No such person [criminal investigation]

Xu Ci's words were really surprising. Li Zhengzheng, who was taking notes with a pen, pressed his fingers hard, and the pen tip cut the paper.

Subconsciously glanced at Qi Zang beside him.

Qi Zang didn't react at all. He looked at Xu Ci calmly and carefully, without any other emotions.

Xu Ci looked at Qi Zang like this for a moment, but turned his attention to Li Zhengzheng. "Officer Qi hasn't seen Zhu Xiu yet, but you did meet today."

"Ah? Yes. What happened to Zhu Xiu?" Li Zhengzheng didn't expect Xu Ci to ask him suddenly.

Xu Ci asked again: "Did you find anything wrong with her?"

After feeling the gaze of Qi Zang beside him, Li Zhengzheng was taken aback for a moment, and then his face turned red.

What are you doing?

How come Xu Ci looks like a policeman and I look like a suspect being interrogated?

How can there be such a reason?

But Li Zhengzheng thought about it, and apart from feeling that Zhu Xiu hadn't rested well, and his face was pale from the shock, he really couldn't think of any obvious abnormalities.

Li Zhengzheng subconsciously cleared his throat, but before he could say anything, Xu Ci looked at Qi Zang again, and said with a faint smile: "It seems that your work is not in place. We pay a lot of taxes every year to support you. We are disappointed."

Xu Ci's tone was somewhat understated, but there was obvious mockery hidden in his words.

Li Zhengzheng was a little annoyed immediately, but Qi Zang remained expressionless.

"Just kidding. Don't mind the two of you. As citizens, we dare to make money with confidence because you are carrying the burden. In fact, I admire you very much."

There was a little teasing in Xu Ci's eyes, and maybe a little provocation.

Seeing him like this, Qi Zang, who had been as motionless as a mountain, finally frowned.

Although the appearance was too similar, he found that the person in front of him was becoming less and less like Xu Ci.

Xu Ci's impression of Qi Zang is basically related to beautiful images such as midsummer, youth, and lemonade.He has a very academic atmosphere, and when he doesn't hold a gun, he doesn't look like a policeman at all, like a scholar, or a researcher in a laboratory.

If memory is a beautiful filter.Every time I recall, that layer of filter will become thicker.

Reminiscing over and over again for so many years, Xu Ci through the filters is even farther away from the person in front of him.

The man in front of him, named Xie Qiao, was smooth-spoken and impeccable, and he looked like he had been immersed in the intrigue of the shopping mall for a long time, which easily made people feel wary.His slightly frivolous actions and words are also difficult to make people feel good.

Qi Zang's well-defined facial features are already sharp, but when he is completely serious, the sharpness of his facial features is particularly obvious.

His tone was also much harsher. "It's a matter of life and death, Mr. Xie, please be more serious."

He raised his eyelids, looked at Qi Zang for a moment, the smile on Xu Ci's face faded, and he said, "The weather is around 32 degrees recently, and everyone wears short sleeves, but Zhu Xiu has been wearing long sleeves and Wearing a silk scarf. There is an air conditioner in the mall, so it’s okay for girls who are afraid of the cold to do this, but it’s strange that she does this outdoors. In addition, she habitually pulls the neckline and sleeves in front of people, As if afraid that others would find out.

"Observing this abnormality, I asked a female colleague to help me pay attention. Sure enough, in the locker room, she found a chance to see that Zhu Xiu's arms and neck had serious bruises. I suspect that Zhu Xiu Suffered domestic violence. She is not married, so it is mostly caused by her boyfriend."

Qi Zang asked: "What is the connection between this and the murder case?"

Xu Ci asked back: "How much do you know about the nature of Zhu Xiu's financial work in supermarkets?"

Qi Zang: "Manage money and accounts?"

