Everyone felt unlucky to encounter this kind of thing, but now when Gu Chen asked, it seemed difficult to answer.
"What? Has no one met her before?" Gu Chen saw that the two of them were silent, so he took the initiative to name the female cashier and said:
"Did you meet your boss last night?"
"Uh...this..."
"Yes or no?" Gu Chen didn't want to beat around the bush with these two people.
Logically speaking, these two people have worked with his boss Zhang Zhiqiang for several years and are in charge of the finance of Zhang Zhiqiang's company, so they must be his confidants.
If even the confidants didn't know the whereabouts of the boss, it would be somewhat unjustifiable. Of course, Gu Chen wouldn't believe everything they said.
The female cashier seemed very embarrassed and said slowly: "Last night, I...I did meet the boss."
"Where have you seen it?" Lu Weiwei quickly asked after hearing what the female cashier said.
"It's...it's at the Lido Hotel." The female cashier said very quietly.
"Lido Hotel?" Officer Wang was thoughtful when he heard this, so he quickly said: "Eh? No, Lido Hotel is quite far away from here."
"Since you work and live in this hotel, how come you and Zhang Zhiqiang show up at the Lido Hotel?"
Officer Wang's words seemed to make it difficult for the female cashier to answer.
When Yuan Shasha saw this, she quickly urged: "What? Is it inconvenient to answer?"
"Uh, it's nothing?" Taking a deep breath, the female cashier also said slowly:
"The boss was meeting with clients there, but he didn't bring a very important document with him."
"So, he asked me to send the documents over."
"Send the documents to the Lido Hotel?" Lu Weiwei crossed her arms, thoughtfully:
"What happened next? What time did you arrive?"
"Probably... around 7pm," the female cashier said.
"Around 7 o'clock?" Lu Weiwei frowned and asked the female cashier: "Then what time do you usually settle wages for the workers?"
"It's around 9pm these days because I have to work overtime." The female cashier here didn't say anything, but the male accountant on the side said quickly.
Lu Weiwei nodded silently and responded: "Okay, but now I'm asking the female cashier, can you wait for the answer first?"
"Well……"
He was also scolded by Lu Weiwei, and the male accountant looked very embarrassed.
Of course, Lu Weiwei is not targeting male accountants, because the current female cashier seems to be the last person to see the boss.
Then, she will become a key witness.
Moreover, both Gu Chen and himself, Comrade Lao Wang and Yuan Shasha could also see that the female cashier seemed to be extremely nervous while answering the questions.
Therefore, Lu Weiwei just wanted to put some pressure on the female cashier and ask her to honestly explain the details of yesterday.
Here too, when I saw a male colleague being criticized, the female cashier felt a little bit in her heart and said slowly:
"As my colleague said just now, we settle the wages of these workers for the day around 9 p.m. these days."
"That is to say, when you met the boss Zhang Zhiqiang, it was around 7 o'clock, right?" Lu Weiwei continued to confirm.
The female cashier nodded silently: "Absolutely."
"What happened after that?" Officer Wang also continued to ask: "After you sent the documents, where did you go after that?"
"I...I didn't have dinner, so, I wanted to settle it near the hotel."
"In other words, you didn't leave the Lido Hotel?" Officer Wang asked.
"Well, I ate some of the buffet at the hotel restaurant, and then I didn't leave until about 7:40."
"Okay, have you never seen your boss again since then?" Officer Wang asked again.
"I haven't seen him since... because I wanted to go back quickly to deal with work matters, so I went back by myself."
"Weird." As soon as the female cashier finished speaking, Gu Chen questioned:
"You settle cash for workers every day. Logically speaking, this cash is a large sum of money. Who is usually responsible for bringing the cash to the site?"
"Usually it's me and my colleagues." The female cashier looked at the male accountant.
At this moment, the male accountant also nodded silently and echoed: "Yes, every time the boss prepares the cash in advance, and then asks me to go to the room with her to get it."
"Is it the cash that was withdrawn on the same day?" Yuan Shasha asked.
