socalfunplaces Chapter 183 Teacher, I sent you flowers
Chapter 183 Teacher, I sent you flowers
The sound of television news echoed through the streets and alleys of Jingzhou City.
"Breaking news from this station: The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission have initiated an investigation into the serious disciplinary and legal violations of Zhao Lichun, former secretary of the Handong Provincial Party Committee..."
"An investigation revealed that Zhao Lichun had lost his ideals and beliefs, betrayed his original aspirations and mission, abused his position to seek benefits for others, illegally accepted huge amounts of money and property, and his family assets were clearly inconsistent with his income..."
"His son, Zhao Ruilong, is suspected of multiple crimes including intentional homicide, illegal business operations, and bribery, and has been arrested by the public security authorities in accordance with the law..."
At the construction site of the resettlement housing for Dafeng Factory.
Zheng Xipo turned the volume of his old radio up to the maximum.
"Okay! Okay!"
The old man's eyes were red-rimmed, and he suddenly slapped his thigh.
"Crackling and popping—"
It's unclear who started the fire, but the sound of firecrackers exploded in the open space of Dafeng Factory.
Then, it seemed to trigger a chain reaction.
Firecrackers were going off everywhere in Jingzhou, even drowning out the car horns during the morning rush hour.
For ordinary people, today is even more lively than the Lunar New Year.
The dark cloud that had hung over Handong for twenty years has finally dissipated.
……
Handong Province Detention Center.
The black Audi A6 slowly came to a stop in front of the iron gate.
Qi Tongwei got out of the car.
The air was fresh after the rain, but he couldn't smell it.
There's only a persistent musty and rusty smell here.
He wasn't wearing his police uniform today.
He wore a well-tailored black jacket over a white shirt, the collar open, which made him look less austere and more composed.
She was holding a bouquet of flowers.
It's not the carnations commonly used to visit patients, nor the chrysanthemums used for memorial services.
It is a bunch of red roses.
The petals were as red as blood and covered in thorns.
"Director Qi... no, Chief Qi."
The director was already waiting at the door, greeting him with a fawning expression, bowing as low as a shrimp.
"What number is Gao Yuliang?"
Qi Tongwei kept his eyes straight ahead and didn't stop walking.
"In interrogation room number one, as you instructed, I wasn't handcuffed, and no one disturbed me."
The director jogged ahead to lead the way.
The heavy iron door slammed open.
The corridor lights were a stark white, casting a cold glow on the concrete floor.
"You all wait outside."
Qi Tongwei stood at the door of interrogation room number one and waved his hand.
Push the door open.
The room was very quiet.
There was no oppressive interrogation atmosphere.
Gao Yuliang sat on the iron chair, not wearing prison clothes, but still wearing his signature dark administrative jacket.
His hair had turned completely white.
His once meticulously combed slicked-back hair was now drooping messily over his forehead.
The gold-rimmed glasses sat on the bridge of his nose, behind which were a pair of cloudy yet still bright eyes.
He was looking down, fiddling with a potted asparagus fern on the table.
The director let him in on a whim to curry favor with the former secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission.
pity.
The leaves have turned mostly yellow, and the roots are rotten.
"teacher."
Qi Tongwei walked over and placed the bouquet of thorny red roses on the table.
Bright red petals, withered yellow asparagus fern.
The color contrast is so strong it's almost blinding.
Gao Yuliang paused for a moment.
He looked up and gazed through his glasses at his most prized student.
"Tongwei is here."
His tone was calm, just like when he was in his office at Handong University twenty years ago, inviting students to sit down and have tea.
"Red roses?"
Gao Yuliang glanced at the bouquet of flowers and a bitter smile appeared on his lips.
"Isn't sending this at this time a bit too flashy?"
"This is the color of blood."
Qi Tongwei pulled out the chair opposite him and sat down. He took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took one out, and handed it to him.
Gao Yuliang waved his hand.
"I've quit. They don't allow smoking here."
Qi Tongwei didn't force him and lit it himself.
Smoke swirled around.
"Teacher, this asparagus fern is beyond saving."
Qi Tongwei pointed to the withered plant.
"The roots are rotten; cutting off any number of leaves won't help."
"yes."
Gao Yuliang took off his glasses, took out a piece of velvet cloth from his pocket, and slowly wiped it.
"The roots are rotten."
"Tongwei, you've really gone all out this time."
"You've even uprooted Zhao Lichun, this big tree."
He put his glasses back on, and his eyes became sharp.
"But have you ever considered that if this fire burns too brightly, and the wind shifts, you'll be the first one to burn to death?"
"Is this your way of governing?"
Qi Tongwei flicked his cigarette ash.
"Balance? Compromise? Rolling in the mud and still managing to stay dry?"
"That's art."
Gao Yuliang corrected him.
"Politics is the art of compromise."
"You wiped out the Zhao family, which is gratifying, but you broke the rules."
