when the moon whispers

Chapter 521 Rose-Patchwork (Part )

Case Seven Rose
Twenty-three patchwork (Part 1)
"... Luo Shi."

The incandescent lamps that Uncle Song recently purchased are one notch brighter than the tubes that deflated every now and then last year. The logistics department replaced the ceiling lights in the interrogation room overnight, and they are a bit dazzling. The bright white light almost made Captain Yin Guiping of the Johor Bahru Anti-Drug Brigade look pale and squint.

Yin Guiping wrapped himself in a leather jacket, crossed his arms and made a "crunching" noise that sounded a bit like a chatterbox. He had spent half of his police career dealing with desperate drug manufacturers and traffickers, and he was already "regretful" after being squeezed into the interrogation room of Sheng'an City Bureau for less than half an hour - Hong Xinyu, a cowardly and unpredictable person, was torturing him, which made his head hurt. When he heard the mosquito-like humming sound of the man sitting opposite him, he frowned tightly, turned his head to the side and wished he could put his ear close to Hong Xinyu's mouth, and sighed a long way.

"You're a grown man, why do you have to hold your tongue when you speak... Who did you get the information about the goods from? What the hell?"

"Luo Shi."

Wen Chen leaned back in his chair, slightly leaning closer to Yin Guiping's shoulder, "He's talking about the owner of the Shanqian Bar."

"I'm not really hard of hearing..." Yin Guiping smacked his tongue when he heard Wen Chen's reminder. He looked down at the photos of people who had close contacts with Liang Ming, the boss of Shengcheng Intermediate Speed, which Wen Chen had spread out on the table. He wrinkled his face and smacked his lips as he looked at such a person with an extremely sensitive identity and position. He was silent for two seconds and then typed Hong Xinyu's accusation as nonsense: "...Brother, is it all over with just a lip service? Where have you been with this boss Luo, what are you doing, and what have you encountered during your contacts? Why do you still need me to teach you how to speak?"

"I... didn't make contact with him. But the places we met were almost always in his bar in front of the mountain. How could this be just a coincidence?!"

Hong Xinyu spent the past two days in the small single room of the Municipal Bureau, looking like a nobody. With his unshaven beard, he could not lift his head. He just raised his eyes and glared at Yin Guiping with evil eyes, and repeated it again as if to emphasize: "... Every time I meet with someone, he is in the bar. Even Jiang Zhe doesn't dare to provoke him easily... I don't believe he just watched it -"

"Then isn't your talk just pure nonsense?" Yin Guiping narrowed his eyes slightly, glared at him with disbelief, leaned forward on the table but did not retract his movement, glanced at Wen Chen who seemed to have expected something behind Luo Shi, raised his hand and scratched the unshaved stubble on his chin: "Or... you have never actually dealt with that Boss Luo or met him a few times?"

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Luo Shi's preemptive approach was choked by Jiang Mo and he blinked rapidly, "Hong Xinyu and I? How many times have we actually met? This... I don't know how to remember clearly... I've said that people like him look sinister and it's impossible to avoid them. If it wasn't for the incident in the private room because of that woman, I wish I had nothing to do with him at all!"

"We didn't have any real interactions, but he remembers it very clearly." Jiang Mo looked down at his phone for a while, and glanced at the tense expression on Luo Shi's cynical face. He didn't intend to provoke him at such a time when there was no actual evidence, so his head, which was ready to move on behalf of Liang Ming, shrank. He selected a photo and pushed the phone forward, signaling Boss Luo to take a look: "The woman that Hong Xinyu often brings, is she?"

"How much time has passed? I - eh... it seems... it's really..." Luo Shi was a little unsure about the thoughts of the policewoman in front of him. He raised his eyebrows subtly and glanced at her before lowering his head. He looked at the photo and thought for a few seconds, pouting his lips and nodded uncertainly: "... It's similar to my memory, but when Hong Xinyu brought her here, her face makeup was quite heavy. Eh - you don't say, it's possible, it's possible that I don't remember clearly, but it seems that this woman has been here with someone else. I know that person, the guy who was on the news a while ago, the one who held Feng Dong hostage at knifepoint." Jiang Mo frowned, and his back teeth chewed with a "click". Xiao Letian, who was standing next to him like a small bamboo pole, also frowned as he scanned the photos on Jiang Mo's phone, "Tang Jia... is quite a mess..."

"Tang Jia? Oh, her name is Tang Jia..." Luo Shi raised his eyes in confusion, looking at the bitter and vengeful expressions of the two people in front of him, "What's going on? A love triangle? Or is there another case involved? Could it be that someone is cheating on someone else?... If the two people from the Criminal Investigation Detachment are thinking about it, at least they will be covered in blood——"

Luo Shi said a few words of nonsense and then raised his wrist to show the action of sewing his mouth shut. An Sheng was quiet for less than two and a half seconds, and then he looked at the gentle eyebrows of the woman in the photo, curled his lips and hissed in a sarcastic tone: "But it's quite boring, Officer Jiang. I just asked you about the USB flash drive monitoring, and you turned around and pulled up a photo to ask about something else...."

"Then tell me something interesting." Jiang Mo raised his eyebrows and stretched his arm to retrieve the phone. "We have all seen the edited version of the surveillance footage that Boss Luo kindly provided. However, this kind of edited stuff cannot constitute a chain of evidence here. I wonder when Boss Luo plans to take the initiative to report those surveillance footages that were cut to cover up the truth to the Municipal Bureau? Or does he plan to... get a room and talk later?"

Luo Shixian raised his eyebrows and leaned closer with his chin in his hand. He then caught sight of the flashing red dot on Xiao Letian's law enforcement device hanging in his chest pocket. He shrank back in embarrassment, "What you said... I didn't know much back then... Now that it's all discovered... then good citizens like us must cooperate with the investigation, right? We've been prepared for a long time-"

"In the beginning, I was afraid of getting into trouble... Now that Hong Xinyu has been arrested, this thing is so hot to hold in my hand." Luo Shi rummaged in his pocket for a long time, took out a cigarette box and handed it to Jiang Mo respectfully, then punched himself in the chest righteously, "I have kept the surveillance footage of the fight between the fat manager of Shengcheng Intermediate and Jiang Zhe. If the policewoman sister needs it, she can come and ask anytime and anywhere. I promise to cooperate with the investigation and bring the bad guys to justice as soon as possible."

The cigarette box was not big, but it was filled with almost six small USB flash drives. Jiang Mo looked at the workload and his eyes went dark. He raised his hand and pinched his nose bridge: "Where are the surveillance cameras located?"

"The corridor of the upstairs box, the location of the ventilator in the first floor lobby booth, and... the back door, the small intersection leading to the alley. Most of these people are not here to do serious work. If you want to see a standing figure, you basically have to look at the surveillance camera at the back door."

Luo Shi paused for a moment, as if he was thinking about whether there were any mistakes in his previous words. "What's wrong, Officer Jiang? Are these surveillance cameras not enough?"

"Whether it's enough or not is another matter. Let's go back and check it again."

Jiang Mo raised his head, looked at Luo Shi steadily, and slowly raised his eyebrows.

"I didn't have time to ask just now. The news that Hong Xinyu was arrested and investigated has not been made public. I wonder who told you, Boss Luo?"

"Spring is good, summer is peaceful, autumn is peaceful, and winter is blessed."