Ren Jiaju was still not annoyed at all, and said with a smile on his face: "My dad has some free time this morning and asked me to invite Brother Gen to the house to sit down and thank Brother Gen for saving my life last time."
"Vice Mayor Ren..." Liu Gen was stunned, then declined with a smile: "Thank you dad for me. Unfortunately, I have a few things to deal with today. In the future, when I have time, I will make a special trip to visit..."
"Brother Gen, my dad has wanted to invite you to our house for a long time, but he has been busy and has no time. This morning, he just had two or three hours before he asked me to pick up Brother Gen. I called just now, and I was afraid
Brother Gen refused, so he didn't tell the truth, haha... I hope Brother Gen can understand and please give my dad some face, okay?" Ren Jiaju said it so hard that it would be difficult to refuse.
"Are you leaving now?" Liu Gen asked. He felt that if he didn't go, he would lose the dignity of being the deputy mayor. Offending such a high-ranking official would not be of any benefit to him, so he had no choice but to agree.
"If possible, it's best to leave now. My car is outside." Ren Jiaju heard that Liu Gen agreed, looked at Xia Yang and said, "Xia Yang, you go too."
"Okay." Xia Yang was carefree and agreed without thinking. She would follow Liu Gen wherever he went, no matter if it was a dragon's pond or a tiger's den.
Liu Gen didn't plan to invite Ren Jiaju to dinner, nor did he go back to change clothes: "Then let's go, don't make your dad wait too long."
"Brother Liu Gen, you haven't called Brother Xiangzi yet." Xia Yang took Liu Gen's arm and reminded him.
"Oh... yes, I'll call him right now." Liu Gen said.
Seeing Xia Yang being so close to Liu Gen, Ren Jiaju was filled with jealousy, but he still kept a smile on his face: "I'll wait for you in the car." He walked out of the store first, as if he didn't want to see Xia Yang holding Liu Gen's arm.
Liu Gen made an appointment with Xiangzi on the phone to leave from the Daxue Road store to the airport at three o'clock, and got into Ren Xiaoyao's car with Xia Yang.
However, neither Xia Yang nor Liu Gen sat in the front. Instead, they lifted up the passenger seat and the two got into the narrow double seat in the back. Xia Yang still leaned against Liu Gen like a bird.
Ren Xiaoyao moved the rearview mirror away, not wanting to see Liu Gen and Xia Yang cuddling together behind him. He drove the car and said, "Brother Gen, this time Li Gan was involved in the smuggling case, a large number of corrupt officials were involved. The biggest ones are a few."
Important officials in the capital were arrested for this. In Nanhai Customs, almost half of the customs law enforcement personnel from the customs director on down were arrested, as well as Vice Mayor Wang and several key leaders of the city's public prosecutors and law enforcement agencies, who used to act as Li Gan's protective umbrella.
He was also implicated... I heard that most of Li Gan's illegal gains obtained through smuggling over the years were transferred overseas. It is initially estimated to be in the billions... With such a large sum of money, many countries are willing to provide asylum.
Although he knows the specific location where he is currently, he cannot extradite him back to the country..."
Along the way, Ren Jiaju kept chattering and told Liu Gen and Xia Yang some inside stories that had not yet been released by the media.
"Will all Li Gan's domestic assets and the companies he invested in be confiscated?" Liu Gen asked.
"Most of them have been shut down, and a small number of properties under construction and unfinished projects are said to be auctioned. There are also some with relatively good profitability, such as investment equity in the tourism and financial industries, which are taken over by the government, but they have to be affiliated to designated institutions.
Under the names of some outstanding state-owned enterprises..." Ren Xiaoyao seemed to know in detail and was not shy about it, and seemed to intend to show off in front of Xia Yang.
Xia Yang majored in journalism and media and was very interested in these things. He asked: "When will the trial of Li Tianyi's case begin? Will he be sentenced to death in the first instance?"
Ren Jiaju smiled and replied: "Death is a matter of time. Now there is a lot of public dissatisfaction in the society about this murder case, and everyone expects the law to play its role as a deterrent. If he is not sentenced to death, many people will have doubts about the fairness and justice of the law."
Wei Wen has become suspicious... It's coming soon. The trial is expected to start early next month, and it will be held together with the gang-related smuggling case of Li Gan's gang." At this point, Ren Jiaju seemed to suddenly remember: "By the way, the Hunan who was replaced by Li Tianyi
Candidates will also be able to have their academic status restored, and the school will provide appropriate compensation for the harm caused to Zhang Qiang, the leader of university admissions, by bending the law for personal gain, possibly by exempting him from all tuition and miscellaneous fees during his studies."
"Who did you listen to about this?" When Liu Gen heard this, he was secretly happy for Brother Hongshu and wanted to know whether Ren Jiaju's source of information was reliable.
"The new President Qin of Nanhai University came to my house a few days ago and talked about this matter with my dad. I happened to overhear it." Ren Jiaju said with a smile: "You two have to keep it a secret. If my dad finds out about it, it will come from my mouth."
If it leaks out, I will definitely not be spared."
"Ren Jiaju, your sports car is very expensive? Did your dad buy it for you?" Xia Yang asked deliberately.
"My dad has no money, my mom bought it for me." Ren Jiaju seemed to have already thought about how to answer, without even thinking about it, without changing his expression.
"What does your mother do?" Xia Yang likes to get to the bottom of things and would never let go of this question.
