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Li Jianye slumped down onto the ground through the locked door, clutching his head tightly with both hands, his knuckles white, trembling violently.

"Deputy Director Gao, it's all over...it's all over! That's the bottom line for smuggling timber! If it falls into Lu Qingshan's hands, we're in for a bullet and will lose our heads!"

Li Jianye's voice was choked with sobs, and the last syllable trembled.

"What's the panic? Shut your mouth!"

Gao Jianjun shouted sharply and strode back behind his desk.

His face was so gloomy it could drip water. He opened a drawer, took out a flattened pack of Yingchun cigarettes, and lit a match.

The flames flickered violently, illuminating his bloodshot, sinister eyes.

"If Lu Qingshan really intended to destroy us right now, he would have intercepted the account books late last night, and by daybreak he should have brought the county public security bureau to bang on our door!"

Gao Jianjun exhaled a thick, pungent puff of smoke, his gaze sharp as a knife as he scrutinized Li Jianye's face. "Why didn't he report it to the police? Huh?"

Li Jianye raised his head cautiously, wiped away a cold sweat, and stammered, "He...he's afraid of you? He doesn't dare to go all the way?"

"Bullshit! He even dared to step in Yu Bo's mud, why would he be afraid of me?"

Gao Jianjun crushed the cigarette butt hard into the coarse ceramic ashtray, scattering ashes everywhere.

A sinister sneer curled at the corner of his mouth: "Because that little bastard is a ravenous wolf at heart!"

"He just took over that messy coal briquette factory in the western suburbs. Buying land, building cold storage, hiring workers—all of that costs money! His meager allowance isn't even enough to fill a gap in his teeth! He's withholding the account books because he wants to use them as leverage to blackmail us!"

Gao Jianjun's long, slender fingers pounded heavily on the table, producing a chilling thud: "He's trying to treat us like ATMs, forcing us to cough up huge amounts of cash to fill the bottomless pit of his dilapidated factory!"

Upon hearing this, Li Jianye felt as if he had grasped a lifeline and scrambled to the edge of the table.

"Then...then let's give him the money! Manager Gao, it's better to pay up than to suffer a greater loss! As long as he's willing to hand over the bottom lines and burn them to ashes, we'll scrape together whatever amount he needs..."

*Smack!*

With a sharp crack, Gao Jianjun raised his hand and delivered a resounding slap to Li Jianye's face, causing the enamel teacup on the table to vibrate violently!

"Idiot! Pig-brained!"

Gao Jianjun pointed at Li Jianye's nose, gritting his teeth and cursing in a low voice.

"Give him 100,000 today, and he'll dare ask for 200,000 tomorrow! He has leverage over us; from now on, you and I are just dogs on a leash around his neck! Whoever he tells you to bite, you have to bite! You'll never be able to turn your life around!"

Gao Jianjun suddenly stood up, walked quickly to the window, and with a "whoosh," pulled the heavy curtains shut tightly, plunging the entire office into a depressing, dark, and deathly silence.

Only the dead can keep their mouths shut.

Gao Jianjun turned around, his eyes surging with bloodthirsty ferocity.

He pulled out a yellowed hand-drawn topographical sketch from under a thick stack of reports and slapped it down in front of Li Jianye.

"Come here and take a good look at what this is."

Li Jianye covered his burning cheek and leaned closer to examine it carefully.

"The Second Coal Mine in the Western Suburbs? Isn't that the dilapidated factory that Lu Qingshan just bought?"

"That's right." Gao Jianjun smiled confidently.

"I knew long ago that that little bastard didn't like me. I've been keeping track of everything he does."

If all his subordinates were like these idiots, he would have been finished long ago!

"This dilapidated factory occupies more than 30 acres. In front is his large-scale construction site for a cold storage facility, and in the backyard, there's a large area of ​​wasteland that used to be used for piling coal slag and an abandoned three-story warehouse!"

