when the moon whispers

Chapter 163 Thief-Qinxue

The fourth thief
Fourteen Qin blood

"...Watch? Cough——"

Jiang Mo stared at Shao Jie's slender and sharp-knuckled hands on the table. In a blink of an eye, he choked on the rice grains that had been swallowed down his throat. The egg fried rice stuffed in his cheeks almost made him spit out. After sitting around the table, she covered her mouth, blushed, and held her neck for half a minute before she could barely stabilize herself. She picked up the water glass that Shao Jie brought to her, took two sips from her nose and said, "Ahem... what kind of watch?"

Shao Jie didn't realize the intention of Officer Jiang's question at first. He pretended that she didn't hear clearly. He took out his mobile phone and was about to search for some photos and carefully added pictures and texts: "Huh? Oh... I remember it's a Constantin model for men." Watches are quite expensive. Generally speaking, Sheng'an City cannot order a few of these membership-based items throughout the year. Even if there are second-hand circulation, it should be——"

"No... I'm not asking you this." Jiang Mo coughed twice and interrupted. After thinking for a while, he picked up a spoon and ordered the dinner plate, "I wasn't there when the cuffs were put on, so from the time we met to Ma Xuhong I’m not sure whether he was wearing a watch during the time of the car accident...but Lotte and I followed the whole process of cleaning up the scene of the car accident——"

"You didn't see any dropped watch, right?" Shao Jie wrinkled his nose, pursed his lips and took a deep breath: "I actually saw his left arm flying out when I left the scene of the car accident. ...The watch is indeed missing. I just feel like I can't tell whether it was a coincidence, whether it flew out and was lost somewhere, or whether it was deliberately hidden by Ma Xuhong, or..."

"Or maybe someone took care of it before the police noticed it."

Jiang Mo lowered his gaze and pondered for a moment, then quickly scraped off the fried rice on the bottom of the plate. Suddenly he raised his head and asked, "Shao Jie, are you sure that the one-million-dollar watch is real? Or... this thing Is it possible that he stole it?"

Shao Jie nodded briefly, and then slowly shook his head: "The production process of this kind of watch requires high counterfeiting costs, and I was quite surprised when I saw his watch. The expression was a bit obvious... At that time, I was afraid that Ma Xuhong would give birth to a child. I was wary, so I pretended to be curious and asked, saying that the watch seemed quite expensive."

"If there was a problem, he would have changed the subject, or simply said he was a fake for fun." Jiang Mo raised his eyebrows suddenly, "But he didn't."

Shao Jie raised his wrist and waved it around as if to demonstrate: "Ma Xuhong also showed it off to me, saying that although this watch was given to him by someone else and had been in his hand for several years, it was really It looks like a good thing at first glance, but he may not be able to afford even half of it after working half his life."

"Someone gave it to him?" Jiang Mo licked the tips of his canine teeth and frowned slightly, "Which gangster is so generous? Just give away a watch worth over one million yuan?"

"Ma Xuhong said that he received it from the boss of the company a long time ago. It is regarded as... a resignation gift?"

Only half a day and half a night had passed, and Shao Jie could still clearly recall Ma Xuhong's funny and contemptuous look at that time.After showing off his watch, he subconsciously tightened the wristband inwards, shook his wrist to confirm that the watch could be hung on his forearm, then breathed a sigh of relief, and straightened the wrinkled cuffs, seemingly unintentionally and vaguely. He casually recounted the ins and outs of getting this gift, just talking over and over again about how many sales he had created in the company at that time, and how he was once a popular and popular person.

Shao Jie was actually not interested in Ma Xuhong's unfounded nonsense. He shivered with his hands in his pockets, and then changed the topic he was lingering on: "Then why does a boss with such ability change jobs? Keep it. It's great to be a little leader." "Hey... I had something temporary at that time." Ma Xuhong waved his hand, looking calm as if the past was something that cannot be forgotten, and most of his words were nonsense: "Besides, People go to higher places, so those who can be leaders in the freight company must be knowledgeable and educated. No matter what we do, it is just a coolie sports car. Fortunately, the boss really thinks highly of me, even though he resigned, But if there’s any suitable work and he’s short of manpower, he’ll come to me. It’s just right, I can help run errands and drive a car, and I can earn some extra money or something.”

Shao Jie smiled half-heartedly and nodded in feigned approval: "It's not easy, but it's good. Money, every extra dime counts."

"That's not true." Ma Xuhong raised his hand and knocked on Shao Jie's shoulder as if he was a confidant, smiling as if he was chasing after a "beloved man", "But it's really hard to make money, otherwise My boss wouldn’t give me a watch for no reason. He said that it should be regarded as a token. It’s fine just to run an errand, but sometimes I would drive a car to deliver goods for a rich and powerful boss. They all recognize this. When you wear a watch, you are really dignified. They will look at you when you come in and out..."

Ma Xuhong said mid-sentence and sneered at the corner of his mouth: "People are all powerful."

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Jiang Mo listened to Shao Jie's retelling almost verbatim with no expression. He raised his eyelids, glanced at Shao Jie and found the watch on the picture, and whispered to himself: "Boss of Shengcheng Jisu ...actually have been in contact with Ma Xuhong..."

Shao Jie's mouth went dry from talking about it, so he picked up the water glass on the table and took a sip. His eyelashes flickered and he suddenly realized with excessive consciousness that this unintentional little movement had gone towards a deliberate and ambiguous move. The direction drifted, his eyes flickered, and he glanced quietly at Officer Jiang's expressionless face: "Then...according to Ma Xuhong's words, it seems that he has a good relationship with his boss. It seems that it is okay to keep in touch, right?"

"But Ma Xuhong is a habitual criminal who has been on the Internet fugitive list all year round."

Jiang Mo snorted and took hold of Shao Jie's cell phone to take a picture of the watch. He didn't notice that the kid next to him was losing his mind and said in a scornful voice: "And he was raped in the first place. He was fired from Shengcheng Jisu because he stole a customer's personal belongings and used the company's logistics channels to sell the stolen goods... If he were a normal boss, would he have given him a watch worth more than 100 million yuan? Is it possible? His brain was kicked by a donkey. I can’t even do this loss-making business——”

Shao Jie echoed in a daze, and he blushed and his heart beat in his own thoughts.He gently fiddled with Jiang Mo's water glass, drooping his eyes and childishly trying to move it to its original place. When he was about to finish, he realized that Officer Jiang's voice stopped mid-sentence.Shao Jie paused guiltily. He raised his eyes and met Jiang Mo's thoughtful glance. He awkwardly twisted his fingertips and ran away to the living room. He took out a few tissues and waved them back. I wanted to give it to Jiang Mo to wipe the corner of his mouth.

However, Officer Jiang probably didn't see Shao Jie's budding ambiguity jumping for joy.

Shao Jie blinked, clicked the danger alarm, and slowly walked around Jiang Mo. His eyes that had no place to focus happened to be on the shoulders of her home clothes. He was stunned for two seconds and raised his fingertips. Gently dipped in the moist dark red color that was not very obvious on her dark clothes, looked at Jiang Mo's puzzled glance, and whispered in surprise.

"Blood...Officer Jiang, blood!"

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