"Yes." The female cashier nodded silently.
"Then why not directly transfer it to the accounts of these workers?" Yuan Shasha asked again.
"Because...because." After hesitating for a few seconds, the female cashier glanced at the male accountant and then said:
"Because it is the boss's intention to pay these workers daily wages in cash."
"The boss also knows that it will be difficult to access the accounts of these workers."
"Moreover, we are only temporary workers recruited. We must pay cash every day before others are willing to do it."
"Moreover, giving cash allows these workers to see the money they earn that day, which will give them more motivation to work."
"So the boss usually insists on going to the bank to withdraw cash every day, and then when the time comes, he asks me to go with my colleagues to his room to collect the cash."
"That means you always keep cash in the room, right?" Gu Chen asked again.
"Yes." The female cashier glanced at the male accountant, and the two of them nodded in agreement.
"Then you didn't find the boss yesterday, did you go to his room?" Gu Chen asked again.
"No." They both shook their heads in denial.
The female cashier also quickly explained: "Because the boss is not here, and we don't have the key card for the boss's room, and we don't know if the boss has brought cash and put it in the room."
"So, when we couldn't contact the boss last night, we could only tell these workers that the boss might have something to do temporarily and asked them to come and collect it together today."
"But you guys are acting like rascals here again today." Before the female cashier could finish her words, the fat middle-aged man became angry.
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"Oh, I'm sorry, comrade policeman." Seeing Gu Chen's reminder, the middle-aged fat man quickly explained:
"I was a little impulsive. The main reason is that those of us who have been doing manual labor on construction sites all year round hate the most those who owe us wages."
"I was often cheated by people back then, and things have gotten better these years. But now we are doing short-term daily wage work, and this kind of situation also happens, which makes us a little angry."
"I can understand." Gu Chen patted the middle-aged man on the shoulder, then looked at the female cashier and asked:
"Then last night, when you went to the Lido Hotel to deliver documents to the boss Zhang Zhiqiang, did you see anyone around him?"
"Well……"
"Tell the truth." Seeing that the female cashier always spoke hesitantly and with hesitation, Gu Chen reminded her.
The female cashier blushed and said slowly: "I saw a woman."
"A woman?" Lu Weiwei frowned, and quickly asked: "What woman? Who is this woman? Do you know her?"
"Uh, I know... I know her. I've met her a few times."
"Then who is she? A client of your boss Zhang Zhiqiang?" Gu Chen asked.
"Can you tell me this?" She felt that she was not very good at answering, and the female cashier was also hesitant.
But before Gu Chen could say anything, the anxious Officer Wang on the side quickly urged:
"The most important thing now is to find your boss Zhang Zhiqiang and quickly secure the daily wages for these workers. Is there anything bad to say?"
"Okay... okay." Seeing Officer Wang speaking fiercely, the female cashier also took a deep breath and quickly replied:
"Actually, I'm not sure about that woman. I just saw her in the boss's car a few times, acting very intimately."
"Very close?" Hearing what the female cashier said, Lu Weiwei raised her eyebrows and quickly asked, "How close is it?"
"It's just...it's just that two people will be entangled together, you know, that's the kind of thing."
"Okay." Having heard what the female cashier meant, Lu Weiwei also said straightforwardly: "She's his sweetheart, right?"
"Yes." Seeing that Lu Weiwei said it so clearly, the female cashier also nodded slowly and said quickly:
"This is all my wild guess. I only said this because you asked me."
"Okay, I understand." Lu Weiwei sighed lightly and quickly asked:
"Then let me ask you, is your boss married?"
"We are married and our children are already in junior high school," the female cashier said.
"That means that there is an improper relationship between this woman and your boss?" Lu Weiwei asked again.
"Hmm." The female cashier found this question difficult to answer.
But now that the police are handling the case, I am caught in the middle and it seems that I can't lie.
What should I say?
So after thinking about it, the female cashier could only nod and agree: "Absolutely, everyone understands it anyway."
