Li Yuan looked at Li Mingsheng, grinned and said, "Since you like Su Tianyu, I naturally like him too."
"Haha." Li Mingsheng pointed at Li Yuan and smiled: "I think you two are birds of a feather."
Li Yuan didn't dare to respond, he just handed the teacup over.
Li Mingsheng put down the tablet, slowly picked up the teacup and replied: "Someone from the You family is coming. I'm too lazy to deal with them. Let's sit down and you and Su Tianyu can chat with them."
"I understand." Li Yuan nodded immediately.
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In the evening, around eight o'clock.
The Qiushan Temple on Qiu Mountain was closed, but Jing Yan was still led to the main hall on the mountain through the back door by a young monk thanks to his excellent interpersonal relationships.
In the empty temple hall, the fresh aroma of incense wafts into the nose. Tathagata Buddha looks solemn, sitting high up and looking into the distance, as if scanning the sufferings of all living beings.
Qiushan Temple is a temple with relatively strong incense in the vicinity of Longcheng. After Lu Feng was injured, he also recuperated here for a period of time and was influenced by the Buddha. Later, he recited 300 Buddhist scriptures all the time.
Jing Yan actually doesn't believe in Buddhism, but he has a very good relationship with the abbot here. About four years ago, he also responded to the call of a certain department and donated 3 million cash to this place in the name of the guild company.
I don’t know why Jing Yan wanted to visit this temple today, as if it could give him some psychological comfort.
In the quiet main hall of the temple, Jing Yan stood next to the Buddha statue with his hands behind his back. The sounds of birds and insects chirping outside could be clearly heard in his ears.
An old monk in linen clothes came from the back hall and called out to Jing Yan, "Donor Jing."
Jing Yan turned around to look at him, chuckled and said, "Haha, I wanted to come before I came, but now I don't know what to do. Master, what do you think is wrong with me?"
"Buddha saves the world, and everyone who comes here has illness and suffering." The old monk made a gesture of invitation and told the young monk, "Bring the tea."
"Haha, can he really save people from suffering?" Jing Yan looked at the Buddha statue with suspicion, then followed the old monk with his hands behind his back to the incense table in the side hall and sat down.
After the old monk sat down, he didn't say a word. He just twirled his Buddhist beads and looked drowsy.
After a while, the tea was served. Jing Yan picked up the teacup and took a sip: "Even though I came to the temple, I still feel uneasy."
The old monk shrugged his eyelids, paused for a moment and replied: "Donor Jing, for Buddha, it is never too late for a disciple to enter the temple. For people, most of the troubles in their hearts are caused by self-seeking. If you don't seek, your heart will be at peace. If you seek a high position, it will be lonely; if you don't seek, water will flow naturally."
The old monk's words were not difficult to understand. He was warning Jing Yan that perhaps if he chose to let go, the uneasiness in his heart would disappear without a trace.
Jing Yan listened to the other party's words, frowning: "If Buddha has nothing to ask for, why would he need incense? If people have nothing to ask for, why would they have this majestic temple?"
The old monk looked at Jing Yan calmly, without answering his question directly, and only invited him softly: "Donor Jing, please light a stick of incense, maybe it will comfort you."
As soon as he finished speaking, the little monk took three sticks of sandalwood from the free incense dispenser, walked over and handed them to Jing Yan.
Jing Yan looked at the incense, then looked at the Buddha statue, and after a brief pause, he was ready to reach out and take it.
Just then, the young secretary walked quickly into the main hall, came to Jing Yan and whispered something to him.
Jing Yan withdrew his arm that was suspended in the air and nodded at the secretary.
The old monk sat nearby and gave another piece of advice: "Everything has its consequences. After the consequences have passed, letting go is not necessarily a bad thing."
Jing Yan slowly stood up, and without taking the incense stick, he just walked out, frowned and replied: "I don't believe in Buddhism!"
Jing Yan left with his back to the Buddha statue and, led by the young secretary, came to the temple's parking lot.
Six cars with lights on stopped, and a dozen people came towards them. One of them showed his work ID and frowned, saying, "Mr. Jing Yan, we are from the Regional Police Investigation Bureau. You are suspected of killing hostages and assisting members of the Ruler Army to escape in the case of the Supervisory Committee. You are now formally arrested."
Jing Yan looked at the other party, did not argue, and just stretched out his hands in silence.
Just now in the main hall, Jing Yan said that he did not believe in Buddhism, which was actually both right and wrong, because his deeper meaning was that he did not believe in fate at all, nor did he believe that others could control his fate, not even the Buddha.
Jing Yan knew that he was really doomed this time and there was no possibility of success, but he was unwilling to accept it.
Jing Yan was arrested that night and was detained in Longcheng for less than three hours before he was taken back to Huadu in District 1 by people from the Regional Police Investigation Bureau.
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The next morning, half past nine.
The General Association of Coders held an emergency press conference, and the representative attending was the new president Zhang Ming.
Under the questioning of many media, Zhang Ming only refused to mention Jing Yan's murder, claiming that the association's management did not know the details of the case and could not make a judgment. But one thing is certain, that is, the Coders Association will never shield criminals. If Jing Yan is really found guilty of a crime, the Coders Association will definitely support the arbitration of the judicial department.
Zhang Ming's remarks directly pushed Jing Yan out and completely wiped out the Coders Association.
In this incident, Jing Yan shot and killed a hostage and suspected of using his connections to help Chi Jun escape, both of which had nothing to do with the Coders Association. No senior members of the Coders Association were involved in the entire case, so Jing Yan only had to take the blame.
Before going in, Jing Yan handed over all the black information on the union management that he had collected over the years to Zhang Ming, who then anonymously reported the information to the supervisory committee, resulting in more than 20 people from various districts of the Coders' Association being arrested at one time.
These people were the potential instability factors that Jing Yan felt would arise after something happened to him. He felt that Zhang Ming could not control these forces, so he had to eliminate them in advance.
After Jing Yan cleared the obstacles for Zhang Ming, he buried all his own direct subordinates in the Federation of Trade Unions, using them to restrain Zhang Ming and prevent the latter from expanding rapidly after gaining power.
This was Jing Yan's response to the video incident. He knew he couldn't resist, and he didn't want to be threatened by Zhao Weihu, Su Tianyu and others forever, so he chose to cut off his arm and use himself to protect the dock workers' union. Otherwise, if he continued to resist, once the carrots and mud were exposed, the dock workers' union might also be purged and abandoned by the upper echelons.
For a person who is obsessed with power and full of ambition, it is undoubtedly a very cruel thing to hand over power with one's own hands, but Jing Yan still did it.
Decisive, straightforward, without any hesitation.
After Jing Yan arrived at District 1, he hired the best lawyer for himself. His defense was to admit that he had killed someone, but the premise was that he was threatened by Chi Jun's life and was forced to shoot and kill...
However, no matter how he defended himself, it was a fact that Jing Yan killed people. As for the final sentencing decision, no one could predict it. Because the families of the victims he killed were all well-known white groups in District 1, and after seeing the news, these people hated Jing Yan beyond words. It was said that some people wanted to hire someone in prison to kill Jing Yan directly as revenge.
In short, Jing Yan's glory in the first half of his life ended here. He felt aggrieved because he had never considered Su Tianyu and Yu Mingyuan as opponents before. The other party was able to defeat him purely because they saw an opportunity in an accidental event.
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After Jing Yan was arrested, the Coders Association was severely damaged and internal chaos officially began.
One day later.
Li Yuan and Su Tianyu met with people from the You family in private in Longkou District.