Official Career Storm
Chapter 310

Chapter 310: Chapter 310

His subtle movements were all caught by Song Guanchao.

He thought his actions were concealed, yet they were quite pronounced.

He kept staring at his face, then at his lower body.

Song Guanchao felt a bit creeped out by his gaze.

After quickly finishing up, Song Guanchao zipped up and left.

In the afternoon, he and Mr. He continued the inspection.

Only this time, they started from the beginning again.

The day Mr. He returned from the provincial office, he had realized something.

The stolen documents were most likely orchestrated by Song Guanchao himself.

But he didn’t ask; it was clearly political struggle at play, and he didn’t want to get involved.

Just do his own job, that was enough.

Time swiftly passed, and in the blink of an eye, a week went by.

On this day, Monday.

Secretary Wang had just entered his office when his secretary Hu Lang brought in a stack of documents and a courier package.

Hu Lang brewed him some tea and arranged the documents by departmental importance.

Documents from the City Committee and Municipal Government were placed closest to Secretary Wang for his immediate attention.

After sorting the documents, he sorted the courier package.

Most of the courier items for Secretary Wang were whistle-blower letters, various kinds of them.

If the complaints were submitted with real names, they would be forwarded to the junior staff of the Disciplinary Committee for investigation.

But most were anonymous reports.

These, too, would be read by the junior staff, but they were not as important as the former and often ended up discarded as trash.

Having separated the complaints by whether they were anonymous or not and arranged them, Hu Lang picked them up and said, "Secretary, I’ll head out now."

"Mmm."

Half an hour later.

"Knock, knock, knock."

The knocking was somewhat urgent.

"Come in."

"Secretary, there’s a whistle-blower complaint here."

Hu Lang placed an anonymous whistle-blower letter somewhat nervously in front of him.

Secretary Wang glanced at it, and his previously unfazed expression was gone, replaced by a solemn one.

The contents of the complaint were actually related to Song Guanchao!

Secretary Song was being accused!

"Is it a real name complaint?"

"Anonymous."

"Anonymous..."

He continued to read carefully and afterward, he realized that this was a serious issue.

Even though it was an anonymous complaint, the content was about the high-speed rail project.

"Contact Director Qin... never mind, I’ll do it myself."

He didn’t reach out to Wu Qiangwei or Song Guanchao first.

He couldn’t make up his mind about this matter.

"Hello, Director Qin, are you busy? If not, come over, there’s something we need to discuss."

After hanging up the phone, Hu Lang asked, "Secretary, should we contact Secretary Song?"

Secretary Wang, while smoking a cigarette with a furrowed brow, said, "Not in a hurry."

Then he asked, "Who else has seen this letter?"

"Just me."

"Don’t talk about this with anyone."

"I understand."

Hu Lang also realized that the whistle-blower letter might have a significant impact on Song Guanchao.

He had read the content.

The complainant alleged that Song Guanchao organized hooligans to threaten the residents of Jianning Road, attempting to forcefully buy their homes.

If someone refused to sell, they would cut off their electricity and water supply, using various underworld tactics to coerce them.

Jianning Road... Hu Lang remembered that place seemed to be a suburb.

He was perplexed as to why Song Guanchao would forcefully buy houses there.

From Secretary Wang’s reaction, it seemed like he knew something about the situation.

More than half an hour later, Director Qin arrived.

Hu Lang made tea and then left the room.

Secretary Wang handed him the complaint letter.

After reading it, Director Qin frowned, "Why on earth would he want to buy land?"

Secretary Wang looked at him as if he were looking at a fool: "Didn’t Secretary Wu instruct you to investigate the matter last week?"

"I had Feng Hongtao from the branch office look into it, what’s wrong?"

"Are you talking about the complaints? What does that have to do with it?" Director Qin responded, clearly not catching on.

After speaking, it suddenly dawned on him: "Damn, that Song guy wants to pocket it all!"

"..." Secretary Wang was totally speechless.

What bizarre thought processes this man had!

He sighed, rubbing his forehead, "Director Qin, could you please use your brain?"

"The project documents were stolen; the original land requisition plans have changed."

"Ah?" Director Qin was bewildered, then realized, "Oh, right, stolen... So, that means... everything’s stolen, why did he buy land? Something’s not right... wait, let me think."

Director Qin lit a cigarette, furrowing his brow in apparent deep thought, but Secretary Wang knew it was unlikely he could figure it out.

"Forget it, stop thinking. Let’s go, we need to see Minister Zhou."

"See Minister Zhou? Why not go to Secretary Wu?"

"This matter is problematic; we seek his opinion."

Secretary Wang regretted calling him over—if he had known, he would have arranged for him to meet Minister Zhou directly.

Twenty minutes later, they arrived at Minister Zhou’s office.

After reading the complaint letter, Minister Zhou, whose expression did not show his feelings, said: "You should have gone to Secretary Lu, or Secretary Wu. Oh, right, I remember this project was initiated by Mayor Zheng, go see Mayor Zheng."

His implication was clear: anyone but me would have been appropriate to find.

In front of this Organizational Minister, Secretary Wang, who also sat on the committee, was very deferential.

He smiled and said, "Minister Zhou, there’s a bit of an issue with this."

"What issue?"

Secretary Wang glanced at Director Qin, signaling him to explain.

Secretary Wu had warned them not to disclose the theft of the project documents.

But Secretary Wang had already figured out that this issue was not straightforward.

To tell Minister Zhou about it was not a problem.

Of course, no matter how minor the issue might seem, if Director Qin could talk about it, let him.

If Secretary Wu ended up blaming them for telling Minister Zhou, then it would be Director Qin’s fault.

Better a dead Daoist than a dead Dao.

Who asked you to be so foolish? It would be a disservice not to make you the scapegoat.

Sure enough, Director Qin was clueless and did not realize that Secretary Wang was setting him up. Instead, he spoke with a self-assured tone of superiority, as if he had seen through everything, "Minister Zhou might not yet be aware, the high-speed rail project documents were stolen, right?"

"Stolen?" Minister Zhou feigned a look of surprise, "When did this happen?"

Director Qin gave a pretentious smile, "I can’t tell you that."

Secretary Wang:...

Minister Zhou:...

What shouldn’t have been said was revealed, and what was irrelevant was kept secret.

The two exchanged a look and sighed, both resting their foreheads in their hands.

New n𝙤vel chapters are published on f(r)e𝒆webn(o)vel.com