Chapter 302 Law of the Jungle (1/2)

“Yes, he is a good official, but he is also an idiot.”

Xiao Bing frowned, “How can you say this about your father?”

“He is not just an idiot. If he hadn’t died, I would’ve been brought up to become an idiot like him sooner or later.”

Xiao Bing guessed many things must’ve happened that he knew nothing of that caused Blood Wolf to hate this country and its government all this time.

“Ever since I was young, everyone thought my family was rich. But no one knew that my mom had always been tight-fisted. I’ve never owned any branded goods. I wore very ordinary clothes and studied in ordinary schools, which were far removed from the so-called aristocratic schools.”

“For a time after my tenth birthday, my dad was always worried and my mother was in a bad mood too. I was young and didn’t understand why. They refused to tell me, but I eavesdropped on conversations between them. My dad said he wanted to report someone, and my mom asked him to consider and think about the whole family. Then one day, my dad was called before the provincial disciplinary committee. He never returned. People said my father had taken bribes and flouted the law, but the fact was my family could not even afford a better car.”

“My mother told me the country would definitely prove my father’s innocence . My dad accused the provincial bureau chief of corruption in accepting bribes, keeping a mistress and diverting public funds. Finally, because he was too involved, they sent him to prison.”

“I didn’t go to school those days. My mother cried every day. When I was with her, she would talk about my dad being a great hero. The country wouldn’t wrong a good person. She had evidence to bring down all the corrupt government officers and send them to jail so that my dad would be released.”

“At that time, there would always be people coming to my house to talk to my mother. But their conversation was always very unpleasant. They were constantly quarreling. My mother drove those people out and cursed them as scums and lowlifes.”

“I found out later that they wanted to use my father to threaten my mother. As long as my mother handed over the evidence, my dad would be released. They said he was in too deep this time and that my family couldn’t win against them.”

“Later I asked my mom what we should do. I wanted my dad to come home. My mother said that the country would be fair to us. She was going to mail the evidence to Jingdu and hand it to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.”

“I was young at the time and didn’t know anything. I just listened to my mother telling me the country would help us, the country would be fair to us, the country would not wrong a good person, and would not let an evil person get off scot-free. My father would be fine. So I waited with great expectation. The following day, while I was out buying vinegar, my home caught fire. By the time the fire brigade came, the house was turned to cinder. It was my father’s half-a-lifetime’s hard work. Far more than that, my mother died in that fire.”

Xiao Bing frowned and said, “There cannot be such a coincidence in this world.”

“From young, my dad told me that boys should be strong-minded, because I had to help him protect my mother when I grew up, but I cried that day. It was the first time I cried. The first time I cried that I could remember, because I didn’t need to be strong anymore. My mother was gone, and she didn’t need my protection anymore. Later, the autopsy report came out stating that my mother committed suicide at home and ignited the fire herself. I knew that was not true, because my mother hadn’t given up trying to save my dad. She said the country would be fair to us.”

Xiao Bing sighed, “What happened to your father later?”

“My dad died too. The day after my mother died, someone came to tell me that my dad committed suicide for fear of being punished.”

Xiao Bing was silent. Behind a crime, every protagonist has an untold story. From the bottom of his heart, Xiao Bing hated Blood Wolf for betraying him and killing Peiya and Old Lei. Yet looking at things from Blood Wolf’s perspective, he also felt like hating this country and its corrupt officials.

Xiao Bing sighed, “There will always be some stinking fish in this world, but they are a minority nevertheless. There are always incorruptible officials. For example, your father. He was a good official. He was just unfortunate.”