An Moxue nodded slightly. "Yes, I'll listen to you. Please tell me."
"These four people have been secretly taken to Kyoto, but publicly they are on an emergency mission. This is to prevent them from being implicated in any investigations, so as to handle the aftermath. However, due to the significant, even egregious, impact, rumors are rampant. Without a satisfactory answer for the people, the case cannot be closed. Some people have even signed a petition demanding the truth and restoring peace to the deceased. However, the case is not being handled by us; it is being handled at the military headquarters. Nevertheless, we have secured two trial slots for the case and are following up closely. Our Lion Regiment's investigation has not been relaxed either."
An Moxue stood up and gave Zhang Jing a solemn salute. "Thank you, and thank you to the Lion Corps as well."
"No, that's not right. Sit down. What's the motto of our Lion Regiment? We're Lion men in life, Lion souls in death. This is our own business. If you don't take the opportunity, you're not one of us. Even though you're not a soldier of Lion, you're still one of our Lion's sons. If you've been wronged outside, come back. Lion will stand up for you. If we can't stand up for you, we'll go to the leaders!"
“Yes, Political Commissar Zhang is right, that’s how it should be. Mo Xue, Lion will always be your home, you can come back anytime.” The door was pushed open and five people came in, all of them An Muyang’s good brothers, who also lived in the same compound.
An Moxue turned around, looked at the door, and began to call out, "Uncle Ai, Uncle Wen, Uncle Chu, Uncle Li, Uncle Guo."
"Aidang, could you please keep your voice down? You're scaring my niece. It's utterly unbearable to watch, so vulgar."
"You—" Ai Dang was about to retort when he changed his tone, looked at Zhang Jing, and asked, "Zhang Jing, is this really my niece, that old bastard An Muyang's daughter—An Moxue? Isn't she some kind of fairy who just appeared out of nowhere!"
Zhang Jing scolded, "Ai Dang, shut your stinking mouth! You always speak without thinking. Who else could it be but Mo Xue? Are your eyes not working properly? Did you not wash your face this morning and it's all covered in eye boogers?"
Ai Dang immediately wilted and became obedient, but he still muttered, "There are no outsiders here, what's wrong with saying a few words to relax?"
An Moxue smiled and replied, "Uncle Ai, it's me, the real deal." She even winked at him after saying that.
Ai Dang's emotions instantly surged. "Oh, it really is my niece." As she spoke, she was already close by, and she had somehow managed to pull out a piece of candy. Just as she was about to put it in An Moxue's mouth, she seemed to remember something and handed the candy back to An Moxue.
An Moxue took the White Rabbit milk candy, put it in her mouth, and said happily, "I've been craving Uncle Ai's candy for so long, and I can finally eat it again today."
"You want to come back but not visit me? You heartless little thing, I've been keeping milk candy at home all this time, and you haven't even sent any from Aiguo."
The others all smiled helplessly. Ai Dang had been trying to abduct An Moxue to his house since she was a child, but he had never succeeded. As a result, he developed the habit of giving An Moxue milk candy whenever he saw her. As a result, Ai Guo, the child, always carried milk candy in his pocket since he was a child, which was prepared for An Moxue.
Several people found chairs to sit down, and those who didn't have any went next door to bring over a couple.
Wen Zheng asked, "Mo Xue, did you come back this time because of your parents?"
"Yes, but only a few days off."
Zhang Jing looked at the group and said, "Alright, let's get back to the main topic. The important thing is to talk to her about her parents. I'll continue from where I left off, and you can all listen."
The group nodded in agreement. However, when they saw An Moxue now and recalled how she had just passed away, they could hardly believe it. She was like a completely different person. But right now, the matter of An Muyang and his wife was the most important thing. Everything else could wait.
Zhang Jing continued, "Latest news: the interrogation has progressed. On the surface, they were escorting a scientist and a female assistant back to China, but their actual mission was to escort a blueprint for a textile machine tool that the scientist possessed. This blueprint was provided by another patriotic scientist who was persecuted to death and couldn't return home. However, the female assistant knew about this blueprint from the beginning; she came specifically for it. They were also tasked with helping the woman steal the blueprint and then replacing it with one containing incorrect core data. Unfortunately, An Muyang discovered the switch, and the couple were then framed and killed by these ten people. But there's something wrong here. These ten people were in cahoots, and An Muyang and his wife were in cahoots. Was the initial substitution a conspiracy? What was their motive?"
An Moxue thought of An Muyang's two suicide notes. Did he have a premonition but lacked concrete evidence, so he left her those two suicide notes?
For the sake of her parents, An Moxue publicly revealed An Muyang's first suicide note for the first time. She took a letter out of her pocket and said, "Uncles, please take a look. This is a letter my father left for me. Perhaps this is the key to the mystery."
After An Moxue finished speaking, she handed the letter to Zhang Jing.
After reading it, Zhang Jing was puzzled. He lingered on the letter for a moment, then read it carefully again before handing it to Wen Zheng, who was the most educated among them. Wen Zheng also read it for a while, then handed it to Chu Gang next to him. In the end, everyone read the letter, but still couldn't understand its meaning and were still a bit confused.
Despite being the most unreliable person, Ai Guo sensed something was off about the letter. He said, "This isn't Mu Yang's style! He shouldn't have written such a suicide note to his daughter. Do you understand?"
Everyone shook their heads, equally bewildered. Then they all looked at An Moxue. She looked at them and gave a reason they would all believe: "Here's an old story. One year, the three of us, as a family, read together in Huaihua Hutong until very late, and we were very happy. Another point is related to our agreement. My father said that if he were to sacrifice himself or disappear one day, and the letter he left me wasn't in his usual writing style, it meant there was danger around me, and I should leave quickly. Finally, the letter emphasized 'returning,' twice, meaning I should leave, and as soon as possible. This is our agreement. Therefore, I suspect that what we've uncovered now might only be one aspect; there are others, and that's the most important one. If that's the case, many things make sense."
Ai Dang remarked, "Damn it, Mu Yang plays spy games at home too! How dangerous must that be? He doesn't dare tell anyone."
Wen Zheng raised a question: "But what is it that would warrant such a pursuit?"
An Moxue said, "Before I moved out of the compound, when I went back to school to pick up my graduation certificate, a classmate said he wanted to marry me. He also proposed a very strange condition: after we got married, everything my parents left me, including their money, would have to be kept by him and his parents."
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