Gao Jianjun drew a circle on the sketch: "That place is overgrown with weeds taller than a person, even wild dogs don't poop there, and nobody ever sets foot there."

Li Jianye was completely bewildered: "Director Gao, what does his buying of this dilapidated place have to do with our current predicament?"

"A relationship? This is the coffin lid that will send him to the guillotine!"

Gao Jianjun leaned down, bracing his hands on the edge of the table, staring intently into Li Jianye's eyes, speaking slowly and deliberately, his voice as cold as ice.

"What good is it if he has the ledger! As long as we make him a traitor caught red-handed before he makes a move, then who in the county or bureau will believe the so-called 'ledger' handed over by a death row inmate who has embezzled from his post?!"

Li Jianye's breath hitched, his heart leaping into his throat: "Turn...turn him into a thief? How?"

Gao Jianjun grinned maliciously and pointed to the abandoned warehouse on the map: "Are those two truckloads of top-grade century-old red pine logs from the No. 6 lumber yard still there?"

Li Jianye shuddered and nodded repeatedly: "Yes! After Skinny Monkey's accident last night, the truck has been parked behind a log stack deep in the mountains, and the tarpaulin hasn't even been removed!"

"Tonight, in the latter half of the night, once it's completely dark, arrange for someone we trust to be there!"

Gao Jianjun's eyes flashed with a fierce light as he traced a line on the map from Forest Farm No. 6 all the way to the western suburbs: "Get those two truckloads of top-grade old red pines without the forestry stamp, bypass the checkpoints, and get them into Xiushan Industry's backyard tonight! Unload them all into Lu Qingshan's abandoned warehouse, untouched!"

Li Jianye gasped, his eyes widening in shock: "Unloaded...unloaded at his factory?!"

"Yes! We'll remove it and leave immediately, leaving no trace!"

Gao Jianjun spoke rapidly, each word dripping with venom: "First thing tomorrow morning, we'll go directly to the county public security bureau and file a formal complaint! We'll accuse Lu Qingshan, the deputy head of the transportation planning section, of embezzlement, colluding with criminal gangs to smuggle nationally strategic-grade red pine trees out of the mountains under the cover of night, and then reselling them in his privately owned factory!"

"When the Economic Investigation and Criminal Police of the Public Security Bureau broke down the door, dozens of cubic meters of national-grade red pine trees were seized on the spot, along with the culprits!"

Gao Jianjun clenched his fist tightly, his knuckles cracking: "Selling top-grade timber at this critical juncture of the crackdown, the amount involved is enormous, and the circumstances are extremely heinous! Lu Qingshan deserves to be executed ten times over, his head smashed ten times over!"

Li Jianye was sweating profusely, but that extreme fear suddenly transformed into a twisted excitement as he escaped from a desperate situation.

"Brilliant...this move is absolutely brilliant!" Li Jianye slapped his thigh hard, his triangular eyes gleaming with malice. "Even mud that's in your pants is still mud! Once the stolen goods are found in his factory, he'll never be able to clear his name!"

But then his eyes darted around, and he became somewhat uneasy: "Director Gao, what if that kid turns around and insists that we framed him?"

"Framed? He'd better produce evidence!" Gao Jianjun scoffed. "He's always been arrogant because of Li Aiguo's favor. Caught red-handed, Li Aiguo, to avoid suspicion and protect his own position, would absolutely not dare to interfere; he might even have to personally approve his arrest!"

Li Jianye finally came to his senses, his face revealing a desperate and ruthless expression: "Deputy Director Gao, since we're going to take this down, let's just nail the coffin shut completely!"

"There are two gambling addicts in the third work area, Wang Mazi and Liu Quezi, who have been begging me to help them get permanent positions," Li Jianye said with a sinister gesture. "Tonight, I'll give each of them fifty yuan, and then use the permanent positions to blackmail and bribe them! I'll make them come with us to the police station tomorrow to give their fingerprints and fabricate evidence, insisting that they saw Lu Qingshan leading people to smuggle timber out of the No. 6 lumberyard last night!"

