Chapter 861: I Must Be Responsible for Them

Zhou Andong's tone was very calm, but the calmer he was, the more Zuo Zuo Xingqing felt his heart pounding.

68 million thrown into a pit, and he was still speaking so calmly; to say there was no fire in his heart, even a fool wouldn't believe it.

"I thought about it for two days and decided to send these things to you. As I just said, some things are not what I should manage, nor what I can manage, but I am a pure businessman.

Someone has damaged my interests, and even if this person is my relative, my uncle, it won't do. I must protect my interests from being infringed upon because I have thousands of mouths behind me to feed; I must be responsible for them."

Zuo Zuo Xingqing looked down, becoming more shocked the more he read. Many contents of yesterday's whistleblowing letters were confirmed here, and they were solid evidence.

Originally, he was still thinking that although this matter had passed ten years ago, he was the Mayor now, and if he investigated with great fanfare, his face would definitely not look good either.

So he decided that the investigation should leave room for maneuver, catching a batch and releasing a batch, which could both give the public an explanation and save some of his own face.

But Zhou Andong had brought such a fatal document. If he still wanted to catch a batch and release a batch, playing that "catch the small and let go of the big" game, he believed Zhou Andong would withdraw his capital and leave Hulunbuir without hesitation.

So many legal mining enterprises were gnawed away by wolves in official clothing, and the bosses of the mining enterprises fled, ran away, or were sentenced. Now that a large amount of evidence had been mastered, you actually wanted to muddle through and play that "catch the small and let go of the big" game.

"If I wait a few years, these people will definitely target my enterprise and try to seize it. I'm not an idiot; do you think I invested a massive amount of capital into building an enterprise just to feed these parasites?"

"Chairman Zhou!"

Some thoughts flashed through Zuo Zuo Xingqing's brain, and then he made a decision.

"Please rest assured, the city absolutely will not allow such parasites to exist. I will convene a meeting of the leadership immediately. We will dig deep and strike hard to ensure these parasites cannot survive in the soil of Hulunbuir."

"I hope so!" Zhou Andong stood up. "It's not that I don't trust you, but that I don't trust others."

Zuo Zuo Xingqing reached out and shook hands with Zhou Andong. "Before anything is done, no matter how much I say, it's useless. You just have to wait for my news."

Zhou Andong smiled slightly. "I'm returning to Jiangzhou on August 12th, and there are four days left. I hope to hear news that satisfies me."

The two met for less than an hour before Zhou Andong left, and then Zuo Zuo Xingqing had the secretary notify the class members to hold a meeting.

After Zhou Andong came out, he drove around the streets and alleys all morning. At noon, he went to that roast lamb restaurant, ordered hand-held meat and lamb soup, and after eating, brought the three roasted whole lambs and headed home.

By the time he arrived home, it was already past five in the evening, and everyone was waiting for him to roast the whole lamb. As soon as he arrived, under the command of the fourth child, a group of little ones swarmed out, surrounded Zhou Andong, and clamored to eat the roast whole lamb.

"Stop shouting!" Zhou Andong was annoyed by the noise and hurriedly had Wu Chao open the trunk and take out the roast whole lamb.

The weather was hot, and the roast whole lamb was specially wrapped in a layer of tin foil; it had been five hours, but it hadn't cooled down completely.

"Brother Hai!" Zhou Andong greeted Yuan Hai. "Go invite the old branch secretary and Brother Bian over to drink a little."

"Alright!" Yuan Hai stepped out.

The children couldn't wait anymore, climbed onto the stools, and ate with oily mouths, one bite of ice black tea and one bite of meat.

The fourth child clamored to drink cola, but was ruthlessly suppressed by Xiao Qin. Even when she looked for her sister-in-law, it didn't work, and she almost lost the qualification to drink ice black tea.

The old branch secretary and Bian Bian Zhenghe came, and Yuan Yuan Hongzhan brought over the beer that had been soaked in well water for several hours.

"Old Branch Secretary, Bian Zhenghe, come, come, come, sit here." Yuan Qu Hongqi greeted.

