Chapter 140 - 140 139 Dual Harvest

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140: Chapter 139 Dual Harvest 140: Chapter 139 Dual Harvest Xie Heguo hadn’t guessed wrong. After Ren Peiling and Cai Yan returned to Taiping Town with the county leaders, they hurried to find Liu Hun to tell him everything about the county leaders coming down. So Liu Hun brought everyone from the village, along with the body, directly to the township government courtyard. Everything was actually prepared for Xie Heguo. “Fellow villagers, please quiet down! Quiet down! I am Chen Ren, the Executive Deputy County Magistrate of Anchang County. I’m here in Taiping Town today for this very matter!” Chen Ren spoke, his face turning grim. It was clear as day, and nothing more needed to be said. He pointed to a few villagers and questioned them one by one, the more he listened, the darker his face became. After listening, Chen Ren glanced at Xie Heguo and asked, “Mayor Xie, what did you say in the meeting room just now?” At this moment, Xie Heguo’s back was soaked with sweat, and his face felt a burning pain, never expecting his words to be contradicted right after he spoke, and in front of so many people. “County Magistrate Chen, please... please let me explain. I can provide a satisfactory explanation,” Xie Heguo stammered, his mind as muddled as porridge, only able to stall with noncommittal words. “You better be able to give me an explanation!” Chen Ren snorted coldly and turned to walk into the meeting room. Having reached this point in the game, Liu Hun finally let out a sigh of relief. He had played all his cards, and now he had to wait for the county leaders to deal with Xie Heguo. In the following days, Chen Ren and Liu Wei visited the villages and neighboring areas, and departments such as the health clinic and the police station in Taiping Town to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the matter. Meanwhile, at home, the sidelined Xie Heguo was like a wind-up frog, unable to sit still for a moment. “Knock, knock, knock!” Hearing the knock on the door made Xie Heguo’s hair stand on end with tension. He quivered as he approached the door, asking stealthily, “Who?” “Mayor Xie, it’s me, Fugui!” Lin Fugui called from outside. Hearing it was Lin Fugui, Xie Heguo quickly opened the door, ushering Lin Fugui in as if he were a deity, and asked as soon as the door closed, “Fugui, what’s the situation outside?” Lin Fugui’s face twitched as if his mouth were stuffed with three pounds of walnuts, unable to move for a moment. “Hurry up and speak! What’s the situation so we can figure something out!” Xie Heguo shouted, shaking Lin Fugui by the shoulders. “It’s over!” Lin Fugui finally managed to say after being shaken, “We really underestimated that Liu Hun kid. Wherever County Magistrate Chen goes, he finds problems, and anyone he questions knows something about this matter. Liu Hun has torn this issue apart, and there’s no way to cover it up!” “What do we do now? What do we do?! Speak up! Say something!” Xie Heguo screamed at Lin Fugui, looking like a rooster plucked from a pile of firewood. “There’s a way! There’s a way!” Lin Fugui whispered, pulling Xie Heguo aside, “Mayor Xie, there’s a saying that goes, ‘A brave man cuts off his own arm; a wise man sacrifices the car to save the king.’ We have to be ruthless!” Xie Heguo was nearly bursting with anger as he grabbed Lin Fugui and said, “At a time like this, what kind of nonsense are you spouting? Just say it!” “Three steps! First, we need to find someone to take the blame for us. This matter has gotten so big it’s impossible to cover everything without leaving a trace — someone has to take the fall,” Lin Fugui said softly to Xie Heguo. “Who?!” At this point, Xie Heguo was out of ideas and could only seek guidance from his trusted advisor. “Bai! Hong! Cai!” Lin Fugui said slowly with emphasis and continued, “Mayor Xie, consider who engineered this whole situation. Wasn’t it Bai Hongcai? I considered Yu Weihong, but he’s just a village chief. Even if we dumped a lot on him, it wouldn’t make sense! Besides, he’s nowhere to be found now, so Bai Hongcai is the most suitable.” Like slurping noodles, Xie Heguo quickly nodded and said, “Right, right, that makes sense. But... how do we handle County Magistrate Chen? Those two are as clever as monkeys turned into spirits, much sharper than us.” “That was just the first step! After the first step, there’s naturally a second one, which is money!” Lin Fugui spoke, gauging Xie Heguo’s reaction before continuing, “Mayor Xie, sometimes you have to spend money to make money. Huang Xiaofeng should have...” Lin Fugui didn’t finish his sentence, but Xie Heguo understood completely. Gritting his teeth, he said, “As long as we navigate this hurdle and keep the position, we can continue making money afterward! Once we have a million, we’ll make Bai Hongcai take the blame as a scapegoat. I refuse to believe we won’t get away with it!” “Wait!” Lin Fugui, seeing Xie Heguo was determined, quickly pulled him back, “Mayor Xie, there’s also the third step! Money alone won’t work; I’ve already found out this Chen Ren is known as the smiling tiger. Publicly human and privately beastly, greedy for both wealth and women. We need a woman!” “A woman?! That’s easy enough to arrange! Just call the nightclub in the county seat and have Boss Hong send over seven or eight good