The middle-aged man carefully opened the dialog box, only to hear the other party casually ask: "What's the matter, brother? Do you have anything to do with me?"
"Brother, are you still working at your old company?" The middle-aged man also glanced at Gu Chen, and then asked quickly into his cell phone.
"I haven't done anything for a long time." In the dialog box, the other party seemed to be quite complaining.
The middle-aged man paused and immediately asked: "Then where do you work now?"
"I am unemployed. I have changed several companies and I am still looking for a job." said the man in the dialog box.
The middle-aged man calmed down and then asked: "Are you still in Haidong City now?"
"Where else can you go if not in Haidong City? I've been here for many years, what? Contacting my brother is just to talk to me about this? Could it be that you are looking for me if you have something to do?"
If the person you haven't contacted for a long time suddenly wants to find you, he must be asking for something from the other person.
The other party seemed to know this very well.
The middle-aged man also smiled and said: "It's nothing. I just haven't contacted him for a long time. I suddenly want to meet some friends for a meal or something. If you are free, come over and let us all get together."
"Eat?" The other party seemed a little confused.
But soon another voice message came: "Where to eat?"
"It's... just the place where we used to eat. What do you think?" the middle-aged man said quickly into his mobile phone.
After a while, the other party did not continue the voice conversation, but made a video call directly.
When the middle-aged man saw this, he quickly leaned back.
When Gu Chen and others saw this, they also deliberately avoided the camera and stood at an angle to observe the situation of the other party on their mobile phones.
Seeing that everything was ready, the middle-aged man clicked on the video call.
At this moment, a middle-aged man with unkempt hair smiled casually and said, "Brother, it's been a long time."
"Haha, long time no see." Seeing that the man was here to confirm, the middle-aged man responded with a smile, and then quickly asked:
"Are you free today? Let's get together later. We haven't had dinner together for a long time."
"When I was cleaning my phone today, I took a look and saw who this person is. I clicked on your circle of friends and realized that this is you, my brother. So, I thought, we haven't had dinner together for a long time, why don't we get together?
Get together?"
"Is that so?" Listening to the middle-aged man's sincere look, the unkempt man hesitated again and again and agreed:
"Okay, I'll come over later, and I'll let you know before I come."
"Okay, then I'll wait for you."
…
The two communicated for a while before hanging up the phone.
The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Gu Chen and the others, and asked hurriedly: "Comrade police, is this okay?"
"Okay." Seeing that the other party was doing things well, Gu Chen was grateful and said, "Thank you."
"You're welcome, it's just that I have to use the guise of a dinner party to ask someone out."
"You don't know that for those of us who work part-time, there is no profit and we can't afford to work early. If you don't give people some benefits, they won't bother to meet you."
"I saw you conducting an investigation, so I took this step."
"It doesn't matter, we will go to dinner together later, to the restaurant you mentioned, and we will pay for it," Officer Wang said.
"Hey, it's okay. Let's go together later."
As soon as the middle-aged man here finished speaking, a message came on his cell phone.
The middle-aged man looked down and said quickly: "He sent the time and said he would arrive at 6 p.m."
"Okay, then 6 o'clock." Gu Chen nodded silently, and then asked: "Don't you know your name yet?"
"My surname is Zhang, Zhang Wei."
"Okay, Mr. Zhang." Gu Chen followed immediately and introduced the members present to Zhang Wei.
After some communication, everyone decided to go to Laoxiangchang Restaurant for dinner at 6pm.
This is less than 50 meters away from the compound.
Go through the narrow road and walk to the end. At the intersection, this restaurant has been in business for more than ten years and is considered a time-honored restaurant.
Those who come here to eat are all employees of nearby companies.
Everyone arrived at the venue early and found a private room.
At this moment, the old man's daughter has been sitting in the corner, looking very embarrassed.
"Liu Xia." At this moment, Officer Xiaozhuang called her and said slowly: "Don't worry, your father is in the hospital and will be taken care of by our colleagues. He should be fine."
"Just stay here and see if you can help us find some clues."
"After all, you went to the island before."
"I know." Liu Xia nodded silently and sighed:
"I just feel like, why are so many things happening? And I don't know anything about them?"
With a faint sigh, Liu Xia added: "I also feel that my father's poisoning situation is too suspicious. How could he be so good and take poison to commit suicide? Anyway, I don't believe it."
"Don't worry, we will wait until we investigate before drawing any conclusions." Lu Weiwei quickly comforted her.
Not long after, everyone heard the sound of footsteps coming from the door. Then, the door of the private room was pushed open, and the decadent bearded man stuck his head out and found that there were quite a few people in the private room.
But when he saw Officer Xiaozhuang's police uniform, his expression suddenly became blank and hesitant.
"Brother, you came here so late, it's almost 6:30." Zhang Wei also smiled when he saw this.
The bearded man was stunned for a moment, then slowly walked aside and said weakly: "There... there are so many people today?"
Glancing at Zhang Wei, the bearded man quickly said: "Zhang Wei, could it be that you were having dinner with these friends today and then called me by the way?"
"Wrong, don't tell me, it really isn't like that." After hearing what the bearded man said, Zhang Wei quickly waved his hand to deny it and said:
"I came to see you today because these friends are looking for you. I just want to get together with you."
"It just so happens that we haven't seen each other for a long time."
"Oh no." Listening to Zhang Wei's words, the bearded man seemed to be more and more confused, and he quickly said:
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "I'm talking about Zhang Wei, why can't I understand this?"
"You don't need to understand, come on, sit down first." Seeing that the bearded man was still hesitant, Zhang Wei directly pulled him to his side, and then pressed him on the seat.
"Brother, it's like this. These police comrades want to know about your Jintuo company's previous business, so they asked me to come to you and ask questions."
