The message sent by Lin Manluo in the chat channel was indeed strange, three workers who were close to retirement have recently resigned?
Generally speaking, it was quite normal for young people to quit their jobs and look for another way out when their job offers were not good enough or when they could not get along with their colleagues, and they still had the ability and conditions to put up a fight.
Yue Xingwen immediately typed and asked: “What is the reason for their resignation?”
Lin Manluo quickly sorted out the information and briefly concluded: “Peng Yong, 50 years old, the resignation report states that he is going abroad to help his son and daughter-in-law take care of his newborn twin granddaughters; Yi Jianqiang, 52 years old, resigned because he emigrated with his children abroad; Cheng De, 55 years old, resigned to take care of his partner because his wife has Alzheimer’s disease.”
On the face of it, the reasons given in the three resignations were reasonable. In particular, for the two elderly people who went abroad, their children must have a high income, so they would take the old people to live abroad, and it was not too bad to give up this job at home; The one who took care of his wife could be said to be a couple with a deep relationship, and would rather not work for his partner.
But Yue Xingwen always felt that things were not so simple.
He subconsciously turned his head to look at Jiang Pingce and asked in a low voice, “What do you think?”
Jiang Pingce said, “We have no way to verify the two people who went abroad. If colleagues in the unit can’t contact them after they quit, they won’t suspect that something has happened to them.”
Yue Xingwen nodded. “That’s right, going abroad is a good excuse, let’s go back and inquire about the situation of these two. Also, the one whose wife is sick and wants to resign and go home to take care of her, finds a way to investigate that too.”
At this moment, a ‘ding’ sound suddenly rang in his ears, and a man in a suit came out of the elevator. Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce immediately stopped their footsteps. When the other party saw the two of them, he stepped forward with a smile and took the initiative to greet, “Why did the two of you come out? Where are you going ah?”
Yue Xingwen said, “Go to the restroom.”
The man said in understanding, “Oh, then go and return quickly. I have something to explain to you.”
He said that and turned around to walk into the office where the two were before. Jiang Pingce made a look at Yue Xingwen, and said ‘Team leader Xiao Wenhui’ with his lips. Just now, Jiang Pingce simply flipped through the materials of the third desk in the office, and found that some documents had the signature of ‘Xiao Wenhui’, who was responsible for the project docking of the chemical factory and pharmaceutical companies.
Yue Xingwen said softly, “It looks like an NPC that issued a mission, should we go back with him first?”
Jiang Pingce agreed and replied, “En, let’s pretend to go to the restroom and sneak around for a bit before we go back.”
The two came to the restroom at the end of the corridor, and then turned around and returned to the office. Team leader Xiao was indeed sitting in front of his desk, handing them a folder and squinting his eyes. “This is the production plan for the next batch of projects we’re collaborating on with Ruike Pharmaceutical. You two can take the time to read through it, if there is no problem, report it to the leader for signature and start work next month.”
Jiang Pingce took the plan and sat at the desk with Yue Xingwen to read it carefully.
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Yue Xingwen nodded and pointed his finger at the plan, meaning that they would each remember one page.
Both of them had strong memories and quickly memorized key parts of the plan in their minds. The clock gradually pointed to 5 pm and Team Leader Xiao stretched his waist and said with a smile, “It’s almost time to leave work, I’m going back to pick up my girlfriend from school!” He rubbed his slightly bulging beer belly and got up to go out.
Yue Xingwen waited for him to leave before asking on the chat channel: “Does the chemical factory have an employee canteen?”
Since employee’s accommodation was provided, in theory, a canteen should also be arranged. They couldn’t order takeaway every day.
Sure enough, Zhang Xiaonian replied: “The employee’s canteen is on the 1st floor of the dormitory building. I went down with senior brother Xu just now to see it. Tonight’s meal is braised pork ribs, steamed fish, eggplant and bean curd, and also choy sum with minced garlic. The menus in the canteen change every day, and the employee will be able to eat it directly by swiping the meal card issued by the factory.”
Ke Shaobin’s eyes suddenly lit up when he saw the name of the dish: “It sounds better than the food in the library!” They ate boiled radishes and boiled vegetables in the library, and their sense of taste is about to deteriorate.
Xin Yan glanced at him and said lightly, “Do you dare to eat the food from the Chemical Factory?”
Ke Shaobin frowned in confusion. “It shouldn’t be that bad, right? If you poison the employee canteen, won’t the entire Chemical Factory employees be wiped out?”
Xin Yan said, “It is difficult to guarantee that the library will let the employees of the Chemical Factory be poisoned and mutated into zombies, turning on the escape mode.”
Ke Shaobin was stunned, nodded and said, “It makes sense, then let’s go buy some sealed instant noodles?”
Xin Yan turned his head and coughed lightly, as if he was holding back a laugh. Ke Shaobin noticed that he was joking, and couldn’t help but say angrily, “Can you stop talking nonsense in a serious manner?”
Xin Yan shrugged. “It’s not exactly nonsense, let’s go to the canteen first to see the situation. If other employees eat and are not poisoned, it won’t be late for us to eat.”
At 6 pm in the evening, the employee’s canteen was opened.
When Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce came to the canteen, they saw that Ke Shaobin and Xin Yan had already occupied a seat by the window.
