Chapter 494 Everyone is acting with you
It was not until the next day when Han Lingcui went to work that she realized that "Sister Lin" was Lin Wanqiu.
He was about forty years old, wearing a beige sweater, with eyes curved when he smiled. When he saw her coming, he immediately stood up to help her pull out the chair.
"Come sit down, I made you some lemon tea without sugar. Isn't that what you used to love to drink?"
"before?"
Han Lingcui took the cup and felt the warm touch on her fingertips, and her doubts grew even stronger.
"Sister Lin, have we known each other before?"
"I guess we know each other," Lin Wanqiu handed her a project manual. "I even helped you with your departure procedures when you graduated, but you were busy looking for a job back then, so you might have forgotten."
She spoke naturally, but Han Lingcui's fingers paused as she flipped through the manual.
She didn't remember meeting Lin Wanqiu at all when she was going through the procedures to leave school. Even many things that happened in her graduation year seemed shrouded in fog.
What surprised her even more was the attitude of her colleagues.
Sister Li, who sat next to her, brought her a bowl of vegetable porridge at lunch. "I heard you weren't feeling well recently. Try drinking some porridge to recuperate. You always said the vegetable porridge at this porridge shop was better than the one at home."
Xiao Zhang opposite her helped her organize the project files of the past three years.
"Sister Lingcui, these are things you might need. I've labeled them by year. You used to like labeling files like that because it made it easier to find them."
The four words "you used to" were said no less than five times throughout the whole day.
Han Lingcui agreed on the surface, but became more and more vigilant in his heart.
These people are too familiar with "her past self", so familiar that they don't seem like ordinary colleagues, but more like... deliberately catering to her habits.
But she clearly doesn't remember these habits or these people. What's going on?
She hid in the stairwell during lunch break and called Jiang Shutong.
"Lingcui? What's wrong?" Jiang Shutong's voice was still gentle. "Did you run into trouble at the Qi company?"
"No," Han Lingcui lowered his voice. "It's just that my colleagues are all very confused. They always talk about how I was 'in the past', but I don't even remember knowing them. Mr. Jiang, do you think the Qi family knew my identity a long time ago?"
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a few seconds, and then Jiang Shutong sighed.
"Lingcui, don't overthink it. Qi Moxun is a scheming person. He might have found out that you worked at Xuanyuan Company and wants to use you to deal with Xuanyuan Pavilion.
Don't worry about what they say, just focus on finding evidence against Shen Hanxing. Remember, don't trust anyone except me."
After hanging up the phone, Han Lingcui leaned against the wall and looked at the hustle and bustle of traffic outside the window.
Jiang Shutong's words made her even more uneasy.
If Qi really wanted to use her, why did he use "past habits" to approach her?
This made her feel more uncomfortable than direct threats or inducements.
At this time, Xuanyuan Pavilion was on the high-speed train to Qingcheng.
Yesterday afternoon, his negotiations with Miss Lu finally ended.
Ms. Lu readily signed the agreement on the condition that Xuanyuan Group would inject 120 million yuan into the Lu family but cancel the engagement.
She had no interest in this business marriage in the first place, but agreed to it only due to family pressure. Now that she has the investment, she can finally break free from the constraints.
The moment the contract was signed, Xuanyuan Pavilion's first action was to ask its assistant to check Han Lingcui's whereabouts. However, the assistant checked her rental records, bank card transactions, and even contacted her relatives in her hometown, but still couldn't find her.
She seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.
Just when he was getting extremely worried, the head of the branch office suddenly called him, his voice trembling with anxiety.
"President, there's a problem with the Qingcheng branch's 'Yuncheng Project'! The supplier is suddenly out of stock, saying we didn't pay the balance on time, but the finance department says the money was already transferred. Now the project is suspended, and Party A is demanding compensation!"
Qingcheng.
Xuanyuan Ge's fingers gripping the phone suddenly tightened.
That was Han Lingcui's hometown. He remembered that she had said the last time she worked overtime that she had lived on the old street of Qingcheng when she was a child. There was an old locust tree at the door, which was full of locust flowers in the summer.
At that time, he said with a smile that he would take her back to see him after the project was completed, but now she has become his only clue.
"Prepare the car and go to Qingcheng," he immediately told his assistant. "Bring all the branch's documents, especially the contract and payment records for the Yuncheng project."
It was already eight o'clock in the evening when the high-speed train arrived in Qingcheng.
Qingcheng is a small city with no skyscrapers, only crisscrossing old streets. The street lights are warm yellow, shining on the bluestone roads, bringing a bit of the flavor of the old times.
Xuanyuan Pavilion did not go to the hotel arranged by the branch, but asked the driver to drive around the old city.
He didn't know whether Han Lingcui would be here, but he just wanted to see the place where she lived as a child.
When the car drove to "Huaishu Street", Xuanyuan Ge asked the driver to stop.
The street was very quiet, with only a few small shops still having their lights on. At the end of the street stood an old locust tree that was so big that two people could hug it. Its branches stretched very far, like a huge umbrella.
He got out of the car and as he approached the locust tree, he smelled a faint fragrance of locust flowers.
It turns out that what she said was true, the locust flowers here are really fragrant.
"Young man, would you like to buy a string of locust flower cakes?" An old lady poked her head out from the nearby shop, holding a string of crystal cakes in her hand.
…
At this time, Han Lingcui was working overtime in the office of Qi's Qingcheng Office.
Lin Wanqiu left a light on for her and put a bowl of hot porridge on the table.
“Lingcui, I’ve put the information about the Yuncheng project on your desk. Please check if there are any problems. Shen Hanxing is the person in charge of the partner of this project, so please pay more attention.”
Han Lingcui opened the document bag, which contained the cooperation contract and payment records of the Yuncheng project.
As she watched, she suddenly frowned.
The signature date on the payment record was half a month earlier than the actual payment date, and the signatory was Shen Hanxing!
This is obviously a forgery, and the purpose is to make Xuanyuan Group's branch take the blame for "failure to pay on time"!
She immediately took out the USB drive and started copying the information.
Just when the progress bar was almost full, she heard footsteps behind her. She turned around suddenly and saw Lin Wanqiu standing at the door with a coat in her hand.
"Sister Lin, why haven't you left yet?"
Han Lingcui subconsciously hid the USB drive behind her.
Lin Wanqiu came over and handed her the coat in a calm tone.
“I know you are investigating Shen Hanxing, and I know why you are investigating her.”
Han Lingcui's heartbeat instantly quickened: "You..."
Lin Wanqiu sat beside her helplessly.
"Actually, President Shen and President Qi have already told us about your situation."
“You’ve lost your memory, and your memory is confused, so you don’t know what you’re doing at all, but Mr. Shen still hopes that we will cooperate with you and prevent you from seeing any clues.”
"Don't you find it strange? You've always wanted to bring them down, but you were able to successfully enter the company?"
Han Lingcui frowned, "Aren't they trying to catch the turtle in the jar?"
"Look, now that you've caught me, you can call the police right away. I'll go to jail for the rest of my life!"
Lin Wanqiu felt even more helpless.
"Don't you understand yet? In order to prevent you from constantly looking for things that don't exist, Mr. Shen specially prepared these loopholes for you. In fact, they are to guide you to slowly recover your memory."
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