when the moon whispers

Chapter 558: Rose-Reservoir (Part )

Case Seven Rose
Forty-one Reservoir (Part 2)

"...At noon, many leaders were having a meeting at the Municipal Bureau. I was planning to leave the thermos with Uncle Zhao in the mailroom, and then send you a message and leave. But as soon as I reached the gate, I was grabbed by Officer Zhou--"

The Criminal Investigation Brigade only had two reception rooms. Apart from receiving guests and asking questions, the only vacant one had just been temporarily requisitioned as a kindergarten middle class. The small conference room was so messy that there was nowhere to sit. The Criminal Investigation Brigade office was so busy that Jiang Mo simply took the telephone pole behind him and sat down in the cafeteria. He borrowed Lao Liu's soup spoon and bowl, first filled a bowl of chicken leg and chicken soup and pushed it to Shao Jie's hand, then picked up the thermos bucket to examine it for a few seconds and took a sip of the medicinal food.

"This thermos bucket...was brought by Uncle Zhou?"

Jiang Mo sipped the familiar flavor of Gastrodia elata in the chicken soup, and shivered as the hot soup rolled down his throat. "I wasn't very honest in the first two years at the police academy. After Wen Chen was transferred away and dropped out of school for unknown reasons, Teacher Jiang was always worried that I would get into trouble without caring about anything, so I came back every now and then. One time, I happened to catch up with a Sanda competition in the academy, and I was distracted and glanced at the stands. I was distracted for less than half a second and got hit on the head... Teacher Jiang was afraid that I would become a fool, so Uncle Zhou researched all kinds of brain-nourishing soups and medicinal foods during that time and sent them to me. This smell of large doses of traditional Chinese medicine, only Uncle Zhou can make it out--"

Jiang Mo smacked the oil on his lips twice, and was choked by the taste that went straight to the top of his head, "... Didn't you keep it a secret from Teacher Jiang?"

"I had guessed that we both lied to her. Director Shao even sent me a message... It seemed that Teacher Jiang went straight to the Central Hospital after getting off the plane. He probably knew that I was in the same boat with you, so he went to the emergency room to find Doctor Yu and lied to him." Shao Jie thought about the scene of standing at attention in front of the sofa and wrinkled his nose in pain. "Yu Luo may have mentioned the situation at that time. I was criticized as soon as I got home. But when I heard that you could be discharged from the hospital normally, I didn't go to the Municipal Bureau in person. That's why Uncle Zhou made the soup himself and instructed me to make up for my crime and run errands to find you."

Jiang He is tall and slender, but beneath his elegant and indifferent face he has a temper like a powder keg. Jiang Mo is quite experienced in being scolded and criticized, he put down the thermos and patted Shao Jie on the head sympathetically, looking at Shao Jie's pitiful expression and just said a few words to coax him, he caught a glimpse of a hearse turning crookedly in front of the small building of the identification center in the backyard - judging from the license plate, it seemed to be a police car from Johor Bahru, and the driver was obviously not familiar with the situation in the backyard of Sheng'an City Bureau, he drove straight to the bottom of the wall with the clutch on, and parked diagonally in the special parking space for Director Zhu Silai.

Fatty was probably carsick from the swaying, and he grabbed the door and rushed down, holding on to his knees to recover for a long time, then hurriedly shouted at the laboratory building, and when he saw Jiang Mo sitting at the door of the wide-open cafeteria, he didn't even have time to wave to him. He nodded and turned around, pulling the cart to push the bodies brought back from this field trip into the disposal room.

Jiang Mo leaned over with a bit of curiosity. Before she could take out her cell phone to check the gossip that Doctor Luo was tapping on her cell phone, she saw two police cars from Johor Bahru rushing into the backyard with smoke and dust rising. Then two familiar figures jumped out in the air and rushed towards the fragile door panel of the laboratory.

The moment Jiang Mo looked closely at the person coming, he felt as if struck by lightning, and his scalp went numb and he froze in place.

She turned around suddenly, her gaze drifting into Shao Jie's eyes, which had suddenly noticed something was wrong and were looking at her with concern. Shao Jie frowned, listened to the noisy noise in the yard outside the door, and stared seriously at Jiang Mo's twitching expression. He stood up and was about to find out what was going on, but Jiang Mo grabbed Shao Jie's wrist with his sweaty palms, and clenched his fingers slightly with trembling hands.

Jiang Mo took a deep breath and looked down at the message that forensic doctor Xiao Luo had sent over with great fanfare.

"Is Fu Lefeng the daughter of your unlucky father?!" "Oh my God... the director said you left this afternoon. Believe me, don't come back to the bureau!"

"When Fatty received the urgent call for help, he was still wondering... There is a forensic department in Johor Bahru. If it wasn't a criminal case that needed to be re-examined, why did they drag us over... Who would have thought that it was the family members who were making a fuss?! The forensic doctor in Johor Bahru called and said that the family members were making a fuss and asked us to be careful. We were still wondering, we have seen people crying, making a fuss, and even hanging themselves, how much more trouble can they cause?"

"Who would have thought that this family member would attack a police officer?! He even hit the fat guy on the head twice, as if a young auxiliary police officer in Johor Bahru was bullied... He got a black eye from a punch."

"You have to be mentally prepared."

"The family of the deceased found in the Xinshan reservoir has confirmed the identity of the deceased. Fu Lefeng said that Sheng An took over the missing person report a while ago... The Xinshan police were in a lot of trouble with the couple, so we probably have to take over this case."

"Around 10 o'clock last night, near the Xinshan Reservoir, someone was fishing at night and found a pair of shoes and a coat standing upright on the bank next to the reservoir. Under the clothes were documents and a suicide note that had been drafted but not sent... Pangtuo didn't have time to explain the specific physical evidence. It was probably due to emotional trauma and strict parenting, so he decided to jump into the river to commit suicide."

"After verifying the situation, the police station contacted the family and the fishing team. It was said that they searched for half a night before finding the body on the river bank downstream. However, there were peculiar knife wounds on the abdomen and neck of the body. My colleagues in Xinshan suggested that we directly file a homicide case..."

"Who would have thought that these words would be heard by the family members who rushed to the scene! The couple should have been waiting for news at the police station, but somehow they found out that they were at the reservoir. They were so confused about the location of the body that there was basically no valuable clues or evidence left. The two of them started making a fuss as soon as they saw the body and confirmed that it was Fu Lefeng. Even with the obvious knife wounds on the neck and abdomen, they still didn't believe that there was any suspicion of intentional murder..."

Fu Xiren is in his middle age and has become so fat and bloated that he looks disgusting. He contradicted himself and yelled at the Johor Bahru police. On the one hand, he said he did not believe in Johor Bahru's judgment and decision, and on the other hand, he questioned the qualifications of the young forensic doctor sent to the scene by Sheng'an. Then, he turned around angrily and raised his chin to criticize the branch and municipal police station that received the call but did not find the person, causing their daughter to lose her life.

At this moment, Yao Yicai, who had been hiding in the crowd of people pulling and persuading, suddenly turned around and looked towards the direction of the cafeteria with tears in her eyes. The veins on her forehead were almost popping out from crying, and she rushed towards Jiang Mo with her long nails raised and her teeth and claws bared.

"You—! Give me back my daughter's life!"

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
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