"Minister Ou, you're a true friend. I'll wait for your arrangements, then!" Wen Mosheng said with a strained smile.
He had thought it through. Dragging Ou Qingwen down would hurt the man without benefiting himself. He might as well use this opportunity to bargain with Ou Qingwen and secure some tangible benefits for himself.
After finishing his call with Wen Mosheng, Ou Qingwen felt his spirits lift.
Zhou Shiyuan's case had nothing to do with him, and Wen Mosheng's matter had been settled. Now he could watch the clouds drift, listen to the flowers bloom and fall, and let the tides rise and ebb, safely enjoying the spectacle from the sidelines!
Just then, however, an unexpected call came in, making Ou Qingwen's head reel.
"Something terrible has happened! The police took Big Sister away!" The caller was his second mistress, Jiang Yueqin, deputy director of the General Office at the Ganquan City Finance Bureau.
"What happened?" Ou Qingwen immediately demanded. The "Big Sister" she referred to was, of course, his chief mistress, Pan Yan, general manager of the Spring Arrival Hotel.
"O-one of Big Sister's employees hit someone with his car..." Jiang Yueqin stammered.
Ou Qingwen's face darkened. "Spit it out," he urged. How much trouble could hitting someone with a car possibly cause? He was certain there was more to it. It could not be that simple.
"And he'd been drinking... and taking drugs... then he said Big Sister had been drinking too, and then he said..."
In a flustered yet remarkably detailed account, Jiang Yueqin drew Ou Qingwen into the bizarre scene that had unfolded at noon.
At noon, a minor traffic accident had occurred at an intersection near the Spring Arrival Hotel, where a sedan had grazed a pedestrian.
The pedestrian had dodged quickly and suffered only