Everyone in the conference room was shocked, and Zhu Cong was even more surprised, looking at Li Ji like a monster.
"Really? Are you sure?" Li Ji didn't care about spilling tea all over, and his voice changed.
"Let's see. I'll ask someone to verify it again." Zhu Cong stood up, opened the door, walked out, and then turned back, "Mr. Li, don't worry, maybe I remembered it wrong."
Li Ji's heart moved and he saw some hope. Then he thought again, sighed, and sat back in the chair slumped. Xiao Zhu and Xiao Zhang glanced at each other, then looked at Li Ji in unison, neither of them spoke.
Ten minutes later, Zhu Cong came back, followed by a middle-aged woman in business attire.
"This is the manager of our financing department. She has all the group financing data and reports." Zhu Cong pointed to the woman.
Mr. Ji spread a statistical report on the table, took a look at it, and said to Li Ji: "Mr. Li, the statistics of all bank loans of Marriott Group from last year to the first half of this year are here. I have read it. , not what you mentioned."
Li Ji stood up, walked over, picked up the report, and read it several times from beginning to end. His heart was completely cold: As expected, there was no working capital loan of 100 million.
Li Ji looked at Xiao Zhang, who also became nervous. He took out a stack of paper from his bag and stammered: "How come there isn't one? The loan vouchers and transfer records are all here!"
Transfer record! Li Ji's mind suddenly lit up, and he shouted to Xiao Zhu and Xiao Zhang: "Let's go to the Finance Department and have a look!"
The Finance Department is on the sixteenth floor. After leaving the financing department, Li Ji didn't even take the elevator. He took Xiao Zhang and Xiao Zhu and walked down the stairs.
The huge finance department was quiet inside. There were people walking back and forth all the time, so quietly that no sound could be heard.
Li Jijin went to the finance department and directly found the accounting supervisor Zhou Xiaoxue.
Zhou Xiaoxue is the child of a distant relative in Li Ji's hometown. After graduating from finance school, she was assigned to work in an agricultural machinery factory. After just two years of working, the agricultural machinery factory went bankrupt due to poor management, and Zhou Xiaoxue lost her job.
Later, Zhou Xiaoxue's father found Li Ji's mother and asked Li Ji to help find a job for Zhou Xiaoxue. At that time, Marriott Group was recruiting accountants, Li Ji said hello to Wan Cheng, and Zhou Xiaoxue went to work in the Finance Department of Marriott Group.
Zhou Xiaoxue saw Li Ji with a look of surprise on her face: "Brother Ji, why are you here? I haven't seen you for a few days." As she said this, she let the three of them into the office and was busy making tea.
"Xiaoxue, stop being busy now," Li Ji turned around and closed the door, "I need your help with something."
"Brother Ji?" Seeing Li Ji's serious face, Zhou Xiaoxue couldn't help but was stunned for a moment. She stood on the spot with the tea bucket in her hand.
"Xiaoxue, sit down first and listen to me." Li Ji dragged the chair forward and sat opposite Zhou Xiaoxue.
"Well, Brother Ji." Zhou Xiaoxue put down the tea bucket, sat down, and looked at Li Ji with a nervous expression.
"Xiaoxue, don't be so nervous," Li Ji smiled, "I just wanted to ask you something."
"Oh," Zhou Xiaoxue breathed a sigh of relief and leaned back in the chair, "Brother Ji, tell me, what's the matter?"
"Manager Zhang, give me the transfer voucher." Li Ji took the copy of the voucher from Xiao Zhang's hand and handed it to Zhou Xiaoxue.
"Xiaoxue, please check for me, are there any of these transfers?" Li Ji pointed to the voucher and said.
"Well, okay." Zhou Xiaoxue took the voucher and looked at it one by one. After reading the last one, Zhou Xiaoxue nodded: "There should be. I remember that I reviewed these accounts."
"That's good, that's good." Li Ji's body suddenly softened on the chair, and his heart felt like a big stone fell to the ground.
"Brother Ji, please wait here for a moment. I'll ask the accountant to check again and print out a copy." Zhou Xiaoxue took the voucher and walked out of the room.
About half an hour later, Zhou Xiaoxue walked in with a few pieces of paper in her hand and a happy face.
"Brother Ji, here you go," Zhou Xiaoxue handed the paper to Li Ji, "Yes, we have all these businesses."
Li Ji took it and took a look. On the printed account page, there were several places marked with red pen.
The 100 million yuan working capital loan issued by China Construction Bank entered the loan account opened by Marriott Group at the municipal bank's business department and was transferred in five installments to the account of "Xinxin New Materials Company" at the Rural Credit Cooperative.
Xinxin New Materials Company? Li Ji remembered that it was this company that provided land mortgage guarantee for the loan.
"Isn't it a loan from Marriott Group? Why was it transferred to Xinxin Company?" Li Ji had doubts and asked Xiao Zhang.
"Assistant Xiao from the Marriott Group said that the group paid Xinxin Company for the materials." Xiao Zhang replied.
