The Beautiful County Magistrate
Chapter 454: Secret!

Chapter 454: Chapter 454: Secret!

Zou Ming was shaking with fury, rage rushing to his forehead.

He, Zou Ming, was the Secretary of the Municipal Committee of Zhongzhou City, the top authority in Zhongzhou City.

Xu Qianli, a mere Deputy County Magistrate from a rural township, had the audacity to bring people in the middle of the night to seek out his wife. This was no longer simply a case of disrespect.

Xu Qianli thinking he could just take his wife, Jiang Yufei, and leave? Dream on!

Inside the City Committee compound, quick-witted people had already made phone calls, notifying the Municipal Public Security Bureau to send people immediately.

Xu Qianli was even dragging out the time, making it impossible for them to leave, he pushed Zou Ming aside, "Secretary Zou, you better step aside. This is a serious criminal case, you better not interfere. We’re leaving!"

Xu Qianli hurriedly left with his men, rapidly descended the stairs, got into the police car, and headed straight for Jiang City.

Zou Ming, with the help of He Xuan, finally got up, stomping his feet in anger.

"Damn Xu Qianli, you’ve gone too far, completely disregarding me as the Secretary!"

"You dare to arrest my wife and push me down? I won’t let this go!"

"Quick, notify the Municipal Bureau, they absolutely must not be allowed to leave, block them in the city, take control of them all!"

Zou Ming roared loudly, his anger causing him to lose all sense of reason.

The mighty Secretary of a City Committee facing such treatment, he couldn’t bear it, simply couldn’t bear it, he had to settle accounts with Xu Qianli!

The Municipal Bureau received the news and acted immediately.

But, being late at night, most police officers were off duty, only a few were on duty, and they could only mobilize a dozen cars from several branches on short notice.

The group led by Xu Qianli left quickly, and since there were fewer cars on the roads at night, by the time the Municipal Bureau’s forces could catch up, they watched helplessly as the group left the city.

Upon learning that they had not managed to block them in the city, Zou Ming ordered checkpoints to be set up on the roads leading to Jiang City, insisting on capturing Xu Qianli and his group!

Xu Qianli had prepared countermeasures; after leaving the city, several police cars quickly entered a factory on the outskirts.

The police cars were temporarily stored there, and the group boarded a truck carrying containers, sitting in the deepest part of the truck as they traveled towards Jiang City.

Along the way, the police received orders to intercept several police cars heading to Jiang City but paid no attention to the trucks, which passed through smoothly.

Ironically, the police cars that came from the Municipal Bureau to chase after Xu Qianli’s group were all stopped, and no amount of pleading helped; they were detained.

Before long, the group arrived in Jiang City smoothly.

Zhang Jian, Tian Tian, and their subordinates had already been captured and were separately detained in the detention room.

Jiang Yufei, after being brought in, was also shoved into the detention room.

"Let go of me, let me go!"

"I am the wife of the City Secretary, the wife of Zhongzhou City’s number one, you all are insane to arrest me!"

"Just wait, my husband won’t let you get away with this, he’ll make you all suffer!"

"Let go of me, let me go..."

Jiang Yufei shouted loudly, but to no avail.

At that moment, the door to the detention room opened, and Xu Qianli entered. "Instead of shouting, you’d better save some energy to explain your problems."

Jiang Yufei responded, "I have no idea what you’re talking about, what problem can I have?"

Xu Qianli scoffed, "Zhang Jian has already confessed everything!"

Hearing this, Jiang Yufei’s eyes flickered momentarily before regaining composure, "I don’t understand what you mean. Whatever Zhang Jian confessed, whatever crime he committed, what does that have to do with me?"

"It has nothing to do with you?"

Xu Qianli took out his phone and opened a video, "Take a look for yourself."

In the video, Zhang Jian was confessing that he had been instigated by Jiang Yufei to set up Xu Qianli and Jiang Yumeng.

Previously, it was thought that Xu Qianli was merely bluffing himself, but now after seeing the video and knowing that Zhang Jian had truly confessed, Jiang Yufei’s complexion gradually turned ugly. "Slander, that’s blatant slander!"

"Slander?"

Xu Qianli then took out Zhang Jian’s phone, opened WeChat, and played several voice calls with Jiang Yufei.

The content of the calls was Jiang Yufei instructing Zhang Jian to target Xu Qianli and Jiang Yumeng, and she had planned the specific scheme and how it should be executed.

This time, the evidence was ironclad; even Jiang Yufei couldn’t deny it.

Unable to deny it, Jiang Yufei said, "I won’t say anything, I want to see my husband. Until I see my husband, I won’t say a word!"

"Suit yourself. Whether you speak or not makes no difference."

Xu Qianli dropped the remark and was about to leave.

Jiang Yufei quickly stepped forward to stop him, "Wait, please don’t go. Can we talk this over?"

"Talk it over?" Xu Qianli pointed at Jiang Yufei and then at himself. "What is there to talk over between us?"

Jiang Yufei covered her mouth and lowered her voice.

"There’s nothing that can’t be discussed in this world. I admit I was confused about some things. At worst, just state your terms."

"You know about my husband’s status, too. As long as you speak up, here in Zhongzhou City, many things can easily be done."

"Just like a promotion, it’s simple for a City Secretary to promote you."

Unable to deny or resist, Jiang Yufei knew she was in big trouble and thus resorted to enticing Xu Qianli.

Men mostly can’t escape from the allure of fame and profit; she didn’t believe that offering him great benefits wouldn’t tempt him.

Anyhow, she needed to deal with this situation first, then figure out how to retaliate against Xu Qianli later.

Xu Qianli said, "If you want to talk, first clarify things. I am curious, why did you target and trap me? As far as I know, we’ve only met twice before, never even spoke a word to each other, let alone offended you. Why would you harm me?"

Jiang Yufei remained silent.

Seeing her silent, Xu Qianli said, "If that’s the case, there’s nothing more to say. You, just wait for the legal consequences!"

Xu Qianli was about to leave when Jiang Yufei suddenly grabbed his arm, "I’ll talk, I’ll talk, is that alright? But you have to promise not to pursue this further."

"Whether I pursue this depends on how you behave."

Xu Qianli gave an ambiguous response and waited; he wanted to see why Jiang Yufei targeted him.

Jiang Yufei looked around, "First, turn off the camera."

Xu Qianli said, "It’s already off, just speak."

"Alright, here it goes."

"I didn’t really have any grudge against you before, but you got someone jailed and his company confiscated, and that’s why I have a grudge against you."

"That person is Xia Dongyang, you should know him."

"I have shares in his company, but because of my husband’s status, I couldn’t openly hold those shares and had them under Xia Dongyang’s name instead."

"Everything was fine until he was taken down by you, his company was confiscated, and my money went down the drain. That’s why I wanted to target you, to harshly teach you a lesson."

Jiang Yufei laid out clearly the reasons she had a vendetta against Xu Qianli.