CH 147

The following day at noontime, Old Master Xia suddenly called Xia Weilan into his office.

“Weilan, there’s something that I want you to do.” The old master wore a hideous expression.

“What’s the matter?” Xia Weilan felt the heaviness of the atmosphere and said with a serious expression.

Old Master Xia extended his hand and opened the safe beside it, it was empty.

“I just found out that the bank cards in my safe were gone.” Old Master Xia said with a heavy heart, “And I also found that the money in those cards had been withdrawn. That money was meant to be used for paying off major projects. Only a few managers knew the passwords.”

“Grandpa, you mean that the management of the company stole the money?” Xia Weilan looked at the old master solemnly.

“Since the person knows the password of my safe, who do you think it is?” The first person that came into Old Master Xia’s mind was the 2nd Master.

Xia Weilan looked at the Old Master Xia in silence for a long time before saying, “Grandpa, are you asking me to investigate this secretly?”

“Yes. Don’t startle the snake!” Old Master Xia said.

Xia Weilan returned to her office and retrieved the CCTV footage from the CCTV at the door of the Old Master’s office from her computer.

Old Master Xia was convinced that theft happened within these three days, so Xia Weilan quickly browsed through the footage of the past few days.

During the Old Master Xia’s absence, two people secretly entered his office.

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One of them is 2nd Master Xia, who went in when it was about time to get off work last night, and the other was Xia Ruolin, who went in before everyone came to work this morning.

Both of them were sneaky. They went in and came out after five minutes.

Xia Weilan reported to Old Master Xia of her discovery.

“Grandpa, take a look at these two videos.”

Old Master Xia was very angry after he watched those videos, “There’s definitely something fishy with these two people!”

One is his granddaughter and the other is his younger brother.

He stomped the cane heavily on the floor, “Get to the bottom of this!”

That afternoon, the old master got Mr. Zhao to check the account transaction activity history of Xia Ruolin and 2nd Master Xia over the past few days but found nothing unusual.

Xia Weilan was also puzzled. She sent someone to monitor the daily activities of the two people but found no clues.

Meanwhile, because of his guilty conscience, 2nd Master Xia kept his eyes on the Old Master’s and immediately discovered Butler Zhao secretly checking his account. He was so scared that didn’t even dare to step foot in the company.

“2nd Master, the chairman also requested to check on Ms. Xia’s account.” An internal informant reported to 2nd Master Xia.

“Miss Xia? Xia Weilan or Xia Ruolin?” The 2nd Master’s eyes lit up and immediately asked. A scheme is forming in his mind.

If it was Xia Weilan, that would be great. He could push the blame to her so that she couldn’t even pass the internship.

“It’s Miss Xia Ruolin.” The person replied.

“So, it’s her!” The 2nd Master stroked his beard hesitantly.

The next day, in the chairman’s office.

“Grandpa, I didn’t steal the company’s money. It must be Xia Weilan trying to frame me.” As soon as Xia Ruolin arrived at the office, the Old Master asked her about the safe, while Xia Weilan stood at one side, watching in silence. Xia Roulin was so angry that she pointed at Xia Weilan and wished she could kill her now.

At this moment, 2nd Master Xia’s voice came from the door:

“What’s wrong? Why did you call me to come over all of a sudden?”

“Close the door!” Old Master Xia ordered.

The only people in the office were Old Master Xia, Xia Weilan, and two suspects.

“What’s going on? Why are you acting so mysterious?” 2nd Master Xia said as if he didn’t know anything.

Old Master looked at the 2nd Master in amazement. He didn’t expect him to be so calm. He repeated, “Someone broke into my safe, and the CCTV footage showed only two of you went into my office while I was away. Just spill it. What have you done?”

Xia Ruolin’s expression changed. She just went in secretly to check if there are any important documents in the Old Master’s office. But she exited the office very quickly after reading it. She never expected that the Old Master would know about it.

2nd Master Xia said indifferently, “Oh, I lost my phone the other day. I just went in to check if I left it inside your office. I came out after checking that it’s not there.”

“Ruolin, how about you?” Old Master Xia looked at Xia Ruolin inexplicably. She couldn’t tell who he trusted, it’s hard to tell from his expression.

“I, I…” Xia Ruolin gaped. She was unable to find a reasonable answer for this. She stayed in the room for a while and she couldn’t say that she also lost something.

Xia Ruolin couldn’t say anything out of a guilty conscience. She swept her eyes across Xia Weilan, convinced that it was her who was trying to frame her.

‘Knock~knock!’.

“Come in!”

“Chairman, we just found the money in Manager Xue’s account, it was the exact amount that was missing. It was transferred to Manager Xue from the computer from Miss Xia’s office yesterday afternoon.” The secretary said and passed the documents to Old Master Xia.

“What!” Xia Ruolin looked at the secretary incredulously, “How could it be possible, yesterday afternoon I never…”

Xia Ruolin wanted to say that she wasn’t behind all those at all. But she really was in the office yesterday afternoon and only walked away for a while.

Xia Ruolin suddenly realized something. She suddenly raised her eyes to look at Xia Weilan, who looked calm, “Are you the one who framed me? You’re the one who stole Grandpa’s money, isn’t it?”

Xia Ruolin rushed beside Xia Weilan and grabbed her shoulders with both hands, yelling desperately, “Admit it!”

“Enough!” Old Master Xia yelled, “Look at you! What have you become? You’re trying to shift the blame to someone else for your wrongdoing!”

Someone pulled Xia Ruolin away. Xia Weilan frowned and said, “All I did was check the CCTV footage. Grandpa is the one who carried out the rest of the investigation. There’s no need for me to slander you. I have no interest in doing that at all.”

Xia Ruolin’s eyes were red, but she didn’t trust Xia Weilan’s words. She denied, “Grandpa, I didn’t do it!”

Old Master Xia shut his eyes sadly. By the time he reopened his eyes again, he said with regret, “The reason why I called you here is that I didn’t want to publicly expose such a terrible crime that was done by the family member. But I never expect that you didn’t even feel that you’ve done wrong!”

“Ruolin, how can you do such a thing? Now that there is solid evidence, you should admit your mistake. Stopped being so stubborn.” 2nd Master Xia looked at Xia Ruolin with heavy eyes.

“Second Master, you have to trust me. It’s not me!” Xia Ruolin shook her head vigorously.

“Silly girl. You can tell me if you are short of money. How can you do this kind of thing? With that solid evidence, who else could it be if it’s not you?” 2nd Master Xia placed a hand over his chest as he said helplessly.

When Xia Ruolin heard his words, she shifted her gaze to Xia Weilan. She wanted to say something, but she was interrupted by Old Master Xia, “Enough. From today onward, there’s no need for you to come to the office anymore. Go home and think about what you’ve done! As for Xue Zhiqing, he’ll be dismissed from the company. That’s all. You can all leave now. I want to clear my head!”

The old master stand firm on his decision.

They all left one after another.