Upon hearing Shen Yanzhi’s description of him, Huang Sheng’s face flushed with the anger of being humiliated. “If President Shen wants to fire me, just say so directly. There’s no need to humiliate me like this.”
Hearing this, Shen Yanzhi’s expression shifted to one of ‘how could you possibly think that,’ before glancing at Shen Yuanzhong. “I’m not the one who said it.”
The implication was clear …This came from your own family elder.
Huang Sheng looked at Shen Yuanzhong in shock.
Shen Yuanzhong’s face darkened. Back when Huang Sheng couldn’t find work and came begging to him for help, he naturally couldn’t refuse, so he called Shen Yanzhi to arrange a job for Huang Sheng.
When asking for favors, Shen Yuanzhong naturally spoke humbly.
But he remembered his exact words at the time: “This is my wife’s nephew. He was a senior manager at other companies before. He’s very honest and capable, just a bit too honest, which is why he got pushed out by his former colleagues. See where you need people and arrange something for him.”
How did it become “not much use” coming from Shen Yanzhi’s mouth!
But now wasn’t the time to discuss this. The key issue was that Shen Yanzhi had removed Huang Sheng from his position without a word!
Shen Yuanzhong said with a stern face, “Why did you remove Huang Sheng from his position?”
“That’s right, President Shen. Although I’ve only been working at Shen Group for nine months, I’ve been supervising this project the entire time. I worked hard and traveled extensively for it in the early stages, performing my duties with utmost caution and dedication at my post. Even if there’s no merit, there’s hard work. How can you just dismiss me without giving me a single reason! Is it simply because I was recommended by Third Uncle?!” Huang Sheng also questioned indignantly.
Upon hearing his final sentence, both Shen Yuanzhong and Shen Hongguo’s expressions turned unpleasant.
Clearly, Shen Yuanzhong thought the same as Huang Sheng—that Shen Yanzhi’s dismissal of Huang Sheng was a move targeting him.
As for Shen Hongguo, he felt that if Shen Yanzhi could fire someone Shen Yuanzhong recommended today, tomorrow he could just as easily fire people he recommended!
Shen Group was a vast enterprise, and he had also planted quite a few of his own people there. If Shen Yanzhi dared to fire his people without a word, how was that any different from publicly slapping his face?
Shen Hongguo immediately spoke up, “Nephew, you’ve gone too far with this.”
Shen Yanzhi looked at these three people, a faint mocking smile appearing on his usually stern face. “‘Worked hard and traveled extensively?’ ‘Utmost caution?’ ‘Utmost dedication?’ Not much of a person, but the idioms sure come one after another.”
Too lazy to waste more words with them, he pulled a stack of documents from his desk and tossed them out. “You tell me, what is this?”
Huang Sheng, who had been righteously indignant on his own behalf just moments ago, felt an ominous premonition rise in his heart when he saw that stack of documents, though he didn’t know why.
Shen Yuanzhong also regarded the documents with trepidation.
He knew that this shrewd nephew of his never fought unprepared battles.
“Bring it here,” Shen Hongguo said to his bodyguard.
Soon, the stack of documents was in Shen Hongguo’s hands.
Shen Hongguo opened the documents, and after reading just a few pages, he was already frowning deeply. He threw the documents to Shen Yuanzhong, unable to conceal the anger in his voice. “What fine ‘hard work even if no merit’! Third Brother, see for yourself!”
Shen Yuanzhong was startled by his eldest brother’s fury.
He glanced at Huang Sheng, silently blaming him for not covering his tracks properly.
The project Huang Sheng had been managing—he’d spent considerable effort pushing him into that position, and naturally had also profited considerably through Huang Sheng in the process.
He’d advised him before to remember to cover his tracks and not get discovered.
Now it seemed obvious that Shen Yanzhi had caught them red-handed.
While lowering his head to look at the documents in his hand, Shen Yuanzhong mentally scrambled for a way to help Huang Sheng get through this.
But after seeing the contents of the documents, his face immediately darkened as well!
“What on earth have you done! Who told you to abuse your authority and embezzle so brazenly!” Third Uncle Shen, who just a second ago had been thinking about how to salvage the situation, angrily threw the documents at Huang Sheng!
He’d actually embezzled a full twelve million!
Yet Huang Sheng told him he could only divert two million!
And in the end only gave him one million eight hundred thousand!
“Twelve million, Huang Sheng. I really underestimated you,” Shen Yuanzhong said, looking at him with a sinister expression.
Upon hearing this, Huang Sheng’s face turned deathly pale, and he immediately knelt before Shen Yuanzhong. “Th-Third Uncle, I’m sorry, I… I didn’t mean to…”
He hadn’t expected that this secret he’d hidden so deeply had already been discovered by Shen Yanzhi long ago! Moreover, when Shen Yanzhi dismissed him, he hadn’t revealed the slightest hint about this matter!
He’d always thought Shen Yanzhi didn’t know about his underhanded dealings, otherwise he wouldn’t have had Shen Yuanzhong and the elder come to stand up for him today!
He’d truly lifted a rock only to drop it on his own foot!
Huang Sheng’s heart was filled with regret.
Shen Yanzhi, sitting in the head seat, took in all of this, and spoke leisurely, “So Third Uncle was unaware of this? I had thought that this ‘honest and capable nephew’ Third Uncle spoke of could be so bold as to pull off something like this within just a few months of taking office… because it was on Third Uncle’s orders…”
Shen Yuanzhong’s heart jumped, and he quickly distanced himself from Huang Sheng. “Nephew! You can eat carelessly but you can’t speak carelessly! I had absolutely no knowledge of what he did!”
“Is that so,” Shen Yanzhi acknowledged. “Originally I thought this money had ended up in Third Uncle’s pocket. I figured since we’re all Shen family, I wasn’t going to pursue it. But now…” He suddenly changed tack, looking toward Chen Jin. “Assistant Chen, call the police.”