when the moon whispers

Chapter 545: Rose-Disappearance (Part )

Case Seven Rose
Thirty-five Missing (Part 1)
At 4:23 in the morning, the ceiling light of the inpatient nurses' station, which had been dim for less than two hours, suddenly lit up with a click, and shone straight into the half-open door of the ward, shining glaringly on Shao Jie's sleepy eyelids.

Shao Jie was lying on his stomach in front of the hospital bed, his back hunched and his arms and legs uncontrollable. He squinted his eyes and looked at the cold bed board that seemed to have been empty for a long time. He fumbled around for a few times, grabbed the half-quilt draped over his shoulders, fumbled for the mobile phone that he had tucked under the pillow, and glanced at the unread message column.

Jiang Mo probably stared awake all night, and more than an hour ago he secretly colluded with the nurse who was supposed to make rounds, and quietly "escaped" outside the ward area. Before leaving, he held up his arm without an IV drip, and considerately half-wrapped Shao Jie in the quilt that had been used for half the night but still not warm. He also typed a message on his phone: "If you can't sleep, go out for a walk. If you're sleepy, come back. If you're not sleepy, I'll bring you breakfast."

Shao Jie kept his eyelids drooping without raising them, his brows knitted together. He probably guessed that the sentence Jiang Mo had been waiting for was definitely related to Wen Chen, but he didn't know whether he should speak up or how to persuade her to make her feel at ease. He sat there fiddling with his phone for a while, then buried his head in the warm quilt in annoyance and sighed.

Shao Jie hesitated whether to dial the call. He gripped the phone and rubbed the puzzle slider on the back twice. His thumb was hovering above the screen and was about to touch it when the phone buzzed twice and then a call reminder popped up, which he would hang up as soon as he dialed. Shao Jie blinked and looked down at the text message that popped up right after the call reminder. He immediately straightened his body, sat up straight and called back.

"Hello, Mr. Jiang?"

"Hey - Xiao Shao... I'm sorry it's so early in the morning. I'm bothering you at this time... I've been on a business trip abroad these days and forgot about the time difference, so I thought I'd call you right after I got off the plane..."

When Jiang He answered the phone, she spoke a few words softly in surprise and apology, then smacked her tongue and quietly drove away Zhou Huaiyu who was leaning close to her, then she said "hmm" for a long time and sighed very lightly.

"Actually... it's just... I just got off the plane and saw a push message saying that Sheng'an had an explosion... Xiaomo has been on duty in the team recently, and I'm really a little worried... She doesn't reply to messages very often when she's on a mission, so I can't just call her casually..."

Shao Jie raised his eyebrows, smiled bitterly and sighed. He pursed his lips and hesitated for a moment before choosing his words. He slowly and methodically repeated the warnings that Jiang Mo had repeatedly given since they met at the hospital, telling him not to leak the news or leak the secrets. He picked and chose what he had seen and heard for the past half day and night, and muttered a few words in a pinched voice, avoiding the main point: "The news of the explosion... I also saw it. Officer Jiang and others seem to be following up to deal with the cause of the accident... She didn't reply to my message when I asked her about the situation. However, the Central Hospital happened to be the one that received the injured in the accident. Doctor Yu said that Officer Jiang had been accompanying the injured. I guess... maybe he was too busy to check his phone."

Jiang He probably heard Shao Jie's hesitation to speak, and was silent for a few seconds. He did not embarrass Shao Jie, who was caught in the middle, but asked slowly and tactfully: "You saw Xiao Mo, right?"

“Ah? …Yeah.”

Shao Jie rubbed the back of his head twice, understood Jiang He's implication, nodded obediently, and continued to lie to the end: "Director Shao and Doctor Yu both said that there is nothing wrong, don't worry, Teacher Jiang."

"Just say that nothing is wrong. If there is any disturbance at home, asking her is like asking a stubborn donkey who can lie without blushing or beating his heart."

Jiang He snorted, and suddenly remembered the shocking lies that Jiang Mo told when he was injured every now and then when he first put on the police uniform. He sighed helplessly, "If it was just an explosion accident at Sheng An, I wouldn't be so concerned about it - mainly... because of Fu Xi." Shao Jie frowned: "Why... did he call to cause trouble again?"

Jiang He responded, "Xiao Mo knows that he will never stop making trouble, so I usually don't give him the chance to come to me. But Fu Xi called me several times in the past two days. I ignored him at first, but later he sent me a lot of messages complaining that Xiao Mo didn't care about their family's affairs and was just taking people's lives lightly... Then I felt something was wrong, and I was worried... Maybe something happened to Xiao Mo."

Shao Jie thought for a moment and asked, "Is it still about Fu Lefeng?"

"He has not taught his own daughter well, but he is always thinking about asking Xiaomo to help them clean up the mess when something goes wrong - forget it, I'll be relieved as long as Xiaomo is okay..." Jiang He has never had a good temper with Fu Xi's weird family. She gritted her teeth and said a few words to vent her anger, turned around and whispered about Shao Jie's health, and before hanging up the phone, she said a few more words as if to "settle accounts after the autumn" - since she didn't find any handle this time, she would let it go. If Shao Jie dares to "cheat his superiors and conceal the truth" or "collude with Officer Jiang" again in the future, be careful that she will carry Officer Jiang's household registration booklet and ID card in her pocket that flies around everywhere.

As it was a matter of great importance to his status, Shao Jie sat upright and patted his chest. With a "pop" sound, Director Shao, who was quietly pulling open the ward door, was frightened so much that he trembled and took a half step back.

Shao Jie was holding the phone intently. He suddenly raised his head when he heard the noise at the door. Looking at Shao Weian's serious face, he stood up a little embarrassedly and blinked his eyes for some reason to start a conversation.

"You're going to sleep here?"

Shao Weian first lifted his eyelids to look at the unoccupied bed next door, and walked around the empty ward without lights on before standing beside Shao Jie. He looked down at the quilt that was almost wrapped around the edge of the bed, and glanced at the phone he had just hung up: "The patient who was accompanying him is not here, but he is making calls very enthusiastically."

"The call was from Teacher Jiang - Officer Jiang's mother, saying that she was worried because she couldn't get in touch with him." Shao Jie scratched his head and turned sideways to walk around Director Shao. "I... I just fell asleep and didn't notice. I'll go out now -"

"Captain Gu came over to check on the situation after finishing his work, and happened to meet me. Officer Jiang is with him now. I saw that she didn't look well, so I came to find Deputy Director Zhang on duty at the inpatient department to give her another checkup... and I came to see you by the way."

Shao Weian didn't move. He raised his hand to stop the person in place, turned his head and glanced at the bed, raised his chin and nodded at the coat on the other side of the bed.

"It seems that she has adapted well to the situation of being a police family member who is on edge - I guess they want to talk about the case. Don't burden her. Get some clothes and go back later."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"If there is nothing to worry about, it is a good time in the world."