"It's mainly because there's no evidence. Otherwise, do you think Zhou Yi would ever let Chairman Rong off the hook?" Guo Shushan, Secretary-General of the Municipal Government, cut straight to the truth.
But his remark also carried a hint of provocation, a deliberate attempt to fan the flames.
As Mayor Song Penghui's most trusted confidant, he would be delighted to see Zhou Yi make another powerful enemy, stubbornly applying his creed of "evil and I cannot coexist" to Rong Jinxiu.
Then he could use Rong Jinxiu to drive a knife deep into Zhou Yi!
Rong Jinxiu said nothing. She merely watched the three schemers with a smile.
Although every other word out of their mouths was about Zhou Yi, what truly concerned them was Yi Yingxiang, the former Deputy Municipal Party Secretary currently being interrogated at the Provincial Procuratorate.
Yi Yingxiang's arrest had rattled a great many people.
And those people naturally included the three sitting before her, as well as the people behind them.
So drinking tea was not their purpose. They had come to sound her out. They knew that only she had the connections to obtain real-time updates on the case from the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Provincial Procuratorate.
When Rong Jinxiu continued to say nothing, Sui Jianchang was the first to grow restless. After all, he had helped Yi Yingxiang escape. If she confessed to the inside story of the police car sent to pick her up, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Provincial Procuratorate would surely follow that lead.
But anxious as he was, someone else was even more anxious.
"Sister Rong, have you heard anything on your end?" Guo Shucheng, Secretary-General of the Municipal Government, was the first to venture a question.
His boss, Song Penghui, was the one most deeply entangled with