86: Chapter 86 Deputy Leader of the Han University Gang!

"I can't figure it out either!"

Director Qi Tongwei's brows were tightly furrowed as he paced around the tea room.

A bar altercation, and it actually disturbed a heavyweight like Secretary Sha?

This just doesn't make sense!

Gao Xiaoqin's sharp brain was also racing: "Could it be… a ruse to get at you? Is Secretary Sha trying to use this incident to warn you, or… target you?"

Director Qi Tongwei stopped, pondered for a moment, shook his head, and a bitter smile appeared at the corners of his mouth: "You're thinking too highly of me."

"If Secretary Sha really wanted to move against me, he has plenty of legitimate methods; there's no need to make a fuss over such an insignificant, underhanded matter."

Director Qi Tongwei still had that much self-awareness.

In the eyes of a figure at Secretary Sha's level, he, Director Qi Tongwei, might count as somebody, but certainly not enough for the other party to go through such "great trouble" to set a trap using a distant cousin.

"Then could the other party be some younger relative of Secretary Sha?" Gao Xiaoqin asked again.

Director Qi Tongwei still shook his head: "No! If the other party really were a younger relative of Secretary Sha, then the one calling the Lüzhou City Bureau wouldn't be Secretary Sha, but Secretary Bai, or someone else!"

It must be said, when it came to bureaucratic wisdom, Director Qi Tongwei was top-tier.

He was quite right; under normal circumstances, if it really were some relative of Secretary Sha, Secretary Sha wouldn't personally call the Lüzhou City Bureau.

"Then why exactly is it?" Gao Xiaoqin was also confused, "Could it really be a coincidence? Did they just happen to walk straight into the line of fire?"

"Coincidence? There's no such thing as a coincidence like that!"

Director Qi Tongwei flatly denied it; having spent many years in the officialdom, he didn't believe in such so-called coincidences at all.

Behind every seemingly accidental event, there is inevitably an underlying logic and driving force.

He sat back down in the chair, his eyes becoming sharp: "This matter is definitely not simple!"

"Secretary Sha wouldn't pay attention to such a small matter for no reason; there must be some reason we don't know about."

"We must get to the bottom of this!"

"I'll make some calls right now and ask what on earth has been happening around Secretary Sha lately! What kind of wind blew him into this lousy business!"

Director Qi Tongwei was a man of action; he immediately picked up his phone and began to mobilize his network of connections.

He successively dialed a familiar Deputy Director at the Provincial Party Committee General Office, an old subordinate at the Political and Legal Affairs Commission, and several well-informed people within the Provincial Party Committee.

On the phone, he didn't directly ask about his cousin's matter, but instead beat around the bush, using casual conversation to probe into Secretary Sha's recent activities and areas of focus.

The first few calls didn't yield much; the other parties were either genuinely ignorant or tight-lipped.

These people were not low-ranking, so they didn't need to be servile in front of Director Qi Tongwei, and thus, concerning matters about Secretary Sha, they dared not say everything.

But later, when calling a small section chief at the Provincial Party Committee, the other party, perhaps wanting to curry favor with Director Qi Tongwei, actually mentioned something.

"Department Director Qi, come to think of it… there actually is something quite… quite special going on over at Secretary Sha's side recently."

"Just the day before yesterday, there was a young man who brought some old object and went straight to the Provincial Party Committee security section, saying… saying he was a descendant of the master of Secretary Sha's uncle, here to acknowledge his kinship."

"What?" Director Qi Tongwei thought he had misheard, "A descendant of his uncle's master? What on earth is that about?"

"It's absolutely true!" the other party confirmed.

In officialdom, it's hard to keep any secrets.

Furthermore, when Shen Wang went to the Provincial Party Committee, he didn't hide anything, and basically everyone in the security section knew about it.

Plus, the matter was so bizarre and magical that now the entire Provincial Party Committee basically knew about it.

"This matter isn't a secret over at the Provincial Party Committee; a lot of people saw it at the time! The young man seemed to be holding some sort of… apprenticeship certificate? It's said that it even had… that old Brigade Commander's autograph on it!"

"Brigade Commander?"

Director Qi Tongwei's tone involuntarily rose, and his heart skipped a beat.

At his level, he knew all too well what the words "Brigade Commander" meant!

"Yes! Secretary Sha even met him personally at the time, and later Secretary Bai personally saw him out; his attitude… was extremely polite."

The small section chief on the other end spilled everything he knew to Director Qi Tongwei.

"Alright, I understand, thank you, Xiao Feng!"

"Department Director, you're too kind. To be able to serve you…"

After a full minute of flattery from the other party, Director Qi Tongwei hung up the phone.

"A descendant of Secretary Sha's uncle's master? And it's related to a Brigade Commander?"

"What does all this have to do with anything… It shouldn't have anything to do with my fifth brother's matter, right?"

Director Qi Tongwei instinctively felt these two matters shouldn't be related.

On one side is an "acknowledging kinship" of an old affair, on the other is a current public security case; they are completely unrelated.

Gao Xiaoqin also felt it was unbelievable and said softly: "Department Director, recently, besides this matter, have there been any other special movements around Secretary Sha?"

Director Qi Tongwei shook his head: "No, only this one thing counts as something new."

"Better to overreact than to miss anything," Gao Xiaoqin said decisively, "Check on this young man; what if?"

Director Qi Tongwei thought about it and felt it made sense.

He immediately made a few more calls, asking people to check two key pieces of information:

1. What the name and background of the young man who went to the Provincial Party Committee to find Secretary Sha the day before yesterday is;

2. The detailed background of the family that had the conflict with his fifth brother.

Originally, Director Qi Tongwei didn't hold much hope, just acting on the idea of taking a shot in the dark.

However, the final news that came back really did connect!

That person is named Shen Wang, and he has a cousin who is exactly the one who had the conflict with Old Five.

And it was also discovered that this Shen Wang had been working at Shanshui Group just a few days ago!

"What? Worked at Shanshui Group?" Gao Xiaoqin immediately stood up, "I'll have HR pull his file over right away!"

Very quickly, Shen Wang's unremarkable resume was placed in front of the two of them.

Apart from the fact that the person in the photo was indeed quite handsome, his education and work experience were completely unremarkable; he was just an ordinary corporate slave.

"This… how is this possible?"

"A young man who was working under you just a few days ago, suddenly transformed into a descendant of Secretary Sha's uncle's master? This is too absurd!"

The two looked at the resume, both completely baffled.

"Perhaps… not a transformation. Maybe his family had always hidden that apprenticeship certificate or some token, and he himself didn't know it before."

"Maybe he was organizing heirlooms recently or discovered it by accident, which is why he resigned and then went to the Provincial Party Committee to 'acknowledge kinship'?"

"That's the only way it makes sense! So you're saying… it really is this Shen Wang, because his little cousin had a conflict with my fifth brother, and then he used Secretary Sha's connection…"

Believe it or not, their analysis actually hit the nail on the head by accident!

As the two were talking, suddenly, Gao Xiaoqin saw on the desk that the surveillance footage on the computer seemed to have some issues.

It seemed that some guests were having a conflict.

Gao Xiaoqin originally just took a casual glance, but when she saw that young man, her body suddenly stiffened.

Immediately after, she looked again at Shen Wang's resume on the table…

"Department Director! Look! In the surveillance… that person…"