reverse trapping

Cheng Mu bit his lower lip.

Except for Shen Jinzhi, he probably couldn't think of another person who could say "eating" so ambiguously.

The surrounding voices were noisy, but Shen Jinzhi's chuckle was particularly obvious.

The night wind blew slowly, and the two left the noisy snack street.

The night of reunion after a short farewell is the tenderness that belongs only to each other.

Two bowls of hot egg noodles, two pairs of chopsticks pressed against the noodle bowls, and two people sitting opposite each other.

After eating half a bowl of warm noodles, the worries in his heart flooded into Cheng Muze's thoughts again.

He hesitated to pick up a piece of beef from the dish, put it in Shen Jinzhi's bowl, and asked tentatively: "Are you really not telling me what you've been doing recently?"

Shen Jinzhi's eyebrows moved slightly.

The unfinished pot was steaming slightly, and a light white mist formed a seemingly invisible barrier between the two of them.

Shen Jinzhi put down the chopsticks in his hand, and asked Cheng Muze, "A Xia, is there any possibility for you to forgive them?"

Cheng Mu stirred the noodle soup in the bowl, and said calmly: "There is no need to talk about forgiveness for people and things that will not participate in my future life."

Shen Jinzhi nodded: "Okay, don't worry, everything is up to me."

Cheng Mu licked his lips and didn't ask any more questions.

He took another piece of meat and sent it to Shen Jinzhi's bowl: "How long will you stay this time?"

Shen Jinzhi's answer was very straightforward, as if he had already made a plan: "Tomorrow morning."

Cheng Mu didn't speak, and poked the noodles in the bowl silently.

"Are you so wronged?" Shen Jinzhi smiled.

Cheng Mu ignored his teasing and continued to poke the bottom of the bowl.

Shen Jinzhi reached out and took out Cheng Muze's chopsticks, and put it beside the bowl: "I promise you to learn some new dishes you like, and I'll make them for you as soon as you come back, okay?"

Cheng Mu's dim eyes became brighter: "Really?"

"Really." Shen Jinzhi lamented that his A-Xia was quite coaxing, and touched the back of his hand, "It will be the New Year in a while, write down all your wishes, and I will help you realize them."

·

Time passed quietly in the busy day and night, and the calendar logo on Shen Jinzhi's desk has been drawn for nearly 20 days.

After more than ten days, Shen Jinzhi stepped into the gate of the Beichi City Public Security Bureau again, and happened to meet Officer Fang who had returned from the police.

Officer Fang motioned for his colleagues to leave first, and then spoke to Shen Jinzhi: "I'm sorry, Professor Shen, we have summoned many people related to this matter during this period, including the identified stepmother of Cheng Muze, but the case is progressing." ……unsatisfactory."

Shen Jinzhi nodded not unexpectedly: "I understand that too much evidence was destroyed by the fire. He was sure that there was no evidence, so he would blatantly say what happened back then. I am not here today for this matter, but to cooperate with other investigation of a case."

Officer Fang took a deep breath: "You—"

Shen Jinzhi raised the corner of his mouth politely: "I always remember your advice last time."

After finishing speaking, Shen Jin walked forward and left.

He walked into the interrogation room and waited for the police to speak first.

Two police officers sat opposite him and said politely: "I invite you to come today because I hope that you can cooperate with the investigation of two cases related to the Sicheng Group."

Shen Jinzhi folded his hands on the table and nodded seriously.

"Some time ago, Sicheng Group's capital chain was broken, and its suppliers refused to perform the contract because the money did not arrive, so that the orders that it should have delivered to customers could not continue due to the lack of raw materials.

"But on the second day after the contract expired, the supplier company launched a tender to sell this batch of materials, with a clause that the payment can be delayed for one month. I heard that you are a professor of economics at Jinsong University. What do you think? Is this strange?"

Shen Jinzhi smiled warmly, but didn't answer.

"Let's put it this way." The police continued, "We found that a few days before the contract between Sicheng Group and its suppliers expired, there was a large amount of money in your account, and then you transferred part of the money to In the name of Yu Chuan, the legal representative of this supplier, can you explain this behavior?"

The north wind knocked against the glass, and the cold wind came in through the window and came along the long and narrow table net.

