Chapter 20
Aonashi waited at the door of Saiji’s room after just under two hours of sleep.
It wasn’t until after nine o’clock that she heard the sound of Saiji calling from his room for the kitchen to send up a cake before she reached out and knocked on the door.
Xiji pulled the door open, “You’re a bat? You’re here as soon as I make a move here, I haven’t eaten anything yet, I need to replenish my sugar to regain my strength.”
“Take your time to recover, I’ll just ask something.” Green Pear walked in nonchalantly, “Do you know what Gordon’s annual salary is?”
West Pole locked his brow in a lumpy frown and squeezed toothpaste onto his toothbrush, “The base salary is like half a million dollars I think, with various perks and grants and bonuses, it’s estimated that it could be seven hundred thousand dollars, what’s up?”
Qingli leaned against the bathroom door, “He went to a not-so-small casino last night and lost two hundred thousand dollars.”
Xiji was shocked for a moment, “So generous?”
Qing Li nodded, “And he’s very skillful at playing only □□□, definitely not his first time.”
“Gordon specializes in Asian routes and has traveled to and from the Philippines many times, and the scale of Manila’s □□ industry ranks among the top few in the world, so it’s definitely not the first time.” Xiji’s expression was interested, “If he wants to gamble all the time, he will definitely have a big money gap, you call Liang Jin and ask him to check.”
“Why should I let Liang check, he’s busy every day following Mr.”
“The captain’s salary is paid by the headquarter, not through the shipping company’s account, the payroll card credit card is basically from Singapore, Liang Jin is quick to check.” Xiji had to rinse his mouth for a long time after brushing his teeth because he couldn’t stand to eat without brushing his teeth but hated how the toothpaste affected the flavor of the cake.
Qing Li called Liang Jin right in the middle of his gurgling, and Liang Jin immediately agreed, then was silent for a few seconds, “Xiji just got up?”
Qing Li let out a “hmm”, guessing that the other party must have heard that gargling sound of Xiji’s that was louder than the sewer.
“Tell him to eat less sweets, or else he won’t have enough teeth to replace a mouthful.” Liang Jin coldly finished and hung up the phone.
Qing Li relayed Liang Jin’s words word for word.
He got a middle finger and a curse from Xiji, “None of his business!”
Qing Li ate an early breakfast in Xiji’s room, Liang Jin called the phone over, “This side sees that the balance of his salary card is almost nothing, all of it was spent by swiping the credit card, the credit card’s limit is 300,000 dollars, only a few tens of thousands of dollars were spent, but I found out that there are at least three other country’s savings and credit cards in his name, India and the Philippines as well as Indonesia. ”
She and Xiji looked at each other, “Okay, thanks Leung.”
“No, let Xiji take the call.” Liang Jin said.
Aonashi then turned off the speakerphone and gave the phone to Xiji, who looked reluctant, but reached out and took it anyway.
“I know, you are so annoying ah, the two of us work is not a system and nature, you do not interfere in my business …… nagging, you are still three years younger than me, do not act as a boss here!” West pole annoyed straight rubbing head, “Hang up!”
“In the future, if he wants to find me again, directly say that I am dead.” Xiji threw his cell phone to Qingli.
“What next?” Qing Li already had a plan in her mind, but she still had to listen to Xiji.
Xiji glanced at her, “Tell me your plan first.”
“I don’t think there’s a need to check Gordon’s other accounts, surely nothing can be found out, he knows that Mr. is a financial oligarch, going from the accounts will surely be found out immediately, cash is troublesome but safe.” Green Pear said, “I want to ask that casino manager directly, they often lend money to their customers, in order to make sure that their customers can pay back the loan, they will all investigate each other’s details, especially the dishonorable side, they definitely know more than us.”
“It can be done, then I’ll leave it to you, be safe.” Xiji nodded, Qingli was his recognized subordinate, he rightfully delivered his trust.
“What about you, did you find out anything?”
“When the ship docked at the Indian port a lot of containers came on board, apart from the high grade textiles that were reported, there was indeed a portion of cheap cotton yarn, guess how much of this cheap cotton yarn was there?” Xiji asked in a sell-out manner.
Qing Li frowned, “Nineteen containers?”
“Right answer!” Xiji snapped his fingers, “So I think it happened back in India, either the placement of the containers of high-grade textiles and cotton yarn was deliberately registered backwards at that time, and the ship is now pulling the registered textiles to other countries, or there were only thirty-eight containers of cotton yarn to begin with, and the inspection video and cargo registration we saw were all forgeries. ”
“Where is the ship now?”
“Well …… after docking in Japan, it should be in Australia soon now.” Nishiji thought for a moment, “The containers are all stacked up next to each other on the ship, there’s no way to check them, I’ve already contacted the captain, he’ll check the nineteen crates registered as cheap cotton yarn when he gets to the port, but the earliest he can do that is still about three days away.”
Green Pear asked, “What are you going to do next?”
“Stay at the hotel and make phone calls, checking to see if there’s any problems behind the shippers over in India.” Saiji lazily leaned back on the couch, “It would have been quicker to go directly, but it’s just as well to find someone to do the job, it just so happens that Mungma and the others are over in India on an escort mission, and I hate India more than I hate the Philippines.”
“I’ll go ahead and get the casino manager then.” Green Pear was ready to go back and pack up, “You have someone send me some gear, the usual.”
“Yeah, it’ll be here in a minute.” Xiji’s fingers flew fast as he tapped around on his phone to send a message, Qingli was almost out the door before he looked up and called out to her, “By the way, unlike other things, this is something you’re going to do during the daytime, finding a way to find the other party’s address is the best, the casino’s armed at night are very strong, and it’s impossible to get away in one piece unless you’re a Gundam.”
