Chapter 1372: The Mountains Don't Turn, But the Water Does; Enemies Often Cross Paths

But this bureau director... he looks a bit familiar, where have I seen him before?

I can't remember.

Zichen couldn't remember, but Bureau Director Liu recognized who he was at a glance.

Zichen is just a young version of Sheng Hanyu; the father and son look as if they were cast from the same mold.

Bureau Director Liu is none other than Liu Jun, who was transferred away many years ago and has now been transferred back!

Back then, when his attempt to seduce Shi Yuke failed, his wife wanted to jump off the office building of Shi Yuke's company. That incident caused such a huge scandal that he couldn't stay there anymore, so he took his wife and children and transferred to a less developed small county.

But this man still has some ability; I don't know how he managed things out there, but he actually thrived, and now he has been transferred back.

He didn't return to his original unit—the Securities Regulatory Bureau.

Instead, he was transferred to the Education Bureau to serve as the bureau director.

A few days after taking office, he received a report accusing a homeroom teacher at First High School of taking bribes and accepting huge gifts from students!

Liu Jun has no interest in who the reported homeroom teacher is!

But he is very interested in the person who gave the gift.

Sheng Zichen—he calculated the age, and it was about the same as the first boy of the Sheng Family. After investigating a little further, it was indeed him.

So, without any investigation, he dismissed Teacher Luo and kept the person locked up in the Education Bureau, not allowing them to go home or have any contact with the outside world.

He called it: accepting an investigation!

Liu Jun remained calm and said to the two of them, "Sit down. How does your school want to handle this matter?"

Principal: "Director Liu, we came here this time to explain to you; there is a misunderstanding in this..."

Liu Jun interrupted the Principal: "A misunderstanding? The evidence is solid, what misunderstanding could there be? I can understand your desire to avoid damage to the school's reputation, but this kind of unhealthy trend must never be tolerated."

Zichen interjected: "Teacher Luo is not wrong; you are the ones who have wronged an innocent person."

He took out a copy of the receipt and placed it on the coffee table: "This is the receipt for when I bought the gift; it cost fifty-eight yuan in total. If spending fifty-eight yuan to buy a wedding gift for a teacher is also called bribery, I am willing to accept any punishment."

Liu Jun:...

He was greatly shocked.

That's right, he hadn't investigated that little gold figurine at all, because the Sheng Family is wealthy, so he naturally assumed it was pure gold.

But he remained calm and decided to be wrong to the end: "Who knows if the thing you brought is real or fake? For your family, it is too easy to get a fake shopping receipt, isn't it?"

He didn't take it, but he saw it.

He didn't even bring the original receipt, just a copy. Shi Youxuan's son is just like her, full of schemes from head to toe.

Liu Jun failed to pursue Shi Yuke, and the person he hates most is Shi Youxuan.

He believes that the reason he didn't catch Shi Yuke was all because Shi Youxuan was interfering in the middle. If it weren't for her, Shi Yuke would definitely have obediently become his mistress.

This is a chance to take revenge on Shi Youxuan and the Sheng Family, and he doesn't want to let it go easily!

"Fine, since you think the shopping receipt is fake, I have other evidence." Sheng Zichen was not annoyed even though he was wronged. He acted mature and calm, which did not match his age, but it was the result of Shi Youxuan's years of cultivation.

The children of the Sheng Family all possess this ability; the more unfavorable the situation is for them, the calmer they are!

"What other evidence do you have? Bring it all out."

Zichen said unhurriedly: "I have the surveillance footage from the stationery store that day, proving that I did indeed spend fifty-eight yuan at their store to buy a little gold figurine that looked like pure gold."

"Heh..."

Liu Jun laughed and also let out a sigh of relief.

He wondered what kind of evidence Sheng Zichen would bring out; so it was just this?

There is not much difference between having this kind of evidence and not having it.

"So what if you bought something at a stationery store? Who can prove that the little gold figurine you bought at the stationery store is the same one you gave to your homeroom teacher?"

"You should go back. We have already investigated, the evidence is solid, and your sophistry is useless."

Seeing the tense atmosphere, the Principal wanted to smooth things over, but before he could speak, Zichen had already stood up and dropped a sentence: "Since that's the case, then we'll see each other in court."

He could see that the middle-aged man in front of him was simply unreasonable.

Since he won't listen to reason, what else is there to say?

See you in court; he doesn't believe he can't find a place in Jiangzhou that listens to reason!

Court?

Liu Jun instantly chickened out.

"Student Sheng Zichen, come back, young man, don't be so agitated."

Liu Jun's attitude underwent a 180-degree turn. Not only did his tone soften, but he even personally poured two cups of water and placed them in front of the Principal and Zichen respectively.

"Drink some water, calm down. It's fine to have different opinions; behind closed doors, we are one family, let's resolve it slowly..."

It sounded very nice, and his attitude was not bad, but he was speaking in bureaucratic jargon, saying a bunch of pretty words about not airing dirty laundry in public.

He asked Teacher Luo to write a profound self-criticism, and from now on, only teach physics and not lead Class Twelve anymore, so they could change the homeroom teacher for their class!

Although the Principal felt it was not quite appropriate, he did not raise any objections.

But Zichen did not agree.

"No! You are not solving the problem; you are shielding the bad person behind this."

Liu Jun was displeased and pulled a long face: "Who are you calling a bad person?"

Zichen said: "Whoever reported it, that person is the bad person."

"Without any evidence, they slandered our teacher for taking bribes and slandered me for giving bribes. The person who maliciously framed us hasn't been punished, yet you want a good person to take the fall. On what grounds?"

Liu Jun darkened his face: "You two go back first. I have a very important meeting to attend in a while; we will talk about this later."

"What about our teacher? I want to see Teacher Luo."

"He is not here; he has probably already gone home by now." Liu Jun did not want Teacher Luo and the Sheng Family's child to meet. Both of them were troublemakers; one was already hard enough to deal with, if the two of them got together, wouldn't he have a splitting headache?

"Principal, let's go back."

Zichen only wanted to see Teacher Luo quickly right now, and did not distinguish the truth in the Bureau Chief's words.

He also could not imagine that a dignified Education Bureau Chief would lie to a high school student like him!

"Mm, let's go."

The shrewd Principal saw through it, but did not expose it.

He had not yet reached the point of seeking his own suffering; to expose the Bureau Chief's lie in front of the Bureau Chief, unless the Principal did not want to be Principal anymore.

The two walked out the main gate, and Zichen asked the Principal to call Teacher Luo to ask where the person was.

The Principal laughed it off: "You go back to school for class first, leave the rest to me, you will definitely see your homeroom teacher in the classroom tomorrow."

"Okay."

Zichen returned to school, and the Principal turned around and went back.

Liu Jun gave the Principal a harsh reprimand, scolding him for not having brought Sheng Zichen here directly, and even more so for not being able to manage the teachers in his own school, letting them fight amongst themselves!

If this matter blew up, it would be of no benefit to anyone.

After the reprimand, he told the Principal to go to the room where Teacher Luo was being detained, have him write a letter of self-criticism, and he could leave after signing it.