Gao Yulan began to report to Li Wenrui, first on the progress of the pilot reform of the cadre selection system, then on the recent shopping card incident, and on to the related video tape theft case.

The report lasted for at least twenty minutes. Li Wenrui never interrupted and seemed to be listening attentively.

What made Xiang Tianliang couldn't help laughing was that in just over twenty minutes, Li Wenrui actually smoked four cigarettes in a row, his mouth never idle, causing the huge office to fill with smoke.

Sure enough, as the legend said, Li Wenrui's addiction to smoking was not that big, but to the point where he regarded smoking as his life. It is said that his wife forced him to quit smoking many times, including family meetings, letters of guarantee and self-reflection, but more than ten times His attempts to quit smoking all ended in failure. Each time he failed to quit smoking, he only increased the amount of cigarettes he smoked.

In Dongjiang Province, Li Wenrui is not only an outspoken boss, but also a legendary figure.

Looking across the country, among the current provincial leaders, Li Wenrui is the only one who participated in the revolution before the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Li Wenrui is 62 years old this year. He participated in underground work in 1945 when he was 13 years old. He joined the party in 1948 and joined the army in 1949. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he worked in the army for ten years. He transferred to the Dongjiang Provincial Department of Agriculture in 1964 and was transferred to the deputy mayor of Zhongyang City, Dongjiang Province in 1964. He later served as deputy secretary of the municipal party committee and mayor. In 1971, he was promoted to secretary of the Zhongyang Municipal Party Committee. In 1973, he was promoted to Vice Governor of Dongjiang Province.

After the reform and opening up, Li Wenrui served as deputy secretary of the Dongjiang Provincial Party Committee and governor. Nine years later, in 1987, he was promoted to secretary of the Dongjiang Provincial Party Committee and director of the Provincial People's Congress to this day.

Including the ten years he served as a soldier, he never left Dongjiang Province in his life. This is Li Wenrui's life history.

After listening to Gao Yulan's report, Li Wenrui nodded slightly and was silent for a while.

Then, Li Wenrui finally put out the cigarette in his hand, opened his eyes, and looked at Xiang Tianliang.

"You took those tapes."

"Yes."

"You are really brave."

"We dare not ignore our responsibilities."

"Oh...I forgot, you have special law enforcement powers."

"Secretary Li, I think what I did was very timely and necessary."

Li Wenrui smiled and said, "All the students taught by Lao Yi are full of confidence. How about Lao Yi? Are they still carefree?"

Lao Yi is Yi Xiangrui, Xiang Tianliang's mentor. Together with Li Wenrui, he is called "the two alternative people in the north and the south" by the party insiders.

"Secretary Li, don't you know about my teacher's situation?"

"We are not friends, why should I know." Li Wenrui shrugged and said with a smile, "He catches bad people, and I manage good people. He is a college student, and I am a primary school student. We can't get along with each other, and We fight each other when we meet and don't accept each other's opinions, so we are not friends."

Xiang Tianliang smiled and said: "It seems, it seems that my teacher has never, never mentioned you in front of me."

"Look, you see, this explains the problem." Li Wenrui stared at Xiang Tianliang, "So, little friend, if you fall into my hands, you will be miserable."

"Report to Secretary Li, I'm already in dire straits." Xiang Tianliang said.

"Hmph, why are you so miserable? You are already very naughty." Li Wenrui said with a straight face, "You made a big fuss in Qinghe City and made the provincial party committee and I very passive. We lost all our face and lost our shame into the Pacific Ocean. Now, do you think it’s you or me who is miserable?”

"So...you are miserable, but so am I." Xiang Tianliang said with a smile.

"Can it be even?" Li Wenrui asked.

"I think you can." Xiang Tianliang was not polite at all.

"Haha..." Li Wenrui laughed, stood up, and punched Xiang Tianliang's chest twice with his fist, "The young are to be feared, the young are to be feared. My little friend, I like your bad temper."

"Thank you, Secretary Li."

After waving his hand, Li Wenrui sat back on the sofa and said, "Did you bring it?"

Xiang Tianliang was startled, thinking that this old man was not a bad guy, and his mind worked very quickly. He did not dare to neglect, so he took out a box of video tapes from his bag and handed it to Li Wenrui.

Li Wenrui looked at the video tape, turned towards the door and shouted "Xiao Mo."

Secretary Mo Kaicai stepped in and said, "Secretary, what are your orders?"

"Get a video projector, and let Xiao Chen come over."

Mo Kaicai said yes, turned around and left.

After a while, Mo Kaicai pushed the door open again and walked in, holding a video projector in his hand.

Behind Mo Kaicai was a young man of about thirty years old.

"It's you." Xiang Tianliang was stunned.

"Hello, my name is Chen Tielong." The young man smiled and stretched out his right hand towards the sky.

This Chen Tielong is the stranger Xiang Tianliang met at the turn of the stairs on the second floor yesterday.

Gao Yulan said to Xiang Tianliang, "Tie Long is Secretary Li's driver. In fact, Secretary Li has already mastered this information. Tie Long was ordered by Secretary Li to conduct a secret investigation."