“I remember.”
Aonashi waited in her room for a while before someone brought her weapons, she gave up her favorite crossbow and opted for the smaller and easier to conceal pistol and saber.
After thinking about it, she took out the phone number of the gambling escort girl from yesterday and called it.
The other side quickly picked up, as if she was still sleeping, her voice blurred, “Hello, who is it?”
Qing Li didn’t know how to introduce herself, after all, neither of them knew each other’s names, “Hello, I’m the person who was in Morningly Entertainment . The one who asked for your help in the city.”
The other party sobered up a bit, “Oh, it’s you, what’s up?”
“Can we meet, I have some things I want to find you.” Qing Li finished and added, “The pay is generous.”
The face of money could not be ignored, and an hour later, Qing Li was sitting face to face with the gambling escort girl in a cafe near the other’s house.
She had observed the surroundings when she arrived, it wasn’t the rich neighborhood of Manila, but it was still a place where people from the middle class and above lived, with a lot of white-collar and business people coming and going.
“Looks like your business is quite lucrative.” Aonashi said.
“It’s not bad, when it’s good you can make a few hundred dollars a day, when it’s bad you can’t make a penny for a few days, but it’s the first time ever that you’ve come into tens of thousands of dollars at once, like last night.” The woman ruffled her hair a bit, “Thanks to you, so tell me, what do you want from me?”
Green Pear took a sip of her sour American and surveyed the woman in front of her, considering the feasibility of asking for a favor.
Possibly because she wasn’t in a workplace, the woman’s hair was loose and unkempt, and she wasn’t heavily made up in a revealing dress like last night, instead she was dressed in a slim-fitting athletic t-shirt and jeans, stepping into a pair of flip-flops, and looking much younger than she had last night.
“What’s your name and how old are you?” Green Pear asked.
“How much business do you have to inquire about in such detail?” The woman smiled and asked back, but didn’t really care, “Yu Hemei, Chinese-American, twenty-two years old.”
“You specialize in Morningly Entertainment . City do?”
“Well, after all, it’s one of the biggest casinos in Manila, and it’s wholly owned by a local Filipino owner, so it’s better to deal with in case something happens.” Yu Hemi said as she crossed her legs.
“I want to find the casino manager, not to go to the casino to find, but his house, do you know the place?”
Yu Hemei frowned, her expression a little more serious, “There are several managers, which one are you looking for, and what exactly are you doing, I don’t want to take any chances.”
Aonashi didn’t know which one to look for, taking out twenty thousand dollars in cash and placing it on the table, “The one with the highest and most managerial position, you don’t need to know the rest.”
“I can tell you, but you have to promise not to implicate me.” Yu Hemei said and stuffed the money into her bag, pulled out a paper and wrote down an English address, showing it to Qingli for a few seconds, “Remember?”
Qing Li let out a “hmm”, she then immediately pulled out a lighter and lit the note, and also lit a cigarette with the flames that came out.
“I see that the power behind you shouldn’t be small, it’s not difficult to check a casino manager, why did you find me?”
Qing Li could of course find Pitts to investigate, but being known would be associated with Yue’s, after all, Pitts was the manager of the security company Yue had set up in the Philippines.
Now that it was obvious that someone was targeting Yue’s, any small thing could be used as a handle and be magnified indefinitely.
She didn’t want to take that risk, so she decided to use her own methods.
“This has nothing to do with you.” Qing Li stood up, “If I don’t get what I want, I will still come to you.”
Aonashi quickly found the place on her motorcycle, it was a high class skyscraper condominium in the old financial CBD, Makati, and the casino manager lived on the twenty-eighth floor.
She knocked on the door and footsteps came from inside, but the door didn’t open.
Guessing that the other party was looking out through the cat’s eye, she flashed a smile at the cat’s eye, the door was quickly opened, the manager’s vigilance was very strong, but a beautiful and slender woman would let one’s guard down, he looked at Qing Li with some suspicion but an ambiguous smile, “What is it that such a beautiful girl is looking for me for?”
Qing Li looked at him and pulled out a pistol and pressed it against his head, “Why don’t we go in and talk?”
After all, he was the manager of one of the largest casinos in Manila, quite having seen the world, acting sort of calmly, entering the room and sitting on the sofa to open the door, “What do you want?”
Qing Li sat on the coffee table in front of him and took out Gordon’s picture, “This person, is a regular customer of your casino, right? His income can’t afford his gambling debts, I need to know the source of his funds.”
The manager looked at it, “You’ve got the wrong guy, he doesn’t owe our casino any money.”
“I know you won’t directly lend money to your guests on the surface, but there are quite a few lending intermediaries mixed in with the guests every day, ninety percent of them are your own people, don’t pretend with me.” Aonashi’s right hand drew the saber in his back waist, the tip of the blade had already pierced into the skin of the manager’s thigh.
“Good good good!” The manager immediately gave in, “I’m telling you! You hold the knife away from me.”
The saber spun around in Qing Li’s palm and retracted into his back.
“He started to come in and out of our casino half a year ago, he should have deposited quite a lot before, and he didn’t play much, but he couldn’t brake down behind him, he was looking for someone to borrow money, but that person is not from our casino, I don’t know his identity.”
“Will he be there tonight?”
“I think so, he comes every night.” The manager said, “I can take you there and point it out to you.”
Greenleaf put away his own gun, “You better not be playing games.” Then got up and went to contact West.
The manager sighed in relief, glanced at Qingli’s back, and after comparing the photos on his phone once more, secretly sent a message.