Evening.
The moonlight was hazy and blurred.
Inside the villa in the Standing Committee Family Compound in the Capital City, Dong Xuebin was squatting in the first-floor restroom to take a big dump when his cell phone suddenly rang out with a series of chimes. Taking a look at the number, it turned out to be a call from Luo Haiting, the deputy director of the Investment Bureau of Yantai County. Sister Luo had worked with Dong Xuebin for a very long time. Back then, she was still the office director and also the first excessively dress-loving, middle-aged female cadre who had leaned toward Dong Xuebin. The two of them had maintained contact all along, though not frequently.
"Hello, it's me."
"Director, it's me, Luo Haiting."
"Hehe, Sister Luo, how have you been recently?"
"Sigh, it's a long story."
"Mm, what's wrong?"
Listening to Luo Haiting's sigh on the other end, Dong Xuebin knew immediately that she definitely had a matter on her hands, and not a small one at that.
Onlying hearing Luo Haiting speak in a low voice: "Director, I don't know many people in the county either, and the only one I can think of is you. Can you... can you help me out?"
"What happened?" Dong Xuebin focused his attention and said, "Tell me about it."
"It's like this. A while ago, I read that earthquake report you published. Didn't I call you to confirm it? You said the earthquake was definitely coming and told me to go outside and hide. I left that very evening with my husband and son, and sure enough, the earthquake happened later. I knew there was still work waiting for me to handle, and Yantai City County was precisely in need of me at that time, so I wanted to