"The physical evidence is in the abandoned warehouse, and the witnesses are right in front of us! With both sides in place, even the King of Hell can't save Lu Qingshan!"

A hint of approval flashed in Gao Jianjun's eyes, and he said coldly, "At least your brain hasn't completely turned to lard! You handle the witness matter, and make sure your testimony is sealed shut—not a single word leaks out!"

After saying that, Gao Jianjun grabbed the black hand-cranked telephone on the table.

Li Jianye quickly asked, "Then who will be the people to weigh down the timber trucks tonight...?"

"Find Sun Jianguo, the deputy head of the security department."

Gao Jianjun sneered, "His own nephew, Zhao Erhu, had both his legs broken by Lu Qingshan a while ago, and he'll be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Old Sun dreams of skinning Lu Qingshan alive! If this knife is handed to him, he'll be ruthless and steadyer than anyone else!"

Gao Jianjun cranked the receiver forcefully and grabbed it: "Connect me to the deputy head of the security section's office... Old Sun? This is Gao Jianjun. You alone, come to my office immediately. I have something important to you—something that could cost you your head but get you promoted to section chief!"

Less than three minutes later, there was a rapid knocking on the office door.

"Enter."

The door was flung open, and Sun Jianguo, the deputy head of the security department, rushed in with a livid face, locking the door behind him. He glanced at Li Jianye, who wore a strange, cold smile, then looked at Gao Jianjun: "Director Gao, you wanted to see me?"

Gao Jianjun didn't waste any words, directly pushing the blueprints forward, his voice low and menacing like a viper's hiss: "Old Sun, do you want to avenge your nephew Erhu? Do you want to send Lu Qingshan to the shooting range to get shot?"

Sun Jianguo's body jolted violently, his fleshy face instantly contorted with rage, his eyes flashing with murderous intent: "Director Gao! I've been dreaming of that! That little bastard, relying on his skills and connections, crippled my nephew! I'll do anything you ask as long as I can kill Lu Qingshan!"

Gao Jianjun, expressionless, laid out the entire "frame-up trap."

Sun Jianguo's breathing grew heavier and heavier, his eyes gleaming with a wolfish green light. Finally, he slammed his fist on the coffee table: "Excellent! A brilliant killing trap!"

"Director Gao, you can rest assured! I have a few ruthless thugs under my command who can drive through mountain roads at night with their eyes closed! The earthen wall behind the coal yard in the western suburbs has long since collapsed. Tonight, after midnight, I will personally lead a team to push the trucks over and dump both truckloads of old red pine trees into his dilapidated warehouse without anyone noticing!"

Sun Jianguo, panting heavily, grinned maliciously, "After unloading the goods, I'll have people drive those two unlicensed, beat-up trucks to an abandoned mine in a neighboring county to smash and burn them to pieces tonight. I guarantee they'll be completely cleaned up, leaving not a trace!"

"Alright! After dark, proceed according to plan!" Gao Jianjun's eyes were filled with murderous intent.

"Understood!" Sun Jianguo nodded heavily, opened the door and strode away, his footsteps revealing the urgency and bloodlust of revenge.

The office fell silent once more.

Gao Jianjun slowly walked to the window and suddenly pulled open the heavy curtains.

The afternoon sun shone brightly into the room, landing on his distorted and smug face.

Gao Jianjun leaned against the windowsill, looking down at the forest farm compound.

Under the bike shed, Lu Qingshan's brand-new "Forever" brand 28-inch bicycle, which was spotlessly clean, sat quietly in the sunlight.

"Try to fight me..."

Gao Jianjun stared intently at the bicycle, a cruel, sinister smile curling at the corner of his mouth. His voice was so soft it seemed to come from the deepest hell:

"You little bastard, wait until the sun rises tomorrow morning... and see how you die!"

……

Before nightfall, not even the lights were on in the offices of the factory in the western suburbs.

