Chapter 586: Father-Son Conversation and Life and Death

In the past few days, the people of Jincheng had indeed experienced many bizarre things.

For example, a family that drowned in their home swimming pool.

Clearly, the depth of the swimming pool was only 1.5 meters. Anyone, as long as they weren't that nervous, would definitely be able to stand up.

But things were just that incredible; they were actually all drowned.

Some people laughed at them for being stupid, especially those at the bottom of society. Mocking some stupid things that happened in high society seemed to be able to prove that they were the smart ones.

But those who knew some inside information felt their whole bodies sweating; they were very uneasy.

As for news like those who jumped off buildings collectively, or those who were bitten to death by poisonous snakes from the north in their homes in the south, it was everywhere.

Of course, in order to protect the final dignity of the deceased, the reports basically used pseudonyms.

Why did they know that the family that drowned in the swimming pool were people of high society?

Without knowing what their names were?

Actually, it was very simple: poor people don't have private swimming pools at home.

In short, during this period, the matters regarding these bizarre news actually dispersed the fact that Jincheng had changed hands. After all, this matter had nothing to do with 99% of the people in Jincheng.

Who was the boss of Jincheng Casino, who could operate the casino—this wouldn't change their lives in the slightest.

So those bizarre news items could quickly occupy the focus of public opinion. Anyway, they had nothing to do with them.

After James finished work, he returned from the outside. He first went home—it was in the manor. There were many houses in the manor; there was a place where Congressman Williams lived, and there was also a place where he lived.

Strictly speaking, they lived together, but as long as they weren't willing to see each other, they could go a year without meeting once.

After changing into a set of casual home clothes, he came to Congressman Williams' study.

Now James was the congressman; he also had his own work to do and his own social life, so it was impossible for him to be with Congressman Williams every day.

"Been back?" Congressman Williams, who was reading the newspaper, looked up, then put the white paper back on the table, and then took the reading glasses off the bridge of his nose.

He carefully put them into an ivory glasses case and placed it in the drawer.

James sat down and nodded, "Yes, I've already been back."

Congressman Williams nodded noncommittally, "Do you know?"

"I heard that William's wife, Mrs. Emily, is pregnant again."

This sentence made James feel a bit... awkward. He had been married for a while, but his wife wasn't pregnant.

The two sides were in a political marriage. His wife's father was the granddaughter of a friend of Congressman Williams, a big capitalist, very rich.

Over the years, with the help of Congressman Williams, the business had spread throughout Likalai State and was planning to continue expanding outward.

In the Federation, such things of combining money and power were everywhere. As long as the law didn't prohibit politicians from marrying capitalists' daughters, then they could do so.

The reason why it was possible was because besides capitalists' daughters, they could also choose politicians' daughters.

It's just that such political marriages weren't necessarily good results. James needed a marriage because he was running for city councilor. He and his wife had no emotional foundation. Although the two were married, the relationship wasn't very good.

That woman often went back to her own home to live, rather than living in the Williams Manor.

At the same time, James didn't like that woman very much, so both sides tacitly agreed to live like this, each living their own lives.

But as the big master of the house, Congressman Williams still hoped that his descendants could spread their branches and leaves.

Offspring are wealth to poor people; having many children can help them do work.

They are also wealth to rich people; after all, blood relationships are more reliable than hired management.

James didn't want to continue talking on this topic. In the short term, it was very likely he wouldn't have children.

After all, he couldn't do this thing by himself, unless his wife also cooperated with him, but this didn't look that easy.

"Today I attended a small gathering, and they talked about Lan Si."

Listening to him talk about things he didn't want to manage, Congressman Williams nodded slightly. He knew why James didn't talk about it, so he didn't continue to say anything.

Some things are enough to mention; too much makes people hate it. After all, he had also been a young person.

"What did you discuss?"

James saw that his father didn't chase him to talk about the child, and breathed a sigh of relief, "They were talking about... Lan Si's cruelty."

"Cruelty!" Congressman Williams repeated this word, "A very serious accusation. What is your view?"

James sat in the chair in a very relaxed posture, "Can't say they are wrong..."

"After all, you know, he was indeed relatively cruel in dealing with the problems of some people in the Koda family."

He was very careful with his wording.

After Congressman Williams finished listening, he smiled slightly, "Then do you think he is so... cruel, is it a good thing or a bad thing for us?"

James pondered for a while, "It should be a good thing."

Congressman Williams nodded and said, "Yes, you said it very correctly, it should be a good thing."

"If you can take a little time to flip through some history books, you will find that beside every wise monarch, there will always be some sycophants, some cruel ministers, and some virtuous ministers."

"Do you think a monarch would be an idiot?"

