Just when Chen Fang was about to see the "nonsense" through to the end and find an excuse to kick Shi Shihai out.
Suddenly, there was a knocking sound at the door.
The door was open.
Chen Fang looked up.
Not knowing when, Sun Dongning had suddenly appeared at the doorway.
"Secretary Sun..."
Li Dan quickly called out.
Sun Dongning didn't respond to him but with a smile glanced at Chen Fang and said, "Governor Chen, what's going on? I heard you losing your temper from afar..."
Li Dan hurriedly recounted what had happened earlier.
Sun Dongning paused for a mont and said, "Oh, so that's what happened."
After saying this.
He said to Li Dan, "Director Li, go and pour a cup of water. You know I like it scalding hot."
Li Dan quickly found a cup.
He poured Sun Dongning a cup of boiling water and brought it to him.
Taking the cup.
Sun Dongning said, "Governor Chen, please calm down. The people below are incompetent, and it's my fault for the poor arrangents that upset you."
As he spoke.
He handed the cup to the side where Shi Shihai was too afraid to breathe.
Shi Shihai thought Sun Dongning wanted him to take the cup.
Instinctively, he reached out his hand.
But Sun Dongning suddenly tilted the cup.
The water inside spilled all over Shi Shihai's hand.
Though it wasn't boiling water.
The temperature was still very high.
Shi Shihai let out a painful scream as his hand turned red and he began to tremble from the burn.
This scene.
Also stunned Chen Fang.
"Oh dear, look at , so careless. Comrade Shihai, are you alright?"
Sun Dongning asked with exaggerated concern.
Shi Shihai, drawing cold breaths, said tremblingly, "N-no problem, Secretary Sun, I'm fine..."
"Oh, it's good that you're fine, it's good. Comrade Shihai, you're still young and lack understanding of many things. The key to secretarial work is caution. Look, you dared to serve such hot water to Governor Chen. This is the consequence of your carelessness. Rember this in the future, okay?"
Sun Dongning inquired.
Shi Shihai's face was filled with fear.
He nodded repeatedly, saying, "I rember, I rember, I rember it all."
Hearing this, Sun Dongning smiled slightly, patted Chen Fang's shoulder, and said, "Governor Chen, who hasn't been young and made mistakes? This Comrade Shihai, I've personally vetted him, is capable of understanding the big picture, but as I said, if you don't like him, I'll replace him right away. I assure you, he won't appear before you again."
This seed as if he was considering Chen Fang.
But the earlier actions and the words that followed were all telling Chen Fang that if you refuse, then Shi Shihai would be discarded like mud. Any tragic outco would be due to Chen Fang's decision.
First Zhuang Guangqiang, now Shi Shihai.
Sun Dongning constantly uses punishing others to warn Chen Fang; from this alone, you can see how ruthless his style is.
A promising young man.
Just like that, ruined at his own hands.
For Chen Fang, he felt so reluctance.
After a mont's thought, he said, "Alright then, since Secretary Sun puts it this way, I have no reason not to keep him. Just be more careful next ti."
"Did you hear that? Aren't you going to thank our Governor Chen?"
Sun Dongning commanded loudly.
Shi Shihai heard this.
In panic, he said, "Thank you, Governor Chen, thank you, Governor Chen..."
"Haha, Governor Chen, as I said, if there's anything you need, just tell our Director Li. Whatever requests you have can be fulfilled. Your work in Lijiang Province, I don't know if others will support you, but I, Sun Dongning, guarantee that you can do whatever you want, you can go wherever you want..."
After leaving these words.
Sun Dongning humd a little tune as he leisurely left.
Ruthless! Truly too ruthless!
Chen Fang had been to many places and encountered officials of all kinds, but never one as arrogant as Sun Dongning.
Even Jiang Chuo, Hou Jidao, Lin Shuwei pale in comparison before him.
He wasn't just the Secretary of the Provincial Committee.
He was practically a local despot of Lijiang Province.
In fact, this situation was not surprising at all.
Back in the day, Sun Dongning's father, Sun Suishan, donated Sui Mountain Group to the country during tis of national crisis, resolving many practical difficulties for the country.
Sun Suishan's actions.
Were enough to be written into history textbooks, a rit enduring through the ages.
Just this foundation alone was sothing no one else possessed.
Maybe it was to save Mr. Sun's face, or maybe it was considering the contributions the Sun family made to the country, and certainly an even more crucial reason, to avoid the top brass being labeled as ungrateful.
All this resulted in Sun Dongning disregarding everyone.
The lenient handling of Yang Yufeng matters reveals a clue.
Now Chen Fang was overshadowed by a cloud.
Even though he was now the governor, and responsible for Yang Yufeng's case, breaking through seed harder than ascending to heaven.
The reality matched his expectations.
The entire afternoon.
No one visited his office except for the secretary, and not even one of the phones on his desk rang.
The talk of forming an investigative team in the eting.
Was just an empty public gesture.
To show to the higher-ups.
He called the Disciplinary Committee; the response from Provincial Disciplinary Committee Secretary Feng Cheng was that he was conducting research in the lower city and would be back in two days.
The response from the Public Security Bureau was even more absolute.
Because Yang Yufeng, the head of the Bureau, was already detained, the entire bureau was in chaos, with no one available to cooperate with Chen Fang's work.
In other words.
Whether as governor or head of this investigative team, he was essentially a solitary figure; even his own secretary might not heed his orders.
Under these circumstances.
The only thing he could do was seek help from above.
But picking up the red phone on his desk, he held back in the end.
The three leading figures sent him over precisely because they too were at their wit's end with this matter; if they had a way, the situation wouldn't have beco so difficult.
If he thought about it.
He wouldn't have had the need to co here in the first place.
Thinking this.
He took out his mobile phone and dialed a number.
When the call connected.
Chen Fang cheerfully asked, "Comrade Xu You, are you free tonight? How about having a al together..."
"Alright, Governor Chen, I know a good local restaurant. I'll send you the address shortly."
Xu You responded with ease.
Hanging up the phone.
Chen Fang felt much lighter.
Thinking that heaven still treated him kindly, at least he wasn't entirely alone in Lijiang Province; with Xu You around, he could at least get so understanding of the situation...
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