Chapter 2788

「Impossible! 」 Cai Liyuan completely panicked, angrily roaring: "Old thing, you must have been bribed by Seeing Jian Qiu, I don't accept your appraisal result."

Shen Lao showed no anger, calmly placing the magnifying glass into the storage box, then adjusting his reading glasses on his nose, a faint smile appearing on his face as he spoke in a gentle tone.

"Whether you accept my appraisal result or not doesn't matter; the law will accept it."

A female police officer handed the appraisal record to Shen Lao: "Shen Lao, please sign here."

Shen Lao took it, signed his name, and looked at Cai Liyuan: "If you truly have objections, you can apply for a re-appraisal in court, and the judge will support it."

Zhao Hong said to Seeing Jian Qiu: "Director Jian, this case is quite complex; do you have an empty office I could borrow?"

"Yes!" Seeing Jian Qiu nodded, looking at Kang Minghui, arranging an office for the task force.

Zhao Hong said: "We need two!"

"There are empty offices on the fourth floor." Kang Minghui made a gesturing invitation: "Captain Zhao, follow me."

Having already understood the entire case, Zhao Hong asked: "Besides Cai Liyuan and Xue Wei, there's also a person named Feng Li involved—where is he?"

Kang Minghui replied: "At the construction site!"

Zhao Hong said to a nearby criminal investigator: "Old Sun, take two people to the construction site to bring Feng Li back, including that intern who discovered the problem."

"Yes!" Old Sun turned and led two criminal investigators away.

Zhao Hong then said to another criminal investigator: "Immediately take coercive measures against Cai Liyuan and Xue Wei."

"Yes!" The two criminal investigators pulled out handcuffs and strode over.

Xue Wei had already been frightened into sitting limp in his chair, muttering repeatedly: "It's Cai Liyuan, it's Cai Liyuan, it's Cai Liyuan..."

"What are you going to do?" Cai Liyuan struggled, his face fierce as he snarled: "I'm being framed, you're all black cops who took black money, I'm going to report you."

The two criminal investigators showed no courtesy, pressing Cai Liyuan onto the table, twisting his upper arm behind his back, then fastening the handcuffs.

"Whether you're wronged or not, your bank account will tell everyone the answer." Zhao Hong coldly snorted and waved his hand: "Take them away!"

Cai Liyuan and Xue Wei were led away; Zhao Hong glanced at everyone in the meeting room: "Director Jian, give me two hours of time, and after two hours, let them go."

"Alright!" Seeing Jian Qiu nodded.

Kang Minghui personally led Zhao Hong and his team to the two adjacent offices on the fourth floor: "Captain Zhao, these are the two offices, both empty."

Zhao Hong said to a middle-aged criminal investigator: "Old Zhong, you'll interrogate Xue Wei."

"Yes!" Old Zhong waved his hand, leading the officers as they escorted Xue Wei into the adjacent office.

Zhao Hong also pushed open the office door and walked in; judging by his professional sensitivity and experience, this case likely involves higher-level political struggle.

If it were the past, he wouldn't even have time to run away, and would absolutely not participate. After all, with his scrawny arms and legs, he couldn't withstand the Taishan pressure from above.

But this time is different—it's an order personally issued by Yue Lao Da; even if the Taishan pressure comes from above, Yue Lao Da will bear it. Moreover, such a good opportunity to pick a side—if missed, it would be hard to find again.

Therefore, since he's involved, he must cut through the chaos with a swift blow, urgently interrogate Cai Liyuan and Xue Wei, must make them spit out Li Honghai in the shortest time, and absolutely give the other side no chance to catch their breath.

Kang Minghui returned to the meeting room; Seeing Jian Qiu instructed: "The Yushi Huangting project is to be fully halted, and all under-construction properties are to undergo detailed inspection."

Kang Minghui hesitated and said: "If we halt all construction, the losses will be enormous."

"If we don't halt construction, and problems arise later, the losses will be even greater." Seeing Jian Qiu's words left no room for doubt: "Rest assured, no matter the loss, I will make them repay it with principal and interest."

"Alright!" Kang Minghui nodded: "But halting construction now will surely scare the snake; we should wait until the case has results before halting."

"Yes!" Seeing Jian Qiu strode toward the door: "You stay here and watch—no one may leave without Captain Zhao's order. Not even to use the toilet; if you can't hold it, just find a bottle and urinate in the meeting room."

Hearing Seeing Jian Qiu's words, the expressions of everyone in the meeting room turned strange; that oppressive atmosphere that made people unable to breathe suddenly eased.

"Kang Minghui, this is now your responsibility." Seeing Jian Qiu stood at the doorway, turned back and added another instruction, then said to the security: "From now on, everything in the company is handed over to Kang Zong; you will obey his orders."

