Chapter 20

Yang Captain steeled his resolve, turned around, and led the two police officers straight to the ward upstairs. He wanted to see who this mysterious person was, who dared to cut off his source of income.

At this moment, Hao Rentong was also in the ward, listening to Li Xiangdong recount the entire incident from yesterday.

"Bang!"

The glass on the bedside table was thrown to the ground by the old man, his originally pale face now flushed with anger.

"This is too much, really too much! What is this Hengfa Group up to? Do they really think they can rule the East Sea City with an iron fist? What are Jingnan and the others doing, just watching these guys run rampant?"

Li Xiangdong, seeing the old man's fury, couldn't help but smile bitterly. Despite having retired for many years and cultivated his temperament, the old man's fiery temper was still as fierce as ever!

Upon further reflection, he felt at ease. It was precisely because of the old man's hatred of evil that he had achieved his current status.

"Xiangdong, Shufang, you two really should have thought of coming to me when they bullied you so much back then."

Hao Rentong only learned today about the truth of how the Hengfa Group had oppressed Li Xiangdong and his mother. He didn't know about the early tricks the Hengfa Group had played on the Li family.

Li's mother laughed bitterly, "Old Brother Hao, back then, you had just been appointed as the principal of the police academy. We didn't want to trouble you with these trivial matters. Besides, we did ask Jingnan and the others for help."

"What kind of help did Jingnan and the others provide? Just this much? In just a few years, these bastards dare to come back and cause trouble again? And they even dared to run you over with a car and threaten your family? Do they have any respect for the law? Challenging the family of a martyr like this, it's as if they don't respect the public security system at all. No, I must handle this. Otherwise, the public security system will have no authority in their eyes."

After saying this, the old man stood up, took out his phone, and dialed a number.

At this moment, Yang Yunpeng, along with a tall and a short police officer, pushed the door open and walked in.

"Hey! Which old leader wants to see me!"

Yang Yunpeng's tone was full of sarcasm. On the way up, he had been thinking about who this old man could be, who had such an imposing presence that it scared Zhang Lao and Xiaoqiang so much. But no matter how he thought about it, he couldn't figure it out. He guessed it was just some retired old man who used to have some power and was now restless. With this thought, he became even less afraid.

After all, his father was the director of the provincial government's SASAC, his uncle was the city's organization minister, and he himself was a promising second-generation official. So he wasn't afraid of any retired old cadres.

He pushed the ward door open and walked in, his tone still full of sarcasm. But when he saw the back of the man standing by the window, making a phone call, he immediately shrank. He turned around and gave Zhang Lao and Xiaoqiang a look, trying to sneak out of the ward like a rat seeing a cat. But just as he reached the door, he heard the voice he least wanted to hear.

"Yang Yunpeng, what's the matter? I want to see you, so what? You're quite something, seeing the old principal and not even greeting him, just trying to sneak out. Fine, if you leave, don't come back. I'll go to your bureau chief's house tomorrow and have a good talk with him."

Yang Yunpeng was immediately frozen in place at the ward door, unable to move. After a while, he turned around, but his face was now full of smiles, all the sarcasm and arrogance gone.

"Hey, it's the old principal! I've missed you so much, we haven't seen each other for five or six years, right? Old principal, how are you this year? Looking at your health, you're really in great shape..."

Yang Yunpeng's ability to flatter and read people's moods was not just due to his family connections; he had his own skills. He graduated from the Criminal Police Academy, where Hao Rentong was his principal. However, Hao Rentong's impression of Yang Yunpeng wasn't good. He often broke school rules, his academic performance was mediocre, and he almost always cheated to pass exams.

If it weren't for the face of his uncle, who was a cadre in the organization department, Hao Rentong would have kicked him out of the police academy long ago.

But when Yang Yunpeng graduated, Hao Rentong had already made a basic judgment about him: he had some small cleverness, but in the police force, he wouldn't last long and would eventually get into trouble.

He never thought that today, this teacher and student would meet again in such a situation.

"Enough, stop flattering me, I don't buy that. I called you here today to ask you a question. How do you discipline your subordinates? Do they know the rules and procedures for going out on duty? They didn't even show their IDs when they came in, just started arresting people, and their attitude was extremely rude. How do you teach them?"

Since he was his student, Hao Rentong didn't need to be polite with Yang Yunpeng. He started with a scathing rebuke, and Yang Yunpeng could only listen with his head bowed, not daring to say a word in defense.

Hao Rentong's status was too special, not only respected in the provincial public security system, but even the current provincial leaders would give him some leeway.

"Hey, I remember, after you graduated, you joined the Qianshan District Public Security Bureau, right? This is the development zone. Did you inform the colleagues in the development zone bureau before coming here? Why are there no colleagues from the development zone bureau accompanying you?"

Hao Rentong's words made Yang Yunpeng's head spin. What bad luck, why did he run into this old man at such a critical moment?

He had to quickly smooth things over with this old man, or the trouble would get bigger.

At this moment, the ward door was pushed open from the outside, and a group of people walked in. The leader, with a face as black as Bao Gong, had three stars and two bars on his shoulder. He saluted the old man.

"Principal, good day."

When Yang Yunpeng saw this black-faced police officer, he was filled with bitterness. Damn, what kind of person did you provoke? You've really messed me up.