Chapter 1482: Rural Absurd Past Events Chapter 1482: People Leave, Tea Grows Cold

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Protagonist:

Li Xiulan

Although the Discipline Inspection Commission did not directly take Liu Xinwen away, they conducted various investigations around the Finance Bureau.

But this alone already made Liu Xinwen's spine turn cold, leaving him unable to eat or sleep in peace.

Because officials like him are the least able to withstand investigation.

He was waiting for Wang Xiaohua to go report Xiao Xueqing, so as to divert some of the Discipline Inspection Commission's attention.

Yet he waited and waited, but no news came of Wang Xiaohua reporting Xiao Xueqing.

He called Wang Xiaohua, only to discover he could not get through.

He sent Liu Yumeng to find Wang Xiaohua, and discovered Wang Xiaohua had already taken several days of leave, and no one knew where he had gone.

This made Liu Xinwen involuntarily furious, even gritting his teeth in hatred.

Although he had long anticipated that Wang Xiaohua would most likely not obediently serve as a chess piece in his hand.

This fellow, though young in years, was like a smooth yet extremely hard steel ball — very difficult to manipulate!

Fortunately, Liu Xinwen still had a backup plan.

Since he could not wait for Wang Xiaohua to go report Xiao Xueqing, he had another person go to the Discipline Inspection Commission to report Xiao Xueqing.

The result, however, was like scratching an itch through one's boot — ineffective.

Because that person had no connection whatsoever to the scholarship incident back then.

He was an outsider to the incident.

The Discipline Inspection Commission looked into the donors from back then, then investigated the scholarship Wang Xiaohua received, as well as the funds of the Wang Xiaohua Scholarship Fund, found the amounts all matched up, and then there was no further action.

On the contrary, they believed that person was sent by Liu Xinwen to muddy the waters and distract their attention.

So they investigated Liu Xinwen even more carefully.

Liu Xinwen's dirty laundry was dug up one after another.

Before he could use the Shangang Town real estate matter to counterattack Wang Xiaohua and Xiao Xueqing, on this day while attending a meeting at the County Government, he was suddenly taken away by Discipline Inspection Commission personnel.

At that moment, Liu Xinwen's whole body trembled.

He knew he was finished.

The once imposing and awe-inspiring him, at this moment even walked with trembling steps.

When walking out of the conference room, he even stumbled and fell to the ground.

He sat heavily on the floor, and a wet mark appeared on the floor tile.

Only then did people discover that Liu Xinwen had actually been scared into urinary incontinence.

The once infinitely glorious him actually exited in such a wretched manner.

It also made people sigh with emotion.

In the County Government conference hall, countless officials watching this scene all fell deathly silent, not daring to breathe.

Some were nervous, some secretly delighted, some sighed with emotion, some felt the desolation of "the rabbit dies, the fox grieves."

Xiao Xueqing also attended today's meeting.

Watching Liu Xinwen being taken away by the Discipline Inspection Commission, her mood was very complex.

That feeling was indescribable.

To say she was happy — she actually wasn't that happy.

Because she knew she was not an incorruptible official like Bao Qingtian.

To say "the rabbit dies, the fox grieves" — that didn't quite fit either, after all she and Liu Xinwen were not of the same kind.

Amidst the complex emotions, she also secretly marveled: she hadn't expected the move Wang Xiaohua suggested to her would actually be so effective!

She actually belonged to the old guard of government officials.

Old-guard government officials all share one trait: they are skilled at political struggles within the circle, but unskilled at political struggles outside the circle.

And today's internet public opinion belongs to political struggles outside the circle.

Actually, not only she didn't anticipate it — many officials in the County Government didn't anticipate that Liu Xinwen would fall from power so swiftly!

Their hearts were also shaken; they hadn't expected that today's internet public opinion supervision would actually be such a sharp great knife!

It seems from now on they must take this aspect seriously!

With Liu Xinwen taken away for investigation, Liu Yumeng would naturally be implicated as well.

Her transfer to work at the Shangang Town Poverty Alleviation Office was originally non-compliant with procedure.

So a single official document from above transferred her back to her original unit.

And what awaits her probably won't be any good outcome either.

After all, the father and daughter's interests are bound together.

This day Liu Yumeng came to the Shangang Town Poverty Alleviation Office, packed her things, and left her post.