The old man said with a smile, "Shanyuan, accompany me to drink some white liquor?"

The old man called the old branch secretary's father "Big Brother," so the old branch secretary was a junior in front of the old man.

"Fine!" The old branch secretary agreed with a smile and sat beside the old man.

Zhou Andong bit open a bottle of beer with his teeth and gulped down half the bottle in one breath.

"I'm getting old; drinking some white liquor is fine."

Everyone sat down, and this meal of wine lasted until past eight in the evening before dispersing.

What Zhou Andong didn't expect was that the next evening, the city investigation team arrived quietly in Arong Banner.

First, they made contact with Hong Hong Xinmin and Jiao Jiao Mingde, and then they interviewed the five whistleblowers overnight.

August 9, 1993, the 22nd day of the sixth lunar month, Monday!

Yuan Yuan Hongbiao got up and saw Niu Niu Hongjuan dressed neatly, carrying a bag and about to go out.

"It's early in the morning; where are you going?"

Niu Niu Hongjuan didn't look back. "Going to Qi City to see my daughter."

"What are you going to see her for?" Mentioning his daughter, Yuan Yuan Hongbiao's anger flared up. "Better if she died."

"Fart your mother's fart." Niu Niu Hongjuan turned back and cursed angrily. "My daughter can live to a hundred, and you'll drop dead tomorrow."

Yuan Yuan Hongbiao had been in a good mood these past few days, and seeing Niu Niu Hongjuan acting like she wanted to eat him, he didn't want to argue with her and waved his hand impatiently.

"Go, go, go, I don't want to argue with you."

Niu Niu Hongjuan snorted and turned to leave. As for her daughter, she was actually very angry too.

Originally, her studies were quite good, and she was only half a year away from the college entrance examination when she suddenly got pregnant.

At that time, she felt like she had been struck by lightning, her brain blank.

What made her even more desperate was that no matter what she said, the dead girl refused to abort the child.

Eighteen years old, the age of youth that should have been spent on campus, yet she got married early.

Now the child was over two years old, and Niu Niu Hongjuan had accepted her fate. Otherwise, what could she do? That was flesh and blood that had fallen from her own body; she couldn't resent her like an enemy for a lifetime.

Yuan Yuan Hongbiao got dressed and got up, and when he went to the outer room, he saw that the woman hadn't even made breakfast for him.

Immediately after, with a bang, he was so angry he threw the pot lid on the ground.

There was no other way; he could only eat a bite at the breakfast shop in town, and then went straight to the town.

"Mayor!" Liang Zhen walked in with a smile, threw his bag on the coffee table. "Those two households agreed, but they want 200 yuan more in subsidies each."

Yuan Yuan Hongbiao grabbed the three dice on the desk. "Did you find the reporters?"

"Found them!" Liang Zhen nodded with a smile. "I contacted Kong Quanhai, and the reporters were all found by him. It's just that these reporters are truly black-hearted; the reporters from the City Daily, Evening News, and Youth Daily want 1,200 yuan each for travel expenses. The provincial ones are even more expensive, wanting 2,000 yuan; it's faster than robbing a bank."

Yuan Yuan Hongbiao rattled the dice in his hand. "Don't feel bad about money that should be spent. Besides, 60-plus million is already in hand, so what's a little money?"

"That's true!" Liang Zhen sat on the sofa and lit a cigarette. "Once Zhou Andong's money arrives, should we let them go to the mine and make a scene?"

"Correct!"

Yuan Yuan Hongbiao leaned against the back of the chair, put his legs on the desk, and sneered.

"68 million, and you want to take away more than 80 percent of the shares of the limestone mine? Do you think I, Yuan Yuan Hongbiao, am doing charity?"

His words had just fallen when the office door was suddenly pushed open, and more than ten people swarmed in—three in plain clothes, and the others were all police officers, and there were fully armed armed police outside.

"Yuan Yuan Hongbiao!" ===== CHAPTER 862 =====