When Smith Properties owner Myers. Smith was surprised to see Caroline and Hannah, dressed in agent T-shirts, push the door open and enter his office, and quickly put down the phone in hand.

"I wonder what happened to the two police officers coming to our company?"

Caroline nodded with a straight face: "Yes, I want you to know something, and please ask Mr. Smith to take some time to cooperate." ”

"No problem, please be seated, please be seated!" Miles hurriedly beckoned the three of them to sit down, and ordered the secretary to pour coffee and come in.

Caroline thanked her, then looked at Wang Su in unison with Hannah, signaling that he could begin the question.

And Miles also followed the gaze of the two to Wang Su, but suddenly pointed at Wang Su and said, "Huh? You... Looks familiar, we... Have you seen it somewhere? ”

"Should... Not at all! Wang Su shook his head blankly.

But he was laughing in his heart.

Of course he Miles had seen Wang Su.

Because Wang Su had a relationship with Miles at a business exchange meeting when he was the assistant to the chairman of Guanghua Group, but they only met once, so Miles's impression of Wang Su was a little vague and not very sure.

At this time, Miles smiled awkwardly: "Could it be that I am mistaken?" Hehe, misunderstanding, please don't be surprised. ”

Wang Su waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay!" By the way, Mr. Smith, the riverside apartment along the West Miami River was developed and built by your company, right? ”

"Riverside apartments?" Miles frowned and thought for a while, then nodded, "Yes, it was developed by our company, um... If I remember correctly, it must have been more than ten years ago. ”

"Can you talk about the problem of that project plot back then? Heard...... The plot of land that your company bought at the beginning was not near the river, and then merged a plot of land to build next to the river? ”

After speaking, Wang Su carefully observed Miles's expression.

To Wang Su's surprise, Miles didn't seem to panic at all when he heard this question, but just frowned and remembered intently, as if he didn't know about the murder of the restaurant owner who was acquired by his company.

"This... Wait a minute, because my company has developed a lot of projects, and this project is relatively long, let me see the information. ”

After speaking, Miles instructed the secretary to bring a stack of materials and read it in front of the three of them.

After a few minutes, Miles pointed to the information and nodded, "yes, I remember the situation. I was my father's assistant at the time and did help with the early start-up of the project. ”

Wang Su rubbed his hands: "Oh? Then please tell us in detail about the situation from site selection to land purchase at that time. ”

"Okay."

It turned out that the plot where the riverside apartment was located was originally a residential area for Mexican immigrants.

When Smith Real Estate wanted to develop the site, the biggest obstacle it faced was the demolition of local residents.

Yes, there is such a thing as demolition in the United States, but their houses and land are completely private, so their demolition work is, to put it bluntly, a business of buying houses and land in bulk.

Since it is a private development project, it faces greater resistance than government demolition. Residents took advantage of the opportunity to ask for sky-high prices, completely ignoring Smith Properties' offer to pay compensation or replace their homes at market value.

Just as Smith Properties was about to give up the land, a man named Diego approached Smith Properties.

At that time, Diego patted his chest and promised that as long as the demolition work was handed over to him, the residents would be guaranteed to receive compensation or replacement at a reasonable price, and the condition was that Diego would be given a 3% share of the profits of the development project.

Smith Properties later investigated and discovered that the neighborhood was controlled by a gang of Mexican immigrants, the leader of which Diego was a prominent figure in the community. Since most of the residents feared him and had a lot of influence, Smith Properties agreed to Diego's terms.

With the addition of this gang of ruthless people, the demolition work was smooth, and Smith Real Estate successfully won the plot. But at this time, Smith Real Estate set its sights on the adjacent restaurant, believing that if the restaurant and the restaurant parking lot could also be taken together, then the project would be a veritable riverside landscape apartment, so that the project's income would be at least 3% higher.

Hearing this, Wang Su asked, "So you sent that Diego to talk to the owner of the restaurant?" ”

"No!" Miles waved his hand, "We didn't let him go at first, because we didn't like Diego's hooligan style, and we were afraid that he would cause a big problem." At that time, I was going to give him a sum of money and settle it with him after the demolition work was over, so it was our own people who went to negotiate with the restaurant owner at first. Well... I remember talking a few times and it didn't go very well, and the restaurant owner refused to transfer no matter how much we quoted. ”

The corners of Wang Su's mouth raised: "So later, that Diego volunteered again?" ”

Miles sighed and nodded: "Diego sensed our intention to leave him alone, so he was in a hurry, because the 3% profit dividend is not a small amount. At that time, he pestered me several times, saying that he promised to help us take down the land of the restaurant, and he didn't want the 3% dividend, and took the initiative to reduce it to 1.5%. I couldn't stand his pestering, so I let him go. ”

Hearing this, Wang Su, Caroline, and Hannah glanced at each other, and the three of them nodded in unison.

