Chapter 45
"What did you say?" Song Mu didn't hear clearly, so he bent down slightly and moved closer to Tang Ruxin who was sitting.
"Besides Yu Zhe, who else knows about this data analysis?" Tang Ruxin asked.
Song Mu shook his head. "No one knows unless Manager Yu tells others."
Tang Ruxin pondered for a moment and said, "Yu Zhe wouldn't suddenly decide to investigate the number of accidents over the past ten years. He's only been general manager for six years. If he really found out that the accident rate was higher after he took over, he'd be embarrassed. I'm afraid someone told him to do this."
"The only person in the company who has the right to give him orders is the chairman, right?" Song Mu said.
Tang Ruxin remained silent. She didn't think Tang Jiulin had the time to dwell on such matters right now. If Tang Jiulin really wanted to investigate, there was no need to assign it to Yu Zhe, the general manager. The chairman's secretary's office had plenty of people who could handle the job, and they would be more objective and fair.
It’s not Tang Jiulin, nor is it Yu Zhe. Who wants this data analysis?
Tang Ruxin couldn't think of an answer, so she had to put the matter aside for the time being.
"I'm devastated. This data almost negates all my efforts over the past two years. But facts are facts, and there's probably something more important hidden behind this fact. Otherwise, Yu Zhe wouldn't be lying in the hospital right now."
Song Mu was so shocked that he stuttered.
"What...huh? Wasn't Manager Yu's car accident an accident?"
Tang Ruxin let go of the mouse, slowly picked up the water cup and took a sip. After a moment's hesitation, she swallowed the words she had been about to say along with the water. There was no need to involve Song Mu, and besides, she was just guessing.
"Starting tomorrow, all production facilities in the company will undergo equipment and safety inspections for potential hazards. We'll only investigate superficial hazards, those that even someone unfamiliar with the local equipment's processes could create. Things like the ice on the ladder that caused Chen Junan's fall."
Song Mu was so shocked that he couldn't even recover. Tang Ruxin's instructions had already forced their way into his head. He subconsciously turned on his phone and started recording.
"Secondly, the entire facility needs surveillance coverage, especially the fire escapes and main production area roads. We need full coverage without having to rotate the cameras! Those stingy people in the general office are taking advantage of any loophole to save money. If they had spent a little more money on the surveillance setup back then, there wouldn't be so much trouble today!"
Tang Ruxin slammed the table in anger.
Song Mu remained silent. Tang Ruxin hadn't even entered Donghe Refining when the production equipment was being monitored. Whether the general manager was exploiting a loophole or if this was the company's original plan was hard to say.
"The first one is not difficult. The second one will cost a lot of money. Since General Manager Yu is not here, I'm afraid it will require the chairman's approval." Song Mu said.
"Go ahead and try. If he doesn't approve, we'll see." Tang Ruxin said, standing up. "Email me a copy of this document, then delete it. Don't leave any traces. Just pretend you never did it."
Song Mu had originally planned to do the same. This document was too unfavorable to Tang Ruxin. She was only suspended now, but if this document was made public, she would have to resign.
Seeing that Song Mu obeyed her every word, Tang Ruxin was curious and asked:
"I'm no longer the Director of Security. But I'm still assigning you tasks. Why... don't you have any questions at all? And you're not actually obligated to tell me this data."
Song Mu was stunned. It seemed that he had never considered this question before. It was his habit to listen to Tang Ruxin's instructions. Of course he had questions, but he was used to not asking them. Seeing that he hesitated for a long time and could not explain it clearly, Tang Ruxin patted his shoulder and said:
"I asked you to hide this document, not for me, but for you."
After saying that, Tang Ruxin put on her hat and left.
Song Mu stood there for a long time, unable to move.
The question Tang Ruxin asked him had a vague idea in his mind after he finished the data analysis, but he didn't think about it in detail, or rather, he didn't dare to think about it in detail.
