Hard work pays off. After more than ten days of working overtime, the team had made significant progress. To the outside world, they had already announced the running accounts of the two production teams for the past two years. He had also checked the accounts and documents for the past two years and found many problems. After the accounts were announced, according to the clues provided by the members, the team went to the masses to investigate and collect evidence. They compared the investigation with the account book one by one. They found that in the past two years, the old accountant of Team One, Zhao Guocai, had embezzled nearly 2,000 yuan of collective cash by means of not recording income and false claims. The accountant of Team Two also had similar problems of more than 1,000 yuan. There were still several large amounts of income that had yet to be clarified.
These questions that had not been fully verified, met with the target of the review, and implemented should not be made public. On National Day, he also repeatedly stressed to his comrades that the audit must be kept strictly confidential. However, due to the large number of people and the help of two production team members, the progress of the team's work and the news that major problems had been found spread like wildfire. The small Phoenix Ridge Village was in an uproar.
Those members who were concerned about the fate of the production team and their own interests gathered together, discussing or whispering, saying that Director Han of the Commune was full of water. The people he sent out were all good at fighting. Zhao Guocai and Zhang Zhijun thought they were smart and bullied us commoners who didn't understand the accounts. They thought that no one could see through their tricks. But how could a cunning fox defeat a good hunter? The team opened their account book and took a look. They immediately caught their fox tail! There were also some people who had different opinions. They said that Zhang Zhijun was a fool and did it brazenly. However, the Zhao Country was very strange! It was a strange coincidence that the account was gone! No matter how the team looked at it, they could not understand it. They could not find any problems and could not grasp the key points, making them sleepless all night. Look at the face on National Day. The two old accountant's eyes were red. Therefore, they discussed in private and told each other that no matter who was in charge of the food, they had to find a way to cook more delicious food. They had to let the people of the small team eat well and not tire them out.
" Looking horizontally into a mountain range and standing vertically into a peak, the distance and height are different." The officers of the small teams in Phoenix Ridge, who were from different positions, had their own opinions and opinions about the news about the small team's audit. Their moods were also very different.
The team leader, who was clean and had no problems, was very calm in his heart and appeared very calm. If they did not do anything wrong, they were not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night. Their only wish was to look forward to the small team to investigate fiercely and quickly, to investigate these people who embezzled the collective money. They could not let these few dirty "corrupt elements" ruin the reputation of most of the cadres. They showed a special enthusiasm to the people in the team who were checking the accounts. Not only did they ask about food and drink, but they also took the initiative to introduce the situation to the team and provide clues.
Those who were not clean and had ulterior motives were asking around for information, eager to know the progress of the team's work. What problems had they discovered? How should he respond?
As the current accountant of Team One, Feng Lamei had not been an accountant for a long time and was not familiar with the business. Even if she was asked to be corrupt, she would not do so. Some members said in private that Wintersweet was a housewife with a baby in her arms. She did not have much education in her stomach, and her voice was not very bright. How big of a problem could she have? Although Wintersweet knew that she didn't have the money from the Huhua team, she felt a little uncomfortable when she saw so many people who specialized in checking the accounts suddenly come to the village and posted the accounts she had recorded over the past year on the wall. Especially when she saw the villagers standing in front of the wall where the accounts were announced, she was more or less nervous. When she found that there were always people pointing and poking behind her back, she was a little puzzled. Even she was a little suspicious of herself. Could there really be a problem with her accounts? She immediately blushed and her heart raced. When she had nothing to do, she would sit at home and not dare to go out. She would wait for the team to quickly finish checking the accounts and clearly announce that there was no problem with Feng Lamei. Only then would she be able to walk up to them confidently.
Zhang Zhijun, the accountant of Team Two, lowered his head the moment the financial clearing team of the Commune entered the village. He knew that in the past few years, he had been hanging out with Zhao Cai, wandering around here and there, going to restaurants, going to the mall, eating and drinking, wasting a lot of money in the team. Even when she was attending accounting training in the county, she was not used to eating the food on the stove and had to eat in a restaurant every meal. Every time he came back from the city, he had to buy a lot of rare things for his wife and son. Wasn't that money from the production team? How much money did his family have? Now, he couldn't even tell himself which of the money he spent every day was the production team's money and which was his own money! Ask them to investigate! If we can't find out, we'll be lucky. If we find out, we'll be unlucky!
