Clue 45

  "This is the receipt for the insurance purchased by the company for its employees." The auditor frowned, pointing to the document. "This receipt is very unusual. It's rare for a company to purchase commercial insurance for its employees, and only a few large corporations offer this benefit to their management team. But judging from the company's chop on this receipt, it seems to be a home decoration company?"

  "Uh, Jiaxin decoration, a home improvement company, with total assets of only tens of millions." Lin Qiang nodded and patted the auditor's shoulder, "Young man, your eyes are sharp enough."

  "Heh heh, just doing my job." The auditor continued to ask, "This Jiaxin decoration, purchased 500,000 commercial insurance for an employee named Wang Jiaxin. I checked and found that Wang Jiaxin is the legal representative of this company. This matter has some risk, I may need to report it up."

  "It's necessary, just a formality, I'll cooperate fully." Lin Qiang said with a smile.

  "Hmm, I'll go ask for Captain's opinion first." The young man got up and walked to Zeng Baichuan who was sitting in the main seat with the materials.

  Zeng Baihe frowned and looked at him, then whispered a few words to Zhang Jiaming, and afterwards waved his hand.

  The young man let out a sigh and sat back down with a bitter face.

  Lin Qiang saw that they were chatting enthusiastically over there and didn't have time to look over here, so he sat down beside the young man with a part in his hair and asked: "What's wrong?"

  "The team leader said it's okay, submit anything suspicious, the branch will bother to death, it's just 500,000 yuan, no need to pay attention."

  "Are you just going to turn a blind eye?"

  "Hmm." A young man sighed, "Sometimes, I really don't understand the meaning of our work. We've clearly found businesses with risks and suspicions, but we still need to ask for our leader's opinion on whether to investigate or not. If it's like this, then there's no need for us to do random checks at all. Just look at the leader's face and that's it. Whoever he wants to deal with, we'll deal with them, even if it's just a tiny mistake. Whoever he doesn't want to deal with, we won't even dare to fart, even if we see huge bad debts, we'll just pretend they're air."

  The young man had just finished speaking and suddenly felt that it wasn't right, covering his mouth repeatedly: "Sorry... I couldn't hold it in, don't take it to heart."

  "Go, go out and take a breather." Lin Qiang smiled wryly, patted him on the back, and nodded towards Zeng Baichuan's direction, "Anyway, he won't mind, it's fine for you to stay here this time."

  The young man looked at Lin Qiang with a puzzled expression.

  This inspection was indeed full of interesting things. Suddenness, thoroughness, and aimlessness. Even if he occasionally discovered something, Zeng Baichuan just laughed it off. It's better to say that they came to chat and idle away the day rather than to inspect.

  He thought for a moment and said in a low voice: "You go out first, I'll go in 5 minutes."

  Lin Qiang naturally knew what he meant, how could he be familiar with himself in front of his leader?

  "At the end of the corridor, an iron gate opened into a backyard, where they saw."

  “OK。”

  Lin Qiang had not been outdoors for a long time, and now he took a breath of the night air, gazing at the bright moon in the sky, stealing a moment of leisure from his busy schedule, and his mood was also relaxed.

  "Do you smoke?" The back door opened and a young man took out a pack of cigarettes and politely asked Lin Qiang.

  "Let's have one occasionally." Lin Qiang never carried cigarettes on him, but if he ran into a colleague he could chat with, having one together was no big deal. This was also a rule of the workplace, "a cigarette in the stairwell".

  Lin Qiang took over the cigarette and the young man handed over the lighter to help ignite it.

  He noticed that the man was smoking a pack of Huanghelou, which cost around 35 yuan per pack. Generally, heavy smokers who smoke frequently would choose a cigarette that is smooth to inhale and relatively affordable, there's no need to smoke such a high-end brand.

  "Doing this kind of work, you can't help but smoke, right?" Lin Qiang asked tentatively.

  "Haha, sorry about that, looking at data makes me dizzy so I need to smoke one. The young man took a deep drag on his cigarette and sighed helplessly, "I've been doing this for years, till now I still have to smoke more than a pack every day."

  Lin Qiang's heart had already begun to silently calculate, an ordinary auditor in the auditing department, monthly income would not exceed 10,000, every day a pack of Huanghe Lou, a month would be around 1,000. A person with this income should not have reached this level of extravagance yet.

  He's probably someone who doesn't have to worry about money.

  "Oh, right, still don't know what to call you."

  "My mistake, I forgot to introduce myself - Audit Department, Audit Team 3, Zhong Sheng." The young man stretched out his right hand and smiled, "Sorry about that, these past few days have been arranged by our leaders, we can only follow orders."

  "Not at all." Lin Qiang asked after shaking hands with him, "We should be from the same period, I joined in 2010."

  "Haha, it's really not like that, I joined in 2009." Zhong Sheng said with a wry smile.

  "Sorry, senior," Lin Qiang said with a half-joking tone.

  Zhong Sheng hastily waved his hand: "Lin Qiang, don't make a fuss, you're a celebrity, and it's not the first time you've gone on stage to receive the best employee award. If anyone should be disrespected, it's me who has been disrespected, I entered the company earlier than you, but I still haven't been promoted, you're really impressive."

  "Stop joking around, look at me now." Lin Qiang spread his hands out, "God knows how much longer I can hold on."

  "It can't be said that way, at least you've been brilliant before, and that's enough." Zhong Sheng took another drag on his cigarette, "People like me, stuck in a department that's neither here nor there for a lifetime, now that's true sorrow."

  "Haha, it's just a few years, still far from a lifetime!"

  "No, no, it's been a lifetime, Lin Qiang." The crowd gazed up at the bright moon, rubbing their eyes, "Do you see? There are already fish scales on it."

  Lin Qiang stepped forward and patted Zhong Sheng's shoulder: "Hey... the audit department is quite troublesome to promote..."

  "It's not just a matter of being troublesome, it's impossible." Zhong Sheng seemed to have touched a nerve and spoke volubly, "Think about it, who to investigate and who not to, how far to take the investigation, all depends on what the leader says. I'm a graduate student from the Central University of Finance and Economics, but I have to spend my days staring at these numbers, watching the leader's face. And that's not all, even if I work hard and find out many things, as long as the leader says one word, it's all for nothing! On the contrary, I'll be resented by the leader. Lin Qiang, think about it, how can we achieve results, how can we make contributions, how can we get promoted in this situation?"

  Lin Qiang snapped his fingers and calculated that after graduating from graduate school, he had been working for four years. The auditor in front of him, who was not very impressive, was probably already thirty years old. A graduate student from a prestigious university, doing such work, would indeed be difficult to bear, with a kind of hidden pain of being talented but not meeting the right opportunity.

  "So, I don't know when it started, but I began smoking." Zhong Sheng sighed after a bitter smile, sighing at the cruelty of the world. He shook his head and threw the cigarette butt to the ground, "Sometimes, I even consider applying for a transfer to the front line, so that I can at least have the opportunity to achieve some marketing results. Although it won't be as exaggerated as yours, but at least I can see the fruits of my labor."

  "No, no, it doesn't matter whether you're on the front line or above. Lin Qiang nodded his head, "Work is not just about hard work, but also using your brain."