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Dong Lixin suddenly jumped up.

Bai Peng had actually fired all of them.

The food safety team is a semi-official and semi-civil organization endowed with investigative authority and naturally falls under the management of the Health Bureau.

With just a word from them, you could be dismissed, and that was permissible.

In other words, from this moment on, he and his subordinates were out of work.

Dong Lixin couldn’t help but say, "Director Bai, what did we do wrong? You’re firing us just like that. Although the food safety team is a semi-official and semi-civil organization with investigative power granted by your Health Bureau, you can’t just dismiss people so arbitrarily."

"I dismissed people arbitrarily?" Bai Peng sneered coldly, "I want to ask you, how did you conduct the inspection at Jiangcheng Business College’s cafeteria?"

"Wet shoe soles, and you claim there’s sewage. Don’t they mop and clean their kitchen? Don’t they use water to wash?"

"A bit of grease on the bottom of a pan for frying and that’s not allowed? Go home and look, do your pots at home have grease on the bottom?"

"Utensils placed next to the stove, and you say their utensils aren’t up to standard. If not placed next to the stove, where should people put them, and with what should they serve the rice and dishes?"

"Even the rice isn’t white enough for you. How white does rice have to be for you to eat it at home?"

"This kind of nitpicky inspection is clearly meant to make trouble for others. And you have the audacity to ask what you did wrong."

"We don’t need people like you on our food safety team!"

Having said that, Bai Peng hung up the phone.

Dong Lixin’s legs went weak, and he slumped onto the sofa.

Naturally, he was aware that the inspection team was nitpicking; otherwise, how could they have found so many issues and marked the score down to zero?

But how did Bai Peng know those details?

What Bai Peng said seemed as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

Could it have been recorded on video?

No way, if there was someone recording, the inspectors would not have failed to notice.

His subordinates were old hands at this kind of thing; they would never let someone record them.

If anyone tried recording with a mobile phone, they would definitely have been stopped.

What exactly was going on?

At that moment, his phone rang again.

Seeing that it was a call from a courier, he frowned immediately.

He hadn’t bought anything online recently.

Still, he answered: "Hello."

The voice of the courier came through: "Hello, you have a package."

Although he was puzzled, Dong Lixin responded, "I’m in the captain’s office on the second floor. Bring it up, please."

After hanging up the phone, the courier soon delivered the package.

Dong Lixin, full of confusion, checked to see who sent the package.

He noticed the sender was Jiangcheng Business College.

Instinctively, Dong Lixin felt the package was related to today’s incident.

Therefore, he immediately opened the package.

Inside was a small box.

Upon opening the box, he found a brand new smartphone inside.

There was also a small note with a line of text: Check the video on the phone.

The phone was unlocked, already powered on.

He opened the phone and located the sole video file and played it.

The video started.

At first, it was a few individuals in Food Safety Division uniforms entering the cafeteria of Jiangcheng Business College.

Next, the inspection team members were nitpicking, looking for faults where there were none.

Clearly, it was the school’s accompanying staff who filmed it with a miniature camera.

No wonder Xu Yang dared to speak to him that way, there was a recording after all.

This video, no matter where it was put, was the Food Safety Division’s fault, who inspects like that.

Obviously, when he sent people to inspect, they had been waiting to catch him in the act.

After pausing for a moment, he dialed Ye Taian’s phone number.

The call connected.

Ye Taian immediately asked, "What did the Health Bureau say?"

Dong Lixin, on the verge of tears, took a deep breath and said, "President Ye, I let my subordinates carry out those nitpicky inspections, and it was all recorded. Anyone can see I was being difficult. Both I and my people have been fired."

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Ye Taian’s face was a picture of astonishment, "What, fired?"

Dong Lixin replied, "Yes, I’m out of a job now. Give me eight million, and I’ll make sure this doesn’t tie back to you."

A cold light flashed in Ye Taian’s eyes, "No problem, I was the one who told you to go. If you are willing to take responsibility, I will naturally give you the money. Send me an account, and I’ll transfer the money immediately."

After a pause, he added, "Oh, and since you’ve been fired, many people will probably want to kick you when you’re down. Come to me, I’ll use my connections to get you out of the province. Don’t tell anyone else, or I might not be able to send you away."

During his time as Food Safety Division chief, Dong Lixin had done many things for money.

When he led his team to inspect restaurants, it boiled down to one thing—if you don’t pay me, I will inspect you every day and send the reports to the Health Bureau. He had shut down many people’s establishments.

It can be said, without his title as the chief of the Food Safety Division, many would come after him.

Thinking of these things, Dong Lixin felt that Ye Taian made sense and replied, "Alright, I’ll come to you right away."

After hanging up the phone, he packed up briefly and left the office to head downstairs.

He didn’t bother with his subordinates. At this point, there was no need to worry about their fates; his own safety was what mattered most.

Once downstairs, he immediately took a taxi to a private club where he had arranged to meet Ye Taian.

Walking into the private room and seeing Ye Taian seated inside, he smiled and said, "President Ye, I’m counting on you this time."

Ye Taian smiled but did not reply.

A muscular man appeared behind Dong Lixin and struck his neck with the edge of his hand.

Dong Lixin’s eyes went dark, and he fainted, collapsing to the ground.

Ye Taian sneered, "What an idiot. You’re fired and still demanding eight million from me. I’ll fill you with concrete and dump you in the river; I won’t even need to spend eight hundred!"

The muscular man, who had remained silent throughout, picked up a large suitcase, stuffed Dong Lixin inside, zipped it up, and left with the suitcase in tow.

After leaving the private club, the muscle man put the suitcase in the trunk of a sedan and drove away.

From that day on, there was no sign of Dong Lixin; he disappeared as if into thin air.

In the private club, Ye Taian was frowning, thinking about how to deal with the aftermath.

The unfolding events rendered his son’s return to Jiangcheng Business College less important.

What mattered was that he must regain his face, especially from Jiangcheng Business College.

If it were an ordinary person, they probably wouldn’t even think like Ye Taian.

After all, Jiangcheng Business College was not so easily tampered with.

Furthermore, Jiangcheng Business College’s major shareholder was Xu Yang, a billionaire who had fought in business wars and brought down a hundred-billion enterprise.

But Ye Taian wasn’t an ordinary man. The connections behind him were not something average people could compare with.

Thinking it over, he dialed a phone number.

The call quickly connected.

Ye Taian immediately spoke out, "Young Master Tang, I’ve run into trouble!"

The Young Master Tang on the other end of the line was Tang Jinglong, the scion of the province’s foremost noble family.

At that moment, Tang Jinglong, answering Ye Taian’s call, was none of the amiable characters he presented to outsiders but instead spoke coldly, "I’m about to do something big recently. You’d better not mess things up for me. If you cause me to miss out, you know the consequences!"