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Bab 40: Where is the connection?

Back at the bureau, Jia and Huojin couldn't mask their shock. "Drug addict?"

Mingshen stretched his arms lazily. "She was fidgeting a lot, right? She is also underweight. She had a messy appearance too and her eyes looked glazed."

Jia thought back to the time at the hospital where she met her.

Wu Yue indeed looked shaky, agitated and very thin.

"That was because of drugs?"

"For the most part of it. She has just started it recently though it seems because her addiction signs are like a newborn baby. That's why you couldn't tell it. It's hard to decipher until you keenly look at the signs, and they could be confused with any other regular symptoms like depression or other health issues. Anyway, I got my confirmation when I learned what she was doing at my hospital."

"She said it was to take care of some formalities for her grandmother's death certificate."

"Bullshit," he slid a prescription on the desk in front of them.

Huojin struggled to read the handwriting. "Why do doctors have such terrible writing?"

"Excuse me? I feel offended. My entire existence is perfect down to my handwriting. The next time you include ME with the rest of the doctors, I will hang you down from the ceiling and overflow your body with opioids. Which this girl was having by the way."

Jia read from the prescription. "Buprenorphine."

"One of the medications to treat opioid addiction," he smiled.

"So she was there to get rid of the addiction," Jia said.

"And I will get rid of the drug supply chain, my dear Spicy~" Mingshen expressed a sense of pleasure as if he found some new toys to play with.

"You see, Spicy. Drugs cannot flow into or out of the system without my consent. The Yang family highly regulates the supply of them, especially illegal ones. I am informed when people visit my hospitals for drug addiction treatment because it means that there is a supply chain going somewhere. And it seems that some pests have grown wings to challenge my authority in the Underworld, which I highly detest."

"And you are gonna dig them out?" Jia questioned.

"Naturally."

"Feels like this is the work of the police."

"I don't need help in busting a puny drug supply chain."

"Why do you think everything is always about you?" Jia sourly expressed. "The police must be a part of the investigation if drugs are being distributed. It's for the sake of civilians, not you."

Mingshen eyed her with a raised brow and shrugged a moment later. "Whatever, I don't care. In the end, the culprits will be awarded to me, not to the law. They are tiptoeing in secrecy and breaking my rules."

Jia watched him with an acute stare. "They should be punished according to the court."

He chuckled with a villainous ring to it. "The cooperation between the Underworld and the law doesn't say so."

Her brow twitched.

That damn cooperation!

She made a mental note to herself to properly understand what this cooperation meant and how far these powers went.

She parked that issue aside for now and looked at Huojin. "We need to join Mingshen's forces to find these drug suppliers. Wu Yue will be our lead for that. Tracking her can lead us to the ringmaster. But we cannot alert her."

"Excellent idea which is also what came to my mind. Spicy, we are always in such great sync, yet you refuse to acknowledge our special connection~"

Jia would have already squeezed the life out of him, if not for the question that came across her mind which broke his needless flirtatious atmosphere.

"You pointed out Wu Yue's drug addiction as the motivation behind harming Mrs. Dai and not her grandmother? You think Mrs. Dai could have accidentally witnessed her taking drugs when they met before or something related to it?"

Huojin asked, "But isn't Wu Yue trying to get rid of her addiction? Yang Mingshen, since when did she start taking treatment at your hospital?"

"Around three weeks back."

Jia raised her brow. "Seems around the time her grandmother passed away. Maybe her death changed her, but the coincidental meeting with Dai Yaling had already happened."

"Maybe something more happened between Wu Yue and Dai Yaling that she isn't telling. Maybe it's related to Dai Yaling possibly knowing that she is an addict? That could have made Wu Yue feel threatened. If she is trying to change, then she wouldn't want anybody to jeopardize her future."

Jia frowned. "Even if all our guesses are true, it still leaves a question. It cannot be a crime of passion at the last moment. How would have Wu Yue known that she should be having fur on her body and seated exactly opposite Mrs. Dai to-"

She suddenly stopped talking, slipping into a trance.

"Jia?" Huojin called out.

But it was as if her attention was focused on somewhere else.

"Jia?" He tapped her hand.

She abruptly broke out of her reverie, slightly sweating. Huojin stared at her puzzled while Mingshen sent a knowing gaze at her. Though she had no clue what that gaze meant.

She cleared her throat. "My bad. I was thinking about the case…" she slowly went on, "What I was saying about the seat was that perhaps Wu Yue booked the ticket in advance in such a way that her seat would be directly opposite Mrs. Dai."

Huojin gave her theory a thought. "She wouldn't prefer to sit beside her because she didn't want Mrs. Dai to recognize her. The immediate side seat would be too risky. But this plan would fall flat if Mrs. Dai had her inhaler."

"And Yin Xiaoling threw that away very conveniently."

