when the moon whispers

Chapter 512 Rose-Supply and Demand (Part )

Case Seven Rose
Supply and Demand (Part 2)

Wen Chen was not unfamiliar with the name "Tang Jia", and even felt a sense of familiarity with it that was subtle and coincidental.

Wen Chen glanced at Xu Jianghua, whose face was full of annoyance and resentment of "meeting the wrong person", turned his head to glance at the camera mounted next to him, raised his hand and rubbed and tapped the microphone twice with a meaningful look, then picked up the wrinkled mineral water bottle that he had just used as an ashtray and threw behind him, aimed at Xu Jianghua's ear and threw it at him. It hit the wall cushion of the interrogation room with a "thump" and fell to the ground with a thud.

"My hand slipped. Accidentally."

Wen Chen raised his hand slightly, apologized perfunctorily, then looked down at Xu Jianghua, who was trembling with fear, and supported the earphones that were raping him to remember the rules and regulations and not to take advantage of Lao Gao's absence to issue a notice of criticism, and reminded him lightly: "I asked you to confess the facts of the crime, not to fart in your mouth."

Xu Jianghua obviously didn't expect that his casual curse almost split his head and made it bleed. He hunched his shoulders and curled up in the chair, raised his eyelids and looked at the moody and somewhat evil policeman in front of him. He chewed and swallowed the idle words "only the state officials are allowed to set fires, but the people are not allowed to light lamps" and mumbled vaguely for a while, rubbing his nose in a cowardly way: "I... didn't mean that... it's Tang Jia, she's already a mother... I don't know where she got such a big addiction. Judging from what happened today, she introduced these two customers to her. Maybe they met when she sold goods to her. She used sales to support her drug addiction. She quit and quit. So her brain... is more or less abnormal, right?"

"I think she's not normal, but I believe the business she introduced to you..." Wen Chen smacked his tongue with his arms folded in his lap, leaned forward with his arms hugged, and asked, "Or do you think that since there's no evidence, you can just put the blame on Fang Si and Hong Xinyu?"

"If you don't make money, you're a bastard!"

Xu Jianghua was a little confused, blinking his eyes in confusion: "Besides, why would I lie like this? I don't even know what business Fang Si and Hong Xinyu were originally in. In the end, there is no need to verify whether these two people are related to me or Tang Jia? Wasn't Tang Jia's husband arrested before? So now as long as she can protect her son, she can risk everything——"

He was halfway through his words when he suddenly raised his head with his neck stiff, "Hey, police comrade...what's the matter with no one testifying? Did Tang Jia flee out of fear of punishment? Shit - I really... police comrade, I will be lenient if I confess. I am a bad person, but I cherish my life. I really don't dare to lose my head! If I lie, I will be struck by lightning!"

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"Xu Jianghua is a slippery man who doesn't hold back. On the one hand, he took over Shengchengjisu's business simply because he was greedy for money. On the other hand, he wondered if he knew there was something fishy going on inside..."

Wen Chen left Xu Jianghua, whose eyes were straightened by his torture, leaning against the door frame of the monitoring room. He first looked at the two leaders in Xinshan City who had met him a few times because of other cases when he was undercover and ambushed him. His eyes unconsciously raised for a moment, and when he heard the strange sound of electricity knocking on the microphone by Gu Xing, he frowned and cleared his throat: "The story of him and Tang Jia saving the damsel in distress is not very credible, but Fang Si and Hong Xinyu have not found any solid evidence of contact with him so far. It is more likely that Tang Jia acted as a middleman, but the problem now is-"

"Tang Jia, a seemingly insignificant little screw, has now inexplicably disappeared without leaving any trace. Fortunately, our criminal investigation colleagues happened to see some clues."

Wen Chen seemed to casually glance at Jiang Mo, who was staring at Xu Jianghua on the surveillance screen with his head tilted thoughtfully. Qing waited for the low-pitched noisy conversation in the monitoring room to die down quietly, and was caught by Gu Xing with disgust while sucking his teeth. He hesitated for a few seconds, rubbing the back of his head, "Fang Si and the kid who caused trouble in the small drugstore must be tried. The colleagues in Xinshan don't know much about the situation. Fang Si and Shouhou didn't catch him in the act, and the amount of work they handled was not enough to bite him to death in prison. There are not enough people to come forward to try Hong Xinyu... Lend me someone, Captain Gu, and by the way, ask about the investigation of Tang Jia on your side."

——————Just a few days after Wen Chen put on the proper police uniform, Zhang Yibai threw her into a devil's den that was neither too big nor too small. Her body, which had been wandering on the gray border for many years, was almost soaked in the dark and unconventional things. It was okay to chat and talk nonsense at ordinary times, but it was always a bit inexplicably awkward to fight side by side with Jiang Mo in a serious manner - drug enforcement has always been a matter of tangling up the entire body when investigating a case. Jiang Mo had gone back on his word when her master seconded her to the Lin team, but now he threw her into such a case that she was obviously not qualified to participate in. Zheng was like a fool, and listened silently to Wen Chen sorting out Hong Xinyu's ancestors, and then banged his fingers heavily on the desk.

"I'm talking to you! Do these things that Tang Jia started to come into contact with have anything to do with you?!"

"I said no!—no!"

Hong Xinyu collapsed at a speed visible to the naked eye under the coercion of the detention for just a few hours. "I'm just a messenger. I don't know what Tang Jia's past is. I never planned to ask her. I only know that when I met her through Shou Hou, she already had a lot of needle holes on her arms... and bruises from being beaten by Feng Dong."

Jiang Mo raised his eyes suddenly, and put his hands to suppress the coercive pressure that Wen Chen was about to exert again, "From what you said, you knew Feng Dong and Shou Hou a long time ago?"

"...I met Feng Dong and Shou Hou when I was working as a pharmacist in a drugstore in Fengxi."

Hong Xinyu's neck, which had been swollen and red from holding it in, finally relaxed a little. He looked at the two young policemen in front of him who were acting so well, frowned and unconsciously said something along the lines of the past, then stared at Jiang Mo's eyes vigilantly, hesitating and weighing the words that had already landed, "Before the renovation of Fengxi, there were gangsters everywhere and no one cared. Feng Dong and Shou Hou often came to buy hangover medicine and sildenafil tablets - sometimes they would come to ask, the pharmacy was located in front of the bar and nightclub, and they didn't stock any drugs to help with pleasure, if someone in the place wanted them, I could sell them a little secretly."

"I took the initiative to give you a gap in supply and demand, and then you became interested and confusedly tied yourself to the same rope with Feng Dong the skinny guy?"

Wen Chen looked at his sweaty palms with contempt, "Boss Hong is really shrewd to hand over his own handle to this scoundrel."

"I--" Hong Xinyu wanted to interrupt Wen Chen's scolding, but after choking, he realized that he had no way to refute it. "I just wanted to make some extra money at first, and the boss of the pharmacy turned a blind eye to my night shift... Later, Feng Dong and the others asked me to help run errands after get off work. They bought some medicine from me and asked me to deliver it to a villa or Wandushan Club at a certain time. Then there was one time..."

"Feng Dong first bought a few bottles of hangover medicine from me, then wandered around the store until no one was around... Then he stuffed a small packet of white stuff into a plastic bag in front of me, and told me to take a taxi to Wandu Mountain and personally hand it over to Shouhou."

Hong Xinyu paused and let out a complicated sigh.

"That's where I first met Tang Jia. But by then... she must have been unconscious."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
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