"Moreover, most of the bosses who work in project offices like ours have some acquaintances outside. We all know this, but we don't want to talk nonsense."
"After all, this is the boss's private matter."
"Okay, I understand." Lu Weiwei interrupted the female cashier's remarks and continued to ask: "Your boss said that he asked you to deliver documents to customers. Are you right?"
"Yes, he did ask me to deliver the information." The female cashier said.
"Then why did you only see that woman?" Lu Weiwei asked again.
"Because that woman is his customer." The female cashier answered quite simply.
Lu Weiwei's eyes lit up: "Did the two partners get together for the co-authorship?"
"Oh, these two are really good enough. In other words, your boss Zhang Zhiqiang probably slept with this female client at the Lido Hotel last night, regardless of the wages of these workers, right?"
"I don't know about this." When Lu Weiwei asked this question, the female cashier quickly denied it, for fear that she would say the wrong thing.
"Then what is this woman's name? Where is her company?" Officer Wang couldn't wait any longer and asked quickly.
The female cashier hesitated for a few seconds, and then said in retrospect: "I don't know the name of that woman, but I know she is also in the building materials business."
"It seems that she provided many of the guardrail materials we need for the security of this concert."
"There should be relevant contracts, right? You should be able to find out if you check, right?" Yuan Shasha said.
"It seems there is, wait a minute." After hearing what Yuan Shasha said, the female cashier immediately opened her laptop and started searching in the files.
After a while, the female cashier found the option, immediately clicked on the file, and told Gu Chen:
"It's called Lihua Building Materials Wholesale. It's a merchant in the Building Materials City."
"Usually, we mainly rent some building materials to customers, such as iron sheets for road construction, and various building materials."
"The iron guardrail like ours is just one of its materials. It seems that there are several large warehouses in Jiangnan City. Yes, there are large warehouses."
"The driver who delivered the iron guardrail from the warehouse talked about this."
He also met the female cashier and seemed to be able to find the relevant person from the documents. Gu Chen quickly asked again:
"Then what is this woman's full name?"
"Xu Lihua, her name is Xu Lihua." The female cashier pulled down the menu and explained:
"The signature is Xu Lihua."
Gu Chen walked around behind her, looked at the computer screen carefully, and said slowly: "Could it be that this Xu Lihua is related to the disappearance of your boss Zhang Zhiqiang?"
After a pause, Gu Chen asked again: "Do you have her contact information?"
"Yes, here." Before the female cashier could finish speaking, the male accountant quickly opened a folder in his hand, quickly found Xu Lihua's contact information, and explained:
"This Xu Lihua has cooperated with our company many times. I also have her contact information here, but it is the contact information in the contract."
"As for whether I can contact her? I'm not sure, because businessmen like them usually have two mobile phones."
Also while the male accountant was talking, Gu Chen also found Xu Lihua's contact information, and then handed it over to Officer Wang who was standing aside.
Officer Wang didn't say anything, just picked up the phone and dialed Xu Lihua's phone number.
The phone rang briefly for a few seconds before someone answered.
Officer Wang quickly asked: "Hey, is this Xu Lihua?"
"Who are you?" a woman asked softly on the phone.
"Oh, we are from the Furong Branch. There are some things I would like to ask you about. Do you know this Zhang Zhiqiang?" Officer Wang also got straight to the point.
But Xu Lihua on the phone said with disdain: "Why do you ask this?"
"Hey!" Seeing that the other party seemed to be resisting, Officer Wang continued to explain:
"It's like this. We can't contact Zhang Zhiqiang here, and the daily wages he needs to settle for the workers have not yet been settled. Now the workers are causing trouble. We must find Zhang Zhiqiang as soon as possible and ask him why he hasn't paid.
salary?"
"Zhang Zhiqiang won't pay his salary? No way?" When Officer Wang said this, Xu Lihua on the other end of the phone seemed to be in disbelief.
Officer Wang clicked his tongue and said angrily: "Do I still need to lie to you?"
