Chapter Thirty-Eight
The next morning, Zhao Botao walked into the office excitedly. He was happy that he could finally open a breakthrough. Lu Xiaomei was actually just one of his many mistresses. If Li Xiaoning was successfully brought down this time, it would not be impossible even if Lu Xiaomei was sacrificed. It was just that District Mayor Zhao felt a little reluctant to let it go.
Just as Zhao Botao was thinking about whether to call Lu Xiaomei and ask her to hide abroad first, the office door was pushed open. The city’s discipline inspection committee secretary Fan Pingyuan walked over with two strange faces led by the office director. The two men were dressed in black suits without tie and had a small party emblem on their collar.
Zhao Botao suddenly felt panicked, his scalp exploded, he stared at Fan Pingyuan and his gang walking to him, and listened to Fan Pingyuan's speech in a daze: "Zhao Botao, I am now officially notifying you on behalf of the organization that you have suspended all your posts for suspected serious violations of discipline and go back to us for investigation."
Zhao Botao was under double supervision. At the same time, Xia Yan and Song Pengfei were also taken away, while Li Xiaoning was released on the spot and was restored to his post.
After Zhao Botao was under double supervision, Fan Pingyuan had a secret conversation with him before the formal interrogation.
Fan Pingyuan first handed a cigarette to Zhao Botao, and then said, "It was Lu Xiaomei who exposed you. The materials were handed over to Liu Qifeng directly. We can only do it for business,"
"Where is this bitch now," Zhao Botao asked viciously.
"She has gone abroad, and we can't find her. I guess there is a master behind her guidance," Fan Pingyuan sighed and said. He also felt very tired. A large group of old men in the officialdom could not deal with a small Li Xiaoning. He also turned in Wu Liangde, Zhao Botao and Xia Yan one after another, which made him feel very upset.
The two were silent for a while, and Fan Pingyuan continued, "Old Zhao, have you figured out what to do?"
Zhao Botao immediately stated: "Tell me to the boss and reassure him. I will never talk nonsense."
Fan Pingyuan nodded and said, "As long as you don't talk nonsense, I will still be your friend, and the boss will also be your friend. The organization will not treat any comrades who make selfless dedication. Remember, this matter will end when you are done, and this case will be handled by me. As long as you take all the charges, I will protect you from death."
Zhao Botao understood what Fan Pingyuan meant. He had a lot of secrets. Once he said it, Xue Guoping might fall. Then everything was over. If Xue Guoping did not fall, even if he was sentenced to more than ten or twenty years, he could still live a good life of luxury. However, in more than ten or twenty years, he would have lived a few more days. Alas, if he had known today, why would he have to be there?
After Fan Pingyuan left, Zhao Botao was in a state of confusion. Before he knew it, he had not even eaten food and had countless nightmares.
When he woke up in the morning, he took some effort to climb up the windowsill with trembling efforts. He stood on the windowsill and opened the windows. It was a good weather today, without smog and clear sky. He looked down at the bottom of the building and felt that the height of these three floors would not seem to be enough to end his life if he had not fallen downwards and his head was downwards.
After hesitating for a long time, Zhao Botao finally couldn't make up his mind to commit suicide. He breathed a long sigh of relief, stepped back, leaned against the wall, his face was already filled with tears.
After Li Xiaoning was released, he did not go back immediately, but went to the place where Song Pengfei was detained. He wanted to have a face-to-face conversation with Song Pengfei.
Li Xiaoning walked into the room and saw Song Pengfei sitting decadently on the bed. When he saw him coming in, he immediately stared at him with resentful eyes.
Li Xiaoning waved his hand to the discipline inspection officer following behind him and said, "You go out and close the door. I want to have a good talk with him."
The discipline inspection officer withdrew and gently covered the door. Li Xiaoning walked to the opposite side of Song Pengfei, pulled a chair and sat down, stared at him for a while, but it was only a few days since he had not seen him. The young and successful, and full of confidence mayor Song disappeared. Song Pengfei now has thin cheeks and a gray face.
Li Xiaoning sighed and said, "Old Song, do you know what I feel when you and I met for the first time?"
Song Pengfei still stared at him with resentment without saying a word. Li Xiaoning said to himself: "That's a very wonderful feeling. As soon as I saw you, I wishfully decided that you were a friend. I really want to start a career with you... Haha, but you seem to have a deep prejudice against me. You have repeatedly opposed me, and even framed me in a game with Saimen Zhou. I don't blame you if that is the case. Do you believe it? I don't blame you at all."
Song Pengfei grinned and smiled coldly, obviously not believing Li Xiaoning's words at all.
Li Xiaoning said helplessly: "I know you don't believe it, but I'm telling the truth. I don't know that the organization will adjust the leadership team of Jinsha Town this time. I even thought that I would apply for it in a few days and ask you to come back. Why do you insist on making enemies with me?"
Song Pengfei smiled gloomyly and said, "Because you... you, Li Xiaoning, are a hypocrite. This time I am just a false accusation, not taking bribes, and not messing with women. You can't mess with me anymore, right? So I'll buy it again, villain,"
Li Xiaoning said in annoyedly: "What kind of grudges do we have? Isn't this inexplicable? Don't press all the random thoughts on me. I really want to reconcile with you. I won't pursue you for false accusations. Even if you find out that my girlfriend was kidnapped and didn't tell me, I won't pursue it. As long as you nod, I will protect you immediately and let you return to Jinsha Town to be the mayor. It is not impossible. Can you stop being obsessed with those imaginary hatreds?"
