Chapter Forty-Seven: Encountering Ashes

As I sat down, I looked around the room again. I have to sigh in my heart, as an office, this room is ridiculously large, not to say a hundred square meters, to say that this is a prime location in the center of Shanghai, what is a prime location, that is a place where every inch of land is gold.

This small assistant to the president actually sits in such a large and luxurious office, which makes people unable to figure it out.

Moreover, the decoration of this room is a little too exaggerated. In addition to the huge floor-to-ceiling windows and oversized bookshelves, there is even a pet corner, but there is not a lazy and elegant Siamese cat inside.

Seeing that we sat down, Qi Ling pressed the phone in front of him and asked his assistant to bring a few cups of hot tea.

After motioning for us to have tea, she returned to the stack of papers on the huge desk.

I saw Qi Ling holding a beautiful Parker pencil in his left hand, and flipping through every document with his right hand, as if he was afraid of missing a word, and then the pen lightly nodded his head, and then signed his name on some documents.

After approving a few copies, she picked up the steaming strong tea at hand, and casually raised her eyelids to look at us as she drank it.

"The three of you are looking for me, what's the matter?"

Those little tricks can deal with those little girls downstairs, but it must be useless to deal with her, so I replied straight to the point: "A few young people who died in our company's activities before are our friends, I want to know something!"

Upon hearing this, Qi Ling's brows quickly furrowed, and a look of disdain appeared on his face.

"That's the police's business, and it's not your turn to take care of the people, what's more, the police also said that the three of them have their own causes of death, and they have nothing to do with our company, I don't know what we need to know?"

As she spoke, her gaze drifted to Zhang Linfan's body, and there was a slight softness in her gaze, and then she returned to normal, moved forward the boss chair under her, and lowered her tone.

"If you want to know something, just ask, I'm really busy!"

Her attitude really annoyed Lin'er, and she stood up, her hands were forked around her waist, and her eyes widened with anger.

"I said that you are really cold-blooded, that's not stepping on an ant and crushing a bedbug, it's a few big living people, they all died in an accident while participating in your activities, how can you say that it has nothing to do with your company?"

Putting down the teacup in his hand, Qi Ling's beautiful eyebrows raised slightly, and he asked rhetorically: "This young lady is really interesting, is it possible that you want to say that we killed them?"

Seeing that Lin'er was about to do something bad because of her frizzy personality again, I hurriedly pulled her back to the sofa, and even after stopping her from rushing out again, I turned my head to look at Qi Ling.

"Miss Qi must have misunderstood, we are not police, we are not qualified to suspect anything, let alone suspect that your company is the culprit who killed my friend, but the death of several of them was when they participated in the event, it felt really coincidental, so I took the liberty to come to inquire, after all, friends always don't want them to die so unclear!"

Maybe it was my words that made Qi Ling a little useful, but I saw that her face gradually improved a lot, and she made a sincere expression.

"Actually, compared to you, our company is the most reluctant to have this kind of accident, after all, human life is far-reaching, and we have suffered huge losses because of this event, but, to blame, we can only blame us for not doing a certain background check when selecting the contestants, but out of the spirit of humanitarianism, our company has also made considerable financial compensation to the families of the dead contestants, which should be regarded as benevolent and righteous, if you have to investigate the cause of their deaths, I think, this should be a matter of the police, and our company really has nothing to do with it!”

Hearing these words, I couldn't help but secretly call this Qi Ling a "good" in his heart! This kind of answer not only has no loopholes, but also cleanly clears all the responsibilities, it is really the best among women, and it is no wonder that Boss Nateng will leave such a large company to her to take care of it with confidence.

"Hehe, it is indeed the responsibility of the police to investigate the cause of death, but since we are here today, should we also ask Miss Qi to give us some information, and we should give some psychological comfort!"

I don't know what she thinks when I say this, anyway, Qi Ling was bowing her head and pondering at this moment, and it took a long time before she slowly raised her head.

"In this way, let my secretary give you all the information of the contestants, there are about more than 100 numbers, if you don't bother, you can take a look!"

"Then dare to be affectionate!" a hint of sly light flashed in Lin'er's eyes, "I really want to thank Miss Qi for her cooperation!"

