I don't have ulterior motives

Chapter 12

"I've never seen a semi-finished cake." Shu Lin'an concentrated on watching the cake base gradually expanding in the oven.

"Actually, the process is also very troublesome. The finished product is the best moment." Jin Bei curled his lips.

"Why do you know how to make desserts?" Shu Linan turned to him and raised his eyebrows, "I always feel... well, it doesn't look like it."

"Uh." Jin Bei stroked his hair, it was all because he had an uncle who nominally worked as a security foreman in a big hotel, "After my parents passed away, I went to work in the hotel where my uncle worked, and he arranged me In the kitchen..." Jin Bei couldn't help but touch his forehead.What Jin Yunsheng said was that there are no vacancies for other positions. You should cherish the hard-won opportunity that your uncle won for you... But Jin Bei felt that he did it on purpose.

Or you want to keep yourself away from the road of thugs.

Unfortunately it didn't work out.

"Is that so... are you still working there now?"

"No. Another one is Casanova."

"Oh, I chose that restaurant." Shu Lin'an looked at him with a smile.

The oven dinged and the dim orange light went out.Jin Bei put on his gloves and opened the oven door, took out the tray, and the aroma lingered in the kitchen.

"Chocolate mousse." The two sat on the dining table, where plates and forks were already placed, "You said you don't like too sweet, so you didn't put too much sugar."

Shu Linan took a sip, and Jin Bei looked at him expectantly, just like Shu Linan looked at the cake just now.

Shu Lin'an looked up and said seriously: "Stop working in Casanova, why don't you sell me all your desserts in the future."

Jin Bei was taken aback for a moment, then laughed.

Shu Linan added seriously: "I can also give you wine."

"My desserts are expensive."

"Yes. It should be taken for granted." Shu Lin'an nodded.

"No." Jin Bei said firmly, "There is no charge for what I do for you."

Shu Linan looked at him, and slowly broke into a smile.The setting sun came all the way in from the kitchen, embedded in the corner of his mouth.

Jin Bei was inexplicably happy, and said: "There are still some raw materials left, I can bake another one later, and you can take it home."

"Could it be stale?"

"It can be given to the family."

"There is no one in my house recently." Shu Lin'an looked a little regretful, "My dad is on a business trip."

"That's it."

"You've been living alone?" Shu Lin'an looked around the room and asked.

"Yeah. After the second year of junior high school." Jin Bei recalled with his chin in his hand, "At first, I was hanging out every day, and I didn't work as a chef in the hotel. Instead, I went to other, er, positions. But the cooking skills are pretty good. , although I am too lazy to do it for myself..."

Shu Lin'an nodded: "I also often live alone."

"You should have all kinds of housekeepers, servants, chefs and the like."

"Yeah, but they don't live in my house. They have a house nearby. I don't like other people living in my house."

"Oh..." Jin Bei nodded.

"I hope I'm the only one in the family." Shu Lin'an continued, "So I envy you."

"Huh?" Jin Bei saw the person on the opposite side looking down at the plate, and took another bite of the cake.

He tentatively asked, "Do you have a good relationship with your dad?"

Shu Linan hesitated for a moment, as if weighing something.

Before he could answer, the phone on the sideboard rang.Jin Bei cursed secretly, and reluctantly got up to get his cell phone. When he saw the calling number, he had an extremely ominous premonition, and he didn't even want to pick it up.

Liao Fangyuan's voice came from the microphone.Jin Bei walked to the balcony of the living room and heard him say: "New developments, you may want to know."

Jin Bei was fascinated by the orange glow outside the window.The sky had already darkened, and from the glass of the balcony, one could see the warm lights in the restaurant and Shu Linan's face illuminated by the lights.

Do not want.

"Xia Qiming confessed. He and Shu Pingyuan were indeed involved in what happened that night."

Can you treat yourself to at least one pleasant evening?Can you!

Jin Bei took a deep breath: "Is it convenient to talk on the phone? How about I go find you tomorrow?"

Liao Fangyuan hesitated for a moment: "Who are you with?"

"..."

After hearing no answer, Liao Fangyuan guessed something, and he continued, "Okay. Come over tomorrow."

"Okay." Jin Bei hung up the phone.

Shu Lin'an didn't ask who he was calling.Chocolate mousse is really delicious, I like everything you make, he said.

"What did he confess? Did he say why he confessed now?" Jin Bei asked while lying on Liao Fangyuan's sofa.This person did not confess sooner or later, but at such a time, Jin Bei had the urge to slap him twice.

"It's a bit dramatic, and I wonder if he made up a story to get rid of the crime." Liao Fangyuan almost spread a folding fan: "The incident started with the corpse case on the first night. That night, Bai Hua Hotel Didn’t the monitoring staff see that Zheng Cheng went back at 08:30?”

"Ah."

"Don't interrupt."

? ? ?Jin Beixin said, then why are you panting for breath, isn't it for people to respond!

"Xia Qiming said, in fact, it wasn't Zheng Cheng at all, it was a substitute. The real Zheng Cheng was taken away in Fanghua Restaurant before eight o'clock.

"Xia Qiming admitted that it was done by his own people. The private room he chose had a secret passage leading to the outside of the restaurant. By the way, Fanghua is also the property of Shu Pingyuan Holdings. According to Xia Qiming, Zheng Cheng competed with him for the previous project. I came to him because I wanted to threaten him with his black history, yes, the thing used to threaten him was the news that circulated on the Internet before we arrested him."

