Chapter Eighty-One Unexpected Outcome

  In the private room, Liu Li asked everyone to order a dish they liked. After everyone finished ordering, Liu Li ordered a box of moderately priced white wine. When the dishes and wine were served, Liu Li urged everyone to start eating and drinking.

  Among the crowd, except for Han Xiangxiang, the rest of the people were required by Liu Li to drink wine. The two-tael wine cup was filled one after another as Liu Li toasted the crowd three times in a row. After downing six taels of white wine, conversations at the table began to increase.

  As the saying goes, a wine bottle reveals one's level of elegance, drinking capacity reveals one's ability, and the quality of wine reflects one's character. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liu Li secretly observed everyone, wanting to see the quality of wine and character of these new colleagues.

  Just as everyone was having a good time, a woman dressed in a manager's attire walked into the room: "Ladies and gentlemen, I heard that today is Mr. Liu's promotion day, our store manager specially gave Mr. Liu a few dishes, hoping you can have fun."

  After the voice fell, ten female waitresses walked in one after another outside the private room. All of them were holding a tray in their hands, and each tray was filled with a dish.

  At this time, the hotel manager called the first waiter to the table and then took down the dishes on the tray: "This dish is exclusive to the turtle head." After arranging the dishes, the manager took down the dishes in the hands of the second waiter: "This dish is fish jumping dragon gate."

  Then the manager brought all the remaining dishes to the dining table, one dish at a time. The manager introduced each dish: "This dish is Longjing shrimp, fragrant crispy stewed pork, Babao pagoda, crystal fish roe, meat stewed sea tiger wing..."

  When all the dishes were served on the table, it was already filled to the brim. Looking at these unheard-of dishes, Zhang Shi and others were shocked in their hearts, secretly thinking: "My goodness, the new director has a big face! It seems that we need to curry favor with him from now on."

  Thinking of this, Zhang Shi looked around and swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva. He picked up his chopsticks and stared at Liu Li: "Liu Suo, such good food, can't bear to eat it, what if we can't finish it?"

  "Eat, eat hard, can't finish, we'll pack it up and take it away." After giving the order, Liu Li took the lead in picking up food, but after eating two mouthfuls, he saw that the people around him were not moving their chopsticks. He couldn't help but feel a little strange: "Everyone eat? Why isn't anyone eating?"

  After hearing this, Zhang Shi and others looked at each other, then smiled awkwardly and said: "Hehe... you eat, we won't eat, one bite less, we plan to pack it back home later, so we don't want to move our chopsticks."

  Upon hearing this, Liu Li also lost his appetite. Looking at the three layers of dishes on the table, he speechlessly said: "You guys won't go a whole night without eating just to pack up, will you?"

  Wu Fei saw Liu Li say this, feeling that their approach was not quite right, so he picked up his wine cup: "What Liu said is correct, let's not just sit around. How about this, I propose we drink a few more cups of wine, if we get drunk, we won't be able to eat the dishes, this way we can take away the food and it won't seem boring."

  When Wu Fei made this suggestion, Zhang Shi and others raised their glasses in agreement. Seeing this, Liu Li had to follow suit: "By the way, when you're packing up later, remember to leave that braised pork for me, I don't want to go home empty-handed either."

  Just as everyone was about to take a sip, the door of the private room was suddenly pushed open and three middle-aged men in suits directly entered the room. One of them held a camera and started taking pictures as soon as he entered.

  At this time, the man in the middle walked to the dinner table and showed his ID: "We are from the third room of the county discipline inspection commission. Everyone, please tell me your name, work unit, and why you are here?"

  After seeing the three people, Zhang Shi and others immediately panicked, one by one couldn't help but stand up, only Liu Li sat quietly in his original place, smiling at the three people from the Discipline Inspection Commission.

  It was during this period that the county was rectifying its style and discipline, at first people thought it was just a formality, but when many units' personnel were taken down by the county's Discipline Inspection Commission for violating laws and disciplines, everyone felt scared.

  In the three supervision offices of the county discipline inspection commission, especially the people in the third office are the most ruthless. The other two offices still have some human feelings, but the people in the third office do not show any mercy at all.

  Some people are late for work by five minutes, some play with their mobile phones during working hours, some leave three minutes early, and some go out for more than 15 minutes during working hours. These trivial matters, once they fall into the hands of the Discipline Inspection Commission's Third Room, will be dealt with by dismissal from office.