Lu Qingshan looked at the factory layout and quietly pondered what to do next.

Gao Jianjun should have already discovered that Accountant Sun is missing. Whether Gao Jianjun will launch a fierce counterattack or destroy the evidence next is unknown.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

Scarface Liu poked his head in: "Brother, there's a guy called Skinny Monkey looking for you. He says he has something important to tell you."

Lu Qingshan understood.

"thump!"

With a muffled thud, a gaunt figure, wrapped up tightly and not daring to show his face, knelt heavily on the cold cement ground.

The person who came was trembling all over, his head pressed tightly to the ground, not daring to lift his head at all.

It was none other than Skinny Monkey, Gao Jianjun's trusted errand boy.

"Brother Qingshan! I've come to deliver a letter to you!"

Skinny Monkey swallowed hard, his voice trembling uncontrollably, on the verge of tears: "Gao Jianjun... Gao Jianjun is going to kill you tonight, he's going to completely destroy you!"

Lu Qingshan slowly poked at the ashes with the fire tongs, without even lifting his eyelids: "Speak."

"He's trying to frame you with those two big truckloads of top-grade red pine!"

The skinny monkey vomited everything out in one breath, and was so frightened that tears and snot streamed down his face.

"All the official seals at the forest farm have been erased. Gao Jianjun bribed his way in, and they're being transported directly to your warehouse number three in the western suburbs late tonight!"

"Tomorrow morning, the county inspection team and the Public Security Bureau will conduct a joint operation and catch the perpetrator red-handed! Possessing and reselling state-allocated top-grade red pine is a capital offense, punishable by death, Brother Shan! He had no intention of leaving you any way out!"

Upon hearing the words "top-grade red pine," Scarface Liu's eyes widened instantly, veins bulged on his forehead, and his fists clenched so tightly they cracked.

Lu Qingshan put down the fire tongs and stared coldly at the skinny monkey on the ground.

"Why did you come here to betray your master and seek personal gain?"

The skinny monkey was so frightened that he kowtowed three times, his forehead immediately turning bruised and purple.

"Brother Shan! I swear, this whole scheme to wipe out the family line was Gao Jianjun's own doing. I didn't even touch a single piece of wood! I know your methods. That bastard Gao Jianjun is arrogant and conceited; sooner or later, you'll uproot him completely!"

Lu Qingshan didn't answer. He thought that a person like Shouhou was capable of betraying anyone, and that this news was probably just a scare tactic; his real killer move was elsewhere.

He smiled slightly, not accepting surrender: "How do you know? Maybe I'll be the one who loses."

"Brother Qingshan, I delivered lunch to Accountant Zhang. Accountant Sun and I are childhood friends, and I know the ledgers are with you."

The skinny monkey looked up, his eyes filled with fear and pleading: "Brother Qingshan, I risked my life to come and warn you today. I don't want money, I don't want anything... I just beg you! When you take down Gao Jianjun and settle scores with these bastards, please be merciful and don't drag me and Sun Defa into it! Leave us a way out!"

"Sun Defa had a tough time. When I was a child, no one cared about me. He was the one who gave me food and showed me the way, so I was able to eat my fill."

"I know I can run, but if I run... what will happen to Defa! He has a wife and children, he's had a hard life! Brother Qingshan, please let us go."

The room was deathly silent, except for the crackling of the charcoal fire in the stove.

Lu Qingshan lit a cigarette. Amidst the swirling smoke, his eyes were deep and cold, like a beast poised to pounce.

"As long as you keep your mouth shut and haven't been in this room tonight," Lu Qingshan said, taking a drag of his cigarette and exhaling calmly, "when we settle accounts later, your name and his name won't be on the list."

"Thank you, Brother Xie! Thank you, Brother Qingshan, for saving my life!" Skinny Monkey felt like he had been granted a pardon and scrambled out the back door, disappearing into the night in the blink of an eye.