when the moon whispers

Chapter 496: Rose-Escape (Part )

Case Seven Rose
10. Escape (Part 2)

The door of the training room at the base was not closed, and half of the window on the terrace was opened, letting in the soft breeze.

Jiang Mo took some time out during lunch to report that today he would most likely be shoulder to shoulder with Dangkong Mingyue. Shao Jie hummed a process with true emotion, turned around and did a somersault in Officer Jiang's "golden house", almost spraining his waist. He ate his meal reluctantly, and finally strolled back to the base, thinking about doing a live broadcast and punching in to kill time. Unexpectedly, he pushed the door and walked into this warm room. He saw Huo Ke holding half a watermelon that was not in season, sighing and looking sad.

Huo Ke held an iron spoon in his hand and looked up at Shao Jie, who was beaming with joy. He then chewed the watermelon seeds and swallowed them. "Didn't you say that Officer Jiang had time to close a case? Why did he come back? Did he get kicked out because he was too arrogant?"

Shao Jie looked at Huo Ke's face full of loneliness and resentment, smelled the faint smell of alcohol in the air, raised his eyebrows, mercifully did not poke his lungs, picked up the gaming chair and dragged it back to the computer, and asked a question that was better not to ask: "Have Manager Xu and President Liang reconciled again?"

"If you don't know how to persuade, you can just shut up..." Huo Ke approached behind Shao Jie with resentment and kicked the back of his chair. Then he pouted and moved his reply disk to the computer screen where he was preparing for the training arrangements after the holiday, muttering: "Anyway... I've been secretly in love with you for more than a year or two. I just... originally they were going to get engaged... I thought the only chance left was for me to become a member of the family. With all the quarrels, my little spark of hope has just started to spark again..."

"Manager Xu's quarrel lasted quite a while this time. Not to mention you, a few of us were all privately guessing whether the two of them were really going to break up this time—" Shao Jie hung up his headphones and tilted his head to listen halfway. "But what did Boss Liang do this time? Manager Xu was so angry? And he was able to calm down after quarreling for such a long time... How did he do it? I'll learn from him."

"You better save your breath! Although I don't have much contact with Officer Jiang, I can see through people at a glance. If you really quarrel, it's not certain who will comfort whom... Mu Yang didn't explain the details of the quarrel, but it seems that some of Mr. Liang's business involved some conflict with Mu Yang's family, and - it is said, it is said... There was a dinner for the bidding, and when Liang Ji instigated his female secretary to use the honey trap, Mu Yang's brother saw it."

Huo Ke's original innocent cowardice was made angry by Shao Jie's two words. He almost hit him on the back of the head with the spoon. He raised his arm and tried to swing it hard. Huo Ke also hissed and took a breath of cold air: "You're right, with Mu Yang's temper, Liang Ji would probably ignore her if she apologized at least three times... She has been living in the base dormitory recently, or she goes back to her parents' home, and I haven't seen President Liang come to our base in her busy schedule... Then why did she take the initiative to say that she wanted to look for Liang Ji today——"

"Who told you that I was going to find Liang Ji?"

Huo Ke was still holding his heart-broken words in his mouth when Manager Xu, who was at the center of the topic, leaned over the door of the training room and spoke in. Xu Muyang casually threw a can of coffee sugar in Shao Jie's direction, then turned his head and glanced at the half piece of watermelon in Huo Ke's hand, raising his eyebrows: "Where did you get the watermelon?"

Huo Ke's unjustifiable jealousy choked the person concerned, and he stood up with a red face: "Upstairs... upstairs kitchen refrigerator..."

"I took a chance and poured two small bottles of vodka into it. The breeze blew it, so you didn't taste the alcohol when you ate it—" Xu Muyang sneered at Huo Ke's instantly drunk face, waved at Shao Jie who was on the live broadcast, and dragged him out of the training room to sober up. He kicked and stomped in the corridor, pulling Huo Ke's ears and coaxing him in a funny way: "Alright... Can't I tell you the first time whether we are reconciling or really breaking up... When I just left, I mentioned going to the office building in Shengcheng International, and you can also drag Liang Ji into it? My sister-in-law has a restaurant there, brother, and family gatherings are not allowed? You said that you can't apologize less than three times, so I have to apologize at least five times..."

Shao Jie tilted his head and watched Huo Ke being coaxed into a state of lust by Xu Muyang. He smelled the aroma of alcohol hidden in the sweetness of the watermelon, turned around and smiled silently, then frowned slightly and shook his head, thinking of Liang Ji.

Shengcheng International has been in turmoil recently, which was more or less due to Shao Jie's attempt to take advantage of Jiang Weili's incident - the city's news has been reported without mentioning names recently. Xu Muyang was browsing his phone late at night and didn't care about being decent and chiseled the door of Shao Jie's dormitory. He put his arm under his clothes and dragged Shao Jie to the kitchen restaurant with a pot of crayfish to soak all night.

Although it is almost certain that Shengcheng Interspeed, the venture capital company and even the mess related to Jiang Weili's organization were caused by Liang Ming, after all, they have the same roots and the same surname and their interests are closely related. Even if Liang Ji did not participate, he is definitely not completely ignorant of it. Xu Muyang has been following his parents in the business world since he was a child. It is not right that he is confused about these obvious things.

Xu Muyang was crying and sneezing because of the spicy crayfish late at night, but he didn't deliberately ask Shao Jie about the details of Shengcheng International's recent controversies, nor did he tell her why she broke down the door and dragged him out for a midnight snack. He just drank two cans of beer and asked Shao Jie as if to confirm, "The last time Jiang Weili organized a party was it during Shen Ning's time? I heard that Shen Yu'an almost got into big trouble..."

Shao Jie didn't say much, and Xu Muyang understood his implication, and didn't mention it again until Liang Ji, who had been mentioned by Huo Ke for a while, suddenly remembered that Jiang Mo had mentioned it once intentionally or unintentionally during the heart-digging case. It seemed that Liang Ming's every move had fallen into the police's sight since the end of the year.

Shao Jie frowned absentmindedly, and after losing three games in a row, he walked down the red carpet, exited the live broadcast, and slipped away. He looked at the sky that was turning dark at dusk, slowly got up and went upstairs, and stopped in front of the dormitory door slowly, lowered his head to look at the express delivery that someone had brought up.

Shao Jie flipped through his phone and looked through the shopping information that had been sent to Officer Jiang's home recently. He frowned and thought for a while without any result. He bent down and grabbed the dirty express box that was scratched by the waybill. He put it to his ear and shook it twice. He heard the "clang clang" sound of metal knocking against each other in the palm-sized box, and his breathing tightened for no reason.

He stood there in a daze for a long while, then stumbled into the room and tore off the hastily wrapped tape. Then he looked at the metal product in the box and fell dizzy, sitting on the carpet next to the single bed with a thud. Then he looked at the express box spread out beside his legs, as if he had instantly fallen into an icy cave in the snow, and breathed a heavy sigh of relief.

Inside the box was a keychain with some scratches on it.

...It was the limited edition coin that Shao Jie had thrown into the Red Mansion Alley.

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