Reborn in 1993, Dark Sea

The reading room of the First Prison has been quite unsettled these past few days.

It wasn't just because An Xiaohai had found more than a dozen prisoners to help; more importantly, several section chiefs and department heads from the First Prison were making all sorts of excuses to come and inspect, and the atmosphere between them was tense.

Yang Yuanbing was especially arrogant. No matter who came, he would give them a good scathing rebuke, often leaving them humiliated and fleeing in disgrace.

This combat power is absolutely off the charts!

Wang Tao and Li Wei had also come twice. Although they seemed to get along well on the surface, Tian Qiaoguang could still sense a slight awkwardness between them.

An Xiaohai and Tian Qiaoguang saw it all and smiled to themselves, tacitly understanding each other's intentions.

Watching An Xiaohai command a group of prisoners so effectively, Tian Qiaoguang felt a mix of emotions, and her admiration for An Xiaohai reached its peak.

Think about other people! An Xiaohai is just a prisoner who used to be a college student. In prison, he was not only targeted by other prisoners, but also by some high-ranking officials. When he first arrived, he was in a terrible situation.

But he not only lived a good life, but his life got better and better. He actually made the terrifying and dark prison life into something wonderful!

These prisoners who were called in to help were no ordinary people; whether in prison or outside, they were all notorious troublemakers.

But now they are all bowing and scraping to An Xiaohai. If the prisoners in the jail saw this, they would probably be speechless with astonishment.

Looking back at herself, her situation was far better than An Xiaohai's, but when faced with problems, she could only wallow in self-pity and needed him to comfort her.

"It's true what they say, comparisons are the thief of joy!" Tian Qiaoguang smiled bitterly.

However, this experience gave him a completely new and wonderful experience! It turns out that those big shots in prison are not all so noble, virtuous, and unapproachable!

If handled properly, they can be completely manipulated! This feeling of detachment and looking down on everything is so wonderful, so wonderful that it's intoxicating!

"Ah Lai, come here, come here quickly, help me see what's going on?" Third Brother, wearing a pair of reading glasses, called to Lai Donglin. Third Brother looked very young, but he was actually quite old, over 50 years old, you really couldn't tell.

Since he was going to call in help, An Xiaohai was bound to have his own agenda, so Guo Xiangshui, Third Brother, Lai Donglin, and Kunji were all on the list.

Yang Yuanbing reported it without hesitation. He wasn't afraid that An Xiaohai had ulterior motives; in fact, he was quite happy about it. He was just afraid that An Xiaohai didn't have any ulterior motives! It's just four more people, it doesn't matter.

Third Brother and the others were naturally grateful for this.

To avoid putting An Xiaohai in a difficult position, they all studied with all their might. And let me tell you, none of these people were stupid; including Yang Yuanbing's men, they all learned very quickly.

An Xiaohai was particularly surprised by his third brother, who actually knew all the English letters, so the task of typing on the computer was given to him.

Although my third brother practices one-finger typing, his typing speed is surprisingly fast.

In reality, these tasks were all optional and not originally part of the plan, but as long as An Xiaohai and Tian Qiaoguang didn't say anything, who would know? The leaders wouldn't care about these details.

While everyone was working, groups of higher-ranking leaders came and went, some familiar and some not. An Xiaohai even saw a mayor surrounded by a crowd, who seemed to be surnamed Liu.

An Xiaohai initially paid no attention to the mayor, but he sensed that the mayor's attention seemed to fall on him intentionally or unintentionally, so he became more attentive and carefully memorized his appearance.

More than a month passed quietly, and the play that needed to be performed was almost over. After Tian Qiaoguang organized and reported all the work results, the prisoners naturally returned to their normal lives.

All the prisoners involved felt a deep sense of loss!

Although this period was a bit tough, it allowed them to experience a life they had never had before and would most likely never have again in the future. It was a very novel experience that gave everyone an indescribable feeling.

In particular, the third brother developed a strong interest in computer programming. For a long time afterward, he would look for books related to it to read, but he couldn't understand them at all, so he had to give up eventually.

Real programming skills are completely different from what An Xiaohai made them do!

Because the matter had been brewing for long enough, the reward from above came down quickly.

Just as An Xiaohai had predicted, although the number of people involved in the project suddenly increased many times over, he and Tian Qiaoguang actually benefited much more than initially.

Tian Qiaoguang became the initiator and executor of the project, while An Xiaohai became the main force in the development of the entire project.

As a result, Tian Qiaoguang was promoted to deputy section chief, while An Xiaohai received a six-month reduction in his sentence, and all the prisoners involved received a three-month reduction in their sentences.

There was jubilation both inside and outside the prison.

Tian Qiaoguang's gratitude towards An Xiaohai was palpable, but he had been too busy lately, traveling between various units with his superiors to report on work and explain how to use the system.

A month or two passed like this, and he rarely appeared in the First Prison.

Clearly, this incident changed the prison leadership's attitude towards Tian Qiaoguang; otherwise, they would never have given him this opportunity to shine.

"Time flies! I can't believe it, there's only a little over a year left..."

Looking at the snowflakes falling outside the iron bars, An Xiaohai felt a pang of emotion.

Haidong Province rarely sees snow, but this year it unexpectedly saw a light snowfall.

Although most of the snowflakes melted before they even hit the ground, that didn't stop the women from rummaging through their trunks for a few fur coats they'd never worn before, and together with their girlfriends, they took a precious group photo under the soft, gentle snowflakes.