ones!” Xie Heguo said to Lin Fugui, not thinking it a big deal. Lin Fugui quickly waved his hands and said, “No way! If it were that easy, he’d have been just a tomcat! He wants someone with stature, and preferably untouched by a man before. Meet these two conditions, and with the three steps taken, we’ll close this case!” Xie Heguo never expected Chen Ren to be this type of person, previously focusing all his attention on County Party Secretary Li Tianyang, never noticing anyone else in the county. “Do... Do you have someone in mind?” Xie Heguo tentatively asked Lin Fugui, though he already had a name in mind, but he couldn’t be the one to say it; it had to come from Lin Fugui. Lin Fugui twisted his mouth and, in typical wartime collaborator fashion, with a sideways glance said, “Ren Peiling!” “Director Ren? I’m afraid that won’t do. Besides, she isn’t aligned with us and wouldn’t do it,” Xie Heguo replied, passing the decision back to Lin Fugui. Lin Fugui looked at Xie Heguo, feeling he was like a white-faced Cao Cao, wielding the emperor’s power without assuming the title, and reluctantly said, “Mayor Xie, given the situation, she’s our only option. And there’s a good chance Ren Peiling is a ticking time bomb, ready to explode at the worst moment! If she doesn’t agree, we’ll convince her with some tactics.” Lin Fugui understood that he and Xie Heguo were grasshoppers tied together, while Ren Peiling was the biggest rival, and they couldn’t let such a good opportunity slip by. The more Xie Heguo thought about it, the more he found Lin Fugui’s plan feasible. He gave Lin Fugui a deep look and said, “Fugui, doing bad deeds also takes skill! It’s your time to prove your ability, so this is your job to handle!” “Knock, knock, knock! Knock, knock, knock!” Just as Lin Fugui was about to respond, there came a series of knocks at the door, and Xie Heguo quickly gestured for Lin Fugui to remain silent. “Knock, knock, knock... Mayor Xie, are you home? It’s Bai Hongcai, Mayor Xie!” Bai Hongcai’s sneaky voice came from outside. Xie Heguo quickly gestured to Lin Fugui to keep quiet and pulled him into the bedroom, saying, “Remember! Bai Hongcai is our scapegoat now. We can’t have any further association with him! This concerns our future and fate, and there can’t be any mistakes!” The two conferred in the bedroom until they confirmed Bai Hongcai had left, and then Lin Fugui departed from Xie Heguo’s home. Meanwhile, Liu Hun was waiting back in Wanbao Village. He had exhausted all resources and devised everything he could; everything was as tightly fastened as a zipper. All that remained was to await word from Deputy County Magistrate Chen. “Director Ren, it’s thanks to you this time. Had Deputy County Magistrate Chen not arrived in time, I shudder to think of the consequences,” Liu Hun said gratefully to Ren Peiling. Through her, he learned that just before Chen Ren arrived, Xie Heguo had already ordered his arrest. If Chen Ren had arrived a moment later, he would have fallen into Lin Fugui’s hands. “Are we afraid of Lin Fugui? He’s got to act like a dog around us, so what’s there to be afraid of? Moreover, even if County Magistrate Chen had been a bit delayed, we and the villagers from the front village could have stormed the township government and wouldn’t fear them!” Qin Yue said resolutely, having always seen how Liu Hun dealt with Lin Fugui as if he were beating his own grandson and regarding a dignified township director as a mere grandchild. Liu Hun quickly said to Qin Yue, “No! Never do that. I remind everyone, especially Sister Qin Yue, you are the village chief of Wanbao Village. We can petition with the villagers but never resort to violence or cause trouble! Otherwise, being right turns into being wrong, and Xie Heguo would have leverage to make a fuss about it!” Step by step, Liu Hun had calculated everything thoroughly. When he went to the township government courtyard that day, he could have lashed out physically and slapped for satisfaction. But slapping Xie Heguo’s face like that made it impossible to dethrone him, putting himself in an awkward position without any protection. With county leaders present, using the front villages as a knife to take down this tyrant Xie Heguo was the best strategy! Why did so many people from the front village kneel? Why did so many die? Why did so many people get sick? When these facts were laid before the county leaders, they would naturally investigate, grab onto Xie Heguo’s tail, and that was the deadliest move. Going there to fight would immediately be labeled as mobs, and everything would fall apart. “Liu Hun is right! Not only do we have to slap Xie Heguo’s face, but more importantly, we must peel off his official skin!” Ren Peiling said, feeling a surge of excitement. She hadn’t expected that Liu Hun, just an ordinary farmer, could do something so earth-shattering and remain calm and rational. The situation was only one coffin nail away from pinning Xie Heguo within the coffin, “Therefore, now we must patiently await Judge Chen’s investigation. We have complete evidence and are following legal procedures. There’s no fear of Wang Xie Heguo slipping away.” As Ren Peiling was speaking, someone stood outside the door, knocking and calling out, “Is Director Ren here? Is Director Ren here?” “Who?!”

Chapter 140 - 140 139 Dual Harvest

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