when the moon whispers

Chapter 525: Rose-Inventory (Part )

Case Seven Rose
Twenty-Five Inventory (Part 1)
Passing the Masanjia Pump Factory and heading south, the scattered abandoned factory buildings are almost next to Xiaotai Town Street on Yunshan Middle Road.

The vigorous transformation and reconstruction momentum has not yet spread to this factory area. The depressed gray land is blocked behind a cast iron fence with a climbing rose wall. Through the gaps between the lush branches and leaves, it peeks into the Kodai-machi villa area across the street, and the tranquility and peace in the streets and alleys mixed with the aroma of coffee in the early morning.

Xiao Letian leaned on the iron fence wrapped with flowers and looked for a while at the foreign fried dough sticks in the petty-bourgeois street where everyone was checking in a photo of the flower wall. He took out the half-eaten fried dough stick from his pocket and smacked his mouth with the oily fragrance: "I remember that this area was not blocked a few years ago... Now it's blocked very well, and the face project is even fancy - there's even a check-in point."

"This is a face-saving project instigated by your brother-in-law's company..." Jiang Mo muttered to himself, holding his hands in his pockets as he walked down the stairs at the door of the jewelry workshop behind the processing plant that had been blocked for several years. He looked back to see Xiao Luo, the forensic doctor who entered the factory to inspect the scene, and after a few paces, he realized that this was not right. He glanced at Xiao Letian's expression that collapsed instantly, then raised his mouth again and changed the subject of Xiao Letian's idle talk: "...You live a million miles away from here, and you are quite familiar with this place?"

"My sister has a childhood friend who opened a private Japanese food restaurant in a villa in Kodai-cho. He always brought me here to eat. It turns out that the small shop that makes original accessories on this street has not closed down yet, and there is no iron fence and flower wall enclosure here—"

Xiao Letian wrinkled his nose, tore off a piece of fried dough and passed it to Jiang Mo's mouth: "My brother-in-law seems to have met my sister when he was doing an investigation here... But the development of this factory area has not been completed yet... The demolition of factory buildings here is clearly marked with prices, how can there be any sound when a pile of broken houses in the urban-rural fringe are being developed and rebuilt..."

"You--" Jiang Mo waved his hand, avoiding Xiao Letian's hands full of greasy fried dough twists, raised his eyebrows and looked at his cheeks that were about to wrinkle like buns, "Old Liu made pies for those who didn't go home this morning, and they ate too much... No... I can't say a word to your brother-in-law normally, are you quarreling?"

"About that... When I came home last night, he had just returned from a dinner party. I asked him in the elevator..."

Xiao Letian stuffed the pancake into his mouth without any hesitation, mumbling a few words and then pausing, "Just... my idol told you about Liang Ji's dinner party, didn't he seem to involve my brother-in-law? Shengcheng International's current situation is sensitive, I'm afraid he really has some connection with the two Liang brothers..."

"Liang Ming won't do that. After all, when he was acting arrogantly at Shengcheng International, Li Weijin was still there. But Liang Ji..." Jiang Mo pursed his lips and didn't make it too clear: "Anyway, just listen to what Shao Jie has learned. Liang Ji is very active now. It's not wrong to remind your brother-in-law. Your father is still waiting for Ansheng to retire. You are a policeman. Try to stay away from people like Liang Ji."

"...I said that too - and that's why we started arguing!" Xiao Letian sighed and clenched the tissue. After rubbing the grease off his hands, he stuffed the tissue into his pocket again: "I told him that Shengcheng International is under investigation, and there shouldn't be any trouble with the development and bidding. What's the saying - 'Slow down and you'll have a happy ending'~"

Jiang Mo's brows tightened, "You didn't mention Liang Ji by name, so why are you arguing?" "Of course! But it may be that he drank a little and was in a bad mood and had a bit of temper... First he said that I was a little kid and shouldn't meddle in adults' affairs, and then he said that the situation of suburban development and old city reconstruction is very complicated in all aspects. Now we have to consider which boss has a proper capital chain, otherwise he will have to bear the responsibility if the project cannot be implemented throughout the year..." Xiao Letian pouted, tilted his upper body and looked at Fatty at the end of the narrow road, who was waving his arms and beckoning them to go to the factory to check the situation. He hung his voice with a sad face: "He said that I didn't know anything and was still giving orders here, and then he said that we were a group of reckless idiots investigating the case, and didn't know how to stop when the heat was just right. Sister, Fatty seems to have discovered something."

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The jewelry processing factory was not very big. Outside the factory building, you could see a small garden that had been tended. A few wild roses could be seen among the weeds. The design studio took up more than half of the two-story workshop. There were even a few half-finished paintings covered with dust sheets, piled up in the corner of the workshop without anyone paying attention to them, and no sunlight could be seen.

The sanding and carving equipment that had not been resold in time after the cancellation and suspension had long been dismantled by theft and scrap metal, leaving only an empty shell, with a few rusty chains hanging on it, which creaked and shook when pushed lightly. In the entire factory, only the wastewater treatment equipment was barely preserved in its original state, and it had fallen into disrepair and was blown by the wind, making a muffled sound.

Forensic doctor Xiao Luo was probably choked by the floating dust raised from the factory floor. He was not sure whether there was anything that shouldn't be mixed in the dust. He was squatting in front of the spiral staircase, holding a bottle of mineral water to rinse his eyes.

Jiang Mo put on his gloves and then took them off, avoiding the shoe prints on the ground that had been marked but not yet extracted, and walked straight to Xiao Luo, taking the mineral water bottle from her hand to help, "Is there really something?"

"There are still many things that can be traced... Hey - don't pour it into my ears -" Xiao Luo, a forensic doctor, leaned his upper body to one side and couldn't open his eyes. He clutched his goggles and leaned in the direction of avoiding Jiang Mo's "bullying". "The footprints inside and outside the factory are quite messy... Although the police station near Xiaotai Town is very strict, there are still people who come here to urinate and steal iron. There must be someone who wants the ready-made money... However, sewage treatment equipment is generally difficult to dismantle and take away, so there is only a broken shell and a hole. There are not many footprints around, but there are a few of them - extending from the side of the equipment to the small locked iron door behind the spiral staircase, and all the way to the outside."

"Traces of sneakers or sports shoes... Besides Lou Yao, someone else has been here before." Jiang Mo glanced sideways at Xiao Letian, who was trying to drag Fatty's head into the sewage treatment equipment to find out what was going on, and snorted, "And then you stuck your head into the sewage treatment equipment?"

"There are signs of items being stored and then emptied in the gaps between the processing equipment. There isn't much dust on it, so it must have been emptied a few days ago. And..." Doctor Xiao Luo snorted, "I found a small pinch of white powder inside. I did a quick test and it might really be related to the batch of goods that Fengxi hasn't found."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"A thousand mountains in the afternoon dream, an arrow in the shadow of the window."