"Officer, I really didn't know it was drugs. When I bought it, the seller only told me that it could make people mute for a few days, and didn't say anything else."
Tong Xinhui explained, somewhat distraught.
"Can you still contact this seller?" Shuangcheng looked at the information in his hand. According to the investigation, these three people had clean backgrounds and should genuinely not know anything about [Water Soluble].
“No.” Xin Hui shook her head: “The man who sold me the things was someone I met at a bar.”
"I had drunk a bit too much at the time, and I thought it was just a normal conversation. We talked about some troubles, and then he sold me this thing."
"How much?"
"More than four thousand..."
"You're really something." Meng Shuangcheng smiled.
"Would you spend any amount of money to harm someone?"
"No, officer, I was really drunk at the time, and I bought it on impulse!"
"If I knew what this thing was, I wouldn't dare touch it even if you killed me!"
Tong Xinhui was almost scared to tears, but the former waved his hand:
"Fine, I won't pursue this matter since you don't know what it is..."
"But it is true that you encouraged her to poison someone. Now you only have two options: either cooperate with the police to arrest the drug trafficking gang and try to get a lighter punishment."
"Either you go to jail, the choice is yours."
"I'll cooperate! I'll cooperate! I'll take you to that bar right now!" Tong Xinhui said hurriedly.
...
"Senior Monkey, please take me with you!"
Bai Puti chased after him and said firmly.
"No, you can't participate in any operations right now. Quickly take Chen Fuyao and Wen Jueqian back to the production team, and pretend nothing happened today!"
(PS: Wen Jueqian was just joining in the fun, so he's innocent.)
(As for Shen Fuyao... considering that she didn't harbor any evil intentions and didn't commit an irreparable mistake, a few words of verbal reprimand will suffice.)
Meng Shuangcheng's expression was serious. Seeing that the other party remained unmoved, he shouted directly, "This is an order!"
"Yes!" Little Bodhi forced back his tears and turned to leave.
Watching her retreating figure, Shuangcheng sighed: "I understand how you feel, but you can't reveal yourself yet..."
·
program team
Yu Jianing knocked on Chu Moyan's door.
"What's wrong, dear Yu? Want another heart-to-heart hug?"
"I wanted to grab a late-night snack with you." Xiao Ning carried a teppanyaki grill pancake. "The chef just brought this over. He said he accidentally put in over a pound of salt in the last meal..."
Upon hearing this, the girl who had been silent stiffened slightly, and Jia Ning stepped aside and entered the room.
“You know everything…” Chu Moyan closed the door and sat down on the sofa.
"Hmm..." Xiao Ning nodded, opened the lunchbox, tasted the saltiness, and pushed the whole thing to her.
Chu Moyan shook her head, a bitter smile on her face, and picked up a slice of meat, putting it in her mouth.
"It tastes good... but I don't know what it tastes like..."
After saying that, she put down her chopsticks and silently looked at Yu Jianing:
Can I hug you?
Xiao Ning nodded and pulled her into her arms.
"You might not believe it, but I used to be just like Wen Jueqian, not much of a talker..." The girl who had been keeping quiet leaned against Jia Ning's chest and said slowly:
"I have a very good friend. She's beautiful, very talkative, and loves teppanyaki..."
"But ever since then, she has been unable to speak or eat teppanyaki..."
Chu Moyan recalled with a forlorn expression:
"I remember it was a hot summer day. I forgot who handed her a bottle of water. After she drank it, she felt a sore throat, but we didn't pay attention to it and thought she had caught a cold."
"But gradually, her throat became more and more uncomfortable, and it wasn't until the third day when she coughed up blood and was hospitalized that I realized how serious the situation was."
"My teacher said that my friend had been poisoned by a completely unknown poison, and there was no antidote at the moment..."
"So... when you said you were almost poisoned and rendered mute the other day, you were actually talking about your friend?"
Upon hearing this, Yu Jianing tentatively asked.
"Yes, that's right..."
"It's my friend; that medicine was developed for her."
The girl who had kept quiet had tears in her eyes: "In order to make the antidote faster, I had my teacher test the medicine on me."
"It took a whole year! We've finally produced a semi-finished product of this antidote!"
"While it cannot completely eliminate all toxins, it can fully recover those who have just been poisoned, extend the lifespan of those with severe poisoning by a few years, and offer hope for a complete cure..."
"But... my friend didn't make it. She died the day before the antidote was successfully developed."
Chu Moyan spoke calmly, but tears kept streaming down her face: "Just like that, because of the drug test... I lost my sense of taste, and because I was a day too late... I lost my friends."
"I'm going to her funeral. She must have been in great pain when she passed away..."
"Her entire neck was rotten through, and all you could see was yellowed bone... You should know that what she was most proud of when she was alive was her neck."
"The young woman in charge of my friend's burial was completely bewildered and had no idea how to proceed."
"If her father hadn't come, my friend might have missed the burial..."
After saying this, Chu Moyan seemed unable to hold back any longer and tightly hugged Xiao Ning, bursting into tears:
"I'm just one day away!"
"Just one day! Why couldn't she wait for me a little while!"
Yu Jianing didn't speak, but gently stroked her head.
After hearing the whole story, I couldn't think of a way to comfort her.
Just one day short...
Who would have thought that the usually quiet and carefree girl has such a story?
She's like this now, talking nonstop like an idiot all day long...
Perhaps unable to accept this fact, she imagined herself as that deceased friend, speaking those words on her behalf...
Words that can never be spoken again...
.
After a good cry, Chu Moyan's emotions gradually stabilized.
"Thank you, but could you please keep this a secret for me? I don't want anyone else to know."
"Okay." Xiao Ning released her and nodded gently.
The two chatted for a while longer before Jia Ning went back.
She glanced at Bai Puti's door halfway through, but it was still locked, so he probably hadn't returned.
"A secret...something I don't want to tell anyone..."
She muttered something to herself and went into her room.
Then, lying in bed, I gently stroked the head of the jelly ball:
"We all probably have secrets..."
Before long, drowsiness washed over me.
In a half-dream, half-awake state, Xiao Ning seemed to see a woman walking towards her.
Just as she was getting closer and closer to him, seven more people suddenly appeared, grabbed her, and dragged her back.
"elder sister?"
(PS: I have something to tell you all. My computer broke down, and I'll be taking tomorrow off to get it repaired. I'll probably only be able to update one chapter. I apologize in advance.)
(Also, I saw some cuties saying today that these two chapters felt a bit messy and they didn't understand them. Don't worry, this book isn't a suspense story, it's mainly for entertainment, and the truth will be revealed soon... except for the slightly more complicated subplot involving Xiao Ning as a spice.)
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