Chapter 390 - Best Leading Actor, Yu Banzhi
Translator: lav
Editor: SSins
Bai Yuan replied much quicker this time.
"Young Master Yu, stop joking. I'm just a child of an ordinary military soldier and it's all thanks to the Song family that I am at where I am today. Want to betray them? Sorry, I cannot do that. I can drink and chat with Young Master Yu today which makes Bai feel very honoured."
Oh? Declined? Shi Lei pondered and thought that it was expected. After all, if Bai Yuan betrayed the Song, the Yu family couldn't possibly protect him forever.
In the lounge. Yu Banzhi heard Bai Yuan's words. He smiled as he smoked. Thick smoke overflowed and hid his expressions.
"Mayor Bai, don't be in a hurry. I don't remember telling you to betray the Song family. My Yu family isn't something you can seek refuge of so easily. This is a deal. A deal for you to achieve something greater. I think there is no reason for the Song family to stop you? Not to mention that I've seen Secretary Song yesterday and it was decided that it was a collaboration between two families. Except Secretary Song is a conservative person so he didn't speak too fully. Mayor Bai, I just want you to help me. If Secretary Song nods at the end, you'll be the vanguard and the Song naturally won't have anything against you. Even if Secretary Song reconsiders and gives up the chance to join forces with my Yu family, what you do won't make the Song have anything against you."
Bai Yuan looked at Yu Banzhi in disbelief and didn't dare to believe him. He picked up the cigar in the ashtray and smoked, using the time to think quickly.
He was a vice mayor and Yu Banzhi's words weren't moving to Bai Yuan. On the contrary, the undetailed implications in his words made Bai Yuan feel disgusted.
Are you treating me like a child? If I help you regardless of whether Secretary Song decides to join forces with you, I'm already wrong for being aggressive. I'm only a vanguard. How do I advance without the orders from the commander? If we really destroy the enemy in one blow, that's fine as all dissatisfactions may be dropped. But if anything goes wrong, Secretary Song will immediately put him on the cannot use list.
But if the Song family didn't collaborate with the Yu in the end, then there was no difference to me betraying them.
Bai Yuan was even slightly disappointed. They all discussed how Yu Banzhi was, but he was just so-so.
He dropped the cigar and smiled. When he thought that Yu Banzhi wasn't as hard to deal with, he didn't feel as anxious as before.
In the end, he was only a young man just over thirty years old. He may have a high IQ, but EQ was more important in this situation and Yu Banzhi was very weak in that area.
Bai Yuan spoke, "Young Master Yu, let's not talk about this. If Secretary Song tells me to go east, I definitely won't go to the west. But Young Master Yu… Young Master Yu should talk more with Secretary Song." It was his version of saying don't try to persuade me.
Yu Banzhi seemed to be unhappy as his expression ashened. He snorted, "Mayor Bai, you really aren't giving me any face. The Song family has a long history and people from it aren't people who are greedy. But relying on the Song family alone, I'm afraid that it won't be easy for you in the future?"
Bai Yuan narrowed his eyes and thought, is that all he has? With threats that I'm in the Jiangdong province? If your Yu family really plays tricks when promoting me, there is no way that Secretary Song would watch from the side. He can just transfer me back.
Ah, this Young Master Yu was really disappointing.
"Bai doesn't have a big heart. I'm very satisfied with my current state. Thanks, Young Master Yu for your offer, but I cannot follow it."
"You really don't want to hear how easy it is?" Yu Banzhi forced and his tone expressed his unpleasant feelings.
Bai Yuan let out a long sigh and remained silent as he sipped on his whiskey.
Yu Banzhi paused, "More than ten years ago, there was a case that a family died at night. The results of the investigation were that the gas can exploded which led to a fire and eventually ignited half of the building. Of course, this was what was claimed to the public. However, there were many doubts and the case wasn't closed in Runzhou's police system. I simply hope that Mayor Bai will re-investigate the case. It's not important whether there will be a result or not. I only need the Runzhou government to pay some attention to this case before the New Year."
Bai Yuan frowned. Yu Banzhi revealed his intentions for coming over and it was related to the Wei family. Now that he suddenly mentioned the case from more than ten years ago, there was definitely something behind the scenes. Perhaps those people died in the Wei family's hands?
However, if it was only re-investigating a case, there was no reason for Yu Banzhi to talk to him. There were so many officials in Runzhou from the mayor to the chief of the police bureau. They were much more suitable for this. Indeed just like what Yu Banzhi said, it wasn't hard. All he needed was a meeting that emphasized that the police should clear old cases appropriately. Since so many people died in that case and it wasn't closed, then it wasn't hard to mention it again.
The point wasn't the case itself. Yu Banzhi's actions were too suspicious. He could've gone straight to Bai Yuan's leader to do this. Why did he target Bai Yaun?
When Bai Yuan pondered about this, Shi Lei was thinking about the same problem in the small building.
From the outside, the family's death was suspicious and the case still wasn't closed. The Yu family's target was the Wei and it was definitely related to the Wei family. According to Shi Lei's understanding, the method Wei Ye used to become rich and powerful wasn't glorious and there had to be other cases like this. To someone like Wei Ye, lives were the least valuable.
But that was what the problem was. Yu Banzhi had more appropriate candidates to ask to perform this. Why did it have to be Bai Yuan?
What was more strange was the odd impulse which Yu Banzhi demonstrated about this. It was a completely different version of the Yu Banzhi that Shi Lei knew.
Shi Lei suddenly had a bad feeling about this. Perhaps Yu Banzhi discovered something? Such as the miniature camera in the dog's collar? He was acting for the person who was eavesdropping on him?
Shi Lei couldn't understand why but Bai Yuan had to give Yu Banzhi an answer.
"Young Master Yu, it is as what you said. It's simple. But it's almost the New Year, only two or three days away. It's inappropriate for me to make the police busy for no good reason especially when I'm not in charge of this area. Young Master Yu definitely knows other people. Perhaps you can consider asking someone else?"
From Bai Yuan's perspective, Yu Banzhi had to ask him to do it because he wanted to utilise his identity as part of the Song family. When Bai Yuan acted, Runzhou would think that he acted on behalf of the Song family. Hence, the people who had their eyes on this would end up thinking that Bai Yuan represented Song family's intentions.
This was something Bai Yuan couldn't possibly do.
Shi Lei naturally thought of this as he was far more clear about the grudge between the Yu and Wei than Bai Yuan in a small area. Hence, Yu Banzhi's actions seemed even more unreasonable to him.
No, Yu Banzhi was doing it on purpose. Everything he showed today was an act.