However, Zhao Guocai, a member of the brigade's Party branch, the current deputy director of the brigade, and the old accountant of the original first team, had a different mindset. Although he felt that the situation was obviously unfavorable to him, he was sure that the squad could not do anything to him. He looked as if he was as calm as Mount Tai and was quite confident. Because he felt that he had a powerful weapon to deal with them. If he found some small problems with 300 or 200 yuan, he would admit it. If it was found that he had a major corruption or diversion problem, he would have an explanation. He secretly said in his heart, National Day, don't be happy too early. Let's see who'll have the last laugh!”
After the team basically checked the accounts of the two production teams, figured out the ins and outs of the problems, and obtained a large amount of evidence, National Day felt that it should enter the implementation and final stage.
Wang Zhongyi, Li Zhongxin, and Zhong Guoqing were responsible for the specific implementation of the process and amount of each embezzled money, as well as the discussion with the problematic personnel. After careful analysis and research, they decided to first talk to the accountant of the second team, Zhang Zhijun.
Just as everyone analyzed, the conversation with Zhang Zhijun went exceptionally smoothly. When National Day explained to him our policy of "learning from past mistakes to avoid future ones, treating the sick and saving the patient" and "leniency to those who confess and severity to those who resist" to criminals, Zhang Zhijun immediately automatically explained several major issues. National Day took out the audit records of the small team and compared them one by one. As expected, there was no difference. After Zhang Zhijun explained these problems, he said,""Perhaps there are other questions, but as time passes, I can't remember them clearly. Please raise them for me. As long as it's my question, I won't go back on my word.”
Li Zhongxin took out the team's audit records and confirmed the problems that he did not mention one by one. He thought for a moment and recalled. Then, he immediately admitted the fact that he was corrupt and wrote down detailed inspection materials on the spot. During the inspection, he listed the specific process, methods, and amount of his corruption, roughly talked about the whereabouts of the stolen money, and said that he would pay off all the stolen money within a month.
When National Day asked him,"Is there a guarantee that I'll pay off the stolen money in a month?"”
"Yes!" He said with certainty," Sell my wife's Phoenix brand bicycle and my Shanghai brand watch. My mother still has some savings. If it's not enough, I'll ask my father-in-law to lend me some money. Anyway, I can't owe the team money.”As she spoke, she shed tears of regret. When the people present saw his pitiful look, they actually forgot the scene of him squandering public funds in the past. They even felt a little pitiful for him.
When the conversation reached the old accountant of the first team, the current brigade accountant Zhao Guocai, something unexpected happened.
The conversation with Zhao Guocai started early in the morning. At the beginning of the conversation, Zhao Guocai was very stubborn. He refused to admit some of the evidence that the team had already verified. Even if the team's audit officer placed the hard evidence in front of him, he would still say,"I don't think so? How could there be such a thing? Why can't I remember? Let me think again." Push push drag, soft top hard resistance, refuse to admit.
When Li Zhongxin asked him,"Guocai, after the production team brought back a batch of relief food from the county and distributed it to the members, how did you deal with this account?"”
"When you encounter such a situation, sometimes you don't keep accounts. Those who went to the county to collect relief food first collected the money from the members, then went to the grain station to collect the food. When they came back, they would distribute the food to everyone, tear up the receipt of the grain station, and forget about it. If he wanted to record it, he could collect a sum and pay another sum. The amount was the same, which was equivalent to a transfer.”Zhao Guocai proudly explained this extremely ordinary accounting business clearly.
"Then why don't you handle it this way?”Li Zhongxin asked him with a smile.
"Let me see." Zhao Guocai took the account book from the audit staff and carefully looked at it for a long time. He flipped through a few pages and checked it repeatedly. After reading it, he pushed open the account book and said with certainty,"No! This 480 yuan grain payment was definitely not relief food. It might be the payment for the 'Jinza No. 5' sorghum-seed. Think about it, if I don't collect the relief food, where will the money go? Wasn't that corruption? Hehe!"
"Then let's take a look at the accounting voucher for this account.”Wang Zhongyi said with a stack of documents in his hand. He handed over the accounting voucher that he had already found to Zhao Guocai.
