Chapter 9: The Pure and Innocent Girl

  What Gong Zhong didn't realize was that if the case had been exposed at the time, he would have followed his brother's and lawyer uncle's advice and firmly resisted writing the so-called report materials. He clearly stated: "The things that Shu Daming and others did have nothing to do with me, why should I write a report?" Instead of blindly believing in the party group led by Zhao Yi, the director of the Jiangnan Bureau, as Gong Zhong himself called it, the development of events might have been different.

  It is now a fact that Gong Zhong's idea at the time was so naive! He thought that as long as he wrote down what he knew, truthfully and objectively, he believed that Zhao Yibao, head of the Jiangnan Bureau Party Group, would judge from the facts whether he had participated or not, whether he should take responsibility, and what kind of responsibility he should take. But now the situation may be another scenario. However, there are no ifs in life, things have already happened, and thinking like this has no meaning. This is the first unforgivable mistake Gong Zhong made after the case was exposed.

  In a sense, Gong Zhong is a foolish person. He did not learn from his first mistake and insisted on writing the so-called report materials as a "participant", which led to the passive situation later. Now he has made another unforgivable mistake, that is, after the case occurred, Gong Zhong did not appeal to anyone. He mistakenly believed that it was not the time to appeal now, and should not disturb the party group's work on the lawsuit for personal reasons. Gong Zhong naively believed that the Jiangnan Bureau Party Group, headed by Director Zhao, would treat him fairly.

  Gong Zhong's mistakes, Shu Daming, Fang Jianjun and Fang Lihong, the real parties involved, would not make. Just as Gong Zhong blindly believed that the party group of Jiangnan Bureau led by Zhao Yi would investigate the truth and properly handle his personal issues, Shu Daming, Fang Jianjun and Fang Lihong also made a big show, using all their connections, trying every means, taking various measures to clear themselves, reduce their responsibilities and strive for lenient treatment from the organization.

  But Fang Lihong, this woman with a delicate appearance, immediately utilized various relationships, especially her father-in-law's relationship as the Deputy Director of the Labor Bureau, to find many leaders in the bureau and strive to make big things small and small things nonexistent, minimizing her responsibility to the greatest extent. On the other hand, she cried in front of every member of the Party Committee, fully utilizing the wealth bestowed upon her by heaven, to gain the leaders' sympathy, understanding, and forgiveness.

  "I'm just a young girl in her twenties, naive and inexperienced, with no social experience at all. I only know how to follow the leader's arrangements, I don't understand anything. Whatever the leader asks me to do, I'll do it."

  "I'm just an accountant, a low-level financial staff. The three of them are my superiors, Shu Daming is my superior, Fang Jianjun is my superior, and Gong Zhong is also my superior. All my work is arranged by them, and all my work reports to them."

  "Director Shu is an expert in finance, he's the old financial director of our Jiangnan office, and the old leader of our financial staff. He's a man who says what goes, if he tells me to go somewhere I go, if he tells me to fill out some form I fill it out, how would I know if there's any problem with that?"

  "I hate TreeDM to death! I had a happy family, a loving husband, an obedient daughter, and I didn't lack money. Now it's inexplicably become like this, I hate TreeDM to death! Waaaahhhhhh......"

  Of course, just these cannot solve her problem and exempt her from responsibility. After all, she is the person in charge of financial management at Zhengqi Property Company and also an accountant. Her job is to manage the company's finances. If there are problems with the company's finances, no matter how you look at it, she has an inescapable responsibility. Moreover, she not only actively supported but also participated from start to finish, and was a derelict in her duty within the scope of her work.

  But what happened dramatically was that her efforts, her tears, and her beauty finally moved Hong Jizong, the deputy director in charge of finance. Hong Jizong was a middle-aged man in his 40s who had been transferred from Kyoto Bureau. Gong Zhong knew that the biggest difficulty for transferred cadres was that they had to work away from home for a long time, leaving their wives and children behind, unable to give their families the care and attention they deserved, and also had to overcome physical and mental emptiness, as well as the temptation of the outside world.

  Those who have not experienced this kind of life cannot feel the difficulty in it. Gong Zhong has a deep understanding of this aspect. When he was transferred from Baishui Bureau to Jiangnan Bureau, he was invited by several old classmates to entertainment venues. Those entertainment venues were actually places with different purposes and seeking different purposes. In other words, they were some disguised sex venues. In such places, if one does not grasp oneself well, it is easy to lose oneself and easily follow local customs, doing things that harm the family.

  Later, Gong Zhong grasped a basic principle, which was to never go to those so-called entertainment venues again and give himself the opportunity to test his willpower. So Gong Zhong went online to pass the time, playing games. But what he didn't expect was that he almost fell into another wonderful online world because of a bird. Fortunately, at the critical moment, Gong Zhong used his unyieldingly strong willpower, combined with his high sense of responsibility towards his family, and finally managed to pull himself back from the brink in the last moment, without doing anything that would harm his family.

