of footsteps came rushing and steadily in the corridor. Zhu Silai, who had rarely seen the person before hearing him, called out "Lao Gu". He swung his long arms and legs into the small meeting room and couldn't stop them for a moment. He threw himself into Director Gao's arms with the documents in his hand, tripping himself. Then he took Director Gao's arm, looked at Gu Xing over his shoulder and nodded, "The comparison results of the physical inspection of the medicine bottle are out - we did find Song Yike and two and a half fingerprints of the head nurse in charge of preparing medicines in the emergency department of the suburban hospital."

Gao Ligang stood there in a daze for a moment, then tilted his head to listen to Zhu Silai's report. He frowned and thought for a while before he figured out what was going on from Gu Xingxie's meaningful expression. He rummaged through his mind and tried to find another unsolved case that had been pushed into a corner by the heart-digging case.

"The medicine bottle is... related to the juvenile delinquent who committed suicide in prison and then died accidentally in a suburban hospital?"

"I just sent you a message about this."

Gu Xing stood up and picked up the report document in Zhu Silai's hand. He first handed it to the old master, but he brushed it away. Then he held it in front of his eyes and quickly and carefully read it. Then he turned around and put it in front of the two apprentices who had their hands full of greasy dough from chewing bones.

"Wipe your hands before catching again - I spent the whole day in the interrogation room yesterday. Song Yike killed everyone he wanted to kill, as if he had no regrets. He confessed the facts of his crime as if it were his last words, and described in detail the causes and consequences of his murder and heart-digging, as well as his sister's situation. Unexpectedly, at the end of the first round of interrogation, Song Yike suddenly confessed - Cheng Ye's death was related to him."

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"What the hell?" Gu Xing pricked up his ears but didn't dare to confirm. He turned around and looked at Jiang Mo, who was also dumbfounded. He stepped on her shoes under the table, cleared his throat slightly, and deliberately lowered his tone and slowed down: "Song Yike, do you know what you are saying?"

"Captain Gu, we met at the prison gate."

Song Yike was tormented for a long time, and he slumped on the hard chair, but his expression relaxed, as if he had completely achieved some long-foreseen goals. He smiled with relief, "Is this considered... a dying man speaks kindly, right? Since I killed him, there is no need to hide Cheng Ye's life. Killing someone means paying with a life, owing a debt means paying back a debt. At this point, we are all going to die anyway, so I'd better confess... so that I don't have to worry about it."

Jiang Mo's mind seemed to be tangled up in paste. She blinked for two seconds, and felt vaguely that Song Yike's so-called confession seemed to have some hidden meaning. She tilted her head slightly to look at Gu Xing, then lowered her eyes to look at the list of evidence in Song Yike's home that Huang Xingjun had just sent in. Her eyes were fixed on an unsealed medicine bottle, and her brows suddenly tightened.

"The night Cheng Ye was being treated at the suburban hospital, were you there too?"

"The building where my sister is recuperating. I saw the prison car driving to the suburban hospital. After all, I had just been released from prison not long ago and knew a lot of people. I was curious..." Song Yike shrugged his shoulders, paused for a few seconds, and added in a low voice, "But I should not be seen on the surveillance... After all, I have been in the hospital for a while, and the locations of the surveillance are quite familiar. In addition, Officer Chen Haibin was there at the time, and I didn't want to be seen by him, so I hid deliberately."

"Curious? Curious about what? I heard that you behaved pretty well in prison. Why are you afraid of Officer Chen?"

Jiang Mo caught a glimpse of Gu Xing nodding slightly, and he gently circled the list twice with the ballpoint pen in his hand, "...or - is there any past between you and Cheng Ye that only Officer Chen knows about?"

Song Yike slightly curled his lips and said, "It's easy for Cheng Ye to make enemies in prison because of the crime he committed. It's inevitable that he will be pushed and bumped by others... I am one of them."

Jiang Mo took a deep breath and said, "Because of Song Wanwan's matter?"

"Yeah. It should be the time when Cheng Ye wrote a letter to Captain Gu. I beat him during my exercise break... I was about to be released from prison at that time, and Officer Chen hesitated for a long time and helped me keep the matter secret... Officer Chen has been taking good care of me during the years I was in prison. At that time, he taught me to keep my distance from Cheng Ye in the future. I didn't expect that we would meet again in the hospital... I didn't want Officer Chen to disrupt my plan, nor did I want him to be embarrassed again. He helped me once, and I didn't want him to be implicated because of my affairs—"

Song Yike's voice sank, and a hint of cruelty suddenly appeared between his brows.

"But how can someone like Cheng Ye be saved?!"

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"Just be happy and enjoy yourself."