dognovel Chapter 2173 Why didn't you wait until they were both reduced to ashes before asking me to reco
Chapter 2173 Why didn't you wait until they were both reduced to ashes before asking me to reco
"I won't tell, I definitely won't tell," Huo Cheng assured him with a serious expression. "But Dad already knows, and he said he's not done with the Gu family."
Upon hearing this, Ji Qing frowned. "If he challenges the Gu family, he'll be the first to fall." Since her mother's death, she had been her father's only pillar of support, and it wasn't until she met her current stepmother that a smile returned to his face. Now that someone wanted her dead, her father was naturally anxious.
"That's not necessarily true." Huo Cheng kept it a secret. With Ji's father's current status, he certainly couldn't defeat the Gu family, but what if they joined forces with the Gu family's rivals? In the imperial court, who doesn't have a mortal enemy?
Ji Qing took out her phone and called her father, "Dad, Acheng is at the hospital. I'm fine... um... we'll find the evidence, so don't worry about it."
"I'm your father! You're my life! Someone wants to kill your father, me! And you want me to stay out of it?!"
“Getting angry is bad for your health. It’s not too late to take action after we find the evidence. Don’t tell Mom about this. Just say that the bureau is busy lately and I won’t be coming home these days.”
"I know, I know, but if this gets out and your mom finds out, you'll have to take the blame yourself."
Ji Qing hung up the phone and looked at Huo Cheng, "Go back if you're alright. My injury is nothing serious. I can be discharged after a few days of observation."
"You're kicking me out so soon after I arrived?" Huo Cheng retorted stubbornly, "I'm not leaving."
Just then, the door to the ward was pushed open again, and the siblings looked over at the same time.
Xiao Xie strode closer, greeted Huo Cheng, and then turned to Ji Qing, "Director, we've found out..."
"Get out." Ji Qing interrupted forcefully.
"Huh?" Xiao Xie was stunned for a moment. "Oh." She obediently turned around and prepared to leave.
"I'm telling him to leave, not you to leave." Ji Qing glanced at Xiao Xie indifferently, then her gaze fell on Huo Cheng.
“It’s always like this. What can’t I listen to? I’m your brother, not a spy. Why are you treating me like a thief?” Huo Cheng complained incessantly.
Ji Qing remained unmoved.
Huo Cheng couldn't stay any longer, so he stood up and said, "Then take good care of yourself. If you get hurt again, I'll tell Mom, and you'll be fired from your job as a policeman."
"It's the director." Xiao Xie, who was standing to the side, corrected. The colleagues in the bureau all regarded the position of director as a lifelong pursuit, so why did Huo Cheng say it was so worthless?
"The bureau chief is just a lousy cop too," Huo Cheng retorted, then strode away.
As soon as he left, Xiao Xie immediately informed Ji Qing of the results of Captain Lu's investigation: "The identities of the two men who were taken to the hospital have not yet been found. Captain Lu traced the truck's license plate number to Daxia Real Estate, and the deceased driver was a contractor for Daxia Real Estate..."
In the prison cell, Zhang Ran was just about to go to bed when she was taken out for interrogation again by the prison guards.
She was interrogated by Captain Lu and Xiao Xie again.
Team Leader Lu took out photos of the car accident scene and placed them on Zhang Ran's table. He then pointed to the dump truck in the photos and said, "This dump truck belongs to the Daxia Real Estate construction site. The driver is also one of the contractors of Daxia Real Estate. Do you recognize this person?"
Zhang Ran looked down at the photo. The man in the photo had triangular eyes and slanted eyebrows, giving off a very uncomfortable feeling. "I don't know him."
Captain Lu then produced several more photos, which were of the two men being treated in the emergency room. "Where are these two people?"
Zhang Ran looked down and looked again.
The two men in the photo were so badly injured that they were unrecognizable. She looked up at Captain Lu and sneered, "Looking like this, even their own mothers wouldn't recognize them. Why don't you wait until they're ashes before asking me to recognize them?"
Captain Lu: "..." He silently put the photos away.