when the moon whispers

Chapter 492: Rose-Confession (Part )

Case Seven Rose
Eight Confessions (Part 2)
"If I really had to point your name at you and testify against you, I wouldn't have just left you in the emergency room without asking any questions... You were so skinny and small at the time, and I was worried that something might go wrong if I left you alone in the hospital—"

Jiang Mo first thought Shao Jie could dodge, so he held back his strength and left a solid red mark on Shao Jie's forehead. Then he looked at his confused expression and rubbed it gently. Then he paused as he picked up the spoon, and suddenly remembered the scene that day when he hurriedly sent the man to the city center hospital.

——If she remembered correctly, the doctor on duty in the emergency room who received the ambulance... seemed to be Shao Jie's father.

Jiang Mo actually only knew roughly the cause of the Red Mansion case at that time, but with many concerns in advance, it was difficult to predict the degree of the murderer's viciousness. It was difficult to list the accidents in which the "eyewitnesses" were killed. Jiang Mo was only concerned about ensuring the life of the unlucky guy who accidentally entered the crime scene, and did not worry about it for a while. But now that it has come to this, she suddenly realized why Shao Weian looked so surprised when he saw the appearance of the patient sent in and heard Jiang Mo's words that he should not easily reveal the patient's name.

Jiang Mo picked up the spoon and stirred the porridge bowl twice. Considering that there seemed to be some icy relationship between the father and son, she hesitated for a few seconds, but still pursed her lips to get to the bottom of it. She just looked up at Shao Jie, who seemed to have not noticed her unfinished sentence. She breathed a long sigh of relief and asked with a smile: "That's all, can I still eat you? But... you said you don't remember the face - what did you see the murderer look like? Then he -"

Jiang Mo's heart sank.

The snowy night when the Red Mansion case happened seemed like a distant nightmare to Jiang Mo, who could not recall any details. Her hazy memories were almost all distracted by the pitiful boy who leaned against the electric pole and gasped for breath on the verge of death. Even though she vaguely sensed the murderous intent hidden in the shadows not far behind her, she could only prioritize the life of the person in front of her - Jiang Mo actually had no chance to turn around and identify the appearance of the real murderer in the Red Mansion case.

However, even so, Jiang Mo still secretly fought with the murderer who disappeared inexplicably for several years, waiting every moment for the man to get a whim and stab the special sharp knife for revenge in front of Jiang Mo, to see who had a tougher life.

...The true identity of the witness is revealed, and at least for Jiang Mo, it is clear that the hidden dangers outweigh the opportunities.

Shao Jie didn't quite understand the concerns that Jiang Mo had in his mind. He frowned and shook his head slowly, sighing softly: "I was groggy at the time. I rolled and crawled from the corner where I ran into the murderer to the telephone pole, and I only had a vague glimpse of his outline... The anonymous report failed... I have actually been trying to find out the details of the case, to see if I can remember as much as possible..."

Jiang Mo paused while pinching the bun, and raised his eyes suddenly: "Are you really investigating this case?"

"Because I didn't know why you only arrested a policeman who took the blame, and the case was left there inexplicably. I thought you really didn't intend to investigate who the real murderer was--" Shao Jie's inference was more or less a bit of the deliberate darkness of teenage rebellion. Now he thought about weighing the pros and cons, and from the difficult progress of the heart-digging case, he saw some of the helplessness of the two major cases in parallel. He curled his lips and muttered awkwardly: "And there were eyewitnesses but they never contacted me actively. I thought you..."

Jiang Mo snorted: "Do you think I took bribes?"

Shao Jie curled his eyes awkwardly: "...Then I'll know after I recognize you."

Jiang Mo sneered and picked up the chopsticks to scare him. Seeing that he shrank his neck but didn't dodge, he didn't hit him hard. He restrained his expression and thought for a while: "Are you still investigating?" Shao Jie poked the egg in the bowl of porridge and stuffed half of it into his mouth: "... scattered. Actually, I contacted Sister Zhao at the beginning because she followed the reports of the Red Mansion case... Later I found out that she was also investigating the gambling incident organized by Jiang Weili and his gang... But there was actually no substantial progress. I just asked around for some things... suspected to be related to the case."

"If there's no substantive progress, just leave it alone." Jiang Mo chewed a bun, his voice solemn. Seeing Shao Jie was not interested, he raised his hand and pinched his face: "During the Spring Festival, the thief who was hit by a car and killed by you and Eden was just a suspected witness... He didn't even have time to hide, but you rushed forward, right?"

Shao Jie shrugged his shoulders and said, "If the murderer still hasn't let go of the original witness...even if I don't look for him, it's only a matter of time before he finds me."

Jiang Mo choked on the bun and glared: "What do you mean?"

"I lost something in that alley."

Shao Jie stood up and picked up his phone. He flipped through the backup album almost to the bottom, then clicked on a photo and handed it to Jiang Mo. "I lost a keychain pendant. It was a limited edition that DRG hadn't officially launched at the time. It was originally designed as a souvenir for Li Zechuan, Tao Fang and me to be promoted to the same team at the same time. Only about 20 samples were made for internal distribution."

Shao Jie paused for two seconds, looked up at Jiang Mo's frowning expression, and breathed a sigh of relief, "In fact, I expected it a long time ago... If the keychain was picked up by the police, even if it was just for investigation, it would be easy to find it on my head... After the cordon was removed, I asked Han Lu to help me look for it nearby, but I couldn't find it, so... I suspect-"

Before Shao Jie could finish his words, Jiang Mo's cell phone, which he had casually placed on the dining table, started buzzing non-stop.

Jiang Mo's brows were still furrowed, and he was about to flip the screen with a hissing sound. He lowered his eyes and saw the caller ID, took a deep breath, stuffed the bun into his mouth, and put the phone to his ear: "Old Zhu, the result came out so soon?"

"The DNA test results won't come out that quickly. Let's go find his senior brother at the identification center and use a backdoor to expedite it - but the third person's bloodstains are almost certain. And last night, Fatty and his team happened to be on duty with interns, so they took samples from the entire bloody shirt. The bloodstains on the inside of Xiao Fengyao's shirt basically belong to the third person who is waiting for identity confirmation..."

The person who was making noises on the other end of the phone was Gu Xing. Judging from his voice, he must have been sitting in the car with his breakfast. "With this amount of bleeding, the injury is not light. And the stains are all over the inside of the clothes. I'm afraid there is a possibility of spreading it or covering it up."

Jiang Mo's nerves, which were already tense, became even more tense: "From the current point of view, Feng Yao should not be lying, but if we infer this way, his mother--"

"It's probably not good." Gu Xing pondered the origin of the bloody clothes for half a night and concluded that there was not much room for maneuver. "Go directly to the hospital later and find Feng Yao and the community committee leader in charge to register the missing person. Later, inform the police station and directly transfer the case to our team."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"Let the world be full of busyness for a hundred days, but let the clouds be free of worries."