After a confrontation that didn't feel like a confrontation ended.
Ling Xiao said: "You should consider the matter of the Ding family first. Ding Miao said that he has sufficient evidence, but he has not submitted any witnesses. He is probably waiting for more people to extend an olive branch to him... For example, those who covet the land of Ningyuan, Like my family. He wants to maximize the benefits."
Xu Tingsheng said: "If people don't offend me, I won't offend others. This seems to be no longer the correct reason and logic."
Ling Xiao said: "The things in this world that are completely in line with reason and logic are only interests. The things that transcend reason and logic are only feelings. Family affection, love, brotherhood... hatred, gratitude... no matter what. It's just that feelings are getting stronger and stronger now. Losing more and more to interests. The world will gradually have only one reason."
Conversation between enemies. As soon as the time turned, it was noon.
There is still no movement from Ding Miao. The news of the Ye family's intervention came out... The situation in Yanzhou's officialdom became even more chaotic for a while.
Ling Xiao stood outside the door of the visiting room and glanced in. During lunch time, Xu Tingsheng ate the prescribed dish seriously and calmly.
Ling Xiao gritted his teeth, turned around and walked outside the door.
There are some things that she has no choice about. She can chat and laugh with Xu Tingsheng like a fish in water, have a gentle and calm conversation, and even often feel that she is a match for chess, very speculative.
But that doesn't mean she won't try to make things difficult for him.
To be precise, she had to.
The nature of this situation has changed so far, what Xu Tingsheng wants now may not be to escape, but to grow stronger... If he succeeds, then it is very likely that the Fang family's affairs will end like this.
This is something the Ling and Xiao families absolutely do not want to see. They have prepared for this for more than twenty years. If they do not cut the grass and roots, they will also bear the risk of revenge from the "remnants" of the Fang family in the future.
Calls were made one after another, and the net that Ling and Xiao had woven over the past twenty years had to be fully opened for the first time and run at full capacity.
She has to resist the pressure from Dad Xu and Ye Qing's family, protect the people in the network, and give confidence to Ding Miao who doesn't know where he is hiding. In the situation of two-phase wrestling and stalemate, what Ding Miao holds becomes the key to victory or defeat.
They need each other with Ding Miao now. They gave Ding Miao support and help, and then used what Ding Miao had in hand to "encircle Wei and save Zhao"—in fact, it was more than that. If Xu Tingsheng was convicted of murder, then the rest of Xu's and Ye's lawsuits were actually meaningless.
As long as Xu Tingsheng falls, the rest of the Fang family will be little lambs wandering on the grassland. Without lions, hyenas and wolves can tear them apart until there is nothing left.
Ling Xiao finished his phone call, and Xu Tingsheng also finished his lunch.
She didn't come back to him like she did just now, nor did she leave. Standing in front of the small window of the monitoring room, Ling Xiao saw Xu Tingsheng get up and move around for a while, then quietly closed his eyes and rested his mind, thinking in his heart: "Why do I want him to die?"
From a personal point of view, Ling Xiao couldn't find any reason.
This boy is defined by Ling Xiao as being interesting, and he has to admit that he is very attractive to women. Sometimes he is very simple, he was once played by her, playing with her hands; but she just can't see through him, for example, why he can be so calm at the moment.
"He should know what I'm doing... I'm trying to get him charged with murder."
Of course Xu Tingsheng knew.
But all the steps were actually arranged when he met Dad Xu.
At that time, he told his father to help him do two things. One is to remind Lao Jin so that he can go back to deal with Bingzhou with peace of mind; the other is to pick up a mother and daughter from a certain community in Yanzhou.
Ling Xiao received the first feedback call.
"The Propaganda Department, Minister Meng, has been arrested." A slightly panicked voice came from the other end of the phone. The situation has been chaotic since the morning, and some people are overly nervous and have become frightened.
Minister Meng of the Propaganda Department was the vice president of the Yanzhou Evening News a few years ago. He had a strong background and was quickly promoted. He used to be Chen Jianxing's boss. The Ling and Xiao families spent a lot of effort in the past twenty years, secretly supporting a group of people in Yanzhou, the hometown of the Fang family. As a result, people lead people, and all kinds of connections are connected, almost rounding up all major departments of Yanzhou City.
