The auxiliary police officer hesitated obviously.
However, the person-in-charge sneered, "I, CEO Wang have seen all kinds of situations before. How would I be scared of a little lawyer like you? It was you who was making trouble here because you have no money. How dare you speak about the law to me?"
"Who says we have no money?" Helian Wei Wei turned around, took out a Gucci wallet from the pocket of Baili Jia Jue's pants and threw it to them. There were about 10 thousand Renminbi in it, not to mention the US and Euro dollars inside. In addition, there were three to four gold cards in the wallet.
The person-in-charge and Tour Guide Xiao felt as if their faces were being slapped suddenly when they saw what was inside.
The other tourists finally knew what was going on. Obviously, what the tour guides said was not true. They could afford the jades here indeed, but they were not buying just because they suspected something was wrong.
Helian Wei Wei raised her eyebrows and looked at the person-in-charge before she spoke, "It's the same whether we are poor or rich. No one is willing to be a fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered. So what even if we really had no money and bought nothing? The most important thing in business is about willingness. Why would you have the right to insult us or the customers when we refused to purchase? Instead of adapting to any of you, we came to relax! We deserve your respect as we have spent to join the tour package, rather than being mocked after you failed in forcing us to buy anything."
Tour Guide Xiao spoke in a deep voice, "With just your 500, do you really think that's enough for a group tour?"
"We paid the amount as you requested but now you're blaming us for the little registration fees in return?" Helian Wei Wei's eyes swept across the surrounding tourists and spoke in a very calm voice, "Don't you think the whole incident is funny? Who is the one allowing the tour guides in Li City to be so fearless?"
"Enough!" A man in a suit walked in from the outside. His eyes scanned the surrounding but he did not talk to Helian Wei Wei. Instead, he spoke to the auxiliary police officers at the side, "Secretary Liang is having a meeting somewhere near here. Those invited are all foreign guests. It is a bad influence for you to make noise here. Something happened and the safety of the public is affected. Do you need me to teach you how to settle this?" As he spoke, he turned over his head and spoke to the person-in-charge of the jewelry mall, "CEO Wang, Li City is a tourism city and you are the greatest venture capital provider in Li City. It's our fault to have bad security work and cause you such trouble. If this lady does not want to buy jade, just let her be. If this matter spreads, it will affect the management of Li City. You know how much effort Secretary Liang has put into this, don't you?"
Chapter 950 - Continued Getting Slapped In The Face
"What Secretary Liu said is correct. In all, this is just a misunderstanding." The tone of the person-in-charge of the mall was obviously respectful, "Of course you have to buy things willingly. We could not force you to buy, right? This lady has overthought. Tour Guide Xiao just reminded her but they beat him. Perhaps they have strong self-esteem. I do not understand how it injured her pride to the extent that they insisted on a fight to relieve their anger. Since Secretary Liu is here, just forget about this. After all, we want to do business in a harmonious way. We work for the economy of Li City too. Of course customer care is our top priority. Since this lady does not want to buy things, please wait outside and do not slander the jades of our store, okay? You will affect our business."
The person-in-charge finished his sentences as if Helian Wei Wei and her family had made a big trouble out of nothing.
In fact, the truth was crystal clear.
However, obviously this secretary took the side of the mall's person-in-charge. Of course he knew how to give everyone an out so that the incident would not develop further. He glanced at the auxiliary police officers at the side and spoke, "In the future, anyone who makes troubles and disrupts the public order is wrong, regardless of their identities. Let's forget about this and drop the matter for this time. Those who do not want to stay here may leave."
"Yes." The auxiliary police officers executed only when they were instructed.
Helian Wei Wei looked at the scene and spoke in an unhurried tone, "Wait a minute. Secretary Liu right? You seem like you have focused on the wrong point."
Secretary Liu did not expect the person in front of him to be so clueless. A streak of light flashed through his eyes.
If it was not for the Chief Secretary who had told him to be more alerted as the child trafficking case involved too many parties and that the higher-ups were breathing down their necks.
He had already asked the officers to lock up these tourists. There were always some upstarts who thought they could protect their rights as they were rich.
Yet they did not consider the identity of the person standing in front of them.
In other words, if she was just an ordinary university student instead of a lawyer, he would show her his true colors too.
At the thought of this, Secretary Liu's face turned cold, "Miss, do you know who you are talking to?"
"I really don't know who you are. I only know your presence here is not to settle the problems for the people. Instead, you have come to worsen the spoiled tourism of Li City." Helian Wei Wei met his gaze and smiled suddenly, "The key point is not about buying the jade or not. Rather, it is about the way we are treated after we have spent money and being cheated. In other words, we are the victims. As a secretary of the Chief Secretary, shouldn't you be listening to the victims? Otherwise, Secretary Liu, how do you maintain your secretary post?"
Secretary Liu's eyes deepened completely when he heard her last sentence.
In his eyes, Helian Wei Wei's behavior was totally reckless.
