Official Career Storm
Chapter 371

Chapter 371: Chapter 371

After being tormented by Liang Jiajia for almost an hour, Song Guanchao was even more sober.

Liang Jiajia lay on top of him and said, "It took so long just to get it up, you’re not allowed to drink that much in the future."

Song Guanchao grimaced.

"Did you hear you were punished?"

"Punished?" Song Guanchao’s face was full of question marks. When did I get punished?

"You don’t know?"

"I don’t."

"Then what were you drinking for?"

"Uh... Secretary gave me a holiday."

"Secretary Wu didn’t tell you the reason?"

"No."

"And you didn’t ask?"

"No."

Liang Jiajia fell silent.

She didn’t know what Song Guanchao was thinking.

Given a holiday, and you just take it, without even asking.

Liang Jiajia said, "Yesterday, the Provincial Organization Department issued a disciplinary opinion letter about you."

Song Guanchao furrowed his brows, suddenly grabbed his phone, and saw a string of missed calls.

Xu Xin, Chu Xiao’e, Wu Yun...

He scratched his head, feeling puzzled. Why would the Provincial Organization Department discipline me for no reason?

It appeared that the matters Wu Qiangwei asked him about yesterday must be related to this.

Could it be because of the factory in Dujiang County being burnt down?

Even if it was burnt down, what does it have to do with the provincial authorities?

Liang Jiajia observed his expression and asked, "You don’t know why you were punished?"

"I don’t."

He had a guess, but he wasn’t sure.

And right now, it was too early; he couldn’t ask anyone yet.

"Let’s sleep for now. We’ll talk about it in the daylight."

Song Guanchao tossed his phone aside, grabbed the blanket, and covered them both, climbed beneath her, pried open her beautiful legs, and buried his head in.

"Ah~"

...

After being worn out twice, along with last night’s hangover, Song Guanchao quickly fell into a deep sleep again.

Ten o’clock in the morning.

A private sedan sped into the City Committee parking lot.

The car had just stopped when Secretary Wang pushed open the door, looking grave and striding quickly into the building.

He went to the conference room on the fifth floor.

At this moment, several members of the standing committee were already sitting in the meeting room.

Wu Qiangwei, Secretary Lu, Mayor Zheng, Minister Zhou, Chu Xiao’e.

These people were the ones Secretary Wang had contacted by phone in advance, asking them to come.

Secretary Wang had never thought that one day he would lead a meeting, and at the same time contact so many standing committee members for a meeting.

But, he would rather not have such a moment in the spotlight.

Because this was no damn good job at all!

This very morning, after he arrived at his office, his secretary, as usual, sorted through various anonymous letters of complaint.

Among them, one anonymous letter caught the secretary’s attention.

The content of the letter was targeted at Song Guanchao.

Not wanting to delay, the secretary immediately handed it to Secretary Wang.

After reading the letter, Secretary Wang realized that the situation was serious!

Someone was trying to bring down Song Guanchao!

If it had been a general complaint, he would have contacted Wu Qiangwei privately and asked for her opinion on how to handle it.

But this time, he didn’t dare to.

Because he was very clear that the day after the Provincial Organization Department just issued a disciplinary opinion letter, someone reported Song Guanchao.

This indicated that definitely someone of importance in the city wanted to take this opportunity to bring down Song Guanchao.

Thus, this anonymous letter had to be handled formally; he could not privately discuss it with any standing committee member.

He had to present the letter openly.

Only by doing this could he extricate himself from this political struggle full of deceit and hidden currents.

Secretary Wang felt exhausted. He didn’t know when Lingjiang City had become like this.

Among the standing committee members, there was never harmony, there was always strife.

Even with such discord, they had always maintained a balance.

But now, one of them had started to play dirty.

And Song Guanchao became the sacrificial lamb in this invisible war.

Secretary Wang had long felt that Song Guanchao was too high-profile.

For a secretary, to have nearly the same reputation in Lingjiang City as the Secretary himself.

Being so high-profile, sooner or later someone would be displeased, sooner or later someone would take action.

Sure enough, that day had finally arrived.

Secretary Wang entered the meeting room with no smile, his face grave.

He placed the anonymous letter and its photocopies before everyone, then picked a seat far from the other standing committee members and waited silently for the storm to come.

Wu Qiangwei, receiving the call, had no idea what had happened.

Secretary Wang only mentioned on the phone that there was an anonymous letter regarding the City Committee.

Now seeing the content of the anonymous letter, Wu Qiangwei knew that someone was targeting Song Guanchao.

The others finished reading with no change in their expressions.

Only Chu Xiao’e struggled to contain her inner rage, showing slight signs of it.

She was ultimately too young and had not yet developed the disposition of seasoned politicians like Minister Zhou.

"Heh," Minister Zhou said with a laugh, "Secretary Wang, you specifically called us here just to show us this kind of baseless anonymous letter?"

Secretary Lu added, "If it were a signed accusation, then simply starting the investigation process would suffice. But for an anonymous letter, it’s indeed inappropriate for Secretary Wang to make such a fuss."

Mayor Zheng tossed the letter aside. "Secretary Wang, don’t waste my time with this kind of stuff in the future."

Secretary Wang scanned the reactions of everyone present.

He was certain that the anonymous letter was crafted by one of the standing committee members sitting here.

But, he could not tell which one.

Every single one of them was slick, their disguises too convincing.

Secretary Wang said, "According to the procedure, we need to investigate anonymous letters too. Especially those that are detailed, we need to take them seriously. That’s why I’ve called you all here, to discuss how to handle this."

He glanced at Wu Qiangwei, and the others looked her way too.

After all, Song Guanchao was her man.

Although there were procedures at the Disciplinary Committee for handling such matters, they still needed to hear her opinion.

Wu Qiangwei stated, "Proceed according to the procedures."

Then she added, "I believe that Secretary Song would not have such issues; this is a false accusation."

Secretary Wang nodded repeatedly, "I too believe in Secretary Song’s character. Well then... Secretary Wu, would you contact Secretary Song, or should I do it?"

"You do it," she replied.

"Alright."

...

When Song Guanchao woke up, Liang Jiajia had already gone to work.

He took another shower and didn’t realize until he left the house that his car was gone.

After asking Lu Feng, it turned out the car was with him.

He took a cab to the bar and on his way there, he suddenly received a call from Secretary Wang.

"To the City Committee? Now?"

"Yes."

"Alright, I’ll be right there."

Song Guanchao thought to himself, is this the formal notification of my punishment?

A few minutes later, he arrived outside the bar.

Lu Feng was crouched at the door smoking, examining him up and down, "All good, boss?"

"What could be wrong with me."

"You drank quite a bit last night..."

"Enough, where are my car keys?"

"They are in your car." Lu Feng passed him a cigarette.

Song Guanchao took it, glancing from the corner of his eye at the bar’s entrance surveillance camera, "What happened to the surveillance?"

Lu Feng looked up and cursed, "Shit, who smashed the camera!"

Song Guanchao suddenly remembered mentioning something about the bar yesterday, "What’s the situation with the bar?"

"Business dispute," Lu Feng waved it off, indicating it was nothing to worry about.

Song Guanchao hummed in acknowledgment, finished his cigarette, got in the car, and left.

Arriving at the City Committee, he headed straight for the fifth-floor meeting room.

Upon entering, wow, quite a crowd of standing committee members.

For a mere party warning, was such a grand setup necessary?

"Ahem," Secretary Wang coughed lightly to draw his attention.

He stood up and handed over the anonymous letter, "Secretary Song, this is the anonymous letter about you, have a look."

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