when the moon whispers

Chapter 555: Rose-Accusation (Part )

Case Seven Rose
Forty Accusations (Part 1)

Before the sun sets, the barbecue stalls that opened early in the middle of the residential buildings to take advantage of the cool weather of the coming summer are scattered and not fully occupied. Students from the nearby elementary and junior high schools are pouring out of the school gates, and then rushing to the cram school in a noisy manner. When passing by the barbecue stalls, they occasionally feel greedy and squeeze together, holding a handful of skewers of meat and sharing them with their mouths dripping with oil.

The owner of the barbecue stall was surnamed Niu, and it seemed that she had married here from the northwest. Somehow, she and her daughter who had congenital heart disease were left alone in Sheng'an. She had been setting up a snack stall near here since Jiang Mo was in school, saving pennies and dollars, and first spent a lot of money to treat her daughter's illness. A few years later, she bought a small store to make money for her daughter's postgraduate study.

Boss Niu is quite familiar with Jiang Mo. He has watched them grow up since they were young. Later, the heartless man who abandoned his wife and children came back to make trouble and ask for money. Jiang Mo, who was showing off in his police uniform, also took out the wanted list of theft and dragged him into the police station. Boss Niu, with bruises all over his body, fell weak at the knees in front of her. He hugged Jiang Mo, who had just put on a formal police uniform less than a week ago, and cried for a long time. He sobbed and wanted to waive the bills for Jiang Mo's family for the rest of their lives. After a lot of coaxing and persuasion, they finally reached an agreement. There was no need to talk about waiving the bills, but a 10% discount on meals, and they could come to see each other often in the future.

After tidying up the small table next to Jiang Mo, Boss Niu asked his daughter who was temporarily at home to bring Jiang Mo a bowl of hot noodles. He frowned with pity and looked at Jiang Mo's bruised face for a while, then turned around and glanced warily at the unremarkable-looking young boss next to her, then shook the rag and drove away the curious little backpacks that were approaching.

Jiang Mo nodded and thanked Boss Niu's daughter. He glanced at Luo Shi who raised his eyebrows at the young girl, picked up the pepper shaker on the table and flicked it towards his eyes - Luo Shi shuddered violently, closed his eyes, turned sideways and held the pepper shaker in his arms, squinted his eyes and rubbed his nose in fear, only to realize that the lid was not opened at all.

Luo Shi dusted his palms dryly and rubbed his head twice, then looked up at Jiang Mo's leer, grinned awkwardly, and carefully put the pepper shaker back next to Jiang Mo's hand: "... Be careful, Officer Jiang, what if you get bumped into something?"

Jiang Mo raised his eyebrows, and instead of targeting his stubborn eyes, he lightly hummed an apology, and then slowly continued, "So... Boss Luo, are you here today to appeal for Liang Ming's injustice? Isn't it a little late to find me now to beat the drum and appeal for justice?"

"It's a little late..." Luo Shi's tentative expression collapsed. He stared at Jiang Mo for two seconds and suddenly laughed out loud, "But it's better to just say this nonsense than to be beheaded before you finish your plan."

Jiang Mo didn't respond at first. He put the bowl in front of him, took off the disposable chopsticks and rubbed it twice. He raised his hand to ask Boss Niu for a bottle of soda and knocked off the bottle cap. Then, facing Luo Shi's slightly confused expression, he knocked the glass bottle crisply against the edge of Luo Shi's cup: "Since it's just gossip, where do you want to start?"

"The Liang family's affairs are a long story."

Luo Shi looked up in surprise, then raised his glass and drank it all in one gulp. "Officer Jiang, why don't you guess which of the two brothers, Liang Ming and Liang Ji, is the mistress that the Liang family cannot bring to the table?"

