Chapter 172 Yao Yao, Don't Feel Poor About Him
Jin Qingyu glanced up at Jiang Xingyao and saw her somewhat evasive gaze.
She didn't seem curious about his past, nor did she want to hear about it.
Jin Qingyu felt another wave of intense pain in his heart. Jiang Xingyao was right in front of him, but he felt that she was extremely far away from him.
It was as if, without that marriage certificate, the person in front of him suddenly turned into an ethereal mist, something he couldn't grasp or understand.
After a moment of silence, Jiang Xingyao's phone rang. It was Assistant Xu calling. Jiang Xingyao then asked Jin Qingyu, "How are you feeling now? Can you go back?"
Even though she was expressing concern, Jin Qingyu's voice was still stiff.
"I…"
“If that doesn’t work, I’ll have Assistant Xu come and keep you company,” Jiang Xingyao added, directly interrupting Jin Qingyu’s attempt to play the victim.
Feeling a void in his heart once again, Jin Qingyu said, "Of course I can."
Jiang Xingyao was too indifferent, making it impossible for him to distinguish whether the dense bitterness and tenderness in his heart was due to his past or Jiang Xingyao's attitude.
In the same cramped little room, Mrs. Hu seemed to have calmed down. She asked Jiang Xingyao, "Miss, I've told you everything I know. Is there anything else you want to ask?"
Jiang Xingyao asked, "What is the name of that lab that forcibly recruited Hu Darong? Who is the person in charge behind them? You haven't mentioned these things yet."
Mrs. Hu shook her head: "Miss, it's not that I don't want to tell you, I just don't know these things."
That lab was shrouded in mystery from the very beginning; I've never been there, and of course, I don't know anything about Mingzhi, but…
I think I heard Da Rong mention it once; the lab was built underground, and Da Rong said it was gloomy inside.
An underground laboratory?
Jiang Xingyao remembered this keyword. Based on Mrs. Hu's previous description, the laboratory should be located in the capital.
"And who was behind that? Who was it that saw you after Hu Darong died?" Jiang Xingyao asked again.
Mrs. Hu said, "Oh dear, that's even stranger. The leader was wearing a mask the whole time, so I couldn't see his face at all. Judging from his voice, he should be a middle-aged man."
However, I don't know if the person following him is a driver or a bodyguard. I do have a vague recollection of him, but I'll probably only recognize him when I see him in person.
Jin Qingyu frowned, recalling Jiang Cancan's explanation.
Jiang Cancan also said that she would recognize the person who kidnapped her mother after meeting him, which means that the clues have run dry here again.
"Do you remember what characteristics that person had? Could you describe them briefly?" Jiang Xingyao asked, unwilling to give up.
Mrs. Hu shook her head: "This... I saw it. He has a very long scar on his wrist, very long and very deep."
"What does it look like?"
"I really don't remember, Miss. It's been more than ten years. I'm afraid I can only vaguely recall something if I see the person in person," Mrs. Hu said.
It seemed that no more information could be obtained from her.
Jiang Xingyao fell silent for a moment, but Mrs. Hu said nervously, "Miss, I've already told you everything I know, about my son..."
No matter what, he's innocent, and because of this incident, he's become mentally unstable. Please, for the sake of our family already suffering the consequences, don't make things difficult for him anymore.
"Does your son still remember the situation in that laboratory?" Jin Qingyu asked.
Mrs. Hu said, "How could he possibly remember? He was so young when he went there, and now..."
He couldn't even speak a complete sentence anymore.
When I came out of the rented room, half an hour had passed, and Jin Qingyu's attending physician was blocking the car.
Upon seeing him, the doctor tried to examine Jin Qingyu, but Jin Qingyu blocked him with his hand. He habitually took out a cigarette, but before he could light it, the doctor said, "Mr. Jin, you should stop smoking. Your health condition is already not good, and now that you've finally stopped coughing up blood, smoking will only worsen your condition."
Jin Qingyu scoffed lightly, and with a click, the lighter struck, the flame flickering slightly on his fingertips.
Jiang Xingyao frowned as she watched Jin Qingyu light a cigarette. She didn't stop him, but simply turned and went to the small supermarket next door.
Seeing her leave without any hesitation, Jin Qingyu felt as if a secret expectation in his heart had been dashed.
The cigarette burned slowly between his fingers, the smell of nicotine filling the air. The doctor was still patiently trying to persuade him when Jiang Xingyao came out of the small supermarket, holding a peeled lollipop in her hand.
To Jin Qingyu's slightly surprised look, she swapped the lollipop for the cigarette in his hand and deftly stubbed it out.
"Yaoyao, you..."
"Jin Qingyu, don't put on airs in front of me and demean yourself."
Even if I wanted to die, I could still resolve this matter.
"I don't want you to waste my time in the ICU before the matter is even fully investigated," Jiang Xingyao said.
