Wandering the Heavens

Chapter 276 In the Name of People 8

"Call the police!" Yue Weidong suggested.

"Call the police? This is all we can do for now." Yu Xian said with a wry smile.

After saying this, he personally called the city's Public Security Bureau Chief Zhao Donglai and asked him to try to be low-key and come over to take the items away for identification.

"District Chief, I found a suspicious person in the surveillance video. She looks like a female, dressed like a cleaner, but she was wearing a hat and a mask, so I couldn't identify her. Then I checked all the cleaners we hired, but none of them met the requirements." After hanging up the phone, Secretary Xiao Wang came over to report the situation in frustration.

"It's okay, just go and do your work first, and don't tell anyone what happened today." Yu Xian didn't blame him.

It's 2014 now, and a local administrative chief at the deputy-department level in a state agency has actually been threatened. If this kind of thing gets out, it will affect the company's image and have a negative impact, which is not good either.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Donglai came in person. When he saw the letter on the coffee table, he was filled with anger and immediately asked the evidence department to take it away to see if there were any fingerprints or anything. Yu Xian asked him to investigate secretly and not to make it public, and also asked him to find a way to protect Sun Liancheng's ex-wife and children. Zhao Donglai analyzed it and realized that this was the only arrangement. After agreeing, he hurried back to the Municipal Bureau to arrange people.

Qi Tongwei was drinking coffee at home, Liang Lu was sitting on another sofa and kept changing channels, and it happened to be a news report about Li Dakang's press conference on the "January 16" incident in the afternoon. Just as she was about to say something, Qi Tongwei's cell phone rang. He took a look at the number and quickly took the phone to the balcony to answer the call.

"Why did you call me?"

"Boss, we've been waiting at the door for a whole day, but we haven't seen the person you're looking for come out!" The voice in the receiver was a little hurried.

"What did you say? He has been in the procuratorate and has not gone out?" Qi Tongwei asked with a frown.

"Yes! He drove his private car in the morning, but the brothers have been watching here all day and didn't see him go out. Now in the building, only two or three offices and the lobby are still lit."

"Then what are you still doing there? Go home and have dinner!" Qi Tongwei ordered unhappily.

After hanging up the phone, he felt more and more that something was wrong. Chen Hai was going to Beijing to report on his work today, so how could he not go out? Thinking of this, he immediately dialed Chen Hai's number.

"Hello, Haizi, are you busy?" Qi Tongwei couldn't wait to speak as soon as the phone was connected.

"Ah, yes! Tongwei, what's the matter?"

Chen Hai was having dinner at Hou Liangping's house at the time, but Qi Tongwei called him unexpectedly. He had no choice but to put down his bowl and chopsticks and answer the call.

"Yes! I have been busy today, and just now I remembered Uncle Chen's health. It is not good to disturb him to rest so late, so I asked you if he is okay?" Qi Tongwei thought of this reason.

"My dad! It's okay, I'm... with him now! I won't say much, you know the old man's temper, he will talk nonstop once he sits down, I'm listening to his teachings!" Chen Hai was about to tell his location but saw Hou Liangping's eye signal and quickly changed his words.

"The fact that he can still speak means that the old man is in good health. I feel relieved. I will go to see him some other day!" Qi Tongwei also realized that what Chen Hai said was not true, so he had to end the call in a hurry.

"Monkey, why don't you let me say that I'm in Beijing now!" Chen Hai was very confused.

In the afternoon, he reported to Qin Siyuan. Qin Siyuan still did not reveal the issue of Ding Yizhen's arrest and the progress of the interrogation, so Chen Hai was not on guard against Qi Tongwei at all.

"It's a long story. Remember not to disclose the contents of this report after you go back. By the way, when are you leaving tomorrow? I'll take you to the airport." Hou Liangping was unwilling to say more about this matter.

"I have to go to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission tomorrow to submit some documents." Chen Hai picked up the chopsticks and started eating again.

"SASAC? What materials do I need to submit?" Hou Liangping didn't expect that Chen Hai would do private work as well.

"Guangming District Mayor Sun Liancheng asked me to do this. He said that the money that a state-owned enterprise had previously transferred to their account was suddenly taken back. It was Ding Yizhen who was in charge of it at the time. After the person escaped, he thought something was wrong, so he went to the general manager of the state-owned enterprise to reconcile the accounts, but the money was missing. For this reason, he wrote a report and asked me to hand it over to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission." Chen Hai had no intention of hiding anything.