Zhao Guocai took the accounting voucher and glanced at it. He couldn't sit still. The receipt issued by the county grain station clearly stated," Team Phoenix Ridge, 4800 catties of relief grain, 480 yuan." However, when Zhao Guocai looked at the clear receipt, he still straightened his face. His huge head with a big back shook like a rattle drum, as if he had been wronged. He repeated the same sentence,"What's going on with such a huge sum of money? I will never do such a thing. You can remember this debt first. For the time being, it's my problem. Let me go back and think about it.”
There were a few other similar deals that were set in stone, and the amount was more than 1000 yuan. Zhao Guocai refused to admit it and insisted on going home to think about it. The team did not continue to tangle with him and agreed to let him think about it before talking.
The conversation with Zhao Guocai lasted for two days. He had already personally written an inspection and admitted that the amount of money that was considered to be embezzled was only 400 yuan, and the question that he had to "think about it carefully" was actually 1300 yuan.
Early in the morning three days later, Zhao Guocai came to the team excitedly. He had a smug look on his face as if he had been relieved of a heavy burden. He was smiling and holding a box of cigarettes in his hand. He dispersed as soon as he saw anyone.
Guo Qing and his comrades felt a little strange when they saw his expression when he entered the door. They didn't know what he was up to. At the beginning of the conversation, Zhao Guocai was very calm and heroic. He threw a whole box of cigarettes on the table for everyone to smoke. Then he reached out from his shirt pocket and took out a few pieces of paper. He solemnly handed them to National Day. On National Day, he opened it and saw that it was a receipt and two IOUs, totaling 1339.8 yuan.
"Tell me, what's with these notes?" Guo Qing asked.”
"Aiya! These two days, you guys have been talking to me with a serious face, saying that I embezzled so much money. I was so scared that I was confused. My head was so big that I forgot everything that I could remember! Later, when I returned home and calmed down, after thinking about it and recalling it again and again, I suddenly remembered that I still had these notes in my drawer! It's more than 1300 in total, which is basically the same as the amount of money that you mentioned two days ago. The 1300 yuan is in the hands of these three people. You have to ask them for it!”
Guo Qing heard Zhao Guocai's words and felt that it was a little strange. Team One's accounting books and all the financial procedures had been handed over to Feng Lamei for more than a year. Why did Zhao Guocai, as an old accountant, still have so many receipt and IOU notes? If we don't come to check the accounts, when will these notes be left? In the future, would the money on these three notes belong to the team or Zhao Guocai? A series of questions immediately surfaced in National Day's mind. He felt that this was obviously a plot by Zhao Guocai, but it was difficult to figure out the truth at the moment, so it was not good to jump to conclusions. He could only push the boat with the current and say,"Then explain them one by one." As long as it can explain the situation or solve your problem!”
"Yes, yes, yes! I knew that you brought so many people to Phoenix Ridge on National Day to check the accounts and solve the problem! He was here to complete his work mission! You're not here to find trouble with me, Zhao Guocai! Now, I'll show you some of the original things from that time. You're all people who know accounts, so you'll understand at a glance. People often say,'A thousand-year-old contract can talk', I don't need to say more.”
As he spoke, he reached into his shirt pocket again, took out three more notes, and held them in front of National Day. Guo Qing could tell at a glance that the handwriting on these three notes was obviously different from the other three notes. They were all written by Zhao Guocai alone. He explained,"These notes were the attachments I wrote at that time. I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to remember what money was on those notes after a long time, so I wrote it in detail and attached it to these notes as an explanation. Take a look first, I'll explain it to you in detail.”
Guo Qing took the three notes and looked at them carefully. The paper used for these notes was obviously old, and there were obvious traces of rubbing, as if it was still stained with dust or cigarette ashes. However, the handwriting on the note was very fresh. It could even be said that it had been written not long ago. After Guo Qing read the notes carefully, he tried his best to calm down and not show any emotion. He seemed to be a little delighted. Hurry up and tell everyone in detail!"
