Chapter 216 Welfare Institute Incident
The wind blows the trees and the shadows of the branches sway, adding a distinctive corner of the scenery to midsummer.
Chen Xiao parked the vehicle in front of the gate of the Municipal Children's Welfare Courtyard, looked around at the familiar scenery, and waited for the interview car to arrive, raised his chins to the two people who got off the car, and walked towards the guard pavilion together.
"Hey, didn't you say it all? The Internet is purely a rumor. There is nothing wrong with the welfare home, so don't bother me."
Before they even stepped in, Chen Xiao and others heard the yelling of the old guard's guard, and their tone was impatient. After entering, they saw two men confronting each other.
Old Wang squinted his eyes and shouted, "Xiao Liu."
Hearing the sound, the young man turned around and saw Chen Xiao and the other two. After being slightly stunned, he said, "Old Wang, your column team has also received the message and is coming?"
Old Wang greeted and introduced to Chen Xiao: "Hey, this is a colleague of Yunjiang Daily, Xiao Liu."
Chen Xiao's heart moved. When he saw the other person coming over, he reached out and held it with a smile: "I am the producer of "Star Sea Hotline". Hello Chen Xiao."
Xiao Liu's eyes lit up and he smiled and said, "Ha, you are the strong man who is against the will of heaven. You have been famous for a long time. Fortunately, you will be lucky."
Originally, he saw Chen Xiao as young and thought he was an errand intern, but he didn't expect that he was the new producer of the Yunjiang Media and News Industry who had been talking about for more than half a year. He immediately became a little more polite.
However, the old guard's face immediately looked unhesitant. After glanced at the camera in Old Wang's hand, he said, "Comrades, you really came to the wrong place. There is no news for you to shoot here. The dean explained earlier that the idle people are not allowed to enter. If you insist on going in, contact us first. Don't make things difficult for me, an old man."
Chen Xiao raised his eyebrows, and Old Wang was an elf, whispering: "Xiao Liu, let's go out and chat first."
Xiao Liu sighed. Knowing that he was afraid he would get nothing today, he stepped out with Chen Xiao and the other two and sat down at a cold drink stall opposite.
"Xiao Liu, what is going on now? Tell us about it."
Old Wang rolled his pants to his knees, then sent cigarettes to Chen Xiao and Xiao Liu, and said, "Someone on the Internet said that many children in the welfare home were sick and admitted to the hospital. Is it accurate?"
Xiao Liu and Lao Wang had some friendship. They were all colleagues and had a lot of business contacts, so they simply did not hide it: "I also saw it from the Internet. I came here yesterday and was directly rejected with several other colleagues. I couldn't enter the welfare home. The guard refused to talk more. There were really not many clues in my hand, but I'm sure there was something wrong."
“How to say it?”
"You guess, when I came yesterday, I happened to meet someone..." Xiao Liu looked around and lowered his voice: "Director You Junfei of the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau!"
Chen Xiao was cold and covered up. It would be fine if he covered up, but even the director of the Civil Affairs Bureau came, and it was obvious that something was wrong!
"That's more than that. Yesterday, I asked a colleague to pretend to be going in and discuss donations, but the welfare home suddenly changed the rules and did not allow my colleague to go in at all. Instead, I contacted a deputy director of the welfare home to come to the guard pavilion to meet first."
"Where is President Tang of the Welfare House?"
Chen Xiao asked in a voice. Even if there was a problem with the welfare home and he tried to deceive him, he would never believe that he had taken care of himself in his previous life for more than ten years, and the gentle and kind President Tang would help the evildoer!
Xiao Liu shook his head and said, "I can't contact you. I have called her phone or cell phone, but no one answered her. I asked the doorman and said he was on a business trip."
Chen Xiao felt nervous. Now he was not only worried about something wrong with the welfare home, but also worried about something unexpected happening to President Tang!
Brother Chun thought about it and said, "Boss, from this point of view, there is really something wrong with the welfare home, and the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau has also intervened. I guess he doesn't want our media to know and spread the matter. Look, do we want to check which hospital the sick children are in first?"
Chen Xiao was about to speak when suddenly the cold drink next to him came up, looked at the boss's wife, and asked, "Auntie, you are opening this stall opposite the welfare home. Have you seen anything unusual in the past few days?"
The boss's face froze, looked at Lao Wang's camera, and hesitated: "Brother, there are some things that are hard to say. If you just listen to them casually, I can nag you a few words."
Old Wang understood her concerns and smiled and said, "Sister, let's just talk a few words, I won't be serious. The weather is hot and there are no customers now. Let's sit down and drink some things together..."
Old Wang is generous by nature and has a delicate mind. He narrows his relationship with the boss's wife in just a few words.
The proprietress couldn't resist Lao Wang's enthusiasm, so she hesitated, sat down and whispered: "It's been raining a few days ago. On the morning when the rain stopped, I happened to set up a stall and saw several vans driving over and taking away many children..."
"Does there any words on the bodies of those cars?"
Old Wang asked, and saw the boss's wife shook her head and said no, and looked at Chen Xiao.
It’s not that the hospital directly dispatches cars, it’s obvious that people don’t want to be looked for!
