Chapter 708: Chapter 540: To Wear the Crown, One Must Bear Its Weight (6000+)

She chose to publicly question the Public Security Department’s handling of the criminal investigation case today with the private approval of her uncle.

On that day, her uncle had just returned from an operation in another province and, without even resting, directly participated in the operation to arrest the jailbreak fugitive Shi Shengde and capture the drug trafficking gang at Tianjin Port.

Before Shixiu’s incident, he made a call to his uncle with Wu Rong’s phone.

The content of that call wasn’t very clear to Bai Sidong at the time, but later, he and Xiao Meng pondered over it...

They felt that the call seemed to be confirming Bai Sidong’s personal safety.

If this speculation is valid, coupled with the speed at which the Public Security Department restored the truth about the Tianjin Port incident, Su Xiaomeng’s suspicion of Wu Rong became more certain.

Shi Shengde didn’t have any special abilities. How could he successfully jailbreak without a well-coordinated inside and outside plan?

This "inside" problem was something Bai Sidong had been thinking about as well.

But directly suspecting the chief of the Public Security Department was indeed a very bold guess.

But what if it really was Wu Rong?

Su Xiaomeng felt that everything made sense.

Wu Rong and Yin Shixiu were quite close in the past, but when her uncle arrived at Tianjin Port that night to complete his mission, Wu Rong came out injured and offered an explanation for Yin Shixiu’s escape on a yacht that her uncle could not agree with.

Attacking Wu Rong, taking his phone, and yet calling Bai Sidong?

"Uncle, let’s assume Wu Rong is the one who helped Shi Shengde escape."

"Why would he help Shi Shengde, and in helping Shi Shengde, why did he have to oppose Yin Shixiu? Shixiu had helped him a lot in climbing to the position of Public Security Department chief. If Wu Rong was really an ungrateful person, he wouldn’t wait for years to show his true colors. Unless..."

"Unless this time in Shi Shengde’s smuggling and drug trafficking case, he is also implicated."

"If the Public Security Department chief is an accomplice of Shi Shengde, then after the jailbreak, Shi Shengde indeed wouldn’t need to risk his life to flee overseas. Because Shi Shengde is more arrogant and bolder than others."

"The surveillance video of Shixiu at the checkpoint, if I’m not mistaken, is meant to clear Shi Shengde later."

"With the Public Security Department chief’s help, turning black into white and white into black wouldn’t be so hard, would it?"

"Furthermore, the Shengde Group hasn’t just been involved in smuggling and drug trafficking for a year or two; it’s been under the Public Security Department’s nose for nearly a decade. Without someone in a significant position to cover up the matter, how could it have been done?"

"If it weren’t for your unexpected discovery, the Shengde Group might continue to operate under the protection of certain individuals for who knows how long."

That day, Su Xiaomeng and Bai Sidong were at home, with Bai Sidong recalling the events of that day while Xiao Meng recorded and sorted out her thoughts.

"But why did Shi Shengde die?"

"If it was Wu Rong... Shi Shengde, to him, is like a ticking time bomb. This bomb has already been lit for him, do you think Wu Rong would let him live?"

"..." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

"The smartest move Wu Rong made should be successfully deceiving Shi Shengde. Wu Rong had a very legitimate reason to be present by using the pretext of capturing the jailbreak fugitive to go to Tianjin Port."

"My father made it very clear after he returned that at the time, only Shi Shengde and the organized gang were there, but not Wu Rong. At that time, Shixiu indeed was in contact with Shi Shengde."

"Later, Shixiu came in contact with Wu Rong, and Shi Shengde didn’t die at that time. Uncle, isn’t this obvious yet?"

"While you were leading the Criminal Police Brigade to Tianjin Port, and while Ming Xu was leading an elite team over there, the three of them were in contact at that time."

"What Wu Rong and Shi Shengde wanted wasn’t just Shixiu’s life; they also wanted Shixiu to take the fall for drug smuggling to clear Shi Shengde’s name."

"It’s just that Shi Shengde probably didn’t know at the time that Wu Rong had already developed the intention to kill him."

"I’m not sure if Rong Jing was present at the time; we need to investigate further. The transfer contract in Rong Jing’s possession was seen by Chen Lan."

"He said he confirmed it was Shixiu’s handwriting."

"My father said that Shi Shengde indeed demanded that Yin Shixiu transfer all his Yin Family shares."

"Whether Rong Jing was present or not is irrelevant. What’s important is that Shi Shengde and Rong Jing must have reached an agreement."

"The Rong Family received seventy-two percent of the Yin Family shares. After Shi Shengde’s name was cleared, he couldn’t reorganize the Shengde Group without partners like the Rong Family."