Chapter 378: The Person Behind the Scenes

Gong Jimin hesitated for a moment, but still asked: "Old leader, who exactly took action?"

Zhang Weiru said: "I said, it doesn't make much sense to this matter. I know you are unwilling, but since things have reached this point, let it go. As for Zhou Andong, let him be free for a few days first. It won't be too late to clean him up after the news heat cools down."

Gong Jimin was silent for a moment: "Old leader, get some rest early, I still have something to do."

Seeing Tong Huaiyu was eating with people from the Provincial Department of Land and Resources when Lin Guosheng's phone call came.

"Ding-a-ling..."

The big brother phone placed on the side by Seeing Tong Huaiyu rang. He picked it up and pressed the answer key, and Lin Guosheng's voice came through.

"Where are you?"

Seeing Tong Huaiyu said: "Eating outside!"

Lin Guosheng said: "Zhou Andong's speech recording was broadcast on CCTV Channel 1."

"What?" Seeing Tong Huaiyu seemed not to have heard clearly and asked, but his instantly ugly complexion proved that he had heard clearly.

Lin Guosheng said it again. Seeing Tong Huaiyu was stunned for a long time before saying: "I know." After speaking, he pressed the end key.

"What happened?" a middle-aged man asked.

Seeing Tong Huaiyu smiled reluctantly: "A small matter, nothing, let's continue drinking."

On the surface, Seeing Tong Huaiyu was very calm, but inside he was furious. Why? A speech by a country bumpkin could actually be broadcast on Channel 1. He was truly envious, jealous, and hateful.

At this time, Deng Zhangli hadn't put down the remote control in his hand, sitting on the sofa without moving.

"Old Deng, what's wrong with you?" His wife, Zheng Xiuhua, pushed him, "Going out for a walk?"

Deng Zhangli recovered: "I'm not going, you go yourself."

Zheng Xiuhua said with dissatisfaction: "Look at your belly, it's almost up, and you still don't exercise."

Deng Zhangli gave a wry smile: "I'll make a call to Old Cheng. You go yourself today, I'll accompany you tomorrow, okay?"

Zheng Xiuhua saw that Deng Zhangli had things to be busy with, so she could only nod: "Okay!"

Watching his wife's back disappear at the door, Deng Zhangli picked up the phone and called Cheng Zhanjun.

Soon, Cheng Zhanjun answered: "I was just thinking about calling you, didn't expect you to call first."

Deng Zhangli asked: "You did it?"

Cheng Zhanjun said: "No!"

Cheng Zhanjun's answer stunned Deng Zhangli: "If it wasn't you, who else could it be?"

Cheng Zhanjun said: "I also pondered for a long time, but I can't guess who it is."

Deng Zhangli said: "This kid Zhou Andong actually has such a person standing behind him, and he didn't leak a word of wind. His mouth is really tight."

"Isn't it!" Cheng Zhanjun said: "For his sake, we begged grandfathers and grandmothers to send his speech recording to the provincial station and other city TV stations. Didn't expect this kid to be hiding his secrets, having this layer of relationship and only using it now."

Deng Zhangli said: "Make a call and ask him what's going on, who exactly is helping him behind his back."

Cheng Zhanjun said: "Should I call or should you call?"

"You call!" Deng Zhangli said with a bit of jealousy: "His relationship with you is closer than with me. For this kind of thing, it's not appropriate for me to call and ask."

"Okay, I'll call him." Cheng Zhanjun laughed, put down the phone, and then leaned on the sofa, lost in thought.

The only person he could think of was Jian Zhengxue, but he finally denied it. The reason he denied it was the same as Zhou Andong's.

Even if Jian Zhengxue wanted to help Zhou Andong, other members of the Jian family wouldn't agree. Because to let Zhou Andong's speech recording be broadcast on the mouthpiece, and it took up three or four minutes, the favor involved was definitely not small.

Unable to figure it out, Cheng Zhanjun didn't think about it anymore, picked up the phone, and called Zhou Andong.

Zhou Andong was lying on the bed, having smoked almost half a pack of cigarettes, and still hadn't figured out who this person was.

"Sigh!"

Zhou Andong sighed, "In this world, there really are people who do good deeds without leaving their names."

"Ding-a-ling..."

The phone by the bedside rang. He picked up the phone and said: "Leader, calling me so late, want to treat me to a late-night snack?"

Cheng Zhanjun asked strangely: "How did you know it was me?"

Zhou Andong said: "Only three people know the phone number in this hotel room. One is Wu Huilin; it's so late, it's impossible for her to call me. Another is Gu Bing; if he had something, he would definitely run over to find me, not call.

The last one is you, and you old man have a habit: when you call me, it's either at night or in the morning."

"..."

Cheng Zhanjun was speechless for a long time: "What's going on with the news tonight?"

"What news? What's going on?" Zhou Andong pretended to be confused: "Speak clearly, old man, don't make me guess, I'm stupid."

Cheng Zhanjun was so angry he wanted to hang up the phone: "Stop playing dumb with me, believe it or not, I'll come over to find you myself?"

Zhou Andong gave a cheeky laugh: "You want to hear the truth?"

Cheng Zhanjun snorted coldly: "What do you think?"

"The truth is!" Zhou Andong said: "I don't know either."

Cheng Zhanjun was stunned: "You really don't know?"

Zhou Andong patted his chest with a "bang bang" sound: "I swear to the lamp, I really don't know. Just now I was thinking, how can there be such a good person in the world who does good deeds without leaving his name? It must be a young man more promising than me."

"Pa!"

Cheng Zhanjun hung up the phone without hesitation.

Zhou Andong held the phone and said with dissatisfaction: "What kind of habit, hanging up the phone without saying goodbye. As the parent official of Jiangzhou, is this how you treat the common people? Quality, where did your quality go? Too indecent."

This guy muttered, put down the phone, and then turned off the light to sleep.

Gu Minglan pressed the remote control in her hand, turned off the TV, threw the remote control aside, and then looked at Jian Zhengxue.

"You took action?"

Jian Zhengxue shook his head: "No!"

"This is a bit strange." Gu Minglan muttered.

For the past two days, she had been paying attention to the news, or more accurately, had been paying attention to the negative reports targeting Zhou Andong.

She was really angry. Although she hadn't been in contact with Zhou Andong for long, and he was still a little thief eyeing her daughter, she was very confident in her own judgment of people.

Zhou Andong's skin was a bit thick, but his heart wasn't bad. How could he be as bad-intentioned as the newspaper said? And in her view, the authors who wrote these articles criticizing Zhou Andong were the ones with bad intentions and impure motives.

"This matter is suspicious!" Gu Minglan said: "Make a call to the capital and ask who is helping him."

Jian Zhengxue nodded, picked up the phone, and dialed a string of numbers: "Qin Laosan, you saw the news today, right? Zhou Andong's speech, ask who helped."

Qin Laosan said: "I asked when it was broadcast, and just got the exact news: it's the Liu family." ===== CHAPTER 379 =====