Thirty-four feathers
Not long after, several people escorted Wang De back to Dongcheng. After all, it was their own internal affairs, and they were embarrassed to always trouble Yin Chen. Although it would be best if the other party could help, there was no reason to always ask for help.
In addition, Liao Xihe's side was surprisingly successful, which filled everyone's hearts with light, as if they saw the dawn of hope.
"How did you convince the director to help us?" Yao Qingluan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned sideways and asked Liao Xihe in the back seat.
Originally, everyone thought that Liao Xihe would argue with the director for a few days, and it would definitely not be so smooth.
After all, the discord between the two parties was obvious to all, and it seemed unreal that they agreed so readily in just one night.
More importantly, although each questioning of different people often does not seem to provide very useful clues, when put together, it is like a huge net that traps everyone in it.
Liao Xihe scratched his head, a little shy. "Actually, I don't think my dad ever thought of refusing. In the past, his attitude had always been stubborn, probably because he was upset after being backstabbed. But since you took the initiative to propose, there's naturally no reason for him to refuse."
He is a middle-aged man who cares about his reputation.
But if you think about it carefully, you can understand that if they really disagreed or were disgusted, they would definitely not let Liao Xihe come to the Investigation Bureau. They made many requests, and even if the procedures were a bit cumbersome, they tried their best to meet them and did not directly reject them.
"Tsk..." Wang De, who was being held by Su Mo and Liao Xihe and huddled in the middle of the back row, suddenly uttered a disdainful sound, causing several people to turn their heads and look at him.
What does he mean?
Yao Qingluan, who was sitting in the passenger seat, frowned and then turned around to look over.
In another car, Ye Linghan, who was listening to the intercom, was feeling carsick. In addition, he had not rested well the night before, so he was resting his head on Yin Chen's legs with his eyes closed. When he heard Wang De's voice, he opened his eyes slightly, wanting to hear what the other party wanted to say.
Wang De felt a little uncomfortable being stared at from all directions.
But whether it was an illusion or not, everyone felt that Wang De seemed to have lost the fear he had when he first saw him, and now he seemed like his original self to him.
Perhaps it was because he realized that no one around him could endanger his life, so he became more relaxed.
Wang De felt a little embarrassed by the gaze and curled his lips. "It's useless for you to look at me. I just think you guys are quite hypocritical."
"What do you mean?" Liao Xihe clenched his fists and pretended to hit the other person. After all, he was just a child who had never experienced anything and was more impulsive when encountering things.
Ye Linghan scoffed after hearing this, then continued to close his eyes. His brows raised, and his slender fingers pressed the talk button on the intercom. "If you don't speak properly, I'll throw you back to the people who want to kill you."
The other party immediately replied after hearing this, "Okay, then you might as well just kill me. My life is worthless anyway. If that's the case, please also help collect the body of my elderly and children at home."
I don’t know what stimulated Wang De, but he just started to play badly.
Maybe he expected that these people would not dare to do anything to him, nor would they understand his family.
He narrowed his eyes and glanced at the people on both sides. He felt that he had gone too far. He quickly adjusted his mindset and continued, "And maybe some of the things I know are valuable to you. If you kill me, you won't be able to hear them."
Although everyone held the same attitude in their hearts about what he said - why should I believe you, but no one spoke out tacitly. After all, less trouble is worse than more. What if it was true, and they kept silent after being forced into a corner, wouldn't that be a loss?
"Why didn't you say so earlier?" Liao Xihe asked from the side.
"I was so nervous at the time that I can't remember anything," Wang De said confidently, then muttered softly, "Who knows if I can still walk out alive after telling you?"
"Then why do you want to say it now?" Su Mo continued.
Wang De took a deep breath and looked around. "I feel like you guys are all good people?" He said awkwardly. "It's up to you whether you believe me or not. At worst, I can investigate further. I'm just afraid I won't live long, and if I keep these things bottled up, it'll be tough."
Ye Linghan in the other car turned over and put his arms around Yin Chen's waist. The back seat of the car was spacious enough and the seat was very soft.
He listened to Wang De's complaints with great interest.
The voice on the other end of the intercom came slowly.
"One time I was riding in Zhao Xingjian's car. He was high on cigarettes and couldn't control his mouth. He told me that his superiors told him that the wife of your director was not a normal person..."
"Who are you calling abnormal?" Before Wang De could finish his words, Liao Xihe's fist, accompanied by an angry roar, hit Wang De's face without any explanation.
