This was rather strange. After some thought and discussion, the two close friends wondered if the girl who died or was injured had some kind of family relationship with Xu Zhengyang.
Maybe...
After discussing it, the two felt that no matter what the reason, the person involved had received the punishment he deserved, and the principal had also submitted a letter of self-criticism to his superiors, admitting some of his mistakes.
It's true that having connections in higher-ups makes things easier. With time passing, the matter has faded from public attention, and it's unlikely anyone will pursue it further. Wang Duanhong's position as principal can be reinstated, or he can be transferred to another department.
However, the Li family had been involved in this matter from the beginning, so it was necessary to inform the higher-ups in advance.
As the head of a province, Wang Duanhong had not made any particularly serious mistakes or committed any crimes, so the higher authorities would not take it too seriously.
But I never expected the Li family to have this attitude now.
But as the saying goes, a higher-ranking official can crush you, especially when compared to the power of the Li family. Even a high-ranking official like the provincial governor was wary. Besides, this wasn't his own business; he was doing it for someone else. So, Wen Qin had no choice but to come along at Wang Duanhong's request.
His statement about inspecting work in Fuhe City wasn't a lie; it was indeed true. It was absolutely impossible for him to actually make a special trip to Fuhe City to speak favorably of Xu Zhengyang. After all, how much influence does a provincial governor have? If it weren't for the hope of using this opportunity to cultivate a closer relationship with this young man, who was said to hold a very high position in the Li family and had some reputation in Beijing's high-level circles, Wen Qin would never have come.
As a provincial governor, Wen Qin was met with a cold shoulder upon arriving here, which left him feeling quite disgruntled.
Fortunately, Xu Zhengyang didn't seem to hold a grudge against Wang Duanhong; he just didn't want to associate with him, which didn't really affect Wen Qin.
It's a pity, the young man is still young. He doesn't understand the ways of social interaction. Wen Qin thought to himself, and so he just treated the rumors about Xu Zhengyang circulating in private as idle gossip.
After some idle chatter, Wen Qin grew rather bored and felt he had lost face as the provincial governor. He gestured to Wang Duanhong to get to the point. Wang Duanhong hesitated for a moment, then smiled wryly at Xu Zhengyang and said, "Zhengyang, I did have some problems with my work in the past. Well, now, after reflection and education..."
"Stop talking." Xu Zhengyang waved his hand, interrupting Wang Duanhong, and said, "You can't be a university president, you're not suitable for it..."
Wang Duanhong already felt awkward saying things that sounded like a work report and an apology to his superiors. But even though he had lowered himself to this young man with such a special background, he was interrupted and his ideas were rejected so directly and confidently.
Does he really think he's the president?
Wen Qin's face also darkened. Who would be so arrogant?
"Why?" Wang Duanhong asked, dissatisfied.
Xu Zhengyang glanced at him coldly and said stiffly, "What kind of place is a school? It's for teaching and nurturing people... You have character issues, and you can't mislead students. After what happened last time, I didn't pursue it further because of some people. You should be grateful. If I had known afterwards that you were only suspended from your post for reflection, I would have personally gone to your door and shot you!"
“You…” Wang Duanhong was completely dumbfounded.
What kind of attitude is that?
Even the Emperor himself couldn't be so arrogant and domineering. Even if Minister Li were here, he couldn't disrespect Governor Wenqin by being so direct and speaking in such a crude and ruthless manner.
Wen Qin finally lost his usual composure, sitting there dumbfounded, staring at Xu Zhengyang as if he were a monster. Well, this guy really thinks he's some kind of prince… what a show of power.
Xu Zhengyang completely ignored their surprised expressions, picked up the newspaper, leaned back on the sofa, crossed his legs, and read the paper while snorting and muttering curses, "Get out, get out, get out of here! You bunch of bespectacled pretentious scum, all talk and no action! I'll skin you alive one by one sooner or later..."
"You, you..." Wang Duanhong's face turned red with anger.
Wen Qin snorted coldly, got up and walked out without saying a word. Good heavens, Xu Zhengyang's words had actually insulted him.
As soon as Wang Duanhong saw Wen Qin get up and leave, he hurriedly got up and walked outside as well.
“Governor Wen has done a decent job, nothing too serious. Just don’t stick your neck out for that kind of person again… Making the wrong friends can sometimes get you into serious trouble,” Xu Zhengyang said without even looking up.
Wen Qin, who had just reached the door, suddenly stopped, turned around angrily, and snorted coldly, saying, "Young man, don't spout grand theories. The world is a deep and murky place."
"Deep my ass!" Xu Zhengyang slammed the newspaper on the coffee table, but didn't even turn to look at Wen Qin. Instead, he said, "If a person has no conscience, no morals, no principles, a sip of water could drown him! What's deep isn't society, it's people's hearts! Damn it..."
When a scholar encounters a soldier, reason is useless.
