when the moon whispers

Chapter 376 Accomplice-Trash (Part )

Six accomplices in the case
Fifty-three Garbage (Part 2)
Gu Xing reminded him in a deep voice to return to the team and meet up after the barbecue chat round, but Xiao Letian was in a daze and didn't pay much attention. He stood dumbly for a long time with his cell phone in hand, his mind moving in a dull manner, and he slowly recalled Jiang Mo's instruction to him through the car window to contact his master as soon as possible when they went their separate ways a few hours ago, and his heart skipped a beat. Shen, there was a bit of delay and delay for no reason.

He shivered violently due to the cool wind carrying charcoal ash. He followed the commotion in his peripheral vision and looked back at Secretary Xue, who was leading the toast and toasting to him through the glass. Chai Qing's phone number was hot in the phone, and he dialed three times in succession without success. He immediately rushed back to the booth with dark eyes, took a breath, and seriously pressed against the armrest next to Xue Yilian's seat: "Xue Yilian, Chai Qing today Does anyone know who goes out to meet clients? Do you have any contact information?”

"Uh--" Xue Yilian first thought he was teasing the little policeman and became furious. He kept his words of comfort and joking on his lips. He was choked by his hidden anger and asked, so he ducked back and didn't pay attention to his elbows. He knocked over the beer placed on the edge of the table and splashed it all over the table.

Several people present seemed to be at a loss by the inexplicable aggressiveness of this little policeman. They were busy cleaning up the mess on the table while talking incomprehensibly, "What's wrong, Officer Xiao? Go out and fight." Are you still angry on the phone?”

"That's right, aren't your sisters happy with you?"

"If Secretary Xue knew everything, I wouldn't have told you earlier... The clients that Editor Chai holds in her hands are all based on performance. Except for the end-of-month salary assessment, she doesn't talk to us. What a piece of shit." Lie, guarding against us is like guarding against thieves."

"No, let's not talk about anything else. I am the purchasing manager of the bookstore in the city. I have signed a contract since the publishing house was not divided into the editorial department and marketing department. We have been working together for many years. The boss asked her to bring new people with her when she visits. She didn't even try to learn Chinese speaking skills from an intern, and left secretly, fearing that the intern who didn't know anything would poach her old friends of several years away——"

"I really don't know where Chai Bian is going today and what's going on."

Xue Yilian finally put down the paper towel wiping the wet hem of her skirt, turned around and squeezed the arm of her colleague who felt that Officer Xiao's tone was too harsh to hold her up, and then raised her eyes to face Xiao Letian's scrutiny, "Recently, maybe the main thing is Are you talking to a bookstore about the book signing? It seemed that we were almost done talking about it. The first book signing of Song Zhiwen's new book was going to be held at an Internet celebrity bookstore in the city. Not long ago, Tu Siyao reported plagiarism again. The contract has not been signed, Chai is still negotiating. I just went there the day before yesterday... But I can't guarantee whether I will go again today... If you are worried, why don't I ask? "

Xiao Letian didn't respond in a hurry. He raised his eyebrows and was silent for a few seconds. Then he suddenly asked, "Can you contact the bookstore?"

"It's all a relationship that was established when we were in Fu'an Xingcheng. In fact, it's better not to use it." Xue Yilian curled his lips in embarrassment, flipped out the chat page, held it up to Xiao Letian's eyes and shook it: " But since Officer Xiao asked."

The bookstore planning manager answered the phone very cheerfully. Xue Yilian glanced at Xiao Letian's tense and wrinkled face, and did not delay any more to cover it up. He just opened it with his fingertips and opened the phone loudly. Place it on the table.

"Hey Lianlian! I haven't received your call for a long time! Where did you go after that damn boss died? I contacted you twice but you didn't reply. I thought you were really heartbroken because of that Mr. Chen..."

