when the moon whispers

Chapter 559: Rose-Protecting Shortcomings (Part )

Case Seven Rose
Chapter 42: Protecting Shortcomings (Part 1)
After all, she had just experienced the pain of losing her daughter. Yao Yicai rushed forward madly but her legs and feet went weak and she collapsed to the ground halfway. She fell on the asphalt slope with her mouth open, her teeth knocked out and her mouth was full of blood, which was smeared all over her face mixed with tears and saliva.

Jiang Mo was startled by the dull sound of her falling down, and his shoulders shrugged. She subconsciously stood up and stepped forward to help him, but before she could move her feet, Fu Xi rushed to Jiang Mo with his arms and sleeves rolled up, glanced at Yao Yicai but did not help, just walked straight forward and grabbed Jiang Mo's collar viciously.

"How dare you come out here?! Where were you when I told you to find your sister? Why are you pretending to be kind now?! You are such a heartless person, you don't care about your own sister's life, you are a shitty policeman!"

Jiang Mo was actually still a little dazed, her mind was a mess, and she didn't quite hear Fu Xi's crazy curses. But her slight concussion was obviously not fully healed, and she was shaken by Fu Xi's clothes, and the spit from his curses made her hold her breath, her face immediately turned pale, and she swallowed twice with nausea.

Jiang Mo's mind was in a mess as she recalled the initial examination of the body that Xiao Luo had hurriedly "talked over" to her. She frowned and tried to hold back her dizziness, with the words "strangely shaped knife wounds" floating in her mind. She raised her hand to try to break free from Fu Xi's disorderly shaking. She glanced at Yao Yicai who was being helped to stand up. She pursed her lips and was about to persuade her to calm down and be considerate, but Yao Yicai seemed to have gathered enough strength and pounced on her again with her teeth and claws bared.

As soon as Fu Lefeng was put on the dissecting table, Fu Xi and Yao Yicai started to make a scene.

Jiang Mo didn't know whether to laugh or cry for a moment, he was almost irritated by the couple's singing the same tune.

Fu Xi clenched his fists the moment he saw Yao Yicai break free from the support of the crowd, and held Jiang Mo with even greater force, fearing that she would break free. Yao Yicai's scratching and slapping him missed.

Jiang Mo glanced at Yao Yicai, and seeing the weak movements of her feet, he roughly predicted that she had accumulated some strength in this slap, and swung his arm just enough to hit her - but she didn't dodge. This pulling move, which was purely to vent her anger, didn't hit her hard. According to the temperament of Fu Xi and Yao Yicai, if they kept their anger to themselves for the time being, they could explode at any inopportune moment in some situation.

In the past half month, everyone in the Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Municipal Bureau has been shrouded in a thick cloud of bad luck. Jiang Mo does not expect this crazy couple to just give up, but it is better for her to suffer a little physical pain than for all this to be reported to Director Gao or Secretary Li, and Gu Xing would also be accused of not governing strictly and be criticized for no reason outside the case plan.

However, Jiang Mo's thought in the blink of an eye did not come true. She gritted her teeth and was about to take a slap in the face and then talk to the two victims' families who would not listen to a word, but a figure suddenly appeared behind her, blocking Yao Yicai's heart-wrenching cry and scratching, and then looked down at Fu Xi's face, which was stiff and twisted for a moment, and wiped the blood that Yao Yicai's nails scratched on the side of his neck. He leaned down slightly, whispered something in Fu Xi's ear in a calm voice, and then looked at Fu Xi's grand retreat with an expressionless face, and raised his eyebrows very lightly.

Jiang Mo hardly saw how Shao Jie appeared from so far behind her. She tilted her ear and heard the sound of Yao Yicai's long nails scraping against the skin on Shao Jie's neck. Her scalp suddenly went numb. She grabbed Shao Jie's arm and stepped back half a step. She raised her eyes and saw the exaggerated bloody streak that was scraped by him. Her brows immediately frowned.

"pay--"

"What are you doing?! Beating people up in public in the Municipal Bureau. Do you think we police officers are just here to eat and do nothing?!"