Shen Jinzhi replied without changing his face: "Yu Chuan is my former student. He was eager to make a venture capital investment and borrowed money from me in his own name. I don't have much money, so I borrowed money from a friend and then re-loaned it to Yu Chuan." .As for the others, they are their company's business practices, I have no right to ask, and I don't know."

"A company participating in the bidding said that you immediately reminded other companies that Sicheng was suspected of stealing the bid price after the bid opening. Is this true?"

"No one said it clearly, they understood it by themselves." Shen Jinzhi picked up a pen and wrote two numbers on a white paper, and pushed them in front of the police officer, "Everyone is not stupid, and they won the bidding with a slight advantage of less than 500 yuan , the probability of this is extremely low.”

The police officer frowned: "Then why did you report on the equipment produced by Sicheng Group?"

Shen Jinzhi pushed his glasses: "Sicheng won the bid of Yuchuan Company, so I naturally paid more attention, but I soon discovered the problem.

"With their delivery speed, even if the workers are producing around the clock, the average working hours for each instrument is still too low. It is normal logic to reverse the problem of the product itself. Recently, Beichi City is implementing special rectification activities Citizens actively provide clues, don’t the police advocate it?”

The policemen looked at each other.

"Every explanation you said seems to be no problem when taken apart, but if they are connected together, wouldn't it be too coincidental?"

Shen Jinzhi did not deny it: "Officer, it is not wise to waste time on me. After all, no matter whether my logic is self-consistent or not, in all relevant incidents, my behavior has not touched any legal red line."

"In addition." Shen Jinzhi added, "I have studied Sicheng Group's corporate annual reports for the past ten years, and found that there may be abnormalities in the data related to high-end companies disclosed by it, so we can pay attention to whether it has cheated the state of high subsidies. .”

Ten minutes later, Shen Jinzhi left the inquiry room.

In the long corridor of the police station, Shen Jinzhi and the handcuffed Cheng Ye met fatefully.

The moment he saw Shen Jinzhi, Cheng Ye rushed towards him angrily: "Shen Jinzhi! You deliberately facilitated the bidding, forced me to take risks, and reported my products after I finished the delivery. I really underestimated you !"

Cheng Ye struggled fiercely, but was forcibly controlled by the police behind him.

From the beginning to the end, Shen Jinzhi's expression was very indifferent, unwilling to share any more emotions with him.

"Stealing trade secrets is your choice, and it's also your choice to forge inspection documents recklessly. It doesn't matter whether you have those things or not. If you don't understand, then think about it in prison."

Shen Jinzhi took off his glasses and walked into the distance.

Behind him, there was endless swearing, and in Shen Jinzhi's eyes, it was just impotent rage.

The cold wind quickly climbed up the metal frame, freezing his fingertips.

He took out his phone, opened a pre-edited message, and clicked send.

He stopped a car and left the police station.

Half an hour later, a person appeared in his short-term rented apartment.

Cheng Muze's stepmother put down her handbag and sat on the sofa by herself.

She looked around and asked, "You asked me to meet today, don't you think you want to negotiate with me by rescuing Cheng Ye?"

Shen Jinzhi didn't speak, and pushed a cup of coffee over.

The rich aroma of hand-ground coffee hides the cold temperature.

There is almost no sunlight in the room, and the temperature seems to be a few degrees cooler than outside.

The woman glanced at the same coffee in Shen Jinzhi's cup as hers, picked up the cup and took a sip.

"Cheng Ye wasn't so stupid in the first place, he just stepped into your trap because he was too impatient." She sighed, "However, you are also in a hurry. If you wait a little longer, when the batch of testing equipment causes a major accident, he will fall into your trap." It’s not just this little bit that needs to be held accountable.”

"Most major accidents are linked to human life. In order to achieve the goal, we know that there is a problem but don't stop it. Then what is the difference between me and you?"

Facing Shen Jinzhi's irony, the woman stopped drinking coffee.

The sound of the cup knocking against the table was particularly noticeable.

"Don't waste time, tell me, your purpose."

"Just to tell you something you don't know." Shen Jinzhi put down the porcelain cup, "I recently got a recording, which records the conspiracy between you and the dean back then."

The woman's calmness began to drop, and the coffee in her mouth had a distinct bitter taste.

She pressed her fingertips secretly in the palm of her hand: "I don't understand what you are saying."

Shen Jinzhi was not annoyed by her denial: "It's okay if you don't understand, then please go back."

