Chapter 154

After sitting down, Lin Bingwei went straight to the point and talked about Lin Haobo. He didn't intend to beat around the bush with Lin Xiaohan. Since Lin Xiaohan asked this, he just put his old face on the line and said it directly.

"Xiao Bo is young and made such a mistake because he was confused for a moment. I know that he is now detained by the Discipline Inspection Commission, and the matter will definitely be investigated..."

As he spoke, his voice gradually lowered unconsciously.

"I want to ask you to help Xiaobo, even if it means saving him a year or two."

After hearing what Lin Bingwei said, Lin Xiaohan's eyes and face darkened.

He stared at Lin Bingwei with a cold gaze, and said in a tone that was no longer friendly: "Ask me? What do you ask me for? Ask me to bend the law for your son who is suspected of corruption?"

Lin Bingwei said hurriedly: "Of course I don't mean that. I just think that you have worked in the political and legal system for so many years and you are very familiar with all the tricks here. As long as you are willing, you can always fight for Xiaobo..."

"Why do you think I would agree?" Lin Xiaohan interrupted him. "Are you old and have a bad memory? If you have forgotten, let me remind you now. I have wished for his death since I was a child. It is impossible for me to save him a day in prison. I am willing to help him get a few more years in prison."

Lin Bingwei looked into Lin Xiaohan's eyes and felt a chill in his heart.

How could he forget that ever since Lin Haobo was born, he had regarded Lin Haobo as a thorn in his side, wishing that Lin Haobo would choke to death while eating or drinking water. He even almost threw Lin Haobo from the building to his death once.

He looked at Lin Xiaohan for a while, and said in a helpless and painful tone: "But no matter what, Xiaobo is your biological brother. He has half the same blood as you. Why do you hate him so much and can't tolerate him? He is your only brother..."

"How long are you going to play dumb?"

Before Lin Bingwei could continue speaking, Chu Xia couldn't help but interrupt him.

After Lin Bingwei turned his head to look at her, she looked at Lin Bingwei and asked in a more stern tone: "Ask yourself, is it that he can't tolerate your wife and son, or that your family of three can't tolerate him?!"

Lin Bingwei stared at Chu Xia in a daze, unable to speak.

Chu Xia looked at him and continued to ask, "Have you really forgotten, or are you deliberately unwilling to remember? Has he been so extreme since birth, so cold-blooded and mean that you hate him? The reason why he became like that is all caused by you! Since you have a new wife and a new son, you must have felt from the bottom of your heart that he is redundant and an eyesore in your family, right?"

Lin Bingwei looked at Chuxia and couldn't help holding his breath.

Chu Xia looked at him, sneered and continued, "You three worked together to drive him out of the Lin family as you wished, but you repeatedly turned the tables and said that he couldn't tolerate your wife and son. You are really interesting. It seems that you have to do everything and say everything!"

Lin Bingwei held his breath for a moment, then continued confidently, "No one can't tolerate him."

Chu Xia immediately replied in a hard voice: "No? Lu Fangying has been plotting to sow discord between you since she married you. Such clumsy tactics and acting skills, can you really not see it at all? Of course you can see it, you just don't want to see it."

"What can a child of five or six years old decide? Lu Fangying deliberately starved herself to buy sweets for him to eat, which damaged his teeth. She used her poor acting skills to arouse your heartache and anger, to make you hate him and punish him and beat him. You only cared about whether Lu Fangying was hungry. Did you care about how painful those two broken teeth were? Do you know that he never ate sweets again after that? Living together every day, it's strange that Lu Fangying could see it but you couldn't."

"Not only did she see through it, she also deliberately used things like buying sweets to maintain her image as a good stepmother. How wonderful! She was doing the most disgusting thing, but on the surface she was a kind person."

"Not only did you not see it, even if I told you directly, you wouldn't think there was anything wrong with Lu Fangying. You would just scold him for being ungrateful and looking for trouble!"

"Do you know how many times he went hungry since he was a child? Do you know how he survived every time he was sick? Do you know what kind of life he led under your disgust and cold eyes, under the exclusion and calculation of your wife and son, and under the shadow of the happy family of three?"

"Next time you think he is cold-blooded, mean and heartless, please think carefully about how your family of three treats him! Especially you, his biological father!"

"Yes, you didn't have no tolerance for him. You just threw away all his things when he went to the countryside and turned his room into a table tennis room for your son!"

"If he didn't get into college and get a good job after graduation, would you care about him?"

"He broke up with you because of marrying me. Lu Fangying should be so happy that she can't sleep. She quickly cleaned up the room that was left for him, right?"

"Lu Fangying has gone to great lengths to make Lin Haobo the only son of the Lin family, and to give everything in the Lin family to Lin Haobo. And you! You are the most hateful! You simply cannot tolerate him!"

"Lu Fangying used all her calculations on such a young child. You have been treating your own son harshly for years. Aren't you afraid of retribution?"

"Oh, now this is retribution, isn't it?"

The expression on Lin Bingwei's face was completely and utterly disheartened.

Chu Xia didn't stop, she looked at him and continued, "With a father like you and a mother like Lu Fangying, what kind of good son can you raise? You have spoiled Lin Haobo like the apple of your eye since he was a child, holding him in your hands for fear of dropping him, holding him in your mouth for fear of melting him, giving him whatever he wants. Lu Fangying only taught him how to act cute and please you. He has never grown well from the root. You think he is rotten just now, but in fact, he has been rotten for a long time!"

"You really love him. Even though he committed such a serious crime, you still think he was instigated by someone. You even lowered your face and came to the person you kicked out of the Lin family a long time ago!"

