Sha Ruijin was furious about the tall plant's regeneration.

Faced with the body cameras on the chests of the two officers, Hou Liangping completely panicked. He pointed at the two officers and said in a trembling voice, "Who gave you permission to film this? Turn it off now. This is a private matter, and you have no right to interfere."

"And who let you in? Who?"

"Get out of here right now, or I'll sue you for invasion of my privacy..."

Seeing Hou Liangping's flustered state, Cheng Du sneered, "Director Hou, things have come to this point, I advise you to cooperate and not make things too ugly for yourself."

Hearing Cheng Du address him as Director Hou, Hou Liangping panicked even more. He had only one thought in his mind: he must not admit his identity, or he would be completely finished!

Hou Liangping swallowed hard, feigning ignorance, and said, "Director Hou? What Director Hou? Who is Director Hou? Let me tell you, there is no Director Hou here. My surname is Chen, and I'm a businessman, not some kind of director."

"Get out! Get out right now! If you don't get out, I won't let you off the hook!"

At this moment, Chen Qingquan walked in, staring at Hou Liangping on the bed with a sly grin. "Director Hou? If your surname is Chen, then what's my surname? I can't possibly have the surname Hou, can I?"

"Chen...Chen Qingquan?"

Seeing Chen Qingquan enter the room, Hou Liangping panicked even more. His hand trembled as he pointed at Chengdu, then at Chen Qingquan, his face deathly pale as he stammered, "You...you...what are you doing here?"

"Give me back how I am here! I reported you, of course I have to be here, otherwise where would I go?"

Chen Qingquan sized up the girl next to Hou Liangping and laughed, "Well done, Director Hou. We invited you to learn a foreign language before, but you didn't. Turns out you like learning Chinese. You're into that."

"But Director Hou, you're quite the strong-willed one despite your disability! You've been beaten so badly, yet you're still so resilient!"

Hou Liangping covered his face with his hands and hurriedly explained, "I'm telling you two, you've mistaken me for someone else. I'm not Director Hou, and I don't know this Director Hou you're talking about. Get out of here right now!"

Seeing Hou Liangping's embarrassed expression, Chen Qingquan laughed until his eyes narrowed into slits. "Director Hou, you're using my words! When I was learning foreign languages, I also wanted to deny it."

Chen Qingquan opened his phone, opened Hou Liangping's Baidu Baike page, and threw it to Hou Liangping on the bed. "But this is the information age now, you can't hide it anymore. Just admit it openly, take your hands off, you're going to be on TV tomorrow."

Upon hearing that he would be appearing on television, Hou Liangping became even more hesitant to admit it. Looking at his photo on Baidu Baike (Baidu's Wikipedia page), he stammered, "Is this me? Is this me? Is this me?"

Cheng Du was amused by Hou Liangping's cowardly appearance, and he waved his hand and said, "Take him away."

Hou Liangping looked utterly desperate, his left hand trembling as he held his temple, his right hand waving as he said in a trembling voice, "Wait a minute, let me catch my breath, let me catch my breath..."

……

As soon as Cheng Du and Hou Liangping got into the police car, his phone rang. The voice of Zhao Donglai, deputy director of the Provincial Public Security Department, came through: "Cheng Du, I heard you arrested Hou Liangping, the director of the Provincial Procuratorate's Anti-Corruption Bureau, during your crackdown on prostitution? Is that true?"

Cheng Du said neither humbly nor arrogantly, "Deputy Director Zhao, it's not a crackdown on prostitution, it's a tip-off from the public. We've been watching the Blue Moon Bar for a long time, and we've wanted to take action for a while now."

"I'm talking about the degree of [something], have you got it right? My information is that Hou Liangping hired a part-time piano teacher and went to the Blue Moon Bar to learn piano. Why did you arrest Hou Liangping?"

Cheng Du glanced at Hou Liangping in the car and asked, "Deputy Director Zhao, have you ever seen someone learning to play the piano naked in bed? We caught Director Hou red-handed at the Blue Moon Bar. This is going to be difficult."