Governor Wenqin was a man of great talent, experience, and refinement, yet he was defeated.
Defeated utterly, he turned and angrily opened the door and walked out.
Wang Duanhong's mind went blank. What should he do when he encountered such a passionate young man? Should he be afraid of him, or not?
That's not all.
The two had just stepped out the door and hadn't even reached the car when Xu Zhengyang suddenly remembered something. He grabbed the two boxes of gifts that Wang Duanhong had brought from the coffee table, ran to the door, opened it, and threw them out. With a series of crashes, the gifts hit the back of Wang Duanhong's head and scattered all over the floor.
"Take these things away, they're an eyesore!"
Wang Duanhong cried out in pain, turned his head and glared angrily at Xu Zhengyang, pointing his finger and saying, "You, you..."
He didn't dare utter a curse, having already experienced Xu Zhengyang's explosive temper firsthand. He was truly capable of hitting someone!
Wenqin was furious. What kind of mess was this? Why did he have to come all this way and run into such a neurotic person?
The driver quickly got out of the car and stood in front of Wen Qin, looking at Xu Zhengyang with a face full of fear and confusion.
Xu Zhengyang had already closed the door and gone back inside.
Li Chengzong, who had witnessed the entire scene from the very beginning, was utterly bewildered and exasperated. Good heavens, what's wrong with Zhengyang today? His temper is... well, he's gotten the commander into trouble again. However, it probably isn't really trouble, because Xu Zhengyang has never really encountered anything that could be considered troublesome for him. Haven't he always resolved seemingly troublesome situations efficiently?
Outside, Wenqin stood there glaring angrily for two or three minutes before finally turning around and getting into the car with a sigh.
The driver and Wang Duanhong quickly got into the car.
The black Audi A6 reversed, turned, and drove away...
Inside, Xu Zhengyang sat on the sofa in the living room, flipped through a few pages of the newspaper, but couldn't bear to read any longer, so he threw it back onto the coffee table. He took out a cigarette, intending to light it, but then remembered he was indoors. Watching the car that had been irritating him drive away, Xu Zhengyang simply got up and walked outside to have a smoke.
Li Chengzong shook his head and sighed, then followed them outside with a sense of helplessness.
"Zhengyang, what's wrong with you today? You're supposed to be someone of status, this behavior of yours is really a bit much," Li Chengzong said with a smile, standing beside him and trying to comfort him.
"It's nothing." Xu Zhengyang lit a cigarette for himself and then tossed one to Li Chengzong.
Li Chengzong took the cigarette, but didn't know what to say. He stood to the side, smoking and smiling wryly.
When Xu Zhengyang had smoked half of his cigarette, he turned to look at Li Chengzong and said, "Brother Li, you can tell them about this later. It's okay, there's no need to hide it, and I'm not angry."
"Huh?" Li Chengzong paused for a moment, then chuckled awkwardly, "Okay."
Who should we tell? Of course, it's Li Ruiyu and Li Ruiqing in the capital.
Actually, Li Chengzong no longer had any responsibility to monitor Xu Zhengyang. In fact, he had even been relieved of his duty to protect Li Bingjie and reassigned to the military. However, when Li Ruiyu asked for his opinion later, Li Chengzong was willing to move his entire family to the courtyard house in Fuhe City, so that three generations of the Li family could live together.
Since no one lives in the old courtyard house anymore, he simply moved here. Of course, he still has to do the security guard job.
Now that Xu Zhengyang has told him to speak, Li Chengzong understands that Xu Zhengyang can't tell the people in Beijing about what happened today. Besides, the provincial governor, having been slapped like that, certainly won't go around spreading the news.
Sigh...where did all this anger come from?
Xu Zhengyang flicked his cigarette butt away. Looking at the distant mountain scenery, he was really getting angry!
Damn it... If Wang Duanhong hadn't delivered himself to Xu Zhengyang's doorstep, Xu Zhengyang wouldn't have known that he would actually become the principal again!
Isn't that nonsense?
The use of power, fame, and status to indulge, protect, and encourage others has led to the emboldening of some people!
What's even more infuriating is that... you actually dared to bring up the names of my two fathers-in-law in front of me! Oh dear, you, Wen Qin, are you trying to bully me?
Well, you, Wang Duanhong, could have lived, but now you're not going to live either!
I don't give face to anyone!
What can I do?
Volume Six, Chapter 315: Who harmed whom?
Speaking of which, since Xu Zhengyang became a god, who has had the hardest time?
The answer is definitely Chen Chaojiang, who worked the hardest and was the most diligent.
He was only semi-literate with a junior high school education, and also a cold and ruthless guy who was bad at socializing and speaking. His advantages were nothing more than his naturally strong and abnormally powerful physique and his talent for martial arts, which made him good at fighting and killing, and he habitually used extreme methods of violence to solve problems.
Oh, and another advantage is that he can carve; it's a talent.
This guy has so many talents...
