Cheng Ergongzi

Stepping into Cheng's headquarters building, everything is as calm as before.

Shi Fan did not return from a business trip in Southeast Asia, and I was happy to be left alone.Lying on the sofa in his private office and squinting for a while, he called his assistant to order KFC delivery for me.

Near noon, someone knocked on the door and poked his head in: "I'm still thinking that Shi Fan is on a business trip, why is there someone in his office, so it's you."

I waved at the man, "Director Xiao, come in quickly, eat KFC with me, and I also bought a large bottle of Coke."

Xiao Wenyu pushed the door open and sat down on the sofa.I took out two glasses from the cabinet, filled them with Coke, and held one up to him, "Dried in one gulp."

He rolled his eyes, raised his neck and drank the fizzy soda.

I tore open the paper bag on the table, took out the hamburger, fries, chicken nuggets and ketchup, and put red, red and white on the table.

Xiao Wenyu watched my movements, but didn't reach out, and said after a while: "Recently, the company's internal audit found some abnormal fund movements."

I squeezed the ketchup out of the package and dipped the fries, "Is that the case?"

He nodded slightly, with some hesitation in his eyes, "The funds were all transferred out in the name of advance payment, and they were transferred to the same account. But Cheng never received the goods, and could not find a contract with a matching amount. The amount of each transfer was different. Big, just a little bit below the amount that needs to be signed by senior management, so no one ever asked."

I shrugged, "Since it complies with the company's review regulations and the amount is not large, it's fine."

"However, this kind of fund transfer has lasted for a year." Xiao Wenyu's brows gradually tightened. "It happened to start on the day when the internal audit of the previous fiscal year ended. It was like deliberately avoiding the financial process. The amount of each transaction was not large. The number of transfers is extremely frequent, at most five or six transactions a day, and a huge amount of money has been accumulated over the course of a year."

I clapped my hands and said, "Is there an account to find out whereabouts?"

He said: "Of course I sent someone to check. The account is indeed a company account. But this company has no information other than the most basic registration information. The registration location is shown as an industrial area in the suburbs. I sent someone to check and reply. It is said that it is an empty warehouse, and the registered phone number has long been shut down."

I took a bite of the chicken and said vaguely, "It's very suspicious."

Xiao Wenyu's face remained unchanged, "You don't know why you are worried, whether Cheng is your company or not."

I swallowed the chicken in my mouth and raised my voice: "I'm in a hurry, what's the use of being in a hurry, I don't know anything about finances."

He was furious: "Sooner or later, the Cheng family will be finished in your hands."

I was dissatisfied: "You can't expect me to order well."

He rolled his eyes, stopped arguing with me, got up and went back to the finance department, and didn't even take a few bites of KFC.

I was about to continue eating French fries, when my phone rang suddenly, and I was so happy.

Wipe your greasy fingers with a napkin, press the call button, "Hello?"

A voice came from the other end, "Little Jane, have you eaten well?"

I almost laughed out loud, "Shi Fan, if you lose your job in the future, you can work as a nutritionist, and your clients will be satisfied."

The voice sounded quite unhappy, "Because you are too dishonest, don't tell me to eat deep fried food again."

"..."

"Why don't you speak?" The voice stopped for a while, and then the volume suddenly increased, "Is it true that you bought KFC again?"

"..."

"Cheng Jian," the voice said through gritted teeth, "I've only been out of the country for 48 hours, and you're about to rebel."

I quickly changed the subject, "How is the investigation on the damage of the new product? Is there any progress?"

Shi Fan said: "I went to the site with the engineer to see that the design drawings are correct, and the manufacturing process is also correct."

I said: "Remember suspecting that there is a problem with the electronic components in the device?"

He said: "Indeed. But the detection of electronic components takes a long time, and the specific reasons need to be analyzed. The developer and designer of the original product have already flown over from China and arrived a few hours ago."

I said, "I've never seen these people before."

Shi Fan smiled on the other end, with a soft voice: "Cheng has its own laboratory and R&D center, all new products are designed and tested from there, it can be said that it is the starting point of Cheng, I will take you there when I return to China visit."

I said, "What you say is what you say."

In the afternoon, I was lying on the sofa for a nap, drowsy from the sun, my eyes were almost completely closed, when the door was pushed open with a bang, hitting the wall, and the ground shook.

The visitor's tone was anxious: "Cheng Jian, something is wrong."

I rubbed my aching head, "Director Xiao, you are also an old man in the industry, can you stop being so surprised."

Xiao Wenyu strode forward with a tense expression, "A company is buying Cheng's shares on a large scale."

I was shocked when I heard the words, and straightened up immediately, "When?"

"Just now," he said while looking at his phone, "it was a horizontal acquisition, it should be a competitor company of Cheng's."

I said, "Is there any further news?"

"The people below have already gone to investigate," his voice was slightly unsteady, "I just went to check the company's internal liquidity, and found that the problem is more than a star and a half, and several accounts have almost been hollowed out."

I frowned: "You just found out now?"

Xiao Wenyu trembled slightly, and apologized: "These payments are very cleverly disguised, and the materials are complete. I usually pay more attention to the company's macro-financial planning and reports, and rarely look at separate incoming and outgoing payments..." After a long silence, "Now let's talk about these Useless, I was negligent."

I said: "The most urgent thing is to find out what the intention of the company that bought Cheng's stock is."

He sighed softly: "Currently there are internal and external troubles, and Cheng's funds are already insufficient, so we must not act rashly."

I calmly asked, "Can you contact Shi Fan?"

Xiao Wenyu nodded slightly, "It happens that he is not in China, and the situation is too complicated, so I can't explain it clearly on the phone."

I stared at him for a while, then slowly said: "Did you ask your assistant to change the ticket for Shi Fan?"

"That's natural." Xiao Wenyu frowned, "The loss of the new product is nothing compared to Cheng's equity. He has already arranged for him to return home on the earliest flight tomorrow."

I glanced at the hands of my watch and silently counted the time.

Xiao Wenyu sighed heavily, his fingertips trembled, "How come it just so happens at this time."