Zhao Guocai looked at Guo Qing with a smile and felt that Guo Qing had already believed him. He continued to explain with a smile," Let's start with the easy part and then the difficult part. Let's start with these two IOU. The first IOU was written by the cashier, Li Jintang. At that time, the team's driver, Wang Kezhi, gave me 340 yuan for the shipping fee. I should have given him an income certificate first and then entered the account. However, the income certificate in front of me happened to be used up that day. Before I went through the entry procedures, the cashier, Li Jintang, did not have enough cash when he claimed the expenses, so I lent him the 340 yuan for the shipping fee first. He wrote this IOU for me at that time. After a long time, both of us forgot about it. In the end, we didn't give Wang Kezhi an income certificate, so the shipping fee wasn't credited. However, I still have this IOU in front of me. As long as Li Jintang takes out this money and gives it to me, I'll transfer it to the team's account. The second IOU was written by the keeper Ji Xinliu. That day, he went to the county grain station to collect relief food, but he didn't collect all the food money from the members before he left, so he took 480 yuan from me. Originally, when he brought back the relief food and distributed the food, he would collect all the money for the relief food and return the 480 yuan to me. Then I would return this IOU to him, and it would be settled. But for some reason, he only gave me the receipt from the grain station, and the 480 yuan he owed me has not been returned yet. At that time, I paid the 480-yuan relief food receipt, but the food money returned by the members was not credited. The reason was that Ji Xinliu did not give me the 480 yuan returned by the members in time. Because I was busy at that time, I forgot everything. I was careless. This time, you investigated carefully and found out the 480 yuan of relief food. Now, as long as Ji Xinliu returns the 480 yuan to me, I'll transfer it to the team's account. The account of this relief food will be balanced. There won't be any problems.”
After Zhao Guocai finished speaking, he used a triumphant gaze to sweep over everyone's faces one by one. Then, he asked very humbly,"Everyone, look. Did I make it clear to everyone?”
Everyone present was an accountant, so they could only nod their heads because Zhao Guocai's words were indeed flawless. Guo Qing said,"Let's talk about the third note!"”
"Good!" Zhao Cai was calm and confident. He spoke with assurance, as if he was telling a very touching story to the team.
"This receipt was written by Feng Wamei on the night I handed in the accounting procedures for her. At that time, I had just become the deputy director of the brigade and was indeed a little busy, so I wanted to quickly hand over the procedures for the team's accounting to Wintersweet. However, there were still a few businesses that I had not had time to deal with. One was Cao Erbao paying 329 yuan for the mill contracting fee, the other was the team dealing with some persimmon wine in stock and receiving a total of 100 yuan in cash, and Dong Shuzhen paid 90.8 yuan in arrears from the members. Since my account had already been settled, I handed the three unrecorded income, totaling 519.8 yuan in cash, to the new accountant, Feng Lamei, on the spot and asked her to record the accounts on my behalf. In order to clarify her responsibility, she wrote me a receipt. At that time, I said,"Wintersweet, after you record these three earnings, let me take a look, and I'll return the receipt to you! However, she never mentioned it again, so I forgot about it. Everyone, should I ask Wintersweet to record these few accounts now, or should I ask him to give me the 519.80 yuan? I'll record it. Anyway, the 519.80 yuan was given to her at that time.”
After listening to Zhao Guocai's narration, Guoqing felt that Zhao Guocai was lying. Think about it, does a new accountant need to write a receipt for three accounts in place of an old accountant? Wasn't this unnecessary? He asked casually," The new accountant still needs you to tutor him. When you tutor him in bookkeeping, can't you just watch him record these three accounts? Why do you have to take off your pants and fart to write a receipt?”
"National Day, it's better for the financial procedures to be more complete. At that time, I was afraid that wintersweet would have too many chores and forget to keep track of them. You see, she really forgot to keep track. If it wasn't for the fact that everyone had checked carefully, the team would have lost these three earnings. When everyone found out that this account wasn't credited and said that I was embezzling, I felt very wronged. However, at that time, I really couldn't remember what was going on. If I hadn't found the receipt that wintersweet wrote for me, I wouldn't have been able to wash my name clean even if I jumped into the Yellow River.”
"Is there anything else? Tell me more!" Guo Qing said.
"No, that's all."
"Guocai, regarding the problem with your account, let's stop here today. I'm telling you, it's not over yet! If there's anything new, please take the initiative to come here and tell us. We will investigate the true situation of these three cops seriously. We will definitely ask you for further verification.”