Yet, with Xu Zhengyang's help, this very person learned to drive, had to diligently study the operation and management of a logistics company, and went to Ronghua Group to learn various business management knowledge from those business elites, exploring and learning through practice.
Even during the two years when Xu Zhengyang's consciousness left his body, causing his physical body to become sluggish, Chen Chaojiang never stopped reading and studying.
Why? To save face for my buddies. Zhengyang respects his brothers and gave them a chance. So we have to make them proud!
Hey, it really came in very handy! If it weren't for Xu Zhengyang encouraging me, giving me pressure and opportunities to study diligently and work hard, where would I be today, with such a high status and the composure I sometimes have when talking to people? The more I know, the more confident I become. I no longer need to rely on a cold face that keeps people at arm's length or violent means to cover up the deep-seated inferiority or helplessness hidden in my heart.
Even when he went to Jiangjing City to meet Ye Wan's parents, he could answer questions fluently about company management and operations, and he really seemed quite knowledgeable. This made Ye Rongchen and his wife, who had previously investigated Chen Chaojiang's country bumpkin background, quite satisfied; after all, the young man wasn't uneducated.
It's just that... his personality and that face are so cold it's chilling.
Chen Chaojiang may seem cold and stubborn, but he is actually quite skillful and persistent in learning new things. Moreover, he is never overly complacent. For example, now that his colleagues at Ronghua Group understand his personality, they don't dislike him much. Chen Chaojiang often listens, observes, learns, and ponders very attentively.
However, Chen Chaojiang was somewhat puzzled when Xu Zhengyang suddenly called him over and assigned him another task. Or to put it more seriously, a mission.
There's nothing else to it but to browse social news online more often, to understand the current state of society, and all sorts of ugly things.
You also need to write down some personal thoughts and feelings, and how you would do it if you were in that situation...
Chen Chaojiang was a little puzzled. Why was he doing all this? But he quickly figured it out. Hmm, Zhengyang's sense of justice had kicked in again, and he was going to do something good.
Chen Chaojiang never considered the so-called sense of justice or chivalry.
There are many people in this world who adopt a "mind your own business" attitude when something happens. Some find it troublesome, some are afraid of getting into trouble, and some think it's not worth it... and so on. Chen Chaojiang, however, felt no emotion whatsoever, and didn't even consider it. For example, when the car accident happened at Hedong University, he wouldn't have bothered with it if his younger brother hadn't stepped forward.
He is really not a good person.
Unlike Xu Zhengyang, who is always overflowing with kindness and occasionally does silly things like repaying evil with good.
So Chen Chaojiang was convinced that Xu Zhengyang wanted to do good deeds. As for why he wanted to do good deeds and why he dragged Chen Chaojiang into it... Chen Chaojiang thought it was normal. After all, they were brothers. As for the connection between doing good deeds and watching all those sensational social news stories, and writing down one's thoughts and feelings...
Chen Chaojiang didn't think about it. He believed that Zhengyang was smarter than him, so he would just do whatever Zhengyang asked him to do.
Then he actually quit all his work at Ronghua Group, moved into that 80-square-meter apartment in Fuhe City, and started browsing the news online every day, reading posts in the social commentary sections of various forums. Yes, he just read the posts, never replied.
After only half a day of reading social news, Chen Chaojiang became somewhat depressed.
He was thinking: Zhengyang asked me to write down some of my personal thoughts and feelings, and what I would do if I encountered such a situation; if I really did encounter it, how many times could I encounter such a situation? At most once or twice, and there would be no chance after that.
Because Chen Chaojiang knows himself well. Given his personality, if he encounters something extremely infuriating, he will most likely cause someone's death, and then he will be sentenced to prison. How could he possibly have the chance to encounter anything else?
Chen Chaojiang really wanted to tell Xu Zhengyang about this idea right away, but considering that Xu Zhengyang had asked him to spend a few more days thinking it over carefully, he decided against calling Xu Zhengyang now. Hmm, he'd think about it some more...
When Li Ruiqing in Beijing learned that Xu Zhengyang had kicked the governor of Hedong Province and Wang Duanhong out of his home, he was not only surprised but also a little uneasy. It wasn't that he was worried about angering Wen Qin, or having another rival in the future; rather, he wondered if this had really angered Xu Zhengyang.
That bastard Wen Qin is really something. Who knew that such a spineless coward would actually have the nerve to put aside his pride and go to Xu Zhengyang's door?
If you're going, then go ahead, why do you have to bring me into this?
Originally, Li Ruiqing was hesitant to say anything due to social pressure, since the other party was the governor of a province, and a direct refusal wouldn't be appropriate. Therefore, he gave a perfunctory response. He figured that even if Wen Qin was in a difficult position, he wouldn't actually lower himself to personally visit him.
Are you dumbfounded now?
In the eyes of high-ranking officials, the mistake that Wang Duanhong made was really not a mistake. They could just let it go and move him to a different position.