The main income of the supermarket is of course from the sale of goods.Now more and more people pay by scanning the code, and there is relatively little cash.However, the Beishui store is located in the center of the old city where every inch of land is very expensive and rich in local tyrants, and they often engage in recharge and cash back activities, and the amount of cash they receive every day is not a lot.

By scanning the code, swiping the card to pay, etc. to purchase goods, the funds will enter the electronic account of the Beishui store.If it is a cash purchase, the cashier will deposit the cash to the finance department at the end of each day's business, and then the finance department will deposit the cash into the store account through the bank the next day.

Before it is deposited in the bank, the cash will be stored in a safe, and Zhu Xiu will take care of the key.

After explaining this, Xu Ci continued: "For example, one day the Beishui store earned 5000 yuan, but the amount on the bank card only increased by 5000. That's because there are still [-] cash in the safe, or because the financial staff is carrying [-]. On the way to the bank to deposit. Officer Qi can understand?"

Qi Zang nodded: "I understand it. It is reflected in the accounting subjects. It seems to be called 'funds in transit'? If...

"If Zhu Xiu didn't deposit the 5000 in the bank, but put it in his bag, when will you find out?"

"Officer Qi really caught the key very quickly."

Xu Ci said, "It stands to reason that if you can check the sales revenue of each store and the flow on the bank card at all times, you can basically guarantee that there will be no mistakes. This work must either specially arrange for employees to keep an eye on it at all times, or it must be realized by the system. .

"However, the company's IT resources and human resources are limited, and it has not yet been able to achieve real-time reconciliation. The financial reconciliation requirements of our group headquarters for each branch company are once every half a month, and only the total amount is checked. This gives Zhu Xiu's operating space was created.

"After my investigation, Zhu Xiu will take away part of the cash received by the supermarket at the beginning of each month and embezzle it for her own use. After the reconciliation date, she will put the money back into the company to fill in the hole. She has always paid back the money in a timely manner. It has never been discovered. This time I came to do the inspection, manually imported the data for verification, and only then did I find the problem.”

At this point, Xu Ci turned on his laptop and showed Qi Zang a watch. "When I first came here, I only found out about this month's anomalies. I thought that Zhu Xiu was slacking off at work and was too lazy to go to the bank. Later, I found out that something was wrong with her, so I made further investigations.

"I wrote a macro in Excel today, and quickly compared the daily sales flow of the Beishui store and the funds in the accounts for the past six months. The facts are very clear. Officer Qi can see——

"Every month before, Zhu Xiu only took 10 and returned 10. The amount is not too big. But this month, she took as much as 160 million.

"Besides, before this month, she paid back the money to the company, basically four days before the account reconciliation date. But this month's account reconciliation date is the day after tomorrow. She still hasn't paid back the money. I think she still hasn't made it gone."

Raising his left hand to support his glasses, Xu Ci looked at Qi Zang. "In your opinion, under what circumstances will there be such frequent and large amounts of borrowing and repayment?"

Qi Zang said: "I was cheated by some kind of financial manager, or she was gambling."

"I think so too." Xu Ci said with a faint smile, "However, Zhu Xiu's operating cycle is only half a month, which is a little too short for financial management. Zhu Xiu herself is a student of finance, so she is not very good at it. It's easy to be fooled by this. So my personal tendency is to gamble.

"Zhu Xiu's food and clothing are very simple, and she doesn't seem to have any ambitions when it comes to money. Most of this is caused by her boyfriend."

Xu Ci folded his hands, put them on the table, and continued, "The next account reconciliation day of this month will be soon. I guess that Zhu Xiu's boyfriend lost the bet this time, and she will not be able to return the company's 160 million on the account reconciliation day. At that time, her misappropriation of public funds will definitely be exposed, and what awaits her will be criminal punishment.

"She and her boyfriend may have taken the risk and wanted to kidnap the general manager's daughter Liu Na for money. It's just that they played off and accidentally killed her."

Li Zhengzheng was taken aback when he heard that.After thinking about Xu Ci's words, he felt that Zhu Xiu's suspicion seemed to be getting bigger and bigger.