Xue Yilian had no embarrassment at having such a shocking thing about him exposed. He smiled silently and made a few remarks about the recent visit to Lanqiao Publishing House. Without waiting, he introduced the person who was sitting in the audience. Officer Xiao heard the person on the phone speaking loudly and lowering his voice: "Why are you still going to Lanqiao? In the past, I have invested and cooperated with companies that I am familiar with and they didn't let you choose. Why are you going to that shabby place?" ! Really, in the past few years of book signings in the bookstore’s curatorial office, I’ve seen that everyone in Lanqiao has a big head, especially that editor-in-chief Chai, who has a hot-selling author under his belt, so big..." Xue Yilian raised his eyebrows He glanced at Xiao Letian and looked at him to ask Chai Qing's lips. His laughter followed these chats: "She is the same in our publishing house. If it weren't for her work, a veteran-level figure like her would be under pressure. Above, everyone is hiding as far away as possible... She has been talking to you about Song Zhiwen's autograph signing recently, right? "

"No...how many times have I gone back and forth? Tsk, I told you that the plagiarism issue hasn't been resolved yet. The autograph signing by Dingfeng has a greater impact on the image of the bookstore, so she just said that it will be resolved soon. Hurry up and hold the autograph session. Based on the purchasing power of the fans, sales will definitely reach a new high... What new high? I heard her nonsense last time. Now the inventory is piled up. Our manager can't afford to offend her. I can afford to hide. I was caught by Chai Qing yesterday morning, and I went on a business trip to study in the afternoon. I left all the things to deal with Chai Qing on me. I am a good planner. Well... I was starving for oxygen when I was greeting customers and putting on a smile - the bookstore was about to close and I just finished my work... Oh, that's not right..."

The person on the phone seemed to be flipping through some paper document, and he murmured for a long time: "Lianlian, the list of scheduled visitors left by our manager, and your editor! She was very flexible even after visiting us for three days in a row. I Look... She made an appointment at 12 o'clock today, but isn't our manager annoying her? In addition, during this time, various publishing houses have a lot of new releases, and there are a lot of visitors. She dragged her while she was sorting out the documents. It was hidden until the end. I printed it out and didn’t read it...but I didn’t see her coming. Do you know what’s going on? I have to make an appointment..."

"What's wrong -" Xiao Letian picked up the coat hanging on the back of the chair and ran straight to the bar to pay the bill. He turned around and pushed open the glass door of the barbecue restaurant and rushed to her senior sister's car, where the car keys were wrapped around her. While hanging in his pocket, the cell phone clutched tightly in his hand suddenly made his wrist tremble.

Xiao Letian blinked and looked at the words "Senior Sister" on the caller ID. His heart almost jumped to his throat. He bit the tip of his tongue and stumbled when he opened his mouth.

"...Senior-Senior Sister?"

"Yes, Lotte."

Jiang Mo responded absently, then moved two steps to let the auxiliary police officer from the Guanpian'er Police Station who was in charge of pulling the cordon make way for the street light pole that he had been leaning on for a long time. He turned his head and stepped on the maintenance pipe under the dim street lamp to dig out. The tunnel was not evenly filled again, and I stood in front of the snack department of the garbage recycling station diagonally opposite the alley deep in the residential area. I kicked the steps hard twice and scratched off the rotten garbage mixed with the sticky soles. marl.

"I just called Master back. You should come here as soon as possible. I'm at the address of Chai Qing's home, this garbage-recycling metal house in the alley behind her community."

Jiang Mo shook his collar, turned his head and smelled the sour smell of kitchen waste, and rolled his eyes in disgust. She heard Xiao Letian's hesitant questions on the other end of the phone, sighed, and held up a strong flashlight, shining it on the dark red patch deep in the garbage heap as if to confirm.

"Well, Chai Qing is dead, in the garbage dump behind their community."

Due to work and health reasons, I will be working on another day~
“Where it is thick, don’t dwell on its thinness; where it is practical, don’t dwell on its splendor.”