when the moon whispers

Chapter 509: Rose-Purchase (Part )

Case Seven Rose
Seventeenth Receipt (Part 1)

As soon as the street lights came on, two police cars and two firefighters parked in front of the main entrance of Fangzheng Community.

Hong Xinyu was standing outside the crowd, holding a box of fried rice. He tilted his head to look at the empty steps in front of the pharmacy. As he lowered his eyes in thought, a familiar face passing by touched his shoulder.

Hong Xinyu subconsciously tensed up and took a half step back, until he looked up and saw clearly the Hongtashan cigarette handed to him, then he breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hand to thank him for the cigarette, nodded and greeted the shop owner of Feihuangtengda Real Estate Agency who came over to look at the bustling scene, then followed the agency owner timidly, stepped onto the tiled steps in front of their store, and squeezed next to the proprietress of the fly restaurant who had not yet taken down the board to open for business.

"Just had dinner?"

The restaurant proprietress stood on tiptoe with her arms folded and looked around for a long time. She saw Hong Xinyu's wrinkled face out of the corner of her eyes, and glanced down at the lunch box in his hand: "Running out to buy lunch from the street again? Didn't your wife bring you lunch today?"

"There is a parent-child activity at Maomao's kindergarten today, so I told her not to bother and they can just have something nice to eat outside."

Hong Xinyu grinned, raised his hand to rake the messy hair on the back of his head, raised his chin and nodded at the crowd watching the commotion: "Why are there police cars and fire trucks here in Fangzheng Community...? There's a fire? Why are the fire trucks parked outside the community?"

"It seems like someone is about to jump off the building?" The agency boss held a cigarette in his mouth, rubbed the lighter twice to light it, took a deep puff, and then held the cigarette slightly closer.

"It's blocked by Building No. 2. I just went inside and eavesdropped on what old Zhang said. As for Building No. 3, that's the one on the east side. I'm not very familiar with that family. A few days ago, the old man and his wife were anxious to sell their house. Old Zhang even told people to list the house with me, but I don't know what the old couple was thinking. They didn't want me to collect the agency fee, so they contacted the seller themselves and wanted to sell it themselves. Who would have thought that such a thing would happen a few days later? Not only was it a matter of life and death, but the fire escape in front of the community was also blocked by a row of old men buying groceries and picking up their kids, so it was impossible to get in. Now the police are here. Otherwise, if there was more noise and two old men and women fell to the ground, it would be an even bigger matter."

"The one who is in a hurry to sell the house?"

After hearing the gossip, the restaurant owner's eyes widened, "Then I know! That who - the old Du family! The old couple had been working hard to support their son's business and marriage, and they even had children, but who would have thought that the boy surnamed Du would get high on drugs while doing business?! A few days ago, an old man came to our house for dinner. He saw the old Du family sitting on the side of the road and mentioned this. It seemed that it was the time when Cha Fengxi was arrested, and the boy from the Du family was arrested. His business went bankrupt, and his body was tortured by the drugs and powders. His wife still wanted to stay with him and helped him quit drugs, but he relapsed!"

The agency boss smacked his cigarette holder and frowned: "Don't touch that thing. Nothing good will come of it..."

"That's right! The family's house has been mortgaged! How can the daughter-in-law be happy?! Let the old man and the old lady decide... The old man and the old lady are anxious to sell the house to fill the deficit - I don't know if it is the daughter-in-law or someone else who is screaming and jumping off the building... This is such a sin-"

Halfway through the restaurant proprietress's sigh, Hong Xinyu quietly lowered his head, swallowed awkwardly, pointed at the fried rice in his hand towards the two people beside him, and when they waved their hands to urge him to eat, he hurriedly and quietly withdrew from the crowd, looking back every few steps to the center of the crowd, and slowly disappeared into the crowded shadows between the buildings.

The TV signal reception in the small pharmacy is a bit problematic, and the pot lid on its own stand can't stand up to a few years of wind and rain.

Hong Xinyu watched the TV news for a while, the screen full of snow, and after eating a few chopsticks of fried rice, he pushed the lunch box to the corner of the counter. He stared at the "Pharmacy" sign outside the window, which was not turned on, and then he held his chin and looked at the calendar on the table for a while. He frowned and just pressed the calendar in his palm, the welcoming bell at the door rang. "The pharmacy is closed. Didn't you see that the lights outside were not turned on--"

Hong Xinyu didn't look up at first. He tilted his ears and heard a few dragging footsteps coming into the room. He saw from the corner of his eye that the hunched figure seemed unmoved. He stood up impatiently by supporting himself on the table. Before he could finish his words, he was hit on the bridge of his nose by a fist. "Hey, why are you here?"

Hong Xinyu raised his voice and before he could vent his anger, he first looked at the haggard figure with bloodshot eyes in front of him. The body that still had a bit of life when he wore a mask to get the note the day before, but after only one day, it had been worn out and exuded a sour smell like dying. Hong Xinyu subconsciously took a half step back and covered his mouth and nose slightly: "Didn't you just get the goods? What are you doing here again?!"

The man seemed to be trembling all over by Hong Xinyu's blatant disdain, and rushed over to grab Hong Xinyu's collar: "...The note you gave me is fake!"

"Impossible!" Hong Xinyu pushed him and looked out the window at the empty space between buildings with caution. "There are people watching the delivery point, so it's impossible for something to be lost! Fang Si's point is very safe after being checked... Did you read the wrong address?"

"The person watching over the delivery point is a skinny guy, right? The skinny guy was caught for stealing a bag. He's still in the police station."

As soon as Hong Xinyu finished speaking, the door of the drugstore warehouse creaked open. Wen Chen brushed off the dusty spider webs hanging on his body and patted the top of the head of Hong Xinyu's daughter who was hiding behind him.

"Dad...I'm afraid..."

The little girl was about to cry timidly, as if she had never seen such a hideous expression on her father's face.

"Your wife is going to give birth prematurely and has been sent to the hospital. The baby has nowhere to stay, so we just took her to your store - why are we running away..."

Wen Chen glanced at Hong Xinyu, completely ignoring the fact that his "life" was in the hands of the police. He tried his best to avoid the drug addict in front of him who was about to run away, and sneered and spat at him contemptuously.

He raised his foot and kicked the troublesome Zhang Yawei to the ground, then turned around and protected the little girl in his arms. Then he watched indifferently as Hong Xinyu pushed open the door and was hit by two black and cold gun holes, and sighed deeply.

"I don't want to embarrass you in front of the kids, brother...don't let yourself down."

Wen Chen half-knelt beside the young man who was kneeling and grinning, put handcuffs on him, and then dragged him into the arms of the team members who came to support him. He then stood up, held the little girl in his arms and walked behind Hong Xinyu, who dared not move, and pinched him on the shoulder.

"Let's go, find a place for your daughter to stay, and talk about the things in the delivery point."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"I want to find my way through the flowers, and go straight into the depths of the white clouds, displaying my majestic rainbow."