"Shen Zuimo? Shen Zuimo?"

After leaving Liu Siyan's house, Xiaofan returned home immediately. There had been some progress, but as time ticked away, he needed to make even more significant progress quickly.

Unexpectedly, Shen Zuimo was not at home. Where did she run off to this time?

As Xiaofan was feeling frustrated, the door opened. Shen Zuimo walked back into the living room slowly, wearing a new dress and carrying some snacks.

"Phew, I'll have to get you a cell phone someday, otherwise it's hard to find you," Xiaofan said with a bitter smile.

"What's up?" Shen Zuimo asked coolly.

"Hmm, I've found a clue." Then, Xiaofan recounted what he had learned at Liu Siyan's house.

"Oh, coincidentally, I just got back from the tax office, but didn't gain much," Liu Siyan continued munching on the spicy hot pot she had just bought, speaking with her mouth full.

"Don't eat so many street snacks, it's unsanitary," Xiaofan glanced over: "Wait, what were you doing at the tax office?"

"Looking for clues, of course. So what's your next step?" Shen Zuimo continued: "Hey, why are you eating my fish balls? Didn't you say they're unsanitary?"

Xiaofan unceremoniously popped a fish ball in his mouth and then organized his thoughts: "I'll start by investigating the employees of the Liu Family's company."

'Ding ding...' Just at that moment, Liu Siyan sent over the information on her family's finance department employees via QQ.

Xiaofan snatched another meatball from Shen Zuimo, then quickly ran back to his room to open his computer and download the documents.

"Do you suspect someone is cooking the books?" Shen Zuimo followed him in and asked, looking at the document information.

"I'm almost certain someone is. But what can I do? Checking one by one, I wouldn't know where to start." Xiaofan said helplessly.

"Check their personal bank accounts, also, just focus on these three people, no need to check the others, they wouldn't have the ability to cook the books," Shen Zuimo said, looking at the names on the document.

"I don't know how," Xiaofan frowned. "Or maybe I could have Liu Zhenghua's side look into it."

"Now's your chance to show yourself to Liu Siyan. It's not hard to investigate this, just find someone good with computers to help you," Shen Zuimo continued.

"But where would I find someone like that... Wait, good with computers? I think I do know someone like that." Xiaofan searched his memory for such a person, then opened QQ groups and found someone with the username 'Nancheng Kuokuo' and immediately sent a message.

"Hello, I'm currently unavailable, if it's urgent please call my cell, 1376828..."

Without thinking, Xiaofan dialed the number.

"Hello." The call was picked up quickly.

"Hey, is this Li Kuo?"

"Yeah, it's me, who is this?" A very lazy voice answered from the other side.

"It's Ye Xiaofan, do you remember me?" Xiaofan asked tentatively.

"Ye Xiaofan? The one from H City?"

"Yes."

"Damn, you finally remember me, kid. What's up? Are you going to invite me and the old squad leader to your wedding?" Receiving Xiaofan's call seemed to please Li Kuo.

"No, actually, I have an urgent matter to trouble you with. I hope you can help me." Xiaofan didn't plan on joking about the past.

"Speak." The other party readily agreed.

"Can you help me check the recent bank data of three people?" Xiaofan was uncertain, as the other person was, like him, merely an eighteen-year-old.

"Do you have their identity information?"

"Yes."

"Send it to me, I'll call you back when I find something."

"Okay, thank you."

After hanging up the phone, Xiaofan sent the information of the three people Shen Zuimo had mentioned to Li Kuo.

In less than twenty minutes, Li Kuo's message came through on QQ.

Liu Dongming, thirty-seven years old. Deputy Manager of Zhenghua Enterprise's Finance Department. Half a month ago, a 300,000 yuan fund was transferred to his Transportation Bank account, and another 1.7 million yuan was deposited into the same account the day before yesterday, both times by the same person, named Xu Guitian. Xu Guitian is an employee of Minghai Corporation, with not a high position, just a supervisor.

"Thanks, I have things to attend to here, I'll call you later when I'm free."

"Humph, I knew you wouldn't contact me unless you had to. Still thinking about that thing from three years ago, huh?"

Seeing Li Kuo's words on QQ, Xiaofan's hands paused on the keyboard. He shook his head with a laugh and continued typing.

"How could I. Let's leave it at that, I'll call you later."

"Okay."

Although it wasn't definitively proven that Liu Dongming was the one cooking the books, the clues were now in hand.

However, things seemed to not be as simple as they appeared. If it was merely Zhang Yongchang deliberately giving the Liu Family trouble for the sake of his grandson, that would indeed be going too far. Where did this Minghai Corporation come from?

Things were getting more complicated, yet Xiaofan felt things were also becoming clearer.

"Who is this Li Kuo?" Shen Zuimo was quite curious about this point.

"He's a classmate from my middle school," Xiaofan answered truthfully.

"Wow, your classmate is quite something." To find so much information in just twenty minutes, especially being of similar age to Xiaofan, was indeed impressive.

"Mm, he was very talented even back in middle school, also a second-generation rich, but he's a very easy-going and a bit silly guy," Xiaofan smiled slightly.

"Do you have a good relationship?" Shen Zuimo asked again.

"We used to be very close, now..."

"What happened?" Shen Zuimo pressed.

"On the last day of middle school, I made him cry. After graduation, I heard he went to the Capital City and we've never been in touch since." Thinking back, it was really quite childish.

"Made him cry? What's that about? And what's this about wedding sweets with the old squad leader?" Shen Zuimo had good ears and heard everything from the conversation.

"Oh, that's all in the past. By the way, what did you go to the tax office for? Did you find anything?" Xiaofan seemed reluctant to mention past events and quickly changed the topic.

"Do you know the saying 'catch the ringleader first'? Even if we settle everything with Zhenghua Enterprise, as long as Zhang Yongchang remains standing, Liu Siyan's company won't have peace. If we act, we must tackle the root cause, not just the symptoms," Shen Zuimo answered softly.

Upon hearing this, Xiaofan turned to look at the beautiful woman before him, somewhat surprised. In this matter, Shen Zuimo was thinking even further than he was.

"So what did you find?"

"I just went to observe the environment, how could I find anything in such a short time? What's your next plan?" Shen Zuimo continued.

"I'll first inform Uncle Liu about Liu Dongming, then head to Xu Guitian..." As he spoke, Xiaofan dialed Liu Siyan's phone number.

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