Twenty minutes later, the arrival of Jian Jun and An Chengye caused the two policemen's attitudes to change immediately.
"It turns out he is Mr. An's friend. It seems like a misunderstanding." An Chengye has become more well-known to the public than before thanks to the entrepreneurship competition. When the police saw that one of the people who came to bail Mai Xiaoshu out was An Chengye, they quickly helped Mai Xiaoshu to complete the formalities.
"Sorry to bother you all, now that the misunderstanding has been resolved, we'll leave first!" Jian Jun said neither humbly nor arrogantly, and then led Mai Xiaoshu out.
An Chengye's face became very gloomy since he met Mai Xiaoshu.
At this moment, he strode in front without saying a word, as if he was brewing some kind of emotion, and the air pressure around him dropped a lot.
Mai Xiaoshu followed behind him with her neck shrunk. Thinking about how he avoided her yesterday, she couldn't help but wonder why he was here.
When they walked out of the police station, An Chengye, who was walking in front of her, suddenly stopped. Mai Xiaoshu didn't react in time and bumped into his hard back. She immediately covered her nose in pain and squatted down: "Wow, it hurts..."
Is this man's back made of stone? It's so hard!
An Chengye's words of condemnation were instantly choked back after hearing her crying.
He could only glare at the other person beside him and asked coldly, "Have you known her for a long time?"
Seeing that he seemed to be doubting their relationship, Jian Jun quickly raised his hands in surrender: "I only got to know her because of what happened yesterday. I gave her my business card, and you heard the phone call just now. The girl cried so pitifully, I couldn't just ignore it and let her be locked up here all night, right?" This was the truth.
When Jian Jun received a call for help from Mai Xiaoshu in the car, he was about to send An Chengye home. Sitting in the back seat, he vaguely heard the choking sound coming from the phone, so he tacitly agreed to Jian Jun to handle his own affairs first. However, he never expected that the person Jian Jun came to the police station to bail out was actually her!
Mai Xiaoshu waited until her nose finally stopped hurting, then she stood up with tears in her eyes and apologized to the two of them: "I'm sorry to bother you to pick me up so late, but I really can't find anyone else who can help."
"It's okay, it's just a small favor..." Jian Jun waved his hands quickly with good temper.
An Chengye chuckled. He looked down at Mai Xiaoshu and said sarcastically , "If you know you're sorry for others, don't make trouble..."
"I didn't..." Mai Xiaoshu tried to explain.
An Chengye continued mercilessly: "I didn't expect that, Mai Xiaoshu, you could play tricks on me, but you could even fool the police!"
"I didn't lie to the police, everything I said was true!" She felt so uncomfortable being misunderstood the whole day. Crystal tears welled up in her eyes. Mai Xiaoshu stiffened her neck and said, "If you don't believe me, just come with me to the scene. I will definitely find evidence to prove that I didn't lie!" Mai Xiaoshu's raised face was full of sincerity and determination.
An Chengye and Jian Jun were both stunned for a moment.
Jian Jun understood Mai Xiaoshu's urgency to prove himself, but he also knew that An Chengye never liked to meddle in other people's affairs, and just now was an exception. He quickly answered for An Chengye: "Mai Xiaoshu, since the matter has been resolved and it's getting late, I'll send Mr. An off first..."
Before he could finish his words, An Chengye spoke up and interrupted him.
"Okay!" An Chengye stared at the girl in front of him who he couldn't understand for a long time, and said, "I'll go with you, but... you'd better prove that what you said is true. If you waste my time, hehe, you will bear the consequences at your own risk."
The quiet moonlight sprinkled on a steep hillside. At this moment, three people were standing on the hillside. This was the only way to the backyard where the crime occurred. Except for the faint sound of insects around, there was no other sound. "Hmm..."
"Pa——" Suddenly, a muffled groan and the sound of clapping broke the tranquility of the night.
"Boss, what's wrong?" Jian Jun asked.
"Shh, keep your voice down, it will alert the enemy!" Hearing An Chengye's groan, Mai Xiaoshu stared at him nervously.
"Something is biting me! Can't you feel it?"
It turned out that An Chengye was wearing a short-sleeved shirt with his arms exposed, and now he became the target of attack and food by mosquitoes in the wild.
Seeing that he was scratching his arm, Mai Xiaoshu thought for half a second, took off his long coat, and then threw it to An Chengye, saying calmly: "Put this on, and mosquitoes won't bite you."
An Chengye was stunned for a moment before he realized, what did she think of him?
As a boy, does he need girls to take off their coats to protect him?
So he immediately threw the coat back to Mai Xiaoshu: "No need!"
"But, you are not..." Mai Xiaoshu pointed at his arm.
He said stubbornly: "I don't wear girls' clothes."
Mai Xiaoshu pursed her lips, and saw An Chengye rush to Jian Jun and try to take off his coat.
“Ah, stop it!” Jian Jun frowned and tried to defend himself, wanting to protect his clothes. “I’m afraid of bugs too!”
But An Chengye's hands were quick, his eyes were firm, and he began to tempt: "I'll give you a raise later!"
Only then did Jian Jun let go of her hand with joy. He endured it for the sake of his salary.
