Rebirth of Minister Qi

Chapter 868 Backhand

Speaking of this, Li Maotai thought of that stubborn child, who was very much like him when he was young, but he had really treated her and her mother badly over the years.

"I don't know the details of the final step, but she will receive the news as soon as you report me."

Li Maotai did not say this out loud, but just muttered it to himself in his heart. Because there was no need, the money left for the mother and daughter could be regarded as compensation for all these years.

Let’s go back to June 2011.

In the office of the CPPCC of Zhongjiang Province.

Li Maotai was leisurely drinking tea with an old friend when the door was opened. The director of the Second Inspection Office, Hu Haiou, personally led a team to rush in. Without even knocking on the door, they rushed directly into the office.

"Li Maotai, we are from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. Please accept our investigation at the designated time and place."

Li Maotai's old friend stood there, holding the tea set at a loss. Hu Haiou and his friends ignored the guests and directly controlled Li Maotai.

Li Maotai did not lose his composure, but stood up slowly, no longer the kindly old man, but regained the dignity he had when he was in power. The life of retiring to the second line was really tiring, and even the fight with the Discipline Inspection Commission allowed Li Maotai to regain his former dignity.

"Boss, can I have a few words with the secretary? Right here?"

Hu Haiou replied with a poker face.

"We are also taking your secretary with us. Is there anything else you need to explain?"

Li Maotai smiled.

"Then just call any staff member over."

When people talked about this, Hu Haiou nodded and asked someone to call a staff member over.

"Xiao Wu, please do me a favor. I have some vegetables I bought today in the refrigerator. Could you please help deliver them to my house?"

When Hu Haiou heard this, he felt something was wrong and signaled the cadres below to come forward.

"We need to take a look at where the things are."

Li Maotai didn't care. He really wanted to send the vegetables in the refrigerator back home, otherwise they would just rot here. This was also the lifestyle he learned after retiring to the second line in the past two years, buying his own vegetables and cooking his own meals.

"It's in the refrigerator next to it. Leaders, please take a look. I just don't want to waste the ingredients."

Hu Haiou personally looked through the ingredients and confirmed that they were just ordinary vegetables. Then he nodded. This request was not even a request.

The news of Li Maotai's arrest quickly spread throughout the CPPCC, including to Li Maotai's last backup, his illegitimate daughter, because she worked in the veteran cadres office downstairs.

Xiao Li watched her father being carried into the car by the cadres of the Discipline Inspection Commission. She watched with all her colleagues in the office. Then she used the excuse of going to the toilet and broke down and cried bitterly.

She is an illegitimate daughter, but she has parents. Although her mother is Li Maotai's lover, she has a very good relationship with him and has remained so for decades. Li Maotai also arranged for her to work in the CPPCC early on.

After crying, Xiao Li looked at herself in the mirror and remembered Li Maotai's advice.

“Dad is a corrupt official, and one day he will be arrested by the organization.

But you and your daughter are innocent. It was me who ruined your mother's life.

If I get caught, don't hesitate, just go home. In the safe is the money I left for you over the years. They are all in foreign bank accounts. You can use it when you arrive in Hong Kong.

Do you know why I have not allowed you to become a regular employee? It is because of that day.

You are just a temporary worker. If you want to resign, just make a phone call. If your father is arrested, you should take your mother to Hong Kong immediately.

Then go to Canada. I have arranged a house and a new identity for you there. Don't say hello to me too much in the office.

Just like you always do, I know you hate me for making you an illegitimate child since childhood and making you unable to hold your head up high."

Xiao Li inherited Li Maotai's calmness. After wiping away her tears and putting on new makeup, she sent a text message to the director saying that her mother was sick.

As expected, as she was a temporary worker, no one noticed her. Xiao Li rode her electric scooter back to her small home. Looking at the photo of her parents on the wall, tears still flowed from her eyes. But her mother was in the house, so she had to be strong.

First, she found all the family photos, packed them and put them in the suitcase, then went into the house and opened the safe. The password was her birthday. Before she went to junior high school at the age of thirteen, Xiao Li always thought that she was a child who grew up in a happy family, except that her father was a little busy at work and did not come home often.

When she entered junior high school, the school required her to fill in her parents' information, which is when she learned that her mother was just a lover, and her father, who said he was very busy, always had another family, that is, a boy, who had been riding in a car to school since he was a child.

From then on, she stopped talking to Li Maotai because the knot in her heart was always there. She originally thought that she went to work at the CPPCC and was being helped by her mother's old colleague, but it turned out to be her father again.

Looking at the pile of documents in his hand, including overseas properties and bank documents, Xiao Li quickly counted them and found that there were about 50 million US dollars.

"Mom, let's go travel to Hong Kong. Didn't you promise me a long time ago?"

Xiao Li's mother was very surprised.

"Don't you have to go to work?"

Xiao Li pretended to be calm.

"I'm just a temporary worker. No one cares if I ask for leave. I'm leaving in June now, and it's not summer vacation yet, so it won't be too crowded.

Come on, I'll pack my luggage and we'll leave today."

Although Xiao Li's mother was a little puzzled, she was an easy-going woman. Even though she was kept away by Li Maotai for decades, she had no complaints. When her daughter wanted to go out and relax, she just thought that she was in a bad mood because she broke up with her boyfriend some time ago.

"Let's go then. I'll call your dad."

Xiao Li quickly stopped her mother.

"No, I already met him in the office today and talked to him."

This sentence made Xiao Li's eyes red again. Li's mother just thought that her child was still sad about the separation from her ex-boyfriend.

"Child, don't cry, that man doesn't cherish you, he only loves the rich and despises the poor, so let's find someone better.

Let’s go and have some fun together.”

Xiao Li's ex-boyfriend and she were originally planning to get married, but because of her temporary job, his family disliked her and they eventually broke up. She has been sad for a while now.

But it also happened to cover up Li Maotai's affairs, and Xiao Li nodded repeatedly.

"Let's go, Mom. I've got my pass and passport. Just a few clothes."

The two walked out of the house. Xiao Li took a deep look at this warm little home. A tear left his eye. Not wanting his mother to see it, he wiped it away gently with his sleeve. He turned back and faced his mother with a smile. Maybe he would never come back again. The time on the wall clock was exactly six o'clock.