The force was so great that Wang De's face turned red instantly and blood started dripping from his nose.
"Liao Xihe!" Su Mo shouted loudly. Although he was also surprised by what Wang De said, it was a business matter after all. It was not legal to beat someone without knowing the truth before the other party had finished speaking.
Liao Xihe was breathing heavily, his eyes red, "Brother Mo..." His tone was a little aggrieved and dissatisfied. He knew that he had made a mistake in the moment of impulse, but after all, the director's wife the other party was talking about was his mother.
No one would feel good if the melon got eaten by them fell on their head.
Even Ye Linghan, who was in another car, sat up in disbelief when he heard the fierce quarrel through the intercom.
Wang De's hands were handcuffed behind his back, so he couldn't rub his beaten face. However, his cheeks were burning with pain, so he could only use his tongue to push them in an attempt to relieve the pain.
The blood from my nose flowed into my mouth, and a salty and fishy taste rushed into my throat.
He had just spat out a mouthful of blood foam when a look from the driver in the front seat in the rearview mirror stopped him from spitting any further.
You can't afford to offend either side, so you can only blame yourself for your bad luck.
Seeing this, Su Mo quickly took out paper to stop the bleeding.
"Are you sick? You hit someone halfway through what they're saying? How can you be so uneducated?"
Wang De glared at Liao Xihe who was standing beside him.
Liao Xihe looked at Su Mo angrily, then at Wang De, as if complaining to the former.
"Who told you not to finish your words? You had to tell me halfway. If I said your mother was abnormal, would you be happy?"
"Xiao Liao!" Su Mo reached out from behind Wang De to Liao Xihe, pinched his shoulders, and signaled him with his eyes to calm down.
Wang De tilted his head and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth with his shoulder. Yao Qingluan in the front row handed Su Mo a few more tissues.
"Are you... okay?" Su Mo asked Wang De, and used a tissue to wipe away the blood stains on the other's face.
"Do I look okay? It hurts so much."
You can tell without looking that there is a bruise at the corner of his mouth and marks of Liao Xihe's fist on his face.
It can be seen that the other party used his greatest strength in the limited space.
"When I say abnormal, I don't mean abnormal in the literal sense. I just mean that her identity is not simple."
"Why don't you just say it directly? Why are you being so ambiguous?" Liao Xihe rolled his eyes at him and couldn't help but mutter.
Wang De sneered, "I was just trying to liven up the atmosphere, but seeing how lifeless you all were, I never thought you'd be so extreme and violent."
As if he felt that saying this was not enough to vent his anger, Wang De added, "If you are so irrational, you might not be able to get married in the future!"
Liao Xihe became even angrier after hearing this, but he was afraid that if he got violent again, Su Mo would chase him away, so he suppressed his anger and gritted his teeth, "Go on."
This is the bad thing about being a person of status. You can't act on impulse. Otherwise, if something really goes wrong, you will most likely be the one at fault.
Ye Linghan, who was in the other car, heard this and looked up at Yin Chen, "Do you know about the director's wife?"
If a low-level vampire has heard of this, I think a person like Yin Chen should have heard of it too.
Yin Chen nodded without commenting, "I've heard of that."
Ye Linghan immediately became interested and sat up straight. His clothes were lifted up around his waist, hanging loosely around him, revealing the outline of his waist through the sunlight.
Yin Chen stared at the shadow for a moment, then put his arm around Ye Linghan's waist and pulled him into his arms.
Ye Linghan was caught off guard and cried out in surprise.
“What are you doing!”
"I just want to hug you." Yin Chen expressed his thoughts without hesitation.
"oh."
Ye Linghan took the opportunity to put his arms around the other person's neck.
"Let's hear what Wang De has to say first." Yin Chen responded to Ye Linghan's previous question.
Just then, Wang Dezheng continued what Yin Chen said.
"I don't know if it's true or not. I just heard the general idea. It's been a while, so I don't remember it clearly. Anyway, I heard that the director's wife had killed someone in her early years because of some incident, and that person happened to be Zhao Xingjian's mother."
As soon as the words fell, the others looked at each other in confusion.
What does this have to do with anything? This is ridiculous. How can such a thing be related to the director's wife?
Everyone obviously didn't believe it. Although they all acted as if they found it incredible, there was also doubt in their expressions.
Wang De also noticed this and continued, "I didn't believe it at the time, but no matter what, every rumor that comes out is definitely not groundless. There must be some connection."