When Zhao Guocai heard this, he felt that there was a hidden meaning in his words and felt uneasy. Although he appeared fierce, he still said in a firm tone,"You can investigate! The Thousand Year Covenant could speak, and he would not be afraid even if he traveled the world!”After saying that, he immediately changed his smile and walked away proudly.
After Zhao Guocai left, the comrades of the small team circulated the three notes and had different opinions. Some comrades said,"I think we've finished checking the accounts and will soon complete the task." Unexpectedly, Guo Cai took out these three notes and pushed the problem to these three people. Hey! Guocai's hair was really hard to shave. Some said,"Maybe those three people embezzled the money. Otherwise, are they stupid enough to write a note to others?" Call them over and immediately ask them to pay the money first. There were also people who said that the wintersweet and the cashier were in a daze and might have been fooled by Zhao Cai. There were also people who said,"Even if they knew that they had been fooled, there was nothing they could do. They had to speak with evidence in court. The three notes in Guo Cai's hands were iron evidence!"
Guo Qing looked at the three notes and thought a lot. According to his understanding of Zhao Guocai, he thought of the complicated expression on Zhao Guocai's face when he took out the three notes and explained it to everyone. He also thought of Feng Lamei, the storekeeper, and the cashier's simple, honest, and confused appearance. He was sure that this was a conspiracy by Zhao Guocai. It was a trap that Zhao Guocai had long planned, prepared, and planned! However, it was not easy to explain the truth of these three notes, expose this conspiracy, let everyone see through Guo Cai's tricks, and return the innocence of those three honest people. This was a tough battle. To win this battle, time and effort were needed. Therefore, he had to tell his comrades his thoughts so that they would not be discouraged. They had to build up their confidence and fight with him.
On National Day, they gathered everyone and discussed their ideas in detail, which was equivalent to holding a pre-war mobilization meeting.
He said,"Everyone has their own opinions about the three slips. I'll share my own opinions and study them with everyone." I think, with our work experience and professional knowledge, we will definitely be able to investigate these three notes clearly. We can't malign a good person, nor will we let a bad person off. First of all, I have a few questions. Firstly, Zhao Guocai was a very smart and meticulous person. He was a young new accountant and an honest cashier. Would they dare to not pay back their debts? Only the State of Zhao knew about this income and money, and they were holding notes written by them. Among the three of them, who would dare to commit corruption and embezzling under Zhao Guocai's nose? Second, these notes were placed in Zhao Guocai's drawer. He had already submitted the accounting procedures for more than a year. Why didn't he urge the three of them to return the money? What was the use of keeping these notes? If the three of them returned the money, who should the money belong to? Was it the team's money or Zhao Guocai's money? Three, these three notes, a total of 1339.8 yuan, is this really the income that Zhao Guocai mentioned? Zhao Guocai even specially wrote an attachment at the back. Were these attachments really written at that time? From the surface, I feel that the three attachments are not like what Zhao Guocai said. It is very likely that Zhao Guocai created an illusion. In a while, everyone will take a closer look at these three so-called attachments. If these attachments were fake, then the income Zhao Guocai mentioned in the attachments had nothing to do with these three IOU. These three points are just my suspicions and need further verification. He might have to do a lot of hard and meticulous work. I suggest that we start from the source, step by step, until we find out the truth.”
Everyone listened to Guo Qing's analysis and felt that it made sense. They also had doubts about Zhao Guocai's defense. They felt that these notes were not as simple as Zhao Guocai said. The result of everyone's discussion was to investigate from the source. They had to investigate these problems clearly.
The next day, he called Feng Lamei to the team.
Feng Lamei sat in front of the team's table. After looking at the receipt, she immediately said,"This is the receipt I wrote. I think it was written when I took over the accounting procedures for the national talent. I remember that he said that this was just a proof!”
Guo Qing held the receipt in his hand and read out,"Received today. Zhao Guocai production team cash 519.8 yuan, Feng Wamei. June 22, 1972.”After he finished reading, he asked Feng Wamei,"I can see that this note is indeed your handwriting, but you have to explain clearly. What kind of money is this?"”
"I don't know what kind of money it is, but no matter what it is, I never owe him anything.”
"Of course, you don't owe money to other countries. What you owe is the money of the production team! The problem is that after the other party handed the money to you, he asked you to enter the account on his behalf, but you didn't enter the account. Then where did the money go?”