Jiang Mo was startled. She had never expected that this little gossip would lead to such a beginning. She actually had no real concept of big and powerful families in her mind. She just thought about the completely different behaviors of Liang Ji and Liang Ming, and had a biased inference in her heart. However, before she could speak, Luo Shi seemed to have guessed what Jiang Mo was thinking, and smiled with a raised eyebrow: "Do you think that Liang Ji looks more decent and is older than Liang Ming, so he is the legitimate son and grandson of the Liang family?"

Jiang Mo was surprised: "Isn't it?" Luo Shi shrugged his shoulders and curled his lips with regret: "Lou Xin and Mr. Liang are said to be a political marriage, but this marriage is not thorough. Mr. Liang wanted to raise funds and build relationships, but the Lou family just wanted to find a cage to lock up their disobedient daughter who was engaged in art. They just held a ceremony with great fanfare and put on a show in front of the public that they saw through it but didn't say it. Mr. Liang was with Liang Ming's mother before he reached an agreement with Lou Xin, and the formal marriage certificate was only obtained with Liang Ming's mother many years later, so..."

"So the first choice for the successor to Shengcheng International has always been Liang Ming, not Liang Ji, who was exiled abroad for a few years because of the Fengnan development incident."

Jiang Mo was a little surprised. He smacked his tongue and took a breath of cool air. "I thought it was going to be some drama about a concubine taking over."

"It almost caused a big drama of a concubine taking over the throne - although the illegitimate 'concubine' was Lou Xin."

Luo Shi shook the beer bottle in his hand, and after two glasses of wine, he half-closed his eyes in a pretentious manner and was a little tipsy. "Although we are good brothers, you can see Liang Ming's style of doing things. He is always thinking about those unconventional things. The formal big scene, the fancy things are there, but they don't look dignified. But Liang Ji is different. He is well-dressed and well-behaved. He can scare people with his sanctimonious posture. Mr. Liang is not a person who doesn't care about his face. So even though Liang Ming's mother made trouble several times, the position of the head of Shengcheng International was actually considered to be handed over to Liang Ji at the beginning. What a pity..."

Jiang Mo frowned and dodged Luo Shi's slightly provocative approach: "What a pity?"

"It's a pity that Lou Xin was not ambitious enough to stay in the cage of the Liang family. She secretly found a man and kept him in her small workshop... It would have been fine if the man was an honest man, but who would have thought that when the factory building was demolished and renovated a few years ago, he couldn't keep his cool and jumped out to make some money. Not only did he cause a lot of trouble in the circle, but also embarrassed Mr. Liang. Later, Lou Xin was put in solitary confinement for reflection. She went crazy in such a big villa and died of alcoholism in the villa's underground wine cellar."

Luo Shi sighed in a pretended regretful manner, then cast a meaningful glance at Jiang Mo: "But Lou Xin is gone after this incident. Old Master Liang was overwhelmed and spent a lot of money on public relations to get rid of the rumors flying around... As for how she died, who knows? After the news of her death was released, no one cared at all."

"The wife who appears to be in a state of affairs cheated on him and died of alcoholism. Mr. Liang will not cause himself such a big trouble. Liang Ming and his mother are basically a sure win, so there is no need to wade into muddy waters and cause trouble—" Jiang Mo suddenly raised his eyes: "You mean, Liang Ji?"

Luo Shi's eyelids fell, but he said something irrelevant: "You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want, Officer Jiang - but think about it, just because you instigated a gangster to smash an old man or an old woman to death, they were expelled from overseas and not allowed to come back. For a big family like them, the punishment is a bit too heavy... Not to mention that someone had already taken the blame and was arrested. Mr. Liang was not in good health at that time, and it was a critical period to train and finalize the next person."

"Unless you keep him by your side, I'm afraid your life will be in danger and you won't live for more than a few days."

Luo Shi snorted and spread his hands. "Look at Liang Ming and that dead boss Chen Zuoyi. Officer Jiang might as well think about who these people are blocking and who they are bothering."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"I am used to the ways of the world now, and my heart is at ease everywhere."