"From a distance, most of the children were wearing long-sleeved clothes, covering their skin tightly, but occasionally a few were wearing short-sleeved clothes. I saw that their arms and legs were covered with rashes, and they were itchy all over their bodies, and a few were completely carried out!"
The boss's wife looked stern. Although she couldn't read a lot of words, she also guessed some obscure activities. When she looked at the media reporters in front of her, she was afraid that the fish would cause harm, so she talked a few words and stood up.
The weather was hot, but Chen Xiao's mood was cold. Although he had witnessed too many unfair and unfortunate cases in media news, when he thought that this happened in a welfare home where he had nurturing himself in his previous life, the fire of karma arose immediately!
The faces of Lao Wang and others gradually became ugly. Brother Chun inferred: "It should be collective poisoning or allergic."
Xiao Liu took a sip of cigarette, glanced at the secluded welfare home in the distance, and pondered: "After saying this, I remembered that the building of the welfare home had just been renovated a few days ago. Could it be that it was a problem of paint, which led to mass allergies?"
Seeing Chen Xiao and the other two coming to ask questions, he explained: "Some time ago, a company from Xiangjiang donated a sum of money from the Civil Affairs Bureau, asking to renovate the old welfare home, buy some reading materials and toys, and air conditioning and fan equipment for the children to spend the summer. My newspaper also conducted a special interview. What is the name of the company? It seems that a hotel is about to be built in Jiangbin District..."
"Luo Group?"
"Oh, yes, it's Luo's Group. I paid special attention to it at that time. The person in charge is a woman, she is pretty and speaks very messy Mandarin. My colleague was so dizzy when he heard it."
Chen Xiao didn't say anything anymore. Seeing that he had gained nothing when he came to the welfare home, he asked Lao Wang and Brother Chun to drive back first. After he got into the carriage, he called Luo Jiaqi.
The phone rang for a long time before it was connected, and a stiff Mandarin came: "Hey, Chen Xiao, I'm on the construction site, what's wrong?"
Chen Xiao said straight to the point: "Your company, did you donate money to the Civil Affairs Bureau some time ago to renovate the facilities of the welfare home?"
Luo Jiaqi was stunned and said lightly: "Yes, what's wrong?"
“How is the details?”
Luo Jiaqi couldn't figure out his intentions, but she still explained the situation in full, which was roughly consistent with what Xiao Liu said. "This resolution is my father's instructions. I asked me to do more charity after coming to Yunjiang. That day, I saw that the conditions of the welfare home seemed not very good, so I donated three million in the name of the group. Then my family was also contacting Xiangjiang's Love Foundation and other celebrities, intending to invest together to build a brand new welfare home in Wulin District for those children."
After all, when I first came, and the Luo family's upper-class connections in China in the early years have long been thin, which paved the way for future great things and did some charity and charity. This will not only greatly promote the reputation of the Luo family group, but also gain a good reputation among the people and the municipal party committee and government.
But this time, Luo Jiaqi seemed to have done something bad with kindness!
"Why did you ask about this?"
"It's nothing, it's just that our column team wants to report on related matters recently."
Luo Jiaqi thought he wanted to help promote his name, and was about to thank him, but suddenly heard Chen Xiao say in a low tone: "But if this report is true, your group's reputation is probably going to be bad in Yunjiang and even Xinghai Province."
"Is there anything wrong?"
Luo Jiaqi's tone turned to gasping, and she vaguely realized that something was wrong. After listening to Chen Xiao's remarks, she couldn't help but breathe and said in surprise: "How could this happen? How are those children doing now?"
Chen Xiao knew that she was unintentional. After all, she had been in Xiangjiang for too long. She didn't know about some strange things in the charity here. In addition, she was busy with her business, so she naturally couldn't take care of it after donating the money.
"Not many people know the specific situation now, and as a donor, it should be much easier for you to find out than me."
At this moment, he just wanted to know where the children were sent.
"Wait a minute, I will call Director You of the Civil Affairs Bureau immediately!"
"If you ask directly, if someone is determined to hide it, may he tell you?"
Chen Xiao snorted. These people were really brave. They even dared to do tricks in the welfare home's funds project. However, everything is still vague at present. I don't know who else is involved in addition to the director of the Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau. I can only check it carefully first.
"What should I do? I'm worried about those kids..."
Luo Jiaqi was panicked. If she really made mistakes because of her own reasons, she would not only be uneasy in her conscience, but she would not be able to explain to her family.
"You said you saw the news on the Internet and found out about his tone. If the other party still conceals it, you would ask to go to the welfare home in person."
Since these people think they can hide the truth, then use this trick to make them lose their own way and take advantage of the situation to dig out their flaws!
Luo Jiaqi was as careful as dust. She understood what he meant and quickly agreed.
After hanging up the phone, Chen Xiao immediately sorted out his thoughts. For a moment, he really didn't know who to contact. After all, the incident was sudden and the concealment measures of these people were taken very quickly and well. Even if he called his father and asked him to investigate, it would probably be useless, and it would be easy to alarm the enemy.
Thinking of this, he felt a little irritated and couldn't help but take out a cigarette and put it in. Just as he was about to light it, he suddenly saw a girl walking out of the welfare home with her eyes lit up. She hurriedly opened the car door and walked towards her.
Chapter completed!