"Not just that, she also ignored Yun's repeated calls to help her almost as if she was doing it purposely. Yin Xiaoling was also seated a row behind Wu Yue, so she could have easily told her which seat to book."

Jia bit the corner of her lip, thinking more deeply about it. "Yin Xiaoling and Wu Yue were very suspicious at the hospital too. Clearly, none of them wanted me to find them together. And Yin Xiaoling…" she asked Mingshen, "was she really sick?"

He laughed. "She reminded me of the little brats that use stomach ache as an excuse to skip school. I am going to charge her dear aunt for this tomfoolery very heavily~ You don't use my hospitals for petty excuses."

Huojin didn't even want to imagine the bill coming Yin Chin's way.

Jia thought about it. "What if she did all this so that Wu Yue could get a chance to meet her? She couldn't text her because her things are in custody, and she couldn't meet her here in detention either or it would have been suspicious. Maybe they planned for a quick secret meeting but didn't expect for me to come so soon."

"Speaking of accomplices, if we go by this theory, then Wu Yue's boyfriend, Wang Lei, comes into suspicion too."

"Naturally. He is in my radar too."

Huojin tried to tie the loose ends together. "I think both could have realized the common enmity they held for Dai Yaling when they met. An enemy's enemy is a friend. Maybe they would have made a plan later. Yin Xiaoling would somehow throw her inhaler away. But I think she couldn't do it in the washroom, which is why Mrs. Dai was already outside when the inhaler fell. Yin Xiaoling knew that she would be caught on CCTV, but she had no choice."

He then added. "What if they met today to talk about her detention? Obviously, Yin Xiaoling wouldn't be so thrilled to be the only one here when she had an accomplice. And all this means that Mrs. Dai somehow probably found her drugs' involvement at the time they met around a month ago in the mall, not at the theater because this required planning."

Jia agreed. "Wu Yue and Yin Xiaoling must have talked to each other to plan all this. Check Yin Xiaoling's phone records for all messages and calls with her. We have her and all her things in custody. Once we establish their connection, we can interrogate Yin Xiaoling harder for the truth," she narrowed her eyes.

"On it."

A whistle sound came from beside Jia which made her glare at Mingshen. "Don't whistle like a hooligan in the bureau."

Mingshen looked at her with dreamy eyes. "What choice did you leave me with, dear? It was so entertaining with your investigation skills just now that my chest overflowed with a tingling excitement all over it."

"Don't make me convert that tingling excitement into tingling pain all over your chest."

A few minutes later Huojin returned after checking the records but with bad news.

"There is absolutely no record of Wu Yue in Yin Xiaoling's contact list. No suspicious messages. No suspicious calls. No information about any planning at all."

"What?" Jia stared at him, wide-eyed. "It's impossible. They must have communicated to plan all this. At least there should be something on the phone."

"None at all."

"Then it must mean that…they met personally at all times to talk about it," she thought slowly. "They didn't leave any digital trail. Which means now we need to find out where that place is."


Bab 41: Attempted murder

Futong.

After the post mortem analysis had been completed and necessary information was gathered, Mingshen released Dai Yaling's body to the next of kin of the Dai family. There was a small funeral held in the evening, which Jia and Huojin had attended too. The atmosphere at the Dai family's home was somber and laced with silence when they returned from the funeral.

Dai Fengge had locked himself in the room while Dai Meihui cooked dinner, lost deep in her thoughts. A small fluff of ball hugged her legs from the back with the purest smile on his lips. "Mama, I am hungry!"

She smiled and patted his head. "Yes, yes. Dinner is ready. Will you help me set the spoons on the table, dear?"

"Yes!" He flailed his arms up in excitement and ran to take the spoons from the kitchen drawer.

"Be careful around the forks. Don't touch them, okay?"

"Yes, Mama."

Dai Meihui glanced at the bedroom where Dai Fengge had cooped himself inside ever since they had returned. With an unpleasant gaze, she walked inside and plainly said without much emotion, "Dinner is ready."

"G-go away!" Dai Fengge was slightly drunk with an empty bottle lying on the bed.

The scene before her immediately irked her. "What is wrong with you? Yun is here, yet you are drunk like crazy! Do you even bother how it will affect him if he sees this?"

He gritted his teeth, his eyes bloodshot. "I…I have lost my Mom here and you are worried about what Yun sees? You are calling me for dinner? How can you even think of having an appetite when we have lost Mom…Do you have any heart?"

A mocking laughter escaped with a glint of mistiness in her eyes. "Heart, huh? Should I really have a heart for a husband and mother-in-law who ignored my existence and openly…" she trembled, "openly supported another woman to replace me?"

That agitated him further because he knew he had no justification for his affair. He couldn't meet her accusatory gaze and looked away. "Xiaoling is gone anyway."