"You want to ask me a question?" Upon hearing what Zhang Wei said, the bearded man felt a little panicked.
You know, the people in this box are all here to question me.
And the identity of the other party is still a policeman, which is a bit interesting.
The bearded man suddenly panicked, but soon he heard the voice of a middle-aged woman in the corner.
"Brother, do you still know me?" Liu Xia, who was sitting in the corner, said.
"You?" The bearded man was stunned for a moment, squinted his eyes, scratched the back of his head, and said thoughtfully, "You look familiar."
"I've been to your company before. My dad used to work as an island guard in your company." Liu Xia said again.
"Your dad is our company's island guard?" The bearded man continued scratching the back of his head, as if he was trying to remember.
So Liu Xia added: "Before the Chinese New Year, I was on your company's supply ship, and we went to the island to deliver supplies to my dad. Do you remember? I remember at the time that you seemed to be on the ship, and you were a technician."
"Oh!" Having said this, the bearded man suddenly realized and said quickly:
"Yes, yes, I remember, we have met before."
After a pause, the bearded man said again: "Eh? Then what are you doing here?"
"Looking for you." Liu Xia said.
The bearded man quickly asked: "Could it be that these police comrades coming to me have something to do with your father?"
After all, he is a technician and highly educated. This situation seems to be very obvious.
Liu Xia nodded silently and sighed: "My dad took poison today and is still being treated in the hospital."
"But it's still unclear why he took the poison."
"It's just like this after these police comrades came here to investigate. Moreover, the police comrades came to our place to investigate two people who disappeared without reason."
"Both of these two people have the intention to apply for the job of island guard, so the police comrades concluded that these missing people may be looking for my dad."
With a faint sigh, Liu Xia added, "But now that my dad is like this, I really don't know what to do."
"It just so happened that they wanted to investigate the company where my dad worked before, but it seems that the company has moved away."
"So, they found Brother Zhang Wei and wanted to contact the staff of that company through Brother Zhang Wei, so they found you."
"Is that so?" After listening to Liu Xia's narration, the bearded man finally understood the cause of the matter.
So Gu Chen continued: "That's what happened, so now we also want to know what's going on with your company?"
"As a technician of this Jintuo company, you should be very familiar with this company, right?"
"Alas!" After hearing Gu Chen's words, the bearded man also sighed and then said:
"Actually, I have been working in this company for four years, and I don't know what happened. The company suddenly went bankrupt."
"Bankruptcy?" Hearing what the bearded man said, Yuan Shasha was curious and asked hurriedly:
"Why did everything go so well and then went bankrupt? Was it poor management or something like that?"
"I can't figure it out either." The bearded man shook his head and said involuntarily:
"At first, this Jintuo company was engaged in the wind power generation business of island house doors, and my job was to maintain these wind power generation facilities on a daily basis. The work was relatively leisurely, and I felt that the benefits should be pretty good."
"This company has low operating costs, and the necessary personnel are just us, not many."
"If we encounter major technical problems, the company will dispatch other people to help."
"But suddenly one day, the lease of the company's office was up, and the company immediately canceled it, and even packaged and sold all the business to other people. Then, I was inexplicably unemployed."
"Is that so?" Hearing what the bearded man said, Zhang Wei on the side was also quite curious:
"Then you said at the beginning that you didn't want to do it anymore."
"Isn't this a matter of saving face?" After hearing what Zhang Wei said, the bearded man said reluctantly:
"At that time, the company was disbanded relatively suddenly. At first, we said we were planning to move the office to another location."
"Let us wait at home, and then, because the office facilities we rented before are all ready-made, there are not many things to move."
"During the time when the company was relocating, we were able to receive some basic living expenses."
"But a month later, I called the company and asked when it would be reported?"
"The company told me that the company has been dissolved, and all employees can find other jobs. There is no special compensation. Each person is paid a few thousand yuan, and then there is nothing more."
"Later I looked for other jobs, because my major is wind power generation, which is relatively niche, so I couldn't find a suitable job here for a while."
After a pause, the bearded man changed his words and said, "In other words, I couldn't find a job with the same high salary, so I changed jobs several times, but none of them were ideal."
"I'm still busy looking for a job now, so I got your call."
"Then according to what you say, it's too weird that your company's office has been closed down, right?" Listening to the bearded man's story, Officer Wang also felt that the matter was not that simple.
On the other side, Lu Weiwei inquired about some information about Jintuo Company through her mobile phone, so she quickly explained to everyone:
"This Jintuo company seems to have been established quite recently, only a few years in total."
"If you include the years when Liu Xia's father worked as an island guard, it means that when Liu Xia's father first became an island guard, the company had just been established."
"But just after Liu Xia's father resigned, the company inexplicably transferred its business to other companies, and then the company was canceled in place. Isn't this too strange?"
"Businessman." Zhang Wei took a sip of water and said slowly:
"Businessmen are all profit-seeking, and this is how they do business. They may think that wind power generation has been successful in the past few years, and then they will immediately start this project."
"When you make enough, you stop immediately and invest in other projects, over and over again. This is what some people do, always standing in the spotlight."
After a pause, Zhang Wei twirled his fingers again and explained: "However, the most important thing is to have capital and liquidity."
Listening to Zhang Wei's rhetoric, these are not what Gu Chen wants to know.
Gu Chen turned to look at the bearded man and continued to ask him: "You often go to the island to work, right?"
"Well, I don't go there often. Anyway, every time the supply ship passes by, I have to go with it to inspect the equipment."
"So, go twice a month?" Lu Weiwei said.
The bearded man hesitated for a moment, then nodded silently: "Absolutely, I'll go there twice a month."