With that said, Shen Jinzhi got up and left.

"and many more."

The woman gasped, and the unexplained burning pain passed down her throat to her heart, wringing out more pain.

She coughed twice, the choking sound was not small, but Shen Jinzhi didn't look at her, but stared at the cup of coffee meaningfully.

Noticing that expression, the woman's eyes tightened, and she asked excitedly, "What did you give me to drink?"

"Coffee." Shen Jinzhi replied casually, "Can't you tell?"

The discomfort continued to spread outward, the woman grabbed the tablecloth, and the moving folds knocked over the coffee on the table, leaving a huge stain on the cloth.

"What is it!"

Shen Jinzhi looked at the blue veins on her forehead, and said with a smile: "When you used drugs to cause Cheng Mu to appear in an abnormal mental state, did you ever think that you would have such a day?"

The woman's eyes widened suddenly.

Shen Jinzhi tapped the back of his hand coldly, and stopped looking at her.

"Anxin, my father is a doctor and knows many colleagues in the psychiatry department. I will definitely introduce you to a good one."

The gloom of the evening spilled into the living room, pressing down on her inescapable figure, she said eagerly and anxiously: "Why are you crazy! Whatever you want, I'll give it to you!"

"I'm sorry, but I don't want to exchange with you. I think it's dirty." Shen Jinzhi stood up straight, emphasizing each sentence, "I will hand over this evidence immediately after I get out of here today. Choose between being a lunatic or being a lunatic." Prisoner, this is indeed a question worth thinking about."

Seeing that the previous thinking didn't work, the woman immediately began to sell miserably: "You let me go, my son is not yet two years old, and he can't live without me, so you should take pity on us."

"Poor? Wasn't A-Xia a child without a mother back then? How could you bear it?" Shen Jinzhi frowned in disgust, "It's never me who doesn't let you go, but you yourself."

"That's her mother's fault!" The woman's emotions became visible to the naked eye, "I was the one who wanted to marry Cheng Ye, but she became the so-called 'prime match' only because she was richer than me. Cheng Ye and I just married each other." It's a couple, but Cheng Mu shouldn't exist, it was his mother who made the mistake first!"

"According to your logic, should your children also pay for your actions?"

That sentence seemed like a rhetorical question, but also like a threat.

The woman's noisy voice suddenly fell silent.

She reached out and grabbed the fruit knife on the table, and rushed towards Shen Jinzhi.

"I can't get better, so don't even think about living!"

Shen Jinzhi raised his hand to stop, the sharp blade cut open the flesh on his wrist, a large amount of blood gushed out instantly, and wet his pure white shirt.

"Bang-"

The door opened wide, and the door panel slammed heavily against the white wall.

"Police! Put down the knife in your hand and raise your hands above your head!"

Police officer Fang moved closer from the door, and subdued the knife-wielding man with two strokes.

The woman struggled and twisted excitedly, and the shout in her mouth also changed: "He wants my life!"

The other police escorted the woman downstairs, and Police Officer Fang leaned towards Shen Jinzhi: "I came just after receiving your alarm text message, sorry, it's still too late."

Shen Jinzhi supported his wrist, blood stains dripped on the floor along the skin, and soon covered one area.

"Thank you, it's already in time."

Police Officer Fang beckoned to his subordinates: "Send Professor Shen to the hospital, and do an injury assessment by the way."

Shen Jinzhi followed the police officer and left calmly.

After the wound was stitched up in the hospital, Shen Jinzhi hurriedly searched for his original clothes.

He regretted wearing the cufflinks A Xia gave him today, but fortunately the cufflinks were not scratched, only stained with blood.

Walking into the bathroom of the ward, he turned on the tap to wash the cufflinks on his hands.

The sound of rushing water drowned out other sounds around.

Shen Jinzhi washed it several times, and after confirming that no traces could be seen on it, he smiled with satisfaction.

He turned around and pulled out a tissue to wrap the cufflinks, ready to dry them.

In the next second, shock fixed his body along his line of sight, and he looked at the person in front of him in astonishment: "Ah, Axia."

He didn't know when Cheng Muze stood behind him, and how long he watched silently, he felt flustered.

Cheng Mu had tears in his eyes, and his lips trembled visibly: "Shen Jinzhi, is this what you said to reassure me?"