Chapter 42: Truth is always in the hands of a minority, it's about size.

  Ye Hao turned around and walked towards the door, before leaving he turned back: "Your mother and sister you take care of yourself after you come out, I am your older brother not your family's nanny."

  Meng Han covered his face and wailed loudly behind him: "Hao Dong Ge, this is my voluntary choice, please fulfill it for me!"

  This was the first time Bao Li called Ye Haodong "Haodong Ge", it came from his heart. His mouth is stupid but his heart isn't.

  Nong Junting never dreamed that in this lifetime, Ye Haodong would ask her to do something for the first time, and it would be to get himself into trouble.

  In Song Hao's villa.

  Nong Junting held the camel's hair pillow and sat quietly, looking at the little man in front of her, listening to him recount the entire inside story of that shocking case.

  Ye Haodong finished speaking, Nong Juntin said: "Do you want to replace your brother and save his life?"

  Ye Haodong nodded.

  Nong Junting asked: "You think he has a mother and a sister, what about you? Don't you have a mother? A lover? A sister? You went in, we won't be sad or heartbroken?"

  Ye Haodong: "My mother still has two sons who are better than me, as for my girlfriend, she is stronger than any girl, she can understand my choice."

  Nong Junting's emotions were slightly agitated: "And what about me? How do you explain to this newly recognized sister of mine, my concern for you has been no less than anyone else's since the day we recognized each other."

  Ye Haodong walked over, gently pulled up Nong Juntin's hand, very gentle and sincere: "Sister is too powerful, brother can't give you anything except a lifetime of gratitude."

  Nong Junting rolled her eyes, then smiled. That sentence had scratched an itch that had been bothering her for a lifetime. She spat out a mouthful of words: "Your gratitude is useless to me, you're really not considerate, but after all, we made a promise as siblings that day, no matter what trouble you have, I'll take it on for you. In short, I've agreed to help with your problem!"

  Ye Haodong grabbed Nong Junteng's hand that was scratching her own nose: "Will you agree to help me replace Bao Lijiang?"

  Nong Junting snorted, giving Ye Haodong a white eye: "Hehe, you really think the procuratorate is my sister's family business? What are you thinking? My intention is to help you keep that Baoli Gang's life."

  Ye Haodong excitedly: "Really can?"

  Nong Jun-ting said seriously: "Since I saw this incident in the news, I thought it might be related to you, so I've been paying attention to its development. As long as the police admit that you were there for negotiations that day and take into account that none of you had any lethal weapons on you at the time of sentencing, the strong crossbows you brought can be considered as a precautionary measure. Along with this, the act of shooting and killing those two people can be seen as an excessive defense!"

  Ye Haodong: "The judicial authorities now tend to think that we are here to trade in drugs, although we didn't bring any money. We all have a record of cases and the evidence chain left at the scene is easy to form a judicial tendency. Usually, when people like us come to negotiate, how can they not bring their stuff? This point has some suspicion of covering up."

  Nong Junting: "What you said is not hard evidence, it's all soft evidence with room for maneuvering. It mainly depends on the inclination of the judging party. On this point, I can let you in on a secret, no problem! Regardless of whose younger brother-in-law the deceased was."

  Ye Haodong: "If it is determined as self-defense, how many years will be sentenced?"

  Nong Junting: "It depends on the level of the lawyer and the judge's law enforcement standards, it could be severe with no parole or light with 10-8 years."

  Ye Haodong: "If I also surrender and admit that the two fatal arrows were shot by me, what would happen?"

  Nong Junting was very angry and said in a bad tone: "Why bring this up again? You'll be shot!"

  Ye Haodong looked at her without speaking, his eyes pleading, his attitude very serious.

  From knowing Ye Haodong to now, Nong Juntin has also figured out his personality. Based on his past behavior, she knows that Ye Haodong is a man who fears nothing but being locked up. For others, going to prison might be a disaster, but for Ye Haodong, it's just another special experience in his colorful life journey. Who knows, this little devil might even enjoy it. From his determination to save Bao Ligang, it can be seen that Ye Haodong considers himself as Bao Ligang's big brother and doesn't want his brothers to take the blame for him, which means he doesn't want to carry a lifetime of guilt on his conscience. Nong Juntin thought: The man I like should be a man with feelings and righteousness, he should be free and easy-going, but that freedom should also be a carefree and unencumbered one. If this time he is imprisoned, it's only his body that's being locked up, his soul remains free and confident. That kind of freedom is what he wants, right?

  Nong Junting patted her own belly, let out a low sigh: "Really is a stubborn donkey-like troublemaker, also doesn't know if it's because of some debt from the past life, okay, sister agreed, you follow me to surrender tomorrow, but not just to the Steel City Public Security Bureau, tomorrow Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission Vice Secretary Luo Shiqiang will come to Steel City, preside over the old industrial base social security comprehensive rectification work. He has some connections with my family's elders, I still call him Uncle Luo, you follow me there, listen to what he says."

  The next day, the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

  Provincial Public Security Department Deputy Director Song Fang, Municipal Politics and Law Committee Secretary, and all leaders above the level of director from the Public Security Bureau gathered together. At the main seat was Central Politics and Law Committee Deputy Secretary Luo Shiqiang, who had just presided over this meeting to deploy rectification measures for the old industrial base with many laid-off workers, prominent social contradictions, and great difficulty in maintaining public order. A secretary came in from outside and quietly informed him of Nong Juntin's visit.

  Lu Shi-qiang furrowed his brow, thinking that a child from such a good family as Nong Jun-ting's shouldn't make such a mistake. There must be something going on that she needs to talk about at an appropriate time, so why did she come during work hours? Is it an urgent matter or official business? Lu Shi-qiang decided to see her anyway, not only because of the face of the Nong family, which was not insignificant, but also because he had an impression of Nong Jun-ting as a clever and polite child who knew how to behave.