"Yes!" More than ten security personnel stood at attention in unison.

Seeing Jian Qiu nodded, quickly left the office building, then got into the car and headed straight for the wool factory.

Zhou Andong was still writing furiously; in this short while he had already written over two thousand characters. Mainly because his earlier memories were clear; by later stages, estimating he could write two thousand characters a day would already be good.

"Pap pap pap..."

A light knocking sound came from the door; Zhou Andong didn't even lift his head and shouted: "Come in!"

The sound of the door opening reached his ears; Zhou Andong didn't pay attention. Suddenly, a familiar scent drifted into his nose from beside him.

Zhou Andong froze, looked up, and smiled: "Wife, how did you come?"

Seeing Jian Qiu gave a gentle smile: "How could I not come? Afraid I'd discover some secret?"

Zhou Andong grabbed his wife's hand and pulled; Seeing Jian Qiu sat down on his lap: "What secrets could I have here? On the contrary, you—this long time, you're still the first time coming to the wool factory."

"Let me get up; in a while, if people come see, it'll be too awkward." Seeing Jian Qiu punched Zhou Andong angrily, stood up: "The Yushi Huangting project has encountered a major problem; losses will be huge."

Zhou Andong put down his pen: "What problem?"

Seeing Jian Qiu explained the situation: "So carefully planned, even making the building material suppliers stay silent and willingly terminate contracts—aside from the Yin family and the Tong family, there shouldn't be anyone else."

Zhou Andong pondered for a moment and said: "You suspect this is Seeing Tong Huaiyu's doing?"

"Yes!" Seeing Jian Qiu stood behind Zhou Andong, gently massaging his shoulders: "We haven't reached a point of no return with the Yin family; they have no need to do this, cutting off both our retreats.

Also, the Tong family—we've taken many losses from them in our hands, but it hasn't reached the point of dead fish and broken net. But I know Seeing Tong Huaiyu well; he's narrow-minded, must repay every grudge, and he's suffered big losses in your hands more than once, so he will definitely find a way to take revenge."

Zhou Andong's fingers tapped on the desk: "Have you considered that the building material suppliers who signed contracts with us through normal procedures might also be their people, mainly to numb us?

Then, through Cai Liyuan, the procurement department manager, they terminate contracts and replace them with those few shell companies. As long as the terminated building material suppliers don't cause trouble, we'd find it very hard to detect the contract issues.

After the project is completed, Cai Liyuan, Xue Wei, and those bought-off quality inspection department employees will resign one after another. By the time problems are found in the building, even if it collapses and kills people, we won't discover the original building material supply contracts until then.

By then, whether it's the building material suppliers or Cai Liyuan, Xue Wei, and those quality inspection department employees, they'll all be untraceable, as if they vanished into thin air. Finally, all responsibility will fall on us, and someone might even use this to cause trouble for Grandfather."

Seeing Jian Qiu took a deep breath: "The Tong family has vast overseas industries; arranging for Cai Liyuan and Xue Wei and their few people is still very easy."

Zhou Andong raised his arm and patted the hand Seeing Jian Qiu had on his shoulder: "Is this your reason for suspecting Seeing Tong Huaiyu?"

Seeing Jian Qiu's hand on his shoulder paused: "Is this reason not enough?"

Zhou Andong picked up a cigarette and lit one: "Have you considered that all this might be the other side deliberately doing it for us to see—just to draw our attention toward the Tong family, making us fight them to the death?"

Seeing Jian Qiu's hand on his shoulder stopped moving; after a long while he said: "The Fan family?"

Zhou Andong laughed: "The Fan and Tong families have business cooperation, but they are also allies and interact closely. However, when the Fan family encountered trouble, the Tong family chose to preserve themselves, even pushing them further into ruin."

Seeing Jian Qiu moved to Zhou Andong's side, leaning against the desk and saying: "The Fan family was purged, their roots in Ganzhou uprooted—all because of us. So the Fan family hates us to the bone. That's why they set up such a big scheme: to destroy the Tribute Group and me, and to make grandfather and the Tong family fight to the death."

"What a scheme!" Seeing Jian Qiu snorted coldly: "Fan Zhenyu, that old bastard, has gone home to farm, yet he's still not honest—he truly doesn't want to die a peaceful death."

Zhou Andong took a drag of his cigarette: "This might have nothing to do with that old bastard; the most likely possibility is that Fan Mingqing, the head of the Fan family, is scheming behind the scenes. After all, he was just half a step from entering the bureau, yet ended up fleeing to the capital in defeat—how could he possibly resign himself to that?"