"Assistant Xiao?" Li Ji was stunned, "Is she the girl from Director Wan's office?"
"Yes, that's her."
"Assistant Xiao is handling this business?" Li Ji became even more confused.
"Yes," Xiao Zhang nodded, thought for a while, and then said, "Mr. Cui said everything has been arranged. Don't let me take care of other things. I just need to cooperate with Assistant Xiao to handle the procedures."
Li Ji was speechless for a moment. After a moment of silence, he asked Zhou Xiaoxue: "Is Assistant Xiao here? I want to see her."
"Assistant Xiao?" Zhou Xiaoxue hesitated for a moment, "She's long gone."
"Gone?" Li Ji opened his eyes wide, "Could it be that she, she also..."
"Where did you think you were?" Zhou Xiaoxue chuckled, "Assistant Xiao resigned."
"Resigned? When?"
"I left at the end of last year. I heard that I got a better job in my hometown, so I went back."
Li Ji nodded, looking at the rows of numbers on the account page, and fell into deep thought.
"Manager Zhang, have you been to Xinxin Company?" Li Ji asked Xiao Zhang after a long while.
"Go, I went there once." Xiao Zhang was a little uneasy and lowered his eyes.
At this time, only Xiao Zhang himself knew best. He said he was going to Xinxin Company for pre-loan investigation. In fact, the car only stopped on the road opposite the company. After a few glances from a distance, he went directly to the Marriott Building. hotel. He didn't even know what the door of Xinxin Company looked like.
"Just once?" Li Ji looked at Xiao Zhang and his voice suddenly rose an octave, "Then how did you sign the mortgage contract? Don't you do post-loan management?"
"Cui, Mr. Cui said that for a big customer like Marriott Group, there would be no problem in lending money with your eyes closed, so why bother..."
"Mr. Cui said, Mr. Cui said, what do I need you as an account manager to do?" Li Ji couldn't help but get angry.
Xiao Zhang looked at Li Ji and lowered his head: "Mr. Cui said that everything has been done. The land evaluation has been handed over to the evaluation company. He asked me to just sign and go through the formalities."
“Which appraisal company is it?”
"Nisshin Appraisal Company."
"Rixin Appraisal Company?" Li Ji was speechless again, because Rixin Appraisal Company was disbanded as early as the beginning of this year.
"Brother Ji," Zhou Xiaoxue tilted her head and thought for a while, then suddenly interjected, "I heard that Xinxin Materials Company seems to have stopped production a long time ago."
"Discontinued?" Li Ji was startled.
"Well," Zhou Xiaoxue nodded, then paused, "I heard what people in the group said, but I don't know if it's true or not."
The sunlight outside the window was no longer visible, and the room became dark. Li Ji suddenly felt a chill in his body.
"Let's go to Xinxin Materials Company." After a long silence, Li Ji had an idea.
"Brother Ji, you haven't seen Mr. Wu?"
Mr. Wu is Wu Qiong, the financial director of Marriott Group. He previously worked in a world-renowned accounting firm.
"I think we'll forget it today," Li Ji said with a bitter face, "I'll come to visit her another day."
After speaking, Li Ji handed the account page to Xiao Zhu. The three people said goodbye to Zhou Xiaoxue and hurriedly left the Marriott Building.
The pale yellow sunset falls quietly on the buildings and streets. Li Ji's heart felt heavy, as if it was filled to the brim with something.
When they got into a taxi, the three of them said nothing. Xiao Zhang led the way from the front seat, and the car sped away.
Li Ji leaned on the car seat, eyes slightly closed, rubbing his forehead with one hand, feeling like a mess in his heart. Xiao Zhu was nearby, peeking at Li Ji from time to time, and wanted to speak several times, but finally remained silent. Xiao Zhang sat upright and stiff, and became silent.
The sky gradually darkened, and the last ray of sunlight disappeared. The car left the city center and headed east of the city.
The further we go, the taller buildings become fewer and fewer, and the scenery on the roadside becomes more and more desolate. When the taxi stopped in front of a factory overgrown with grass, Xiao Zhang suddenly called out.
"Master, are you going to the wrong place?" Xiao Zhang was the first to get out of the car and looked at the scene in front of him with a look of surprise on his face, "Is this Xinxin Materials Company?"
"Wrong?" The driver smiled disdainfully and snorted, "How could it be wrong? I used to be an employee here."
"Ah?" Xiao Zhang opened his mouth wide. I clearly remember that it was a large factory building, and the rumbling sound of machines could be heard from far away on the road.
Could it be that the company I went to before was not Xinxin Company?
"The company has closed down a long time ago. Apart from the gatekeeper, where is anyone? Go and see for yourself." After the driver finished speaking, he turned around and left.
The three of them walked through the thorny dirt path and arrived at the factory gate.
The door was closed and the two iron doors were rusty. Looking through the crack in the door, I saw wormwood as tall as half a person, broken bricks and tiles everywhere, collapsed houses, and not a single person in sight.
"This is not the place I came last time!"
Xiao Zhang stood there blankly, dumbfounded.
