"Lend you my future son-in-law?"
Secretary Jian froze for a moment. He badly wanted to ask his old friend, Where are your manners?
"Just say what you mean. Stop beating around the bush!" Jian Wanyan had a vague idea of what was coming, so his tone remained flat.
"You must know about the situation in Jiangnan lately. They urgently need a police official with Comrade Zhou Yi's outstanding abilities and wealth of experience to help them out," Minister Xiao explained with a smile.
Jian Wanyan laughed at that and replied with no small amount of sarcasm, "In a province as large as Jiangnan, they can't find a single person capable of shouldering the responsibility? Whose idea was it to come all this way to Liaodong to borrow someone-Wei Siqi's or Yan Huafeng's?"
The Wei Siqi he mentioned was Jiangnan Province's Provincial Party Committee Secretary, while Yan Huafeng was its Provincial Governor.
If it wasn't those two, who else could persuade the Minister of Public Security himself to call and plead their case?
"You guessed wrong. I was the one who recommended him to Wei Siqi. As for a suitable candidate, Jiangnan did originally have one. Unfortunately, after our star lawyer Shu Yue won that lawsuit, that suitable candidate became unsuitable!" Xiao Xiangqian explained patiently.
On July 20, the Jiangnan Province High Court delivered its verdict in the Zhao father-and-son murder case. It ruled that "the principal evidence used to establish the facts of the case in the original trial and appeal could not serve as grounds for a conviction," overturned the original judgments, acquitted Zhao Jun and his son Zhao Xiaoping, and released them in court.
Meanwhile, the person directly responsible for this wrongful conviction, Jiangnan Province's pride and joy, the renowned female master detective Jiang Huifen, had now been