Chapter 147 You Have Completely Fit In

In the following month—
Li Zhizhi tightened screws on the assembly line, while Tang Yu represented the workshop at the summary meeting.
Li Zhizhi tightened screws on the assembly line, while Tang Yu pointed out a critical error in the leadership's report during the meeting and provided the correct calculations. As a result, the head of the accounting department took a liking to her and had her forcibly transferred to the accounting office.
Li Zhizhi tightened screws on the assembly line, while Tang Yu crunched numbers, enjoyed the air conditioning, drank milk tea, and took afternoon naps in the accounting office...
They only met during lunch hour.
Tang Yu finished her first lunch in a flash and immediately ordered a second one without stopping.
With her chopsticks in hand, Li Zhizhi watched with a twitching mouth. "Little sis, don't forget what we are..." She glanced around cautiously and whispered, "We are undercover agents! But how come I feel like you've completely blended in with them?!"
With a giant chicken drumstick in her left hand and a large lobster in her right, Tang Yu's mouth was stuffed full, making her look like a little squirrel. "Well, free food shouldn't go to waste."
Her tray was laden with large prawns and fish, alongside fruit and milk—more than she could possibly finish, so she shared a large portion with Li Zhizhi.
Ordinary workers had to pay for such meals out of their own pockets.
Yet Tang Yu was now the apple of the head of the finance department's eye, and she ate for free.
"Sister Zhizhi, you should eat more too," Tang Yu said, handing her another giant drumstick. "I'll go get more after I finish this."
Li Zhizhi broke out in a cold sweat. "...I feel like you didn't come here to be an undercover agent; you came for the buffet."
A coworker walked over with her food tray and sat down beside them.
Tang Yu had a sweet and pleasant personality, and being the youngest of the bunch, she had long since integrated seamlessly with the other workers.
Even though they were used to it by now, seeing the mountain of food piled on Tang Yu's tray still left them dumbfounded.
"Xiao Yu... can you actually finish all of that?"
With her mouth greasy, Tang Yu nodded vigorously. "Yes, I can!"
"I feel like you've gotten a bit chubbier than when you first arrived."
The coworker chuckled.
Tang Yu lowered her head to look at her waist, which still lacked any spare flesh.
She looked dejected. "I weighed myself just yesterday, and I'm only ninety catties." She was still five catties short, so she really needed to eat more.
"Only... ninety catties?!"
Looking at the plain, watery soup in her own tray compared to the lavish feast of meat and fish in Tang Yu's, the coworker was visibly consumed by envy, jealousy, and hatred.
"The world is truly unfair, damn it. Some people stuff themselves and stay slim-waisted and slender-legged, while others starve and end up round-faced and bloated."
Tang Yu was already able to call them by their names accurately. "Zhouzhou, Workshop Six hasn't submitted its accounts yet. Remember to remind your group leader to go to the finance department this afternoon. I need to tally the monthly general ledger."
"Huh? But our workshop never has to submit accounts."
Li Zhizhi immediately pricked up her ears.
"There's something wrong," the police officer's voice quickly came through the tiny earpiece. "Xiao Yu, Zhizhi, guide them to keep talking, but keep it subtle so as not to startle the snake."
After lurking for a month, there was finally a lead!
Tang Yu stabbed her straw into the yogurt lid with a sharp click, bit down on the straw, and asked with wide, gossipy eyes, "Why doesn't your workshop need to submit accounts? Is it because there's something wrong with your group leader?!"

