Village chief, your township enterprise sells laser cannons?

The white envelopes lay on the ground, piled up in a large heap. Ding Jiayi closed her eyes, gently rubbed her temples, then opened them and walked over quickly. She took out gloves from her pocket, put them on, and carefully picked up another letter.

The envelopes were made of very ordinary white virgin pulp paper, without any patterns or unique scents, only the faint sour smell that comes with virgin pulp paper.

There was no signature on the envelope.

I gently squeezed the envelope with my gloved hand; it was hard, and there were papers inside.

She looked up at her team members and said, "Take a picture of the scene first, and then put all these envelopes away."

"Check the envelope design."

After instructing her team members, Ding Jiayi took the envelope back to her room, picked up the recorder on the table, turned it on, hung it around her neck, and confirmed that the recorder was working. Only then did she carefully take out a small bottle from her luggage and sprinkle the white powder from the bottle onto the envelope.

Spread the coating evenly on the envelope.

After applying the powder, she didn't see any fingerprints on it. She cursed silently in her heart before opening the envelope.

Inside the envelope was a piece of poor-quality A4 paper with printed content. The content began with three words: "Letter of Complaint!"

"Dear leaders of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection investigation team, please forgive me for not being able to sign this letter. Signing it means that I may be retaliated against. If I were alone, I would feel free to sign it, but I have a family, and I must think about my family."

"Here, I am reporting that Lin Man, the village secretary and director of the village committee of Hongxing Village, engaged in malpractice during the formation of the election committee and failed to strictly follow the Guangdong Provincial Village Committee Election Regulations in confirming personnel."

"In the subsequent nomination of personnel, the election procedures were not strictly followed, and bribery was carried out in secret..."

Having figured out that it was another whistleblower report against Lin Man, Ding Jiayi was numb. She skimmed through the report, put it back on the table, crossed her arms, and leaned against the table, pondering the origin of these reports.

They stayed at a hotel run by the Hongxing Village Tourism Company.

Because of Lin Yaozu's incident, the management team was all bailed out by the police, leaving only the hotel staff working like NPCs.

Their group was naturally assigned here.

As for the mailbox at the entrance, it was installed temporarily after they arrived, mainly to receive various complaint letters.

But things didn't go as planned. They worked here for a week and didn't receive a single complaint letter.

Just before he left, his inbox was flooded with complaint letters, making it feel like he was going against them.

who can that be?

A question flashed through Ding Jiayi's mind, and she turned and went out to the hotel reception.

Upon seeing the receptionist, she took out her ID, waved it at the receptionist, and then said, "I need to check the security camera footage at the entrance."

The receptionist nodded and led Ding Jiayi toward the back of the hotel.

After passing through the corridor and entering the backyard, turn right to enter the hotel's monitoring room.

She pointed to the monitoring and control computer again, and the receptionist turned and left without any hindrance or hesitation.

"It's rare that no one stopped me!" Ding Jiayi exclaimed, sitting down at her computer to start searching through last night's surveillance footage.

She was completely exhausted from searching.

The mailbox is located at the main entrance of the hotel, but the two security cameras on the left and right sides of the hotel are facing opposite directions and are not pointed at the entrance.

The hotel's internal surveillance cameras only go up to the lobby and don't show the location of the mailboxes.

Stepping out of the monitoring room, Ding Jiayi walked to the mailbox and glanced at the surrounding surveillance footage.

The hotel is located next to a highway, and there are shops across the street, but the shops do not have security cameras installed.

The hotel parking lot is not at the main entrance...

This also dashed her hopes of finding the dashcam.

With a sigh, Ding Jiayi turned and went back to her room. Inside, the members of the investigation team had already sorted the envelopes and were opening them to examine the letters inside.

These letters were also divided into several piles according to their contents.

Ding Jiayi walked over, picked up one of the envelopes, and found that it was thicker than the one she had just looked at. After feeling the size of the contents, a smile immediately appeared on her face.

This size...

It contains RMB!

When the envelope was opened, as expected, a wad of cash was inside, and underneath it was an A4 sheet of paper.

After taking out the banknotes and checking them again, Ding Jiayi handed them to her team member next to her.

"Mark this envelope. There's a thousand dollars in cash inside. The banknotes smell fishy, ​​so they probably came from a fishmonger."

After the group members took the money and turned to register, Ding Jiayi opened the A4 paper in her hand and looked at the contents of the A4 paper.

[Dear leaders of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection investigation team, please allow me to confess to you anonymously.]

I am just an ordinary villager in Hongxing Village. For the sake of my family, I cannot reveal my real name.

Just last night, Lin Man instructed Lin Yaohai to walk into my house with a thousand yuan, throw the thousand yuan in front of me, and tell me to vote for the person he, Lin Man, had chosen in the upcoming election.

I was bewitched and took that thousand yuan, but after taking it, I tossed and turned in bed, unable to eat or sleep.

A few years ago, Lin Yaozu threw five thousand yuan in front of me and asked me to elect him as the village chief.

Over the years, Hongxing Village has transformed into what it is today.

Lin Man is Lin Yaozu's nephew. Although they are not very close, they are still within the five degrees of kinship.

I can't imagine what Hongxing Village will become after Lin Man takes control of it.

Therefore, under the torment of my conscience, I chose to turn myself in and hand over the 1,000 yuan to the investigation team.

I'm just a coward, please don't investigate, I beg you.

She had just finished reading the letter when a young female team member leaned over and handed Ding Jiayi a letter:

"Team leader, here's a letter with a thousand yuan inside, and it's a report accusing Lin Man of bribery during the election."

"Do you think we should ask our superiors to allow us to take control of the person first?"

Hearing such pointed remarks from this group member again after several days, Ding Jiayi rolled her eyes, turned around, glared at the person, and asked, "Are you out of your mind?"

Upon hearing her team leader say once again that she was mentally unstable, the young female team member waved the envelope in her hand: "He bribed his way into the election!"

The group member's words completely silenced Ding Jiayi. She snatched the envelope from the other person's hand, took out the letter inside, read the contents from beginning to end, and then slammed the envelope onto the table:

"Can't you use your brain for once? Forget your boxing techniques and think about this from beginning to end!"

"Lin Man holds both the positions of village head and village secretary. To put it bluntly, he is the most powerful person in the village."

"Even if all the remaining positions on the village committee disobey him, it won't affect him."

"The only influence these positions—women's director, village deputy director, this committee member, that committee member—on him is that meetings and discussions require multiple signatures, not just his name."

"And bribery!"

"Organize all the letters, then come with me to the village committee."