ATBWSTBP Chapter 18
by VolareAfter lunch, Jin Ze cleaned up the dishes, and Jin Mo picked up his phone, preparing to call Xiao Feiwu to ask about the situation.
Just as the phone unlocked, Xiao Feiwu’s call came in.
“Hello! Brother Feiwu, how is it?”
“Little Mo, we’ve arrived at the place where Jin Baiyan got out of the car. It’s a rural road, not too many cars, but not too few either!”
“Okay!”
“This morning, we stood here trying to flag down a car, and found that no one stopped at all, and even sped up, haha, probably afraid of being robbed!”
“You mean, my brother probably couldn’t have hitched a ride there!”
“That’s right!”
“Did you check the surrounding area?”
“We did. Less than fifty meters from this location, there’s a fork in the road. Huzi walked along that road and it leads to a riverside where boats pass. Do you think your brother might have taken a waterway?”
Jin Mo pondered for a moment.
“It’s possible, but we can’t jump to conclusions. We’d rather be slower than take the wrong path! Okay, you guys stay there and offer a reward to see if there are any witnesses! I’ll come over this afternoon, send me the location.”
“Got it!”
After hanging up, Jin Mo sat for a while, then went upstairs to pack a few clothes and toiletries.
“Let’s go!” Jin Mo said to Xu Jiahao, gesturing with the suitcase in hand.
“Should I pack a few clothes too?”
“Yeah, the car will drive to your place later, you go back and pack.”
“Okay!”
Jin Mo looked at the cars parked in the garage, and finally chose a durable Jeep with a lot of space.
By the time they arrived at Zhaojiaping, it was already three-thirty in the afternoon, and the day was still bright.
“Little Mo!” Seeing Jin Mo arrive, Xiao Feiwu ran over, his eyes shifting back and forth between Jin Mo and Xu Jiahao behind him.
Jin Mo looked around.
Not far to the right of the road was Zhaojiaping, a horizontal village with one or two hundred households, surrounded by large fields.
To the left of the road was a grassy area, with reeds taller than people, and willow catkins flying in the wind.
“Any leads?” Jin Mo asked, covering his mouth and nose, turning to Xiao Feiwu.
“There’s one, but they only saw Jin Baiyan getting out of the car around 5:30 PM on the 5th. They don’t know where he went after that!”
“Okay! Even though the lead isn’t very useful, give him some money and let him spread the word in the village.”
“I did!” Xiao Feiwu pointed to the left side of the road, “I asked the villagers, this area is a reed marsh. Even during the day, people come here to cut grass to feed the pigs, so maybe we can find a witness!”
Jin Mo nodded, “I’ll go take a look at the fork in the road ahead!”
“Okay!” Xiao Feiwu looked at Xu Jiahao behind him again, and asked, “Little Mo, who is this guy?”
“Xu Jiahao! A practitioner of… special services!” He said with a laugh.
Xiao Feiwu said “Huh?” Then, his face filled with disbelief, he pointed at Jin Mo, “Special services? No way, as soon as Jin Baiyan disappears, you start acting unrestrained?”
Jin Mo was stunned at first, not understanding what Xiao Feiwu meant, then his face suddenly turned red.
He elbowed Xiao Feiwu and proudly raised his head.
“Don’t talk nonsense! I am loyal to my brother from beginning to end, unwavering!”
Xiao Feiwu “giggled” and laughed.
“Then what does he do?”
“My brother hired him to take secret photos of me!”
Xiao Feiwu’s laughter froze, and disbelief spread in his eyes.
“What kind of stuff is that?”
Jin Mo rolled his eyes, walked forward, leaving space for Xiao Feiwu to figure it out on his own.
Xu Jiahao smiled and followed Jin Mo.
Xiao Feiwu stood there like a wooden stake, thinking for a moment, then “howled” and rushed over.
“Damn, Jin Baiyan’s actions are truly gifted! Every single thing is unexpected! A talent!”
Jin Mo and Xu Jiahao laughed so hard that their eyes were watery and their steps were unsteady!
After this incident, Jin Mo had reason to believe that his brother’s image in the hearts of his brothers had risen to a higher level.
“What’s the name of that river?” Jin Mo walked along the fork in the road, observing the surrounding weeds.
“Piggy River! It’s not a major freight channel, but many ships pass by.”
Jin Mo “Mm”ed, and continued to walk forward slowly.
This fork in the road was only a little over a meter wide, with lush weeds on both sides, and occasional signs of being cut.
“Is there anything along this road?” Xiao Feiwu also began to pay attention to the conditions along the road.
“I’m just looking around, there are no clues anyway! What if my brother dropped a button on this road?” Jin Mo pulled a foxtail grass from the side of the road, bit it in his mouth, and said quietly.
“No, I think Little Mo means, could someone really have been robbing him!” Xu Jiahao looked at Xiao Feiwu and added.
“Huh? Really robbing? No way, in broad daylight, under the clear sky!” Xiao Feiwu said, shaking his head.
“Didn’t you say that when you stood by the road and waved, none of the passing cars stopped! Is that normal?”
“Not normal!”
“In these small places, there are often gangsters who intercept passing cars and ask for a little money. Maybe everyone knows that, so when they see someone waving on the side of the road, they not only don’t stop but also speed up, so…”
After Jin Mo finished speaking, he stopped by the side of the road and stared intently at the grass.
“You suspect that someone was targeting Jin Baiyan who was alone!”
Jin Mo nodded and walked into the grass next to him.
Xiao Feiwu and Xu Jiahao also followed.
“What’s wrong?”
“The grass in this area is down,” Jin Mo pointed to the grass in front of him. Although two or three days had passed, and there was a tendency to rebound, it could still be seen that someone should have fallen on the grass!
Xiao Feiwu squatted down and carefully observed.
Xu Jiahao walked to the other side, grabbed a blade of grass with his fingers, looked at it, and his face changed suddenly.
“Little Mo, come and take a look, is this bloodstain!”
As soon as these words came out, Jin Mo and Xiao Feiwu’s hearts trembled, and they quickly walked over.
On the green blades of grass, there was a dark spot. They weren’t sure if it was blood.
“Tear off this leaf, and look for other leaves with this kind of spot!”
“Okay!”
The three stood there, carefully parting the blades of grass, looking at them one by one.
“There’s another one here!”
“I found one too!”
…
More than ten minutes later, the three found a total of seven leaves with dark spots.
“Let’s go back first!” Jin Mo wrapped the leaves in a napkin and handed it to Xiao Feiwu.
“Brother Feiwu, ask Brother Hu to send these leaves back to Kun City to Zhao Chengxi later, and ask him to find someone to do an identification to see if it’s my brother’s blood!”
“Okay!”
The conversation between the two was a little serious.
“I guess it shouldn’t be your brother’s blood!” Xu Jiahao said easily, “With your brother’s skills, three or five people can’t even get close to him. I don’t believe people in this crappy place can hurt him!”
Jin Mo thought about it, and that’s right, his brother just had some mental problems, not a physical disability!
Fighting shouldn’t be a problem!
Xiao Feiwu also nodded.
“Jin Baiyan’s skills are stronger than mine, I don’t believe anyone can hurt him!”
“Anyway, the blood still has to be tested. It’s best if it’s not my brother’s! Finding the person whose blood it is might give us news about my brother!”
“Okay! That makes sense!”
Back where they started, Xiao Feiwu handed the leaves to Huzi, asking him to send them back to Kun City and give them to Zhao Chengxi, and then come back after getting the test results.
Jin Mo also told Zhao Chengxi about it on WeChat.