282 One of the Useful Young Masters (1/2)

After giving Master Eight's name, they were finally able to gain access into the room. Su Zheng's eyes that looked at the man were filled with accusation.

”Ha ha ha… Because there is no guard, anyone can enter this building. Salesmen visit every other day, and I have become afraid because of that,” the embarrassed man explained. He greeted them and went to serve them drinks. Door-to-door salesmen were the most annoying creatures in the world in that man's mind, and this was especially true after he married a shopaholic wife.

The worst experience was when he came back from a weeklong work assignment and returned to find that half of his savings had disappeared. Instead, he found gloves that could shield the fingers when cooking, an apple corer that could core the apple while cutting it into six slices, a transparent chopping board that could not really be used, plates in various shapes that were used to serve specific food…

Most of those purchases were trash that was used several times before being tossed away.

The youth helped Yan Si sit on the sofa, and Su Zheng sighed. ”Brother Cao, you are too careful. Just don't leave so much cash at home. In that case, if your wife wants to buy something, she has to go the bank, and by then, her interest would probably have waned.”

”I don't think so.” The man sighed even greater, and his face looked sad. ”Nowadays, the salesmen come with card readers. Even without going to the bank, you could make the payment. If it's a cash payment, there won't be any bad consequence, but if it's in the bank, the personal information is stolen, then the problem will be even bigger… By the way, who are these guys?”

The man looked at Ye Shuang's group. Ye Shuang smiled in self-introduction. ”My name is Ye, and Xiao Su is now in my team.”

Then, she pointed at Yan Si and the youth. ”You can ignore these two. They are here because they are too bored.”

Yan Si and the youth looked at Ye Shuang, but at the same time, they could not say that she was wrong.

The man shook Ye Shuang's hand and smiled. ”This is also my first time meeting Xiao Su, but I've heard her name a lot already. I also heard that she is working under a team. Is there anything that I can help with?”

Su Zheng got straight to the matter at hand. She took out her phone to show the man a few pictures. ”I'm sure you have heard about the recent theft at the Yan family, right?”

The pictures on the phone were the ones that Su Zheng had snapped at the crime scene out of habit. The man took a look and frowned. ”The skill is not that good. From the looks of it, this is not the job of a real professional.”

”You're right.” Su Zheng gave the man a thumbs up. ”I also realized that it's not that professional, but I believed it was the work of several people, at least two, one to fix the alarm and another to crack the safe… However, I'm not familiar with the situation in Shanghai, so I can only hope that you can give me some leads.”

The man looked at the pictures for a long time and then stared at Yan Si. ”I was wondering why he looks so familiar. Is he the young master of the Yan family?”

Yan Si nodded with a scowl, which could be counted as an unwilling admission.

Recently, he had found that his name had lost its initial luster. Before this, even though Yan Si's reputation had not been that good, at least it had managed to garner some attention. To be able to get attention meant it had value, but after meeting Ye Shuang, Yan Si realized that he had become a normie in other people's eyes. Regardless of whether it was Ye Shuang, Su Zheng, or even this middle-aged man who could meld into the public easily, they reacted normally around him like he was no different from a stranger on the road. This was quite a hard pill for Yan Si to swallow.

The man thought about it. ”Technically, I shouldn't have minded so much, but after all, Master Eight is an old master that is well respected in the business, and since you're his student, then I shall tell you something in the capacity of a senior. Our internal rules state that we shouldn't go after another colleague, especially something like this that has involved the fight of inheritance. It is of no benefit to you if you get involved with something like this.”

If this was just a technician that was hired—like someone was hired by another person to pry the safe open—this kind of work was okay. After all, it was just a working relationship. The employer hired them to steal something, they stole something, and what either party did after the case had nothing to do with the other.

But now, it was clear that Su Zheng wanted to find the culprit, and this would involve a conflict between colleagues. Ending someone's career was like killing his colleagues' trust in him. If he sold someone out for the sake of money once, what was to say he would not do it again?

There was competition in every field, but every field had hidden rules that governed the peace. People could be in competition, but they should not purposely harm the other party. That was the man's meaning, and if Su Zheng really continued her investigation and even pointed out the colleagues who did the job, then she would be treated as a traitor in the eyes of her other colleagues.

”Brother Cao, you don't need to worry about that.” Ye Shuang smiled. ”Even if we continue the investigation, we're not going to cause any trouble for someone who was hired. Xiao Su just wants to clarify who is currently holding the stuff that was stolen from the safe.”