When he woke up early in the morning and looked at his cell phone, he found that there were many missed calls. They had all been calls from strangers at very irregular times. However, they had started calling intermittently after he had gone to bed until three in the morning. There had also been other strange numbers that had called in, but Jiang Xiaochuan’s situation the night before had been so bad that he hadn’t noticed.

Now he looked at his phone with difficulty.

This situation was not normal at all.

Someone had tried hard to call Jiang Xiaochuan, but the calls had come from different numbers. When Jiang Xiaochuan cautiously called back, he had found that almost all of them had been public phones, and some of them had even been unreachable.

In the early morning, he had stood in front of his window, holding his mobile phone, and the doubts and worries in his heart had finally emerged unscrupulously.

How to deal with these abnormal situations?

He had rubbed his brows and walked out of his room. When he saw that Jiang Encheng had gotten up early to prepare meals and had been dressed neatly, as if he was going out. Jiang Xiaochuan was stunned for a moment. “Dad, why did you get up so early?”

“I know I don’t have long to live, and that’s what people are like anyway, so I planned to go out more often. I met a chess friend yesterday and made an appointment with someone today. We all have the same hobbies, it’s not so boring,” Jiang Encheng had explained with a smile.

Jiang Xiaochuan was silent at first, but then he felt that this was good thing. After all, he had been too busy with work and had not been able to take care of his father. “I won’t stop you, but you have to be careful. I’m afraid some people have evil intentions.”

Jiang Xiaochuan was promoted as the acting mayor just now and would definitely be promoted during the next election. It could have been said that his political future would be bright. There was no guarantee that no one would make plans for people close to Jiang Xiaochuan. These had been what Jiang Xiaochuanmost afraid of. After he had been reborn, what he was most worried about was what Rong Shaobai would do to Jiang Encheng. However, because his relationship with Rong Shaobai had been handled well later, this worry had gradually been eliminated.

Now Jiang Encheng had also known a little about Jiang Xiaochuan’s situation. Although he was an ordinary person with a low level of education, he was in the army for many years and had a high political awareness. He had heard a little about what had been happening in the current government. Although he had never asked about Jiang Xiaochuan’s work, he was able to get a general idea by reading the newspaper and watching the news every day.

He knew Jiang Xiaochuan’s worries, so he gave him reassurance: “Don’t worry about me. The people here I know it well and won’t cause trouble for you or myself. Don’t worry.”

It was impossible for Jiang Xiaochuan to thoroughly investigate the people Jiang Encheng had known, so he had had to respond: “As long as you are happy.”

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In the morning, Jiang Xiaochuan left. His first stop that day was not to go to the government, but to the municipal party committee.

The distance between the municipal committee and the government was not too far. After all, the two had to ensure work contact and could not be too far apart. If the municipal government and the municipal committee was not in the same district, then it would have been really troublesome. Their ineffectiveness would be investigated by the higher authorities.

Although there had always been frictions between the Chengzhou Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, the municipal party committee secretaries generally could not speak out, but they had to ensure basic agreement on the overall situation.

He was now a member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee as the acting mayor. Back then, he was the deputy secretary of the Standing Committee in his past life, at that time, he was almost the second most powerful person in Chengzhou. The person in front of Jiang Xiaochuan was Li Dakai. Li Dakai was not only the secretary of the municipal party committee but also a member of the provincial standing committee, a very high position.

Today was the day when Li Dakai went to talk to Jiang Xiaochuan, the deputy secretary of the Chengzhou Municipal Party Committee.

To put it bluntly, Jiang Xiaochuan was there to listen to Li Dakai’s instructions.

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Halfway through on the road, he was still thinking about how to deal with Li Dakai. This would definitely require someone to show off his power, but he hadn’t known what step Li Dakai would have taken. While he was thinking about it, his phone had vibrated again.

When he picked it up, he thought it would be the same type as last night, but the caller ID had shown three very clear words: Rong Shaobai.

The person driving for Jiang Xiaochuan today was not the original driver. It probably was a driver shift that was transferred there to temporarily fill in. Jiang Xiaochuan, who was sitting in the back seat, didn’t dared to speak too clearly, so he only asked, “Good morning, what’s the matter?”

“That Xue Yan is yours?”

Although he and Jiang Xiaochuan had some unpleasantness after dinner the previous evening, it was still Rong Shaobai who was drunk, so his words was inevitably frivolous. He had known that the cooperation between him and Jiang Xiaochuan was because of their interests, there was no pressure at all. In this world, interests were very complicated when mixed with anything, but if it was pure interests, it seemed much simpler for Rong Shaobai, a conspirator.

He couldn’t have asked that question more bluntly.

But Xue Yan shouldn’t be Jiang Xiaochuan’s person. Strictly speaking, Xue Yan was the backbone left by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection in Chengzhou. Xue Yan never stopped investigating the deaths of Uncle Qiu and Qiu Yi, which was closed cases. The internal investigation was to prevent others from alerting outside and everything was done in secret.

When Jiang Xiaochuan heard Rong Shaobai ask about Xue Yan, he immediately became alert.

He talked about Xue Yan’s problem with Rong Shaobai before… He avoided the question and asked, “What’s wrong with him?”

As soon as Rong Shaobai heard his reply, he knew that there was indeed a dispute between Xue Yan and Jiang Xiaochuan. He hadn’t minded if there was some unclear relationship, but his voice deepened: “If my news is correct, An Qing, the boss of Qingtuan family, seems to be chasing him.”

Qingtuan? The family that was once known as the “Three Big Family of the Underworld in Chengzhou” together with the Rong family and Hong family?

How could Xue Yan be hunted down by An Qing, the leader of Qingtuan family?

“…Where did you get the news?”

The authenticity of this news should have been easy to distinguish. Jiang Xiaochuan knew that Rong Shaobai was a very conceited person and would not have called him to enhance his sense of presence. Once Rong Shaobai called him, it must a big deal.

Rong Shaobai’s news could be believed as long as the source was correct.

Rong Shaobai laughed and said, “My old spy in the Qingtuan family informed me, and he just gave me the news this morning. I don’t know what the situation is, but my intuition tells me that Mayor Jiang, Xue Yan’s situation will not be simple. He seemed to have a grudge against you at first, but later he became like a stranger to you. This Rong is not blind; I can still see clearly. By the way, he has been hunted down for a while, and I don’t know where he is now.”

Didn’t know? Would Rong Shaobai be unclear of any news?