Chapter 450 Playing with Fire
"You surnamed Li, are you playing dirty tricks?"
Vice Minister Qi stared coldly at Director Li with a sinister look in his eyes.
Director Li smiled faintly and ignored him.
Instead, the woman behind him smiled contemptuously, her gaze sweeping over Vice Minister Qi, then glancing at Liu Yue, and said sarcastically, "What, Vice Minister Qi can use this gun but we can't?"
Liu Yue suddenly looked up, staring at the woman in shock, "It's you! You led Zhao Shucheng to turn around and accuse us..."
"Not stupid, but unfortunately, his lack of experience makes him useless."
The woman withdrew her gaze and casually glanced at Vice Minister Qi, whose face was so dark it could wring water out of it. She shrugged and smiled slightly. "Vice Minister Qi isn't angry, is he? Why don't you go and cry to the person behind you again and see if he can get the top leader to help you keep the vice minister position you stole?"
"you!"
Vice Minister Qi gritted his teeth, his eyes like poisoned knives, and glared at the woman, cursing, "Like master, like beast. How true."
The woman clicked her tongue twice.
"Swearing with profanity? How about I teach Vice Minister Qi a couple of phrases? For example... you've got two of those four words in your head, 'touched by the scene and feeling sentimental.' Also, shake your head before you speak. Don't try to show off those 'incomplete cerebellum development, complete cerebral atrophy' ideas to my advisor. I think you're just constantly picking on your own family, and it's finding ways to trap you..."
Vice Minister Qi was momentarily stunned.
He turned to look at Liu Yue.
Liu Yue didn't understand the first two sentences, but she understood the last two. She whispered to Vice Minister Qi, "She called you brainless, said your brain wasn't fully developed, and that it got caught in a door..."
Vice Minister Qi's face instantly turned as dark as if an ink bottle had been poured on it, and his eyes looked like they wanted to kill someone.
"Yulan, go knock on the door."
Director Li spoke up at the opportune moment.
The woman, Shi Yulan, responded, quickly stepped forward, and knocked on the office door.
After three sounds, the door was opened.
The top leader's secretary, with his eyes downcast and seemingly oblivious to his surroundings, had clearly been standing by the door for quite some time. "Mayor Yan has been waiting for you for a long time. Please come in."
Vice Minister Qi's gloomy face abruptly turned into a smile.
He tried to step in ahead of Director Li, but Shi Yulan blocked his way. Director Li glanced at him indifferently and went inside.
The woman followed closely behind.
The secretary glanced at him, then followed Director Li without waiting for him.
That one glance made Vice Minister Qi's heart race, and he subconsciously swallowed. Behind him, Liu Yue urged, "Minister, everyone's waiting for you."
Vice Minister Qi turned his head and glared fiercely at Liu Yue.
A piece of trash who's more likely to cause trouble than to accomplish anything!
How did she arrange the people? Even Zhao Shucheng couldn't keep an eye on him, allowing him to run back and complain, and even make his way to Yan City without any trouble. Did she want to kill him?
idiot!
The group entered the house and closed the door.
Yan Shi pointed at Zhao Shucheng and asked Vice Minister Qi, "Do you know him?"
Zhao Shucheng shook his head and pointed at Liu Yue.
“I know her. The day before the investment promotion conference, I was replaced by Cao Yuzhen, and I held a grudge against her. I originally wanted to cause her some harmless trouble, but Liu Yue found me and told me that as long as I did what she said, she would guarantee me a place in Vice Minister Qi's graduate program, and I could get an internship at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in my first year of graduate school…”
"You're talking nonsense!" Liu Yue pursed her lips and accused Zhao Shucheng.
Mayor Yan glanced at his secretary, who said, "Assistant Liu, everyone must remain silent until Mayor Yan gives the order. Vice Minister Qi, keep your people in check."
"……yes."
Vice Minister Qi felt as if his face had been ripped off, thrown to the ground, and stomped on. He turned his back to the group and gave Liu Yue a sinister look.
Liu Yue shivered and shut her mouth, not daring to say another word.
"What did she ask you to do? Tell me." Yan Shi glanced at Vice Minister Qi with a cold face and said.
Zhao Shucheng's eyes gleamed with excitement as he shouted, "She told me to go buy croton seeds, and after successfully switching shifts with Qin Ximin the next day, go in and put the croton seeds into the water dispenser."
After pausing and coughing twice, he continued, "Unfortunately, I was stopped by Deputy Regiment Commander Luan before I could even go in. But some people in the venue still got caught: Liu Yue and two foreign business couples. Coincidentally, the two people in front of Liu Yue were Yuan Huaixin and Jin Nan. Liu Yue only told Yuan Huaixin, not Jin Nan, making everyone guess that she was willing to ruin her future to protect Jin Nan. But..."
Zhao Shucheng glanced at Liu Yue with disdain, and seeing the way Liu Yue looked like she wanted to tear him apart, he sneered.
"She claimed that she and Jin Nan were in love, and that she drugged the water dispenser after listening to Jin Nan's instructions. But in reality, Jin Nan never asked her to take croton oil. She put on an act to deceive everyone, Mayor Yan..."
Zhao Shucheng, upon realizing something, shouted twice in excitement.
"Those two are incredibly cunning. Jin Nan and I are both graduate students of Vice Minister Li. No matter which of us put croton oil in the water dispenser, causing diarrhea in the people inside, the responsibility would ultimately fall on Vice Minister Li. It's just that I was easily provoked and fell for it. Jin Nan is more shrewd than me. He values his future more. Although he has a conflict with Yao Jianshu, he was happy to watch the show while someone else stood up for him. In the end, he accidentally got burned! He set himself on fire..."
After analyzing the situation, he felt incredibly clever and looked up at Director Li, seeking praise.
Director Li remained expressionless.
However, Shi Yulan, who was half a body behind him, smiled and nodded, acknowledging his analysis.
Zhao Shucheng laughed twice, "Right, right?"
"Take the person out of here."
Mayor Yan sighed, waved his hand to have his secretary take Zhao Shucheng out of the office, leaving the rest of them to talk.
The door closed again. Yan Shi looked at Vice Minister Qi, whose face was alternating between pale and flushed, and asked, "What else do you have to say in your argument?"
"...How can one person's one-sided account be enough to..."
Vice Minister Qi really wanted to argue a bit and wait for reinforcements to come to his aid, but before he could finish speaking, Shi Yulan took out a file bag from her briefcase, opened it, took out a thick stack of documents, and spread them out on Yan Shi's desk.
"This contains some evidence we have recently collected, witness testimonies, witness signatures, and... audio recordings as evidence."
Shi Yulan then took out two more cassette tapes from her bag and placed them on top of the documents.
“There’s a very interesting recording in it that Vice Minister Qi and Assistant Liu would probably find very interesting. I’ll go get a radio.”
Shi Yulan looked at Yan Shi, who nodded slightly, and she quickly walked out of the office.
A short while later, Shi Yulan came in carrying a radio and put the cassette tape in.
The first thing you hear is a debate about whether you love me or not, followed by Vice Minister Qi's dissatisfaction with Vice Minister Li's many years as vice minister, and then the sound of the two making love.
Vice Minister Qi and Liu Yue both changed their expressions.
Liu Yue stared at the tape recorder in disbelief, then lunged forward to snatch the tape and tear it apart.
Shi Yulan grabbed her arm and smiled, "Don't worry, the best is yet to come. You've been going on for too long, so I've cut some parts. You'll be done soon, trust me."
The phrase "You'll be done soon" was a double entendre, which terrified Liu Yue, turning her face deathly pale. "You... how could you..."
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