  When the discipline inspection team came to find him, Liu Li couldn't help but feel a little surprised: "Three comrades, isn't it time to get off work now? Drinking during working hours is against the rules, and gathering with colleagues after work is not allowed either?"

  The person who spoke earlier couldn't help but size up Liu Li with a surprised look after hearing his question. Those officials from the Public Security Bureau would normally be so scared when they saw them that they would stutter and struggle to speak, but this young man not only showed no fear, he was even calmly sitting in his chair.

  After observing for a moment, the man said calmly, "You are police officers from the Daxing Town Police Station, right? We just received a report that all the police officers from the Daxing Town Police Station are drinking in this hotel. We want to verify whether the report is true or not. Can you tell me how many people are still on duty at your unit?"

  Upon hearing this, Liu Li knew that it was definitely Lin Wanmu's two good friends who had reported him. At this time, he was furious in his heart. Not only did Liu Li guess the identity of the informer, but also Zhang Shi and others guessed it too.

  At this time, Zhang Shi and others all looked at Liu Li with their eyes, wanting to see how he would deal with this matter. According to the thoughts of the crowd, Liu Li should have pushed the responsibility onto Lin Wanmu, who did not come to work today, because Lin Wanmu did not put Liu Li in his eyes, and deliberately did not go to the police station on duty today, knowing that the new director was taking office.

  Moreover, when he came, Liu Li first inquired about the duty personnel reported by the police station. If at this time Liu Li pushed the responsibility onto Lin Wanmu's body, then at this time Lin Wanmu at home would inevitably have to receive a reprimand.

  According to the duty roster submitted by Daxing Town Police Station to the county bureau this month, Lin Wanmu should be on duty today, but he is absent without leave and hasn't even written a leave application. If investigated, even with Lin Wansen's face in consideration, Lin Wanmu would still have to receive organizational criticism and education.

  Of course, Lin Wanmu was punished, and Liu Li also had to write a self-criticism. According to the rules, the police station's deployment of night shift personnel could not be less than four people. However, tonight Liu Li called everyone out for drinks, so even if Lin Wanmu didn't leave his post, there were still three people missing. Even if Yu Shao Yong came forward to defend Liu Li, he would still have to submit a self-criticism.

  Seeing everyone staring at him, Liu Li hesitated for a moment, then suddenly looked around and smiled at the man who had spoken: "We are indeed civil police officers from Daxing Town Police Station. Although we have come out to gather, we still follow the superior discipline."

  At this time, everyone drinking here is off-duty tonight. There are still four police officers on duty in our station now. If you don't believe it, you can go and verify it right now."

  As soon as Liu Li spoke, Zhang Shi and others were shocked in their hearts, thinking: "It's over, Liu is still young after all. He thinks the people from the Discipline Inspection Commission are so easy to fool? Now there isn't even one person at the police station, what if the people from the Discipline Inspection Commission really go to verify it?"

  The man leading the discipline inspection team, after taking in Zhang Shi's expression, gazed at Liu Li for a moment. Seeing that Liu Li's face didn't change color, he smiled slightly and then took out his phone to dial a number:

  "Hey, Old Tian, have you arrived at Daxing Town? Okay, go to the police station and take a look. How many people are on duty there? What? There are five people on duty at the police station? Are you sure it's five people? Who is in charge? Deputy Director Lin Wanmu? Alright, I know, you can come back now."

  After hanging up the phone, the man asked his colleagues to turn off the camera and looked at Liu Li and others with a apologetic face: "Sorry to disturb your gathering. This is a case of false accusation. After we go back, we will investigate the informant and apologize to you again."

  At this time, Liu Li, who was sitting on the chair, spoke up: "No need to be polite, I haven't even asked how you three should be addressed yet. Would it be convenient for each of you to leave your names?"

  Upon hearing Liu Li's words, the three men from the Discipline Inspection Commission turned around. They took a look at Liu Li and then turned back to leave. After the three men walked out of the private room, the voice of the man who had spoken earlier came in: "Director Peng Gang of the third office of the Discipline Inspection Commission."

  Looking at the backs of Peng Gang and his two companions as they left, Liu Li thought of what Peng Gang had revealed when he answered the phone just now. His eyes narrowed for a moment, but then his expression returned to normal.

  Looking at the disciplinary committee's people leaving, Zhang Shi and others sat down this time, then they all put their eyes on Liu Li: "Liu Suo, what just happened? The person who came to our department for inspection by the disciplinary committee said that there were five people on duty in our department. Why did he say that the deputy director Lin was on duty? This... why is this?"

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