In name only: I will break the chess game in Handong!

After hanging up the phone at the prosecutor's office, Ji Changming sighed softly, clearly not satisfied with the result.

"Old Ji, what did Secretary Chen say?"

Ji Changming glanced at Hou Liangping and then shook his head, saying, "Secretary Chen said he would raise this matter at the Standing Committee meeting this Friday. The specific outcome can only be decided by the Standing Committee meeting."

Hou Liangping frowned upon hearing this.

"So we're just going to wait like this? Can we report this to the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and get them involved?"

Hou Liangping sounded very anxious, while Ji Changming gently shook his head.

"Have you forgotten about Ouyang Qing?"

Hou Liangping was stunned for a moment.

If we can minimize the damage and let things slide, why would he even bother with revenge?

"We can't let someone as hypocritical as Chen Yanshi continue to get away with it, can we?"

"You can conduct a thorough investigation first, to see if anyone else sent flowers and birds besides Zheng Xipo. Gather the evidence. Tens of thousands is a number, but several hundred thousand might not be just a number. If it exceeds one million..."

"I understand, Lao Ji!"

Ji Changming waved his hand.

"If you understand, go back to work. Remember, don't reveal this to anyone else. Turning yourself in and being investigated are two different things!"

Hou Liangping nodded emphatically and left Ji Changming's office. After waiting for Liangping to leave, a faint smile appeared on Ji Changming's originally solemn face. Hou Liangping could be a knife for Provincial Party Secretary Sha Ruijin, so perhaps he, as the Chief Prosecutor of the Procuratorate, could also use him!

"Chen Yanshi, Chen Yanshi, it's better to deceive a gentleman than to invite a petty person. Spreading bad words about Hou Liangping has resulted in such retaliation. Tsk tsk tsk, how gratifying!"

Ji Changming felt triumphant. Even if he couldn't expel Chen Yanshi from the Party and send him to prison this time, he could at least tear off Chen Yanshi's fig leaf and expose his hypocrisy!

Lüzhou.

On Wednesday, Chen Luo personally attended the bidding meeting for the construction of the industrial park. The list of approved companies was released yesterday afternoon, totaling seventeen companies.

These are all giants in the domestic construction industry. The bidding conference officially began, and apart from the staff, all the other company representatives who came to bid remained silent.

With each bidding round, each company calculated its own acceptable threshold for profit. In the end, the leading construction group in China won the bid to build the industrial park.

Thursday was another day for bidding, but this time it was the real estate developers' turn. The Luzhou Municipal Housing and Construction Bureau planned a renovation project for old, dilapidated, and dangerous houses in the urban area, covering an area of ​​about 100 acres. The demolition standards need to be implemented in accordance with government regulations.

Using real estate developers' hot money to improve some old houses in Luzhou city is a sure-fire way to make money.

Such projects can also be government-led, but they take too much time and effort. If they are contracted out, the government can free up its resources to do other large projects as long as the supervision is in place.

Meanwhile, on Thursday afternoon, Hou Liangping's car slowly pulled up at the nursing home where Chen Yanshi lived.

After getting off the bus, Hou Liangping looked at the pinhole camera on his chest with a smile on his face. In the past two days, he had investigated Chen Yanshi's other flower and bird products and found that there were quite a few, but he did not know who sent them and could not use them as evidence.

How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's den?

Carrying two boxes of milk, Hou Liangping arrived at Chen Yanshi's house and knocked on the gate.

Is Uncle Chen home?

The courtyard gate was quickly opened, and Chen Yanshi's anger flared up the moment he saw Hou Liangping.

"Hou Liangping! What are you doing here! You're not welcome in our home, get out!"

Chen Yanshi showed Hou Liangping no respect whatsoever, but Hou Liangping was very patient and could only smile and say, "Uncle Chen, I'm very sorry about Chen Hai's matter, but I really didn't mean it. I recently heard that you were injured in the Dafeng Factory incident and are recuperating at home, so as a junior, I came to visit you. I only brought two boxes of milk, which may not be as nice as the flowers and birds that people bring, but it's still my heartfelt wish, isn't it?"

Looking at the milk handed over by Hou Liangping, Chen Yanshi felt humiliated. He forced himself to throw the two boxes of milk out of the yard and onto the ground, where the milky white liquid was immediately scattered everywhere.

"Sigh! I know Uncle Chen has a lot of opinions about me, but there's nothing wrong with these two boxes of milk. I understand that Uncle Chen doesn't want to refuse me, but it's such a waste to spill them on the ground like this. Uncle Chen is an old revolutionary; when he was in the army, he would lick the rice out of his bowl clean... Now..."

When Chen Yanshi heard Hou Liangping accuse him, he was immediately furious.

"I told you to leave! You're not welcome in my house!"

Hou Liangping acted as if he hadn't heard these words, and instead went to the several birdcages hanging in the courtyard and said, "Comrade Chen Yanshi is really leisurely. Ordinary people don't have such leisure and elegance to raise flowers and feed birds. When I was working in Beijing, I heard that only those descendants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty could be so leisurely."

"What do you know! I didn't buy these flowers and birds myself; they were all gifts from others. I have absolutely no connection with those old-fashioned people!"

Chen Yanshi denied it directly, and Hou Liangping was not in a hurry. He just shook his head and said, "Old Chen, you can fool me, but don't fool yourself."

You've been retired for over ten years, and you don't have any relatives. Who would send you these flowers and birds?

"Lie to you? You think you're worthy of my deception?"

These two birds were a gift from the retired deputy director of the Agriculture Department, this potted plant was a gift from Hu Jiaming of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Department, and these three potted plants were a gift from Zhu Gang, the former president of the Jingzhou Intermediate People's Court...

Chen Yanshi flaunted his influence, while Hou Liangping hurriedly took notes.

After Chen Yanshi finished speaking, Hou Liangping smiled and said, "Since Uncle Chen doesn't welcome me, then I'll be leaving now. I really didn't mean anything by what happened to Chen Hai; it was all his own carelessness..."

Before he could finish speaking, Chen Yanshi closed the courtyard gate.

"Ha! Acting all high and mighty now? In a couple of days, I'll make you pay tenfold, a hundredfold!"

Pooh!

After spitting on Chen Yanshi's gate, Hou Liangping left. He needed to go to the flower and bird market to have an expert appraise the value of the flowers and birds he had just photographed.

By evening, Hou Liangping's tally came out: a total of more than twenty pots of flowers and five or six birds, with a total value exceeding 800,000 yuan. The most expensive orchid was a first-class protected plant, the kind that is prohibited from being planted by private individuals, and its price was beyond estimation!

Chen Yanshi probably didn't investigate carefully when the gift was given to him. He thought flowers and birds were worthless and had no idea how valuable they were!

Having obtained the evidence, Hou Liangping immediately called Ji Changming and explained the situation.

Ji Changming was naturally very happy. Tens of thousands of yuan could only make Chen Yanshi lose face a little, but the total amount of nearly one million yuan was not as simple as losing face!