288: Chapter 86: Just Friends 288: Chapter 86: Just Friends The case itself wasn’t complex, with very clear identities for both the victim and the murderer.
However, under the deliberate influence of certain individuals, it gradually began to take on a more complicated direction.
Handling cases was the job of the police, and Wang Yunxiao didn’t want to get involved in this quagmire.
Checking the time, it was already past noon, and neither he nor the Mu father and daughter had eaten, so he took the opportunity to slip out of the police station and run to the restaurant halfway down the street to order some good dishes.
The local specialty dishes in Tianmen mainly involved quick-frying and slow-braising techniques.
First-class families eat seafood, second-class families eat river delicacies and beef and mutton, while third-class families, when they dine out, mainly focus on offal from beef and mutton and pork.
Such as dishes like exploded kidney flowers, which men usually prefer, but which are not quite suitable for girls.
So ordering food is also an art.
Wang Yuanxiao still owed the restaurant a bit over a dollar and had not found the time to clear his debt, even the shopkeeper had forgotten about it until he mentioned it, and then absolutely refused to take the money.
Eventually, although he left the money, he also instructed the kitchen to add two more dishes.
After returning to the police station, he borrowed a thermos and filled it with hot water.
Mu Yuming was in the room, staring at Li Mumu wide-eyed.
People had been around until then, making it difficult to talk, but now he finally had some alone time with his daughter.
“Are you dating Wang Yunxiao?”
“When did you start getting involved in real estate?”
The father and daughter looked eye to eye.
“First of all, I am just here with Yinyin to visit schools.
Secondly, there were many students present, and you only know Wang Yunxiao.”
Li Mumu looked coldly at Mu Yuming, “My father has quietly become a big boss, got involved in real estate, was extorted, and almost got his head blown off.
And now, what concerns him the most is whether his daughter is dating a gang member?”
“It’s not my money, I’m just working for someone else, you know, I don’t understand real estate, I am just a professional manager.”
Mu Yuming spread his hands and explained, “Work is just work for me, family is what’s most important.
Mumu, you are already fourteen this year, and I believe you have enough judgment to discern right from wrong.
But I must remind you of one thing, that boy only appears to be be simple and honest, but may actually be more dangerous than you think.”
He appears to be simple and honest?
How can you tell?
Li Mumu looked baffled.
Isn’t that…
your idea is pretty dangerous!
There’s an old saying that a father-in-law’s first impression of a son-in-law begins with being simple and honest on the outside, at least elevating them to the level of a “human”.
Otherwise, they might just be a pig digging up their own little cabbage.
“Our relationship is purely friendship, it’s not as complex as you think.”
“There’s no such thing as a purely platonic friendship between men and women of the same age.
Even if you have no thoughts, how do you know if he doesn’t?”
Mu Yuming still expressed doubt.
This actually posed a tricky question on par with, “If me and your mom were drowning in the river.”
Do you have feelings for my daughter?
How dare you have feelings for my daughter?
What makes you have no feelings for my daughter?
Li Mumu felt somewhat helpless; she no longer intended to discuss this awkward topic with her own father anymore, a no-win situation based on sheer speculation.
If you insist on making baseless allegations, don’t blame me for using my trump card to end this argument…
“Actually, I’ve kept something from you for a long time, and that is I don’t like men.”
“That’s impossible.”
Mu Yuming shook his head: “Ever since the day you learned to walk, you couldn’t move whenever you saw a handsome man.”
This is slander!
You’re slandering me!
He’s slandering me!
Li Mumu’s hands veins bulged, her fingernails scraping the table with a creaking sound.
“Since in your eyes I am that kind of frivolous woman, how could I possibly fancy a plain-looking loafer from the Jianghu World?”
“I only said he looks simple and honest, I didn’t say he was plain-looking.”
Mu Yuming calmly stated, “Plus, you’ve forgotten one thing.”
“What did I forget?”
Li Mumu was puzzled.
“Your mom is a witch who can tell fortunes.”
“Right.”
“That day when he came to our house, your mom’s attitude towards him was very strange.”
“Huh?”
Li Mumu was shocked beyond belief!
“How could you bring my mom into this?
What was so strange about her attitude?”
“Firstly, I’m not bragging,”
Mu Yuming coughed and cleared his throat.
“But you know your mom, besides me, she doesn’t care about any other man.
However, that night when Wang Yunxiao came over, she didn’t show any disdain or avoidance, she even took the initiative to host him.
When he left, she specifically asked you to see him out, do you remember?”
Li Mumu was at a loss for words.
Thinking about it carefully, there seemed…
maybe indeed a bit of reason to it.
She had never considered this before mainly because she couldn’t compare to Mu Yuming’s understanding of Li Ya.
But it couldn’t be said this was the absolute truth, as there was no actual evidence, everything was based on Mu Yuming’s deductions and conjectures.
“Dad, have you considered another possibility?”
“What possibility?”
“That is…
is there a possibility that my mom predicted that someone would kill you in a few days and was looking for a stepdad for me in advance?”
This move “Heaven and Earth Longevity”—I’d like to see how you counter it!
Mu Yuming took a deep breath, calming down almost to the point of cerebral hemorrhage.
He successfully made Li Mumu stop worrying about the money issue.
The matter of money can’t be detailed, outsiders might not be aware, but the family knows, he doesn’t have that strong a network at Saifu, he is just an ordinary logistics manager.
Wang Yunxiao pushed the door open and before he could speak, he sensed the tense atmosphere in the room.
“Hungry, you two?”
Although he didn’t know what discord was between this father and daughter, family affairs of others were not something Wang Yunxiao could easily interfere in, he could only play along and pretend he didn’t notice, placing the food he bought on the table.
“Uncle Mu, don’t mind, it’s a bit humble here, but the bowls and cutlery are clean, let’s have something to fill our stomachs first.”
Ever since he found out that Mu Yuming was the major investor constructing the new campus, his image in Wang Yunxiao’s eyes shot up like a rocket.
Even calling him ‘Uncle’ felt incredibly natural, without any reluctance.
Forget about what’s dignified or not, if you were transplanted to this era, eating bran and swallowing vegetables daily, you’d struggle too.
It’s rare to meet such a wealthy sponsor, wealthy and with a daughter, handsome, great temperament, elegant and easygoing—why maintain such aloofness and refuse the food that comes your way?
Pure nonsense!
Every moral kidnapper expects others to be saints, never looking to themselves for faults.
Wang Yunxiao was not one to have such moral qualms, anyone who dared to moral kidnap him would get a slap in return.