Such an interest group cannot be clean, otherwise it cannot be established and maintained.
"It's the Xu family's move, or the Ye family's move?" Ling Xiao was still calm, if the actions of these two families were shocking, just try to deal with it. A head of the Propaganda Department will not hinder the overall situation.
"I don't know, it seems to be the investigation team from above."
"Above, province?"
"It seems to be Yanjing."
"..." Ling Xiao's heart sank suddenly, "Are you sure? Don't mess around, find a way to check first."
"good."
Thinking that it would take some time to verify this matter, Ling Xiao was about to put the phone back into the bag.
The bell rang again.
"Hello."
"Deputy Mayor Ma."
"What?"
"Deputy Mayor Ma was in a meeting outside the city and was directly detained."
"..."
"Director Zhang's phone call didn't go through. Secretary-General Zhao called me before. I picked it up, but there was no sound... Then I hung up. It should be Yanjing..." The voice on the other side was decadent.
"I know." Ling Xiao said in a low voice.
There is no need to investigate any further. If it is an investigation team in the province, it is absolutely impossible that there will be no rumors before the action, and it is even more impossible to make a big move at such a speed and scale in such an important city in Jianhai Province. Therefore, the working team must be Yan. Beijing down.
As for the province, it should be consistent with the attitude of the above, and we are happy to see this matter. Otherwise, it would be impossible for things to come like this.
"Still catching..." No one was reported this time, and the voice on the other side of the microphone was full of fear and despair, "It seems that... it's going to be a disaster."
"What's the reason?" Ling Xiao still felt a little incomprehensible and unbelievable. Even between the central government and the local government, this kind of earthquake-level official shock is extremely rare... Neither the Xu family nor the Ye family can cause such a huge wave based on their own background.
"It should be related to that person."
"who?"
"Chen Jianxing. He went to Beijing with the reporting group and stayed on the pretext of illness..."
"Chen Jianxing? Who is it?" Ling Xiao didn't even know the name.
"Deputy Mayor Ma's son-in-law. One of his own. If he has the heart, he should know everything. More than two years is enough for him to collect evidence. If he is willing to be a gun, and someone above is willing to use it, we..."
"What? Hello, hello?... beep... beep, beep..."
The voice on the other end of the phone cut off.
Ling Xiao stood slumped...
Someone compared the instant collapse of Fang's house to an earthquake in Yanzhou's officialdom, but now... a huge earthquake came suddenly. Except for the new mayor who came to Yanzhou with two major projects but was ignored for a long time, everyone in Yanzhou official circles felt insecure.
Ling Xiao rushed back to the small window of the monitoring room.
Xu Tingsheng looked at her. Obviously he shouldn't be able to see it, but he just looked at this side, Ling Xiao felt that his gaze fell on her as if it were real.
Slowly, a bright smile filled the corner of Xu Tingsheng's mouth.
In his previous life, Chen Jianxing, an insignificant person, was able to stir up such a big storm and overturn so many people... The reason must not be limited to him, no matter how much evidence he has, it is not enough.
The truth is, he was willing to be a gun, and someone needed it.
No one else knew which pier the mayor of Yanzhou was leaning against, but Xu Tingsheng did. In terms of time, it should be time to completely stabilize Jianhai Province as a rear area. How can such an important city in Yanzhou be left behind? !
"Officer, is anyone there? I think I should pack my things." Xu Tingsheng stood up and said.
Ling Xiao was in a trance for a moment, and two scenes reappeared before his eyes.
In the first scene, Xu Tingsheng visited Ling's house and played a game of chess with two old men. It was supposed to be a draw... But at the end of the game, Xu Tingsheng found two pieces and put them back on the board—they were two pawns crossing the river.
A pawn crossing a river is like a dead man. There is death but no life, there is advance but no retreat.
Ling Xiao once thought it was Xu Tingsheng's bluff...
In the second scene, just now, Xu Tingsheng said: "Why didn't I tear up the whole net? If you break a lot of points, you can break the surface. Your net is too dense. The advantage is that it is strong, and the disadvantage is that it is broken into pieces."
Ling Xiao knew now, what he said was right. The Ling Xiao family's net is too dense... Once it is broken, it becomes a whole piece.