Rough

4. Luckless

Shen wei is completely bewildered. After the recital is done, he got dragged away by some full – uniformed cop as a witness. He is now sitting in a small interrogation room, low light and bad smells with a big glass between him and the cops. The circumstance is not clear for him yet; one of the cops gets inside and asks him things. He feels submissive and tries to answer the question and hold himself together. When he's done, he finally ask the officer,

"Is something happened during my recital, officer? Why should I be here?" Shen Wei asks without facial change.

The officer seems surprised and looking at him deep. He sighs before answer.

"You know Fu Zheng? We know that you and your brother were having an argument with him before, "The officer detailing.

"Yeah, but it's just a misunderstanding, what's so serious about it?" Shen wei push his specs.

"Well, it gets serious when he's found dead on the toilet..." The police says it too casually when he grab all his document and flee.

"What do you mean by dead?" His voice unintentionally raised, but the officer has reached the door.

"Hey, I am asking a question here!!!" Shen Wei hit the table in front of him. It doesn't stop the officer from leaving.

Shen Wei sigh, his head is low and maybe a little dizzy too. He crashes his body with the chair, his palm making a fist and once again banging the table.

***

Zhao Yun Lan came to find a gossip, was now having the entire headline in the place. Who knows that the stupid senseless man Old Fu would be murdered in here, in front of his eye? He is now at the first line of the crowd who is lingering around the toilet, know his toy are still doing their job so he only need to be around.

Old Fu was murdered, he hears the detective said. So Zhao makes his way to get as close as he could to know what happens. He doesn't worry about getting a photo or something, because the camera is slipped perfectly in his chest pocket ever since the pianist moves his finger. That alone would make a decent article for tomorrow morning.

"It is a string." Zhao heard what the detective been whispering about. "They are tied together so that it would strong enough to choke him to death."

A string? What string? Zhao suddenly remembered that radiance person in once. Shen Wei is in danger. The detective must be thinking about the piano and suddenly all will points at the pianist. Zhao runs to find Shen Wei, who he couldn't see in this commotion. He doesn't slow down, until he found Shen Wei dragged by some people who look like an officer at the back of the building.

"Shit!" Zhao curses.

He could only watches from afar, seeing the pianist gets further from his sight.

***

That night he got back to the office, there are still Lin Jing and Daqing. Lin Jing has been working with him for years, he get to the journalism world a year after Zhao so their ability actually matching each other.

"Jing, help me. I got important news today, and you could cut the videos for me would you?" Zhao said that in hurry, tossing his recorder and everything else that glued to his body earlier before.

"Hey shorty! Lao Fu got murdered!" He shouts to Da qing, who sitting silently at the back of his monitor. "Go write an article about it!"

"Are you really???!!!" Both of them screaming.

"Don't believe me? Watch it for yourself!" Zhao walks to his desk.

"How lucky!" Da qing blurts out. "I mean, it's horrible to see someone death in front of you, but that is just gold, remembering how it happens when you on full suit."

Even though Da Qing is the smallest in this group, he is here the longest. He is a little bit clumsy, but he does his job well. Zhao is in charge of this team here, and this is gonna bring their name up within the company.

"Jing, do compile the entire file about Shen Wei in one disk. I will bring it to the police." Zhao is now busy with something else.

"Why?" Jing asked, and crunching his snack.

"Gotta save someone." Zhao reply short.

"Including the piano play?" Jing asks again.

"That would go to my personal collection." Zhao still manage to say that cheerfully. "He'll be fine in there for one night, wasn't he?"

That night, all the team works like an owl. They need to be hurry to be able to bring it in the morning news. Jing is busy clicking in his computer, so does Qing. But Zhao busy finding a clue of where Shen Wei has been taking, he does recognize some faces that bring Shen last night, so it should be not too hard. Zhao doesn't know why, but he just wants the pianist to be save and in his reach to catch.

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A/N

I might have pushing my luck to the edge... I mean, their meeting would still be postponed. Sorry about that. 😁😁😁

Because my finger has recovered, I have been writing like crazy. Hope it suits your sweet palate dear my precious reader. 

I haven't think how much episode it will take me to finish this baby, but I am happy its born. Because I am such a dedicated person, I normally finish everything I started so don't worry too much about this kinda thing.

lastly, wishing you a good time with this story. 😰😰

see ya...