"You want me to take his place? There was no such thing! Into those accounts?" Wintersweet seemed to be really surprised.
National Day took out the so-called "attachment" note and showed it to Wintersweet. Wintersweet was even more dumbfounded when she saw it and said,"I've never heard anyone mention these income accounts! Guocai didn't even tell me about it. If Guocai told me, why didn't I get it? Don't you think about it? Do I have the guts to do that?”
Before Guo Qing could say anything, Li Zhongxin interrupted,"Wintersweet, don't say that first. People often say that 'empty words have no proof, but written words can prove it'. You personally wrote a receipt for Zhao Guocai to prove that these sums of money have been handed over to you. You took the money but didn't record it for others. Where did the money go? "Now, it has been confirmed that the 519.8 yuan was indeed embezzled. Is it you or the national talent? There must be one person. Go ask Zhao Cai and see who should pay this money?”
Feng Lamei lowered her head. She kept using her ten fingers to poke into her long hair and comb it over and over again, as if she could find the answer from her hair. However, after combing for a long time, other than letting everyone see her miserable and melancholic face, there was no result. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that this problem was important. The more she thought about it, the angrier she felt. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that Zhao Guocai, this old fox, was deliberately teasing her. However, the fact that he had personally written the receipt was undeniable. Why did she write him this receipt back then? She really couldn't understand.
When everyone saw Feng Lamei like this, they were both angry and anxious. Guo Qing took the opportunity to enlighten her."Wintersweet only has a little more than a year! Try to recall what happened to those earnings. Do you even know? If he really had never heard of those earnings, then why did he write this receipt? Did you receive any money from the State of Zhao? You wrote this receipt?"
These words were as useless as a stone. The stunned Feng Lamei only knew how to shake her head and sigh in shame. She looked at everyone helplessly and repeated,"Please check it again. I really didn't take the money and didn't record it!”
Guo Qing said,"Wintersweet, go back and think about it. Come back tomorrow morning." Think clearly and state your reasons. If he still couldn't remember, he had to consider paying!”Hearing this, Feng Lamei didn't say anything. She turned her face, her face full of tears, and walked home with heavy steps.
Then, he called over the cashier, Li Jintang, and let him see the IOU first. He could not deny it either. He said,"I wrote the note, but I don't owe him any money now! Sometimes, I would settle the cash with him. I owed him and he owed me. This was a common thing, but we settled it quickly. I really couldn't remember what this IOU was about.”
"Then let me remind you that the State of Zhao remembers!”National Day took out the attachment written by Guo Cai and showed it to Li Jintang. Li Jintang read it out loud,"Wang Kezhi paid 340 yuan for the transportation fee, which is now used by Li Jintang. Waiting to be credited." He looked at the IOU he had written,"I now owe Zhao Guocai's production team 340 yuan in cash." Li Jintang, January 20, 1972." When Li Jintang saw the two notes, he said,""National Day, please check it out. This is a national talent playing tricks! I don't know if Wang Kezhi paid the shipping fee, but I know that I don't owe Zhao Guo any money. Let alone 340 yuan, he wouldn't have waited until now even if it was 10 yuan. Who is Zhao Guo? Did he only ask me for money after you checked his accounts?”
"Jin Tang, everyone here believes what you said! However, you said that this note was indeed written by you personally. Now that the country's talent is asking you for money, you can't refuse to give it to him, right? They said that the reason why Kezhi didn't pay the shipping fee was because he lent it to you. Now that you return the money to him, he can give it to the team. Isn't what he said right?”
"Anyway, I don't owe him money. I want to file a lawsuit with him!”
"Do you have evidence in court? But the country has evidence. The IOU you wrote is iron evidence!”
"Aiya! This bad coward really wronged me to death!" Li Jintang squatted on the ground and burst into tears.
"Jin Tang, crying alone won't solve the problem. Go back and think about it carefully. When you're clear, come back immediately. The team can't throw away this 340 yuan for nothing!”
Li Jintang left, sobbing.
In the end, he called over the old storekeeper, Ji Xinliu. Ji Xinliu had already heard the news from somewhere. After entering the door, he said angrily,"On National Day, you have to stand up for us fools!" Zhao Guocai, that old fox, is teasing us honest people. He bullied us because we don't know how to account. Those cops were all a trap he set up long ago! We treat him as a human! How would she know that he was a ghost? Who knew that he had already made a circle for us to jump into?”