Secretary Liu did not know that Helian Wei Wei had asked Monkey and the others to take action before she spoke of this.
All of the video contents were spreading swiftly through the influence of certain social media.
The contents included all of the recorded audios from the driver, tour guides, the person-in-charge of the mall, and Secretary Liu.
Especially the tour guide's attitude, it even aroused the hatred from both men and the gods.
Adding to the summary of a dozen or more complaining cases before this.
This included the commander of Li City, Inspector Jiang who had carried out a task together with Helian Wei Wei before.
His first reaction when he saw the video was that he knew they were so done.
How could this group of people surround Helian Wei Wei!
What a bunch of useless people!
Inspector Jiang was trying to put on his military cap while rushing out. The soldier who followed him at his side was in doubt, "Major, it's almost mealtime. Where are you going?"
"Where am I going? I'm going to fix an awful mess!" Inspector Jiang turned around and pointed at Helian Wei Wei on the screen, "Do you see her? If anything happens to this person, do not expect the people from Tang Sect would set out for foreign wars in the future. She is the boss of the Ghost Organization! The Chief Secretary was even trying to make contact with the people from Tang Sect, and now that his secretary went to find trouble in her people. What do you think would be the consequences?"
The soldier shook his head. He was still balled up.
Inspector Jiang did not speak to him anymore. He got into a Hummer and drove toward the location where the incident happened.
At this moment, Secretary Liu smiled coldly, "Miss, I find that you have a tendency problem."
"Tendency problem?" Helian Wei Wei took a step forward, "Today, I stand here to talk about the law with you to protect my rights and benefits. In fact, very few people in the mainland know about the law, even less on how to protect their rights and wellbeing. If the people who stand here today are the university students who are not able to protect themselves, instead of me, what are the things that they would face? Secretary Liu, have you ever thought
of this problem?"
"You could say whatever you want now." Secretary Liu's voice was still deepened, "However, I have to warn you too. Don't think that you could simply incite the public because you're a lawyer. I have all the rights to arrest you."
The phone in his pocket rang when his utterance settled.
Secretary Liu looked at the caller ID and put through the line carefully, "Chief Secretary, yes. Yes, I'm at the jewelry mall now. What? Video? The person is recording a video secretly?"
Secretary Liu was stunned. His eyes turned murky and his words after this could not be heard at all.
Then, he hung up the phone. He asked the person-in-charge of the jewelry mall to go outside and lowered his voice, "Now, this incident has gotten a bit troublesome. I'm not in the position to be involved now. Later, I will keep an eye on the outside. You go back and ask everybody to leave. As for the woman, stop giving her a hard time as she has a camera on her. She might not be a lawyer but a reporter. If things go south, it will be hard to settle it then, but don't worry. We have done a background check on her, she has nothing, so it's easier for us. When the crowd dissipates and she continues to bother you, just deal with her like how you settled the female university student. However, you have to remember this. Try your best not to go until this point. Last time, the Chief Secretary was here so he could muddle the news of the missing university student. This time, you should try to make her compromise and let her know that the people behind us are very powerful. She could not change anything by just giving a demagogic speech to the people. Do you get me?"
CEO Wang of the jewelry mall nodded. He c.a.r.e.s.sed his potbelly with his left hand and thought in his heart, We have gone so far now, isn't it clear enough?
A little stupid reporter who has no background at all wanted to spoil their party. Isn't she looking for trouble?
Chapter 951 - Threatening His Highness
The incident continued to arouse the netizens' curiosity.
The Chief Secretary was unhappy with the bad press so he made a call to the relevant law-enforcement department.
Consequently, the law-enforcement department got a thorough lecture, causing them to then transfer the blame onto tourists. They wrote a post on Weibo that read, "When tourists encounter a problem, they conjure up conspiracies rather than trying to resolve the issue."
They had done so to control public opinion.
However, some of their chosen words were controversial and unexpectedly to them, many different interpretations started to circulate ever since their opinion was posted.
Those who agreed with their statement praised them for 'allowing the deaf to hear the ruckus'; those who did not, used the phrase, 'the demeanor of the fellow robbers' to mock the law-enforcement department.
Too many tourists had encountered this kind of unscrupulous business. Helian Wei Wei did not even need to do anything for the people to voice their disp.l.e.a.s.u.r.e.
However, real justice was often elusive.
Usually, people did not voice out their opinions because of their forgiving nature or they just did not want to cause any trouble.
However, once a problem had exceeded the bottom line, no one could tolerate such behavior anymore.
Sometimes, even the netizens had a hard time discerning fact from fiction.
Nevertheless, this incident was obvious. The video revealed everything, hence the evidence was indisputable.
It was clear as day that the drivers, tour guides and the store had colluded to take advantage of tourists. The related department's management had been too lenient on this matter as well.
People could only do so much to make the high-ranking executives realize their mistakes.
This was because every time something happened, their first line of action would be to spew excuses in order to shift the blame away from themselves.
Unfortunately, such an abuse of power often occurred in this world.
