“It’s like this…”

Jiang Sui took this opportunity to take out the portrait he had roughly drawn from memory and placed it in front of Director Wang.

"Comrade Xiao Jiang, what do you mean?" Director Wang was a little confused.

"A few days ago, this group of people suddenly came to my village, stopped me and my wife, and insisted that we owed them money, but we didn't even know them." Jiang Sui looked distressed and worried. "We asked people about it, but we couldn't find out anything."

"That's it, it's a small matter," Director Wang said, holding a cigarette in his mouth, a wine glass in his left hand, and the portrait in his right hand. He squinted and looked at it for a while. "It seems a little familiar, but I'm drunk now, and I can't remember where I've seen it for a while. Let me think about it."

Seeing hope, Jiang Sui quickly called the waiter and asked him to serve two more meat dishes.

After a while, Director Wang put out his cigarette and drank the wine in his glass in one gulp. "I have a rough idea in my mind. I have indeed seen him. It seems to be related to one of my brothers. Wait for me to go back and confirm it. Don't worry, I will take care of this matter."

Hearing Director Wang say this, Jiang Sui breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the bottle and continued to pour him wine.

Director Wang said that this matter could be done, but Jiang Sui did not expect that after lunch, he had not been in the factory for half an hour before Director Wang came to find him and said that he had found out who that person was.

Jiang Sui followed him with surprise and curiosity to the workshop behind the factory.

At the door of the workshop, two men were standing there talking.

Seeing them coming, one of the men waved: "Old Wang, how come you have time to come here?"

Director Wang brought Jiang Sui to him and said, "I have something to ask you. Come and see something."

He took out the portrait painted by Jiang Sui from his bag and handed it to the man who was speaking: "This is your nephew, right?"

The man took the portrait and nodded in acknowledgement: "Yes, this is my nephew Da Zhuang. Who drew this? It is so lifelike. At first glance, it looks like a photo."

Director Wang then spoke and introduced Jiang Sui and the man to each other.

Ten minutes later, Da Zhuang's uncle Li Youguo, who had figured out the whole story, looked at Jiang Sui with a complicated expression: "I still have some work to do in the workshop. If you are free, can you wait here for a while?"

He knew Jiang Sui, the factory director and deputy director's most trusted maintenance consultant, who was said to be very knowledgeable.

I don’t know what trouble Da Zhuang has gotten into again!

"Okay, Director Li," Jiang Sui smiled politely, "I'll go to the front workshop to work. I'll come see you when I'm almost off work."

Li Youguo poked his head in and looked inside. "I should be done with my work in an hour. I'll be off work after I finish this workshop. Come find me here in an hour and I'll take you to find my nephew and see what's going on."

"Okay, okay." Jiang Sui agreed readily.

After leaving the workshop at the back, Jiang Sui took out a cigarette again and asked Director Wang what kind of person Li Youguo's nephew Dazhuang was.

Director Wang smoked a cigarette and sighed, "He's a troublesome child, but he listens to his uncle. Let Director Li take you there, and things should go much more smoothly."

"Thank you very much. It's all thanks to you, Director Wang. I had a great time drinking wine at noon today. I happen to have a few bottles of wine sent by my classmates in the city. When I'm free in a couple of days, I'll bring some wine to your house. I heard that your sister-in-law is a good cook. I wonder if I'll have this blessing?"

"Okay, okay. It just so happens that my child has a hard time studying recently and your sister-in-law is having a headache."

An hour later, Jiang Sui followed Li Youguo, and the two rode their bikes to Lijiazhuang in the east.

There, Jiang Sui saw Li Dazhuang, who was riding the bike in the front, the most burly and ferocious looking.

Li Dazhuang is as his name suggests, he is tall and strong, with a lot of fat on his face, and he looks like someone who is not someone he is likely to deal with.

Just as Director Wang said, Li Dazhuang listened to his uncle very much. When he saw Jiang Sui, his face changed immediately, but because his uncle was present, he did not take any action.

Li Youguo looked at his nephew and asked him, "Do you know the person behind me?"

"I don't know him, but I know his wife." Li Dazhuang's tone sounded very unkind, "His wife cheated us of our money."

"Have you seen his wife?"

"I guess so. Although her face was covered, I remember her name. She was Xiang Baiwei, from Xiangjia Village, and she ran a grain workshop."

It was the first time that Director Li knew that the famous grain workshop in the town was actually related to Jiang Sui: "So the grain workshop that was praised by the city and town was opened by your wife?"

Jiang Sui nodded, then looked at Li Dazhuang: "I think you may have recognized the wrong person. You didn't even see my wife's face clearly, but you identified her based on her name. Then when I go out to cause trouble, I will just report your name, Li Dazhuang."

There is some truth in what he said, but Li Dazhuang doesn't believe it. Fortunately, Director Li is there.

"Let me ask you, you didn't see that person's face clearly at that time, did you?"

"No, it was dark at the time, but I remember that person's voice, it was very similar to his wife's voice," Li Dazhuang was still a little relentless, "Maybe it was his wife, he was afraid of being held responsible, so he deliberately came to say such things. I heard that he is the principal, they care most about these work style issues."

This matter seemed to be a dead end. Jiang Sui thought about it and continued to ask: "What day is it?"

"On the day when the rain just stopped," Li Dazhuang looked at Jiang Sui, "did you and your wife just come back from the provincial capital that day? The woman who traded with me that night also said the same thing, saying that the things she had were taken from the provincial capital."

Jiang Sui pinched his forehead with his hand. This matter really didn't seem easy to handle. "Then bring that thing here for me to see."

Li Dazhuang immediately pulled out a watch from his pocket: "This is it. She said she got it from the provincial capital. It's very expensive. She also said she could sell it to me at a discount. But when I bought it back and asked someone to check it, it turned out to be a broken watch. It doesn't work at all."

Jiang Sui stared at the watch for a while, then smiled: "I know which store sells this watch, but when my wife and I went to the provincial capital some time ago, this store was closed and remained closed until we left."

As he said this, he looked at Li Youguo and said, "When I took my wife to the provincial capital to study, Lin Ke, the niece of Deputy Director Lin of the factory, also went with us. They can all testify."

Li Youguo fell silent, and after a while he spoke: "It seems that there is really a misunderstanding."

Li Dazhuang wanted to explain, but his uncle glared at him and said, "I haven't settled accounts with you about you going to that place to buy and sell things. You still have the nerve to make a big fuss?"

Knowing that he was in the wrong, Li Dazhuang lowered his head and murmured, "I can't suffer this loss for no reason, right?"

(End of this chapter)