"Then what? What else did Zhao Xingjian say to you?" Su Mo asked.
Because Zhao Xingjian is dead now, many things can no longer be asked from him, so we can only learn from Wang De's mouth and then verify the truth.
"I need to think about it. Telling you so formally makes it difficult for me to remember."
Wang De thought for a moment and suddenly said, "Oh, by the way, I also heard from Zhao Xingjian that the director's wife seems to be a vampire..."
Having said that, Wang De shut up in time and glanced at Liao Xihe beside him with suspicion. Listening to their conversations over the past two days, he vaguely felt that the little brat next to him should be the director's son, and judging from his reaction, he should not know about these things.
Although he was dissatisfied with the beating, his hands were handcuffed and he had no power to fight back, so he couldn't bear the beating in vain.
However, this time Liao Xihe's reaction was surprisingly calm. I don't know whether he had come to terms with it or was forced to accept it.
The corners of Liao Xihe's mouth twitched, and he looked at Wang De and said in a deep voice: "It's okay, go ahead."
It was the first time he heard about the life story of his biological mother who had been with him for more than 20 years, and it was from someone else's mouth. For a moment, he felt a little unfamiliar with his family members, and he also knew that if what Wang De said was true, he would have to bear it sooner or later.
But if what Wang De said is inconsistent with the facts, then I will definitely not let it go.
Upon hearing this, Ye Linghan asked Yin Chen, "So, you vampires and ordinary people can intermarry?"
Yin Chen said "hmm" calmly, then continued, "Of course, but the bloodline will be impure, and many supernatural powers will not be inherited."
"Oh~" Ye Linghan nodded, not quite understanding. No wonder Liao Xihe didn't seem to have any special abilities.
"Then I'll continue. Can you bear it?" Wang De tentatively sought Liao Xihe's consent. "But it seems there's nothing more exciting."
"Anyway, I heard that this matter was suddenly exposed for some reason. It should have been a while ago. If I remember correctly, that Master Yin's younger brother, Yin something or other, and his men were investigating this matter."
Wang De said this and said, "Tsk!" "I guess that person must have quite a bit of power."
"Alas... That's why I say that you guys are just pretending to be noble. You just give orders so casually, and so many people are willing to die. They don't care about their lives to help the master investigate."
"Investigating what?" Su Mo asked. He listened carefully to every word Wang De said, including Yao Qingluan in the front row, who had turned on the recorder to record in advance, but had no recollection of what Wang De said those people were investigating.
Seeing their reactions, Wang De suddenly realized, "Oh, right, I haven't mentioned what the investigation is about yet."
He said, glancing at Liao Xihe who was sitting next to him, "Remember to pay for my medical expenses. I was beaten so badly that I can't even remember what happened."
Liao Xihe ignored him. Wang De felt that he was asking for trouble, so he stopped provoking him. "I said it was a recipe book or something, I really can't remember. Zhao Xingjian didn't tell me in detail. I'm just a low-level vampire, how can I understand the struggle between you..."
It seems to be another new clue. Since everyone wants this recipe, it seems that this thing must be very important.
Although it was not discussed openly, everyone knew it.
"What is the formula? Do you still remember it?" Su Mo asked him.
Wang De shook his head. "I really don't know. Zhao Xingjian didn't tell me, so I guess he doesn't know either. But I guess this thing is probably true."
"Hey, my friend, you see this is such a long journey. You guys can move around and relax a little. I've been in the same position for a long time and I'm exhausted."
Wang De turned sideways with his back towards Su Mo, motioning him to look at the location of his handcuffs.
Liao Xihe, who was standing by, rarely spoke, but his tone made it clear he was holding a grudge. "That won't work. I'll change your position. What if you try to run? Where can we catch you?"
Wang De was deeply helpless after hearing this. "No, there are at least four of you including the driver. How can you not stop me? Besides, if I run away now, wouldn't that be tantamount to committing suicide?"
Su Mo on the side felt that what he said made sense. After all, it seemed that he had said everything that needed to be said. If the higher-ups knew about this, he would really have no way out but death, and his entire family would also lose their lives. Instead of running away, it would be better for him to stay with them and have some protection.
He thought for a moment and signaled Liao Xihe with his eyes. The two of them moved Wang De's hands to the front and locked them again.
Ye Linghan, who was in the other car, ignored their subsequent quarrel and quickly sorted out a new idea in his mind.
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