"You remember Li Guizhi, right? The village chief's wife, the one you hit in the back of the head with that jujube? She and her village chief husband were both taken away by the police for questioning!"
"Guess what?" Duan Qizhao went on without waiting for an answer, gloating written all over his face.
"That bastard village chief embezzled loads of government poverty relief funds allocated to the village over the years. Money for roads, money for schools, assistance for poor households-it all went straight into his own pocket!"
"No wonder his family ate meat and fish every day, and Zhao Pengfei's mom still had spare cash to hire Gold Chain and his gang of thugs to corner you-"
"Speaking of which, Li Guizhi hiring armed men to hurt someone got exposed too. The police are gathering evidence on each charge. I heard the accounts they've already verified alone are enough to put the couple away for years!"
"Everyone online is thanking Jiang Xun for uncovering Shiban Village's biggest corruption case with one jujube. Someone even edited the clip of you hitting her in the back of the head together with footage of her being taken into a police car and put 'Tears Behind Bars' over it. It's already passed five million views!"
"That brat Zhao Pengfei used to swagger around school like he owned the place. Now both his parents are locked up. I heard he got sent to his uncle's house, where his younger cousin steals his food every day-"
"Are you done?" Jiang Xun interrupted him.
The room fell quiet. The curtains swayed gently in the breeze, and sunlight cut a strip across the floor that widened and narrowed.
Duan Qizhao shut his mouth, swallowing everything else he had been about to say.
He knew what Jiang