conspiracy crime 2

Chapter 30: Serious Accident (2)
Chen Ming couldn't refuse, so he had to bite the bullet and drank the cup.

Shen Ling served Chen Ming some food, and at the same time poured wine for him.

After a few drinks, Chen Ming, who didn't drink much at first, became a little overwhelmed, his face was hot, his head was dizzy, and his whole body seemed to float.

Shen Ling poured him another big glass, and Chen Ming hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, I don't have a good capacity for alcohol, so I really can't drink any more."

Shen Ling moved the chair to his side, looked at him sideways, with a charming smile on her slightly raised red lips, and a faint mist in her eyes: "Great talent, For so many years, I have actually kept a secret in my heart."

Chen Ming was taken aback, and asked, "What secret?"

She said, "This secret has something to do with you."

Chen Ming's heart seemed to be scratched by a naughty mouse, and he couldn't help asking: "It's related to me, what's the secret?"

She looked at Chen Ming motionlessly, and her eyes gradually became blurred and ambiguous: "I'll tell you after you drink this cup."

Looking at her tender face and those smiling eyes, Chen Ming couldn't help but his heart fluttered, and he involuntarily picked up the glass of blood-red wine, tilted his neck, and drank it proudly. go down.

"My great talent, do you know that ever since I read the first poem you wrote in school, I have fallen in love with you deeply, deeply... In the cold winter months, a little girl endured The pain of being pricked to the fingertips by iron needles, knitting a sweater for a boy she likes... This kind of happy feeling of first love, until now, still makes me remember and recall it very much..."

Shen Ling smiled softly, leaned her whole body towards Chen Ming, pressed her mouth to Chen Ming's ear, and gently told the long-buried secret in her heart.

Before Chen Ming could recall it, Shen Ling took out her mobile phone, pressed the play button, and a soothing and lingering music sounded in the mobile phone immediately.

She stretched out her white arms and wrapped them around Chen Ming's neck: "Do you still remember the dance we danced at the school reunion?"

Chen Ming said: "Of course I remember." Being pulled by her, he stood up involuntarily, wrapped his hands around her soft waist, and slowly swayed his body with the soothing music.

Singing and dancing, their hearts fluttered, and they jumped from the living room to the bedroom before they knew it.

Unknowingly, the two of them fell on the bed slowly.

That simple wooden frame bed seemed to be unable to carry the passion of the two of them, and exaggeratedly screamed...

The next morning, Chen Ming was awakened by a rustling noise, opened his sleepy eyes, and found that Shen Ling was no longer on the other side of the bed.

He got up in surprise, but saw that Shen Ling was already fully dressed, opening his cabinet, and taking out a pile of messy clothes inside.

Chen Ming asked, "What are you doing?"

She looked back at him, with a trace of tenderness in her eyes, and said, "Your house is a mess, and I told you to tidy it up for you."

She smiled sweetly, sat by the bed, carefully folded Chen Ming's clothes one by one, and put them neatly into the closet.Then, he rolled up his sleeves and helped Chen Ming tidy up the house, cleaning up, even under the bed and in the closet where the shoes were kept.

At nine o'clock in the morning, she drove Chen Ming all the way to the office building where he worked, and then reluctantly left.

When parting, she said: "I will ask Mr. Zhou to contact you personally regarding the advertisement."

4
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Ming was writing a news release in front of the newspaper's computer when his cell phone rang.When he picked it up, the other party said, "I'm Zhou Zhenglong."

Chen Ming remembered what Shen Ling had said to him in the morning, and he didn't expect the boss of Zhenglong Real Estate to call him so soon, and hurriedly said, "Oh, it's Mr. Zhou, hello, hello."

Zhou Zhenglong said: "Tonight at six o'clock, I will be waiting for you in the Iceland Room of Xixiangfeng Hotel on Huacheng Avenue. Please bring a copy of your newspaper's advertising price list and advertising contract."

Chen Ming knew that there was something interesting about the advertisement, so he couldn't help being overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Okay, I will definitely be there on time." After finishing the manuscript in hand, it happened to be the time agreed with Zhou Zhenglong, so Chen Ming called a taxi. Take a taxi and go straight to Huacheng Avenue.

When Chen Ming walked into the Icelandic room of Xixiangfeng Hotel, Zhou Zhenglong was sitting by the table alone waiting for him.

Zhou Zhenglong was tall and fat, and he was very forthright. He laughed, and stretched out his hand to Chen Ming across the table. Chen Ming quickly reached out to shake his hand and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Zhou, to keep you waiting."

