scapegoat

On rainy nights, there are almost no pedestrians on the main road, and passing vehicles speed by, causing large splashes of water.

Lang Zhongming raced to the front of Hongsheng's building. In the darkness, only his office on that floor was lit with disturbing lights.

Along the way, hundreds of thoughts passed through his mind, and he only hoped that the ghost was a newcomer.

Hongsheng's position today is largely due to the old employees who are now staying.Whether it is their own experience or their support and recognition of Lang Zhongming at the beginning, they all played a decisive role in him.

After parking the car, the young Hongsheng ruler quickly walked across the waterlogged road, not even caring about the muddy water splashing on his trouser legs.

The business plan was just released in the past two days. After finalizing, one copy was kept in the safe in his office, one copy was kept with the project leader, and the other backup file was archived in the data room.

His own share has been locked in the safe, and only he has the key. It has been confirmed just now, and the key is still in place.

The files of the project leader are kept by him personally. Xiao Yang's backup is naturally placed in the freezer with a lock. Xiao Yang, Su Huiyun and Lang Zhongming each have a key.

So the most suspicious ones are the project leader... and Xiao Yang, who manages the reference room, and Su Huiyun, who has the key.Of course, the possibility of other people involved in the project stealing information is not ruled out.

"Mr. Ling—"

A group of people saw him coming and got up one after another.

Lang Zhongming waved his hand: "Sit down. What's the situation now?"

The person in charge of the project replied: "We have carefully checked all the processes and determined that the part stolen by Jufeng has not been contacted by anyone other than you and me throughout the entire project, so either the final draft was directly stolen. , or just a few people working together..."

Another department manager said: "To be honest, the young people under our management are carefully selected by everyone. We have placed high hopes on the few who participated in the project. If they are from Jufeng, I would say I don’t believe it at all, let alone the cooperation of several people, it’s too..."

The people next to him were about to say something to echo their colleagues, but Lang Zhongming interrupted him.

"I know what you want to say, and I don't want to believe that some of these juniors will be commercial spies. In this way, let's discuss how to change this plan. I will check the surveillance video in person to see if someone has stolen it. plan."

The most troublesome thing now is how to continue the follow-up of this project plan. The original plan is definitely not usable, and it needs to be changed temporarily. It is very difficult to reduce mistakes when time is tight.

Several high-level officials who were crucial to Hongsheng got together again, and soon fell into a heated discussion, which even looked like a quarrel to outsiders.

Lang Zhongming paid attention to the expressions of these people as he walked towards the monitoring room, but he couldn't see anything wrong.

He felt faintly uneasy, because there was another possibility in this matter that everyone didn't mention, but couldn't help guessing: Could it be Xiao Yang?

Xiao Yang has reasons to hate Lang Zhongming, the Ling family, and Hongsheng.

Lang Zhongming gritted his teeth, hoping that he was wrong.

He first called up the video of the project leader's office.

During the monitoring, the key plan was placed in the bottom drawer of the desk after it was handed over to the person in charge, and it was locked with two locks, and it was never opened again.

Lang Zhongming confirmed it twice from beginning to end, then took a deep breath, and called up the surveillance video in the reference room.

The first time, still did not see any problems.

Xiao Yang never opened the file after it was archived. He just stayed on the cover and labeled and numbered it, and then found the location where it should be stored in the huge file system and archived it.

Lang Zhongming breathed a sigh of relief, then, just to be on the safe side, he went back and read it a second time.

This time, he saw the clue.

Yesterday afternoon, Lang Zhongming went outside to participate in an event, and the person in charge of the project followed him. Without the person in charge, no one would ask Xiao Yang for this project during this period of time.

Xiao Yang stood at the place where the project was stored and sorted out the documents, with his back to the camera for a long time, except for subtle hand movements, he couldn't see the full frontal shot.

Lang Zhongming re-read this passage several times, and then played it forward.

Xiao Yang then ordered a takeaway, and the delivery boy sent the food box into the reference room. When Xiao Yang took the food box, the back of the delivery boy blocked the screen, and he still couldn't see the key handover action.

There was no more suspicious situation after that.

Lang Zhongming's heart tightened, and he zoomed in on several shots of the takeaway boy. Finally, in the moment when he walked out of Hongsheng's gate, he saw the inner lining blown up by the wind: it was Jufeng's employee uniform. .

Lang Zhongming's scalp was hairy, and he barely resisted the urge to go home and question Xiao Yang immediately.

After all, I didn't see the front, and it's possible that the "delivery staff" had contact with people in other places that could not be captured by surveillance.

In fact, there is another way, perhaps to know the truth.

A while ago, there were frequent scraping accidents at the intersection facing the Hongsheng building, so the traffic department borrowed the outer wall of their building to install some surveillance cameras to record the road conditions.

The installation of these cameras was chosen when Hongsheng employees were off work. The original communication work was also directly contacted with Lang Zhongming, and most of the employees did not know about it.

