when the moon whispers

Chapter 498: Rose - Report Lost (Part )

Case Seven Rose
Eleven reported missing (Part 2)

Jiang Mo and Xiao Letian held two unclear investigation and visit conditions: "surname Hong" and "suspected of running a drugstore or privately selling bruises and plasters", and made a big circle of five kilometers like a headless fly, with Feng Yao's residence in Anhe District, close to Fengnan, as the center point.

Before they hurried to leave their get off work and return to the team, they drove slowly along Beidi Avenue, crossed the intersection of Shananbei Street and Tongxing Road, and turned slightly southwest. When they stopped at a roadside store to pick up a bottle of soda, they saw a row of bungalows lying quietly opposite Fangzheng Community, next to the residential building of Feihuangtengda Real Estate Agency. At the end of the fly-in-the-wall restaurant and the warehouse breakfast stall that had just opened for business hours, a light sign with the word "Medicine" flickered in the silently falling night.

Jiang Mo was half leaning against the cement platform at the foot of the building, holding a glass soda bottle that the store owner was holding up for recycling. He raised his eyebrows and glanced at Xiao Letian, who was grabbing a handful of ten-cent lollipops as change. Before he could say anything, a few familiar and ferocious-looking burly men passed by his eyes - a group of them swung their arms and dragged the tables and chairs of the fly-in restaurant to sit down and shout for orders. Then they glanced at the cement platform, raised their eyebrows, and pressed their fingertips meaningfully on the edge of the table.

Jiang Mo was stunned at first, and thought for two seconds with his eyes drooping. His heart sank, and he almost choked on a mouthful of soda that sprayed out of his nose. He supported himself with his knees and lowered his head and coughed twice. A pair of shoes stopped loudly under the curb in front of him. He slightly raised his head against the dim light of the street lamp, and two crumpled tissues were stuck to the lower half of Jiang Mo's face.

Xiao Letian was looking at the Ultraman cards at the entrance of the canteen with his hands on his waist and his butt sticking out. He subconsciously turned his head to look at his senior sister as if he had eyes on the back of his head. He was frightened by such a dangerous combo. He turned his head to see who was coming, then took half a step back and stumbled. He stared at the face sitting next to Jiang Mo, muttered for a long time with his mouth slightly open, raised his eyes to scan the scene next to the fly restaurant, pursed his lips into a line in realization, nodded at the person who came, then picked up the two little buns who were squatting at the entrance of the canteen to fan the cards after finishing their homework after school, and moved to the cement floor at the wall on the other side of the canteen, chattering.

"I heard that you quarreled with your family again recently..." Jiang Mo took out the tissue and pouted his lips in disgust. He wiped it twice and put it in his pocket. "It seems that your uncle and aunt were so angry that they called Wen Xi back to persuade them, and you are out there day and night without even seeing them?"

"It's a good thing that we've quarreled so much that we've severed our relationship as father and son... At least it's safer to stay away from each other, especially Xiao Xi - tsk, the little brat is still associating with a public figure." Wen Chen opened a pack of cigarettes, rubbed his lighter twice, lit it, and lazily held it to his lips, looking at the skyline at the end of the building complex where the light had already disappeared, "Shao Jie told you?"

"Well... aren't they on holiday now? I mentioned that."

Jiang Mo looked in the direction of the pharmacy, was silent for a few seconds, lowered his voice and frowned slightly: "Is this pharmacy wrong?"

"Ever since the incident in Qijia Village, Bazhuang, and after what happened to Old Zhang, bars, discos, and KTVs, these important places have been keeping quiet recently and don't dare to take risks easily. But the bugs and rats in the gutter have to find ways to survive and have fun..." Wen Chen didn't agree or deny, but just snorted and laughed, his tone contemptuous and indifferent, "Normally, no one pays attention to this place, but now it's so lively that the doorstep is almost broken."

"Small pharmacies and small clinics... It's convenient to trade things in the name of purchasing goods - do you want to catch them in the act or wait for them?" Jiang Mo shook the empty soda bottle, squinted his eyes slightly and looked at the dark figure who hunched his shoulders and went into the small pharmacy, bent his elbow and put it on Wen Chen's left shoulder: "If you guys are interested in this place, you should be able to get a general idea... Is there a person named Hong in this small pharmacy-"

"Hong Xinyu. The pharmacy owner? Why are you criminal investigators asking about him?"

Wen Chen turned his head to look at Jiang Mo's wrist, paused for a moment and then turned his head straight, "This guy is really bad, but if it's about murder and arson, I've been watching him for a long time, but I really haven't seen anything... What case is he a suspect in?"

"That's not right? When we checked the license, didn't we see a small boss named Hong? He made a fake license?" Jiang Mo withdrew his arm and stood up straight: "When did you start to notice this place?"

"That was a long time ago. Brother Chao and his friends seemed to have known about this place when my master was still around, but they kept it very secret before. There aren't many people moving goods in this residential building, so we passed messages and notes a lot, but we never caught them in the act, and we didn't know the upstream and downstream, so we could only sneak here every now and then... A few days ago, we found out that Shengcheng Intermediate Speed ​​was involved in a lot of things, so this little pharmacy has been a little restless these days."

Wen Chen casually crushed the cigarette butt on the cement floor and squinted at Jiang Mo's serious expression: "What case did you just find here? Community pharmacies need medical licenses to register. Hong Xinyu is at best a half-baked barefoot doctor. It seems that he used the name of a retired director in the community to apply for the license. Sometimes the old man comes here to see patients with fevers and headaches."

"This is really... a blind cat catching a dead mouse, and it stumbled upon this door by accident."

Jiang Mo hissed, took out his phone, flipped through a photo, handed it to Wen Chen, and asked in a low voice: "Have you seen this mother and son?"

"What mother and son--" Wen Chen was a little confused at first, and only after he lowered his eyes to see the photo did he suddenly frown: "...I seem to have seen this before. This woman brought her child to buy medicine, and she seemed to have a good relationship with Hong Xinyu. Hmm...why do they look familiar--wait a minute?! Aren't these--Feng Dong's wife and child?! Are they...old lovers?"

Jiang Mo nodded and sighed deeply.

"This little guy Feng Yao made a big fuss and called the police, saying that Tang Jia was missing and murdered. The whole story is so confusing, and the lover named Hong is the main suspect."

Jiang Mo briefly recounted the whole story of Feng Yao's report to the police, then turned to look at Wen Chen, who was thinking for a while and shook his head slowly, and asked in doubt, "What's wrong?"

"Let's question what a three-and-a-half-year-old child said." Wen Chen paused, took Jiang Mo's phone and glanced at the pop-up message window on the top of the screen. Then he waved his hand and flipped through the calendar: "One week before Feng Yao was found with the stray dogs near the Central Hospital, we all know about Hong Xinyu's situation."

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Wen Chen wrinkled his face in confusion, scratched his head and thought for a while, then he awkwardly raised his finger in the direction of the pharmacy door, pointing at the jumping person who ran out from the opposite residential building to deliver a lunch box.

"Hong Xinyu's wife is pregnant with her second child. She fell and nearly lost the baby a few days ago. She has been staying in the maternity and children's hospital and has not been outside at all."

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"A few lonely winds and moons, changing into stars and frosts."