Chapter 4: A Hero's Anger for a Beauty

  Ye Ming reacted extremely quickly, and in the instant Chen Yi rushed in, she immediately closed her QQ space page, raised her head to stare at Chen Yi who was sobbing with her head on the table, saw that her hair was a bit disheveled, the epaulets on her uniform were crooked, as if she had just been in a fight. Her mind immediately guessed what had happened - it must be that beast Li Li, taking advantage of talking to her to make a move, and Chen Yi struggled with all her might to end up in this state...

  At the thought of this, Ye Ming felt a surge of indignation in his heart and suddenly stood up, staring at Chen Yi with wide eyes: "Chen sister, did Li Li bully you?"

  Chen Yi lifted her head and sobbed: "He's not even human! He's a beast..."

  Ye Ming's eyes blazed with fury, his fists clenched into tight balls that crackled with energy. Suddenly, he spun around the table and flung open the door, ready to charge outside.

  Chen Yi saw his unpleasant expression and hastily hugged his waist, asking: "Ye Zi, what are you going to do?"

  "I'm going to beat that beast up! If I don't thrash him until he's picking his teeth off the ground today, my anger won't be alleviated!"

  Chen Yi saw Ye Ming's eyes spewing fire, his face twisted in rage, and heard him say he wanted to hit Li Li. Her face suddenly turned deathly pale - she knew Ye Ming's martial arts skills, and if he were to attack Li Li in a fit of anger, he might not need three punches or two kicks to cripple him.

  I remember when Ye Ming had just started working in the office, one time Chen Yi and he were working overtime together. Later they got hungry, so the two of them went out to eat a midnight snack.

  In front of a barbecue stall, several drunk rascals saw that Chen Yi looked very beautiful and Ye Ming had clear eyebrows and eyes like a weak scholar, thinking it was easy to bully them. So, those rascals surrounded Chen Yi, starting to flirt with her in a lewd manner.

  There were two rascals who stretched out their greasy hands, which had just grasped fried chicken legs, and shamelessly touched her chest and face.

  Just then, Ye Ming, who had been standing silently at the side, suddenly made his move.

  He saw him spin his body, like a ghostly figure inserting himself between the two rascals and Chen Yi, at the same time both fists came out, striking the faces of the two rascals.

  With two dull thuds, the two rascals were like they had been struck by two thousand-pound hammers. Their faces suddenly blossomed: fresh blood, saliva, snot, and tears flowed down in streams, their mouths emitting pained wails as they fell to the ground...

  Ye Ming, after knocking down the two rascals, turned around with a "drip" sound, rushed into the circle of rascals who were about to attack him with knives, and with a flurry of punches and kicks, knocked them to the ground in just three or two moves.

  However, in the process of fighting, he didn't use excessive force, but instead used incredibly fast movements, left fist, right leg, or snatched the knives and beer bottles from their hands, and casually knocked them on their heads.

  Although he didn't use any killing moves, those rascals still couldn't withstand him. Every time they were hit by his punch or kick, it felt like being struck by a thousand-pound hammer, either falling backwards or diving forward, and almost no one could exchange more than two moves with him.

  In just a moment, those few rascals all lay on the ground, some with bruised faces and noses, others with injured hands and feet, each one writhing in pain on the ground...

  Because she knew Ye Ming had kung fu skills, when Chen Yi heard him gritting his teeth and saying he wanted to go beat up Li Li, her heart was both shocked and afraid. She buried her head in his shoulder and sobbed, "Yezi, you mustn't act impulsively! Li Li is the number one person at the county bureau and also the trusted aide of City Bureau Chief Qiu. Moreover, he has a good relationship with the leaders of public security, procuratorate, and other political and legal units. During your time at the provincial bureau, I accompanied him to dinner with the Public Security Bureau Chief, Anti-Corruption Bureau Chief, and others several times. They all addressed each other as brothers on those occasions. If you were to hit him and accidentally injure him, not only would your future be ruined, but it's also possible that you'd end up in jail... Yezi, listen to sister's words, don't do anything stupid!

  Ye Ming's mouth was panting heavily, and she used force to pry open the hands that were holding her waist. Just as she was about to rush out to find Li Li, she saw Director Chen Weiping appear at the office door with a dark face, blocking her way out.

  "Ye Ming, what's with the red face? What are you up to? Come in, I have a work assignment for you!"