"How could an idiot become the first person of a country, a political force?"

"Of course, we have to exclude those who were purely lucky and obtained the throne using the heir system."

"And those heirs who obtained the throne through their own efforts—they are not idiots, but why do they also need such ministers?"

He gave some examples, all of which were relatively well-known monarchs. Such ministers did indeed generally exist beside them. This question made James start to think.

And what Congressman Williams had to do was to guide his successor, to make him more mature and wiser.

"That's because under anyone's rule, there will always be some people who are dissatisfied with the ruling group."

"So they need to use some people to clear out those dissidents, without getting their own hands dirty."

"We are not monarchs, and Lan Si is not a cruel minister, but we can also cooperate like this."

"He has done his own job well, so we should also do our own job well. This is good cooperation, a good partner!"

"And look, the city has immediately quieted down a lot. This proves that not everyone is afraid of death. Under such cruel means, people will be afraid."

"Ruling a group of subjects who have awe is much more convenient than ruling a group of subjects full of confrontational emotions!"

Congressman Williams licked his lips, "You should defend him."

"Before there is a conflict of interest between us, you have to defend him."

"Defending him is equal to defending ourselves, instead of questioning whether he is right or wrong in doing so!"

He paused for a while when he said this, "I heard that Lan Si and the Lawrence girl are going to get engaged in the summer. He is smarter than everyone else, and he has also taken a key step more firmly."

"You can choose a suitable gift to send him, choose a more valuable one."

"You can chat with him and see if you can be the godfather of his child."

Congressman Williams turned his head to look at James, his eyes carrying some things similar to teasing; he couldn't distinguish them very well, "I think it's very likely he won't refuse."

Actually, from Congressman Williams' perspective, Lan Si had developed too well!

Since Lan Si handled Bandi, he had collected more things related to Lan Si's development. At first, he just felt that Lan Si's development was very powerful.

But as he studied those things, he found that this couldn't be explained clearly by just being "very powerful."

Even... the Lan Si family couldn't be called a gang, at least not the kind of traditional gang that people understood.

They almost didn't do things that hurt ordinary people. The only crime business that could be called a crime was buying and selling moonshine.

Besides this, they almost didn't do other businesses related to crime, and the charge of selling moonshine would sooner or later be diluted.

Actually, facts had already proven that the large-scale social experiment of Prohibition had failed.

Prohibition not only didn't make people stop drinking, but instead made many people become more dependent on alcohol.

At the same time, people didn't save the money for drinking because they didn't drink, and use it for normal consumption, etc.

Prohibition didn't make this society become better as those sociologists said, but instead made some things become worse. Those gangs expanded crazily without control, and the Lan Si family was an obvious example.

They relied on selling moonshine to poor people and quickly accumulated a considerable amount of wealth, giving them enough confidence to confront the Five Great Families.

The gang groups in every city were constantly changing, and the pattern of the underground world was also constantly changing. Strange gangs rose one after another, and old-fashioned gangs that didn't transform in time eventually fell.

The federal government's control over the underground world was constantly decaying, and the positive effects brought by the experiments people wanted to see weren't obvious.

It was really... too terrible!

So the charge of selling moonshine wouldn't be too serious in the end. In other words, unless someone could get 100% evidence to accuse Lan Si of being involved in various murders, the judicial department wouldn't even be able to find how to accuse him!

Accuse him of organizing gang crimes—what crimes did they commit?

Helping poor people?

Finding jobs for poor people who didn't have jobs, solving life problems for citizens who weren't willing to work?

Or did they do something particularly terrible?

It seems not.

As for those kidnappings, murders, etc., in Congressman Williams' view, these were all small things, insignificant small things.

Because as long as someone stood up to take the blame, the problem would end directly.

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Lan Si was in a position where he wouldn't fail. Plus, he now controlled the casinos and the upward channel. As long as he didn't do stupid things, he would definitely be able to go further!

On the contrary, James, his development in the future was very likely not as good as Lan Si's.

So in Congressman Williams' view, letting James recognize Lan Si's first child as a godson was actually James taking a big advantage.

This was a bit like being inverted, but it was the truth!

James didn't know his old father's thoughts, but he had an advantage, which was that he was obedient.

He immediately agreed, "I will personally choose a valuable gift to send over."

Congressman Williams nodded. He continued to talk about the things James said.

"Don't feel that Lan Si is cruel, very brutal."

"Someone is willing to be a sharp knife, but you feel the knife is too sharp. This only shows that you are not yet a qualified ruler."

"You need a broader mind. Since we choose to cooperate with him, you should trust your partner."

However, Congressman Williams wouldn't blame James because of this. He still needed time to grow, and he also had enough time to grow.

As long as he was always growing, that was enough.

