Rong Shaobai, twenty-eight years old, still looked very young. His hair was still black, his lips were neither thin nor thick, and he always wore a fake smile that seemed sincere.

Hearing this, he came to Jiang Xiaochuan with a wine glass in hand and said, “To clear my name or something, if I tell Mayor Jiang this Rong is very confused now, will Mayor Jiang think that I am a very stupid person?”

Even if Rong Shaobai was extremely smart, it was difficult to explain this kind of thing clearly.

No matter how aggressive and decisive he was in the beginning, now some things were like a puddle of mud. Once it got stuck on his body, it was difficult to remove it and wipe it clean.

“Some things, once you get involved in them, you can never wash them away,” Jiang Xiaochuan pointed out.

It wasn’t that Rong Shaobai didn’t understand what he was talking about; he just really didn’t want to mention that matter. “So, in fact, from the beginning, Mayor Jiang was not optimistic about this Rong’s cleanliness, right?”

Rong Shaobai was actually very clean now, but it was like a piece of pure white paper. If there was a stain on it, it was completely dirty, because people’s eyes would not stay on the clean parts; they would only look at the obvious stains.

“What’s wrong with President Rong’s cleanliness? Just like a blank piece of paper, I think President Rong knows better than me.”

“Blank piece of paper…”

Rong Shaobai came over with a red wine glass, sat down, and laid on the sofa. Swirling the bright wine, his eyes were gloomy. “Mayor Jiang is hinting to me that the only stain on this white paper is me, Rong Shaobai, himself?”

The entire Rong family was newly formed. It seemed there was no trace of the Rong family in the underworld at all, only Rong Shaobai, and Rong Shaobai was still the same Rong Shaobai. Although the Rong family now had become a well-known group in Chengzhou, Rong Shaobai was still called “President” and so on.

The stain on the Rong family was its founder—this young man who was not yet thirty years old, Rong Shaobai.

He himself also knew very well that if the Rong family changed its head, it would be completely clean.

Jiang Xiaochuan had nothing to say about this. He couldn’t tell Rong Shaobai straightforwardly, that was what he thought, it would be great if he already knew about it.

Rong Shaobai was silent for a long time, smiled with his lips raised, took a sip of wine, and then said, “Mayor Jiang, please stay here tonight. I’m afraid something might happen to you when you return to the municipal compound.”

Were things already so dangerous?

The wind was roaring, the grass and trees were all in war, and in the black night, were the underworld forces making a crazy counterattack?

Jiang Xiaochuan placed the cup in his hand on the coffee table. The bottom of the cup touched the tabletop of the glass coffee table, making a soft sound. “Qingtuan and Hong, are they really that brave?”

“I think Mayor Jiang has heard of Zhang Qing, the current deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, right?” Rong Shaobai’s eyes flashed, and he suddenly remembered an interesting topic. He knew too many secrets alone. Sometimes he felt like an emperor who controlled all destiny. Sometimes when he thought about it carefully, he felt that he knew nothing. Like a beggar with the gold bricks in his arms, not knowing whether he was poor or rich.

A secret was a kind of wealth that could not be traded.

How could Jiang Xiaochuan not have heard of Zhang Qing? He was quite impressed by this man. But what relationship could Zhang Qing have with Rong Shaobai?

Rong Shaobai suddenly mentioned this person…

He remembered the text message Wei Lai had sent and asked, “I know, but is there anything wrong with Zhang Qing?”

“His wife and child died in a seemingly unexpected car accident and explosion. They were killed in the accident, but Zhang Qing, who was also in the car at the time, survived with only some injuries. He continued to work at the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection after recuperating for half a year. In the eyes of everyone, he is an upright disciplinary inspection official, and no one can ever doubt the man in justice and faith.”

When he said this, Rong Shaobai smiled and seemed to be very interested in Zhang Qing.

But the things hidden in his words that were about to surface made Jiang Xiaochuan feel terrified.

“The most terrifying thing in the world is the kind of person who is trusted by everyone,” Rong Shaobai said, such an ambiguous statement.

Jiang Xiaochuan suddenly felt like he had never seen through Rong Shaobai, because Rong Shaobai knew too much, and people who knew too much would usually die early.

From what he said, it seemed that Zhang Qing was no longer a good person. Although Jiang Xiaochuan now felt that there was someone in the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection who had problems, he didn’t think it was Zhang Qing.

“President Rong, you know too many secrets. Now you feel that it is too uncomfortable to hold back. Do you want to find a tree hole to talk about it?”

“If Mayor Jiang compares himself to the tree hole, then this Rong’s secret… it doesn’t seem like there will be any problems if I put it here with Mayor Jiang.”

The tree hole couldn’t speak. It was just a dead thing. It listened to human beings’ secrets but did not tell them.

No one knew whether Jiang Xiaochuan, the so-called “tree hole,” would reveal Rong Shaobai’s secret.

But Rong Shaobai believed that he wouldn’t. Sometimes it was just a feeling when looking at people.

Although he looked down on Jiang Xiaochuan, his assessment of his character was not wrong.

Jiang Xiaochuan smiled. “There’s no guarantee.”