"And? Soon, you will find another woman because clearly, you aren't happy with me."

"Just leave me alone…" He drunkenly threw a pillow in her direction only to miss it. "Mom is not here with us anymore and all you can think about is your own injustice! What about the injustice that happened to Mom? That old hag killed my Mom!"

"Talk quietly!" She angrily urged. "Yun will hear you! And have some shame. Don't curse Miss. Ma when it was all an accident."

Dai Fengge shot a gaze at her, blazed with fury. "Don't call it an accident when…!" He bit his lip, tears staining his shirt wet as he held his fierce words back, "You don't care, do you? But I do and I won't spare that old hag! I will make her suffer too!"

Dai Meihui pressed her forehead. "Enough, Fengge. Even though you acted so rudely to her and gave her a panic attack, she was kind enough not to blame you. Have a little decency."

"Decency for the woman who killed Mom? She doesn't deserve pity, only my punishment! And I will give it to her!"

Frustrated by him, she walked out and said as she closed the door, "Don't he stupid! You have lost it, Fengge. I wanted to talk to you about our marriage and Yun but clearly, you aren't in your right mind at the moment. Sleep and get in your senses by tomorrow so that we can have a responsible conversation."

He heard her closing the door and left him alone. He leaned his head back on the bed, staring at the broken watch on his wrist. It had slipped off his hand during the funeral that brought cracks to the glass.

He caressed it gently with a swirl of guilt and regret flickering in his eyes. "I am sorry Mom…I am sorry I couldn't protect you…"

Outside, Dai Meihui released an exhausted sigh. She turned and was taken aback by seeing Yun standing behind her. "Yu-Yun…"

Nervousness gripped her, her heart pounding in her chest.

He must have definitely heard all his shouting…

"Mama, why Dada shout? Why Dada scold you? I don't want Mama sad," his beautiful black irises were wet with big drops of tears.

Dai Meihui felt the urge to cry and immediately kneeled to his level. He hugged him close to her chest and patted his back as she tried to control her tears from falling. "I am sorry you had to hear that, Yun. Mama is not sad, okay?"

"Mama is crying."

She laughed and quickly wiped her tears. "Oh this? These are happy tears, silly. Look, Yun did such a great job in arranging the spoons on the table all by himself. Mama is really happy and proud and that's why I am crying. People cry when they are happy too."

She kissed his cheek and grinned. "You are hungry, right? Let's eat!"

Yun peeked at the room behind her with a hesitant look.

"Oh don't worry about Dada. He is a little tired. You know that Grandma…is at a far place now, right?"

He nodded.

"Hm. He is missing her a lot. It will take some time. But he will be fine soon, no worries."

"Okay…"

She pecked his forehead and smiled. "Let's go eat."

She glanced at the door before leaving with a worried gaze.

I hope he comes into his senses tomorrow and doesn't do anything reckless…

The next day, two parallel sets of investigations were underway simultaneously. One was to bust the drug supply chain and the other was to find out the place where Yin Xiaoling and Wu Yue met to plan Dai Yaling's murder.

Xiyang gave Jia his report. "Mam, I have found something."

"Tell me," Jia put aside the other files and focused all her attention to his report.

"I looked into all the places where Wu Yue has gone in the past six months. Usually, she travels between two places which are her university and part-time job. She lives in Xidan. Renmin University, where she studies, is near Haidian district. Her part-time job is also nearby, Caishikou, which is just the next station to Xidan.

However, what I found is that she has gone to places which have nothing to do with her university and work. All these places are scattered across different directions in Beijing and are random places she visits."

"Any place where she might have met Yin Xiaoling?"

"Not found that yet. Though I don't understand what she is doing by visiting so many places?"

Jia took the report from him and studied the list of places.

"Drug deal? The random places might be because such deals from just one location are risky to be caught. So they keep changing locations. And…" she raised her brow, mapping out the locations in her head, "How does she travel to these places?"

"She takes the subway."

"Ding, ding!" Mingshen arrived with a flamboyant vigor in his demeanor. He took a seat opposite Jia and grinned. "The subway lines are getting used for these naughty drug deals, which is what my men have discovered too. Ah, I am so happy. I will soon get my hands on some fresh research subjects. I can hardly wait~"

Jia paid no heed to his twisted enthusiasm. "There are 23 lines in the Beijing subway and approximately 430 stations in total. It won't be a walk in the park to find them. We need to know how they decide the place for the deal."

Mingshen rubbed his palms together. "We don't need to crack our heads for that because we have the perfect bait for it. That girl herself."

"No way," she disagreed, "I cannot alert her and possibly ruin our chances for-"

Just then a junior officer arrived at her desk and hurriedly said, "Sorry for the interruption, Superintendent Song. There has been an attack. Dai Fengge tried to kill Ma Zhilan a few minutes ago."


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