What's wrong with this lawyer?!

The key is, what the hell does this have to do with me? I've only taken a bit of money!

Thinking this, Ding Detu shouted, "This has nothing to do with me, it was all Ding Deshui who did it, it was all his idea, we just followed his orders, we did whatever he told us to do..."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ding Detu heard an enraged voice, "Younger brother, what the hell are you saying? Huh? Didn't you take the money at the time? Now you're saying it's all my fault?"

Turning around, Ding Detu saw Ding Deshui not far away, also escorted by two police officers, handcuffed in silver bracelets, looking disheveled.

At this moment, his eyes were bloodshot with rage, as if he was about to charge over and start a fight with him the next second.

Ding Deshui felt just as wronged, having police show up out of the blue to take him away. After all, he was the distinguished village committee director and party branch secretary, so he thought about asking some questions since he had acquaintances in the police department.

But the officers didn't bother to explain and directly got physical after he asked a couple more questions.

After being taken out, he heard what Ding Detu had said and felt utterly overwhelmed.

Taking the money, everyone was more enthusiastic than the next, but facing trouble and even before setting foot in the station, they're ready to dump all the blame on me?

Are they really my brothers?

Ding Detu hadn't expected to encounter Ding Deshui, what he had just shouted out came without thinking first.

Mainly because the pressure was too immense, they started off saying it was intentional destruction of property—if that orchard was really brought up, the cost wouldn't stop at a million.

If he were to really get locked up, who knows how many years he'd be in for; he still had plans for his son to take the civil service exam in the future.

However, now facing Ding Deshui, he was somewhat at a loss for words and could only stammer, "But... but it was you who made that suggestion."

Meanwhile, the police beside them twitched the moment they heard "took money"; this... it felt like there was something big hidden beneath the surface.

Ding Deshui was just about to swear a few more words, but others were already busily confessing to the police.

"Comrade officer, I'll confess; it was all done by a few people from the Ding family, all that meeting and not meeting business. The two-headed village is completely under the control of a few people from the Ding family. Including organizing people to dig up Huang Licheng's orchard, that was all their doing, I didn't know anything..."

The speaker was another committee member of the two-headed village, someone who usually had no authority, just making up the numbers, and now seeing himself being taken away to take the fall, he spilled the beans right away.

Besides him, there were others who had taken minutes at the village representative meetings and so on, all of whom had been brought in.

The scene became extremely chaotic for a moment.

Fortunately, after the efforts of the police, they finally gained control of the situation, and several village committee members and villagers were taken into the police cars.

Ding Deshui's eyes were alarmingly red, but the cold of the silver bracelets calmed him down a bit at that moment.

However, he couldn't figure out why he was being arrested. If you were talking about the demolition, there were plenty of others who had demolished, but he hadn't seen the police arresting anyone else.

Moreover, Huang Licheng had called the cops during the demolition, and they had come and said there was no crime committed, including that time Tang Fangjing went to file a complaint. Didn't they also decide not to pursue the case?

So why are they arresting people now? Can this damn thing change every few days?

However, what exactly had Tang Fangjing done to escalate things to this point!

Ding Deshui didn't understand, but there was nothing he could do about not understanding now; he just had to take one step at a time.

Meanwhile, at Ding Deshui's house, his wife was frantically calling around for connections, but even though they had many good relations usually, as soon as they heard it was this issue, they all made polite excuses and then hung up the phone.

These days, anyone who could get ahead was shrewd, with a clear idea of what they could and could not help with.

This case was now obviously beyond what Changlu County could handle, so even if they wanted to do something, there was nothing they could do.

Let alone the fact that there was a Tang Fangjing out there, watching like a mad dog; if they dared to play any tricks on their end, Tang Fangjing would surely play dirtier. Discover hidden content at My Virtual Library Empire

After calling around and not receiving any positive news, Ding Deshui's wife also felt that something was amiss this time. But... how could that Tang Fangjing have so much influence?

Just yesterday, her husband was still saying that at most Tang Fangjing wanted some money, but today he had been taken away.

The police car drove towards the city, and Ding Deshui's heart sank further. At that moment, Old Tang once again arrived at the Changlu County Public Security Bureau.

"Lawyer Tang, you've really caught us off guard by making your move so quietly," said Director Jia with a smile, looking at Old Tang before him.

Of course, that was what he said, but in fact, the bureau had known since they had made the decision not to pursue the case previously that given the other party's temperament, he would either go for administrative review or file a private prosecution.

They just hadn't expected the Changlv County Court to decide to pursue the case, and it seemed they were preparing to deal with it seriously.

Old Tang also smiled in response, "Oh, Director Jia, I had no choice. After all, I received their legal fees, so I definitely have to do what needs to be done."

The two exchanged pleasantries for a few sentences before Director Jia asked, "Lawyer Tang, now that the case details are basically clear, I've heard that the Handong Province High Court's Criminal Tribunal has already convened many judges, preparing to discuss some of the economic crime issues in our province."