Chapter 823: The Governor's anger

The Governor habitually came to the dining room to sit down after getting up and washing in the morning.

The cook in the kitchen started cooking breakfast this morning after seeing him sit down.

The breakfast of poor families is often just to fill their stomachs, so that the labor in the family will not feel hungry because their stomachs are empty before lunch.

But for rich people, their breakfast, lunch, and dinner, any meal, is to enjoy food.

Food that has just been cooked is definitely better than food that has already cooled down in terms of taste, smell, and all aspects.

For the Governor, what he has is time, and he can afford to wait.

No one will praise and encourage him for arriving at his office early, saying "well done," and telling him to keep it up.

Nor will anyone say "you should come early next time" because he was late for his office.

So his eating is truly enjoying food, not just for the sake of filling his stomach.

In the process of waiting for breakfast, the Governor, like other politicians and the men of most families, would choose to read the newspaper for a while.

On the small cart in front of him, there were more than twenty newspapers, and all the newspapers that could be collected in Denuozhou were placed here.

It's just that the order of placement today made him slightly surprised, "Didn't 'Tide' arrive?"

He asked.

Generally speaking, the newspaper "Tide" would be placed in the front, and he basically would read "Tide" first.

As the Governor, he has passed the stage of needing to clearly express his position and attitude. As a "ruler" in the true sense, his position is the main position, and his attitude is an attitude that people cannot oppose even if they don't follow.

So he would neither choose the newspaper that is the mouthpiece of the Social Party, nor would he choose the newspaper of the Liberal Party camp, but "Tide", a neutral, objective narrative newspaper.

But today it is not here, not in the front.

His butler stood not far from him, "Sir, I suggest you read the fourth page of the first newspaper first."

The Governor looked back at the old butler. They could be considered to have grown up together, and they trusted each other very much.

The two looked at each other for a moment, about three or four seconds, and then the butler lowered his head and moved his gaze away, so as not to be rude.

The Governor is not a person who likes to change habits, but since the butler did this, there must be a reason.

"Okay, I trust you," he picked up the first newspaper called "Defender Daily". Who the hell gave this name? Defender?

Defending what?

Freedom?

Or democracy?

These people really don't know how to name things. It looks like the Liberal Party camp at a glance. He didn't have much hope for the content of this newspaper, although he didn't know why the butler strongly requested him to look at the fourth page.

When he turned to the fourth page, he just took a casual look and was attracted by the title—

"White, or Black??"

The bold and enlarged title made it look more like a front-page headline, not a fourth-page headline.

He looked back at the front-page headline again, and realized in his heart that this report had a problem.

So he patiently read on. The more he read, the more serious his expression became.

The report stated that in the past twenty years, among the forty-four highway serial killers caught in Denuozhou, the murder cases they admitted to themselves were about one thousand four hundred and thirty-one.

There are about three thousand other murder cases that they are unwilling to admit, or cases they did not admit in the early stages of interrogation.

But in the later stages of interrogation, when the court finally decided how much price they had to pay for this, they suddenly admitted that these three thousand other murder cases were their own actions.

The compiler of the report claimed that some people previously thought that these serial killers were to avoid being sent to the gallows or the electric chair, so they would confess some tragedies they created before the execution date, to fight for more time for themselves.

In fact, this can also be done in legal procedures. As long as what is confessed is a case that the prosecution has not mastered, the prosecution will re-investigate and collect evidence to figure out the whole case.

Generally speaking, this can delay the execution date of a criminal's death penalty by two or three months.

More than three thousand murder cases are enough for these people to drag on until they die of old age in prison.

But the reporter claimed that he learned from some materials that some of the charges were only considered to be committed by them after they died.

At first, no one discovered this problem, but the reporter began to be curious about these cases and began to study them.

He discovered some clues from some cases.

Just when the Governor was curious about what clues he discovered, and what the whole thing was like, the newspaper suddenly mentioned the unit that solved these cases.

They were all the highway police team and the criminal case team of the State Police Department. It seemed that there was no problem. Highway killers were caught by highway police, no problem.

The reporter found a very strange angle to look at these things. He just gave an example, just an example!

The example he gave made the Governor couldn't help but read it silently.

"...... A certain sheriff who presided over the work of the branch station along the route, after he was promoted to sheriff, solved two highway serial killer cases in total, among which... in the year, and... in the year."

"Two criminals murdered more than three hundred and fifty people on the highway in total, among which more than sixty were admitted by themselves, and the rest were identified as being committed by them in the late stages of their lives, or even after they died."