  Therefore, temptation is everywhere and temptation is magnificent. In this fully tempting magnificent world, how to grasp oneself well, respect oneself, respect others, respect family, the key still depends on self-discipline, self-respect, self-esteem, self-strictness, self-love, everything with family as the top priority, everything with responsibility as the top priority, do not do things that harm the family for one's own temporary physical and mental needs.

  At this time, among the five party group members of the Jiangnan Administration Bureau for Industry and Commerce, three are exchange cadres, namely Discipline Inspection Team Leader Cong Xiaoling, Deputy Director Hong Jizong in charge of finance, and Deputy Director Zhu Shuiliu in charge of business. Party Group Secretary and Director Zhao also had experience with exchanges, so he was very considerate of the three exchange cadres, taking care of them in life and work as much as possible, whether within or outside of working hours.

  As a long-term worker abroad, living and working in these special care environments, away from the warmth of family, is to lose the supervision of the family. Many things are entirely up to one's own consciousness. In such a special environment, without family supervision, organizational management is relatively relaxed, and the temptation of the rich and colorful outside world is greater. Whether you can protect yourself well and ensure that you do not harm your family depends solely on your personal consciousness and self-discipline.

  Deputy Director Hong Jizong is a man in his forties who came from the Kyoto General Bureau to be tempered and was recently promoted as a deputy hall-level leading cadre. Because he comes from Kyoto, other members of the Jiangnan Bureau's party group, including Party Secretary and Director Zhao Yi, have great respect for him. The directors below also do their best to satisfy all his needs. In a sense, as long as he has ideas, there are people below who will try every means to satisfy them. Even if he doesn't have ideas, some people below will think of ways to make him have ideas.

  For a time, Hong Jizong, this young deputy director-level cadre, became one of the few leaders in Jiangnan Bureau who could get things done by speaking. In Jiangnan Bureau, there was nothing that couldn't be accomplished without him. People before and after him followed him with all sorts of intentions. They used every trick in the book to achieve their goals, currying favor, fawning, and flattering to no end. Among them was Fang Lihong's figure.

  Fang Lihong is a woman in her thirties, with a lingering charm and an open-minded personality. Her figure is slender and well-proportioned, with curves in all the right places. Underneath her slightly dark skin, she exudes a radiant beauty. In front of such a woman, any man, as long as he's normal, can't help but be moved.

  Of course, having a mind to do something and taking action are two different things, they are two completely different things. Having a mind to do something is one thing, taking action is another; having a mind to do something is normal, taking action is abnormal; having a mind to do something is just an instinctive reaction, just like the feeling of appreciation you have when you see a beautiful landscape; while taking action is the implementation of desire, it's an impulse with the purpose of possession, it's a real action.

  In front of a woman like Fang Lihong, if she takes the initiative to attack you, as long as you are a man, even if you are a highly skilled and strong person, you will become soft and weak, let alone Hong Jizong, who has been living away from home for a long time, has been in a state of physical and mental hunger for a long time, and is still physically and mentally very healthy.

  There must be an abnormal story behind an abnormal thing.

  Then, within the Jiangnan Zhengqi Management Bureau, everyone heard another new legend, that is, those two "alleged disciplinary violations" incidents, not only did Gong Zhong not participate, but also Fang Lihong did not participate. The real participants were only Shu Daming and Fang Jianjun.

  Fang Lihong, although an accountant, was fully responsible for the financial management of the property company and participated in the entire process. However, she was just a general clerk, a naive young girl in her early twenties who didn't understand things yet. She had three superiors: her direct superior was Office Director Gong Zhong, the next level up was Company General Manager Fang Jianjun, and above him was Center Director Shu Daming. Everything she did was reported to these leaders, everything she did was arranged by them, and everything she did was forced upon her. In reality, she suffered countless grievances and was the true victim.

  Soon, under the proposal of Deputy Director Hong Jizong, with the efforts of Deputy Director Hong Jizong, and with the insistence of Deputy Director Hong Jizong, Fang Lihong was miraculously transferred from the subordinate unit Jiangnan Zhengqi Management Bureau's Logistics Support Center to the Jiangnan Zhengqi Management Bureau's Finance Department, which is in charge of the financial work of the entire Jiangnan system, as one of the parties involved in the two "alleged disciplinary violations" incidents, before the final disposition was made.

  Then, Fang Lihong changed her job and was transferred from a business unit to the bureau's agency. She went from being an ordinary clerk in the General Affairs Center of the agency's logistics support center to becoming a manager in the Financial Department, a critical department. At any time, she can go to the Logistics Support Center as a supervisor to inspect work, not only does Gong Zhong, the director of this office, need to cooperate with her, but even Dong Xin, the deputy director, has to show respect to her.

  Thus, Fang Lihong rebounded from the depression after the "alleged disciplinary violation" incident, restored her former beauty and vitality, her voice became louder again, speaking and doing things as if nothing had happened before, and even more reckless. Not only did the financial director ** not dare to offend her easily, but even her direct supervisor, Zhang Huan Ying, a researcher, sometimes had to give in to her.