Only Zhu Xiu and Wang Yueran live on the first floor.

The rest lived on the second or third floor, and most of them were drunk and fast asleep.

Then, as long as Wang Yueran was sleeping alone, she and her boyfriend could commit murder in the bathroom on the first floor.

Li Zhengzheng glanced at Xu Ci in front of him, and couldn't help but feel a chill down his spine.

But how could the case be solved so quickly?

He always felt that he was easily carried away by the person in front of him.

Frowning tightly, Li Zhengzheng was taking notes stroke by stroke, and heard Qi Zang ask: "You have to have a premise for drawing such a conclusion—you have to be sure that Liu Na did not commit suicide.

"Then I'm curious, how can you come to that conclusion?"

Fuck you deserve to be the boss.

Li Zhengzheng looked at Xu Ci intently, looking forward to his answer.

"If the evidence at the scene is enough to prove that she committed suicide... you can go to her school at most, find classmates and teachers who know her better and ask about her personality and behavior, it should be enough for you to write a closing report, there is no need to repeat it , Come to us again and again.

"You have such a big battle, it can only prove that you are inclined to be a homicide. And the group of us who lived with her that night are very suspicious.

"So Officer Qi, it's not that I'm sure that Liu Na committed suicide, but you guys told me with your actions. If that's the case, I'll tell you my suspicions and just give you some clues."

Qi Zang immediately refuted him: "No. This case is not only Liu Na's case, but also a deceased person. Liu Na may have committed suicide, but who did the dismemberment case? You are still suspected. So we will Come and inquire."

Xu Ci said indifferently: "Oh, that's why I fell into a logical misunderstanding. I thought that Liu Na's murder, dismemberment, and suicide were closely related, so I ruled them out together. I was wrong.

"But I think it's understandable that I made a mistake. In fact... you've been asking about Liu Na, and you haven't asked about the dismemberment case, right?"

There is a war of words, you come and go.

Li Zhengzheng felt nervous while watching, and several drops of sweat couldn't help sliding down the back of his neck.

After staring at Xu Ci for a while, Qi Zang didn't continue to entangle him with the question just now, but asked again: "Now we have to ask about the case of dismemberment. If Liu Na didn't commit suicide, in your opinion, what happened to the other deceased?" ?”

Xu Ci shook his head: "I don't know at all. In fact, everything I said just now is just speculation. I don't know how to solve the case. I just thought of a possibility and provided it for your reference."

"It doesn't matter. The truth of many murders is far beyond our imagination. In fact, we really need to be unconstrained. It is better to think more than to think less. Then from this point of view—"

Qi Zang's eyes suddenly became cold and serious.

Stretching out his index finger to lightly tap the table, he narrowed his eyes and said unceremoniously, "Mr. Xie, you are quite suspicious."

Xu Ci adjusted his glasses again, and asked Qi Zang with a smile, "How do you say it?"

"There are so many businesses in the country, and you have to take care of them. It's a day-to-day management."

Qi Zang said, "As the leader of the headquarters, you came to the store to check, and the employees here invited you just out of politeness. They probably don't want to eat barbecue and play games with you, the leader, but just want to complain about you when you're not around. How many bonuses were fined for this inspection, or how many unnecessary work they were required to rectify...

"Judging from your previous statement, you did not enjoy this kind of team activity, and you also realized that if you were present, they would not have a good time, so you left early.

"All in all, you can actually decline this kind of invitation.

"Then I'm curious—"

Qi Zang's gaze was as cold as frost, and he asked with an unavoidable question, "Why did you participate in that team building?"

Hearing this, Xu Ci raised his eyebrows and looked at Qi Zang innocently. "It seems that I gave you a bad first impression. Do you think I am the kind of person who will never participate in grassroots team activities?"

"You really don't look like one."

Qi Zang has sharp facial features, and he is especially fierce and imposing when he looks at people with a straight face and cold eyes.