Mai Xiaoshu couldn't help but smile as she watched them playing and fighting. It turned out that he could also play like ordinary boys. She suddenly felt that An Chengye didn't seem so scary after all.
"Xiao Shu, are you okay?" Halfway through the walk, Andy, who had heard the noise, suddenly flew to Xiao Shu and shouted at her.
Before Xiao Shu left, he signaled it to stay near the villa to check for any abnormalities and stare at the old man.
"Andy, you're back! Come on, tell me..." Seeing Andy appear, Mai Xiaoshu shouted to the sky in surprise, scaring An Chengye and Jian Jun who were walking behind him and couldn't help but stand there in a daze.
"Mai Xiaoshu, who are you talking to?" It was too dark and they couldn't see Andy's appearance clearly. They only vaguely saw something flying in the air.
Only then did Mai Xiaoshu realize that she almost spoke to Andy in front of An Chengye. She was a little embarrassed: "Um... sorry, I was talking to my pet bird, its name is Andy!" Mai Xiaoshu said, motioning them to look at the oriole flying in the sky.
"I'm your friend, not your pet bird." Andy emphasized, waving his wings.
Mai Xiaoshu smiled bitterly.
"Okay, okay, find the evidence quickly and don't waste time saying hello to your pet." An Chengye said impatiently.
Seeing that there were outsiders around, Andy knew that it would be inconvenient for them to communicate much, so he followed them quietly.
"Why did you come to such a remote place and see animals being killed?" As they walked further and further away and looked at the dark forest in front of them, An Chengye couldn't help but ask the question that had been lingering in his mind for a long time.
"This..." If Andy told her, they would definitely think she was crazy. She thought for a while and then said, "When I was leaving school today, I heard the residents nearby say that everyone's dogs were missing. Then a friend told me that she heard dogs barking near the villa at the end of the alley these past two days, so I wanted to come and take a look, maybe I could find the missing dog. Unexpectedly, I accidentally saw the old man killing a dog..."
There was nothing to hide about what happened next, so Mai Xiaoshu told the story again.
An Chengye kept looking at her. He knew that she must be hiding something, so he didn't say much.
The group continued to move forward into the darker night.
"He buried the animal carcasses in the back garden." Xiao Shu said nothing more. She walked and listened quietly to Andy's report of something she didn't know.
After listening to Andy, she was so angry that she was shaking all over. The careful Jian Jun noticed her abnormality and thought she was not feeling well, but in the blink of an eye, he saw Mai Xiaoshu striding towards the iron railing in front. Without even asking them for help, he easily climbed up a banyan tree, stepped on the branches of the banyan tree, climbed over the iron railing and broke into the villa.
The two people under the iron bars were stunned. Jian Jun gave An Chengye a look that asked, "Are you really going to break into a private house?" An Chengye looked around. The sharp edge of the iron bars was shining in the night. His eyes were stern, and he complained with a little dissatisfaction, "Is there no other way?"
Mai Xiaoshu on the other side of the iron fence shook his head: "I only know this place."
An Chengye didn't hesitate any longer and climbed over the iron railing like Mai Xiaoshu. Jian Jun saw that his boss was serious and was in a dilemma. But then he thought, one of his duties was to protect him, so he had to bite the bullet and do it.
"The dead animal is over there!" An Chengye had just landed when he heard Mai Xiaoshu pointing at the empty space in front and saying, "We have to find a way to dig the body out."
"No, it's too dangerous." Jian Jun stopped him. Although he was only An Chengye's assistant now, he graduated from University A with first place in both finance and law. He knew better than the average lawyer what would violate the law.
"Why not? The evidence is right inside." Mai Xiaoshu blurted out. The evidence was right in front of her, so she couldn't understand why it wouldn't work.
"Are you sure?" An Chengye asked suspiciously while squatting on the ground.
He saw that the soil under his feet was much looser than the surrounding soil, and guessed that what Mai Xiaoshu said might be true, but why didn't she tell the police when they came? Thinking of this, his thick eyebrows could not help but slightly lock , always feeling that Mai Xiaoshu must be hiding something.
"If you don't do it, I'll do it myself." As he said that, Mai Xiaoshu squatted on the ground and started digging the soil like a dog paddling.
"Miss Mai, although modern society has a high degree of freedom, breaking into private homes and digging holes in people's backyards is enough to be prosecuted and sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or one year of detention." Seeing that An Chengye did not say anything to stop him, Jian Jun had to squat beside Mai Xiaoshu and persuade her, "You may be expelled from school and won't be able to find a good job in the future. If you are sure that the evidence is here, let's go back and wait for the police to deal with it."
"If she wants to dig, let her continue digging." An Chengye said uncharacteristically, making it difficult to understand what he was thinking.
"The old man is very smart. One night is enough for him to move the body to another place, and then there will be no evidence." Mai Xiaoshu almost growled out these words. Because she was too excited, her voice was a little shrill, and filled with anger and grievance.
Suddenly, a beam of white light shot straight towards them, making it impossible to open their eyes, just like a criminal in the movies who was caught in the act of committing a crime.
The three of them stood up, looking at each other in panic .
A slow and heavy sound of footsteps came from not far away, and the only door leading to the backyard was opened with a creaky sound.