The crafty old fox Kong Bainian saw how confident Yao Kun was and could hardly try to dissuade him further.
In fact, he knew something of the reason Yao Kun dared to act so brazenly. It was not simply because the Yao Family clan had strength in numbers, nor because his elder brother, the township head, backed him.
It was because the Yao Family patriarch had once saved an important figure's life during the war. Although both the old patriarch and that important figure had passed away, a little of the goodwill from that life-saving debt remained.
So even if the matter attracted the attention of the Municipal Public Security Bureau and even reached the Municipal Party Secretary and the mayor, the influence wielded by that important figure's descendants would probably be enough to save Yao Kun with a single word, letting him escape unscathed.
At the Taiping Township Party Committee and township government offices.
Township Party Secretary Wang Jili-the same Secretary Wang who had written "We have nothing here" and nearly been sent packing by Mayor Zhou's "Then hurry up and leave"-was glaring at Township Head Yao Yu.
He already knew what had happened in Mixiang Village. He also knew that the culprit behind this incident was, once again, Yao Yu's younger brother, Yao Kun.
Why "once again"?
Because this was not the first fucking time, nor merely the fourth or fifth. It had happened countless times!
All along, he had turned a blind eye whenever he could let something slide. Although he was the township Party secretary, it was essentially Township Head Yao Yu who called the shots.
It was not that he was incompetent. Rather, Yao Yu's clan wielded deeply entrenched power in Taiping Township. Over several successive terms, Yao Yu had been perfectly amiable toward Party