Shenhai City Procuratorate, Chief Prosecutor's Office

"Old Gao, are we really not going to get away with this?" said Wen Qingzheng, the deputy chief prosecutor.

Recently, the procuratorate received a letter of complaint alleging that someone had formed cliques and engaged in favoritism and malpractice in the office automation system project of the First Prison, and the letter listed in detail the people involved.

"Manage? How? Do you have any evidence?" Gao Zheng lit a cigarette, took a deep drag, and exhaled before saying, "The prison is an independent system, and it's a provincial unit. Even if we wanted to manage it, would it be so easy for us?"

"So we're just going to watch like this?" Wen Qingzheng frowned deeply.

"Of course we can't ignore this, but we need to be careful about how we do it."

"Then what should we do? Give me an answer!" Wen Qingzheng persisted.

"Alright, Lao Wen, let's put this matter aside for now. Mengzi's still here; it's not appropriate to discuss these things in front of him!"

"Tch~", Zhou Meng, sitting to the side, scoffed.

"You guys here have always been so weak and inflexible, it's just unpleasant to look at! What's there to hesitate about? Just lead your men up there, take everyone in line, question them, and everything will be clear!"

Zhou Meng, the commander of the Third Detachment of the Armed Police in Shenhai City, has a bad temper and hates evil, so he got the nickname "Mengzi" among his old friends.

"Shut up!" Gao Zheng was exasperated. "You brought men and charged in! Do you think this is a war? Our mission is against our own comrades, so we must be extremely cautious!"

Without concrete evidence, based solely on an anonymous tip, we led a team to storm the location, detain, and interrogate the person. Do you think that's appropriate? What if the person is innocent? Isn't that disheartening?!

"...Shut up! I know what you're trying to say!" Seeing that Zhou Meng was about to say something more, Gao Zheng decisively interrupted him: "You haven't explained your situation to me yet!"

"Tell me honestly, did you order the beating up of Liu's eldest son at the school gate in the municipal government compound? Don't give me that nonsense! You, Zhou Meng, don't seem like the kind of person who would do something and then not admit it!"

"How could this be? How could I do such a thing? This is a huge injustice!" Zhou Meng was very agitated, spitting everywhere. Wen Qingzheng, who was closer to him, quickly and discreetly moved away.

"Old Gao, explain yourself! How did you come to suspect me? Who's been gossiping behind my back? Tell me, I'll make sure they get their hands on you!"

Zhou Meng glared at Gao Zheng and asked, "Besides, you can't control what happens to the prison, but you think you can control what happens to me?"

"Alright, alright, stop pretending to be innocent! Luckily, you didn't leave any evidence, otherwise, you'd be in deep trouble! Mengzi, you're a squad leader now, stop messing around like this, okay?"

"Where did I lie?! Don't wrong me! You said it yourself, you need to provide evidence!"

"Alright, I'm leaving. This is infuriating! This government office is so gloomy; it makes me feel uneasy if I stay here too long!"

Zhou Meng stood up, patted his hat, slammed the door shut in a huff, and left without even saying goodbye.

"Old Gao, what exactly happened with Mengzi?"

"Ugh, don't even mention it. The eldest son of a director in the municipal party committee, named Liu Fangjie, was harassing a girl at school. As a result, he was dragged to the school gate and beaten up a few days ago. Her parents are furious and have been blocking me for days."

"That's not right, Lao Gao. This isn't our business. Even if he's going to try to block someone, he should be blocking Zhou Zhengguo!"

"Isn't that right? But people say that Zhou Zhengguo's side has been just giving him the runaround. They've been investigating for a month, but there's been no progress at all!"

So they had no choice but to ambush me, and they even said that Old Zhou was corrupt and definitely in cahoots with the people who beat me up. What kind of nonsense is this?!

"How did this get dragged into Mengzi's case? Did someone report him?"

"No, but I had a feeling it was him; the style is so typical of him!"

"How could it be him? Is the girl being harassed his relative?"

"No, but that girl is the daughter of the founding father."

"Oh, I see. No wonder! If it were Jian Guo's daughter, Mengzi certainly would have done it. But surely Mengzi wouldn't be so agitated about something between young people?"

"How could I not be excited?!" Gao Zheng shook his head with a wry smile: "The problem is that this young master is a notorious playboy. Do you remember a couple of years ago, there was a case where a female student allegedly committed suicide after being assaulted?"

"I vaguely remember this incident, but it seems to have been dropped. How is it related to this again?"

"This matter is inextricably linked to Young Master Liu! Tell me, how could Mengzi not be anxious when such a person has his eye on Jian Guo's daughter?"

You know, my sister-in-law is a strong-willed person, and she has never contacted us all these years.

We used to visit her often, but over the years, as everyone's official positions have risen and they've had more and more things to do, we've been visiting less and less. I don't even know how they've been doing lately.

If it weren't for An Xiaohai's incident, I feel like everyone would have almost forgotten about the mother and daughter.

"How did this get dragged into An Xiaohai again? Isn't this a bit too much of a coincidence?!"

"What a coincidence!" Gao Zheng took a deep drag of his cigarette and looked out the window. "The waters of Deepsea City seem to get deeper and deeper the more you explore them; they're unfathomable!"

"yes……"

Wen Qingzheng nodded, and the two fell into a long silence.

"By the way, Lao Gao, what was the name of that playboy you were talking about? Liu something?"

"Old Wen, why are you asking this?" Gao Zheng asked, a little wary.

"It's nothing, I was just asking. Never mind if you don't want to tell me!"