"And then?"

"Later, I didn't take care of the project myself, and asked a vice president of the company to follow up. After all, this project was small to medium-sized for us, and I was focusing on a large project in Texas. Later I remembered... Probably nearly a year later, that Diego sent the contract for the transfer of the restaurant, and... The Riverside Residences project was officially launched. ”

Miles took a sip of his coffee and asked, "Officers, what's wrong with this project?" If there is, we at Smith Properties will definitely cooperate with the investigation. ”

Wang Su thought for a moment and asked, "You... Do you know the situation of the restaurateur? ”

"Restaurateur?" Miles frowned and thought for a moment, and slowly shook his head, "This... I don't know, I didn't meet him in person, but when the contract came in, I took a cursory look at it and gave it to my father to sign. Hehe, I'm not afraid of your jokes, our company's stall is relatively large, and I don't have so much energy to understand some things one by one. Why don't I call the vice president who was in charge of the project at the time, and you ask him? ”

"No more, no more!" Wang Su stood up and stretched out his hand to Miles, "Thank you for your cooperation, let's stop here today." ”

Miles shook Wang Su's hand with some hesitation: "Okay... Okay, this project is... Did something go wrong? ”

"Hehe, it's not a big deal!" Wang Su pretended to be relaxed and smiled, "It's just that a few unreasonable people went to the police, saying that they had been intimidated and threatened during the demolition, and asked you to compensate some more money." But when we checked later, it turned out that these people had spent all the compensation money they received that year and owed a lot of debt to the casino, so they were forced to think about getting some money in desperation. Besides, there were real estate sale and purchase agreements in black and white back then, so what's there to argue about, and it's also empty to say that you intimidate and threaten. So we just went through a process and asked, we can't say that we are indifferent when people call the police, right? ”

"Understand... Understood......" Miles nodded repeatedly.

This set of lies was fluently spoken without a word of stuttering, and Caroline and Hannah were amazed.

"Sure enough... Men are born to be masters of gossip......" Caroline whispered.

Hannah covered her mouth and snickered.

At this time, Miles sent the three of them to the door of the office: "It's really hard for you, if there is anything else that needs to be cooperated, please feel free to come!" ”

Wang Su nodded politely: "Thank you for your cooperation, goodbye Mr. Smith." ”

Walking out of the Gerald Building, Hannah asked puzzled, "Why didn't you just ask him about the murder of the restaurant owner??" If he has a ghost in his heart, his face will definitely show it more or less. ”

Wang Su lit a cigarette and said with a smile: "According to my observation, he should really be unaware." His every reflex is in line with the natural performance of a big business owner. Smith Real Estate is a relatively large company, and it is normal for him, as the head of the company, not to know these details, presumably the vice president in charge of the riverside apartment project did not tell him about this frustration, for fear of increasing the psychological burden of his boss. ”

"Hmm. I also think he behaved naturally and didn't hide anything. Caroline chimed in.

Wang Su continued: "We have obtained Diego's clue is already a great gain, if we rashly mention the murder in front of Smith, he will definitely call Diego to ask about it." Think about it, if Diego really has a problem, isn't that just a surprise? ”

Hannah nodded repeatedly: "Hmm... Reasonable. So let's go next... Go to Diego?? Or just summon him? ”

"Don't summon." Wang Su took out his mobile phone and looked at it, and drew out a local promotion message, "Eh... I have to go, there's a supermarket near the Bay Market that's running a sale...... That one... Two beautiful detectives, let's go and find out Diego's whereabouts first. Hey, hey, hey, hey......"

Hannah frowned and looked at Wang Su, who was eating and laughing, with a face full of disgust: "Eh... That's fine, but... Why are you suddenly laughing so insidiously?? ”

Wang Su stood on the side of the road and picked his nostrils unscrupulously, and the evil smile on his face couldn't stop blooming: "Because... I'm going to test that Diego ...... insidiously."

After speaking, Wang Su pulled out a ball of unknown objects from his nostrils and bounced out.

"Oh~~~ You're disgusting!!" The two police officers shouted in unison.