Some of the cameras have a relatively biased angle, which happens to be able to capture a little bit of the interior of the building.

Lang Zhongming communicated with the person in charge of the transportation department.

Because vicious commercial theft was involved, the person in charge was very accommodating and gave him permission to view the surveillance video of the camera outside the data room yesterday afternoon.

A write-protected video file is incoming.

This time, everything was recorded.

Although the angle of the camera is off and it can only capture the position below the shoulders, combined with the internal video of their company and Xiao Yang's familiar suit: this is bought by Gong Butler, and Xiao Yang wears it most often. that set.

In the picture, Xiao Yang held up a miniature camera and took pictures of the information pages one by one.

After that, the "delivery man" came in, and while exchanging food boxes, the two also secretly handed over the camera.

Xiao Yang is very smart, he didn't transfer the files directly on the network, but chose to transfer them ingeniously offline.

It's a pity that he didn't know about the newly installed cameras on the outer wall.

Lang Zhongming sat with his back against the chair, feeling that the blood all over his body was rushing to his forehead.

The anger in his heart was really reflected in his fierce eyes——

well.

At first, he was worried that there might be a traitor among Hongsheng's old people, but it turned out that the people around him were playing tricks.

Lang Zhongming sent a message to the travel agency to cancel the itinerary, sat there for a long time, and suddenly punched the table in the monitoring room.

As if the anger hadn't vented enough, he hurried back to his office, closed the door with great strength, and kicked the desk and chairs indiscriminately.

It seemed that he finally calmed down a bit, so he took a deep breath and rushed to the middle of several high-level people who were still in a meeting to solve the predicament together.

This is the master of a company. Reason is left to subordinates, calculation is left to opponents, and responsibility is left to partners.

And the rage can only be left to himself.

It was past 4 o'clock in the morning after finalizing the preliminary modification plan. Lang Zhongming drove home, but he didn't feel tired.

After thinking and thinking, he always felt that Xiao Yang did not believe it, so he decided to give him another chance to defend himself.

It's just that if Xiao Yang told him "I did it", Lang Zhongming really didn't know what to do.

The house was quiet, and the bloody storm had not even spread to the middle floor, and it had little impact on the Ling family.

Lang Zhongming gently pushed open Xiao Yang's door, and Xiao Yang's frowning sleeping face sank into the pillow amidst the warmth.

He thought and thought, but he still didn't wake him up immediately.

It was already New Year's Day after zero o'clock, but Lang Zhongming stayed up all night, sitting alone at the dining table until it was time for Xiaofeng to get up to make breakfast, and even frightened the poor child.

Xiaofeng probably also felt that the head of the house was in a bad mood today, so he ran into the kitchen in a hurry, not daring to vent his breath.

Xiao Yang still got up very late, Lang Zhongming greeted him to sit down and have porridge as if nothing happened.

During the dinner, Lang Zhongming asked seemingly casually: "Have you ever moved a business proposal? It was only filed in the past two days."

Xiao Yang was taken aback: "Did you lose the file?"

He has always been nervous about work, which is the most socially valuable part of him.

Lang Zhongming was silent for a while, and said, "Well, it was stolen."

Xiao Yang blurted out: "I haven't touched any files..."

Lang Zhongming looked directly into Xiao Yang's eyes coldly: "Then why did I see on the surveillance that you gave it to someone else?"

Xiao Yang stared at him blankly, knowing in his heart that this was impossible.He didn't do that, and he didn't care about it.

Why did Lang Zhongming say that about him?

Is it... a new trick to torment him?

Xiao Yang lowered his head and drank the porridge in silence.

Lang Zhongming sneered: "It's a pity that I want to treat you better recently, and I want to take you out for a walk during the holiday. I just saw you fell asleep, and I thought I wouldn't wake you up... Is this how you repay me?"

Xiao Yang's anger also came up, and he said sullenly, "What do you have that I should repay?"

Lang Zhongming was so angry that he jumped up from the chair, grabbed Xiao Yang's collar and pressed him firmly against the table, and hit the corner of the table with the back of his head.

Lang Zhongjin's roar brought about electric shocks, which spread from his arms to Xiao Yang's heart: "If you hate me, come at me! There are hundreds of people in Hongsheng! What are you doing to embarrass them!"

Xiao Yang frowned in pain, but he couldn't help but want to ridicule him in his heart. After all, compared to Master Lang's generosity ten years ago, no matter what he did, it was child's play.

What's more, wanting to impose a crime?

Lang Zhongming stared at the painful face in front of him, and he was angry for a long time, but finally he didn't burst out, he just pushed him into the kitchen, closed the door, and locked it.

"Let him think about his mistakes behind closed doors! Don't let him out!"

Xiaofeng nodded in fright, and then Lang Zhongming went out again. The sound of closing the door even caused the unsteady vase on the table to fall to the ground.

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