"Now these troublemaking workers have made a mess outside the stadium."
"Jay's concert will start the day after tomorrow. If the peripheral work is not done well, there will be big problems."
After chatting for a while, Officer Wang continued to ask: "So, where is Zhang Zhiqiang? Do you know?"
"I don't know." Xu Lihua on the phone also listened to Officer Wang's ramblings, and finally replied "I don't know."
Officer Wang was a little angry and said angrily: "How could you not know? Didn't he come to see you yesterday?"
"He came to see me yesterday, but he just sent me the contract documents, and then he left." Xu Lihua said on the phone.
"Left?" Officer Wang hesitated for a few seconds, then quickly asked: "Then when did he leave?"
"How can I remember this?"
"You must remember." Seeing Xu Lihua on the phone, she didn't seem to care about the urgency of the current situation. When she spoke, she also seemed a bit frivolous and indifferent.
But Officer Wang can't wait any longer. Many workers are stopping work outside.
If this delays the construction schedule, there will be big problems with this concert.
So now we must find Zhang Zhiqiang and solve the current problem.
After hearing what Officer Wang said, Xu Lihua on the phone also said helplessly:
"I really don't remember when he left. Anyway, he didn't stay here for long. I didn't pay attention to the specific time, so I just put the documents in the room, and then took a bath in the hotel room.
That’s all.”
"Gu Chen." Seeing the other party's reply, Officer Wang looked at Gu Chen.
Gu Chen, who had been standing next to Officer Wang and listening to the call, also took the phone from Officer Wang and continued:
"Then let me ask you, when Zhang Zhiqiang is at your place, was the document delivered by a female cashier from his company?"
"Female cashier?" Xu Lihua was stunned at first, but quickly reacted and replied quickly:
"Yes, the document was sent by a woman, who seems to be an employee of his company. Is it a female cashier? I don't know."
"Then how long did it take for Zhang Zhiqiang to leave after receiving this document?" Gu Chen asked again.
"How long?" After thinking for a few seconds, Xu Lihua's response came from the other end of the phone:
"Maybe... half an hour, Zhang Zhiqiang drank some tea at my place and chatted for a while, and then he left."
"Have you contacted him since then?" Gu Chen heard this and continued to ask.
"No, I also called his number, but couldn't get through. I also called him in the morning." Xu Lihua also said helplessly.
Later, Gu Chen communicated with Xu Lihua on the phone some details before hanging up.
"What do you say?" Officer Wang, who took over his cell phone, also quickly asked Gu Chen.
Gu Chen did not respond directly, but after thinking for a few seconds, he looked at the female cashier beside him and asked:
"Are you sure it was 7 o'clock last night when you gave Zhang Zhiqiang the documents?"
"I'm sure, because when I left, I happened to hear the music starting from the news broadcast."
"Although I'm not sure of the specific time, I can tell from the music on the Xinwen Network that it should be 7 p.m.," the female cashier said.
"Okay." Seeing this, Gu Chen nodded silently, and then looked towards the front desk.
The female receptionist also looked at Gu Chen at this moment. When she saw Gu Chen taking the initiative to walk towards her, she also hurriedly took a few steps forward.
"Do you have a key card for the room where Zhang Zhiqiang lives?" Gu Chen asked.
"Yes." The female receptionist nodded silently.
Gu Chen hesitated for a few seconds and then asked: "Where is your monitoring room?"
"On the first floor, over there." The female receptionist pointed a direction to Gu Chen.
Gu Chen nodded silently, said "thank you", and then led Lu Weiwei, Officer Wang, Yuan Shasha, the fat middle-aged project staff member, and Zhang Zhiqiang's two financial staff, and walked towards the control room.
go.
Later, in the monitoring room, Gu Chen found Zhang Zhiqiang's location, a large administrative room, through the reminders of two financial personnel.
After that, Gu Chen used the hotel's surveillance system to check yesterday's entry and exit, and found that Zhang Zhiqiang had not entered his room since the afternoon.