Zhou Zhenglong said, "It's okay, I came early."

He asked straight to the point: "How much does it cost to make a full-page advertisement in your newspaper?"

Chen Ming took out an advertising price list and handed it to him, saying, "The full page is [-] yuan, and the half page is [-] yuan."

Zhou Zhenglong took out a checkbook from his suit pocket, wrote a check for 30 yuan without hesitation, and pushed it to Chen Ming from the desktop: "The sales advertisement of Jinshan Building is full-page, ten issues in a row. Advertisement For the copy, I will ask the advertising company to design it and then pass it on to your newspaper."

Chen Ming's heart skipped a beat. The advertising fee of 30 yuan was enough to make him straighten up in front of Zhang He, who was eager for money.

He was about to reach out to receive the check, but Zhou Zhenglong suddenly withdrew his hand, took the check back, stared at him and said, "But Reporter Chen, before signing this advertising contract, Mr. Zhou has a small condition."

Chen Ming said: "President Zhou has any requirements, please do so."

Zhou Zhenglong took out a big Zhonghua, lit it and held it between his fingers, and suddenly asked him, "Reporter Chen knows this girl Han Xiang?"

Chen Ming nodded suspiciously, and said, "I've seen it twice on the construction site of Jinshan Building, so I know you."

Zhou Zhenglong exhaled a smoke ring, looked at Chen Ming calmly, his eyes gradually became sharper: "Someone saw that the morning when the accident happened at the Jinshan Building site, Han Xiang gave you a package of things. My request is very simple. As long as you give me the package that Han Xiang gave you, I will sign this advertising contract immediately."

Chen Ming was startled, and then remembered the tightly wrapped envelope that Han Xiang had given him to keep for him.

Chen Ming slightly raised his head, just in time to see a sinister smile in Zhou Zhenglong's unfathomable eyes.

His heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly remembered Han Xiang's tense expression at that time. A few days after she handed the envelope to him, she died in a car accident. Is it a coincidence or...

Why did Zhou Zhenglong want to go back to what Han Xiang gave him?
Could it be that the contents of the envelope had something to do with him, could it be that Han Xiang's car accident had something to do with him?

The reporter's sensitivity immediately made Chen Ming realize that there must be something strange in it.

No matter what, what Han Xiang entrusted to him must not fall into the hands of others.

Thinking of this, Chen Ming couldn't help but shake his head: "Mr. Zhou, I think you may have made a mistake. Han Xiang and I just met by chance and we are not very familiar with each other. How could she give me something?"

The smile on Zhou Zhenglong's face faded, he stared at him and said, "As long as you hand over that package, you can get tens of thousands of advertising commissions. You'd better think it through before answering me."

Chen Ming felt more and more that there must be something hidden in it, and he strengthened his determination, saying: "Mr. Zhou, I think very clearly, I really can't remember anything that Han Xiang gave me."

Zhou Zhenglong's expression changed, his eyes flashed coldly, he put away the check on the table, stood up and said, "Well, Mr. Chen, our advertising contract has been cancelled. Let's talk again when you remember." He stared at Chen Ming fiercely with blade-like eyes, then slammed the door and left.

Chen Ming was full of doubts, knowing that the envelope that Han Xiang handed to him must contain some information that made Zhou Zhenglong scruples.

As soon as Zhou Zhenglong left, he immediately left the hotel and took a taxi back to the agency.

He didn't take the envelope that Han Xiang handed him back to his residence, but locked it in his desk all the time.

It was getting late, and the colleagues in the office had already left work.

Chen Ming turned on the light, went to his desk, took out the key, opened the bottom drawer, took out the envelope tightly wrapped in transparent tape, hesitated, picked up the scissors, and cut open the envelope.

The first thing to slide down from the inside was a letter written on white paper, the content of which was as follows:
Reporter Chen:
When you open this envelope, I have already returned to my hometown in northern Hubei with my father's ashes.I left this envelope only because I want to tell you the truth about the accident at the Jinshan Building site, and hope that through you and your newspaper, the truth will be made public.In fact, that accident was not caused by the improper operation of the crane workers, and the number of casualties was far more than what Shen Ling announced.

In order to save costs, Zhou Zhenglong has been cutting corners and using low-priced and inferior cement in the construction of Jinshan Building.On the night of the accident, it was because a load-bearing wall on the top floor was not of sufficient quality that it suddenly collapsed, smashing down the scaffolding of more than ten floors outside.At that time, there were more than 13 workers who were busy on the scaffolding, and all of them fell down. Thirteen people were killed on the spot and seven were seriously injured.Because Zhou Zhenglong didn't buy insurance for the workers, if something happened on the construction site, all the compensation would have to be paid out of his own pocket.According to the relevant policies, in this case, he had to pay at least 30 to [-] yuan in compensation to each worker who died.Calculated in this way, he must at least pay millions of yuan to the injured workers for this accident.

