Chapter 812: Chapter 812: Someone Knows About the Assassination
Time passed bit by bit, and Liu Pingjun was sweating as well. In the negotiations with the Xiao Family, they offered Liu Pingjun a considerable amount of money and even promised to help him live abroad after the event was accomplished.
Thinking of the Xiao Family Head’s fierce gaze made Liu Pingjun’s heart tighten.
The opposing side knew that Ji Yang had some connections. They couldn’t solve the matter through normal means, so they opted for a different extreme by planning to kill Ji Yang. In their view, eliminating Ji Yang meant that even if there was someone backing him, at most it would trigger a larger-scale crackdown, which wouldn’t greatly affect the already arranged families.
Once Ji Yang was dead, there wouldn’t be as many people speaking for him, and everything here could quickly return to peace.
People knew a bit about Ji Yang’s situation—wherever he went, things became dangerous. Didn’t they see those heirs from the Capital City being dealt with one by one, leaving dejectedly? The best approach now was to assassinate him.
Those families had long made arrangements; someone would take the fall without implicating themselves.
After hearing the content from the Xiao Family Head, Liu Pingjun understood that the assassination attempt couldn’t be avoided this time.
This was the reason Liu Pingjun decided to help those powerful families.
Of course, not helping was impossible too, as Liu Pingjun’s family was being watched by them. If he didn’t help, his family would be the first to suffer.
Looking at the few families embedded here to welcome Ji Yang, sweat was already breaking out on Liu Pingjun’s forehead. He didn’t know what kind of outcome he would face.
What Liu Pingjun didn’t know was that among the crowd there was another person nervously sweating too.
This person was Xu Weixiong. His younger brother, Xu Weiping, was a City Officer—a position Xu Weixiong helped him obtain.
Last night, Xiao Wei from the Xiao Family was taken back to the bureau, and Xu Weixiong, as the deputy head of the Major Crimes Unit, naturally was the first to learn about this matter.
Xu Weixiong was a very capable person. Most major cases in the bureau were handled by him. However, because he didn’t align with the family powers, he was always used for tasks but never given a prominent role.
Xu Weixiong saw that the matter involved his brother’s wife, so he rushed to his brother’s house.
Something Xu Weixiong hadn’t expected occurred—his sister-in-law, Zhang Xiaocui, turned out to be an elementary school classmate of the newly arrived City Committee Secretary, Ji Yang.
Knowing this matter, Xu Weixiong realized his opportunity had come. With Ji Yang newly arrived in Nanping City, he surely lacked reliable staff. If he could connect with Ji Yang through Zhang Xiaocui, his development would undoubtedly be very successful.
Just as Xu Weixiong contemplated connecting with Ji Yang, a shocking piece of news reached him.
To know that he could stay stable in this position for so many years, Xu Weixiong had loyal personnel under him, and he even embedded some subordinates from various families.
These families were planning to assassinate Ji Yang, and Liu Pingjun was cooperating with them!
The news truly shocked Xu Weixiong.
Once again verifying and confirming the existence of such a plan, Xu Weixiong began to quickly think things through. He knew that for him, this was both a risk and an opportunity—the choice now lay with him.