Li Yifeng inserted the flashing light positioning pin into the tree trunk, and smiled at Luo Ye and others at the same time. "In fact, I don't need me to lead the way. Brother Dingyi's experience is not worse than mine."
Just now he deliberately dropped half of his position and found that Ling Dingyi was walking on the ground on the mountain road.
Ling Dingyi also smiled, "I'm used to living in the mountains, so I can still walk on the more rugged mountain roads, but Brother Luo is right, this is the site of Brother Yifeng, and the general direction has to come from Brother Yifeng. Lead."
Li Yifeng looked around and looked at Wang Xinmai and Lin Wanyu who were panting, "Then let's rest for ten minutes, or we will run out of energy before seeing the prey."
Wang Xinmai sighed, groaned in pain, and sat down on a large ice-cold rock. He grinned, but did not get up. Compared to fatigue, this cold is nothing.
Lin Wanyu also wiped the sweat from her forehead. In order to walk, she consumes a lot of calories. If she can't eat anything today, it will indeed be a very uncomfortable thing.
Standing beside Wang Xinmai, Cao Cheng couldn't bear to see Wang Xinmai's painful look. While the team was resting, he stretched out his hand and broke a branch with a thick wrist and made Wang Xinmai a simple walking stick.
Wang Xinmai frowned. "Women need this stuff!"
Lin Wanyu smiled weakly, "If my bodyguard can treat me like this, I will definitely accept it without hesitation."
Luo Ye shrugged and did nothing.
Cao Cheng asked Lin Wanyu in a low voice, "Miss Lin, do you need me to make one for you?"
Lin Wanyu hurriedly responded with a grateful smile, "No, no, thank you, I'm just... just for fun." Luo Ye would not care about her like Cao Cheng cares about Wang Xinmai, at least he would not care as much. .
Cao Cheng nodded, "If you need anything, please tell me directly."
With that, Cao Cheng stuffed the made crutches into Wang Xinmai's hands.
Wang Xinmai resisted a bit at first, but Cao Cheng's attitude was very determined. After coming down several times, Wang Xinmai's face was already imploring, and walking with a cane was really shameless.
Cao Cheng didn't care about those, he just wanted to make Wang Xinmai's walking more labor-saving and more comfortable. Therefore, his attitude was unprecedentedly firm, but because of his status as a bodyguard, he couldn't directly "command" Wang Xinmai.
Finally, Wang Xinmai sighed helplessly, and finally accepted the crutches.
Li Yifeng checked the positioning equipment and after confirming that everything was normal, he brought the topic back to Ling Dingyi. "Cousin Wan Yu, do you know that Brother Dingyi is here to destroy you?"
Lin Wanyu knew this was a joke, so she responded with a smile: "Mr. Ling is gentle and elegant, and he will definitely not destroy me."
Ling Ding Yichong and Lin Wanyu smiled and explained: "Brother Yifeng has called me a bad person. In fact, I only came to seek donations to children in the mountainous area."
Lin Wanyu pursed her lips, "Excuse me for taking the liberty. There are not enough people who donate money now, not because there is not enough kindness, but because there are too many frauds. Layers of exploitation have fattened the managers, but the ones who really need help are not. Many. Everyone doesn’t want to be fools, so they don’t donate anymore."
Ling Dingyi nodded, "Ms. Lin is right. I will not participate in various charity events, but will directly buy the donations as necessities and distribute them to the children in the mountainous area. The entire account list is like proof."
Lin Wanyu blinked, "If transparency can be guaranteed, I personally would like to donate a little bit of my heart."
Luo Ye laughed and said jokingly: "You even blocked your cousin's door with 5 million to ask for debts, and would you still take the initiative to pay strangers?"
Lin Wanyu said sternly: "The money that should not be spent is a fool, and the money that should be spent is stingy. I am not a fool or a miser. I am just a businessman."
"That's good." Ling Dingyi nodded heavily, "Miss Lin, I thank you for your kindness for the children in the mountain area, but I'm afraid I can't accept your donation."
"Why is this?" Lin Wanyu asked in confusion.
Ling Dingyi smiled, "To be honest, donations are not the real purpose, and no amount of money can save the consciousness of the poor. I can improve their living standards a little bit, but they have to rely on themselves to get rid of poverty. My real The purpose is to see how the high-ranking officials and rich people are making fun, and then I will ask them for donations based on their arrogance. To put it bluntly, this is a blackmail, a political blackmail."
Li Yifeng smiled bitterly and said: "Brother Dingyi, if you do this, I am afraid that no one will dare to come to my party in the future." This sentence does not mean "party", but reminds Ling Dingyi not to As soon as he came up, he opposed the government and business class in Jinghua City.
