The Tempting Road to Becoming an Official

"Don't leave, keep me company for a chat."

Xiao Ting said.

Chen Fang glanced at the time; it was already eleven at night.

He wanted to refuse, but then thought of her lying on the bed all alone, bored.

He nodded and said, "Alright, what shall we chat about?"

"You pick a topic."

Xiao Ting said.

Chen Fang pondered for a moment and asked, "Do you not get along with your mom? Why doesn't she know about your internship?"

"Can we not talk about my mom?"

Xiao Ting said with a displeased expression.

"Then let's talk about you. How's work?"

"Can we not talk about work on a rest day?"

This topic was also rejected.

If not this, not that, then what else is there to talk about?

Suddenly, Chen Fang had a realization and asked, "You mentioned earlier that something happened at Jinde High School, which is why you had a break. What happened?"

This topic clearly had more appeal.

Xiao Ting asked, "Have you heard about the jumping incident at Haus Hotel?"

"I heard a few things from colleagues at work. It sounds like a woman was having an affair; things got too wild, and she accidentally slipped out the window, right?"

Chen Fang asked.

Xiao Ting smiled and said, "It's because of that incident."

"An affair and a fatal fall. What does that have to do with the school?"

"Originally, it had nothing to do with it. But the woman who jumped, her husband went to the school making a scene, claiming that on the day his wife left home, she went to see the principal about their child's fight at school, and from that point on, she never returned. The next news he heard of his wife, she was already dead. Hence the man believes that his wife's death is related to the school."

After saying this,

Xiao Ting recounted the incident involving Zhang Zicheng's fight in detail.

Chen Fang seemed to catch on to something.

He asked, "Are you saying that because Zhang Zicheng fought, the school wanted to expel him, so Zicheng's mother went to plead with the principal and then inexplicably ended up at Haus Hotel, eventually dying after falling? Is that right?"

Xiao Ting nodded.

She said, "Zicheng's father brought relatives and friends to the school with banners, demanding an explanation from the principal, severely disrupting the normal order of the school. With no other choice, the principal had to declare a holiday."

After all this,

that was the story.

While the incident seemed rather mystifying,

Chen Fang, having never heard of such occurrences before, didn't indulge in wild guesses but merely deemed it a bizarre accident.

However, what Xiao Ting said next alerted him.

"I heard from colleagues that this isn't the first time something like this has happened. Somehow this time, they ended up killing someone."

Chen Fang was startled and asked, "Is that true?"

Xiao Ting scoffed and said, "Of course it's true. What do you think it is, fake? The room in Haus Hotel where she jumped from, a few of my female colleagues were also coerced into the same room. They even nicknamed it 'the cannon room.'"

Chen Fang suddenly became more "interested."

He said, "Tell me in detail, how were your colleagues coerced into going there?"

Xiao Ting thought for a moment and said, "I'll tell you, but you mustn't gossip about it. Otherwise, their reputations will be ruined. Some of them are still unmarried; if outsiders knew, they'd point fingers and curse."

"Go ahead,"

Chen Fang said.

Xiao Ting nodded.

She spoke about two of her female colleagues and a parent.

One colleague was due to be made permanent and was taken into the cannon room. She said there were three men in the cannon room at the time: the director and deputy director of the education bureau and the principal of Jinde High School, Qin Shou.

That night, she was "tortured" by the three men in turns.

The next day, she received her notice of becoming a permanent staff member.

Another was a secondary school class adviser in her thirties who had made a minor mistake and was about to be fired by the school.

Having no choice, she too was taken into the cannon room, where she serviced the two men.

Afterward, the matter was dropped.

Another was also a parent.

Her child had not performed well in the middle school exams and, wanting to get into Jinde High School, she approached Principal Qin with a bribe. Principal Qin took her into the cannon room as well.

This parent was arguably the most tragic.

She was brutally violated for three days in the munitions room, and when she came out, she couldn't even stand straight.

Of course, the payoff was that her son also managed to get into the prestigious No. 3 Middle School smoothly.

This time, the woman named Wang Miaofang, like the previous times, no one expected that Wang Miaofang would actually fall to her death from the munitions room.

After listening to Xiao Ting's narration.

Chen Fang was furious.

He suddenly pounded his fist on the bed, startling Xiao Ting.

"What's wrong?"

Xiao Ting asked.

Chen Fang clenched his teeth and said, "If everything you've heard is true, then these people are worse than animals."

"They are indeed worse than animals, especially that director of the education bureau. I've heard that he is greedy and lascivious. Such a person should be deep-fried in oil,"

Xiao Ting said viciously.

Chen Fang shuddered.

He said, "It must be the former director of the education bureau, not the current one, right?"

"I don't care which one, every director of the education bureau is rotten,"

Xiao Ting cursed.

Chen Fang felt a bit ashamed and said, "You can't say that; the new guy seems alright to me."

"You know nothing, you're just a low-level clerk. What do you know? Those high and mighty bastards, I curse them every day, hoping their sons will be born without anuses and their daughters without breasts…"

"Alright, alright, let's not talk about this anymore,"

Chen Fang quickly interrupted her.

If she kept cursing like that, he feared he might also become afraid to have children in the future.

Awkward as it was,

today's sudden revelation seemed to open a new door for Chen Fang.

A reform was necessary in the Jinde County education system, and Pan Youde and Qi Hui both had to be eliminated.

Up until now, there had been little progress.

But if what Xiao Ting said was true, he now had the leverage to bring down these two men.

Thinking this,

Chen Fang took out his phone and dialed Wen Mei's number.

The call was quickly answered.

A languid voice came through.

"My busy man, can't sleep and thinking of me?"

Chen Fang asked, "And are you thinking of me?"

"Yes, I think about it every day. When I really miss you, I just pull out a toy to play with, though the toy isn't as fun as you."

This Wen Mei, always so bold.

Chen Fang laughed and said, "In that case, I should come see you soon."

"With your character, surrounded by beauties all the time, you still think of me? Stop being pretentious, tell me, what do you need my help with?"

Wen Mei asked.

Chen Fang chuckled and said, "I don't need anything, I was just missing you."

"Sweet words are too fake if said too often, haha. If you don't want to talk, I'm just going to hang up; I've got work tomorrow."

"Alright, alright, I'll talk. Do you know anyone reliable in the Jinde County public security system?"

Chen Fang asked.

Wen Mei burst into laughter.

She said, "I knew you weren't calling this late just to chat. In Jinde County. I do have one, a police academy classmate, but he's not a detective; he works at a police station, his name is Hu Qin."

"Which police station?"

"I think it's the West Town station."

"Good, I got it. Can you do me a favor? Arrange dinner with him tomorrow night; I need his help with something."

Chen Fang said.

Wen Mei paused, then said, "I can arrange that no problem, but don't say I didn't warn you, my classmate is quite a tomboy, very tough and a bit stinky, it's almost impossible to get her help."

"Is she a woman?"

Chen Fang asked.

"Yes!"

"If she's a woman, that will do. There isn't a woman I, Chen Fang, can't handle…"

Chen Fang said confidently.