"Director Lin, it's a pity that you found the wrong person. If you come to us and tell us this, we will not sympathize with you and your son, nor will we help you a penny. We will only feel relieved! We feel that you deserve it! We feel relieved!"

Lin Bingwei's old face collapsed, as if even his spine could not hold up anymore.

He looked at Chu Xia for a while, then looked at Lin Xiaohan.

Lin Xiaohan met his gaze and said, "Lin Bingwei, you deserve this."

***

Coming out of the courtyard gate, Lin Bingwei seemed to have lost all his energy and spirit.

He walked out of the alley in a daze, feeling like every step was on springs. The world in front of him was shaking up and down, and he seemed like he would fall at any moment.

Apart from Lin Haobo's matter, the rest of his mind was filled with what Chu Xia had just said.

Following those words, many memories and scenes in his mind changed little by little, and all the things that he had ignored before suddenly became clear in his mind.

It was already very late when he returned home in a daze.

Lu Fangying was still sitting on the sofa. When she heard him open the door, she immediately stood up from the sofa and looked towards the door.

Seeing Lin Bingwei enter the room, Lu Fangying hurried to greet him.

She called Lin Bingwei in a plaintive voice, stretched out her hand to grab his sleeve, and couldn't help asking him, "Have you thought of a solution for Xiaobo's problem?"

Lin Bingwei didn't want to talk, nor did he have the energy to speak.

He raised his hand and pulled Lu Fangying's hand away. Without even looking at her, he went straight into the room.

Lu Fangying didn't know what was going on with him.

She followed Lin Bingwei to the door, and Lin Bingwei slammed the door shut and locked it, blocking her out of the room. She knocked on the door and called a few more times, but Lin Bingwei ignored her.

That night, Lin Bingwei did not leave the room again.

Lu Fangying also remained in the living room. Besides continuing to suppress her anxiety and worry, her mind was still full of thoughts - what could she do?

The next day, Lin Bingwei did not leave the house, so Lu Fangying stayed at home too.

She cooked and called Lin Bingwei to eat, but Lin Bingwei had no appetite at all and naturally refused to eat.

Lu Fangying endured this for another day.

After enduring this day, Lin Haobo still didn't come back.

She couldn't control her emotions anymore, so she leaned over to the door and pleaded, "Can you please talk to me? What should we do about Xiaobo's problem?"

As soon as she asked this question, Lin Bingwei opened the door of the room.

But he still did not answer Lu Fangying's question, and went to the toilet just like he did the last few times.

Lu Fangying followed him to the bathroom and asked, "Are we just going to do nothing but wait? I don't know how the investigation by the Commission for Discipline Inspection is going. Why don't we go and ask them?"

Lin Bingwei went into the bathroom, closed the door, and kept Lu Fangying outside.

Just when Lu Fangying was about to collapse again, she heard a knock on the door.

Because the people who came to her house these days were all staff from the Discipline Inspection Commission, Lu Fangying now felt nervous when she heard knocking on the door. She didn't dare to open the door, nor did she open it.

Lin Bingwei came out of the bathroom and the knock on the door sounded again.

He was not as hesitant and afraid as Lu Fangying. He walked straight to the door and opened it.

Lu Fangying followed behind him.

As soon as she opened the door and saw Lin Haobo standing outside, her tears immediately fell and she hurried out to pull her baby son in.

But before she stepped out of the door, she was stopped by people in uniform nearby.

After the uniformed man pushed her back, he showed the search warrant in his hand and said, "The procuratorate is handling the case. We are now searching the suspect's residence in accordance with the law. Please cooperate."

After hearing this, Lu Fangying realized the complete scene in front of her.

Lin Haobo did not come back by himself. There were six uniformed men standing beside him, and he had silver handcuffs on his hands.

I was called by the Discipline Inspection Commission just for a talk and to cooperate with the investigation.

Now he is being handcuffed and taken to the Procuratorate to search his residence, which shows that the Discipline Inspection Commission has transferred the case to the Procuratorate, and the Procuratorate has already filed a case for arrest.

Lu Fangying’s eyes went dark and she almost fell to the ground.

She suddenly stretched out her hand to support the wall, and finally managed to keep her balance after a long time.

Lin Bingwei is not much better than him.

He was stunned for a long time and then moved aside to let the people from the procuratorate take Lin Haobo into the house.

Lin Haobo lowered his head with handcuffs on, not daring to look at Lin Bingwei and Lu Fangying, especially since he was used to acting like a good boy in front of Lin Bingwei.

In the past, whenever he appeared in front of Lin Bingwei, he would be praised, but now he is handcuffed.

Lin Bingwei and Lu Fangying were also unable to utter a word.

Lin Haobo brought the people from the procuratorate into his room, and they followed in with heavy steps.

Lin Haobo didn't speak after entering the room.

The people from the procuratorate had no choice but to urge him: "Do you want to hand over the stolen goods voluntarily, or do you want us to search for them?"

Lin Haobo lowered his head and remained silent for a while, then pointed to a corner of the desk.

The people from the procuratorate lifted the tablecloth as he instructed and saw a key underneath it. Then they continued to follow Lin Haobo's instructions and used the key to open the middle drawer of the desk.

As soon as the drawer was opened, a pile of hundred-yuan bills were seen lying in a slightly messy manner inside.

Seeing so much money in the drawer, Lin Bingwei was stunned for a moment.

He stared at the money for a long time.

The people from the procuratorate cleared out all the stolen money and asked Lin Haobo, "Anything else?"

Before Lin Haobo could reply to the prosecutor's question, Lin Bingwei suddenly became angry.

He looked like he was going to beat up Lin Haobo, yelling, "You bastard! How dare you? How dare you?!"

The people from the procuratorate were quick to grab him.

Pulling him back, he said, "Please control your emotions and cooperate with us in the investigation."