Just after going to work the next afternoon, Han Mei called and said that she had obtained the account information of Xinxin Company.
"Then just wait, I'll get it from your place." Li Ji said.
"How can I help you, Mr. Li? I'm at the Starbucks across the road from you. Come over here."
Li Ji put down the phone and hurried downstairs. When I went to Starbucks, I saw Han Mei sitting there.
"Sit down, I'm treating you today." Han Mei nuzzled at the table, "That's right, your favorite latte."
"How can you be so embarrassed to cost you money to do something for me?" Li Ji sat down and picked up the coffee.
"Don't be hypocritical with me," Han Mei glanced at Li Ji, "How much does a cup of coffee cost? Remember, you owe me a favor, and you have to pay it back when the time comes."
"Repay it, I must return it!" Li Ji said hurriedly.
"However, I can't give you an advantage," Han Mei paused and looked sideways at Li Ji, "When I think about it someday, I will come to you again, and I won't default on my debt."
"Okay, okay, I'm always waiting for you!"
Han Mei finished her coffee, took out a portfolio from her bag, and handed it to Li Ji: "Everything is in it, you can see for yourself."
Li Ji took out a few pages and looked at them. Sure enough, it was the account of Xinxin New Materials Company. He looked at Han Mei gratefully: "You have helped me a lot, thank you, thank you!"
"You're here again," Han Mei rolled her eyes at Li Ji, "Do you need to be so polite between us?"
"I went to the city hall to do some business and happened to pass by," Han Mei stood up. "I won't kill you today. I'll keep track of the accounts first."
"No problem, just keep the accounts!" Li Ji blurted out.
"Oh, it's quite fun." Han Mei glanced at Li Ji, opened the door, walked out, and looked back with a smile, "I'll leave first, you can take your time and watch."
Li Ji stood at the door and watched Han Mei get in the car and leave. Then he came back and sat down again, drinking coffee and looking through Xinxin Company's accounting information.
A thick stack of journal pages, forty or fifty pages long. The time started from the beginning of last year until June this year.
However, most of the pages, except for a few current deposit interest-bearing businesses initiated by the bank, are almost blank, and they do not look like a bank account for a normal business at all.
The corporate deposit balance in the account has been only more than 1,100 yuan for a long time. But in August last year, 100 million was suddenly transferred from China Construction Bank within two days, and all 100 million was withdrawn in the form of cash check within one day.
The coffee on the table has gone cold. Li Ji stared at those lines of numbers and couldn't move away for a long time.
He held those pages of accounts in his hand, pondered for a long time, took out his cell phone, and dialed Han Mei's number.
"Senior Brother Li, what's going on? I'm on my way back!" Han Mei picked up the phone after just a few rings.
"Han Mei, I'm really sorry, but I have to ask you a favor..." Li Ji hesitated.
"Hey, you're here again," Han Mei laughed, "Just tell me what you have to say."
"You can help me check what happened to those withdrawals."
Han Mei hummed and seemed a little hesitant. After a while, she said, "Okay, I'll go back and take a look."
Li Ji put down the phone, drank coffee, and returned to the office with the file bag under his arm. He opened the drawer, put the file bag in, and locked it carefully. Then, he picked up the briefcase and left the room.
"Let's go to Xinxin Company again!" Li Ji stood at the door and shouted to Xiao Zhang and Xiao Zhu.
The three of them went downstairs and stood at the intersection to catch a ride. Xiao Zhang suddenly said: "Mr. Li, I forgot something, go back and get it!"
"Well, hurry up!" Li Ji stared at the other side of the road and replied casually.
"Why is this Xiao Zhang so nagging lately?" Looking at Xiao Zhang's back, Xiao Zhu muttered.
Soon a taxi came, and Li Ji and Xiao Zhu got in first. After waiting for another four or five minutes, I saw Xiao Zhang hurriedly running out of the office building.
The weather is great. The slanting sun fell on the window glass, shining brightly. Li Ji rolled down the window and leaned his head over, letting the oncoming wind blow his hair around.
These days, he has been feeling an indescribable feeling of confusion in his heart. It seemed as if there was a thick fog that enveloped him heavily. The more he struggled, the deeper he sank.
Why was my personal seal stamped on that guarantee document?
After so many years in the bank, Li Ji has always been very careful about keeping his personal seal. When not in use, just keep it in the small safe in the office. No one can take it out except yourself.
Li Ji thought about it over and over, but still couldn't figure it out.
