Insufficient balance

  The wrongly imprisoned person in Liang Tao's mouth was his own brother, Liang Hao.

  What was originally just a sensational local official scandal, seemed to be a female teacher who got drunk at a banquet and was taken to a hotel room by two powerful officials. It wasn't until she sobered up that the teacher realized she was lying naked in an unfamiliar room, with bloodstains on her thighs and the sheets, and only then did she realize she had been raped.

  The frightened female teacher reported the case, and the police quickly formed a law enforcement team to file a case for investigation. Originally intending to go to the hotel to retrieve the surveillance video of that day, it happened that on that afternoon, the hotel lost power, which lasted for a full hour. And the victim just so happened to be taken into and registered at the residence by the suspect official during this one-hour period.

  Helpless, the law enforcement team could only interrogate one by one, but unexpectedly found out that on the day of the incident, hotel service staff Liang Hao had entered the victim's room. According to Liang Hao's statement during the interrogation, he entered the room because the door was ajar, and after calling out several times without hearing anyone respond, he pushed the door open. After seeing the victim lying on the bed, he immediately left the room and closed the door.

  What was originally a routine confession turned into an opportunity for the officials involved in the case to turn the spearhead around and attack, using their connections to pressure relevant departments, even the female teacher vaguely accused Liang Hao of possibly having physical contact with her.

  As the elder brother, Liang Tao couldn't bear to see his younger brother suffer injustice, so he sought help from relevant departments and spent a lot of money hiring lawyers to sue on behalf of Liang Hao. However, as a former armed police officer, Liang Tao was also aware of the darkness in official circles and the common practice of officials protecting each other. He also suspected that the female teacher might have been subjected to various pressures and had no choice but to visit the victim personally.

  Originally, Liang Tao was just suspicious, but seeing the female teacher speaking evasively and obviously having many "hard to mention" grievances, he suddenly completely believed that his younger brother Liang Hao was being framed.

  When he heard that the iron-faced and impartial vice mayor of Jiangling City, Han Kuangqing, personally supervised this case, he visited several times, but Han Kuangqing repeatedly closed the door to thank him. This made Liang Tao subconsciously divide Han Kuangqing into the category of officials protecting each other, and could only guard the gate of Jiangling Municipal Government every day. Until one day, finally let Liang Tao wait for Han Kuangqing, naturally not good face, two people are also unhappy to disperse. This also indirectly intensified the conflict, leading to the previous confusing incident.

  When Ye Jun learned about the whole thing, he saw Han Kuangqing extinguish his cigarette butt and sighed: "Liang Tao, the government will continue to follow up on this matter and will not tolerate any criminal elements, please trust the government."

  "Thank you Mayor Han."

  Obviously, this kind of formulaic answer cannot satisfy Liang Tao. With a hint of helplessness on his face, he slowly gets up with the support of the big man behind him: "Since that's the case, I won't disturb Mayor Han's rest anymore. Please be assured, Mayor Han, that in the future I will never do anything so extreme."

  Han Kuang nodded calmly and did not respond.

  At this moment, the living room of the Han family is not empty. The Han sisters have returned to their respective rooms under the guidance of Han Qiansheng. Of course, these two sisters who are prone to crime obviously do not have the mind to sleep, but instead secretly listen at the door. As for Ye Jun, he did not leave, and everyone in the Han family believes that no one wants Ye Jun to leave at this critical moment. Although Liang Tao seems harmless now, the Han family members who were clearly frightened still have a lot of goosebumps in their hearts, fearing that Liang Tao will have another "epileptic seizure" if they don't agree on one word.

  Dong... dong...

  "Excuse me, is anyone there? We are police officers and just received a report that someone is causing trouble here."

  Liang Tao was just about to leave when a crisp sound came from the gate of Han's house, causing the few people in the living room of Han's house to look at each other with wry smiles.

  Under Han Kuangqing's hint, Zhong Qing forced out a faint smile and walked towards the gate. Through a conversation, although Zhong Qing was still afraid, she could pretend to be calm as if nothing had happened.

  "Hello, we are police officers from the nearby branch, heard that someone is causing trouble here, so we came to check it out."

  They were three or five plainclothes police officers in neat uniforms, and a woman in casual clothes, a charming woman who would make every man's eyes light up.

  Zhong Qing smiled and said, "It's nothing, I was just educating my children at home, so my tone was a bit heavy. It's actually the neighbors who misunderstood, and also made you police officers take a trip for nothing. I'm really sorry about that."

  "Will it be convenient for us to go in?"

  It seemed that Zhong Qing's face had some unnaturalness, and the charming woman smiled.

  "This..."

  Zhong Qing subconsciously glanced at the living room and looked at the suspicious expressions of the few police officers in front of her, and could only smile bitterly: "Okay."

  Under Zhong Qing's lead, several plainclothes police officers who came to investigate entered the living room one after another. Ye Jun subconsciously glanced at them and finally fixed his gaze on the charming woman, taken aback.

  White ice!

  If it's dragged to the previous life, Ye Jun and Bai Bing indeed had a complicated relationship that couldn't be unraveled. When he took over the Huayang Group, Ye Jun put his business in the province, rather than staying in Guangnan City. Due to the magical watch, Ye Jun had more than one friction with Bai Bing during the execution of the task, even though they both had good feelings for each other later, but because of their different positions and ideas, they could only have a destined encounter without a chance to be together.

  In my impression, Bai Bing is a diligent and responsible police officer. As the head of the Provincial Public Security Department's Major Crimes Unit, although he has a somewhat fiery temper, he does not do things rashly. I just didn't expect that he had been to Jiangling City before.

  However, Ye Jun was only surprised to meet Bai Bing again in Jiangling City, while the group of police officers who had just entered the living room were clearly shocked by the weight of these people!