The conclusion of this data analysis pointed directly to Tang Ruxin. His first reaction after confirming that the data was correct was not to feel relieved that he had finally finished it after a week of staying up all night, nor was it to quickly hand it over to Yu Zhe to complete the task, but rather - he had to tell Tang Ruxin as soon as possible, so he called her dozens of times yesterday.
He even hesitated about tampering with the data. With such a massive workload, it was unlikely Yu Zhe would be able to find someone to review it one by one. The moment the thought occurred to him, he was terrified. He naturally asked himself, why take such a risk? Why violate professional ethics for a suspended boss?
Why is the first thought to be to protect her?
Song Mu stood beside the desk, his eyes moving towards the cup of water that Tang Ruxin had placed on the table, from which she had only taken a sip.
He slowly picked up the glass of water.
"Amu, is this Miss Tang your colleague?"
Song Mu was startled by his mother's sudden appearance at the door. His hand shook, and the water in the cup spilled all over him. Although the water was room temperature, he felt as if he had been scalded, and he took a step back in shock.
"Oh, how did it spill? Be careful!" Song Mu's mother hurried into the study, picked up the tissue on the table and handed it to him.
"What are you daydreaming about? I'm asking you a question!"
"What?" Song Mu put down the cup and lowered his head to wipe the water off his clothes to hide his panic.
"The girl surnamed Tang just now is very pretty. Nowadays, there are not many girls who don't wear any makeup. She dresses simply and you can tell at first glance that she is a good girl. She said she is divorced and has two children. Is that true?" Song Mu's mother asked as she approached him.
"Tsk, what are you thinking about, Mom! She is..." Song Mu was suddenly stuck, not knowing how to explain.
She was his colleague, his superior, someone he was used to obeying and taking care of.
--Then what?
"What is she? Tell me! How can this child speak so incoherently?"
Song Mu was overwhelmed by the questioning, and suddenly understood why Tang Ruxin said "divorced and raising two children" - to solve the problem once and for all.
"I have something to do at the company. I have to go back quickly."
Song Mu said, grabbed his computer and computer bag and walked towards the house. Tang Ruxin could talk nonsense to his parents, but he couldn't. He still wanted to live.
Back at the company, Song Mu sent the data analysis file to Tang Ruxin as she instructed. He then deleted the email record and cleaned up the local storage and all online records. Now, apart from the file in Tang Ruxin's mailbox, there was no place to find the data analysis report.
Yu Zhe lay in the hospital, his life uncertain. He likely wouldn't be asked for the document for a long time. He had plenty of time to create a new data analysis document that matched the company's year-end report. If Yu Zhe asked about the data source later, he could honestly say he used the year-end data.
As for the problems with the data in the year-end report, what does it have to do with him?
Song Mu completed the two tasks Tang Ruxin assigned him in half a day. The hidden danger investigation plan was based on previous special projects, which was not time-consuming. All that was left was to wait for the implementation of the plan by the professional departments. Surprisingly, the approval for the installation of large-scale monitoring systems in the production area was also surprisingly smooth.
When Yu Zhe was there, applications for capital expenditure funding, especially those submitted by the Safety Department, were incredibly difficult to get approved. There were back-and-forth arguments over details like quantity and model selection, and even if approval was finally granted, it would often be discounted, with funding either cut in half or pushed to next year's budget. It was always difficult to get it done smoothly.
I thought the chairman would have a harder time than General Manager Yu, but unexpectedly, when Tang Jiulin saw the application, he just glanced at it and signed it without saying a word.
When Song Mu went to the purchasing department with the application signed by the chairman, he still felt it was unreal.
On the way home from get off work, I was still thinking, why would the chairman appoint Yu Zhe as general manager when his working style is so different from Yu Zhe's?
In the darkness of the night, Song Mu parked his car in the designated open-air parking lot in the residential complex. After getting out, he took out the snow cover from the trunk, covered the roof and windshield, and then walked towards Building 7. The public parking lot was two buildings away from his home.
Under the dim street lights, he walked with his head down while answering the phone.
At this moment, a flower pot suddenly fell from the sky.
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