Chapter 1260

Fuyuan Hotel, Tong Huaiyu stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back, having been there for more than twenty minutes without moving.

Guo Zidan sat on the chair beside him, crossing his legs, holding a cigar in his hand.

"I really can't get used to smoking this thing."

Fan Jie also held one in his hand: "I haven't smoked this thing either; the brothers under my hand got it, so I took it."

Li Jun held a glass of red wine in his hand, somewhat absent-mindedly playing with it.

Fan Yu kept rubbing the jade thumb ring on his thumb: "Where did Yang Hai go? Why haven't I seen him all day?"

Li Jun came back to his senses: "His stomach is a bit uncomfortable, so he's lying in the hospital."

Fan Yu asked: "Has his stomach always been bad?"

Li Jun was stunned: "I haven't heard him say that before."

Fan Yu's eyebrows wrinkled, and he didn't continue this question.

"I really didn't expect that the special investigation team leader would actually be Zhou Hongwen, and the deputy leaders would be Yue Jiaqiang and Wang Minyi."

Guo Zidan said: "You should call home again; I always feel it's not quite right."

"What's not right?" Fan Jie said very arrogantly: "So what if it's Zhou Hongwen, and what can Yue Jiaqiang and Wang Minyi do? As long as my grandpa is still alive, they shouldn't even think about overturning the sky."

Guo Zidan smiled, but this smile carried obvious mockery, but no one saw it.

Tong Huaiyu, who had been silent, suddenly said: "Zidan, see if there's a flight back to Beijing tomorrow."

His words stunned everyone. Fan Yu asked: "Why did you suddenly think of returning to Beijing?"

Tong Huaiyu turned around slowly, with a smile on his face: "Although there is Grandpa Fan, Zhou Hongwen came down in person. To be on the safe side, I'll go back to Beijing to probe for news."

Guo Zidan's eyes condensed: "I'll go back with you too; after all, we invested so much money, so we can't be careless."

After saying this, Guo Zidan stood up: "I'm going back to my room."

Fan Yu lowered his head, and the hand playing with the jade thumb ring paused: "I'm also tired enough these two days, Xiao Jie, let's go back too."

"What time is it now?" Fan Jie didn't want to go back, and Fan Yu glared: "You're not tired, but Brother Tong is tired."

Fan Jie then followed Fan Yu out reluctantly, still muttering something in his mouth.

Seeing everyone gone, Li Jun also stood up: "Then I'm leaving too."

In the blink of an eye, everyone was gone, but not a few minutes later, Guo Zidan came again.

"Just leave like this?"

Tong Huaiyu was also very unwilling: "There's no way, it's very dangerous here, we must return to Beijing. After the wind and waves are calm, we'll come back."

"Damn it." Guo Zidan cursed: "Just doing some rare earth business, how come it's like taking scriptures from the West, experiencing tribulations every day."

Tong Huaiyu sighed: "Good things take time."

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"Brother, where are we going?"

Fan Jie was pulled into the car by Fan Yu, and seeing it wasn't the route home, asked suspiciously.

Fan Yu said coldly: "Return to the province."

"Return to the province?" Fan Jie was a bit confused: "Why return to the province for no reason?"

Fan Yu took out a cigarette and lit it, somewhat irritably saying: "Why so much nonsense, just return with me."

Fan Jie was very dissatisfied, stiffened his neck: "But I don't want to go back; once I go back, my mom will nag, and my dad will scold me."

Fan Yu opened the car window, and a gust of cold wind poured into the car, which also made Fan Yu uncontrollably shiver, and also made him calm down.

"Can't stay here anymore."

"Can't stay?" Fan Jie's face was full of doubt: "Why can't stay?"

"What level is Zhou Hongwen? He personally serves as the special investigation team leader; what does this mean?" Fan Yu explained patiently: "The higher-ups won't just stop at Dingnan, but the entire Ganzhou, and even the province will be affected."

"But!" Fan Jie still refused to accept: "We just contracted the rare earth mine, and it's not like we didn't pay money. Even if Zhou Hongwen comes down, what does it have to do with us?"

"You're already twenty-something; can you use your brain to think more?" Fan Yu was really a bit disappointed: "Do you know why Tong Huaiyu and Guo Zidan returned to Beijing?"

"Ah?" Fan Jie said: "Didn't they return to Beijing to probe for news?"

"Fart!" Fan Yu cursed: "They ran away, because Ganzhou is very dangerous; staying here could mean being caught in the crossfire."

"On what grounds?" Fan Jie still refused to accept: "The rare earth mine we contracted has complete procedures, and the contract fee is not a cent less; on what grounds would they arrest us?"

Fan Yu sighed: "That Song Mao, have you forgotten?"

"Uh!" Fan Jie couldn't say anything at all.

Fan Yu said: "Although it was all planned and plotted by Li Jun, we also knew about it; this is the biggest leverage. Once caught in the crossfire, even if Grandpa comes forward, what do you think the probability of Zhou Hongwen compromising is?"

Fan Jie finally understood: "Then Li Jun..."

"Li Jun?" Fan Yu snorted coldly: "What does his life or death have to do with us?"

Fan Jie stopped talking completely. Fan Yu patted his shoulder: "As long as we return to the province, Zhou Hongwen will have scruples if he wants to arrest us."

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December 30, 1993, the 18th day of the 11th lunar month, Thursday!

Zhou Andong got up in the morning and found it was snowing again, and it was even bigger than the day before yesterday.

Large clusters of snowflakes were drifting down, and one step down went over the ankle.

"The snow is so big."

Jian Qiu looked up at the snowflakes in the sky, a very happy smile appearing on her face.

Zhou Andong exhaled, looked at Old Four running wildly in the courtyard, and said with a smile.

"It's only the end of December, and it has already snowed two big snows in a row; counting the previous two small snows, it has already snowed four times."

"Indeed!" Jian Qiu reached out her hand, catching the snowflakes: "The snow this year is falling too frequently; I hope natural disasters won't occur."

Hearing Jian Qiu's words, Zhou Andong's eyebrows wrinkled. In his memory, it seemed to be 1994, and a snow disaster did occur somewhere, but at this moment he couldn't remember it at all.

However, another major disaster suddenly popped up in the depths of his memory, and that was the Karamay Friendship Hall fire.

Zhou Andong remembered this matter so clearly because this fire caused 325 deaths, including 288 primary and secondary school students.

Actually, it wasn't just Zhou Andong; everyone who saw this news at the time would uncontrollably shed tears.

And this fire could have been avoided; it was because of the negligence of the staff that this disaster was caused.

Of course, there were also places that made people angry and want to kill; when the fire started, the children could have run out.

It was because someone blocked them, letting the leaders go first, that the children lost the opportunity to survive.