"Interestingly, the person responsible for the investigation and solving of these cases has always been the sheriff himself."

"Mentioning a certain sheriff, I have to mention another interesting thing. A certain sheriff owns two villas in Hongshi City worth more than seventy thousand dollars."

"He also owns shops, luxury cars, and various investments under his name, and his life is very luxurious."

"A certain sheriff and his wife are both from ordinary families and have no resumes of doing business."

"The reporter discovered through some materials that the rapid growth of a certain sheriff's wealth occurred before and after he solved the two highway serial killer cases."

When the Governor saw this, his first thought was that the wealth gathered by these two serial killers was embezzled by this sheriff.

He didn't care much at this time, just felt that this sheriff's way of doing things was a bit rough, but it was completely understandable.

In fact, this matter itself is not so easy to do, if you want to return the money to the victims.

It is difficult for the federal government to come up with a distribution plan that everyone is satisfied with, and they don't know much about the family situation of some victims, and they need to understand and investigate.

Sometimes the expenditure on police force is a heavy expense. For example, some were found, some were not found, how to distribute the money?

If the people in front are satisfied, will the people behind be satisfied?

Some families are more difficult, and some victims' families declare funds that clearly exceed the amount they can possess. These are very troublesome problems that are easy to create contradictions and conflicts.

So generally, the police default to public ownership.

It is not to say that it is handed over to the government, but the police station itself saves a small treasury.

He just thought that this sheriff had a bad way of eating, and privately embezzled the money that should have been in the police station's small treasury.

But next, as the angle of the report continued to deepen, he found that something was wrong.

During this period, there was also some evidence, for example, some victims claimed that they were robbed by police on the interstate highway.

There is also a large amount of evidence that can determine that highway police extorted passing vehicles on the interstate highway. Their style of conduct does not look like police who maintain justice and people's safety at all, but more like those evil gangsters and bandits!

In the second half, the reporter raised a question: so many people go missing every year, missing on the interstate highway. If these disappearances are attributed to serial killers according to the frequency of their disappearance.

Then almost the entire highway of the Federation is full of serial killers, and they simply can't be busy!

Maybe they killed someone on a certain road section in the morning, and had to drive hundreds of kilometers to another place to kill in the afternoon, and then rush back in the middle of the night to continue killing.

They are the busiest people in the world. Even if the wheels run out of sparks, they don't have time to stop and rest.

But are these people really killed by them?

Or is it that others have used their identities to do these illegal things on the interstate highway, using the reputation of serial killers to cover up their criminal facts?

The Governor is not a fool either. He immediately connected the two completely different groups of people in the report.

A certain sheriff, and highway serial killer.

The report did not clearly point out this possibility, but it gave people infinite space for reverie. Even the Governor couldn't help but think about how likely it is for police to commit crimes.

He put down the newspaper and looked at the second one. The butler bowed slightly, and his attitude was already very obvious.

He picked up the newspaper and opened the page where the bookmark had been inserted.

The popularity of this newspaper is not very high, but they wrote it very directly—

"Some police officers claim that highway police may be involved in serious criminal crimes"

It introduced the blocking incident that has been making a lot of noise recently, and directly revealed the essence of this matter.

Police black eating black, leading to gangster retaliation, the contradiction escalated, the police side was anxious, and in order to catch people, they blocked the road directly.

The report used a lot of uncertain words.

"Possible", "probably", "if", "perhaps", used many such ambiguous words, but its content still makes people feel real and explosive.

At this time, the cooks had withdrawn the food placed in front of him and started cooking the second meal again.

"What do these reports mean?", the Governor asked with a serious face, putting down the second newspaper.

The butler bowed his head and looked at the tip of his toes, saying softly, "It's true."

The Governor's voice was a bit off, "What is true?"

"The things said in the report, police suspected of black eating black, leading to this blocking incident, is true."

The Governor was as if he didn't understand!

He looked at the butler for ten or twenty seconds, and his eyes became gradually sharp, bringing huge pressure to the butler.

But the butler always maintained his attitude, these things are true!

The Governor shook his head, "These people are too presumptuous!"

If it is really according to the data given in the report, that is to say, the number of innocent people killed by the interstate highway police in these years is far more than what those killers did!

This damn... he thought of that title.

"White, or Black??"

At this time, he couldn't sit still, and he also felt one thing, that is, someone is pushing these things to be exposed.

These two newspapers that are not very famous and whose sales might not be high are just their test.

