As soon as the phone rang, he asked hurriedly: "I heard there will be an operation tonight? Who are they? Are you all required to go out?" He pretended to be casual in inquiring about the situation.

When the police chief heard that it was the deputy mayor in charge of politics and law who was questioning him, he felt like he had met a relative.

He told his direct supervisor how the mayor had summoned them overnight and ordered them to search for the two little girls overnight.

For a long time, there was no movement from the other side. He couldn't help but shout, "Mayor Li?"

"Oh, I'm listening. I wonder what the relationship between these two girls and the mayor is? What's their background?" asked the deputy mayor.

"We really don't have time to investigate this. The time given by the mayor is too tight. He said we must get the news tonight no matter what, and we must know both good news and bad news. It can be seen that the mayor is really anxious. So our most important task now is to find someone. We don't have time to do anything else." The Public Security Bureau Chief said solemnly.

"Then you guys go ahead and get busy, but also make sure to rest." The deputy mayor fell into deep thought after hanging up the phone.

He and Yue Feng entered the core leadership at the same time. The reason why he is the deputy mayor is not that he thinks Yue Feng is more capable than him. He believes that Yue Feng has achieved all this because he has a good father-in-law.

At this moment, Li Qiming couldn't help but think of the past between him and Yue Feng.

Yue Feng and Li Qiming were classmates, along with their childhood playmate, Xue Xinran. The three of them were inseparable, close friends who shared everything. But as they grew older, a different kind of affection began to develop between the young man and the young woman. Both boys simultaneously developed romantic feelings for the young woman.

The girl didn't know if she was pretending to be ignorant or if she hadn't understood at all, but she treated them the same way.

In this way, the three of them maintained their close relationship as before, and this situation continued until they were admitted to university.

During college, two men simultaneously confessed their love to a woman, but were both rejected. After graduation, the three gradually drifted apart due to busy work schedules. Then, a catastrophe struck, and Yue Feng and the girl were sent to the countryside as educated youth, while Li Qiming, thanks to his good family background, remained in his job. Faced with the fickleness of fate, the three men chose to accept reality.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, Li Qiming reaches marriageable age. At his parents' urging, he marries Cui Mingli, another daughter of a cadre. Cui Mingli is the sister of Cui Dawei, the junior leader, and works in the Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department. Meanwhile, back in the countryside, Yue Feng and Xue Xinran are also brought together by a shared destiny. They were sent to the same remote northwest location as Pei Xiao.

Life in the Northwest was hard, and it was difficult for two people who grew up in the South to adapt to it for a while.

Fortunately, they met their college classmate Pei Xiao there. Pei Xiao was originally from the north and had arrived in the northwest half a year earlier than them. So, with Pei Xiao's sincere help, the two of them got through the most difficult initial period.

Originally, their relationship was more than just schoolmates, but it was one incident that led them to become lifelong friends. One day, they went together to collect firewood. In the northwest, firewood is a necessity in every household, spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Collecting firewood is a daily necessity, and even cow dung is treasured.

At that time, the mountains were already covered in snow, so thick that every step was difficult. When the three of them reached halfway up the mountain, Xue Xinran slipped and fell into a trap set by a hunter, and Yue Feng, anxious to save them, also fell into it. As they fell, they dragged the thick snow around them into the trap, and in a short moment, the trap was buried, leaving no trace.

Pei Xiao, who was walking ahead, heard the noise and rushed over, but there was no trace of them. Pei Xiao had no way of finding them.

The two men were buried under thick snow, wounded. Slowly, they began to struggle to breathe. They believed their young lives were over. Desperately, they embraced each other, awaiting death.

Although Pei Xiao had no way of knowing where they fell, he was determined to find them. Regardless of his own safety, he cut down thick branches and kept scratching at the area. He scratched for several hours and only found the trap they fell into when it got dark.

Seeing hope, he dug out the snow even harder.

By the time the educated youth came to look for them, Pei Xiao had already dragged the two dying people up.

Pei Xiao was completely exhausted, and both he and the other two fell into a coma. They were unconscious for three days and three nights.

Yue Feng and Xue Xinran woke up first. They knew what had happened. When they went to see Pei Xiao, his hands were severely frostbitten from shoveling snow for so long. He was still unconscious.

It was only after the local leader found a local Chinese medicine doctor who specialized in frostbite treatment that Pei Xiao's hands were saved. After this incident, the two of them trusted Pei Xiao even more.

Three years later, they held their wedding at the educated youth camp. A year later, their child was born, and the child even acknowledged Pei Xiao as their godfather. They also learned about the relationship between Pei Xiao and Yu Meijuan, and knew that Pei Xiao had always been thinking about his lover.

When Pei Xiao and Yu Meijuan got married, Yue Feng was busy so he didn't attend their wedding. They also agreed to visit the imperial capital to reunite with them when they had time.

After Yue Feng and Xue Xinran returned to the city, Xue Xinran's father was also rehabilitated and returned to his job.

Of course, he also provided great help in Yue Feng's work.

But that help was mainly in the form of ideological education and guidance in the right direction. The reason why Yue Feng has always been an upright and good leader is inseparable from the guidance of his father-in-law.

Therefore, Yue Feng's career went smoothly, and he soon surpassed his good friend Li Qiming, who worked diligently at his job.

Little did he know that his early friends no longer considered him a friend after seeing that he had become a latecomer. He was more polite and distant towards him, and was deeply jealous of him.

Li Qiming recalled every detail of his time with Yue Feng, and a terrifying thought suddenly came to his mind.

Why not take advantage of this opportunity to make Yue Feng suffer a setback? Judging from the situation, those two girls were not ordinary. If anything happened to them, Yue Feng would have to bear the responsibility.

The thought of making Yue Feng lose his composure had completely eroded Li Qiming's ability to judge. Every time he saw Yue Feng condescendingly assigning him tasks, or every time he saw the couple still loving each other as before, Li Qiming felt incredibly unbalanced. The desire to bring bad luck to Yue Feng grew stronger and stronger.

Now is a rare opportunity, it is not easy to find such an opportunity again, he must make good use of this opportunity. Now he seems not to have thought about the consequences of his actions.

Li Qiming, losing his mind, called his brother-in-law and said, "Find a way to make those two girls disappear. It's best to do it cleanly."