Chapter 819 - 820: The Biting Dog Can Be Stewed and Eaten
Liu Qingyuan glanced at Song Xiaodong, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said, "Chief Jiang, it seems your ambition is not yet dead. This kind of thought, it looks like you have been dwelling on it quite a bit, otherwise how would others know about it?"
This was clearly another attempt to put a label on Jiang Xueliang. Initially, he would have tried explaining himself, mentioning something about the impulsiveness of youth, but his anger had already been provoked by Liu Qingyuan. Unable to hold back any longer, he scoffed coldly and said, "Liu Qingyuan, you don’t need to play the clever trickster here. Thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, it won’t always be smooth sailing for you, and I, Jiang Xueliang, will not always be at the bottom."
"Ha, you really can’t accept it, talking about thirty years in Hedong and Hexi. You do have aspirations. But then again, you’re not entirely wrong. Wait another thirty years, and you might just have a chance because by then you will have already retired, ha ha..."
At this moment, the hotel manager hurried over and said, "Director Liu, the guests are waiting for you. You better go over now."
Liu Qingyuan glanced at Jiang Xueliang and said, "Competing with me, you’re still too green." Then he turned and left with a triumphant smile.
"What crap!" Cui Ying couldn’t hold back anymore and burst out in anger once Liu Qingyuan had left.
Jiang Xueliang downed a glass of beer and kept a stern face without speaking.
Struggles in the officialdom are quite normal, but knocking down an opponent and then swaggering about like that is relatively rare.
Song Xiaodong asked, "Uncle, what exactly is going on here?"
Cui Ying didn’t really want to elaborate, but in that moment, possibly more as an emotional release, she bluntly said, "Your uncle used to be the deputy director of the district committee office, and that Liu Qingyuan was the director. Originally one was a chief and the other a deputy. Your uncle didn’t intend to compete with him, but this guy crossed a line. He made your uncle do all the work, like writing documents, preparing speech drafts, etc. After your uncle finished them, he would just take them and use them to curry favor with the leaders."