Chapter 2053 2061 [Devil Boss]

When the phone was picked up, Maya Hashimoto said "Hello" cautiously.

There was a pause on the other end, and then a charming female voice came: "Oh, I thought it would be my husband who answered the phone. Who are you?"

Hashimoto Maya took a breath silently. Husband? This woman is Lawyer Tatsumi's wife?

Why did Lawyer Xun deliberately let someone else answer his wife's call... Wait! Is the person talking to him on the other end a living person?

Perhaps because she had been through too much recently, in a split second, a new scenario flashed through Hashimoto Maya's mind:

The woman was already dead. Lawyer Xun had killed her. The lawyer then recorded his wife's voice in advance and set up a timer for dialing and playback.

Afterwards, Lawyer Xun asked the detective to come to the room and deliberately let the innocent detective answer the call so that the detective could later provide an alibi that "Mr. Xun's wife was still alive at that time."

Hashimoto Maya: “…”

He couldn't help but feel horrified at the thought that he was talking to a dead man, especially with the puppet threads of Uzo sticking out from behind the dead man.

For a moment, Maya Hashimoto wanted to throw the receiver back into the phone, then run away quickly and disinfect herself.

But how can an ordinary person instantly think of a case when answering the phone? This is not normal.

So as a normal person, he had to pretend that he didn't notice anything and play the role of an ordinary innocent citizen to the end.

Thoughts raced through her mind, and she was almost unable to think. Fortunately, when Hashimoto Maya was with Ireland, she had also answered phone calls as a secretary.

He blurted out a set of words to explain the situation: "Hello, my name is George... Ahem, I'm Maya Hashimoto, a client of Attorney Tatsumi. Mr. Tatsumi is in the bathroom right now."

"Oh, I see." The woman was about to speak when she suddenly heard a clear music beside her, like the sound of a music box.

She was busy for a while, turned off the voice, and spoke again: "Mr. Hashimoto, right? Then please tell my husband later and ask him to call me back as soon as he is free."

Hashimoto Maya: “Okay… huh?!”

Why did she call me Mr. Hashimoto? She, is she a living person? !

The words "You're still alive?!" almost came out of my mouth.

But before that, Maya Hashimoto caught a glimpse of the flashing light on the phone and immediately fell silent.

——As a famous lawyer, Mr. Xun's phone was set up with an automatic recording function, which was running at this moment. If he really couldn't control his words just now, and if something happened later... then he had obviously reserved a seat for the suspect.

"What do you mean by 'hmm'?" Mrs. Xun couldn't help laughing. "Why are you so dumb? I just want you to help pass on a message. Is there anything wrong?"

Hashimoto Maya: “…” It’s really a living person!!

He was a little dazed when the door of the bathroom behind him was pushed open with a click, and Lawyer Xun came out after washing his hands.

He could tell from the door that Hashimoto Maya's voice sounded a little strange, and couldn't help but glance over: "What happened?"

"Nothing." Hashimoto Maya came back to her senses as if she had been electrocuted and handed him the receiver. "Your wife wants to see you."

Lawyer Xun took the call, hesitated for a moment, covered the microphone, and whispered to Hashimoto Maya: "She didn't say anything strange, did she?"

"No, no." Hashimoto Maya didn't want to get involved with this couple at all. "I'm not very good at Japanese, and I misheard the words just now. Now I understand. Your wife just asked me to pass the call to you."

His mixed-race appearance, which was very British, did give him the opportunity to use this excuse to get away with it. And the phone had a recording function, so he could listen to anything he wanted to know later.

Lawyer Xun finally didn't ask any more questions. He looked at Hashimoto Maya and answered the phone.

The couple whispered a few words over the phone, and Lawyer Xun sighed: "Okay, I have a temporary job. Let's talk about it after we finish talking."

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

"I'm so sorry." Lawyer Xun turned to look at Jiang Xia and Hashimoto Maya, "It's okay now, let's talk about the client."

He walked to the sofa and sat down, looking very tired.

Jiang Xia glanced at Hashimoto Maya and took the opportunity to ask, "What happened just now?"

Although Xiao Bai had been eavesdropping on the phone receiver and relaying the conversation to him in real time, as an ordinary materialistic detective, Jiang Xia should not have heard anything. Seeing Hashimoto Maya's strange behavior, he, as a good boss, should have asked a few more questions.

Hashimoto Maya didn't expect that after dealing with Lawyer Xun, he would have to deal with the detective, but Jiang Xia had been suspicious of him for a long time. Hashimoto Maya insisted: "I really just heard it wrong. I didn't rest well these two days, and I'm a little dazed."

As he spoke, he secretly thought: If Jiang Xia heard him like this, maybe he would be willing to give him a vacation and let him go home to rest? After all, this was his nominal boss now. If Jiang Xia insisted...

Jiang Xia looked at him sympathetically when he heard this: "Is it because you have too many cases and come into contact with too many corpses that you can't adapt?"

Hashimoto Maya felt hopeful after hearing the words, and was delighted. She nodded secretly and continued to play the victim: "Yes, the cases I have come into contact with recently are more than those in the first twenty years of my life combined."

Jiang Xia patted his shoulder and said earnestly: "This is the only way to become a detective. You have seen too little before. Let's put it this way. In the future, I will try to find you when I encounter a case, and the police will also contact you when there is a case. If you practice like this for a while, you will definitely become a good detective who can stand on your own. You will no longer lose sleep because of these things, and you will be able to better help victims redress their grievances."

Hashimoto Maya: “…”

If a young person who really wants to be a detective suddenly encounters a great opportunity sent by his boss, he will definitely be very happy.

...Unfortunately he is not.

To him, this kind of boss is a devil.

...Having two different kinds of devil bosses at the same time, what evil did I do in my previous life?

Next to him, Lawyer Xun sat on the sofa and sighed for a while, then suddenly realized that neither detective was looking at him.

He was silent for a moment, and then he asked, "Mr. Jiang Xia?"

Jiang Xia came back to his senses and whispered to Hashimoto Maya: "The murder case is very important, but we should also take other commissions seriously. This is the basic quality of a detective. Let's go and listen to what Mr. Xun has to say."

…

The two sat opposite Lawyer Xun.

The lawyer, who was very anxious just now, now had more time. He wiped his face, as if he couldn't say it but had to, "Actually, I want you to help me catch an adulterer."

Hashimoto Maya immediately thought of the woman on the other end of the phone call: "Caught in adultery?"

(End of this chapter)