The most important thing is that the relevant national laws and regulations stipulate that an accident in which more than three (including three) people die but less than nine people can be classified as a major accident, and an accident in which more than ten (including ten) people die and less than 29 people dies at a time can be classified as a serious accident. .According to this standard, the accident at the construction site of Jinshan Building was a serious accident.If such a big accident happened, Zhou Zhenglong, who is the legal representative of the company, might not be able to escape from prison once the investigation is carried out.

In order to reduce the compensation and evade responsibility, Zhou Zhenglong resorted to deceitful tactics and called a group of youngsters to clean up the scene overnight.Among the thirteen workers who died, only my father and another worker had family members on the construction site. Zhou Zhenglong promised us that as long as we didn't expose the matter, he would compensate each of our two families with 20 yuan.The other [-] dead migrant workers came from all over the country and had neither fellow villagers nor relatives present, so they became the targets of his destruction of corpses and traces.He confessed to his assistant, Shen Ling, that if anyone asked, the accident was a man-made accident caused by improper operation of workers, and only two people including my father died in the accident...

Fortunately, I was carrying a digital camera with me at the time—I had borrowed this camera from a classmate, and I wanted to come to Qingyang to take a group photo with my parents and take it back to school.I hid behind a pile of bricks and took pictures of Zhou Zhenglong directing Ma Tsai to "handle" the accident.But because my father's death compensation has not been received, I dare not publish these photos rashly.I had no choice but to take out the camera's memory card and put it in an envelope for you.Once I get the compensation from Zhou Zhenglong and return to my hometown smoothly, I will call you immediately and ask you to open this letter...

After reading the letter, Chen Ming reached into the envelope and touched it, and sure enough there was a digital camera SD memory card.

He hurriedly turned on the computer and inserted it into the card reader.

Sure enough, there were a lot of photos stored in the memory card. When I opened it, the first few photos were all photos of Han Xiang and his parents on the construction site.When I saw the eighth photo, the light in the photo was very dim, and there was a scene where the scaffolding at the construction site of Jinshan Building collapsed, and the workers fell to the ground one after another.

In the next picture, Zhou Zhenglong, the boss of Zhenglong Real Estate, led dozens of horse boys to the scene of the accident, driving around to watch the migrant workers.

In the third picture, a headlight was turned on at the scene of the accident. Under the pale light, more than a dozen bloody corpses lined up, the scene was shocking.

Chen Ming counted thirteen corpses.

In the fourth photo, a small truck with three fences and a covered roof without a license plate was parked at the scene of the accident. Zhou Zhenglong was directing a few boys to load the corpses into the truck. On the ground, there were only the last two corpses left...

There are [-] photos in total, as Han Xiang said in the letter, the whole process of "handling" the accident led by Zhou Zhenglong was recorded in detail with the camera.

And poor Han Xiang, when writing this letter, naively thought that she would be able to return to her hometown smoothly, but she didn't know that when Chen Mingkai read the letter, the two of them were separated by yin and yang.

Judging from the current situation, the car accident that killed her was obviously a conspiracy carefully set up by Zhou Zhenglong after he noticed the clues to prevent future troubles.

After Zhou Zhenglong planned to kill Han Xiang, he thought he could sleep peacefully, but he didn't want anyone to reveal the news to him, saying that on the day of the accident in Jinshan Building, he saw Han Xiang had contact with Chen Ming, a reporter, and handed something to him. Chen was named.So Zhou Zhenglong felt bad again, and immediately pointed the finger at Chen Ming.

Thinking of this, Chen Ming suddenly thought of Shen Ling again, why she insisted on going to her rented house, why she showed excessive enthusiasm for him, an old classmate whom she had not contacted for a long time, why she insisted on cleaning his room, even Even the dirtiest corners?
There is only one explanation, she was ordered by Zhou Zhenglong to quietly go to Chen Ming's rental house to find the envelope.

Chen Ming's heart suddenly turned cold.

Chen Ming gritted his teeth, grabbed the phone on the table, and dialed Zhang He's cell phone: "President Zhang, I have an explosive piece of news in my hand, do you dare to post it?"

Zhang He said: "Xiao Chen, don't be surprised, first tell me what news is it?"