The car passed by the Marriott Hotel. Li Ji suddenly remembered that before the National Day last year, Wan Cheng suddenly asked him to have dinner at the Marriott Hotel.
Wan Cheng and Li Ji are high school classmates. Wan Cheng lives in Xiguan Village on the outskirts of the city, and his father is the director of the village committee. Wan Cheng didn't like studying, and he almost finished last in the class in the Hui Hui exam, but he wandered around the campus with a few little brothers all day long, and no one dared to mess with him.
But Wan Cheng was very kind to Li Ji. This was not because Li Ji had good academic performance and was willing to let Wan Cheng copy his homework, but because Li Ji played football well.
Apart from fighting, Wan Cheng seems to have no other hobbies except playing football to the point of obsession. As a central defender, although Li Ji is not tall or strong, he is fast, delicate with his feet and has outstanding awareness. He is one of the best in the school.
Wan Cheng often asked Li Ji to play football together, and sometimes pestered Li Ji to help others play games outside the school. Most of the time after playing football, Wan Cheng would invite Li Ji to have a meal at a small restaurant east of the school gate, and occasionally he would bring his sister Wan Min with him. It was at that time that Li Ji met Wan Min.
Wan Min is one level below Li Ji. He is tall and thin, with a ponytail. He speaks softly and blushes frequently.
At that time, Wan Min didn't seem to like her brother very much, and she never said hello to Wan Cheng when they met on campus. But every time Wan Cheng invited Li Ji to dinner, Wan Min was willing to follow him. Sitting next to him, he listened to Li Ji and Wan Cheng chatting shirtless, northwest, east, west, and just smiled with their lips pursed.
Wan Cheng dropped out of high school before finishing his senior year of high school. Later, Li Ji went to college. During this period, the two almost lost contact. It wasn't until Li Ji was assigned to China Construction Bank after graduation that he went out to socialize with his director and unexpectedly met Wan Cheng. By this time, Wan Cheng was already the vice president of Wanhao Trading Company.
From then on, the two rekindled their old friendship and gradually resumed their high school interactions, often playing football and drinking together.
Li Ji's task of raising deposits in the savings bank was very heavy. Li Ji is a newcomer and has few social connections in the city. He is always a laggard in the office and can hardly get his monthly performance salary. Wan Cheng found out, and without saying a word, he directly asked the company's financial staff to open an account at the savings bank and transfer the deposit.
At that time, Wan Min had graduated from technical secondary school and entered the tax bureau. We haven't seen each other for a few years, and Wan Min appears to be fresh, graceful, and generous. She is no longer the reserved little girl she used to be.
Wan Chengcheng intends to bring his sister and Li Ji together. But Li Ji was already with Liao Ying at that time, not to mention that Li Ji always regarded Wan Min as his sister and never thought of going too far.
Wan Cheng felt very regretful and said to Li Ji: "It's such a pity that you don't want to be my brother-in-law." After that, Wan Min looked at Li Ji with a slightly different look. There always seemed to be something inexplicable. Shame and resentment.
In those years, Wan Cheng helped Li Ji a lot. Most of Li Ji's initial performance was achieved through Wan Cheng's help in setting up business. Li Ji was able to become the deputy general manager of the credit department of the listed bank, and Wan Cheng was able to claim the greatest credit.
In recent years, as the Marriott Group has grown larger, Wan Cheng's position has risen higher and higher. Wan Daming retired and Wan Cheng took the position of chairman of Marriott Group.
There are three things a new official should do when he takes office.
After Wan Cheng took office, he was eager to achieve results and to prove himself to his father, so he implemented a business strategy of vigorous expansion throughout the group.
Marriott Group also quickly shifted from physical trade to financial investment, and its original real estate business expanded extremely in a short period of time. Marriott Real Estate is acquiring land everywhere and expanding like crazy, almost regardless of the cost.
Li Ji deals with companies all day long and sees a lot. It is not uncommon for large conglomerates to fall into trouble overnight or even go bankrupt and liquidate due to a temporary break in their capital chain.
For this reason, Li Ji reminded Wan Cheng many times that when it comes to Marriott Group's business, he should pay attention to controlling risks as much as possible and reasonably limit the credit scale. This made Wan Cheng, who was promising and charging, very unhappy.
Li Ji guessed that this was probably an important reason why the Marriott Group's business was transferred from his own hands to Wang Wensheng.
