The sky had been gloomy for several days, and finally a drizzle began to fall that night.
The climate in Qingjiang is still too warm. Logically speaking, it has already arrived when it should snow. However, the damp rainwater is only mixed with scattered ice particles. When it falls on people, it is wet and cold. The cold air is biting and there is no gentleness of snow at all.
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Qu Mingcong asked Zou Kai to act as a middleman and contacted Jiang Yi to help him send a message to Qiao Yueying, hoping that she could take time to meet him during her recuperation. He wanted to ask about the details of the kidnapping case a year ago.
Now he is on his way to see Qiao Yueying.
If his reasoning is correct, Qiao Yueying should be particularly concerned about why he cares about the kidnapping case.
If his reasoning is wrong... the other party may be confused, and even if they agree to meet, they will probably only say some polite words.
It was cold and rainy, so Qu Mingcong slowed down and drove cautiously.
There was a young couple waiting at the traffic light at the intersection. The boy was probably afraid that the girl's hands would be cold, so he held his girlfriend's hand in his arms and looked very sweet from a distance.
Qu Mingcong withdrew his gaze, slowed down and parked, thinking that the person on the phone would not have cold hands, and he would not have the opportunity to warm others' hands.
Although some absurd words would come out of her mouth from time to time, some truths can be appreciated when thinking about them afterwards.
What exactly is love?
On what basis is the feeling he has for her defined as love? Maybe he has just been lonely for too long, and after getting used to her company, he has the idea of exclusive possession for a long time. Can this kind of emotion full of instinctive desires be regarded as love?
?
She may be right, his feelings are indeed narrow and shallow.
Now he can only continue to investigate without hesitation. After all, only by returning to reality can he find a corresponding position for the two of them in the secular relationship.
The couple passed by his car talking and laughing, then the red light turned green, and Qu Mingcong drove forward.
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Qiao Yueying was transferred to a private hospital. When Qu Mingcong arrived, she was not awake yet.
Although he was out of coma, he still slept longer than normal people every day. Qu Mingcong waited outside the ward for a full hour before he had the chance to meet.
When he went in, he was a little worried. If the other person was in poor condition, he might not be able to chat for too long, so the first second he entered the ward, he subconsciously looked at the face of the person on the bed——
He looks a little pale and thinner than the last time we met, but his eyes are clear and he seems to be in pretty good condition.
"Are you Qu Mingcong?" the woman asked softly.
He nodded, "Hello."
I have to say that this feels a bit weird, after all, he thought that the person on the phone was the woman in front of him for a long time.
A slight smile appeared on Qiao Yueying's face, "I heard that you asked me about the last kidnapping case. I was lucky to have you that time. Otherwise, I don't know whether several colleagues and I would have survived, and we never had the chance to tell you.
Thank you."
"It's your duty, you're welcome." Qu Mingcong said, "I'm going to trouble you today and delay your rest."
"It doesn't matter. The doctor said that I can meet outsiders occasionally, which will be good for my physical recovery." Qiao Yueying said, "In the first two days after I woke up, I even stuttered when I spoke and my brain was slow. If you had come here a few days earlier,
, I’m afraid I won’t even be able to see you.”
She tilted her head slightly and said to the nurse in the ward: "Mr. Qu and I will chat alone for a while."
After hearing this, the nurse got up and left the ward.
When the door to the ward closed again, the smile on Qiao Yueying's face faded slightly, replaced by heavy fatigue.
"Sorry, my head is still a little dizzy... Let's keep the story short," she leaned on the hospital bed and asked softly, "What do you want to ask me about that kidnapping?"
Qu Mingcong said bluntly: "I want a list of the victims of that kidnapping, because it has been too long and I can't remember clearly now. I don't know what their current situation is."
"It has indeed been a long time..." Qiao Yueying slowly recalled, "I remember that prosecutor Wu had just finished a case that day, and it happened to be his birthday, so my colleagues in the office proposed to have a dinner together. Unexpectedly, we had just left the prosecutor's office.
I met a kidnapper, and the victims were just these people in our office..."
"Can you tell me your name?" Qu Mingcong asked.
Qiao Yueying said: "There are five people in total, including me, senior prosecutor Wu Fengsheng, prosecutor Feng Yuan, intern Xiao Ying, and a special assistant transferred from other offices, whose name seems to be..."
She paused, frowned and thought for a while, "I can't remember clearly, it seems her name is Shen Jing? Or maybe it's Chen Jing or Chen Jing? She hasn't been in our office for a long time, so I don't have a deep impression of her."
Qu Mingcong opened the memo on his phone and wrote down the names of these people.
"Should we be able to find out the current status of these people on the internal employee roster of the Procuratorate?" he asked.
Qiao Yueying replied: "Wu Fengsheng retired this year, Xiao Ying has become a formal prosecutor, Feng Yuan is the same as before, and the special assistant was transferred back afterwards. I don't know what is going on now."
Qu Mingcong frowned and thought. If there was any doubt, the special assistant was obviously the most suspicious. Not only was his name uncertain, but his current situation was also uncertain.
He looked at Qiao Yueying and said, "This may be a bit presumptuous to ask. Can you tell me about your physical condition later? I remember that the kidnappers wanted to escape and deliberately reversed their car and crashed into the hostages. Although the kidnappers who were driving were shot to death, you still suffered.
hurt."
"Yes, my right arm was fractured and I stayed in the hospital for a few days. Prosecutor Wu and his assistant were seriously injured and both stayed in the hospital for a long time." Qiao Yueying said slowly while recalling, "
...Feng Yuan and Xiao Ying were standing at the back. They only suffered scratches and were not hospitalized."
"Thank you very much," Qu Mingcong wrote down these clues and asked, "If possible, can you give me the contact information of these people? Regarding the kidnapping case, I want to find out about the situation from them."
Qiao Yueying smiled bitterly, "When I was in a car accident, my mobile phone was hit by the car. The mobile phone numbers of my colleagues were all stored in the mobile phone. I had to wait until I asked someone to find out the contact information."
Qu Mingcong took out a paper and pen from his bag, wrote down his mobile phone number, and placed it gently on the low cabinet next to the hospital bed.
"If you ask, please tell me, thank you."
Qiao Yueying picked up the piece of paper, looked at it, and said with a faint smile, "...Actually, I have your mobile phone number. When Jiang Yi introduced you to me, he said that you were running an investigation firm.
It's very famous. I searched online and found that you did investigate a lot of cases."
Qu Mingcong frowned and said nothing, with confusion in his eyes.
"You know her too, right?" Qiao Yueying leaned on the hospital bed and looked at Qu Mingcong calmly, "...did you want to get rid of her as much as I did, so you tried every means to investigate the kidnapping case to find the answer?
