Chapter 784: A Death Sentence Awaits Him!

"County Magistrate Tang, are you free this evening? We are holding a celebration party and would like to invite you to attend."

After the bidding meeting ended, Zhao Hui quickly caught up to Tang Ye and invited him with a smile.

"I won't be attending. Congratulations once again, President Zhao."

Tang Ye patted Zhao Hui on the shoulder, waved his hand at him with a smile, and then sat inside the sedan.

Looking through the car window, Tang Ye saw Zhao Hui's disappointed expression, and the corners of his mouth could not help but reveal a wry smile.

Right now, it was being rumored outside that he and Zhao Hui had a close relationship, which was why he helped him win the City Square project.

At a time like this, he had to rationally avoid suspicion.

Zhao Hui still lacked quite a bit in terms of political sensitivity.

However, compared to that madman Li Tian, he at least counted as a normal person.

As soon as he returned to the company, Zhao Hui dialed his father Zhao Guosheng's phone number.

"Dad, I have good news to tell you: we successfully won the City Square project!"

Zhao Guosheng's reaction was very indifferent: "You should carefully review the ins and outs of the whole matter."

"Review?" Zhao Hui was full of surprise, completely bewildered.

"You, this time you were involved in a high-level game. Fortunately, your luck is good; the person playing the game treated you as a piece in their own hands."

Zhao Guosheng was currently sitting in his spacious and bright office, holding a black stone in his hand, his gaze fixed tightly on the chessboard in front of him.

"You mean, I was used by someone?"

"That's right, you and Li Tian were both pieces, and even Li Zhongling and I were forcibly dragged onto this board. Fortunately, you are more reliable than Li Tian, and in the end, we became the winning side."

Zhao Guosheng was quite satisfied with Zhao Hui's performance this time and rarely took the initiative to help him sort out the ins and outs of this game.

"Chessboard?"

Zhao Hui only then realized and hurriedly asked: "You mean, someone deliberately made Hongling Group and our Zhao Group form a confrontation?"

Zhao Guosheng secretly pondered that this Lao San was not too stupid after all, and then said: "You must maintain a good relationship with Tang Ye; this young cadre is a quite formidable character."

"If his target were me, I fear I would also be played in the palm of his hand."

"Li Zhongling probably only realized at this very moment that his true enemy was never me, but Tang Ye."

Zhao Hui gasped, his face full of shock: "Dad, is Tang Ye really that formidable? I feel he treats people quite kindly; he doesn't seem like someone with deep schemes!"

Zhao Guosheng curled his lips slightly: "Do you still remember when he proposed the five-million sponsorship to you? Have you thought about it? Not long after he opened his mouth, Xing Zhijun brought people to arrest you. Because he had already calculated that Xing Zhijun would definitely take action against you, and at that time, forced by circumstances, you would definitely use that five million to buy peace."

Zhao Hui gasped again; his father's words instantly broke him out in a cold sweat: "I always felt something was wrong before, but now that you've reminded me, I've finally realized it!"

Zhao Guosheng continued: "To have such meticulous layout ability at only thirty years old, and to place his pieces without leaving a trace—it's hard to imagine how far he will go in the future. Since you have already made contact with him, you must maintain a close connection with him."

Zhao Hui complained with full confusion: "He has always kept his distance from me."

"I originally thought that five million was a personal benefit for him, but he didn't appreciate it at all;"

"Today I invited him to the celebration party, and he also refused directly."

Zhao Guosheng stroked his chin and analyzed: "He is cautious by nature and will not deliberately get too close to any enterprise. But you must remember, at critical moments, you must firmly support him and help him complete certain things. He is as clear as a mirror in his heart and will definitely not let you contribute in vain."

Zhao Hui suddenly realized: "I know what to do now."

After hanging up Zhao Hui's call, Zhao Guosheng raised his hand and placed the black stone in his hand onto the southwest corner of the chessboard.

He originally did not think highly of Lao San.

However, although Lao San was not shrewd enough and acted somewhat recklessly, sometimes fate would favor such people.

"Officials cannot leave merchants, and merchants cannot leave officials."

Lao San was able to encounter a political rising star with infinite potential.

Looking at it from another angle, that was also his good fortune.

……

Li Zhongling was wearing a yellow vest, his hands in handcuffs, sitting in the visitation room.

Sitting opposite him were his lawyer and his daughter Li Na, who had made a special trip back from Canada.

Upon learning that her father and brother were in trouble, Li Na immediately flew back from Canada.

Looking at the gray-streaked hair at her father's temples, Li Na's eyes turned red instantly, and tears welled up uncontrollably:

"Dad, how did your hair become like this!"

"Nana, Dad's hair turned white a long time ago. I haven't dyed it these past few days, the dye washed off, and it became like this." Li Zhongling forced a smile at his daughter and comforted her: "Don't be sad. If there's a problem, we'll find a way to solve it; heaven never closes all doors."

Li Na wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, her expression becoming firm: "Dad, I will definitely find a way to save you!"

Li Zhongling waved his hand and said in a deep voice: "I have my own judgment regarding my own issues. The priority now is your brother; we must find a way to save him. Perhaps... perhaps we can start from his mental health issues!"

Upon hearing this, Li Na turned her head and glanced at the lawyer.

The lawyer sighed helplessly.

"The other side seems to have been prepared for a long time."

"They found Li Tian's records from university."

"At the time, the school wanted to expel him on the grounds that Li Tian had mental health issues, but you arranged for a lawyer to provide evidence proving he had no mental illness, which was how his student status was preserved."

Li Zhongling's eyes were full of surprise, and he asked in disbelief: "This... this can also be dug up by them?"

The lawyer nodded and said in a deep voice: "That's right. In this way, the path for Li Tian to escape punishment through mental illness is completely blocked. He originally intended to confess for you and then seek exemption through insanity. But this path definitely won't work! He is suspected of intentional homicide, and both human and physical evidence are present; what awaits him is likely the death penalty."

Li Zhongling's lips trembled uncontrollably.

He never expected that the materials he forged back then to preserve Li Tian's student status would now become the key evidence to confirm Li Tian's crime.

He slammed his fist onto the table, full of remorse, and said: "It's all my fault for not educating him well! I knew he had character flaws, but I never thought about helping him correct them, always feeling that as long as I was there, I could protect him in doing whatever he wanted. But in the end... sigh, I really didn't expect it to be this result!"

Li Na had actually always known about her father's indulgence of her brother, but looking at her father's regretful appearance now, she didn't know how to advise him.

Li Zhongling slowly raised his head to look at Li Na, his voice hoarse as he asked: "The City Square bidding meeting should be over by now, right?" Li Na nodded slightly and said in a low voice: "Yes, it's over; in the end, the Zhao Group won the project."

Li Zhongling stared blankly at the ceiling; in fact, it wasn't that he couldn't accept this result.

Having stayed in the enclosed and damp Detention Center for these past few days, he had long since guessed the subsequent series of outcomes.

Yet this life-altering plunge over the past few days felt so unreal that, even now, it was like being in a dream.

He suddenly felt that he was exceptionally ridiculous.

Back when he first learned that Jiang Anbang had been hit and seriously injured, he had even once thought it was Zhao Hui who did it!

He had even secretly mocked Zhao Guosheng for raising such a good-for-nothing son.

Looking at it now!

The clown, it turned out, was himself!