Li Zhizhi was taken aback.
That was entirely too direct, damn it!
The police officer hastily chimed in through the earpiece, "Xiao Yu, you asked that way too directly! You should have said, 'All the other workshops submitted their accounts, so I was just asking, did Workshop Six happen to forget or something?'!"
Instead, the coworker's whispering voice came through the earpiece. "It's not an issue with our group leader. It's a rule set by higher-ups, saying our workshop doesn't answer to the factory management. Isn't that bizarre?"
Li Zhizhi: "...?" You're actually answering that?!
Police officer: "..."
The young girl looked utterly innocent and harmless, her eyes as pure as a spring, clear at a single glance.
While asking questions, she didn't miss a beat of drinking her milk and eating her fruit, her cheeks perpetually stuffed as she never stopped chewing.
Naturally, they wouldn't harbor any guard against such a foodie.
They even gossiped right along with her. "I heard our factory is quite special. Nominally it's in Jianzhou, but in reality, there are two bosses. The first five workshops belong to one boss, and only our workshop belongs to another. I heard from people that they're a pair of brothers, and they used to be involved in the underworld. With the crackdown on organized crime being so severe nowadays, they only put the current big boss's name on the factory, while the second boss stays hidden behind the scenes."
Tang Yu finished the last drop of milk and shook the empty bottle.
She stood up and said, "I'll go grab another bottle. Wait for me to come back before you continue gossiping!"
"Go on, go on. Bring me one too, since you can take them for free while we have to pay."
Tang Yu flashed an "OK" gesture.
The little girl trotted off to get more milk, her hair tips swaying back and forth.
The coworker bumped her shoulder against Li Zhizhi's. "Li Shu, why don't you have Xiao Yu grab you one? It's free anyway."
Li Zhizhi's mouth twitched. "I'm full, I'm not really hungry."
"True, you should eat less too. Your face is getting round."
Li Zhizhi: "..."
She was clearly losing weight from tightening all those screws!
In the span of a single meal, Tang Yu had extracted all the information they knew.
Workshop Six indeed had issues.
When she returned to the finance office after lunch, the department head had yet to return.
She pulled a bottle of milk from her pocket and placed it reluctantly on his desk.
Just then, the department head walked back in and smiled helplessly. "Xiao Yu, brought me something again? Didn't I say you don't need to bring me any more?"
The police officers in the monitoring room secretly marveled at the young girl's knack for winning people over.
She had been bringing the department head milk every day for a month now. By this point, the way the department head looked at Tang Yu was far from guarded—he looked at her almost like she was his own biological daughter.
Tang Yu shook her head, looking hesitant for a moment before confessing earnestly, "I figured it's better to bring you one. After all, I secretly took a dozen bottles at noon, which already exceeds the factory's free quota, so I inevitably feel a tiny bit of psychological guilt... But if the department head drinks it too, then we're both in the same boat!"
Department head: "..."
"You really are..."
Before he could finish scolding her, Tang Yu snatched the milk back and said in a meek, dawdling tone, "If the department head doesn't want to drink it, then I'll take it back. After all, I'm still growing." (You've already stopped growing.)

"..."
The department head was so angry he laughed, a vein throbbing on his forehead.
Plenty of cunning scoundrels had tried to skim profits from the finance department, but he had never seen anyone steal a few bottles of milk.
Call her stupid, and yet the young girl possessed extraordinarily high arithmetic talent; she could state the calculation results even before he finished pressing the buttons on his calculator.
Call her smart, and yet she was completely lacking in common sense!
Every day she only pondered how to eat more food, with her sole goal being to reach ninety-five catties.
Still, it was precisely because of this trait that he dared to keep her by his side and make use of her.
The department head tossed a file onto the desk. "There's a dinner banquet tonight. You're coming with me."
This was the first time the department head had ever asked her to attend a banquet.
The police officers felt this was an exceptional opportunity; perhaps they could dig up some information.
Yet before they could even open their mouths, Tang Yu shook her head and refused. "Tonight? Oh, I can't. I have plans tonight."
If she didn't receive Bian Yang's video call, she would be done for.
The police officers in the monitoring room beat their chests and stamped their feet in frustration. Such a great opportunity was actually... !
The department head's lips twitched.
Not only did this girl lack common sense, but she also utterly lacked any ambition!
"The people attending the banquet are all the bosses of the factory. If you perform well, you can become a regular employee, and your salary will be this much."
He held up two fingers, indicating twenty thousand. "Even university graduates aren't guaranteed to get this kind of salary."
"Xiao Yu, you should first ans—"
Before the anxious police officer could finish speaking, Tang Yu shook her head firmly. "That still won't work."
The police officers in the monitoring room looked up at the ceiling and wept tears of frustration.
The department head grew angry and flared up. "Like it or not, you're going! Are you, a mere employee, starting to rebel against your boss? You must attend tonight's banquet, and if you don't, pack your bags and get lost!"
Police officers in the monitoring room: "..."
In the end, Tang Yu sighed. "...Alright then."
Seeing her reluctant expression, the department head was practically fuming with rage!
He shoved the pile of documents—whose data he should have organized himself—directly into her arms. "Get this sorted out before the banquet!"
With that, he stormed off in a huff.
Looking like an overworked, miserable wage slave, Tang Yu opened the file...
Ah, it was the data for Workshop Six.