Overly Intense [Criminal Investigation] 55p1

Chapter 55 p1: Thank You for Coming to Catch Me

All the influencers under Logos reposted the company’s statement. They took advantage of the working hours of the real-world cattle and horses to create a huge wave of public opinion.

“Lively.”

Sister Wang looked at the bickering comments and kept clicking her tongue. “Young people these days really have a lot of time and energy, cursing so fiercely in the morning.”

Qin Luo found a place to sit down.

The statement had been issued. According to Liu Jia’s statement, Logos was going to see the compensation for the live stream sales through to the end.

That was a considerable amount of money. If they hadn’t bought commercial insurance for the products back then, she really didn’t know where Logos would have gotten so much money.

Back then, she had insisted on getting insurance for the products despite Liu Jia’s nagging. Now, this insurance could be called a life-saving pill, giving her a chance to breathe.

What if she had listened to Liu Jia’s advice back then and abandoned these commercial insurances?

Qin Luo had doubts. She turned her head and asked Sister Wang, “Sister Wang, do you think I’m a conservative person?”

Sister Wang looked her up and down. “It depends on what aspect.”

“You’re quite radical mentally, but you’re more cautious in your actions. I’d say you’re a conservative businesswoman.”

Qin Luo felt that Sister Wang’s words were not pertinent. In fact, she was also conservative mentally.

It was just that the standard of judgment had to be relative. Compared to discussing what she was expected to do, what she liked to do… insisting on what she didn’t like was the principle of breaking conservatism.

She wouldn’t write works that she thought were bullshit, and she wouldn’t spoil her own fun in any way. Qin Luo had thought that she had become less conservative over the years, but looking back, she was still living cautiously.

Qin Luo did not feel happy about the statement issued by Liu Jia. Instead, she felt a lot of anxiety.

She sent a message to Liu Jia:

[Didn’t we talk about it last night? We should gradually let go of the public welfare matters.]
[Logos is no longer suitable for promoting this kind of project.]
[Didn’t you also think it was a burden? Or is this a unanimous decision of the shareholders?]

Qin Luo sent three messages in a row, which made Liu Jia have to call her.

“Did you see the statement?”

Qin Luo said, “Yes.”

“We did an internal assessment last night. The public welfare projects have been deployed so much that they are beneficial to the development of Logos.”

Qin Luo was silent for a moment. “Let’s talk about it when I get back.”

Liu Jia was trying to catch up on sleep. She turned over in frustration. “Are you not satisfied with how I handled it?”

“It’s not that I’m not satisfied, but the matter at hand has not been resolved yet. Who can guarantee how big the future risks will be?”

Liu Jia had been allergic to the word “risk” recently. She was easily angered. She sat up in bed.

“Which of the things we’ve done haven’t been risky? From the first two viral articles on Logos’s official account, you and I have been living in risk every day, my warrior friend!”

Qin Luo was rarely angry. She didn’t wait for Liu Jia to finish speaking and hung up the phone directly.

Liu Jia called back.

Qin Luo rejected the call.

Sister Wang was so scared she put the contract neatly on the table, took her phone, and slipped away.

Liu Jia called again without stopping. Qin Luo took a deep breath before answering.

“Why did you hang up on me!”

“I’m in a bad mood right now.” The blood was rushing behind her ears, and her entire cervical spine was numb. Qin Luo covered her forehead. “It’s not good to work with you with this kind of emotion.”

Liu Jia was also anxious. Qin Luo had rarely hung up on her since they were children.

“Are you under too much pressure?” she comforted her. “Why don’t I fly over tonight?”

“It’s not suitable for Logos anymore,” Qin Luo said coldly.

Liu Jia raised an eyebrow, puzzled. “You were the one who wanted to start this project in the first place. You told me in the middle that you would support it even if you had to sell everything. Now I just issued a statement, and you’re talking to me in this tone?”

Qin Luo said, “But when have my predictions ever been wrong?”

“I was the one who forced you to sign the contract for the commercial insurance for the products back then. What if you hadn’t bought the insurance? Would you have wanted it or not?”