Song Pengfei sneered: "Yes, of course, I will cry and admit my mistakes to the organization, regret it with heartache, honestly accept the punishment given to me by the organization, and strive for leniency. I am too reckless to report you this time, and I will be more careful next time,"
Amidst the sneering, Song Pengfei continued to say viciously: "This time I lost to you again, but I learned my lesson. After I went out, I will endure it until the opportunity came. You'd better start praying from now on and never make mistakes in this life, otherwise I will definitely ruin you."
Listening to Song Pengfei's words, Li Xiaoning couldn't help but clenched his fists, and his body trembled slightly due to anger. Song Pengfei saw this and became even more crazy. He raised the noise gate and shouted sternly: "Li Xiaoning, why are you shaking? Are you not very awesome? You will be afraid too, haha, you hypocrite, you have harmed my future. I will ask you to repay what you give me one thousand times, ten thousand times,"
Song Pengfei's eyes were radiating crazy light, and he said in a dreamlike tone: "I will use any means to deal with you. I want you to live in fear forever, I want you...ah..."
He suddenly turned over and fell to the ground, covering his nose with his hands tightly, and a few dark brown blood stains flowed out along the gaps of his fingers.
Li Xiaoning stood up, stood in front of Song Pengfei and said softly: "Song Pengfei, do you think you scared me, you are not qualified enough, your words will only make me look down on you even more,"
Resisting the urge to beat Song Pengfei again, Li Xiaoning said in a sarcastic tone: "Song Pengfei, you are really a coward. In the past, now, and in the future, you shouldn't be angry with me, because in terms of slandering people, you will never be my opponent, you fool,"
Song Pengfei was like a rooster whose throat was cut, making a hissing sound. He wanted to scold Li Xiaoning, but the pain of the broken nose bone made him unable to make a sound.
The discipline inspection officer outside the door heard the movement and hurriedly pushed the door open, came in and asked, "What's going on?"
"He wants to commit suicide and knock his face out," Li Xiaoning opened his eyes and said lies.
"It wasn't you who beat me," the discipline inspection officer asked with a frown.
"Why did I hit him?" Li Xiaoning said with his hands spread out.
Li Xiaoning refused to admit that the discipline inspection officer had no choice but to do anything about him. Besides, everyone now knows that Li Xiaoning is the winner of this struggle and is the only one who does it himself, so why can’t he get along with him? He doesn’t say anything anymore and drags Song Pengfei to the infirmary.
When Li Xiaoning returned to the office in Jinsha Town, Hou Xiucai and Bai Dengke were already waiting there.
This is the first time Li Xiaoning met Hou Xiucai. After hearing Bai Dengke recounting what Hou Xiucai did for him in the past two days, he was immediately overjoyed, held Hou Xiucai's hand tightly, and said, "Scholar, I heard Xu Jing say you, saying you are a talent, but I didn't expect to be a genius,"
Hou Xiucai smiled and said, "I have heard Sister Jing talk about you, too."
"Oh, how did she say to me," Li Xiaoning wanted to know what she looked like in Xu Jing's mind.
"She said you are a bad guy," Hou Xiucai said seriously.
Li Xiaoning couldn't help but blush. Xu Jing's bad guy probably meant that, but he really couldn't explain it.
"But I only know now that you are not a bad guy, but a fool," Hou Xiucai said again without any shocking words.
"Silly," Li Xiaoning laughed, "What, do I look stupid?"
"It's not stupid, but very stupid," Hou Xiucai said with a stern face. "You really should buy lottery tickets, because your luck is so good. According to your personality and behavior, you should have been killed by someone for a long time. If I worked for you, I would definitely regret it."
Li Xiaoning is not a saint, and was severely hurt by someone in person. Especially with a Bai Dengke next to him, he was a little embarrassed. Just as he was about to have an attack, Hou Xiucai continued: "But you are a fool who is determined to make things better, and you do have extraordinary talents. With your invincible luck, if I don't form an alliance with you, I will regret it even more."
"I have an objective evaluation of me," Li Xiaoning said with a self-deprecating smile, "Tell me what you want,"
Hou Xiucai said: "My request is very simple, just three points.
First, I only work for you, not for the government.
Second, you may not listen to mine, but you must believe me.
Third, given your current income level, my salary requirement for the first year is 100,000 yuan, and the annual growth rate in the future cannot be less than 15%. At the same time, as your income increases, my salary must be adjusted appropriately. By the way, the salary must be paid in advance,"
After hearing these three requests from Hou Xiucai, Bai Dengke rolled his eyes next to him. Hou Xiucai was too awesome. According to his intention, Li Xiaoning had to pay for him and pay first. He had to believe him completely. You haven't been in the work for a day, so why do you ask for these?
Unexpectedly, what surprised him even more was that Li Xiaoning said to Hou Xiu without thinking, "Do you receive the check?"
Chapter completed!