Rebirth 78, the beginning of the marriage was broken off by the female educated youth

Office on the fifth floor of Nianwei Hospital.

Li Xiangnan, Wang Defa, Lei Jin and Song Zimo were all sitting in front of the small blackboard, watching Qiao Henwan write and draw on it with chalk.

The white chalk scratched out names of people and places on the blackboard one after another. Soon it was filled with so much writing that it looked like a shaved rabbit skin crawling with lice.

"Drink of water!"

Seeing her nose sweating as she wrote, she finally placed the half-finished chalk gently outside the window. Li Xiangnan quickly handed her a glass of water and said, "Moisten your throat and talk to us!"

Qiao Henwan took the water and nodded, then gulped down a big gulp. Holding the cup, he turned around and pointed at the first two names.

"A couple of days ago, Xiangnan and I went to the Construction Committee to follow a group of comrades from the Procuratorate and the Discipline Inspection Commission. We traced their arrest routes and learned they'd arrested quite a few people! So I haven't been idle these past two days. I've been in contact with those who haven't been arrested yet. They're the more well-behaved group, but they're very sensitive to the sudden arrests. They're also trying to find out what happened. I took advantage of the situation and shared what I knew with them..."

It has to be said that Qiao Henwan is indeed capable. She has not been doing nothing these past two days. Instead, she has been taking advantage of the signs of an earthquake in the officialdom of Yanjing to move around.

It was extremely unusual that so many people were suddenly taken away by officials for investigation.

Most of the officials in Yanjing knew each other. This incident caused panic among the people, so many people tried to find out what had happened from other people.

The Qiao family is definitely a well-known family in Yanjing. Qiao Henwan therefore invited people to dinner three or four times and contacted no less than five or six groups of people before he gradually pieced together a truth that was almost as close as possible.

The connection point between all the people can be traced back to one person - Shen Yujing.

In addition to opening his own teahouse and using clever means to accept bribes, he also found a deep alley in Panjiayuan, bought a house, and opened an antique shop to cover up his tracks.

The people who frequent this place are basically officials in key positions in Yanjing.

They came here with only one purpose, which was to accept the "mediation" of Shen Yujing, the middleman.

Some people would go to the Finance Bureau, Construction Committee, Land Bureau, Civil Affairs Bureau and other departments to do business. Then, in this antique shop, Shen Yujing would give the worthless "antiques" to the other party in a form similar to a teahouse.

For example, a Ru kiln porcelain vase, with a factory price of ten yuan, was put up for sale here by Zhu Xuanlong from the Construction Committee. People who came to him for business would spend twenty thousand yuan to buy it through Shen Yujing, and a contactless transaction was thus facilitated.

Shen Yujing took a high commission from this transaction. On the surface, it seemed like a legitimate transaction, but in reality, it was a hidden conspiracy. This covert bribery method allowed the interests of all parties to be cleverly balanced, while Shen Yujing sat firmly behind the scenes, controlling the overall situation.

The two parties do not need to meet in person, only Shen Yujing, the broker, acts as the liaison. Once the deal is done, no one knows each other, and no one knows to whom the gift is given. This provides the best protection for both sides.

Therefore, this antique shop in a deep alley was once quite popular in the official circles of Yanjing.

Shen Yujing is even smarter. He never brings in people of high status. All of them are reviewers in key positions.

It is precisely because of such small officials who hold great power that they have the opportunity to engage in great corruption, and are more likely to be controlled, become part of the same group, and become corrupt.

So people brought people together, and many officials who had lost their faith wanted to join this circle, and they admired and loved Shen Yujing very much.

There is an unwritten rule in the circle.

You can join the circle, but don't let anything happen to you. If something happens, don't involve others. Don't get involved in any other disputes other than what you did yourself.

You don’t know everything, so remember this.

The peace and tranquility in the Yanjing officialdom in recent years is mostly due to this iron rule.

But no one expected that the person who eventually caused everyone to get into trouble was the center of all the vortexes, Shen Yujing.

Once something happens to him, everything will naturally come to light.

This antique shop and the fixed circle are the prerequisites for the plot No. 12 to be set up.

Generally speaking, officials are very cautious when handling large amounts of money of unknown origin.

We are all officials in Yanjing, and everyone knows how much salary we get each month.

You can carefully improve your life, secretly buy a radio for your home, quietly have a sewing machine delivered in the middle of the night, or even quietly replace the old bicycle you use to work, and no one will say anything.

But suddenly buying that courtyard house and suddenly being able to afford a car, such things are definitely very high-profile. Generally, no one would do it because it is too eye-catching.

So after all, it doesn't cost much just to improve the living conditions at home.

Compared with the amount of bribes received, it is a drop in the bucket.

Over time, the anxiety and unwillingness of having a mountain of gold but not being able to use it naturally became a pain in the hearts of many officials.

So Shen Yujing thoughtfully set up a gambling table for everyone in the backyard of the antique shop, using the greed of winning and losing to stimulate those who could not use the stolen money honestly.

In this way, the losers will ask Shen Yujing to introduce more business to their unit so that they can be more greedy.

The winners enjoy the adrenaline rush even more and are reluctant to leave the antique shops.

One day last year, someone suddenly lost an antique worth one hundred thousand yuan in the store.

This would have been impossible before.

Because everyone's salary is around 50 or 60 yuan, the maximum they can spend on gambling is around 1,000 yuan!

But when someone lost so much all of a sudden, everyone in the venue was attracted to it.

After asking, I found out that this person was Zhu Xuanlong from the Construction Committee.

He had already lost tens of thousands of dollars here in the first half of the month.

I have been losing more and more these days. Just now, I bet tens of thousands more on this unfamiliar face in front of me, hoping to make up for my losses, but I didn't expect that I still lost.

Zhu Xuanlong has always been a cautious person. He accepted a lot of bribes but spent very little. Today he lost 100,000 yuan in one go. Adding to the losses he had suffered before, he basically lost all the stolen money.

He kicked over the table in anger and went back home, bringing back more than 10,000 yuan, which basically emptied out all the money in the house.

He had no choice but to borrow another 200,000 yuan from Shen Yujing to continue winning it back.

After Shen Yujing generously lent him the money, this guy lost it all in less than an hour.

Seeing that 400,000 yuan was gone in the blink of an eye, Zhu Xuanlong was completely dumbfounded.

He wanted to make up for his losses, but he had no money left.

The gambler's heart was now filled with madness.

The stranger who had won laughed and said, "Chief Zhu, since you don't have money, the land can also be used as money. You have a lot of these!"

Zhu Xuanlong was awakened by someone's words and immediately asked the man not to leave and left the antique shop.

He came back in the afternoon and loaded a carriage with the casino tickets.

The story ends here.

In the end, Zhu Xuanlong naturally lost the two million in cash. Only then did he realize that he had been set up, but he could not open his mouth to protest.

Because the money he lost was dishonorable.

Even the last two million was the money others used to buy land, and he directly transferred it to Shen Yujing's antique shop.

After hearing what Qiao Henwan had said, Li Xiangnan looked back at everyone and frowned.

"It's too late. That's not right. There must be another investigation into the matter of Shen Yujing's antique shop! The people who were taken away now are basically all around Plot 12, but according to you, there is only Zhu Xuanlong and that stranger, and Shen Yujing. This is far from the number of over people who were taken away. How did they set up this scheme?"

"I don't know about that!" Qiao Henwan shook his head. "The person I asked wasn't from the bureau, so I don't know the details, but everyone calls him that casino expert An Laoliu!"

"Is that man's surname An?"

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other, and then looked at Li Xiangnan.