  CPPCC Chairman Han Qiansheng, Vice Mayor Han Kuangqing, and also Liang Tao who has been making a big fuss these days.

  "President Han, Mayor Han, sorry, we just received a report from the masses and didn't mean to disturb you."

  At that time, the police officers who came with them were all nervous and uneasy. Even though they realized that Liang Tao must have had some tricks up his sleeve, the two big shots from Jiangling City sat motionless in their chairs, making the police officers present, including Bai Bing, feel uneasy and anxious. For a while, they had already been secretly condemning the complainant's various unjust and unrighteous actions in their hearts.

  "It's nothing, you guys can quickly come and handle it as soon as you receive the report, you should be commended."

  Han Kuangqing waved his hand naturally and smiled: "Just now, the children at home didn't listen to me, so I scolded them a few times, which caused a misunderstanding and made you all take a trip in vain."

  "It's okay, we just got off work and came over on the way. If there's nothing else, we won't disturb Chairman Han and Mayor Han from resting."

  A middle-aged man who looked like a leader rubbed his hands together and gave a busy laugh.

  Han Kuangqing didn't mind either, and smiled: "Since you've come, why don't you sit down and have a cup of tea?"

  "I don't dare, thank you Mayor Han for your kindness, we have other matters, so we won't disturb you anymore."

  The middle-aged man was taken aback, busy waving his hand, and at the same time, he gestured to Bai Bing and others to leave. In a flash, these civilian police who were still on duty in the middle of the night left the Han family one after another, leaving only the people in the living room sighing.

  "A'yang, let's go, don't disturb Chairman Han and Mayor Han anymore."

  Liang Tao, with the support of Zhuang Han, limped and hobbled towards the gate. The members of the Han family were all silent, neither speaking nor trying to stop him, as if they had let out a sigh of relief. When the sound of the door closing was heard, Zhong Qing immediately stood up and said: "I'll go take a look at Xiaoyun, this child is probably scared silly."

  At this point, only Han Qiansheng, Han Kuangqing and Ye Jun were left in the living room. However, the father and son of the Han family stared at Ye Jun unblinkingly, as if they wanted to see through him. After all, the bloody storm that had been stirred up earlier was still fresh in their memory, and it was clear that the Han family could not understand why Ye Jun possessed such a ruthless and decisive aura.

  Ye Jun was stared at by the father and son of the Han family, making him feel uneasy all over. He hastily said: "Grandfather Han, Uncle Han, it's getting late now, I should head home."

  Han Kuangqing nodded ambiguously, exchanged a smile with Han Qiansheng, and stood up to send Ye Jun to the door. Before parting, he smiled and said: "Xiao Jun, remember to come a little earlier tomorrow, I plan to take some time to talk to you."

  Although Ye Jun was not clear what plan Han Kuangqing had in mind, he still nodded politely: "Okay, Uncle Han, goodbye."

  Yu Jun, who was trying to hail a taxi outside the residential area, suddenly felt someone following him and turned around to find Liang Tao walking towards him with the help of a strong man, smiling wryly.

  Ye Jun had already guessed that Liang Tao's move was intended to use his connections to whisper in the ears of the two powerful officials in the Han family. He immediately stopped in his tracks and sat down on the steps by the side of the road, watching as Liang Tao limped along towards him.

  Within half a meter of Ye Jun, Liang Tao shook off the strong man's support and slowly squatted down to sit side by side with Ye Jun: "Thanks for scolding me awake earlier, otherwise I'm afraid I would have made an irreparable mistake."

  "No big deal, I'm also sorry for stabbing you in the thigh. Let's just call it even. But I'm curious, who are the two officials involved in this case?"

  Ye Jun remained neutral, after all, it was hard for an outsider to distinguish right from wrong in this kind of dispute. Liang Tao pulled out a cigarette and first offered it to Ye Jun, but when Ye Jun shook his head, he sighed and put the cigarette to his mouth without lighting it: "One is the deputy director of the Land Bureau, and the other is the director of the Education Bureau's office. As for the victimized woman, she was just a teacher at an escort agency because of her relatively good looks, so she was often called by education bureau officials to accompany them drinking."

  Liang Tao finished speaking, then took out a stack of files from his briefcase and handed them to Ye Jun. These files were all records of the case's beginning and end, which Liang Tao had obtained with great difficulty from the relevant departments, spending a lot of money to get them through the back door. He was willing to hand over these files for Ye Jun to browse, seemingly unrelated to the overall situation, simply because it was an instinctive behavior, perhaps thinking that Ye Jun had the ability to whisper in Han's ear, or perhaps because of the fierce and powerful display he had shown before.

  But anyway, Liang Tao no longer considers Ye Jun as an ordinary student.

  Wu Yi? Zeng Lu?

  Looking at these two names, Ye Jun was stunned for a moment. This is the infamous dog man and woman in Jiangling City. In their previous life, after Ye Yang took over as the master of Jiangling, the first to be eliminated were this couple. They had even made headlines on the evening news before. Wu Yi and Zeng Lu's affair wasn't something that happened overnight; it was said they had a clandestine relationship for at least three years.

  "Are you sure the victim is Zeng Lu? And Director Wu is also an official involved in the case?" Ye Jun held the file in his hand, asking doubtfully.

  "Absolutely true, what? Is there something wrong?" Liang Tao said with a frown.

  "Alright, take me to see your brother tomorrow, I have some things that need to be clarified."

  Ye Jun handed the file back to Liang Tao, then stood up and hailed a taxi coming from the opposite direction. Before parting ways, he said seriously: "This matter is not so simple, remember, tomorrow at 9 o'clock in the morning, wait for me here, we will meet again."