But thinking that Zhang Zhiqiang is not with Xu Lihua at the moment, Gu Chen also feels that something may have happened to this Zhang Zhiqiang?
But if you want to know Zhang Zhiqiang's current situation, you must know what Zhang Zhiqiang has been doing recently?
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Therefore, Gu Chen needs to find Zhang Zhiqiang as soon as possible and get these wages distributed.
After thinking for a while, Gu Chen said to the female receptionist: "Take your room card and follow me to Zhang Zhiqiang's room."
"Okay." The female receptionist knew that Gu Chen was currently handling a case, so she was very cooperative.
He turned around and led Gu Chen and others towards the elevator.
This hotel adjacent to the Jiangnan Olympic Stadium has a total of 28 floors.
The executive suite Zhang Zhiqiang opened for himself is on the 27th floor.
When everyone opened the door through the key card, a gust of cold wind blew in their faces.
Only then did everyone realize that the windows of Zhang Zhiqiang’s executive suite were not closed.
When the female receptionist saw this, she was about to go over and close the window, but Gu Chen reached out to stop her.
"Comrade police, if the window is not closed, if it rains, the rain will fall on the carpet. It rained last night, and the window is not closed."
"I know." Knowing the working attitude of the female receptionist, he knew that she wanted to go in and see if the carpet was soaked by the rain, but Gu Chen explained:
"Currently, no one is allowed to enter this room. We need to go in and check it out first."
"Okay... okay." Seeing that Gu Chen had already said this, the female receptionist couldn't say anything else. She could only take a step back and stand at the door.
Afterwards, Gu Chen and others immediately put on their protective equipment and walked in from the door.
At this moment, the room was filled with a chill. It had rained last night, but the window of Zhang Zhiqiang's executive suite had been left open.
Therefore, there was some moisture at the window sill. Gu Chen walked to the window sill and even found that there seemed to be some moisture on the carpet.
"It seems that Zhang Zhiqiang did not come back last night, or he may have wanted to come back, but he did not come back because of something."
As Lu Weiwei spoke, she used her white-gloved right hand to move Zhang Zhiqiang's opened suitcase inside.
Because rainwater drifted into the window, Zhang Zhiqiang’s luggage was also wet.
And Zhang Zhiqiang’s suitcase was placed by the window sill.
Gu Chen agreed with this statement, but now he needed to carefully examine the entire room.
So Gu Chen ordered: "Everyone pay attention to every detail in the room and see what Zhang Zhiqiang left here?"
"Understood." After hearing Gu Chen's words, everyone immediately dispersed from the center and began to inspect every corner of the executive suite.
Gu Chen squatted down and began to rummage through Zhang Zhiqiang's luggage.
Inside the suitcase were mostly a change of clothes and some daily necessities.
There is also a briefcase on the sofa in the bedroom.
Gu Chen walked to the sofa in Zhang Zhiqiang's room, opened the briefcase directly, and began to rummage through the various documents in the briefcase.
After carefully checking all the documents, Gu Chen discovered that they were all ordinary contract documents and bills of materials.
So Gu Chen asked everyone: "Have you found any clues?"
"No."
"I don't have one here either."
"Me too, I haven't found any clues here."
Everyone responded and came to Gu Chen's side one after another.
Lu Weiwei quickly asked Gu Chen: "Junior brother Gu, did you find anything?"
Gu Chen shook his head and handed the briefcase to Lu Weiwei: "They are just ordinary documents, not many valuable clues."
"However, these documents can be taken back temporarily and sorted out to see if any clues can be found."
"Well, Xiao Yuan, put it away." After hearing Gu Chen's words, Lu Weiwei handed the document to Yuan Shasha in the back row.
Afterwards, Gu Chen came to the window, closed it, and then led everyone back to the door.
Gu Chen quickly reminded: "Don't go in to clean this room right now, and you can't let anyone in, do you understand?"
"Understood." After listening to Gu Chen's explanation, the female receptionist nodded quickly.