"My mother is in the Italian clothing import business, which is commonly known as an agent. She represents clothing from three well-known brands in Milan. She has stores in major cities across the country." Ren Jiaju answered.
"No wonder, I said, why do you live in a high-end villa area like my cousin's house? It turns out that your mother is a strong woman." Xia Yang said sarcastically, and then asked: "Then does your father live alone now?"
This question asked about Ren Jiaju's shortcomings. He smiled awkwardly and replied: "No, my father and my mother remarried after they divorced. However, I have lived with my mother since I was a child."
While talking, the car turned onto the street leading to the residence of the city government officials. There was a villa with Western architecture before liberation. After liberation, it became the residence of the main leaders of the city government and municipal committee. There were armed police standing guard at the door, and ordinary people.
It's hard to get in.
Ren Jiaju had a special pass. After showing the pass at the door, he drove the car into the courtyard gate.
"Wow, the scenery here is so beautiful!" Xia Yang looked at the scenery outside the car window and said, "It turns out that the benefits of being a leader are so good. No wonder so many people want to be officials."
"My dad also had the opportunity to move here after he became the deputy mayor. It's not like he can live here for a lifetime. Only serving city leaders can live here. Vice Mayor Wang next door to my house was arrested because of Li Gan's involvement in the smuggling case.
He was kicked out of the compound a few days ago. On the day his family moved out, I saw a military truck and about a dozen armed policemen, banging and banging, as if they were ransacking the house. It was very miserable!" Ren Xiaoyao said: "So don't look at it.
It’s so comfortable to live here. In fact, every leader is frightened and worried about being driven away like cattle.”
"Most of the people who are worried about being kicked out are corrupt officials. Doesn't your father also have this worry?" Xia Yang asked mockingly.
Liu Gen poked Xia Yang and asked her to stop talking nonsense.
Ren Jiaju laughed awkwardly but said nothing.
The car stopped in front of an ancient European-style building. Xia Yang and Liu Gen got out of the car and looked up at the walls of ivy vines that were about to lose their leaves. They looked very depressed and did not have any modern flavor.
"It's a bit like a haunted house in ancient foreign movies." Xia Yang clasped his hands on his chest, as if he was a little scared, and huddled his shoulders and muttered in a low voice.
Ren Jiaju took a few steps up the steps to the door and rang the doorbell. A middle-aged man in a suit immediately opened the door: "Jiaju, are the guests here?" He glanced at Liu Gen and Xia Yang and smiled.
"Uncle Jie, is my dad in the study?" Ren Jiaju asked the middle-aged man who opened the door.
"In the study room upstairs." The middle-aged man answered.
When Liu Gen and Xia Yang stepped into the door, they thought they needed to change into slippers, but there was no shoe rack inside the door. Seeing Ren Jiaju and the middle-aged man walking in with their shoes on, they just followed their guests.
The floor is an old-fashioned long wooden floor. When you step on it, it will creak and groan from time to time, as if it will be broken at any time.
A middle-aged woman wearing an apron came out of a room and said hello to Liu Genxia Yang.
"Aunt Hui, prepare some fruit for us, please?" Ren Jiaju said to the middle-aged woman.
The middle-aged man who led the way up the stairs was also an old-fashioned wooden board, but painted vermilion. As he walked, Ren Jiaju introduced: "The villas in the courtyard are basically decorated in this style, like the earthen buildings in the countryside, because they are ancient.
The building complex is protected by the Cultural Relics Bureau and private decoration is not allowed, so we have to retain the past layout."
Walking up to the second floor, a beautiful young woman, who looked to be in her thirties, with a little makeup and casual clothes, stood on the right side of the stairs on the second floor with a smile on her face: "Jiaju, is this young man Liu Gen?" Then she looked at her.
He turned to Xia Yang and asked, "Who is this beautiful girl..."
Xia Yang was shocked when he saw this beautiful young woman: "You are...that...oh my god..."
Ren Jiaju laughed and said: "Xia Yang, I recognized it, yes, the one standing in front of you is the Meng Yuan you often see in movies and TV." Then he introduced Liu Gen and Xia Yang: "Aunt Meng, this is mine.
The savior Liu Gen, known as Brother Gen, is Xia Yang, Liu Gen’s fellow villager, who studied journalism and media at Nanhai University.”
Meng Yuan's beautiful eyes glanced at Liu Gen lightly, but then looked at Xia Yang carefully, and said loudly: "She's so beautiful, even more beautiful than some of the actresses who are so popular nowadays. You should learn acting. In the future
Will definitely become a star!"
Xia Yang was a little reserved and his face was red, but he said excitedly: "My grandparents and I are both your loyal fans. For the TV series you starred in, my grandparents will stay in front of the TV on time after dinner every day...
…I didn’t expect to see you here, can you sign your name for me?”
"Don't worry, we're all at home. You can sign as many as you want in a moment." Meng Yuan said cheerfully.
"Has my guest arrived?" came a rich man's voice, with a chuckle, walking out of a room in the corridor on the right. It was Ren Xiaoyao. When he saw Xia Yang, his face suddenly changed.
His eyes were full of fear and panic, but it only flashed by, so fast that almost no one noticed it. When they heard Ren Xiaoyao's words, Liu Gen and Xia Yang happened to face the direction of Ren Xiaoyao walking out of the study, and Xia Yang was idolized.
Meng Yuan was attracted and did not see the change in Ren Xiaoyao's facial expression, but he did not escape Liu Gen's unruly eyes.