"Then tell me, why did you write that note to him?”Guo Qing picked up the IOU and showed it to him.
He took the IOU, glanced at it, and said,"I wrote the IOU, so there's no problem. It was indeed like what he said. It was the note I wrote when I went to the grain station to get relief food for everyone and borrowed money from him. However, after I distributed the grain to everyone, I collected all the money and returned the 400 yuan to him. I remembered that he asked for the grain station's receipt and I gave it to him. I forgot to ask him for the loan slip. I always thought that the grain station's receipt was enough to cover the loan slip. It was fine, so I didn't pursue it anymore. I didn't expect him to take out that IOU to cover his debt when you guys checked his account. No way!"
After listening to Ji Xinliu's words, everyone felt that he was the clearest of the three. However, he still left behind the IOU. This 400 yuan IOU happened between the two of them. Who could prove what was going on?
Guo Qing handed him a glass of water and said," Uncle, have a sip of water. Tell me slowly. Do you have anything to prove that you returned the 480 yuan to Zhao Guocai?"”
"There were only the two of us present at that time. There was no one to prove it. But you can think about it! I brought the relief food back and distributed it to the members. The members all knew that I had collected all the money. If I could give him the grain station's receipt, could I not return him the 480 yuan? Is he a fool?”Ji Xinliu was so anxious that he patted his chest. He really wanted to take out his heart as proof.
"Uncle, you should go back. After you go back, you have to think about it and see if you can find some evidence. There are so many people in the team.”
Another few days passed. The three people who wrote notes to Guo Cai could not find any clues or evidence to clear their names. Zhao Guocai's corruption case was in a deadlock.
At this moment, Zhao Guocai was both proud and afraid. He was proud that the three pieces of paper in his hand were iron evidence. He was not afraid of anything! However, he also knew that as long as someone put in the effort to get to the bottom of it, the matter would be exposed sooner or later.
This morning, Feng Lamei came to the station of the small team. He laughed awkwardly and carefully walked to the front of the National Day and whispered,"National Day, I have an idea that I want to discuss with you. If it's wrong, please don't take offense!”
"Say it, uncle. Let's discuss it!”
"Isn't the county's 'account deity' your uncle? For the sake of our wintersweet, I want to invite him to look at the accounts and see if he can clarify the matter of that note.”
"Uncle, that note has nothing to do with the account. Wintersweet wrote a note for them, and now she can't explain the ins and outs. However, if you want to call my uncle over, I won't object. You can call him over!”
"Alright, alright!" The old man left happily.
Feng Lamei's father-in-law wanted to ask the county's " accounting god ", Zhong Guoqing's uncle, to help solve the messy debts of the Lamei, and Guoqing agreed. However, when Eunuch Wintersweet mentioned his cousin's nickname of the " God of Account-Keeping," he remembered something unforgettable.
On National Day, he remembered that in 1959, when he was in elementary school, his third aunt's family next door had a lawsuit with Wang Shifu, the accountant of the brigade at that time. They said it was about 300 yuan. At that time, his third uncle, Zhang Jichang, was working as a cashier in the brigade's processing plant, and the brigade's accountant, Wang Shifu, was also the accountant of the brigade's processing plant. At the end of that year, when the brigade sent people to clean up the accounts, they found that the brigade's processing plant had paid a tax of 300 yuan, but the tax bureau had always said that it had not received it and was still collecting the tax owed. Wang Shifu insisted that he was the one who sent Zhang Jichang to handle this procedure. At the end of the year, they also found that the person who withdrew the 300 yuan was the cashier, Zhang Jichang. The attachment to the payment certificate was an IOU from Zhang Jichang, but there was no tax receipt from the tax bureau. Obviously, Zhang Jichang embezzled the cash. However, Zhang Jichang refused to admit that he had paid 300 yuan in taxes. He said that he had never heard of paying 300 yuan in taxes. He said that Wang Shifu had always handled the matter of paying taxes. As a cashier, how could he handle such a business? If you don't believe me, you can send someone to investigate. However, the brigade's cadre was certain that Zhang Jichang's 300 yuan IOU was attached to the accounting certificate, but the tax was not paid. If Zhang Jichang did not take the 300 yuan, who else could it be? They determined that Zhang Jichang had embezzled and ordered him to return the compensation as soon as possible.
