Duan Hongli shrank back at being scolded again, but inwardly, he remained unconvinced. He thought his cousin had been scared out of her wits by that man named Zhou.
What was there to fear? That Zhou fellow was here to conduct an inspection, not solve crimes.
General Manager Ding Yan was also somewhat dismissive. If Zhou Yi had been transferred to Jiangnan Province as Public Security Department Director, they would indeed have reason to worry. But as things stood, Zhou Yi was a member of the Inspection Team and had no authority to investigate cases.
Simply put, once a case's outcome had been officially determined, Zhou Yi had no authority to order or direct police investigators to reopen it.
Even taking it a step further, if Zhou Yi spotted something suspicious in the case files and issued instructions for a detailed investigation, that did not mean anything would necessarily be uncovered. After all, the people conducting the investigation would be the Jiangnan Province Public Security Department and the officers assigned to the case.
Everyone understood that whether an order or instruction was effectively carried out depended not on those at the top, but on those below!
Ring, ring... ring, ring...
A pleasant ringtone sounded. Zhu Li glanced at the number and paused in surprise.
She quickly composed herself and waved Ding Yan and the others out of her office. Only then did she answer the phone, saying with a smile, "Oh, Qiu Shui, dear! How did you find the time to call me today?"
On the other end, Zhao Qiushui curled her red lips, but her voice was exceptionally sweet. "It's mainly about that plot in Listening Waves Ancient Town we discussed last time. Could you be generous and stop making things difficult for a little company like ours, Zhu