Hou Liangping arrested a hawkish general, and his father-in-law panicked

Her luxurious home clothes were soaked with tears, and her usually well-maintained face was now distorted by extreme fear.

Her daughter's final cry, the words "because of Hou Liangping's matter", circled in her mind like a spell.

Hou Liangping!

Yes, it’s all because of him!

Great panic and despair seized her.

She didn't bother to put on her shoes and crawled barefoot to the study on the second floor.

The study door was closed.

"Jungkook! Jong Jungkook!"

She pounded frantically on the heavy wooden door with her fists, her voice shrill, "Open the door! Something's happened! Something's happened to our daughter!"

The door creaked open.

Zhong Zhengguo was wearing a dark nightgown, his brows were furrowed, and his face showed displeasure at being disturbed.

He looked at his wife, her hair disheveled and tears streaming down her face, and scolded her in a deep voice, "What a sight! What are you crying and howling like a ghost in the middle of the night?"

Wu Huifang grabbed his arm, her nails almost digging into his flesh. She screamed with all her might, "Daughter...our daughter, Xiao Ai...she's in Handong, she's been kidnapped!"

Zhong Zhengguo's pupils suddenly shrank.

But he had been in a high position for a long time and had already developed the ability to remain calm even when faced with a huge crisis.

He supported his shaky wife, his voice still calm, but with a barely perceptible tension: "Calm down and explain yourself clearly. What do you mean by being kidnapped?"

"It's her... Xiao Ai called personally!"

Wu Huifang burst into tears and repeated herself intermittently, "She said... she said she was arrested... because of Liang Ping... The last thing I heard was her screaming... and then the phone was disconnected... I couldn't get through anymore..."

"If...if anything happens to Xiao Ai, I won't live anymore! Zhong Zhengguo, I'm telling you, I won't live anymore!"

"Hou Liangping!"

Zhong Zhengguo slowly uttered these three words.

It was no longer the affectionate name of son-in-law, but rather like chewing on the name of an enemy.

The forced calmness he had suppressed completely shattered when he heard the words "because of Hou Liangping".

A raging rage rose from the depths of his heart, instantly engulfing every cell in his body.

He was not a man who got angry easily, but at this moment, he felt his blood rushing to his head.

"Snapped!"

The custom-made fountain pen that Zhong Xiaoai brought back from abroad, which was his favorite in the study, was broken into two pieces by him.

"Tell her to get out of here! Get as far away as possible!"

Zhong Zhengguo threw the pen Zhong Xiaoai gave him into the trash can.

Wu Huifang was so frightened by the sudden outburst of violence from him that she stopped crying and stared at him blankly.

Zhong Zhengguo's face was so gloomy that water seemed to drip from it.

He didn't yell, but the air in the study was sucked out, making it so oppressive that it was hard to breathe.

This Hou Liangping!

What a terrible disaster!

Who does he think he is?

A director of the investigation department of the Anti-Corruption Bureau ran to the dangerous and dangerous place of Handong to act like a hero?

I don’t know how high the sky is and how high it is!

Now the fire has burned upon me!

No, it burned the lifeblood of his Zhong family!

And my own daughter!

This worry-free thing!

Zhong Zhengguo also shared half of his anger with Zhong Xiaoai.

He had warned her not to go to Handong long ago!

The waters of Handong are too complicated and it is not something a family like theirs should get involved in.

But she didn't listen!

For that clueless husband, she even sacrificed herself!

madness!

Confused!

He slammed his fist on the heavy mahogany desk, making a dull sound.

"Is she going to drag me down with her?"

"If you're willing to go to Handong, go and save your precious daughter, don't come begging me!"

They have been married for thirty-six years, and Zhong Zhengguo has always been obedient to her.

This was the first time she saw Zhong Zhengguo so angry.

At this time, she didn't know whether she should continue to force her husband to go to Handong to rescue her daughter and son-in-law.

Jingzhou Armed Forces Department, solitary confinement room.

Cold walls, iron doors, and a dull smell of dust and mildew in the air.

Hou Liangping paced back and forth in the small space, the soles of his leather shoes making a monotonous and anxious sound as they rubbed against the concrete floor.

He wasn't worried at all.

This is the armed forces department, not a black prison.

They didn't dare do anything to him.

He was just irritable.

He was annoyed at the stupidity and shortsightedness of these people who dared to lock him up.

He was the director of the Investigation Department of the Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, a Beijing official holding the imperial sword, who came to investigate a case, but was unexpectedly mistaken for a criminal.

The big joke of slipping the world!

But it doesn't matter.

He had already thought it through. Once Xiao Ai's call reached Zhong Zhengguo's study, everything would be solved.

Although his father-in-law, Zhong Zhengguo, always looked upon his son-in-law with some scrutiny, he would definitely not sit idly by at such a critical moment.

Hou Liangping knows better than anyone how powerful the Zhong family is.

One phone call can make Handong Province tremble.

By then, not to mention this small armed forces department, even the provincial party secretary Sha Ruijin would have to politely ask him to leave.

He even began to rehearse the next scene in his mind: the door opened, and Chen Weiguo, the Minister of Armed Forces, came in person with a smile on his face to apologize, saying that this was a huge misunderstanding.

Under the intimidation of his father-in-law.

Zhao Yuanchao came to greet him and admitted that it was his mistake.

He would put on a cold face, reprimand them sternly, and then magnanimously say that for the sake of Handong's anti-corruption cause, this little grievance was nothing.

Far from being a stain, this will instead become a highlight on his resume.

The image of a hero who is not afraid of power and dares to fight is thus established.

Thinking of this, Hou Liangping's mouth corners unconsciously curled up, and the irritability in his heart disappeared.

He stopped and straightened his wrinkled shirt. He was about to walk onto the podium instead of being in solitary confinement.

"Squeak--" The heavy iron door made a harsh friction sound, interrupting his fantasy.

Hou Liangping was cheered up, thinking that Chen Weiguo had come to release him.

He cleared his throat and put on a condescending attitude, ready to accept the other party's apology.

However, it was not the fawning Minister of Arms who walked in.

There were four expressionless soldiers.

They wore neat training uniforms, military boots, white gloves, and their eyes were as cold as the Siberian ice fields.

They didn't look at Hou Liangping's face, but just like four precise machines, they formed a semi-encircled formation and approached him.

An ominous premonition rushed from the soles of Hou Liangping's feet to the top of his head like ice water.

This is not an apology.

This is the scene of escorting serious criminals.

"You...what are you going to do?"

For the first time, Hou Liangping's voice trembled slightly. He instinctively took a step back, and his back hit the cold wall.

No one answered him.

Two soldiers stepped forward, one on each side, and grabbed his arms like iron pliers.

The force was so great that he felt his arm bones were about to be crushed.

An unprecedented panic instantly gripped his heart.

The panic was so real and so intense that it froze all his blood.

The confidence, background, and identity on which he depended for survival were, at this moment, easily torn into pieces by those two pairs of white-gloved hands.

"Let me go! What do you want to do?!"

Hou Liangping began to struggle violently, his voice becoming sharp and distorted, "I am a cadre of the Supreme People's Procuratorate! You can't..."

His words were stuck in his throat because he saw that one of the soldiers had a pistol with the safety on on his waist.

A terrible thought exploded in his mind.