After ending this topic, Congressman Williams drank the coffee in the cup. James immediately stood up and poured some more for him.

He said casually, "The current matter has come to an end. After a while, I will go to Manton with Lan Si."

"You handle the work in your hands, and you go with us."

He picked up the coffee and blew on it, "This trip is to re-formulate the issue of interest distribution. There will be many big figures appearing. You need to play a... helper role, understand what I mean?"

James nodded, "I understand, I am a servant."

Congressman Williams nodded with great satisfaction, "Is there anything else?"

James shook his head, "No."

The old man took a sip of coffee, then put it down, "Go back, do your own things. If there is anything you don't understand, come over again."

James got up to say goodbye and left. Although he left, Congressman Williams no longer had the interest to continue reading the newspaper.

In early June, many things seemed to have stabilized again. The police officer who decided to take a risk for 100,000 dollars also put his heart back.

Up to now, they hadn't investigated him. It should be that there was a problem with the investigation direction. This was a good thing.

Another good thing was that after specialized diagnosis, they believed that his wife had a great possibility of being cured.

This made him think that everything he paid was worth it.

He had already thought about it. After his wife's cancer was cured, he would resign from this job, and then take his wife to travel, to go around the world.

Life is really too fragile. They shouldn't waste their limited life on how to survive.

They were no longer short of money now. They had time and qualifications to go around and see.

Just when he was imagining the future, two police officers walked to his desk, knocked on his desktop, "Deputy Chief Du Ke wants you to go to his office!"

He was stunned for a moment, hurriedly got up, and walked toward the stairs.

Also at this moment, his wife was pushed into the operating room.

The experts who studied cancer within the medical group had already prepared for the surgery. After the woman was deeply anesthetized, she was sent to the operating table.

She was stripped naked, without a thread, and the hair on her chest and abdomen, including her private parts, was also shaved clean.

But no one was interested in her body. What the doctors couldn't wait to do now was to cut open her skin, open her chest and abdominal cavity, and look at those tumors.

People believe that cancer has a chance of being cured, mainly because of the lack of understanding of cancer.

They hadn't classified tumors yet and didn't know that there were actually malignant and benign ones. So when some benign tumors were removed and the patient obtained a cure result, they generally believed that cancer had a chance of being cured, and the chance wasn't low.

But as people studied cancer, they would find that not all tumors were benign and could be removed.

However, at the current stage, they still held the most primitive ideas.

The woman with closed eyes seemed to feel some tense atmosphere. I don't know if it was because the anesthetic didn't take deep effect, but when the scalpel cut open her skin, her heartbeat trembled, and sweat also secreted on her head.

Her husband took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat on his face at this time. Deputy Chief Du Ke sat behind the desk, "Why?"

"Why poison Bandi? Who instructed you to do it?"

He could only nervously deny, "I don't know what you are talking about. I have never done these things!"

Du Ke and the others didn't intend to let this guy really confess who did it. As long as he was alive and didn't have the value of confessing, it was far greater than the value of what he said.

But in order to "protect" him, he now needed to be "treasured." This required his cooperation, or rather, it required him to accept his fate.

"Your wife's surgery fee, and some funds—do I need to say more?"

The man's pupils contracted slightly, then gradually dispersed. He lowered his head and remained silent.

As a police officer, he knew that these things couldn't withstand investigation. Once discovered, he couldn't get rid of suspicion and accusation.

The expression on his face was a bit painful, just like his wife on the operating table at this time.

Obviously, the result of the X-ray was different from the actual result of the laparotomy. The environment and situation after the laparotomy were more complex than what they saw from the X-ray. For a time, the chief surgeon didn't even know how to start.

However, this wouldn't be an exploratory surgery. After all, such a rare case was placed on the operating table, so she must become the result of the research.

As for death?

That wasn't their problem. That was God loving her and taking her to his side.

Under the temporary discussion of the experts on the scene, they re-determined the surgical process. So two new doctors cooperated and came to the operating table with scalpels.

Ordinary laparotomy also became more like a full dissection surgery, and more organs and lesions were exposed.

Along with them starting to cut, all of this was faithfully recorded by multiple cameras.

It might become an important case analysis in medical class, and it might also become research material in the research room.

Fifteen minutes later, the police officer's badge and his service weapon were taken back. He would be taken to a safer place.

He obeyed Deputy Chief Du Ke's arrangement, but he only had one request, which was that after his wife woke up, don't tell her what happened.

Just at the moment he stepped onto the police car and was transferred, in the operating room, along with a long beep of the buzzer, the doctors' movements all stopped.

"Still want to continue?"

"Why not?"

They got busy again and wouldn't terminate because someone left...

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 587 =====