Chapter Seventeen: Setting Traps

  Liu Mingbo heard that Liang Fei seemed to be dissatisfied with himself, so he moved out of Huang's place to put pressure on himself. He could only smile wryly and say: "Director Liang, don't worry, I haven't even arrived at the scene yet. But rest assured, I will do my best to mediate this matter."

  Now that it had come to this, Liang Fei was satisfied. What he wanted was Liu Mingbo's attitude. Although his relationship with Huang was good, after all, a county official is not as good as the current one in charge. The real person who gets things done is Liu Mingbo. As long as he agreed to help, there should be a lot of room for maneuvering. So Liang Fei said: "Then I really have to thank Director Liu, I'll meet you at Bihai Lantian at 7 o'clock tonight!"

  After hanging up the phone, Liu Mingbo fell into deep thought.

  The car was quiet, and the conversation between Liu Mingbo and Liang Fei had been heard clearly by everyone in the car. Only now did they realize how tricky things were, and they all looked at Liu Mingbo, waiting for him to make a decision.

  Liu Fei didn't say a word, silently observing everything around him. He knew that from now on, he would have to truly integrate into the life of an official. There were many things he needed to learn, and now was the best opportunity to see how these old officials handled tricky problems.

  The car drove very fast and arrived at the scene in 15 minutes. From a distance, the entire intersection of Erhuan Road and Yu Hua Road was already packed with angry students, who were loudly shouting slogans demanding that the police hand over the perpetrator, while the police had already formed a steel wall with riot shields to block all the students outside.

  The students at the moment were very restrained, but their emotions became more and more agitated, because they found that the real culprit Liang Shan was under the protection of many police officers, had got into a police car, and slowly drove away.

  After Liu Mingbo arrived at the scene, he immediately took over from Zhao Wenyong, the squadron leader of the Municipal Bureau who was in charge of the shift. The command authority was now in Liu Mingbo's hands. As an old official, Liu Mingbo had experienced many similar situations and thus commanded with ease.

  He took the loudspeaker and walked to the front of the students, followed by Liu Fei, Luo Xuan and Su Qiaohong. Liu Mingbo shouted loudly: "Fellow students, everyone please calm down, I am Liu Mingbo from the Provincial Public Security Department. If there is anything that can be discussed, please let us clear the road first and restore normal traffic."

  Zhao Wenyi had also shouted this before, because even after Liu Mingbo revealed his identity, the students still didn't buy it, and Liu's sweat immediately started flowing. He saw that as a police car slowly drove away from the scene, the students' emotions began to get out of control, with signs of an impending explosion, and they all swarmed towards the police car like a hive.

  On the police car, Liang Shan, who was responsible for the accident, had no fear on his face at this moment. He was still relaxed and making a phone call: "Hey, Liao Zhihao, you really have no guts. When I'm in trouble, you ran away without a trace."

  On the other end of the phone, Liao Zhihao immediately retorted: "Liang Shan, you idiot, the road is so wide and you hit a university student, can't you just slow down a bit? Is it worth dying over just losing tens of thousands of yuan?"

  "Come on, losing money is nothing, but losing face is a big deal. Every time we drag race, I've never lost to you before, don't know if you took some stimulants today or what, driving so fast, got me a bit anxious."

  "Is he all right?" Liao Zhihao asked somewhat anxiously.

  "It's no big deal, the person is already dead! We can just pay some compensation later." Liang Shan said nonchalantly. In his eyes, a human life was worth only a few hundred thousand yuan, and his dad could easily settle it.

  "Oh, that's good, don't be careless, let your old man hurry up and deal with it, first plug the mouths of those news media, make them keep quiet. Otherwise, once this thing gets out, things will get complicated. Don't drag me into it!" Liao Zhihao didn't take Liang Shan seriously at all, but he was getting a bit anxious. He was indeed a spoiled rich kid, but he wasn't brainless either. Following his deputy mayor father, he had gained some experience and tact. Although he wasn't the one who caused the trouble, once this thing gets exposed by the media, he would more or less be implicated too. It wouldn't be to the point of suffering, but being grounded by his old man was very likely."

  Liangshan detected that Liao Zhihao's tone was not good and he didn't want to be involved, so he smiled and said: "Don't worry, if it doesn't involve you, nothing will happen to me either. I've already found someone to take the fall, and I've also taken care of things with the traffic police."