Xiang Tianliang suddenly realized that Chen Tielong was Li Wenrui's driver and bodyguard. He thought to himself that it was okay. Fortunately, Chen Tielong was not injured yesterday, otherwise he would not be able to explain to him.

Li Wenrui was a little proud, "Kid, don't think you are the only one fighting."

Xiang Tianliang hurriedly said to Chen Tielong: "Brother Chen, I'm sorry, I offended you so much yesterday."

"The flood has washed away the Dragon King Temple. If we don't fight, we won't know each other. Thank you for showing mercy to the assistant." Chen Tielong said with a smile.

Xiang Tianliang asked curiously: "How do you know that it was me who did what happened in the underground supermarket?"

Chen Tielong said: "Secretary Li told me about this matter a month ago. However, he only secretly observed and investigated and did not let me take action. Therefore, I could only observe secretly. The night you took action, I hid Of course I saw you and your car in the dark, and the next day, there was news that the underground supermarket was stolen, and what was stolen was a video tape, so I knew it must be you."

"Oh... Then why don't you come to me directly?" Xiang Tianliang asked.

Chen Tielong continued: "After I reported to Secretary Li, Secretary Li and Minister Gao communicated. They really wanted to see what you would do next, and also wanted to see who would jump out if they couldn't bear it, so I went to find him. You, because you didn’t know me, gave me a three-day date. Later, I came with you, but I didn’t dare to get too close, so you dumped me."

"Oh, are the people outside the Starlight Hotel last night also yours?"

Chen Tielong shook his head and said: "No, but I am also nearby. I judge that those who are staring at you should be sent by the underground supermarket. Their noses are also very good. They should have listed you as a key suspect, so I tried every means. They were targeting you, but they overestimated their capabilities and were easily thrown away by you."

"So, Brother Chen, are you really going to keep the three-day appointment?"

"Of course, I'm just trying to learn a few tricks from you. You show your heroic spirit to your assistant and you're so unpredictable."

Xiang Tianliang smiled and said: "I'm sorry, Brother Chen, I really thought you were someone sent by the underground supermarket. For this reason, I hired two helpers in advance. The three-day appointment was to lure the snake out of its hole and prepare to take you and your Catch them all in one fell swoop.”

"Haha... I know, I know. You let me go yesterday just to lure the snakes out of their holes and catch them all. It's quite cruel."

After watching the video tape for less than fifteen minutes, Li Wenrui waved his hands with a cold face, and Mo Kaicai stepped forward and turned off the video projector.

Because this videotape was carefully prepared by Xiang Tianliang, six people showed up in the first fifteen minutes, and one of them, a woman, was the wife of a certain leader of the provincial party committee.

Li Wenrui looked at Xiang Tianliang and asked, "How many are there in total?"

"More than forty boxes."

"You took it all." Before the festival until now."

"Have you seen it?"

"I didn't have time, I only saw a few boxes."

"These tapes were edited and pieced together."

"Yes, it is carefully crafted and targeted at a special group."

"A special group."

"Yes, a cadre or a cadre's family member, and the purchase was made with a shopping card."

"How many people do you estimate there are."

"At least... at least a thousand people."

"Conspiracy."

Xiang Tianliang nodded and said: "I think so, because it is difficult to say that some of the shopping cards in these people's hands were purchased with their own money. In other words, they were given by others. Once the underground supermarket has these video tapes, we can know Who has received gifts from whom, so the intention is self-evident."

Li Wenrui hummed, picked up the cigarette and lit another one.

After smoking a cigarette and being silent for a long time, Li Wenrui asked again: "Xiao Xiang, if I let you go, what are you going to do next?"

"Um...is this..." Xiang Tianliang looked at Gao Yulan and hesitated.

Gao Yulan smiled and said, "If you tell everything you know, then you are not guilty."

Xiang Tianliang looked at Li Wenrui and said, "Secretary Li, I think these videotapes and the people on those videotapes are not important."

"What's important."

"Well... what matters is the owner of these video tapes and the person who came up with the idea to make these video tapes."

Li Wenrui nodded, "You want to find them out."

"I thought so."

"Oh..." Li Wenrui stood up, clasped his hands behind his back, and walked around the office, "Comrade Xiao Xiang, do you believe this bad old man like me?"

"Secretary Li, your orders." Xiang Tianliang looked solemn.

"First, you stay in the Organization Department for a while, and I'll find a chance to ask Minister Gao to let you go back to Qinghe. Second, you don't want to get involved in this matter, but I have to wipe your ass. It's clean, three, give those video tapes to Chen Tielong, and immediately."

"Secretary Li, I obey your order."

After Li Wenrui waved to Xiang Tianliang to come to him, he approached mysteriously, blinked and whispered: "If you are short of arms and legs, I can't explain it to Mr. Guan and Mr. Zhang, and that old Yi , he must scold me to death."

Xiang Tianliang was stunned. It seemed that Li Wenrui already knew his life experience.

"Thank you, Secretary Li."

Gao Yulan, Mo Kaicai and Chen Tielong were baffled by Li Wenrui's actions.

After laughing, Li Wenrui patted Xiang Tianliang's butt.
Chapter completed!