"Okay, let's get down." Gu Chen said.
The group of people returned to the lobby on the first floor again.
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At this moment, the middle-aged fat man who was walking back and forth in the lobby on the first floor, waiting for Gu Chen and others, also opened the elevator door and hurried over.
When he saw Gu Chen, he quickly asked: "Officer Gu, do you have any news about Zhang Zhiqiang?"
"Not yet." Gu Chen shook his head and explained.
The fat middle-aged man also had a worried look on his face and complained: "What should we do? The construction period can't be delayed, but now, the bastard Zhang Zhiqiang can't be found."
"The workers must be very angry now and will definitely not work."
"The work can't stop." After hearing what the middle-aged fat man said, Gu Chen also reminded him:
"If the work does not continue, then the concert cannot be held as scheduled. This will be a serious problem."
"However, although the truth is this, workers will definitely not work if they don't get wages. Everyone is not so aware. They only work if they are paid."
With a heavy sigh, the middle-aged fat man said helplessly: "What we all do is short-term, to make some quick money with daily wages."
"If you don't pay them, it will cost them their lives. No one wants to work for nothing. I can't solve this problem."
After thinking about it, the middle-aged fat man asked Gu Chen again: "Oh, by the way, Officer Gu, aren't you the leader of Furong Branch? Can you help me go and talk to them?"
"What did you say?" Gu Chen asked.
"Just let them work first." The fat middle-aged man also sighed and said helplessly:
"I also know that the construction period cannot be delayed. We can only do the work in advance, but we can't rush the concert to start and have unfinished work. This will definitely not work."
"That is not good news for the entire Jiangnan City, but then again, if there is no money, workers will have no motivation to work."
"That is... you can ensure that we get the money, even if it is a day or two late, we can get it. If we are sure we can get it, then I can do ideological work for them."
"It makes sense." Hearing that the middle-aged fat man also had this overall view, Officer Wang was quite satisfied, but he also questioned:
"Then according to what you mean, we will endorse you?"
"Yes, that's what it means, because you are the police, the police have authority, and everyone listens to you."
"If you say you can get wages, then we must believe you. However, if you fail to fulfill your promise, there will definitely be problems."
With a faint sigh, the middle-aged fat man said truthfully: "I have been a contractor for a long time, and I have encountered similar things in some projects before."
"Usually it's the workers who make trouble, go on strike or something like that, and make everyone embarrassed."
“In the end, the government came forward and advanced wages first so that workers could work with peace of mind, and then the government withdrew the money from the other party.”
"As for how it works? I'm not sure, but at least the workers have received their wages, and they have government backing, so there's no problem with their credibility."
"I understand, it means that the salary will be borne by our Jiangnan Municipal Government first?" Officer Wang said.
"Yes, that's the truth. After all, the concert must be held as scheduled, right? Besides, these daily jobs don't cost much, or your police can endorse everyone and ensure that everyone can get the money."
"Then the problem can be temporarily solved and the workers can start work as soon as possible."
"I understand." Knowing what the middle-aged fat man meant, Gu Chen said truthfully: "I don't have this authority for the time being, but I can apply for it for you."
"Then apply quickly. A lot of work today has been delayed by this matter, and the workers have little motivation to work." The fat middle-aged man said helplessly.
Gu Chen nodded silently, took out his cell phone and dialed Zhao Guozhi's phone number.
Not long after, the call was connected, and Gu Chen quickly reported: "Bureau Zhao, there are some problems with the peripheral work at the concert site. The contractor is missing, and the daily wages promised to the workers are missing."
"From last night to now, I have been unable to contact the foreman. Now the workers are on strike, and I am afraid that the work progress will be delayed."
"I just learned about this." After hearing what Gu Chen said, Zhao Guozhi on the phone also responded:
"Then what are you going to do?"
"There is a person in charge here who gave me some suggestions, that is, let the police or the government provide support to ensure that wages can be paid first, or that they can all get wages, so that the work on site can continue." Gu Chen