Once they get the results they want, maybe "Tide" will report it next.

Even if he said hello, "Tide" didn't report these cases, then will media in other states be so considerate of the overall situation?

Like the "Federal Post", such a heavyweight newspaper, will they report these contents?

These are terrible troubles!

Once public opinion begins to ferment, no matter how he performs, this stain on his body cannot be washed away.

He stood up and intended to call the Deputy Governor, because things about the State Police Department have always been handled by the Deputy Governor.

But it happened that the cooks brought the food, and he sat back down.

He had to finish breakfast anyway.

He didn't "thank" these cooks, including the butler.

In fact, sometimes some people will fantasize about the emperor's golden hoe. They think that people in the upper society will be very civilized, polite, and will say thank you when servants provide them with services and complete the services.

They always imagine these people in the upper society very beautifully, but they actually don't know that for these people, servants can't even be considered people!

So they won't express any gratitude to these people who provide services for them at all. This is what they should do.

The masters paid the salary and didn't owe these people anything. Coupled with the fact that their status is too low, the more upper-class society, the more obvious the class gap can be felt.

Although he was very anxious in his heart, the Governor still maintained his demeanor. He used a very standard way of eating to cut or fork the food, just a bit faster. Today he didn't have so much time and energy to spend on breakfast.

He ate a little simply, left the dining table, didn't go to the office, but went to the study.

Soon the Deputy Governor answered his phone. He didn't say anything. As soon as he opened his mouth, it was a scolding—

"What the hell did you hide from me?"

The Deputy Governor looked very innocent on the phone, "I don't know what you want to express, what can I hide from you?"

The Governor was in a fit of anger, "You go out and find a newspaper now,

This is not an interrogative sentence, just a simple declarative sentence. The staff didn't express any views on this question.

And the Deputy Governor indeed has a huge legal risk, and he also indeed received money.

No matter in whose name the chief sent it, he received it anyway.

Another staff member said, "We need to do two things now: make everyone who should shut up shut up, and we need someone who can more forcefully stop this matter to intervene in this matter."

"Although it looks serious, before it completely explodes, there are still people who can press the stop button!"

The Deputy Governor looked at him, a guy older than himself, and he seemed to hear the meaning in the other party's words, "Do you want me to find the Governor?"

The staff didn't deny it, "What we need to do is to shift the contradiction, shift the contradiction between us and Mayor Wei De to the Governor."

"Once Mayor Wei De does something harmful to us, then the Governor will also be hurt by him, so he must consider whether to reach a compromise with us to ensure his interests to the maximum extent."

The Deputy Governor thought seriously about these words he said. This is the value of a large sum of money every month. His brain is not that he can't think of it, but it is impossible to think of it so quickly.

Maybe by the time he thought of it, everything he regretted and couldn't catch up with might have already happened.

That staff member continued, "And with the Governor coming down, some people who want to take advantage of our disadvantage to find benefits from us will consider whether they want to do so."

"At the same time, we can also give the chief a clear signal. If he can shut up, we can ensure the safety of him and his family to the maximum extent."

"If he bites randomly, by then, the people he offends will not only be us, but also the Governor, as well as Mayor Wei De and the Lan Si family who have already been offended by him."

"As long as he is not a fool, he should know how to choose."

The Deputy Governor nodded constantly while listening. This staff member's idea is very good, "But how to achieve it?"

"How do we pull the Governor into the water?", he looked at this staff member and others.

At this time, the staff member pursed his lips, "It's not too difficult to do this, it depends on whether you have the determination and courage."

Facing the other party's gaze, the Deputy Governor vaguely felt that this must be a very bold plan!

A group of people discussed and discussed for a while, and finally, the Deputy Governor decided to take a risk.

In fact, it can't be said how risky it is, it's just... anyway, he will be implicated if he doesn't take a risk, but if he takes a risk, it's possible not to be implicated, which is not a bad thing...

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 823 =====

"It's just that the scale of the report is not very large yet, but you know, once this kind of thing spreads, it will soon be out of control!"

"Once public opinion starts discussing this matter...", he fell silent after saying this.

After about a minute or two, he continued, "Ma Xiu and those people cannot be protected, and you, too, must be psychologically prepared."

Hearing this, the Chief's expression changed again and again; on the surface, the Lieutenant Governor was saying that Ma Xiu could not be protected, but in reality, he was telling him that he could not be protected.

Even if the Chief didn't want to show it on his face, after trying several times, he still revealed an extremely ugly expression.

(End of this chapter)