Li Ji was originally going to accompany Liao Ying to the street that day, but he hadn't seen Wan Cheng for a long time, so he was embarrassed to refuse, fearing that he would get the wrong idea, not to mention that Wan Cheng had specially sent a driver to wait downstairs.
Because he was in a hurry, Li Ji stuffed his personal stamp into his briefcase and went directly to the Marriott Hotel.
When they met, Wan Cheng apologized profusely, saying that he was only busy with the company's affairs and had neglected his old classmates.
It was just the two of them that night. After a few glasses of wine, the two suddenly felt like they were in middle school again. While talking and drinking, I drank up two bottles of Maotai.
Still not satisfied, the two drank another box of beer.
That night Li Ji got drunk, and Wan Cheng asked someone to get him a room at the Marriott Hotel, where he seemed to sit and talk for a while.
However, Li Ji didn't remember it at all later. He didn't know when Wan Cheng left.
When Li Ji woke up, it was already the next morning. Before leaving, I picked up my briefcase and found that it seemed to have been opened by someone. I didn't care about it at the time, but now that I think about it, I feel very suspicious.
But how could Wan Cheng harm me?
Impossible, absolutely impossible. Li Ji shook his head vigorously, as if to drive this terrible thought out of his mind.
"Head, we're here!" Xiao Zhu's shout woke up Li Ji. He suddenly raised his head and found that the car had stopped on the side of the road.
The red sunset fell on the ruins of grass, giving off an indescribable desolation. Li Ji got out of the car, stood on the roadside, and looked around.
There are fields and grass everywhere, and some high and low buildings and houses can be seen from a distance.
Previously, this area was a crop field. Three years ago, the new mayor drew on experience from other places and designated this area as a development zone. The land was leveled, investment was attracted, and the groundbreaking ceremony was once prosperous.
But just two years later, after the mayor changed, the place immediately became deserted, and many previous projects were stopped. Now, the place has long since restored its original appearance, like a wasteland.
The land area of Xinxin Company is not small, and its estimated value is 180 million, which is really too much.
Before coming, Li Ji made a rough calculation based on the situation of the area where Xinxin Company is located. The land is currently worth at most 40 million. Even a year ago, it would not have exceeded 50 million.
A gust of wind passed by, making the grass and branches rustle. "Let's go over and take a look!" Li Ji said, pushing aside the shrubs and weeds up to his knees and walking forward.
The gate is still the same as when I arrived a few days ago. The three of them circled the factory. The courtyard wall is almost not complete, there are gaps here and there, and the surrounding area is surrounded by grass and trees. It has obviously been abandoned for a long time.
Li Ji looked back at Xiao Zhang and couldn't help but ask: "With such a large loan, why didn't you come and take a good look at the collateral?"
Xiao Zhang looked embarrassed and blushed. After a while, he lowered his head and said: "Mr. Cui said that for companies like Marriott Group, mortgage is just a formality, just a formality..."
"Hey," Li Ji sighed, "Xiao Zhang, is this what your account manager has done these years?"
Xiao Zhang stopped talking, grabbed the briefcase with both hands, and stared at the toes of his shoes.
"Forget it, let's go back." Seeing the sky getting darker, Li Ji's heart became heavy.
The three of them walked in silence, no one spoke. The setting sun stretches the shadows very long, overlapping on the ground for a while, and then separating again.
Just as I walked to the side of the road, I suddenly heard a harsh sound of brakes. The three of them couldn't help but look up and saw a white van parked at the intersection.
As soon as the car door opened, several tall and strong men jumped out of the car, each holding a stick in their hand.
Li Ji took two more steps forward and suddenly stopped.
"Stop, you are here to steal something from the factory!"
A man with a sinewy face and a gold chain as thick as a little finger around his neck rushed forward and shouted loudly.
Li Ji was stunned.
While they were talking, the men rushed up and surrounded the three of them.
"Nonsense, who stole something?" Xiao Zhu was a little angry, and rushed forward, staring at the "gold chain", "We are from the bank, come to the factory to have a look!"
"From the bank? Who are you kidding!" "Golden Chain" sneered, "Just because there is no one in the factory, let's steal something!"
"Look at this factory, what's there to steal?" Li Ji was very angry.
"They are sneaking around here, and they must be up to no good!" A muscular man from behind approached.
"Stop nagging them, arrest them all!" "Golden Chain"'s expression changed.
Several people rushed forward and without any explanation, they lifted the three of them up and dragged them into the van.