"You mean, the source of the news is the dead Zheng Cheng? Someone got this evidence from him..."

"From another angle, it may be that someone gave Zheng Cheng this evidence." Liao Fangyuan looked at him seriously.

The surprise on Jin Bei's face slowly disappeared, and his eyes sank.

"Of course Zheng Cheng won't tell Xia Qiming how he got it. Xia Qiming wanted to teach Zheng Cheng a lesson that night, but he said that he didn't intend to kill him, but just imprisoned him temporarily, or threatened to beat him up." Dayton, keeping him out of the next day's bidding."

"Why does this person sound a little careless..."

Liao Fangyuan shrugged: "It was just his rhetoric, not necessarily his real purpose at the time. He hired Wang Lianjun as a thug, and dragged him into an alley to intimidate him. Who knows why he didn't beg for mercy, as if he was determined. To take this project."

"Just for a project? Not worth it...."

"Then Wang Lianjun's habits of underworld thugs were exposed, he couldn't control himself, and he chopped off the opponent's hand in agitation."

"Depend on."

"It's complicated from here. The time when the hand was chopped off was around nine o'clock. Wang Lianjun realized that the situation was out of control, so he called Xia Qiming, which was one of the two calls we found earlier. Xia Qiming At this time, I was a little flustered, so I went to discuss with Shu Pingyuan—"

"Why do you need to discuss with Shu Pingyuan?"

Liao Fangyuan said in a heavy tone, "Because he needs the other party's help."

"Shu Pingyuan has such a good relationship with him, is he willing to go into the water with him?"

Liao Fangyuan was noncommittal, and Jin Bei knew that there might be some transactions between them.So why Xia Qiming confessed to Shu Pingyuan now?

"Then, Shu Pingyuan borrowed his car and people, and dragged Zheng Cheng to Muxiu District for the next hour. At a quarter past ten, Wang Lianjun contacted Xia Qiming again to inform him that the matter was over and Zheng Cheng was dead."

"He died for an hour. Wang Lianjun drove the car, but Shu Pingyuan's men did it." Liao Fangyuan continued.

There was a chill on Jin Bei's back: "What do you mean being dead for an hour?"

"Wang Lianjun described to him that the man drove over and put Zheng Cheng into the back seat together with him, then asked him to drive, got into the back seat by himself, and took out the cloth ball that Zheng Cheng was talking about. Zheng Cheng immediately Shouting, Wang Lianjun drove along the path, a person like him is very familiar with places in the city where he can hide. That person cut off Zheng Cheng's other hand without saying a word."

"..."

Liao Fangyuan continued, "The solution given by Shu Pingyuan is that since the start has already been made, he should kill people and silence him once and for all. It's just that that person didn't want to kill people. From nine o'clock to ten o'clock, he cut off Zheng Cheng's body. Hands, feet, forearms, calves, upper arms, thighs. In the end, the opponent died of excessive blood loss."

"When Wang Lianjun reported his experience to Xia Qiming, he seemed very scared. He heard the screams all the way, and his nerves must have been stretched to the extreme. The person behind seemed to be enjoying himself."

Enjoy... Jin Bei feels that it is possible to play with the mutilated corpse of the Muya Hotel case.

"So when the body was completely dismembered and bagged, he left some out."

So, did the remaining humanity of this person betray him?

"Then there was Wang Lianjun's second phone call to Xia Qiming. After the matter was over, he didn't dare to take that person's car, so he walked back by himself, and was caught by the surveillance camera."

The back seat of that person's car should be splattered with blood.

Jin Bei's throat was a little rough: "This is the whole process that Xia Qiming said? Where was he during this time?"

"At Shu Pingyuan's house. Shu Pingyuan listened to the whole process that Wang Lianjun said with a blank face, and said that this is the style of that person."

"Shu Pingyuan knew that person would do this from the beginning to the end?"

"According to Xia Qiming, yes. Maybe this is also Shu Pingyuan's reward for that person."

"But...is there any evidence?"

Liao Fangyuan lowered his gaze: "Only Xia Qiming's one-sided opinion."

If it was made up, it would be very reasonable, with twists and turns.

"How about starting with the second case?" After hearing about Zheng Cheng's death, Jin Bei now felt that the two cases might really be done by one person.

"In the second case, the hotel's surveillance system was broken, and no fingerprints or bloodstains were found at the scene except for the deceased. The deceased was a foreigner, and it was difficult to start with his social connections."

Jin Bei was silent.

"Now we can only detain and interrogate Shu Pingyuan based on Xia Qiming's testimony."

"But he's not here."

"How do you know?" Liao Fangyuan glanced at him sharply.

"Shu Lin'an said..."

Liao Fangyuan looked at him for a while, then nodded.

Jin Bei lay down on the sofa and looked at the ceiling.He was thinking, where was Shu Lin'an the night Xia Qiming was at Shu Pingyuan's house?Does he know what his father and Xia Qiming are talking about.

Jin Bei closed his eyes.

The author has something to say:

Shu Lin'an: How about selling all your desserts to me in the future?

Jin Bei: (Pinch his waist) Buy it yourself.

Shu Lin'an: //////