Zhang Jichang cried out in grievance and immediately went to court to complain, but the judge had no choice and said," That IOU of yours is solid evidence. What right do you have to sue him?
Zhang Jichang was furious. Seeing that he was in despair, he threatened to fight Wang Shifu to the death. At this moment, someone suddenly gave him an idea. There was an accounting guidance station in the county agricultural bureau. The station master was called Qiu Yuting, known as the " accounting god." If he looked for him, he might be able to figure out this problem.
As soon as Guoqing's mother heard that the " accounting god " Qiu Yuting could settle this lawsuit, she immediately pulled her third sister-in-law next door to the county to find her cousin and said,""Third sister-in-law, don't worry. Are you worried that you can't invite him?"
Qiu Yuting was indeed from the accounting coaching station. It was his duty to solve this kind of problem, so he came happily. He listened carefully to both sides of the dispute, then took the accounts of the accountant and cashier together. He looked at the accounts of the previous year, and then looked at the accounts of the previous year.
In the end, he concluded that Wang Shifu had embezzled the 300 yuan and that Wang Shifu was framing the cashier, Zhang Jichang.
The " account god " Qiu Yuting discovered the problem from Zhang Jichang's private seal because in the accounts and documents of 1959, Zhang Jichang's private seal was a new private seal carved in handwritten characters, while the private seal he used in 1958 was an old private seal carved in printed characters. In 1959, all the documents used the new private seal, but this 300 yuan IOU used the old private seal.
Immortal Zhang called Zhang Jichang over and asked,""Why did you change your private seal?"
"Because the original private seal was lost?"
"When did you lose it? Where did it fall to?"
"I remember it was at the end of 1958. After I handed over the paperwork to the accountant, I couldn't find it. I asked Wang Shifu, but he said that he hadn't seen it and asked me to make a new one. Anyway, the brigade will reimburse me, so I immediately made a new one.”
"Every time you write an IOU to Wang Shifu, do you write it yourself?”
"No, he wrote it all. I stamped my seal.”
Immortal Zhang then asked Wang Shifu. He asked straightforwardly,"Wang Shifu, since 1959, Zhang Jichang has always used a newly carved private seal to settle accounts with you. Why did he use the old private seal that he had lost when he sealed your IOU at the end of the year? Are you willing to make this clear?"
“...”Wang Shifu immediately lowered his head without saying a word. His forehead began to sweat.
At this moment, the "Immortal Zhang" was even more confident. He continued,"If you can't explain this matter here, the relevant departments in the county have the technology to identify it. Otherwise, where can we talk about it? I reckon that we can definitely explain it clearly there!”
When Wang Shifu heard this, he immediately knelt down to the "Immortal Zhang" and said,"Stationmaster Qiu, please spare me. I'm impressed by you. It's my fault. I'll bring you the 300 yuan and Zhang Jichang's old private seal later. Please don't say anything outside. Just say that I was confused and made a mistake in the accounts!”
"Immortal Zhang" looked at his pitiful face and said,""Bring the money and private seal over first.”
When Wang Shifu returned the 300 yuan and handed over Zhang Jichang's private seal, because the amount was not large enough to file a case, the " account god " let him go.
" Zhang Immortal " helped Zhang Jichang find out the case and cleared his name. Zhang Jichang was so happy that he wanted to kowtow to " Zhang Immortal " and said that he wanted to give " Zhang Immortal " a table of " one leads two " to thank him. However, they were all rejected by the " Immortal Zhang." He only warned him that he must strictly follow the financial procedures in the future and must not be careless at all.
At this moment, when Zhong Guoqing sat in Uncle Geng's cave in Phoenix Ridge Village, facing the few articles and so-called attachments that Zhao Guo had just handed to him, he thought of his uncle Qiu Yuting's craftiness in dealing with Wang Shifu and Zhang Jichang's confusion. He felt the heavy burden on his shoulders. Thinking of the wronged and helpless eyes of Wintersweet and the two members who were bullied, he bit his lips tightly and made up his mind to investigate the ins and outs of these three notes clearly. Like his uncle, he would fight evil and uphold justice.
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