Chapter 85

Hearing Xu Yong say that, Du Haibo smiled and nodded, "Lu Xin is quite a good-looking guy, and he graduated from Jiangnan University of Science and Technology. He really brings honor to our factory. If there are any social events in the future, we should really let him handle them! However, if people find out he’s just a maintenance worker, it won’t look good!"

Xu Yong chuckled, "He just graduated from university and hasn’t worked for a full year yet, so there’s not much room for promotion. But we can arrange for him to be the deputy secretary of the factory’s Youth League Committee. With this position, he can handle external social events well enough!"

Du Haibo then remembered that Xu Yong was the Youth League Committee officer in the factory and smiled, "Why do you recommend him to be the deputy secretary? Won’t he become your superior? Are you okay with that?"

Xu Yong chuckled, "In terms of education, knowledge, appearance, and eloquence, and even drinking capacity and demeanor, I am far inferior to him. I am very convinced!"

Du Haibo frowned and thought for a moment, "We need to discuss this with the Youth League Committee of the business unit and get their approval. There’s another issue: Is Lu Xin a member of the Communist Party?"

Xu Yong smiled, "He seems to be just an active member and hasn’t become a probationary member yet."

Du Haibo frowned deeply, "You need to urge him to be more proactive in this area. If he’s not even a party member, he won’t be qualified to be the secretary of the Youth League Committee, and it will affect his future promotions..."

The reason Du Haibo and Xu Yong were so thoughtful about Lu Xin’s future was not entirely selfless. They wanted to pull Lu Xin into Du Haibo’s camp, and before forming a clique, they had to give him some benefits.

Lu Xin lay on the table, hearing everything clearly. He was as clear as a mirror in his heart. He was friendly with Du Haibo, but he only wanted Du Haibo to help him in his future promotions within the factory. He didn’t intend to rely on him. After all, Du Haibo didn’t have particularly strong backing at higher levels. If Lu Xin really wanted to rely on someone, it would be more reliable to rely on Jiang Chunyu.

Du Haibo and Xu Yong didn’t drink too much. The two of them supported Lu Xin, and the other few masters and Master Zhang supported each other, following Du Haibo to his new home to sober up.

Du Haibo’s sharp-tongued wife saw them come in, reeking of alcohol, and glared at Du Haibo. She decided to avoid the trouble and went out shopping with her handbag.

The few of them scattered on the sofa and soon fell into a deep sleep. These guys all had the habit of snoring, and their snores were one louder than the other. Du Haibo’s snore sounded like a car horn, which was quite amusing.

Lu Xin, hearing that everyone was sound asleep, opened his eyes, checked the time on his phone—it was a little past four in the afternoon. He didn’t want to stay in Du Haibo’s house and listen to these guys snore, so he quietly got up and left.

Walking out the door, Lu Xin saw that the corridor was empty. At the end of the corridor was an inconspicuous suite, which was the home of Zhou Yuanfu and his son Zhou Yi. At this time, Zhou Yi should have finished his battle with the seemingly innocent school beauty and left.

Lu Xin looked up at the corridor and saw no signs of surveillance cameras. It made sense; how could Zhou Yuanfu allow surveillance cameras to monitor how many people came to bribe him?

The Sanjiang District government also had a leadership villa area, where each district leader had a small building, and each leader and their family lived there. There were many political rivals, and with so many people, it wasn’t a good place for Zhou Yuanfu to accept bribes. So he bought an ordinary commercial apartment to use as a place for accepting bribes.

Zhou Yuanfu usually acted like an ordinary office worker to avoid drawing attention. However, Du Haibo had seen him at the district government before, and Zhou Yuanfu’s brain-damaged son Zhou Yi often brought women here to do business. On the way back and forth, he always boasted about his father Zhou Yuanfu’s status and power to the women. Du Haibo had heard this many times and had been humiliated by Zhou Yi several times, so he naturally didn’t want to keep the Zhou family’s secrets.

Lu Xin remembered that Zhou Yi was the leader of the three hooligans who had tried to rape Li Lu. If those three hooligans really took Li Lu to the hotel Zhou Yi had booked, Li Lu would be hard-pressed to escape Zhou Yi’s clutches. Thinking of how Zhou Yi had insulted Master Zhang and himself at noon, he was furious.

To deal with Zhou Yi, he had to first deal with his father, Zhou Yuanfu. To deal with Zhou Yuanfu, he needed to find evidence of his corruption.

Lu Xin suspected that Zhou Yuanfu had hidden the evidence of his corruption in this inconspicuous suite.

From the outside, the door and exterior walls of this suite were even shabbier than Du Haibo’s, looking quite old and not at all like the residence of a section-level official.

Lu Xin approached the house, stood next to the door, and listened carefully.

Normally, it would be impossible to hear any sound inside the room through two doors, but both the inner and outer doors of this house were iron security doors. Lu Xin had recently discovered that his ears could hear sounds through metal, so he could hear that there was no sound inside the house, no human sounds, and no sounds of other animals, just silence.

Lu Xin had just discovered his ability to hear through objects.

When Du Haibo and Xu Yong were supporting him to Du Haibo’s house, Du Haibo rang the doorbell for a long time, but his wife didn’t open the door. Lu Xin leaned against the door, and the security doors in Du Haibo’s house were also made of iron. He could clearly hear Du Haibo’s sharp-tongued wife muttering inside, "Drank so much, reeking of alcohol, stinking to death, you drunkard, just keep drinking, drink until you get cirrhosis or liver cancer! I won’t open the door for you, you drunkard!"

At that time, Lu Xin squinted his eyes and turned to look at Du Haibo, thinking Du Haibo would angrily scold his wife, but Du Haibo looked indifferent, as if he hadn’t heard anything. The other masters also looked calm, not showing any signs of having heard Du Haibo’s wife’s curses. Lu Xin began to suspect that he might have the ability to hear through metal.

When Lu Xin left Du Haibo’s house, he leaned his ear against the door and listened carefully. He could clearly hear the deafening snores inside, even though Du Haibo had boasted that the soundproofing in his house was excellent.

However, just hearing through objects couldn’t confirm that no one was inside. What if Zhou Yi and his mistress were sleeping quietly? If he entered rashly and woke them up, it would be a big problem. If he could see through objects, that would be great.

Just as Lu Xin thought this, he suddenly found that the two layers of metal security doors in front of him became translucent, like a very thin layer of golden mist, slightly affecting visibility but not much.

Through that layer of golden mist, Lu Xin could clearly see the inside of the room. The room was luxuriously decorated, with a high-quality floor covered in velvet carpets, redwood furniture everywhere, and an expensive crystal chandelier on the ceiling.

Unlike the common style of using wooden doors in ordinary residential rooms, the three rooms in this corrupt official’s house all used high-end alloy security doors. However, this allowed Lu Xin to use his metal control ability to see through the high-end alloy security doors clearly. There was no one in the three rooms.