“When the factory was being built, the contractor said that the warehouse floor had to be raised and the walls reinforced to prevent mudslides. You said it was a once-in-a-century event and there was no need. I had to persuade you for two days before you agreed to add more investment. What if you hadn’t listened to me back then? We wouldn’t have had to wait until today. It would have been over last year.”

“I said that we should hire more people to review the live stream sales, and that the hosts should have strict training. Did you take my words to heart?”

Liu Jia was completely awake now. She opened her eyes wide and said, “I’m keeping it alive now, and in your eyes, I’ve become a sinner?”

Qin Luo felt that she was being extremely conservative today.

She said, “I can’t be responsible for what I said for so long.”

So she was afraid.

Qin Luo asked Liu Jia, “Can you?”

Liu Jia couldn’t even guarantee that she would remember what she had said in the morning in the afternoon.

“I know that the Olivia team loves to play the emotional card. In the next few days, your public relations will definitely bring the public welfare project into the picture. So I’m seriously informing you here that future public relations tactics are not allowed to include the public welfare project, including the reading group.”

…

Liu Jia’s mouth was shut.

Qin Luo’s voice softened. “As for Ranmei, I’ll support whatever you and Olivia want to do, but don’t use the public welfare project to pave the way for it.”

Liu Jia knew Qin Luo’s temperament. Although she didn’t like to spoil the fun, she also didn’t like to bow her head.

“Alright, I know. I’ll go to the company and discuss the public welfare matter with Old Ou again. We’ll decide when you get back.”

Before Qin Luo could hang up, there was a knock on the door. Zhan Luo opened the door and walked in with a man.

“I have something to do here. I’m hanging up.”

Qin Luo forced a smile at the man and then hung up on Liu Jia.

Zhan Luo stepped aside to make way for the man to walk forward.

“Sister Qin, they sent him.” Zhan Luo had his hands in his pockets. After he finished speaking, he closed the door and left without waiting for Qin Luo to ask him to bring a message to Sister Wang.

Qin Luo was the host in the factory office. She gestured to the second-hand sofa. “Have a seat.”

Before she could go and find the legal team, Sister Wang pushed the door and came in.

Sister Wang walked to the stool, a few meters away from the man, and said coldly, “I am the representative lawyer of Logos. You can sort out your thoughts now and briefly introduce the situation of the factory in these past few months to us.”

The man rubbed his hands nervously. “Alright, then I’ll mainly talk about…”

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“These bastards.”

Sister Wang was sitting in a noodle shop. It was the height of summer, and there was no air conditioning in the shop. She held a stack of contracts and fanned her face vigorously, cursing every now and then. “These lawless people have been fed a black heart.”

“Which leader recommended this middleman back then?” She, a proper air-conditioned urban beauty, had to suffer this heat in the mountains because of a group of bastards. Sister Wang felt that her cursing was not enough. “Let’s investigate this kind of leader too. If they’re not related, why would they force them into the company?”

Qin Luo took two pieces of paper and put them under her cuffs. “It was the poverty alleviation office that introduced them back then.”

The county’s poverty alleviation office had unified several planting enterprises in the mountains and had sold them to an enterprise from another province at a high price, thinking of integrating business and tourism to drive the local economy.

The reform was a good thing, but it also led to the scattered planters selling their land and having no work to do. So the poverty alleviation office had acted as a middleman, sending people to the poverty alleviation project enterprises.

These people had experience in planting and had sales channels. Their advantage was that they were locals, and it was very convenient for them to handle the local procedures.

Logos’s affairs were complicated, and Qin Luo and Liu Jia had no time to manage this land, so they had found a partner to manage the factory as an agent.

This manager was called Ma Chen. He had made a fortune planting herbs in the mountains before. Later, the neighboring county had started to plant tea, so he had rented a mountain and switched to planting tea.

But the things he grew were average, and the tea merchants didn’t like to buy them. So Ma Chen had found many second-hand dealers and had sold the tea in large quantities to milk tea shops. Although the profit was not high, the technical requirements for planting were not high either. He had been living like this, waiting for death, until a large company had acquired his tea garden.

Qin Luo valued his intelligence and love of research. Liu Jia valued his flexibility and adaptability. Among the many partners, they had chosen Ma Chen.