Chen Ming told about the concealment of the number of casualties in the accident at the construction site of Jinshan Building. Zhang He became excited when he heard it, and said, "Isn't our newspaper just trying to make a difference? If such news is published, it must sell more than the provincial evening newspaper." Back to the fire. Xiao Chen, please work harder and write this manuscript overnight. It needs to be close-up. .As long as you write well, the front page of the next issue will be all yours."

Putting down the phone, Chen Ming restrained his indignation, opened the file on the computer, and typed the headline "2 or 13? Behind the cover-up of the major accident at the Jinshan Building site of Zhenglong Real Estate..." The news headline.

5
The next morning, as soon as Chen Ming went to work, Zhang He called him into the president's office.

Chen Ming saw that Zhang He's computer desktop was opening the [-]-word feature article he had sent to his work mailbox.

Zhang He patted the table and shouted: "Well, yes, this news is indeed explosive, and your writing is also very good, with depth and strength, and it is our exclusive news. Now our newspaper will not be famous. No more."

He clicked twice on the computer again, "Hey, didn't you say that there are seventeen photos in total, why are there only three here?"

Chen Ming said: "I only selected the three most shocking photos for review."

Zhang He said: "For such a big news, how about only three photos? You give me that memory card, and let me pick a few more good photos to go with it. It's best to send the letter that the girl wrote to you as well." Me, let me make a photocopy and put it at the end of the article."

Chen Mingyi clapped his hands: "Yes, this way, it will be more shocking."

He took out the envelope and handed it to him, which contained the SD card and the letter that Han Xiang risked his life to give him.

Chen Ming thought to himself: Han Xiang, I have finally lived up to your trust. Once this news is published, Zhou Zhenglong, an unscrupulous boss, will have to go to jail.You can rest in peace in heaven.

Zhang He glanced at Chen Ming, patted him on the shoulder and said approvingly: "Look at your lack of sleep, did you work all night last night? Thank you for your hard work, I will give you two days off, go back and sleep well Sleep."

Chen Mingzheng couldn't wait for it, so he explained his work and went back to the rental house to sleep.

Two days later, on Sunday, the newspaper was published on time. Chen Ming ran to the printing factory and couldn't wait to pick up a newspaper to read, but he was dumbfounded. News of completion and sale.

Turning back, the fourth advertisement page actually published a full-page advertisement for the sale of Jinshan Building.

Chen Ming thought of the SD card that Zhang He was going to store all the photos in. Chen Ming seemed to understand something in his heart, and hurried to report back to the agency.

There is no one working in the daily newspaper on weekends.

Chen Ming turned on the computer to check the photo backup in his computer, but even after turning on the computer several times, the computer still couldn't run.

Chen Ming opened the case cover of the mainframe strangely and took a look, he couldn't help gasping, the hard disk inside had already been removed.

Unconsciously, Chen Ming was furious, and immediately called Zhang He's cell phone.

Zhang He said in a tone of voice on the phone: "Who is it? I'm having dinner with Ms. Shen Ling, the assistant to the general manager of Zhenglong Real Estate, at the hotel... Oh, it turned out to be Xiao Chen, by the way, Xiao Chen, from the next Starting from Monday, you don't have to come to work..."

"Son of a bitch!"

Chen Ming gritted his teeth and cursed.

6
The day after Chen Ming was fired by Zhang He, the headline of the second page of the provincial newspaper published the full text of Chen Ming's article titled "2 or 13?"Behind the Concealment of the Serious Accident at the Jinshan Building Construction Site of Zhenglong Real Estate..." is a close-up, and three photos secretly taken by Han Xiang are distributed.

You will definitely ask, the SD card that stored all the photos was taken away by Zhang He, and the backup of Chen Ming’s work computer was also gone. How could there still be those photos?
It's actually very simple to say, because Chen Ming's mailbox has the function of automatically saving drafts, and every time an email is sent, it will be automatically backed up and stored in the draft box.

When Chen Ming sent those photos and manuscripts to Zhang He's work mailbox, they were automatically saved without exception.

After leaving Zhang He's newspaper, Chen Ming gritted his teeth and sent this report and the three photos to the provincial newspaper's news submission mailbox.

After the report was published, it immediately caused an uproar in the society. The Qingyang police acted quickly. It is needless to elaborate on what happened to Zhou Zhenglong and Shen Ling.

As for Chen Ming, it was precisely because of this news article that was published in the provincial newspaper that he was favored by a regular newspaper, and now he is a real trainee reporter.

(End of this chapter)