"Those people in the capital won't like a butcher who doesn't follow the rules."
"rule?"
Qi Tongwei smiled.
Laughter echoed in the empty interrogation room, carrying a hint of arrogance.
"Teacher, you've spent your whole life scheming, thinking about how to survive on the chessboard, how to capture a few of the opponent's pieces, and how to protect your king."
"I'm different."
Qi Tongwei stood up, placed his hands on the table, and leaned forward, exuding a mountain-like sense of oppression.
"I overturned the chessboard."
"Whether you're a rook, knight, cannon, or king, if you're on this chessboard, you're out."
Gao Yuliang was stunned.
He looked at the student in front of him and suddenly felt a little unfamiliar with him.
The Qi Tongwei who used to be so subservient to him for his future and who had to bow his head for the sake of the Liang family's power is gone.
Instead.
He is a giant who dares to reach out and mend the sky even if the sky collapses and the earth crumbles.
"How is Zhao Lichun?"
After a long silence, Gao Yuliang asked the question he was most concerned about.
"At the provincial party committee standing committee meeting, in front of Sha Ruijin and Tian Guofu."
Qi Tongwei's voice was soft, but it was like a heavy hammer blow to Gao Yuliang's heart.
He knelt down.
"Kneel before me."
"Clang!"
The glasses case in Gao Yuliang's hand fell to the ground.
He suddenly raised his head and looked at Qi Tongwei in disbelief.
His lips trembled, as if he wanted to say something, but no sound came out.
Zhao Lichun.
That was the sky over Handong.
He was someone even Gao Yuliang had to look up to.
He knelt down?
"Twenty years ago, Liang Lu forced me to kneel down, and you watched from the sidelines, advising me to endure it for the sake of my future."
Qi Tongwei walked around the table, went behind Gao Yuliang, and put his hands on his shoulders.
"I swore an oath back then."
"In this life, only others will kneel before me."
"No one, no one has the right to make me, Qi Tongwei, bend my knee."
Gao Yuliang's body collapsed.
It was as if the last bit of energy had been drained from them.
He closed his eyes, and two streams of tears slid down his cheeks, dripping onto his executive jacket.
"A half-step victory over Heaven..."
"So this is what it truly means to win by half a move against fate."
Gao Yuliang sighed deeply, his voice sounding ten years older.
"Tongwei."
"Your knees are definitely harder than the teacher's."
"Teacher...lost."
Qi Tongwei patted him on the shoulder and didn't say anything more.
Turn around.
He strode away.
Only the bunch of red roses on the table remained, blooming fiercely and fieryly beside the withered asparagus fern.
……
Special care ward area of the Provincial People's Hospital.
The corridor was quiet.
Only the "beep, beep, beep" sound from the electrocardiogram monitor could be heard.
Qi Tongwei pushed open the door to ward 302.
A faint, refreshing apple scent wafted through the air.
Ye Cunxin sat on a chair beside the hospital bed.
She changed her style today.
He wasn't wearing that menacing tactical outfit.
Instead, it was a black, fitted short dress.
The fabric clung tightly to her devilish figure, outlining a perfect S-shaped curve.
The neckline was very low, revealing a large expanse of delicate, jade-like skin, with deep collarbones, and a fine platinum necklace nestled in the deep cleavage.
The skirt was very short, barely covering the top of her thighs.
Two long, straight, beautiful legs were covered in extremely thin black stockings, revealing the pinkish-white flesh underneath.
She crossed her legs.
She was wearing a pair of black high heels with red soles, the toes of which swayed casually.
The skirt with its extremely high slit slipped down with the movement, revealing a glimpse of snow-white skin on the outer thigh that was enough to make one's blood boil.
He was holding a fruit knife.
She was peeling an apple for Chen Hai, who was lying in bed.
The peel forms a long, continuous strip.
"Oh, Director Qi, where did you go for some 'education'?"
Ye Cunxin heard the door open but didn't turn her head.
He held the knife very steadily.
"Smelling of smoke."
I went to see an old friend.
Qi Tongwei took off his jacket and casually hung it on the hanger.
He walked up behind Ye Cunxin, his gaze sweeping over her slender and supple waist, and the rounded hips accentuated by her tight dress.
"Why are you dressed like that to the hospital?"
"That's why Chen Hai hasn't woken up yet."
"If he wakes up, he'll probably have a nosebleed and then pass out again."
Ye Cunxin turned her head and gave him a flirtatious glare.
He cut a piece of the peeled apple and put it in his mouth.
"I wasn't showing this to him."
"I'm showing this to someone with no conscience."
She stood up.
The high heels made a crisp sound as they stepped on the floor.
He walked up to Qi Tongwei, extended a finger, and drew a circle on his chest.
"The Zhao family has fallen."
"You've been promoted too."
"Shouldn't you consider how to repay me, your... driver?"
When she said the word "driver," she deliberately emphasized it, her eyes carrying a playful, teasing glint.