Jiang Mo prided herself on her tough skin and was indifferent to being beaten or scolded. But when she saw Shao Jie's delicate skin bleeding, she immediately got angry. She frowned and heard Shao Jie screaming in pain, and then she widened her eyes and tried to grab Fu Xi and confront him to avenge her grievances. But before her stern voice directed at her biological father could roll off her lips, Geng Zhi and Gu Xing bumped into each other outside the noise, and shouted at Yao Yicai who was still unwilling to give in while looking at Fu Xi's strange face. The two looked at each other for a moment, and they stopped Jiang Mo's angry movements with their mouths raised, and walked straight to the front of the crowd with their eyebrows raised.

"You are the leaders, right? I want to report this Jiang Mo for neglecting his duties and harming others—"

Yao Yicai was not familiar with the origins of the two leaders in front of Jiang Mo. She only glanced at the panicked and reserved looks of the police and concluded that the two people who came out of nowhere to solve the dispute were obviously one level higher in rank. She rolled her eyes, took a breath and was about to continue crying and clenched the arm of one of the people who was closer to her age, pretending to accuse and pour out her grievances. However, Fu Xi's face trembled suddenly, first glanced at Shao Jie who was leaning against Jiang Mo with grievance, then looked at the obviously unfriendly expressions of the two leaders, and held down Yao Yicai's malicious intention to climb and spread, and pulled her behind him.

"Leader, we have a conflict with Jiang Mo, it's a family matter...we'll talk about it later." Fu Xi said with a bitter face, "but our daughter, Xiao Feng...reported to the police missing a long time ago, and you never found her...When you contacted us again, the child was already dead...This...you have to give us an explanation, right?"

"Since this is a family matter, I will pretend I didn't hear anything about whether to report it or not."

Gu Xing curved his eyes with a fake smile, turned around and looked at Jiang Mo, who was biting his back teeth and struggling. He also glanced at Shao Jie, who was leaning on Jiang Mo and acting awkwardly, and wrinkled his nose in a speechless manner, "... He was scratched for no reason during the fight... Jiang Mo, take this witness to clean up and apply medicine first. As for whether he should be held accountable later, we will not interfere too much. We will talk about it later."

"And then there's the matter of missing persons being murdered—"

Gu Xing raised his hand slightly to block the sound of Yao Yicai trying to struggle and explain herself while looking at Fu Xi's expression. Then he turned his head to look at Fu Xi who was tightly holding Yao Yicai's arm. He turned his head to look at Geng Zhi and made a gesture of invitation, "The procedures here are quite complicated. There is no need to make such an ugly scene here in public. Otherwise... let's go upstairs?"

------

"Ouch, it hurts - Officer Jiang... I'm wrong, it's okay, please be gentle..."

The criminal investigation medicine box was just refilled today, and the newly opened disinfectant cotton balls stung like a bite. Shao Jie jumped up in pain when he touched the medicine, and tried to escape by hiding around the conference table in the room. He was punished by Jiang Mo's eyes, and he stayed where he was, grinning and letting Officer Jiang carefully rub the oily skin on his neck that was stuck to his skin and didn't fall off, begging for mercy pitifully.

"You're afraid of the pain, but you're still blocking me..." Jiang Mo raised a cotton swab and scooped out the loach that kept moving around. He stretched out his hand to hold the back of Shao Jie's head. "I'm familiar with the routines of Fu Xi and his wife. They scold people first and then fight. After they vent their anger, they don't have the face to find other problems... The slap just now didn't hit the right spot, but they turned around and reported it to the leader... What's the point of asking for an explanation... Haha, extorting money is good."

"He probably won't dare this time. Hiss—" Shao Jie snorted, and just as he raised his eyebrows, Jiang Mo's hand rubbed them into a tuft. "But I always heard you say that the deputy team leader punished you to write a self-criticism, and I thought your leader was a little... I just heard from Uncle Song that he came back from leave today because he was afraid that you would be held back by Fu Xi."

"Besides Lao Gu, Deputy Geng knows the most about my family's troubles. He just can't stand Lao Gu's team leader being so lax, so he arrested us to make an example of him. If there is a critical moment, Lao Gu will be investigating cases everywhere, and he will have to shoulder the heavy responsibility of stabilizing the team."

Jiang Mo pinched the back of Shao Jie's neck as he kept shrinking back, sighed depressedly, blinked his eyelids twice, then suddenly raised them, staring motionlessly at Shao Jie's pupils which tilted after a few innocent seconds due to guilt.

"How do you know that Fu Xi won't dare to make a scene again this time? What did you just say in his ear?"

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
"I have always wasted my efforts to push forward, but today I can move freely in the middle of the stream."