Xu Ci saw it, but didn't even frown.

"Misunderstood, Officer Qi. If I have a purpose, I just want to know more about Zhu Xiu and see if there is any difficulty in her doing so."

"As the director of internal control, if you find someone cheating or embezzling public funds, you optimize your management process, punish the employee, and then you just call the police. Why Zhu Xiu embezzled public funds, whether he gambled, and whether there are any difficulties at home, I I don't think it's something you'll manage."

Qi Zang gave Xu Ci a meaningful look, and said with a smile: "You said it yourself before. There are [-] employees in the group, and you have to take care of everyone's private affairs...how can you take care of it?"

Of course Xu Ci couldn't manage [-] employees.

But Liu Lixing is the general manager of the region and also belongs to the ranks of senior executives, and Jiang Xue is the store manager of the store with the highest sales. Whether there is any personal relationship between the two of them, and whether there is any joint fraud and embezzlement of the company's property, Xu Ci is actually the one who should Stay tuned.

Therefore, Qi Zang believed that Xu Ci's previous answer was to avoid the important and ignore the trivial, and he was looking for excuses.

Now he simply turned around and used his excuse to hit Xu Ci.

Behind the lens, Xu Ci's gaze suddenly flickered.

This is completely different from the calmness, calmness, sharpness, and occasional lightness he showed before.

I didn't know what to think of, and looked at Qi Zang quietly for a long time before Xu Ci said, "It's not my ultimate goal to call the police and send Zhu Xiu to prison. What the company and I care about most is whether the 160 million that she took away can be recovered." Come back. So I will try to get close to Zhu Xiu and track down the whereabouts of the money, Officer Qi really misunderstood."

Xu Ci stood up, "I know everything, so I leave."

Qi Zang also stood up abruptly, and this time directly pointed his mobile phone in front of Xu Ci.

On the screen of the mobile phone is the painting full of dark colors.

"You really don't recognize this painting?" Qi Zang asked him.

"I don't know. The painter is also surnamed Xie? It's a coincidence."

Xu Ci shook his head, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "'Death together' or something... It's a non-mainstream crazy speech. I'm really not the kind of person who would say such a thing. If there is nothing else, I'm leaving."

Qi Zang's eyes were stern. "You are suspected. You have stayed in Jinning City for the past few days, and the phone has been kept open. I will find you anytime."

"No problem." Meeting Qi Zang's gaze, Xu Ci took out a notebook, tore off a piece of paper, wrote a series of numbers on it, and handed it to Qi Zang. "This is my private number. Call me anytime."

Leaving the store manager's office, Xu Ci walked through the large office area, walked through a corridor, and then turned into the stairwell of the safe passage, and walked down the stairs to the underground garage step by step.

Start the car, drive it to the ground, walk half a circle around the shopping center, Xu Ci parked the car under a street lamp on the side of the street.

After turning off the engine, Xu Ci lowered half of the car window and looked sideways at the beautifully built building beside him.

It was dark at night, and all the LEDs that symbolized prosperity on the facade were extinguished, and only the office area on the fifth floor of the entire shopping mall was still brightly lit.

Under the night, a lonely street lamp casts light in the shape of an inverted pyramid, during which dust particles float up and down, echoing the lights on the fifth floor.

Half of Xu Ci's face, who was sitting in the driver's seat of the car, was illuminated by the light, and all the emotions on it disappeared, leaving only a little tiredness.

This tiredness suddenly made him look real.

It seems that the frivolity and sharpness he showed before are all just his disguise.Now this layer of camouflage finally showed some clues behind the people.

Soon, the phone rang, and when Xu Ci picked up the phone, all truths were subdued, and he became that invulnerable business elite Xie Qiao again.

"Mr. Xie?" Meng Yu's voice came, "I went downstairs to buy you something to drink, and when I came back, I found that you were not there...Have you gone back yet?"