Ling Dingyi regained his critical gaze, "Social change is like this. If it is not top-down, it will be bottom-up. Top-down is only a disaster for a few in power, but bottom-up will be everyone. Disaster."
Li Yifeng smiled, not responding to Ling Dingyi's words. It can be seen that the grassroots training in the past six months has changed a lot for this official son, but being far away from the center of the struggle for power has made him a little too idealistic. Ling Dingyi didn't know that no one person can change this society, just like a cell cannot change life.
Luo Ye looked at Ling Dingyi sideways, and said straightforwardly: "So, are you planning to die with those corrupt officials?"
Ling Dingyi was taken aback for a moment, and then replied: "They still don't dare to do anything with me.
"Yeah," Luo Ye yawned silly, "They also think you dare not do anything to them. If you blackmail their money, they will extort the money from the people below even more vigorously. You just stand by At the top of the food chain, the law is just a display to you, you are no different from them."
As soon as these words came out, everyone present held their breath. Even Wang Xinmai, who had been yelling at Cao Cheng for pain in his feet, didn't dare to make a sound.
Ling Dingyi looked at Luo Ye motionlessly, like a hunter looking at his prey—or the prey looking at the hunter who was about to hunt it. The two looked at each other like this.
The silence lasted for several heartbeats.
For the entire Ling family, Ling Dingyi is an outlier. All of his relatives have official authority, and even the driver who used to drive their "old man" is now the leader of the city committee of his hometown. He has lived in this kind of official family since he was a child, and every move must strictly conform to his identity. At the beginning, such a family made him feel proud, but as the worldview slowly formed, he gradually felt suffocated.
Therefore, when the other children all took over the official, he still maintained his own way of personality and mixed with the other three Jinghua princes. Although his attitude towards others was cold and hard, it was the most free and easy part of his growth process that is worth thinking about. .
Later, the elders in the family denounced him for not doing his job properly, especially the old man Ling Dingyi's grandfather Ling Yuanfeng, for not allowing him to continue to mess with the "boys" and asking him to obey the arrangements and enter the government. For this reason, Ling Dingyi fiercely resisted. In a rage, the old man sent him to the most bitter remote mountainous area to be the little secretary to the most stupid local officials. Said it is exercise, in fact, only Ling Dingyi knows in his heart that this is "distribution."
He gritted his teeth and left home without taking anything. Within half a year, I didn't get in touch with anyone in my family, and my relatives and friends ignored them all. They wanted to take root in the valley with their own strength and prove to the old man with the results. One of his cousins is already a high-ranking official in the province. He has visited him more than once in the mountains, but the mountain roads are treacherous. After going there several times, he can't be seen in person, and finally he has to give up.
After half a year, Ling Dingyi felt that he was more mature and stronger. At this moment, he received a text message from home: The old man fell ill.
The old man's illness was very urgent and strange, almost without warning. According to the maid who took care of the old man’s diet and daily life, the old man was in good spirits that night, and even made a few small jokes with the servants. Later, after receiving a call, within a few seconds, he passed out. The maid couldn't guess who made the call and what the content was. I just remember that the headlines from the media the next morning were news about the plane crash of the Dingxin president and his wife.
After learning of the old man’s hospitalization, the whole family put aside everything and gathered in front of the old man’s sick bed. Only two relatives did not show up. One of them was the old man’s second daughter-in-law. No one dared to complain about her in front of the old man. No, the old man forbids his second daughter-in-law to be aggrieved by the Ling family—nothing else, because this daughter-in-law’s surname is Tang Mingwan; and the other relative who has not arrived is the eldest son of the Ling family, Ling Dingyi .
Blood is always thicker than water. Even if Ling Dingyi hates his family again, he can't let go of his blood and affection. He is the old man's favorite person, even though this affection makes him breathless. He has not forgotten that his name was given by the old man. The implication is that he hopes that one day in the future he can become a national leader and be embraced by millions of people. In the face of deep family affection, Ling Dingyi gave up his stubbornness, found his cousin in the provincial capital, and got on the plane back to Jinghua City.
He promised the old man to stay in Jinghua City, but asked the old man to allow him to do one last thing for the mountain area.
This is exactly how he came to Nanshan Manor by himself without saying hello.
Although his thinking slowly matured, he was still full of illusions about his political ambitions. He doesn't want to make money through promotion, because their family is already at the pinnacle of power. He just wants to do something for the country and change the status quo of society with his own power...
But Luo Ye's words made him fall into the bottomless abyss. Looking back, Luo Ye was right when he said that by blackmailing corrupt officials to change society, this behavior itself is no different from corrupt officials. How long can he stay spotless in such an officialdom
"What does Brother Yiluo mean?" Ling Dingyi helped his glasses and looked at Luo Ye sincerely.
"Be a little brother for me," Luo Ye said bluntly, "I lack a person who can deter the dog officer in my lower district."