Actually there wasn't much to pack.

The main reason she still came to Shangang Town was to see Wang Xiaohua once, to ask Wang Xiaohua a few questions.

Arriving at the town, in the past everyone in the town — from the Town Party Secretary down to the cleaning staff — would take the initiative to smile and greet her, but now the Town Government people, upon seeing her, hurriedly lowered their heads and walked away.

The Poverty Alleviation Office colleagues, upon seeing her, were even like seeing a ghost.

They fled the office one after another.

The so-called "worldly relations are cold and warm" — it is merely this.

Only Wang Xiaohua still treated her the same as always.

Wang Xiaohua didn't flee, but instead looked at her with incomparable calm and greeted her:

"Liu Yumeng, heard you're being transferred back to your original unit?"

Liu Yumeng looked Wang Xiaohua up and down several times, and she suddenly discovered that she completely couldn't see through this man before her.

This man before her was always so calm, so devoid of visible joy or anger.

"Wang Xiaohua, why haven't you come to work these past few days? Your mobile phone also couldn't be reached?"

Liu Yumeng issued a questioning demand, her tone carrying anger.

Wang Xiaohua calmly answered:

"I went to Guangzhou to see my mother; the old lady's health was a bit unwell, I left my mobile phone in the dormitory, the battery drained and it shut down, so it couldn't be reached."

Liu Yumeng felt Wang Xiaohua was lying, but had no evidence, so she asked again:

"The thing you promised my dad you'd go do, why didn't you go do it?"

Wang Xiaohua was very calm:

"What did your dad want me to do?"

"You..." Liu Yumeng was so angry she couldn't speak; she knew Wang Xiaohua was pretending to be confused, and at this moment she suddenly remembered that she had previously told him "rarely confused, suffering a loss is a blessing."

She previously couldn't grasp the essence of this.

Now, seeing Wang Xiaohua display it so vividly, she finally deeply understood it.

Wang Xiaohua pressed further at this moment:

"Yumeng, what exactly is the matter? I have too many things to be busy with, might forget some things, you'll have to remind me."

Liu Yumeng took a deep breath, suppressing her anger:

"My dad had you go report Xiao Xueqing, why didn't you go?"

Wang Xiaohua's face showed sudden realization:

"So it's this matter; wait a few days until the Discipline Inspection Commission comes, then I'll go report."

"You didn't know the Discipline Inspection Commission has already come to the county town?"

"Didn't know, no one told me!"

Liu Yumeng let out a cold laugh:

"Wang Xiaohua, there's no one else in the office now, I'll ask you one last question, can you answer me honestly?"

Wang Xiaohua said in a calm tone:

"You ask; what I know, I'll definitely answer you honestly."

Liu Yumeng then said:

"That internet public opinion — were you the mastermind behind the scenes?"

Liu Yumeng's pair of eyes, carrying resentment and venom, stared fixedly at Wang Xiaohua.

She wanted to get the most truthful answer from Wang Xiaohua's eyes.

However, Wang Xiaohua's reaction left her disappointed.

Only to see Wang Xiaohua still with a calm expression, his eyes revealing a trace of puzzlement:

"What internet public opinion?"

Wang Xiaohua seemed to know nothing at all, and countered with this one sentence.

Then he also said:

"You also know, I usually don't go online much; I go to the village to visit poor households, one trip takes a whole day, not even much time to eat, let alone scroll on my mobile phone and go online; plus these past few days I went to Guangzhou to see my mother, my mobile phone was still left in the dormitory."

Wang Xiaohua's answer could be said to be flawless.

Not a single thread of a loophole.

To the point that it made Liu Yumeng have a moment of trance, doubting whether she had wrongly blamed Wang Xiaohua.

"Fine then, since you don't know, forget it; asking you is a waste of breath anyway."

Liu Yumeng turned and left.

But Wang Xiaohua called out to her retreating figure:

"If I have time to go to the county town in the future, remember to come out and eat a meal together."

Liu Yumeng was stunned, turned back with a bitter smile:

"Thank you, but I'm afraid there won't be a chance."

Liu Yumeng naturally knew what kind of fate she would face being transferred back to her original unit.

She really had no chance anymore to eat a meal with Wang Xiaohua again.

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