While Ma Si.0 of the Huoyun General Bureau was in a meeting, Ximen Ka, the acting supervisor of the Eastern District Bureau, arrived at the Huo Family Mansion once again.
He had come regarding the commercial crimes of Huo Feng, chairman of the Huoyun Chamber of Commerce. Accompanying him were enforcers from the Eastern District Bureau's Commercial Crime Investigation Division.
Ximen Ka had originally thought this would become a drawn-out battle of wits and endurance with the Huo family.
After all, although the Huo family was not a behemoth on the level of Niu Daguan's Pingtian, it was still quite large... Moreover, Huo Feng, the center of the crimes, had already been killed.
What Ximen Ka had never expected was that Madam Huo would not only refuse to hide from them, but would instead expose even more evidence.
"...Secretly laundering money with the military of Shituo Ridge, concealing the discovery of a new spirit-mine, and even producing inferior spirit stones... Bribery? Oh, my, the charge of bribery sounds far too mild."
The criminal materials on the table were more than a foot thick. Even Ximen, who had seen all kinds of storms, felt his scalp grow numb.
The matters involved were no longer merely economic crimes. Each one of them could directly lead to a local tycoon like the Huo family being seized and their entire household confiscated.
Was Madam Huo planning to go down with the Huo family?
"Madam Huo, what are you doing?" Ximen Ka cautiously probed this beautiful and captivating woman.
Madam Huo felt completely different from yesterday, as though she had become another person. Every inch of her radiated confidence and composure, and she had even mastered the proper bearing.
"This is only a portion of it." Madam Huo spoke calmly. "More documents are still being