The slight joy that hadn't yet spread was abruptly extinguished at that moment.
Jin Qingyu was met with Jiang Xingyao's cold, emotionless eyes, and even the candy in his hand seemed to exude a bitter taste.
"Do you have any clues?" Jin Qingyu didn't light another cigarette. As the car slowly drove out of the urban village, he turned his head and asked Jiang Xingyao next to him.
Jiang Xingyao said, "I heard from them that the laboratory approached Hu Darong to study the prescription he had, which means that this company must also be in the pharmaceutical business, and may even be a competitor of the Qu family. Perhaps we can start investigating from this angle."
Jin Qingyu hesitated for a moment, but did not reply immediately. Jiang Xingyao seemed to know what he was thinking. She said, "Perhaps those people and the people who kidnapped Auntie are not the same group, but there must be some unknown deal between them."
The implication is that Jin Qingyu's mother might have been sold to that laboratory.
Jiang Xingyao couldn't bring herself to say such heartfelt things so directly.
Jin Qingyu's expression was already somewhat unusual when he came out of Mrs. Hu's place, and now it was almost extremely gloomy.
The atmosphere inside the car was tense, and Jiang Xingyao didn't say anything more. She asked the driver to take her to Ji Yunyin's law firm.
This time, Jin Qingyu had something on his mind, and even when she got out of the car, he unusually didn't stop her.
Ji Yunyin wasn't too busy today. She poured Jiang Xingyao a glass of water before asking, "I heard from Qin Jiangnan that you left with Jin Qingyu today. How was it? Did he give you any more trouble?"
Jiang Xingyao gently shook her head and told Ji Yunyin what she had heard from Mrs. Hu today: "I still need you to ask Brother Mobei about this. In the pharmaceutical industry, is there any company that acts strangely and is most likely to do something like this?"
That was, after all, a living human life. Even if it wasn't Jin Qingyu's mother, daring to use a living person as a test subject was utterly immoral.
People capable of such actions are unlikely to have clean companies behind them.
This matter concerns the life of Jin Qingyu's mother, so no matter what, Jiang Xingyao couldn't bring it up again and again in front of Jin Qingyu.
She decided to find clues herself first.
Ji Yunyin was very generous: "What's the trouble? They invited me to the Qin family for dinner tonight, why don't you come with me?"
Jiang Xingyao said, "I won't go. Just ask around for me when you have time."
The reason she didn't go directly to Old Master Qin but instead asked Qin Mobei through Ji Yunyin was because she vaguely sensed that the atmosphere in the Qin family seemed a bit strange.
And Qin Jiangnan…
Jiang Xingyao felt a little embarrassed because the Qin family must know that he had repeatedly clashed with Jin Qingyu because of her.
Ji Yunyin didn't insist, but Jiang Xingyao added a few more words: "It would be best if you could also ask Brother Mobei if there is any place that has such an underground laboratory."
Ask these questions privately, but don't tell anyone else in the Qin family.
"What's wrong? Did that brat Qin Jiangnan bully you again?" Ji Yunyin suddenly became a little nervous.
Jiang Xingyao said, "How could that be? I just think that before things are settled, we shouldn't make a big fuss. After all, no matter how secretive the other party is, if we alert them, things will become even more troublesome."
Ji Yunyin breathed a slight sigh of relief, but quickly tensed up again: "Yaoyao, tell me, is your painstaking investigation related to that Jin Qingyu?"
“We are only cooperating temporarily, and everything I did was for my grandfather’s reputation,” Jiang Xingyao explained.
Ji Yunyin was slightly relieved.
They had finally escaped that quagmire, and she didn't want Yaoyao to fall into it again.
Even knowing it was cruel, Ji Yunyin still reminded him: "Yaoyao, don't forget what he did to you, don't feel sorry for him."
Does it hurt your heart?
Jiang Xingyao shook her head slightly again.
Even though she seemed a little repressed in front of Jin Qingyu, it was probably mostly due to the experiences of Jin Qingyu's mother.
That was out of sympathy for a stranger, and had nothing to do with Jin Qingyu.
At the hospital, the doctor examined Jin Qingyu from head to toe: "Fortunately, there's nothing seriously wrong. Mr. Jin, you should still be more careful in the future, don't smoke, and get more rest. Your injury hasn't fully healed yet, so you should rest quietly."
Jin Qingyu remained absent-minded throughout the doctor's conversation.
As they left the hospital, before they even got into the car, Assistant Xu suddenly said, "Mr. Jin, that looks like Jiang Cancan!"
Jin Qingyu glanced over and saw Jiang Cancan rushing out of a consultation room. Half of her face still looked remarkably similar to Jiang Xingyao's.
"Stop her." Jin Qingyu said. His men had been looking for Jiang Cancan for a while but hadn't found any clues. With Jiang Cancan's abilities, she couldn't possibly hide so well. There must be someone helping her behind the scenes.
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