"Yes," Zhou Xiaoxue leaned forward, "Many customers have been asking about trading companies these days." ”

"What's going on?"

"I heard that many suppliers are in arrears, and some customers have filed a lawsuit in court."

"Ahh Li Ji was taken aback. Just as he was about to ask again, he heard someone outside the door shouting Zhou Xiaoxue's name.

"Brother Ji, I'm sorry, I have to go up." Zhou Xiaoxue smiled apologetically and stood up.

"It's okay, you're busy." Li Ji smiled and watched Zhou Xiaoxue go out.

He sat down for a while, drank his coffee, looked at the time, settled the bill, and went out upstairs.

The office of the chairman of the Marriott Group is on the top floor. The secretary led Li Ji in, and saw Wan Daming buried in a pile of documents, looking intently, with words in his mouth.

"You sit down first, and I'll be fine right away." Hearing the movement, Wan Daming raised his head, quickly glanced at Li Ji, and waved his hand.

Li Ji smiled and sat on the sofa next to him, drinking the Longjing tea brought by the secretary.

After a long while, Wan Daming raised his head again, handed over a few documents to the secretary, walked out from behind the desk, and sat on the sofa opposite Li Ji.

"I've been busy these days." Wan Daming smiled, sighed softly, shook his head slightly, and looked indescribably tired.

His face was also a little gray, with two big bags under his eyes, and his cheekbones were even higher.

"Uncle Wan, you have to pay attention to your body." Li Ji put the teacup back on the coffee table and said with concern.

"Hey," Wan Daming's expression was a little gloomy, he leaned back, and reached out to tuck his thinning hair, "You drink tea, drink tea." ”

Li Ji noticed that after only a few months of not seeing him, Wan Daming's sideburns were already a lot of gray and white, dotted with stars.

"Let's talk about Wancheng." Wan Daming lit a cigarette and took a few puffs.

A few wisps of gray-white smoke rose faintly, quickly hiding Wan Daming's face in the haze. Li Ji found that Wan Daming seemed to be several years old.

After listening to Li Ji's words, Wan Daming's face became more and more gloomy.

"There is no record of this loan, the Group Finance Department?" Wan Daming was a little unconvinced.

"Yes," Li Ji nodded, "We went to the financing department to ask, and Mr. Zhu also asked someone to check, but there is indeed none." ”

Wan Daming's face darkened.

"I didn't expect that it was only two years since I handed over the group to him, and it became like this." Wan Daming coughed vigorously a few times, and squeezed out half of the cigarette in his hand in the ashtray.

"You are not an outsider, and I won't hide it from you," Wan Daming's expression was grim, "The group's current financial situation is very bad, if it is not done well, the capital chain may be broken......

Li Ji looked at Wan Daming and listened silently.

"The stall is too big, too big," Wan Daming shook his head and sighed softly, "Hey, you don't know, the group's amount of funds is not small, and it was taken out by Wan Cheng, I don't know what ...... done."

Li Ji suddenly remembered the movie directed by Jiang Wen: "Let the Bullets Fly".

The fake soup master in it has a very classic line: "I think that wine should be drunk one sip at a time, and the road should be taken step by step." The steps are big, and it is easy to pull the eggs. ”

I remember that when I watched it in the cinema at that time, Li Ji couldn't help but laugh for a while. But today, he couldn't laugh at all.

"Mr. Guo just told me, I still don't believe it," Wan Daming crossed his hands, his face became more and more solemn, "In the past few days, I have asked the audit department to check, Wan Cheng has borrowed funds from the group many times, all in the name of Marriott Trading Company, and he just had a ...... of 50 million last month."

"Oh." Li Ji nodded, staring at Wan Daming with both eyes.

"This is not the most important thing, the trading company has been in arrears with suppliers for a long time, and some customers have been delaying it for more than a year or two......" Wan Daming said, his brows gathered together.

"CCB's loan is said to have gone into Marriott Trading Company." Li Ji interjected.

"The finance department told me that as of yesterday, all the bank accounts of the trading company added up to less than 100,000 deposits, and they were about to become an empty shell." After Wan Daming finished speaking, he leaned on the back of the sofa with one hand.

"Your loan, hey......." Wan Daming shook his head.

"This loan originally had little to do with me, but somehow, I became the guarantor of the loan," Li Ji smiled helplessly, "Now, the bank has arranged for me to collect it full-time." ”

"Guarantees? Full-time collection? ”

"No, it's fine." Li Ji realized that he had missed something and hurriedly covered it up. He thought in his heart, it was better not to let Wan Daming know about this matter.

Wan Daming didn't continue to ask, was silent for a while, and then said: "Isn't the old man of your credit department surnamed Cui?" ”

"Yes, that's right." Li Ji replied, "His name is Cui Hao, and he is my direct leader." ”

"Guo Shiqiang said that in the past two years, Wan Cheng and this Cui Hao have been in close contact," Wan Daming groaned, "What else is Haitianda Technology Company......?"

"Haitianda?"

"Yes, that's it." Wan Daming thought for a while and said affirmatively, "Guo Shiqiang said that many of the businesses of the trading company are cooperating with this Haitianda. ”

As he spoke, Wan Daming got up and walked to the desk, picked up a few account pages and read them, walked back and sat down again: "That's right, it's Haitianda, and the two companies have had very frequent capital exchanges in the past two years. ”

"Haitianda Technology Company" - Li Ji wrote down the name.