The people understood the matter well but chose not to comment in public. Some people were vocal about their opinions while some chose the high road and did not criticize the matter. Nevertheless, people wanted to highlight the existence of these schemes and how not to become a victim of them.
The experts in Zhihu wrote a three-point summary that was applicable to each popular tourist town that said - do not register for the individual tour group, do not inquire with local drivers and try to avoid dining at the tourist spots. After all, the scandal of a few tourists being charged an exorbitant price for a fish was still fresh in people's minds.
However, as every city required development and construction, incidents like these would not come to an end anytime soon.
Only the common ordinary folks would suffer as they still relied on these sources of income.
Genuine high-ranked executives wished that everyone could live in an ideal society, yet a perfect system could not be implemented thoroughly.
This was due to the selfish nature of a minority of people.
However, he had never seen a scene like this before until today.
Nevertheless, he was not as brash if compared to a certain someone in Yun City and knew when to keep his opinion to himself.
Hence, he quickly asked a particular department to issue an apology on Weibo and performed some damage control.
When all these were completed, he narrowed his eyes and instructed his subordinate, "When the popularity of this incident subsides, tell Chief Secretary Liu to give the person who revealed this a hard time. We should teach her a lesson for spewing all the nonsense."
After Chief Secretary Liu received the instruction, he hastily made a call to CEO Wang to inform him that they would turn a blind eye toward this incident. He was free to do whatever he wanted to vent his anger so long that he kept it discreet.
CEO Wang held the phone and let out a cold laugh as he looked at the family who was still standing condescendingly in the middle of the jewelry market. Chief Secretary Liu's words were very clear. In the beginning, he had some scruples but now, he had received permission to do anything he wanted behind closed doors.
The guards outside would not interfere even if he killed this dense reporter as long as he did it discreetly.
It was so straightforward.
CEO Wang exchanged glances with the guards to indicate for them to bring the other tourists away. Then, he would personally talk to Helian Wei Wei in private.
CEO Wang thought that she would not be suspicious if he had a humble and benevolent attitude.
However, he failed to realize that His Highness was aware that the more unscrupulous a person, the easier it was to read them.
Helian Wei Wei was very smart. She deciphered the schemes he had hidden up his sleeves with a single glance. Does he want to secretly get rid of us?
In that case, she would play along with him to see who would be the loser in this game.
After all, it was almost time for a military Major to turn up.
"Please, after you." Helian Wei Wei seized the opportunity to speak.
Baili Jia Jue sneaked a peek at her. No matter the occasion, his well-defined arched eyebrows always gave off a regal and elegant impression.
When they returned later, Helian Wei Wei felt she had to try her best to placate the Third Prince. After all, four hours had already passed since they came out. His Highness was actually dragged out of the bed by her so the devil's bad mood of being awakened from sleep would last for a very long time.
Baili Shangxie also knew his Imperial Father was a nightmare to deal with when he was sleep-deprived.
However, he was still as deadly as an atomic blast.
"Let's keep our distance from our Imperial Father later." Baili Shangxie urged Little Qingchen in a serious tone as he held his hand.
The little child nodded his head obediently. Shaking his hand, he tagged along behind Baili Shangxie. He staggered and swayed with every step.
The smile on CEO Wang's lips got even broader when he saw the family behave so cooper
atively. They walked along the corridor outside and he brought Helian Wei Wei and her family to the embassy lounge where all covert dealings were held. Cellphones and the internet were rendered useless here.
Helian Wei Wei could clearly hear the 'beep' sound from her Bluetooth earphone that indicated a loss of signal.
Simultaneously as the signal was disrupted, the engines of a few sports cars a short distance away revved to life. The cars moved so fast that only blurred trails of colors were left behind them as they raced along the arching hillside of Mountain Cang.
The Ghost was on the move!
At this moment, Chief Secretary Liu sipped his tea in an antechamber outside the mall. He waited for CEO Wang to give him a satisfactory reply after the matter had been settled so that he could vent his anger.
After all, even the commercial magnates respected him ever since he was appointed as Chief Secretary. Unexpectedly, a st*pid reporter had dared to embarrass him in public. Does she have a death wish?
"Has CEO Wang made his move?"
"Almost. He has brought the people to the embassy lounge. We will know in a short while."
"Then you should tell the people outside to remain at their positions no matter what they hear. Make sure nobody rushes in, we will keep out of this issue."
The people beside Chief Secretary Liu nodded, they were loyal subordinates after all.
Now that he had assurance, CEO Wang did not bother to conceal his intentions anymore. After the click of the lock was heard, he dragged Baili Shangxie, who was the nearest, toward his body. His face was deeply etched with maliciousness, "I prefer to discuss things in this manner."
Chapter 952 - So-Called Malevolence
"Oh?" Baili Jia Jue arched his attractive eyebrows. The kind of evil that demons had within them emerged on his handsome face. Nobody understood why a cloud of dark mist surged behind him although it was obviously daytime at the moment.
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