Just as Cheng Du hung up the phone with Zhao Donglai, the deputy director of the provincial department, his phone rang again.

"Director Cheng? I am Ji Changming, the chief prosecutor of the Handong Provincial Procuratorate. I have a preliminary understanding of the issue of Hou Liangping's alleged involvement in prostitution. My point is that Hou Liangping is, after all, the director of our procuratorate's anti-corruption bureau, so this matter should be handled by our procuratorate itself."

"Furthermore, I have already reported this matter to Secretary Sha, and Secretary Sha agrees. I order you to immediately send Hou Liangping to our procuratorate, and to transfer the surveillance footage from the Blue Moon Bar, as well as the law enforcement recorder, to the procuratorate for processing."

Cheng Du knew what Ji Changming was planning, and said with difficulty, "Chief Prosecutor Ji, it's not that I disagree with transferring it to the Provincial Procuratorate, but I have already reported this matter to Director Hong, and he has asked our Provincial Department to supervise this matter."

"Why don't you call Director Hong, Chief Prosecutor Ji? If Director Hong agrees, I'll immediately send Hou Liangping to the Provincial Procuratorate, along with the body camera and all the witnesses."

After hanging up the phone, Cheng Du's phone rang again without a second's delay, and a steady voice came from the other end.

"Comrade Cheng Du? This is Tian Guofu. I heard you had a crackdown on prostitution today and arrested Hou Liangping, the director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Handong Provincial Procuratorate? Is that true?"

Upon hearing Tian Guofu's voice, Cheng Du tensed up and said nervously, "Secretary Tian, ​​it's not a crackdown on prostitution. We received a tip from the public, and the provincial department has been keeping an eye on the Blue Moon Bar for a long time."

Without wasting words, Tian Guofu said directly, "That's right, Comrade Cheng Du. Hou Liangping, the director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau, is, after all, a provincial-level cadre. He has committed crimes, and the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection should intervene in the investigation. You should send him to the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection. I'll be waiting!"

Tian Guofu's tone was very firm and left no room for doubt, which put Cheng Du under great pressure. After all, Tian Guofu was a super big shot who controlled the Discipline Inspection Commission of Handong Province!

However, thinking of Governor Gao's backing, Cheng Gu braced himself and said, "Secretary Tian, ​​the provincial department just reported this matter to the provincial government, and the provincial government has ordered the provincial department to investigate it thoroughly. Why don't you discuss the authority to handle the case with Governor Gao?"

Upon hearing that the matter involved the provincial government and Governor Gao, Tian Guofu did not hesitate and simply said four words, "I understand," before ending the call.

……

Half an hour later, Hou Liangping got out of the car and saw that he had not arrived at the Discipline Inspection Commission or the Handong Provincial Procuratorate, but at the Handong Provincial Public Security Department. He looked utterly desperate!

My own affairs can be big or small. If the Discipline Inspection Commission and the Provincial Procuratorate investigate, they will definitely downplay the seriousness of the matter and let it go.

But the Provincial Public Security Department is the only exception. They receive guidance from Gao Yuliang and Qi Tongwei here. If I come here, wouldn't that be like a lamb entering a tiger's den?

Hou Liangping knew very well that if he were convicted of prostitution, he would be on the news tomorrow, after all, he was the director of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Handong Provincial Procuratorate!

At that time, not only will I lose face, but I will also lose face for the Zhong family!

If Zhong Xiaoai saw the news about herself selling her body and engaging in prostitution...

Thinking of this, Hou Liangping shuddered. He dared not think any further; the thought of this outcome terrified him, and he was almost scared to death.

I must stop all of this from happening!

must!

Otherwise, I'm doomed!

Hou Liangping knew that the one who tied the knot had to untie it; to overcome this difficulty, one person had to agree!

Taking a deep breath, Hou Liangping shouted at the top of his lungs, "I want to see Governor Gao! I want to see Governor Gao!"