That was a secret between the two of them about racing in the rain.
"I'll owe you for now."
Qi Tongwei grabbed the restless finger and played with it in his hand.
The fingertips are warm and the touch is smooth.
He turned around and walked to the bedside.
Chen Hai lay there.
His face was pale, and his body was covered in tubes.
The once spirited anti-corruption bureau chief is now as thin as skin and bones.
"Chen Hai".
Qi Tongwei bent down and grasped Chen Hai's withered hand.
My palms are cold.
"It's dawn."
Qi Tongwei's voice was somewhat low.
"Zhao Lichun has been arrested."
"I severed Zhao Ruilong's tendons."
The driver who hit you has also been apprehended.
"I've cleaned up this murky water in Handong for you."
The ward was quiet.
Only Qi Tongwei's voice echoed.
"I'm not like a monkey."
"All he knows is to talk about grand principles and procedural justice."
"But I know that only by crushing all those scum can you wake up in peace."
"Don't sleep."
"If I keep sleeping, I'll take all the credit for Handong's success."
Qi Tongwei applied a little force with his hand.
"Haven't you always wanted to catch me?"
"stand up."
"Look at me now, can you still hold on to me?"
Ye Cunxin leaned against the windowsill, quietly watching this scene.
No disturbance.
She could tell that the relationship between the two men was even closer than that between brothers.
That was a life-or-death friendship.
Sudden.
"Drip—drip—drip—"
The ECG monitor's rhythm has become erratic.
The originally smooth wave line began to fluctuate violently.
Qi Tongwei felt a faint force coming from his palm.
That was Chen Hai's finger; it twitched.
Followed by.
Chen Hai's eyelids began to tremble.
It's as if they're trying to break free from some kind of heavy constraint.
A tear slid down the corner of her eye.
"woke up!"
Ye Cunxin covered her mouth in surprise.
The person in a vegetative state, whom even doctors said might never wake up, actually started to respond?
Under the watchful eyes of the two.
Chen Hai slowly opened his eyes.
My vision is a bit blurry, and I can't focus properly.
But he still tried to turn his eyes and look at the man by the bed.
Although she was wearing a breathing mask, she couldn't speak.
But the emotions in those eyes were extremely complex.
There was shock, relief, and a touch of... long-lost brotherhood.
"It's good that you're awake."
Qi Tongwei's eyes were slightly red.
He patted Chen Hai on the shoulder, the force was light but firm.
"Take good care of your injury."
"You'll have to clean up the mess left in Handong for me."
……
Half an hour later.
The ward was packed with doctors and nurses, who were giving Chen Hai a full examination.
Qi Tongwei and Ye Cunxin retreated to the balcony at the end of the corridor.
far away.
Several Hongqi sedans drove into the hospital compound.
The one leading the group was Sha Ruijin.
"Secretary Sha is here."
Qi Tongwei lit a cigarette and looked downstairs.
"It's probably an appointment from the central government."
Ye Cunxin leaned against the railing, the wind ruffling her long hair.
The black skirt fluttered in the wind.
"You've caused such a commotion, there's no way this small pond in Handong can contain you anymore."
She turned around and wrapped her arms around Qi Tongwei's neck.
Her long legs, clad in high heels, rose slightly on tiptoe, her entire body almost pressed against Qi Tongwei.
The two full, soft mounds on her chest pressed tightly against Qi Tongwei's chest, radiating an amazing elasticity and heat.
"I heard the transfer order is to the Ministry of Public Security?"
Qi Tongwei did not dodge.
One hand naturally encircled her slender waist, while the thumb caressed that small patch of delicate skin through the fabric.
"They're quite well-informed."
"Did Grandpa Ye say that?"
"My grandfather admires you."
Ye Cunxin exhaled a fragrant breath, her warm breath brushing against Qi Tongwei's chin.
A sly glint flashed in those peach blossom eyes.
"Once we get to the capital, that's my territory."
"From now on, I'll make a living in Beijing."
"Are you protecting me, or am I protecting you?"
Qi Tongwei looked down at the wild and alluring woman in his arms.
A domineering smile curved at the corners of his lips.
"In Handong, my word is law."
"We have arrived in the capital."
"Same here."
He let go of her hand and turned to look out the window.
at this time.
The dark clouds over Jingzhou have completely dissipated.
The sun shines on the earth.
The provincial party committee building in the distance gleamed in the sunlight.
Qi Tongwei narrowed his eyes.
His story in Handong has come to an end.
But that was an even more turbulent and massive chess game in the capital.
just began.
"Let's go."
Qi Tongwei stubbed out his cigarette and straightened his collar.
"Let's go and face our new battlefield."
Ye Cunxin looked at that tall, javelin-like back.
The corners of his mouth turned up.
She quickly followed and took his arm.
This journey...
That stagnant pool in the capital.
This is going to cause a huge upheaval.