When encountering the matter of ‘eating’, Ke Shaobin was always the most active. Yue Xingwen greeted them with his eyes and sat down at the nex table with Jiang Pingce.
Soon, four girls also arrived, lined up to fetch food, and sat not far away.
Lin Manluo hid her fingers under the table and quickly typed on the chat channel: “At meal time, employees from many departments will come to the canteen. Should we take the opportunity to inquire around for information?”
Yue Xingwen replied: “Yes. But pay attention to the wording so as not to arouse suspicion.”
Lan Yarong said: “Don’t worry, we have checked the personnel structure of the factory, locked the department where the three employees are located, and all the employees’ photo information is in my computer, so we can match them up later.”
Qin Lu took a deep breath and said: “Everyone sent me to be an actor, and it’s good if the lines are written for me.”
Yue Xingwen praised: “You guys are quite efficient.”
The four girls obviously used this afternoon to thoroughly study the personnel of the entire factory. Seeing that everyone was working so hard, Yue Xingwen was also very gratified.
After a while, several male workers sat at the dinner table next to Lin Manluo. Lin Manluo gave Qin Lu a sign and she sat across from the man with her plate, pretending to casually ask, “Brother Liu, I heard that your department Old Peng, resigned a few days ago? Why has he resigned out of the blue?”
The man called ‘Brother Liu’ by Qin Lu, aged about 25 years old, looked very kind. He scratched his head and said with a smile, “Old Peng’s son and daughter-in-law are abroad. It seems that they gave birth to a pair of twins, and told them to go abroad to take care of them. Old Peng simply resigned to coax his grandchildren.”
Qin Lu suddenly realized, “That’s right ah, can you contact him?”
Brother Liu was puzzled, “Why are you looking for him?”
Qin Lu was a little embarrassed. “I bought something in the supermarket outside some time ago, and I had no money in my mobile phone, so I happened to meet him, borrowed him a few hundred yuan and didn’t pay it back. I still thought about returning it to him after this week’s salary.”
Brother Liu said, “Oh, you can only transfer it to him on WeChat!”
Qin Lu frowned and said in distress, “I was too anxious at that time, and I didn’t add his WeChat.”
Brother Liu pulled out a friend list from his mobile phone address book and said, “Come on, you add me and I’ll send his WeChat to you.”
The two became friends with each other.
Qin Lu continued to ask, “Did he contact you after he went abroad?”
Brother Liu said, “No. I guess he was busy holding his grandchildren, and he only sent us a goodbye on the day he left.”
A moment later, Liu Zhaoqing and Zhuo Feng walked in side by side wearing gray workshop overalls. Zhang Xiaonian and Xu Yishen were dressed in daily casual clothes. The four of them also sat down nearby with their plates.
Since the tables in the canteen were all double and quadruple seats. Twelve people sitting in a concentrated area and chatting would arouse suspicion, so the later students deliberately dispersed and sat down, but no one was more than ten meters away from Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce. They could hear Qin Lu’s conversation with the workers.
Qin Lu had a good personality and a sweet mouth, and soon coaxed the worker to talk endlessly with a bunch of ‘Brother Liu’, and talked to her a lot of things about Old Peng, “Old Peng usual has eyes above the top and always shows off to us that his son went abroad to study in a prestigious school, with an annual salary of millions, and married a blonde foreign beauty, giving birth to a beautiful mixed-race baby. We’re all actually annoyed with him…”
Yue Xingwen listened carefully to the conversation over there, and asked in the chat channel: “Qin Lu, have your friend’s request gone through?”
Qin Lu said: “Didn’t go through, there’s a time difference between foreign countries and here. It should be 6 am in the morning, let’s wait and see. Buy I just read this Liu Qiang’s WeChat, clicked into Old Peng’s Moments, and found that Old Peng had blocked everyone after he went abroad.”
Qin Miao frowned and typed: “In other words, The Moments is set to ‘invisible to everyone’ status?”
Qin Lu nodded: “Yes.”
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other——
Something was wrong.
Judging from Liu Qiang’s description, Old Peng was a person who liked to show off. He often said ‘my son is admitted to a prestigious school with an annual salary of millions’ and ‘my daughter-in-law is a beauty and my grandson is very cute’. This kind of show-off personality, should he be taking a photo first after going abroad and updating his Moments to say ‘the environment in country X is very good, my son personally came to the airport to pick me up’, and then accepted the praise in his Moments with joy?
How was it possible to block everyone as soon as he went abroad?
Liu Zhaoqing said: “His eyes are above the top, and after going abroad, he cut off all ties with China, which makes sense on the surface, but from a psychological point of view, it doesn’t make sense. To show off is to show what you have that others don’t in order to achieve the psychological satisfaction of ‘I’m superior’. Since this Old Peng usually likes to show off, he should have intensified his effort after going abroad, posting beautiful scenery and food abroad every day to make his ‘ex-colleagues’ feel that his life is getting better and better.”
Yue Xingwen was silent for a moment before saying: “I have an intuition, this Old Peng didn’t go abroad, but something has happened?”
Jiang Pingce said: “The three people who resigned during this time, one went abroad and one who went back to take care of his wife, let’s hurry up and investigate to see if they all missing after resigning.”
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