I know what she thinks, Zuo just wants to follow these materials and find the fox Xiaohu to use the ten tails to explore.

Glancing at her, I didn't take the previous words, but made another request: "Well, actually, if I can, I want to meet your boss, Mr. Teng!"

Qi Ling, who was originally calm-faced, immediately had a trace of alertness in her eyes when she heard that I was going to see Tengtian, but in a flash, she returned to normal.

Biting his lower lip, Qi Ling opened his mouth again: "I'm really sorry, our Mr. Teng has been in poor health since returning to China, and now he is recuperating, so I specially asked me to refuse to see guests, not afraid of a few carelessness, even if the mayor comes, our Mr. Teng will not be seen now." If you really want to meet with him, when we get better, I'll discuss with him about your meeting, okay?"

She said this as a question, but it was obvious from her tone that it was a different attitude. What's more, such a seamless answer, without even saying an accurate time, is so reasonable that I can't find a little reason, it's really a difficult master.

Even Lin'er, a girl who is not very sophisticated, can hear the perfunctory prevarication in her words, and mutters in her mouth: "Cut, is this when we are all fools?"

Zhang Linfan didn't speak all the time, and he seemed to be unable to help it at this time.

"Miss Qi, when will you be able to give us an accurate answer?"

As soon as he saw that the person who spoke was him, Qi Ling's attitude was surprisingly good, but the answer was still the same: "Hehe, Linfan, I can't help it, after all, Mr. Teng's health is really not very good, if you want to meet, you have to wait until he is in better health, I can help you make an appointment, it's useless for you to be in a hurry!"

It's useless to be in a hurry?

Hehe, isn't the world so cold now? Several human lives were said so lightly, and some of the words that Lin'er had said before suddenly appeared in my mind-

"Princess, I've seen a lot of news on the Internet recently, do you really think that people nowadays are still worthy of us to pay for some cultivation and protect them like in the old days?"

This phrase has been lingering in my head.

Modern society has really made a lot of progress, science and technology are developing rapidly, however, with those flat concrete forests, the interests between people seem to be particularly exposed, human affection is not as thick as in the old days, people value money more than emotion, and the social atmosphere has become no longer so simple.

Thinking of this, the Qi Ling in front of me really disgusted me to the extreme.

"Miss Qi, I also bother you to tell Mr. Teng, We visited today, and conveyed the things we want to meet, please rest assured that we won't bother for too long, I won't stop until this matter is clarified, besides, if this kind of human life happens again and again, your company is afraid that it will be difficult to escape the blame!"

My tone faded throughout, and my whole aura became relatively more oppressive.

Qi Ling, such a sharp-minded woman, instantly noticed my abnormality, and her face became ugly.

"I've made it very clear before, what's more, even the police don't dare to speak to me with this attitude, and we Teng Zong, is that what you little people say you can see when you see it? It's really a joke, not to mention that those people didn't die in our company at all, just because you have a good relationship, you can say that it has something to do with our company? It's a joke, don't you dare to tell you, if you have evidence, you don't have to show it to us, just take it to the public security bureau and lock us up!"

People always raise the decibel level of their voices when they are afraid or argue, so Qi Ling in front of her is so tense and hoarse roaring at this time, it is precisely because I have put too much pressure on her that she has a strong uneasiness in her heart, otherwise, she would not have presented "evidence" that she can't tell us at all.

Helplessly sweeping my forehead, I sat up straight with a smile and gracefully put my hand on Erlang's legs.

"I'm sorry, I think it's useless for Miss Qi to tell me this!" took off the flask that fell from my waist, I took a few sips casually, and continued to say lightly, "I just don't want to see anyone else die like my friend, if any sentence offends you, I hope that adults will have a lot, don't worry about my little woman!"

This kind of seemingly ingenious but slightly sarcastic words are like a hot rice cake, after choking on Qi Ling, she is not annoyed or anxious, so she has to look at me coldly.

"Hmph, I've never been concerned with unnecessary people!"

Seeing that the pin has become a skill of Lin'er, seeing this situation, she quickly took out a store card from the small bag she was carrying and handed it over.

"Well, Miss Qi, if Mr. Teng's health is a little better, please tell us, I think, he will be very interested in meeting my young lady!"