Chapter 1481

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

"Liu Yumeng, look at the good deed you've done!"

Aoyuan Villa District, the Liu Family.

Liu Xinwen slammed the table viciously, pointing at his own daughter's nose and cursing loudly.

This time, he was truly frantic with rage.

Liu Yumeng, on the other hand, kept her head lowered, not uttering a word.

Because she also knew, she had stirred up a huge disaster.

"The thing has already happened, and now you're blaming it on your daughter — what use is that?"

It was Liu Yumeng's mother, Zhao Zixiang, who stepped forward at this moment to defend Liu Yumeng.

Zhao Zixiang also said:

"Besides, that scrape accident wasn't my daughter's fault either; who could have predicted that motorcycle driver would be so vicious? We agreed to let it go mutually, but he turned around and twisted the truth, posting it online!"

Hearing these words, Liu Xinwen grew even more agitated:

"Is that what I'm talking about? That traffic accident was obviously a trap set by someone else; Liu Yumeng is young and ignorant, she fell for the trap and I don't blame her for that, but I told her a thousand times, do nothing, do absolutely nothing! Yet you just wouldn't listen, insisting on taking matters into your own hands to contact that motorcycle driver! And even threatening him! As a result, he turned around and posted the call recording online! Now it's completely out of control!"

Liu Yumeng's face was full of grievance:

"I didn't threaten him; that recording was edited by him."

Liu Xinwen said angrily:

"You're still explaining — you haven't realized at all where you went wrong! Whether you threatened him or not, what the truth is, doesn't matter one bit; do you understand this principle or not?"

Liu Yumeng lowered her head and asked:

"Then what is important?"

Liu Xinwen roared in a huff:

"What's important is that right now the whole internet is discussing the County Brahmins, digging into our Liu Family's origins and background! We've already fallen into a deep pit someone else dug for us; climbing out will be anything but easy! The most fatal thing is, tomorrow the Discipline Inspection Commission will come to the county town for an inspection; with our Liu Family stirring up such a huge public opinion storm online, do you think the Discipline Inspection Commission won't have noticed?"

Liu Yumeng's delicate frame trembled slightly.

Only now did she realize the severity of the situation.

Zhao Zixiang said to Liu Xinwen:

"Husband, didn't you have someone go report Xiao Xueqing to the Discipline Inspection Commission? As long as the Commission's focus lands on Xiao Xueqing, we should be able to land safely!"

Liu Xinwen, however, shook his head with a bitter smile:

"You're thinking too naively! With something like this happening, Wang Xiaohua absolutely won't help us file a report anymore; he'll definitely find an excuse to avoid it! Who knows, maybe this whole setup was him helping Xiao Xueqing scheme behind the scenes? We can barely protect ourselves right now; as the saying goes, trying to mind everything means minding nothing — we can't possibly still secretly use our influence to push forward an investigation into Xiao Xueqing, nor dare we take any action against her lightly; if by some chance we're caught with another handle and it ignites public opinion again, then we're truly done for!"

Liu Yumeng's tears fell, her eyes red as she sobbed:

"Dad, it's all my fault; I really didn't expect to blow such a huge hole."

Liu Xinwen waved his hand, letting out a long breath of turbid air:

"I've told you a thousand times before, not to get carried away just because you have a bit of petty cleverness; officialdom's dangers are treacherous undercurrents, invisible perils — you never took my words to heart! After this matter passes, you just honestly get married; from now on, assist your husband and teach your children, be a housewife, and don't ever think about achieving anything in officialdom again."

Liu Yumeng was struck as if by a heavy blow.

These words from her father made her suffer a hundred, a thousand times more than if he'd scolded her with the nastiest language!

This was a negation of all her efforts!

You have to know, just a few days ago, her father was still telling her that he wanted to entrust the hopes of this branch of the Liu Family to her, concentrate resource support on her, let her walk out of this county town, go to the city to wave the whip, and even make a name for herself at the provincial level!

But who would have thought, only a few days had passed, and just because of a minor scrape traffic accident, it actually made her father change his mind.

However, speaking objectively, although Liu Xinwen's words were very hurtful, they were indeed the honest truth.

This Liu Yumeng — she has petty cleverness but lacks great wisdom; narcissistic, frivolous, easily carried away, doesn't know how to restrain herself or keep a low profile — one can say every single one of these shortcomings is a major taboo in officialdom.

It's only because she has her family background covering for her; otherwise, forget rising higher, even in the Shangang Town Rural Revitalization Office, she'd probably be muddled and clueless!

Without that layer of Liu Family connections, without her elders' protection, she's nothing at all.

Zhao Zixiang, however, didn't think so; she believed her daughter was quite clever, and so she retorted to Liu Xinwen:

"What's the point of saying these things to your daughter now? The most important thing is to quickly settle this mess! Our family's daughter, even if she's worse, she still became a Selected Graduate in the city by passing the national Civil Servant written exam on her own merit!"

Liu Xinwen didn't want to argue too much with Zhao Zixiang.

Because he knew, Liu Yumeng having this personality now was entirely because Zhao Zixiang, as a mother, had spoiled her.

"Indeed, the most important thing right now is to calm public opinion."

Liu Xinwen's expression was incomparably heavy:

"If that apology video hadn't come out yet, I might have been able to use my own influence to smooth this over; but now the apology video is out, it's detonated the entire internet's public opinion — I'm afraid even I won't be able to suppress the heat."

Liu Yumeng's face showed despair.

Zhao Zixiang, meanwhile, hurriedly said to Liu Xinwen:

"Your Liu Family still has connections higher up, right? Get your big brother to go pull some strings! Things have developed to this point; it's no longer just Yumeng's personal matter — it's a major event concerning the fate of the entire Liu Family!"

Liu Xinwen sighed:

"That's the only way left..."

Immediately he made a call to his big brother, who was a Leader in another city:

"Big Brother, there's something I want to ask you to help with... my daughter, she's stirred up a huge disaster..."

From the other end of the phone came his big brother Liu Bozhen's voice:

"I've noticed the public opinion online; I've already called a friend at the Cybersecurity Administration and asked him to help handle it a bit, but this matter is a bit tricky — after all, those big internet platforms won't give face to us local small clans; to put it bluntly, we local small clans can only be tyrants in our own nest; once we go out to big cities, others don't recognize our face; from now on, in conduct and action, we all have to be more low-key — after all, times are different from the past; now internet public opinion is too developed."

Liu Xinwen hurriedly said:

"Big Brother, I'm sorry, I failed to discipline my daughter properly, causing trouble for the Liu Family."

Liu Bozhen, however, said:

"No need for politeness, we're family brothers, don't be so distant. Let the niece eat a lesson, grow her memory a bit, so she won't fall from a greater height and smash even more painfully later."

Liu Bozhen also said:

"Right, the Discipline Inspection Commission is going to your County Town. You be careful yourself. Although my side has already allocated networking connections, whether they give us Face is really hard to say. In the eyes of those people above, we're merely Small Fry. Internet Public Opinion I can help you calm, but the Discipline Inspection Commission I cannot help you settle."

Liu Bozhen also didn't know what connections he went to find. Anyway, only a day passed, and that Motorcycle Driver's Apology Video posted online was forcibly taken down.

However, although it was taken down, the aftershocks still remained.

This day, the Discipline Inspection Commission responsible for inspection finally arrived at this small County Town.

And the first thing they did, Liu Xinwen could never have predicted!

They actually went directly to the Finance Bureau where Liu Xinwen was, and took away batch after batch of materials!