Ma Qingyuan received Liu Yong's call at the county government office.
At first, he didn't realize anything.
After all, he often went to the Municipal Party Committee to meet with leaders and attend meetings.
But Liu Yong's words made him alert.
He heard Liu Yong laughingly saying on the phone, "Qingyuan, please come quickly, the city leaders are waiting for you, hehe..."
At first glance, this sounds like a very ordinary sentence.
After careful consideration, Ma Qingyuan felt something unusual.
First of all, Liu Yong's tone was not as serious as when he was usually notified of a meeting. Instead, it felt stiff and forced.
It's like an adult giving a child candy to persuade him to go to the municipal party committee...
Besides, how could the city leaders wait for him, the county governor?
Since the municipal party committee is holding a meeting, it must be for the entire city, and the heads of all counties and districts will be present... It's not just Shannan County...
This is very puzzling.
Sitting behind his desk, Ma Qingyuan looked solemn and sighed constantly.
He thought of Lu Chengze, Chu Guoan, Wang Qirui, Peng Yutao and others who had been arrested...
He wondered if these people had exposed him.
Municipal Party Committee, are you going to take action against him?
"Oh...it must be like this...I probably won't be able to come back after this trip..." Ma Qingyuan sighed, his heart full of regret.
He came from a poor family and after graduating from university he was admitted to work at the Provincial Animal Husbandry Department. However, because he had no background, he was often looked down upon.
Many opportunities for promotion were missed because I had no connections...
It was not until he was thirty-five that he managed to reach the level of a regular official.
If it wasn't for an accidental chance, he met Chu Guoan, who was then the deputy mayor of a certain city, and through Chu Guoan he got to know a group of local officials, gradually becoming a part of the local power. I'm afraid he would never have been able to reach his current position as a county magistrate at the department level in his lifetime.
County magistrate and secretary, that is the most powerful position among department-level cadres, managing tens of thousands of employees and hundreds of thousands of people... No matter where you go, there are people serving you... How many county magistrates are there in a country? And he, Ma Qingyuan, is one of the few powerful people. Sometimes when he thinks about it, he feels like he is dreaming.
Sometimes when he woke up in the middle of the night, he would sigh - power is a good thing. It can make people live or die, and it can allow people like him who have no foundation to rise to the top overnight.
From the bottom of his heart, he was grateful to Chu Guoan, Lu Chengze and others. If it weren't for their help, he might have been just an ordinary section-level cadre in the Animal Husbandry Department in his life and would never have made a name for himself.
But at the same time, he also knew that he would have to pay back this favor sooner or later, and the price might be losing everything he had now, including his personal freedom!
All along, he was like a hidden nail buried by Lu Chengze in Pingyang. The local people never took the initiative to contact him, and he would not take the initiative to contact those people.
As a result, no one in Shannan County doubted his background and position in the past few years. They just regarded him as an outstanding cadre sent to the grassroots by the Animal Husbandry Department.
As the county magistrate, he was not greedy or opportunistic, and performed his duties conscientiously. He was praised by everyone from top to bottom. Who would have thought that such an outstanding county-level cadre would be a pawn of Lu Chengze and his people?
He hid it so deeply that he kept it from everyone's eyes.
Including Liu Yong, the county party secretary, he always thought that Ma Qingyuan was just a somewhat dull and rigid provincial cadre, and never associated him with those local people. So when Liu Yong heard that Ma Qingyuan was actually a member of Lu Chengze's faction, he was very shocked and regretful!
"Is everything over? I guess the provincial party committee has enough evidence... This time, there's no escape!"
Ma Qingyuan closed his eyes and sighed again.
He mainly did two things for Lu Chengze.
One is to take advantage of the geographical convenience to help Lu Chengze monitor and eavesdrop on Li Lin's every move.
The second is to secretly guide the killer Lao Gui. Not only did he reveal Li Lin's itinerary and work arrangements to him, but he also helped Lao Gui escape the pursuit of the County Public Security Bureau in the end.
In other words, he was actually the real murderer who killed Liu Zhong and his mother!
This charge alone is enough to get him into trouble!
"Li Lin, Li Lin... I never thought that we would become enemies... Why did you want to offend Mr. Lu? Why do you have to go against the local powerful people!"
He was helpless, and he didn't want to fight with Li Lin, but he had to obey Lu Chengze's orders... Because in his heart, he had long believed that everything he had was given by the local powerful people, and they could take it back at any time! Choosing to help them might help him keep everything he had...
But the final result was that he lost! The local faction represented by Lu Chengze was completely defeated! What he will face is the liquidation of the provincial party committee!
“This is all fate!”
"In fact, I should be content. After all, I have been the county magistrate for so many years..."
"Compared to being a section chief in the Provincial Animal Husbandry Department for the rest of your life, this is much more glamorous!"
But when he thought of his parents back home, he felt sad and felt sorry for their kindness in raising him. Not only did he not bring glory to his family, but he also brought shame to them... If he went to jail and was tried by the judicial authorities, then his family would also be unable to raise their heads!
Thinking of this, he stood up, walked to the window, pushed it open with force, and exhaled a long breath...
He thought about death. As long as he died, there would be no way to investigate the crimes against him, and perhaps he could preserve his last bit of dignity!
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