Chapter 4112 (￣︶￣) The Books Were Settled: Just Moving Money from One Pocket to the Other
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When Jia Zheng heard that this was how it had all happened, his brow furrowed again. His fingers unconsciously tapped the desk, making a series of irregular tok, tok sounds.
After a moment's thought, he shook his head and sighed.
"Several thousand spirit stones..."
"With such a large sum involved, and public property damaged, it won't be easy to put this through the books. Couldn't the offending pilot pay for it himself?"
"Or have the office he belongs to cover it?"
As he spoke, he turned to look at Jia Lian again.
"This..."
Jia Lian froze, then gave a bitter smile and lowered his head even further. His voice was almost inaudible.
"I'm afraid... I'm afraid not."
"That pilot..."
"Is one of our Jia Family's people."
At that, Jia Zheng immediately understood.
Now he finally knew why Jia Lian was working so hard to take this troublesome matter off someone else's hands. It turned out this was a problem involving the Jia Family itself.
"Hmph!"
He raised his eyes and looked at Jia Lian with exasperation, then gave a cold snort. His voice gradually grew colder.
"Tell me, then!"
"Who exactly was the pilot responsible for the accident?"
"Who was worth you going to such lengths for, risking trouble to cover for him, even coming to me for help?"
He had a vague idea already. It was probably one of those useless branch-family youngsters who followed Jia Lian around all day. But he couldn't guess which one. He couldn't be bothered to look at the information in the jade slip, so Jia Lian would have to explain it himself.
"I—"
Under Jia Zheng's gaze, Jia Lian felt a chill in his heart. Knowing