Chapter 35 (1/2)
Chapter 35: Call to Account
Inside the break room an easel was erected beside the sofas where several people sat Above the easel hung a sketch of the entire cri Chi had drew them specially for them Everyone was there, for the late Old Qin Gu shi+ was right in the middle of all of them
Zhang Chi had presented the sketch one ti and carefully placed it on the table As soon as each person there saw it they all exclaimed with admiration Everyone compared themselves to their likeness in the sketch and one after another gave Zhang Chi a thumbs up
“Ah, he sketched us all without us knowing Sketching criood for those little bastards” Old Chen had been depicted a bit slimmer and his beery belly was hidden behind the first row of people, so he was happy “Boss always talks about teaht us even closer together”
Everyone roared with laughter, Gu Zhichang laughing so that his eyes squinted to slits and deepening the crow’s feet around his eyes This sketch will just make his coet that they’re at the public security bureau while they’re here then they will relax and be better able to cooperate with our Little Zhang, don’t you think so?”
“Nice, so young and already has his own studio,” another old officer half-joked bitterly “I’ve worked here most of my life and don’t even have an office”
“You never applied for one There’s still time”
“So we just need to have souarantee us a separate rooht, Boss?”
Gu Zhichang just laughed, but Zhang Chi quickly stepped in to ss over “No no no, Boss already said this is everyone’s break room I just need to borrow it every now and then Sorry for the inconvenience during those times”
When Zhang Chi walked into the studio and his eyes went to the sofa A hard-up looking female university student saw him and stood up at once He ave it to her, the strong aro the entire studio He went to the easel and looked at his watch “All right, we can begin”
Friday afternoon the office was silent and still, Zhang Chi hiding in his studio with a laptop before hi his brain, then looking up and sighing deeply Just then he heard Gu shi+’s voice in the hallway
He took out his cell phone and looked at his calendar and calculated her training itinerary No, she ought to have a class tomorrow Why has she suddenly come back?
Zhang Chi walked steadily over to her and greeted her “Training finished? Why didn’t you tell me, I could have come pick you up”
Gu shi+ gave hilance She seemed even colder than before “Not yet I cae of a desk while she ate a ha persons case?”
“Boss, when you’re not here we’re without our pillar,” Little Wu s face
Chen Ting couldn’t listen to any more He clapped Little Wu on the back “Coht now?”
Little Wu looked at Zhang Chi “You’re good at explaining things, you say it”
Zhang Chi didn’t decline, but rather went right into an explanation “We went to see the girl’s parents Afterwards, based on e learned froated where she went that weekend when she didn’t return home”
Gu shi+ was confused “Didn’t she rent an apartment? We went there last time”
“After that incident her parents felt her her apartment was not safe at all and insisted she move back in with them Every day she had to have someone accompany her to her internshi+p”
Chen Ting shook his head “So over-the-top A graduate student is already an adult Seems like we still haven’t learned why she wanted to commit suicide”
Zhang Chi nodded “They never ventured to ask her Perhaps after several weeks they noticed herand felt that work could help take herovertime and couldn’t come home her parents ith it”
“But in the end she didn’t work overtiuessed
“Not only did she not work overti her phone we found she had transfered 650,000 RMB fro those two days she again transfered 400,000”
“She didn’t go anywhere else aside froht?”
Zhang Chi nodded “The problem is, the leads came to and e called and asked and asked about the withdrawals”
Now Chen Ting put forth his own idea “Maybe she had some helper to withdraw from the bank?”
“No, she drew the hed in frustration “But we’ve been at this for so long, yet haven’t ress”