Mu Qian invited Meng Linsheng to sit in the rest area and personally served Meng Linsheng a cup of coffee.
"Would it be too much if I didn't agree to your invitation but asked you about the case?" Mu Qian looked at Meng Linsheng and asked.
Meng Linsheng stared at her for a moment, then laughed slowly, "Generally speaking, I will not refuse a beauty's request. Besides, maybe you will change your mind after hearing this case?"
"Let's talk then." Mu Qian immediately spoke eagerly.
"The reason why I want to ask you to help investigate this case is because this case is more or less related to me." Meng Linsheng said, "And I believe in your ability."
Mu Qian looked at Meng Linsheng seriously and listened to him continue.
At first, the matter was related to his friend Qin Feng.
Qin Feng was born into a big family. The family business is not top-notch, but there are still many properties, and the interests involved are complicated, and the whole family is intrigued.
Half a year ago, people in the Qin family began to die in accidents one after another. So far, three people with interests have lost their lives, including Qin Feng's father.
These three people each died in different accidents within half a year. There is no flaw to trace. The only doubt is——
The biggest beneficiary of these people's deaths is the same person - Qin Feng's cousin Qin Yang.
"This is a bit ambiguous." Mu Qian said.
Meng Linsheng nodded and said: "So Qin Feng has always suspected that these three accidents are related to Qin Yang, but there is no evidence, and the three accidents did not leave any traces of man-made factors."
"Then the police have no way of filing a case or investigating it." Mu Qian said, "Do you want me to help your friend investigate this case?"
Meng Linsheng paused, with a wry smile on his lips, and said slowly: "No, you are not the first person I looked for. I also have a friend named Wu Xi, who is also a reporter. I asked him to
Go investigate these cases."
"Then what?"
Meng Linsheng looked at Mu Qian and spoke word by word: "He also had an accident. He died in a fire at home a month ago."
Mu Qian looked focused, "Is it because he found something?"
"I don't know." Meng Linsheng said, "He didn't leave any information behind. All relevant information was burned in the fire."
Mu Qian folded her arms and sat back in the chair, "Impossible. That fire can burn evidence in physical form, but it can't burn electronic information, right?"
"Yes." Meng Linsheng said, "But he did not leave any information related to this case on any of his online platforms."
After hearing this, Mu Qian said slowly: "It is difficult to hide the truth."
"But there is still no evidence." Meng Linsheng said, "There was nothing suspicious about the fire."
"That means that these cases were all carefully deployed and planned. They were so clean and neat. The people behind them must not be simple." Mu Qian said.
Meng Linsheng nodded, "I was the one who involved Wu Xi in this case. To a certain extent, I was the one who harmed him. So I must know the truth about this case."
Mu Qian was quiet for a moment, then chuckled: "It's an honor for you to think of entrusting me with this case."
"So..." Meng Linsheng chuckled and said slowly, "Do you still want to reject me?"
Mu Qian did not answer his question, but said, "Can you show me the information you have about this case?"
Meng Linsheng looked at her for a moment and laughed again.
…
On this day, Mu Qian put down the work at hand and stayed in the painting hall's office looking at relevant information on the case until late at night.
When she noticed the time, she pulled out her phone and saw that it was almost twelve o'clock.
Huo Jinxi didn't come to see her, nor did he send her any message, which showed that he must not have gone back yet.
Mu Qian had been sitting for several hours, and now she only felt soreness in her waist and back. Fortunately, she had read almost all the relevant information. After moving her body, she decided to go home and rest first.
When she returned to the Huo family's old house, everyone who was supposed to be sleeping had already gone to bed.
She pushed open Huo Jinxi's study and bedroom and took a look. Sure enough, there was no one inside.
Mu Qian turned around and went back to her room, and then lay down after washing.
She originally wanted to send Huo Jinxi a message to greet him, but she gave up the idea when she thought that he might be at the mansion now.
After all, Cheng Manshu is in her most vulnerable state right now. If she accidentally sees the message she sent to Huo Jinxi and causes trouble, wouldn't she become a sinner?
Mu Qian put down her phone and closed her eyes with peace of mind.
She received too much information today and was exhausted at the end of the day. She slept very deeply and when she woke up, it was already three hours a day.
When Mu Qian got up and went downstairs, there seemed to be no one at home, not even Mr. Huo.
She walked into the kitchen and saw her aunt cleaning, so she asked: "Auntie, where is grandpa?"
The aunt raised her head to look at her, with a slightly ugly expression on her face. She sighed and said, "The old man knows what happened at the mansion."
"What?" Mu Qian's voice suddenly changed, "Who told him?"
Mr. Huo never wanted to see the messy right and wrong in the mansion, so he would rather stay in a nursing home than go back to live there. Now his health is getting worse, and everyone has agreed to hide what happened in the mansion from him.
Thinking of him, I still knew.
"It seems that Miss Fifth accidentally let it slip when she was talking to him on the phone." The aunt said, "When such a big thing happened, how could the old man just sit back and ignore it, just put down the phone and rush over."
Mu Qian stamped her feet anxiously, "Grandpa, it's true, you don't know what's going on with your body, why do you care about those things?"
The aunt paused for a moment, and then added: "I'm afraid the old man knew something about it, and he didn't care about it in the past few years... If he doesn't care about it now, I don't know if there will be a chance in the future..."
Before she finished speaking, Mu Qian suddenly glared at her.
The aunt lowered her head slightly, "This is what the old man said himself."
"I'll go get him back!" Mu Qian said and turned around and walked out.
She walked to the door, took off her coat hanging in the entrance hall, put it on her hands and opened the door. Who knew that as soon as the door opened, she suddenly ran into a hug.
Mu Qian's face touched the clothes on his chest, and she couldn't help but take a breath——
His body was so cold.
She raised her eyes to look at him. Huo Jinxi's eyes were filled with darkness. He seemed to have dissipated slightly after seeing her, but he still looked tired and didn't even bother to raise his eyelids. When he spoke, his voice was slightly hoarse: "Where are you going?"
"Where did you come back from?" Mu Qian asked, "Where is grandpa?"