when the moon whispers

Chapter 548 Rose-Hidden (Part )

Case Seven Rose
Thirty-six Hidden (Part 2)
"...You should hope that your brother is doing well."

On the second day after two explosions occurred in the city, the videos and photos that were spread all over the Internet platforms by irrelevant people who were just watching the fun and causing panic were deleted on a large scale. The official media followed up on the false information about the suspected pollution leakage and dozens of casualties for most of the day, barely suppressing the increasingly fierce rumors of "destructive environmental pollution". Then they diverted attention and quietly covered up the obscure and profound information under two quick and clear police reports.

The only thing was the news that Wen Chen's life or death was uncertain. It was like throwing a piece of gravel into running water, which only caused a small ripple, but then calmed down in an instant, as if nothing had happened.

Ever since Wen Xi received the phone call that could not be considered as a death announcement, she had been patiently staring with tormented eyes for twenty-four hours before she dared to rush into the Municipal Bureau. With a tense face that looked like she was about to burst into tears at any second, she reached out and grabbed Captain Gu, the most familiar man in the hall, holding tightly the sleeve of his uniform, which he had not had time to take off after returning from a meeting where he had been criticized and scolded, and stared straight at the dazzlingly bright police rank on his shoulder.

"Captain Gu...where's my brother? Have you found him? Is he still alive?...or...is he too dead...too bad to be seen..."

Wen Xi sat on pins and needles in the Municipal Bureau for a long time. Leaders, big and small, known and unknown, took turns running up to him to ask about his well-being. Wen Xi sat there confused, not understanding the hidden meaning of the inquiries. In the end, Gao Ligang dragged Li Yu, who was very good at persuasion and "cajoling", to come forward and stop those inquiries who were in the name of concern but were actually interrogations. Then he grabbed Gu Xing's ear and asked him to settle the person down as soon as possible to prevent him from being used by someone with ulterior motives. Wen Xi, such a precious child, was accidentally involved in the danger that Wen Chen had tried his best to exclude his brother from.

Jiang Mo sat upright on the hospital bed, leaning sideways to hide her head behind Shao Jie's cover, closing her eyes to avoid the needle tip that had been aimed at the back of her hand, which was dry because she hadn't eaten properly for two days. After being poked, she let out a long sigh of relief, grinned shyly at the new nurse, watched her leave the ward before frowning and continuing what she had said before.

"Old Gu didn't even say to send you back to the base, and let you wander here by yourself."

Wen Xi hung her head, put her hands in her pockets and huddled on the hard bench next to the bed. "Captain Gu said he was worried, but I... always felt that they didn't tell me the truth... I was thinking..."

"Are you thinking of coming to me to find out?" Jiang Mo raised his eyebrows, but his eyes fell down with a complicated look, "What did Lao Gu and the others tell you? What answer do you want from me? Let me make it clear first, Wen Chen and I were not in the same area when we were on duty, so it's useless for you to ask about the situation at the scene. I haven't returned to the bureau since the incident, so I really don't know the specific situation, not to mention that your brother's side involves confidentiality-"

Jiang Mo blinked slowly, then followed Wen Xi's furtive glance at Shao Jie and said, "You think he is useless. He just knows more about Boss Liang than you do."

Wen Xi opened her mouth slightly, but the words were choked back into her throat as she mumbled. She pouted her lips and looked at Jiang Mo's face, which was almost disfigured by scratches. "Captain Gu said that my brother is not dead, but just missing. Did he...really not lie to me?"

Shao Jie paused while peeling the orange while sitting on the edge of the bed, raised his eyes to look at Jiang Mo's calm expression, and the redness and swelling at the corners of his eyes where the makeup was not applied. He wrinkled his nose and let out a sigh.

At 5:08 in the morning, when he was walking around the empty corridor of the hospital and near the backyard corridor, he bumped into Gu Xing who was about to run back to the parking lot after smoking a cigarette. "Don't worry, she won't be lost. Comrade Xiao Shao, please take care of her for the next two days."

Gu Xing pinched the cigarette butt that had not yet been put out and dodged the coat that Shao Jie was holding in his arms. Then he looked up at the electric pole in front of him with an unhappy look. Before waving his hand and leaving, he put his hand on his shoulder and pinched it twice, saying lightly: "She must have been scared enough by the matter between Letian'er and Wen Chen. If we go now, we should be able to catch her crying. It will be a bit ugly, so be patient."

Shao Jie was a little confused at first, and nodded honestly and solemnly, until he ran to the front of the corridor and saw Jiang Mo with her head tilted back, her face wrinkled, and she was silently wailing and hiccuping. Then he took a few steps forward with a kind heart and held her in his arms, with her face covered with tears and snot.

Jiang Mo didn't say how many unexplainable reasons were involved in her belated breakdown, but Shao Jie watched her cry silently for more than ten minutes before she calmed down, curled up in the quilt of the hospital bed, holding two popsicles to put on her eyes, and shook her head in the direction of the noise from Shao Jie opening the breakfast box.

"I actually don't know how to tell Wen Xi... That kid just looks jumpy, but ever since his brother left the police academy to participate in undercover operations, he... Actually, he knows everything."

Jiang Mo was still hesitant until this moment. He was silent for a few seconds. Looking at Wen Xi's eyes that obviously had guessed something, he sighed softly, "Do you hope that Lao Gu is lying to you, or do you hope that he is not lying to you?"

"He said the police don't lie. Whatever they can tell me is not false."

Wen Xi shrugged his shoulders, "But if he didn't lie to me, then my brother - Wen Chen, Wen Chen's disappearance can't be a good thing... It may be worse than dying in pieces, right?"

Wen Xi smiled bitterly and shook her head to block Jiang Mo's bitterness. "I was just a little confused. When I was in that reception room, my mind was blank and I didn't understand it clearly. But coming to the hospital from the Municipal Bureau, no matter how slow I am, I figured it out. The police who came to see me were concerned about the police's family, but they really wanted to know if there was anything wrong with Wen Chen recently... The question... made Wen Chen look like a traitor..."

"My brother is definitely not a traitor." Wen Xi paused while talking to herself, raised her head and muttered something with certainty. After a few seconds of silence, tears welled up in her eyes, and she looked at Jiang Mo pitifully: "My brother... he can't be a bad traitor... right?"

Jiang Mo didn't respond, and didn't dare to promise him a promise that she couldn't get a definite result from. She even had to pour a basin of cold water on Wen Chen after he stepped into the dirty river without hesitation. She could only pat Wen Xi's head, but Wen Xi seemed to have guessed Jiang Mo's hesitation and sorrow, smoothed the wrinkles on his clothes, and laughed dryly.

"Sister, can you please tell your boss that if my brother...really made any mistakes, or needs to know something, don't go directly to my parents at home...My dad is a tough guy now, but you know my mom...her heart was not good when my brother dropped out of the police academy and disappeared. It's okay to coax her with the pretext that my brother is on a business trip to investigate a case, but if it really is - anyway, you and Brother Jie have my phone number, just in case...if anything happens, remember to contact me."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"Flowers fall, water flows, spring passes, heaven and earth are gone."