"Interesting. He only realized something was wrong after Ding Yizhen ran away. What were you doing before?" Hou Liangping's face was full of sarcasm when he heard this.

"Monkey, you are in the central government and don't know how difficult it is in the local areas! Sun Liancheng is the district head, but Ding Yizhen is the deputy mayor and district party secretary. Before he fled, he was a capable subordinate of Li Dakang, member of the provincial party committee and secretary of the municipal party committee. He was autocratic in the work he was in charge of. Sun Liancheng is just a mascot and can't play any role except signing." Chen Hai sighed when talking about the situation in Jingzhou over the years.

"Is he just succumbing to Ding Yizhen's authority and not daring to take any action? Then what is the point of him being the district chief? He is just a figurehead!"

Hou Liangping put down his chopsticks and scolded, and spat out the half-chewed food in his mouth, scaring his wife and children.

"Why are you talking about work when you can just eat your meal?" Zhong Xiaoai took away the two dishes that were sprayed with Hou Liangping's saliva.

"Chen Hai! I'm not saying anything bad about you, but your requirements for officials are too low!" Hou Liangping glanced at Zhong Xiaoai in the kitchen, then looked at Chen Hai and said earnestly.

"Eat your meal!" Zhong Xiaoai said unhappily as she put two plates of freshly cooked dishes on the table.

The atmosphere of the entire dinner became awkward. The two children ate absent-mindedly, and after finishing the rice in their bowls, they quickly hid back in their rooms.

"Chen Hai, what is the name of this state-owned enterprise?"

After dinner, Zhong Xiaoai took a cut fruit plate and placed it on the coffee table, trying to find a topic to ease the atmosphere.

"I don't know. The file bag he gave me was sealed tightly." Chen Hai shook his head.

"Oh, he's quite good at keeping secrets!" Hou Liangping picked up a toothpick, inserted a small piece of apple and put it in his mouth, jokingly.

"Monkey, you can't say that to others. In the report materials I gave to Secretary Qin today, the part about the bank was given to me by him before he left." Chen Hai didn't know why Hou Liangping had such a big opinion about a district mayor whom he had never met.

"Oh, then he can just take a few pieces of paper and erase all his past inaction!" Hou Liangping looked at Chen Hai's disappointing look.

"You can do it. If you were the district chief, wouldn't you bring down Ding Yizhen?" Zhong Xiaoai scolded Hou Liangping as he looked at him with a glaring look on his face.

"It is precisely because of the existence of people like him that corrupt elements like Ding Yizhen are condoned! These corrupt elements are emboldened!" Hou Liangping really could not understand Sun Liancheng's thoughts.

"Monkey, you..."

Just as Chen Hai was about to speak, his cell phone rang again.

"Answer it!" Hou Liangping urged.

Chen Hai frowned and answered the phone.

"Hello, District Chief Sun, yes, I'm still in Beijing. Is there any new situation that makes you call so late? What? Calm down first, I'll find a solution right away." Chen Hai hung up the phone in a panic.

"What's going on? Has District Chief Sun given you some useful clues again?" Hou Liangping smiled, leaning back on the sofa.

"When he returned to the office in the afternoon, he received a letter with a hundred yuan and a photo of a pistol bullet in it. Now he is afraid that his ex-wife and children are in danger, so he called me and asked me to think of a way to protect them." Chen Haibian said as he put away his phone.

"Did you hear that? Director Hou? He received a warning just for submitting a work report. If he had been more sober before, the grass on his grave would be several meters high by now!" Zhong Xiaoai said to Hou Liangping.

"Monkey, you know the situation, can you help me think of a solution?" Chen Hai didn't care about it.

"What can I do? Since he is a member of the organization and a state cadre, he should be prepared to make sacrifices."

Hou Liangping felt that this man was simply unreasonable. He went to his superiors whenever he encountered difficulties. Couldn't he take responsibility himself?

"Hou Liangping, what do you mean? If one day my child and I are held hostage by those corrupt officials, will you really just watch us die without helping us?" Zhong Xiaoai was immediately filled with anger when she heard Hou Liangping's heartless words.

"Hey, wife, that's not what I meant! I was talking about the district chief. He can't even handle his own business!" Hou Liangping felt quite innocent.