when the moon whispers

Chapter 476: Accomplice - Fire Point (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
One Hundred and Three Fire Points (Part 2)
Jiang Mo slowly walked out of the borrowed lounge carrying the clothes that were soaked and smelly by the river water. From a distance, he first saw Shao Weian, who was standing in front of a bench at the end of the corridor and glancing at Shao Jie who was greeting him indifferently.

Director Shao's expression was as serious as ever, and there was no movement between his brows when he spoke - Shao Jie's face, which was usually quite lively in front of Jiang Mo, now seemed to be carved out of the same mold as Shao Weian. He seemed to be accustomed to the concern mixed with admonitions falling on his head, and he kept his brows drooped as usual. However, after all, he was still young, and he held the phone tightly, leaning his upper body back very slightly, his whole body tense and resisting, trying to maintain a calm face.

The scene of the father and son meeting and talking was not really warm and lovely - although Jiang Mo had run into them a few times intentionally or unintentionally, he was still not sure why this father and son, who could obviously be well on their own, had to get together and get angry with each other and then parted unhappily.

She was holding the phone and tapping it lightly on the backboard, hesitating whether to make a call and go forward to help, when Xiao Letian sprinted past Shao Weian, shouting in a hoarse voice, waving his hand to signal the patient's family members who were strolling slowly in the corridor, then turned around to help grab an emergency cart and drove straight to the door of the operating room.

Jiang Mo was startled, and glanced at Shao Jie over Xiao Letian's shoulder as he was walking quickly. She clearly saw him waving his hand to urge her to get down to business, then she turned around and ran away with the cart, busying herself to accompany Xu Li's parents who had rushed to the hospital, and sat outside the operating room until the ceiling lights of "operation" went out. Only then did she hand over the burden of escorting them to go through the payment procedures to Xiao Letian, and then she took a detour to the pediatric ward floor, picked up two cans of children's sweet milk from the vending machine, and quickly ran back to the corridor of the emergency room where half of the ceiling lights had been turned off.

Shao Jie probably didn't move from his bed. His cell phone was clasped on his thigh, he had headphones on and his eyes closed. He was casually unfolding a simple folded paper crane in his hand, and then trying to put it back together quickly.

"You didn't turn on the volume in your headphones, and you're pretending not to hear anything?"

Jiang Mo slowed down his pace and approached Shao Jie three meters away. He saw through the childish performance and mercilessly reminded Shao Jie of his ears, which were slightly perked up to pay attention to the movements around him. He raised his hand and rubbed the sweet milk on his cheek, "Where did the paper crane come from?"

"It was a little girl. Her grandmother told me that she was scalded by a thermos bottle in her hometown in the countryside. She folded it up and gave it to me while she was waiting for the dressing to be changed for negative pressure treatment."

Shao Jie finally opened his eyes, spread his hands and took the milk can and the paper bag that Jiang Mo had almost squeezed into a garbage bag. The annoyance that he had shown between his brows when facing Shao Weian before completely disappeared without a trace. He raised his chin and pointed slightly towards the operating room at the end of the corridor, "Is the police comrade just now okay?"

"Xu Li? He should be fine after one night of observation. You saw the news about the police car burning. He was right near the fire at the time and was severely choked by the smoke, but he was still conscious. He was supposed to be kept under observation when he was transferred here. But when he knew his master was already in the funeral home, he wanted to run out of the hospital to check on him. He was a little anxious. Fortunately, Letian'er and the others caught up with him and realized something was wrong and quickly pulled him back."

The casualty report that was still vague an hour ago has now been clearly completed as a police report. Jiang Mo waved his hand, raised his eyelids and looked at Shao Jie who was carefully smoothing out the wrinkles of the paper bag. He blinked and said softly: "I just saw Director Shao standing with you."

"Ah? Ah... yes... you just happened to see--" Shao Jie obviously had some thoughts about the content of the conversation between father and son, and sighed vaguely: "Nothing, it's inevitable that we met when we came to the hospital. It's been a long time since we met, so I asked casually and chatted for a while."

"So... I was counted as one of the 'idle chapters'?"

Jiang Mo raised his eyebrows, and looked at the panic on Shao Jie's face, then he opened the pull ring of the milk can in his hand, and handed it to Shao Jie to replace the sweet milk that he didn't have time to open. "I can tell from your mouth shape that you and Director Shao are talking about something, and it's not a pleasant conversation... You are a criminal police officer after all, and you look down on me? You shouldn't do that."

Shao Jie shook his head helplessly, opened his mouth and muttered something, then pursed his lips and shook his head: "Did he... say anything to you?"

"What can Director Shao tell me?" Jiang Mo raised his eyebrows and sneered at Shao Jie's inexplicably nervous profile. "You were so confident a few days ago, what happened today? Are you worried about your parents' orders getting in the way? If you want to back out, now is a good time--" "I'm not...listen to me, I want to say, if Director Shao said something inappropriate to you before, don't let him lead you into trouble again--"

"Director Shao asked me when, where and how I met you."

Jiang Mo teased him for a few words and then stopped. Seeing Shao Jie's expression that seemed to be a little worried, he interrupted his panicked explanation and slowly smiled, "I told him that I met him at the arrest site about half a year ago, and he nodded and didn't ask anything else. You called Director Shao without thinking and said you would bring the clothes to me. Director Shao didn't blame me for corrupting the children, even if he is open-minded... Although I didn't see what Director Shao talked to you about, you can put your mind at ease. This matter will definitely not embarrass you."

Jiang Mo glared at Shao Jie's head with her eyes bent, and it was hard to tell whether the words she spoke were sincere or coaxing. She didn't intend to drag Shao Jie into a deep discussion of the confusion and sorrow of his original family in a place like the hospital corridor. She lowered her eyes to look at the paper bag in Shao Jie's arms, and then looked down at her newly changed clothes inside and out, "You have brought me a comprehensive set of clothes from inside to outside."

"It rained these past two days. If you don't change your clothes after fishing out of the water, what if you catch a cold? You were just about to finish this case when the escort vehicle caught fire. You were so busy that you didn't care about the ground or the weather—"

Shao Jie nags for a few words about Jiang Mo never putting his health first, then turns to look at Jiang Mo's curled lips and thinks for two seconds before he suddenly figures it out. He blinks and follows her mumbling "from inside to outside", then his ears suddenly start to burn as if he remembers something: "I... I just... opened the closet and took out the underwear... I didn't do anything else..."

"It would be better if you didn't explain. After you explain——"

Shao Jie's face flushed, and he stumbled over his words. Jiang Mo was surprised to see his hesitant expression, so he raised his hand and pinched his cheek. However, before he had the chance to do so, Xiao Letian slapped the documents in his hand, and made a detour from somewhere, deliberately passed in front of his senior sister, and then pretended to be kicked by Jiang Mo unintentionally, and was about to run away in disgust.

At this moment, Jiang Mo's cell phone, which had been quiet for a while, started buzzing non-stop.

Jiang Mo glanced at the caller ID, and his brows, which had been relaxed for just a few minutes, suddenly twisted together.

She answered the phone and shouted "Team Huang", and her face suddenly fell as she heard the increasingly angry tone on the other end of the line.

"The starting point of the fire in the car has been confirmed, right? Was it really ignited by external force?"

"More than that." Huang Xingjun snorted on the other end of the phone, his voice almost worn out by his back teeth.

"Someone planted two small explosive points in the new parts of the car."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"I can only wake up to the bright moon and get drunk with the cool breeze."