  Ye Ming suppressed the anger in his heart and retreated to the edge of his own desk.

  Chen Weiping glanced at Chen Yi, who was covered in tears, and said to Ye Ming: "Ye Ming, the Party Committee has decided that tomorrow we will hold this year's Party Conduct and Anti-Corruption Work Conference. Director Zou's work report is already written by the Monitoring and Auditing Office, but Director Li still needs to make a summary speech on our bureau's anti-corruption work. I'm assigning you to write this speech draft, and I want to see the first draft by 5 pm today."

  Ye Ming coldly stared at the short and stout man in front of him, who had risen to the position of director by flattering and bootlicking. He sneered and said: "Director Chen, sorry. According to the training arrangement of the Provincial Bureau, I don't need to report for work today. Please ask someone else to give Director Li's work report!"

  As he spoke, he turned around and walked out of the office without looking back.

  The next morning at 8:30, the Xinleng County Local Taxation Bureau's Party Conduct and Anti-Corruption Work Conference was held as scheduled.

  According to the meeting agenda, first was a report on party conduct and clean government construction work by County Bureau Party Group member and Discipline Inspection Team leader Zou Wenming. Then, Bureau Party Group Secretary and Director Li Lifang delivered an important speech.

  Li Li's speech is unknown which one of the monitoring room wrote, sounds like all are some nonsense, lies, empty words, clichés, no substantial content at all, estimated to be copied and pasted from some websites universal template.

  Li Li may have felt that the speech was dull and uninteresting, so when he read the part about the working style of cadres, he suddenly threw away his script and began to improvise: "Comrades, when it comes to work style, I want to emphasize one thing. Now, we have a very small number of young cadres who are arrogant, overbearing, and unwilling to do practical work. They can't handle big things, and they don't want to do small things. Their work style is not down-to-earth, and they lack dedication to their posts. This has already had a very bad influence within the bureau."

  As he spoke, he swept his gaze over the middle-seated Ye Ming with a stern look, emphasizing: "Comrades, I'm not speaking empty words or making things up. It's based on facts. Just yesterday, one of our young cadres who attended the provincial bureau's business training returned to the office. Director Chen assigned him to write a speech for today's meeting. Not only did he refuse to accept the task, but he also had an arrogant attitude and was rude to Director Chen, telling him to find someone else. From what I heard, it seemed like he thought he was the only one who could write materials in the entire Xinleng County Tax Bureau, as if without him, all our work would come to a standstill."

  Ye Ming's face suddenly turned bright red as he listened to this, his eyes wide with anger, a fierce and murderous aura already beginning to seep into his gaze...

  Li Li continued to speak his mind: "I've heard some cadres reflect that this young comrade has always claimed to be the number one talent in the new Leng County Tax Bureau, and even the entire K City tax system. He often complains that we leaders don't know how to appreciate and nurture talent, and haven't promoted him in a timely manner, as if the five party group members in our county bureau are all blind to talent. But in my opinion, there aren't any great talents in our county bureau, but there are a few weird ones. If a young cadre doesn't work diligently, do practical things, and be honest, one day he'll crash into a wall, and who knows, maybe even get hurt..."

  Ye Ming couldn't bear it anymore, suddenly stood up from his seat, opened his eyes wide and stared at Li Li, loudly scolding: "Li Li, you shameless scoundrel with a human face but the heart of a beast, what qualifications do you have to discuss issues of style on this stage? You're sitting there with a stinky fart, yet you don't know it's smelly, and you're still talking about anti-corruption and clean government construction in a sanctimonious tone. Don't you think your face is thicker than cowhide? Tell me clearly: who are the young cadres you mentioned?"

  Li Li did not expect Ye Ming to dare to scold him in front of more than a hundred cadres, pointing at his nose and scolding the first-in-command. He was so angry that his face turned pale, he slammed the table and stood up with a "huff", his face red and neck thick, shouting: "I'm talking about you today! How? You little brat still want to turn the sky over?"

  "I'll turn the whole thing upside down for you today!"

  Ye Ming finished speaking, suddenly rushed onto the stage, grabbed Li Li's neck from in front of the podium, and pulled him out from behind the podium like an eagle grabbing a small chicken. He slapped him several times, then threw him to the ground, stepped on his chest with one foot, and gritted his teeth, saying: "Today I will take justice into my own hands, teach you this beast in human clothing a lesson for those who have been bullied and insulted by you."