  In the living room, as required by Nong Junding, Luo Shiqiang, Nong Junding, Ye Haodong, Song Fang and Hong Yuzhou were all present.

  Nong Junting explained the situation clearly, and Luo Shiqiang nodded after that. Hong Yuzhou took a pair of handcuffs from the police officer on duty at the door and personally put them on Ye Haodong.

  Under Jiang Wei's personal interrogation in the interrogation room, Ye Haodong confessed that due to Er Xinzi's repeated threats to kill him on several occasions, he was forced to organize and plan a negotiation with Er Xinzi's underworld gang. He emphasized that on that day, he was worried about unexpected events and arranged for Bao Ligang and himself to ambush, using the powerful crossbow to intimidate Er Xinzi and prevent him from making any rash moves. In the end, however, due to loss of control of the situation, he was forced to shoot and kill Er Xinzi and Xie Tui'er with two arrows.

  The police reacted quickly and immediately brought in another self-confessor, Bao Ligang, for separate questioning. This time, what Bao Ligang said was surprisingly identical to what Ye Haodong had said! Even Jiang Wei found it unbelievable and almost believed that Ye Haodong's statement was the whole truth. Suddenly, he remembered that Song Fang had suggested bringing in Bao Ligang for separate questioning last night, and his heart tightened at the thought. If this was a case of Song Fang helping Ye Haodong to fabricate evidence, then this little brat's abilities were really too terrifying.

  The situation took a complete turn, and at the case summary meeting, Luo Shiqiang unexpectedly attended, and his words determined the nature of the entire case.

  Comrades, I am attending this meeting today with a heavy heart. Currently, the international situation is complex and changing, and the domestic situation is also not optimistic. The economy is facing an urgent need for a soft landing, and the socialist economic reform needs to be steadily promoted. We do not have any experience from our predecessors to draw upon, and we are completely feeling our way across the river by touching stones.

  For this reason, the Party Central Committee has repeatedly emphasized that the focus of social stability work is to stabilize everything! The Northeast region is the cradle of our country's basic industries, and our Steel City was once the foundation of our country's steel industry. At one time, this place was also a land of heroes in the industry.

  Now, with the comprehensive promotion of enterprise optimization reform, our Steel City, which was once a pioneer in the construction of our country, has become a city with social instability and difficulties in promoting enterprise reform. In recent years, there have been repeated collective visits and sit-ins that have triggered conflicts between the people and the government, which have had a bad impact domestically and internationally.

  I would like to ask the main responsible persons of the political and legal front line of Steel City who are present here: Have you truly done your job? Do you have the people and the country in your hearts? From this incident today, at least some of you have not. A black society gang leader who was responsible for several lives, sold drugs, and traded guns was killed in self-defense, but some of you still disregarded the law and tried to avenge him.

  Some people say that this incident was caused by two black societies fighting each other, and it doesn't matter who was killed. But I would like to ask those who say this: Have you heard of any black society leader who actively participated in reform, saved a state-owned enterprise from bankruptcy, and arranged jobs for over 400 laid-off workers? Have you heard of any black society leader who twice made forced confessions and twice surrendered himself? Have you heard of any black society leader who actively cooperated with the government's housing project and lent steel to the government without interest?

  I would like to ask those who say this: Is this your standard for a black society leader? Don't tell me about the difficulties in your work or how hard it is to define what constitutes a black society. Go out and talk to the over 600 employees of the new green paper industry and the new green steel factory who came spontaneously, and ask them what they represent! It's the people's hearts!

  Comrades, you know that our Party's cause was established on the basis of winning the people's hearts. We want to reform, we want to achieve national greatness, and all these things depend on the people's hearts! Put aside your official airs and let's talk about the responsibilities of our public security, procuratorial, and judicial departments. Maintaining the dignity of the law cannot become empty words. The construction of a legal system is to ensure that justice is upheld and evil is punished.

  On this premise, in accordance with the spirit of the Constitution, we must have a certain degree of humanistic care in our handling of criminal cases. We must truly hear and see the voices of the masses. Only those who are deeply hated by the people and have committed heinous crimes should be our main targets for punishment! Only if we grasp this principle can we better maintain and defend the democratic rule of law with Chinese characteristics!

  Jiang Wei, as the specific person in charge of this case, attended the meeting and was also the youngest official present. After listening to Vice Secretary Luo's words, Jiang Wei thoroughly understood the focus of the next step of work. In short, one sentence: everything starts from maintaining stability. From now on, the focus of the strike in public security work should be placed on those who cannot bring peace to society and cause great resentment among the people; on those who have no promoting effect on social economic construction but often engage in sabotage. Ye Haodong obviously belongs to the type that is beneficial to society, has the support of the people, and never initiates the destruction of socialist stability and unity order, and should be a protected object within the scope allowed by law.

  The summary report mainly focuses on Jiang Wei's tone, highlighting the self-defense circumstances of Ye Haodong and his gang, as well as their meritorious acts of fighting unarmed against the armed criminals from Er Xinzi gang.

  Under the attention of Deputy Secretary Luo, this closing report was quickly passed at all levels of leadership and swiftly transferred to the procuratorate, formally entering the judicial review process.

  Ye Haodong has come to the Xiaogushan Detention Center once again, and this time he will be staying here for a while. Due to the large number of major suspects involved and the complexity of the case, his own crimes are not minor either. Although he has the protection of higher-ups, his case will still take a long time to be tried. Before entering the detention center, Nong Juntian met with him in the reception room of the Public Security Bureau.