Who Made Him a Lawyer?

Chapter 647: Chapter 417: Official Media! Is That a Typo? [Double Length, Requesting Monthly Tickets!]

Wu Xiong gave a bitter smile and spoke.

Seeing this, Liu Genshui didn’t know what to say either, so he could only hand him a cigarette.

Wu Xiong silently took it, but didn’t light it. Instead he looked up at him and asked again:

"How are the people from Feng Village... being handled?"

Feng Jiancun had been arrested, but that didn’t mean everyone in Feng Village had to be taken in!

Take those old folks in their sixties and seventies for example — they didn’t know the details of the case. They’d secretly been enjoying the benefits brought by Feng Jiancun’s criminal influence, but in the end they hadn’t directly broken the law.

So, legally speaking, the police had no right to touch them.

"It’s a bit tricky."

Liu Genshui shook his head, then suddenly shifted the topic and looked at him.

"But in the end it still has to be you guys who deal with it."

"You know how it is."

"Most of the ones from Feng Village who took part in the crimes are young people."

"These people have killed, they’ve got guns, they even colluded with Chen Erliang... out of every three of them, at least one’s looking at a suspended death sentence."

"Even if the other two are left, they’re starting at decades in prison..."

And then what?

Then, for the next several decades, Feng Village would have a pitiful number of young people.

But that raised another problem.

The old people in Feng Village hadn’t taken part in the crimes, yet ninety‑five percent of the money in their homes was illegal gains and had to be confiscated!

That meant they’d end up in a situation where they had no children to care for them, and no money to support themselves.

So, their old‑age care, and their lives going forward...

"You don’t need to worry about that."

Wu Xiong said, turning sideways. He glanced back at the people who’d come with him, then went on:

"The people from Yangzhou City will handle this."

"There are quite a few nursing homes around here."

Of course, easy to say, but Liu Genshui knew it wouldn’t be simple in practice.

After all, the ones who’d put these old folks into this predicament to begin with were the police who had arrested their criminal children.

Naturally they were full of hostility... if they didn’t cause trouble that would already be good enough; how could they possibly cooperate obediently!?

"We’ll just have to take it one step at a time."

Liu Genshui shook his head and said.

Then he led Wu Xiong off to find Captain Zhang.

They’d already compiled the operation for this case into a paper file, and now that he was here he should of course go through it carefully.

Fortunately, the arrests had taken place before Feng Jiancun’s sale, so there wasn’t that much that needed to be put together.

A few minutes later, Wu Xiong had a general grasp of the situation in Feng Village.

The three of them were silent for a long moment.

In the end...

"What’s Upper City’s thinking on this?"

Wu Xiong suddenly let out a sigh, raised his head, and looked at Liu Genshui again.

The case was big, but the consequences it had caused weren’t that serious. Even so... how Upper City was going to deal with Haibei Province was something Wu Xiong couldn’t quite figure out.

Because even if the fallout wasn’t severe, the nature of the case was in no way minor.

"Heh, I’m just a squad captain, how would I know that kind of thing."

Liu Genshui waved his hand, an helpless smile on his face.

Seeing this, Wu Xiong let out a long, deep breath.

Then he suddenly heard Liu Genshui change tack again and say:

"But... my guess is they’ll move to re‑launch a nationwide anti‑crime campaign."

From what they could see so far, the most shocking aspect of the case was the quantity seized.

But in fact...

What shocked Director Zhang and the others even more was that, before Upper City’s ’Stamp Case’ had broken, absolutely no one knew anything about what was happening in Feng Village!

That was what was really terrifying.

After all, Eastern Country didn’t just have Haibei Province.

What about Lanshan Province? What about Nanhai Province?

How much more was still hidden underground, waiting to be rooted out!?

"This..."

Wu Xiong fell silent. After thinking for a while, his brows knotted and his gaze slowly sharpened.

"All right, I get it."

A nationwide campaign didn’t mean every place would act at the same time.

Usually, there had to be a leading region to set an example — in other words, a pilot first, then the other regions would follow the model.

Liu Genshui’s meaning was obvious.

Haibei Province was going to be the ’testing ground’ for this campaign!

"I’ll report that up the chain."

Wu Xiong nodded, taking the task on.

Liu Genshui smiled. He clamped the cigarette between his lips, lit it, slowly drew in a lungful, then blew out the smoke and looked at him:

"And what about the news on Feng Village? When are you planning to make it public?"

Wu Xiong paused, thought for a moment, then let out a long sigh.

"I’ll find someone to draft a piece and get in touch with the official media."

"As for timing... tomorrow morning."

Liu Genshui chuckled, "You’re pretty carefree about it."

Wu Xiong spoke helplessly:

"There’s no other way."

...

...

Time passed, and before long.

The clock hands pointed to 19:21 in the evening.

Upper City.

Ronghua Avenue.

Even at seven p.m. in Upper City in 2005, the city was still ablaze with lights, bustling and prosperous.

The shops along both sides of the street lit up their neon signs, and the sidewalks were crowded with people.

But one store looked particularly out of place.

Its front door was secured with a U‑lock, the interior pitch‑dark. If you went closer and peered in, you got a sense of abandonment that clashed sharply with the flourishing scene around it.

In a daze, a voice sounded.

"Tsk, Hailing Law Firm is great, Hailing Law Firm really picked the perfect location!"

"I’d been wondering where I was going to find a whole bunch of capable lawyers who were also willing to sign on... and here they are, ready‑made!"

Right now Xu Liang was standing at the entrance, staring at the law firm in front of him that looked practically "shuttered," his face full of emotion.

Then his gaze turned blazing hot.

Beside him, Yang Ruoxi in her autumn outfit had a faint blush on her pretty face as she stared blankly at the storefront, murmuring:

"Hee‑hee, I guess this means we can really settle down in Upper City!"

Thinking back to the past, she couldn’t help feeling a little emotional.