  Hanging up the phone, Liangshan found that the car he was sitting in had not rushed out yet. Looking at the university students swarming outside, he couldn't help but feel a wave of annoyance. He asked the driver in front, "Master, how much longer will it take for us to get out?"

  The driver, an old policeman, knew the background of Liangshan and sighed: "It's really hard to say? Just now I saw Director Liu from the Provincial Public Security Department come, don't know how he will arrange it."

  At this time, Liu Mingbo saw that things were gradually getting out of control, so he took a deep breath and shouted loudly: "Hey, stop that police car!"

  When Liu Mingbo shouted this, the students' emotions were slightly alleviated, but they still surrounded the front and did not allow the police car to take Liang Shan away.

  Liu Fei observed the situation on the scene while paying attention to Liu Mingbo's every move. He found that Liu Mingbo's experience was indeed very rich, and a light sentence resolved the crisis in front of him. However, this was only temporary, and the key was to see how Liu Mingbo would play his next chess piece. He was very clear that Liu Mingbo had already promised to help Liang Fei's son. But so far, he still didn't understand the true course of events, nor did he know what role Liang Fei's son played in it.

  Inside the police car, the driver turned off the engine and stopped the vehicle.

  Liáng Shān suddenly became anxious and asked in an angry tone: "Why aren't you leaving? Hurry up and go!"

  The driver shook his head and said: "Director Liu has already given orders. If I were to drive now, I'm afraid I would be fired."

  "Come on, open it quickly! Open it and I'll let my dad help you get promoted."

  The driver didn't say a word, but in his heart he sneered: "Let your dad help me get promoted? Forget it, I don't have such big ambitions!"

  Liu Mingbo saw that the situation had eased a bit and immediately shouted loudly: "Fellow students, please send 3 representatives to negotiate with us, let's communicate first on how to do it?"

  After a while, three people were selected from the classmates of the victim Du Ziteng, namely Feng Dongliang, the class leader of Du Ziteng's class, Qi Haiping, the sports committee member, and Wang Zhanhai, the organization committee member. The three people came to the intersection of police and students under the crowd's support and merged with Liu Mingbo.

  Liu Mingbo then ordered Liu Fei and Luo Xuan to bring the perpetrator over, for a three-way confrontation.

  The perpetrator was soon brought over, a 10-year-old boy with clear eyebrows and eyes, still wearing glasses.

  Liu Mingbo said to Feng Dongliang and the other two: "Now that the perpetrator has been brought over, what requirements do you have? You can bring them up, and you can negotiate with each other. I will be responsible for mediating in between. However, don't you think you should first organize the students to clear the road? You are now seriously blocking traffic, which is a crime. Do you know that?" After saying this, Liu Mingbo's tone and expression became severe, and he showed his authoritative manner again.

  Liu Fei secretly observed the expressions of the three students and found that their faces had obviously changed, looking a bit timid. However, Qi Hai finally stood up, pointing at the "culprit" and said: "This person is not the real culprit, he was pulled in to take the fall. The real culprit is inside that police car, we want to talk to the real culprit!"

  Liu Mingbo's heart moved, and as an old official oiler, he immediately understood the cat's claw in it, and also understood the fundamental reason why Liang Fei called to ask for his help. It seems that Liang Fei wants him to use this vase to talk about things, so as not to involve his son Liang Shan. However, Liu Mingbo also understands that these college students are not fools, and it's not easy to fool them. If things go wrong, he might end up being clever and clumsy. But thinking again, if this matter can really help Liang Fei settle down, such a big favor, when the time comes, asking Liang Fei to help himself get a regular department-level position should be no problem. Under this temptation, Liu Mingbo's heart has gradually had a plan.

  He smiled and said, "This classmate, is the law fair? Is everyone equal between each other? You say?"

  Zhi Haiping didn't understand what kind of medicine Liu Mingbo was selling in his gourd, but the sentence itself wasn't wrong, so he nodded in agreement.

  Liu Mingbo continued: "The law is equal, and speaking and doing things also need to be based on evidence, right?"

  Zhi Haiping still couldn't deny it, and could only nod his head.

  Liu Ming smiled lightly, a hint of triumph flashing in the depths of his eyes. He pointed at the young man in front of him and said, "So, can you prove that he is not the perpetrator?"

  Zhi Haiping was taken aback, he hadn't expected Liu Mingbo to set up such a clever trap for him to jump into, and now it's too late. He felt extremely remorseful in his heart, but couldn't refute it.