Chapter 103 Brothers in Suffering
Chapter 103 Brothers in Suffering
An Rushong didn't like Nan Xuyu, not because he was very serious when treating him, but because he could smell a faint and sinister smell from this guy.
Just think about it, who would like someone who smiles at you one second and scolds you harshly the next? And Nan Xuyu is obviously such a person.
Of course, since you are working for others, you often cannot decide by yourself who to listen to and who to restrict. This also applies to An Rushong.
After coming out of the villa, An Rushong got into the almost new Mercedes-Benz. He didn't know why Nan Xuyu gave him a car. Was it a reward from Councillor Kong, or was there some kind of tracker installed in the car specifically used to monitor him?
An Rushong thought that the latter possibility was unlikely.
Why do you say that?
The reason was simple. Just look at what happened when he met with Councillor Kong today. No matter how easy-going this councillor was, his condescending attitude could not be hidden. He was not even interested in saying a few more words to him.
If you count, the total time I spent in the living room of the villa from the time I was led into the house by Nan Xuyu to the time I followed him out was probably less than five minutes. The congressman didn't even introduce who the bald guy was.
What kind of attitude is this? There is no doubt that in the eyes of others, I am not an important person at all. Or, in the eyes of the congressman, he is already very respectful to take the time to meet me.
Well, An Rushong himself had to admit that compared with senior congressional leaders and conservative leaders like Congressman Kong, he was indeed a small-time character.
What did he have? A company called NGN? A software with less than 30 registered users? Close ties with two gang leaders?
To be honest, in the eyes of people like Councillor Kong, these are nothing at all.
It's not that An Rushong boosted others' morale and destroyed his own prestige. Just adding up all his achievements, it's probably not as valuable as saying that he has a friend named Mike. After all, this friend is the CFO of Costco Korea and an American with quite a background.
People should not underestimate themselves, but they should not overestimate themselves either. No matter what time it is, it is always safer to seek truth from facts.
Back to the previous topic, for such an insignificant minion, would Councillor Kong need to get a car to monitor him? An Rusong thought it was unlikely.
But even so, he would have to find an opportunity to test it later, just in case.
Having said that, this old fellow, Councillor Kong, is really not a decent person.
Earlier in the living room of the villa, he had arranged for himself to sit on the long sofa, or to be more precise, between the two beauties.
Originally, he thought that the other party was going to use the beauty trap, using those two pretty girls as weapons to win him over, but who would have thought that the old guy would just let him smell the scent and then kick him out.
Damn, although I didn’t dare to look closely at the time, but if I was not mistaken, those two beauties seemed to be two well-known artists in the Korean entertainment industry.
Tsk! What a pity, the good cabbage was eaten by the pig. Maybe it's not a good cabbage, maybe it's already rotten. It's fine if I can't touch it, but I don't like second-hand ones.
With all these random thoughts in his mind, An Rushong drove straight to downtown Seoul. The distance he traveled back was quite a long one.
Still driving along the Han River, An Rushong sped all the way. Just as he entered Songquan Cave, the cell phone on the center console rang.
He glanced at the road ahead and saw that there were no vehicles. Then he took out his phone and looked at the caller ID.
The call was from Shen Taian. The old man obviously estimated that he had left Councillor Kong, so he called him.
After a slight hesitation, An Rushong pressed the answer button.
As expected, the old man called to ask whether he had met with Councillor Kong and what they talked about during the meeting.
An Rusong did not hide anything, after all, there was nothing to hide. He told Shen Taian that Nan Xuyu had talked to him, and from now on, he would work with Nan Xuyu.
This result was obviously beyond Shen Taian's expectation. After a few seconds of silence on the phone, he didn't say anything more, but just told An Rusong to do his job well and not to disappoint Councillor Kong and Director Nan. That Lin Zhengchu is the director, and this Nan Xuyu is also the director. An Rusong asked curiously. He didn't expect to get an answer from Shen Taian. As a result, he didn't expect that the other party would tell him frankly.
Next to Councillor Kong, Nan Xuyu is the director of the so-called "Administrative Countermeasures Office", who is mainly responsible for public relations and publicity guidance, while Lin Zhengchu is the director of the Security Office. In addition to the security of Councillor Kong and his family, he is also responsible for solving some shady matters.
All along, Shen Taian has actually been working with Lin Zhengchu. Of course, the Zhao Jingsheng brothers are also doing the same, but they basically have no chance to meet Lin Zhengchu in person.
With this explanation, An Rushong understood that he was now on the same level as Shen Taian. Haha, this was really ironic.
With this idea, An Rusong actually looked forward to the job that Nan Xuyu would assign to him in the future. The reality was that only with a specific job could one have specific power. If Nan Xuyu didn't assign him a job, then he would have no power at all.
Shen Taian hung up the phone very quickly. An Rushong thought that if this old man knew that he was going to work with Nan Xuyu, he probably wouldn't have called him.
What does he mean by this? It means that after a colleague accepted a secret interview with the leader, he asked the colleague what the leader said. This behavior is very taboo. If this "colleague" conveys his curiosity to the leader, he may suffer some consequences.
The Republic of Korea is the world's most powerful country. It will naturally not stop its progress towards becoming the most powerful country in the universe just because of a small person's slight change in status.
In fact, after receiving the meeting from Councillor Kong, An Rusong did not feel any change in his situation in the following two days. He still rushed to NGN Company on time every day and urged his programmers to work overtime to develop new software functions.
In contrast, Mr. Jin Yudong, who served as the Deputy Minister of National Defense, suddenly committed suicide in a strange way on the last day of October - he hanged himself in front of the window of his apartment with a thin iron wire folded in three parts.
Jin Yudong's death did not suppress the entire sexual assault scandal.
On the morning of the day Kim Woo-dong committed suicide, the Chosun Ilbo used Kim Woo-dong's sexual assault case as a clue to expose several sexual assault cases within the South Korean military. It used this as evidence to claim that sexual assault was a common phenomenon within the South Korean military and that due to threats from high-level officials, most victims remained silent.
The Chosun Ilbo called on the Ministry of National Defense to launch the first round of meetings of the Military Prosecution Investigation Review Committee to conduct a thorough and detailed investigation into sexual assault cases in the military, including the case of Kim Woo-dong.
As soon as this report came out, it immediately attracted attention in South Korea. Perhaps encouraged by the media reports, victims came forward one after another to speak out, either accusing a senior military official or condemning the military's inaction.
Almost overnight, no one paid attention to the bribery and corruption cases involving Councillors Kong and Liu. In the eyes of the public, corruption among officials is normal. What is there to pay attention to? Isn't it more popular to report about sexual assaults and other low-level news?
As an important participant in this incident, An Rushong became a spectator. Although he did not know much about the inside story, he could vaguely feel that behind this public opinion, there was obviously a big drama of multiple political forces competing and making peace.
On the third day after Jin Yudong committed suicide, An Rusong received a call from Shen Taian, who told him that the Zhao Jingsheng brothers were fine and would leave Yongdeungpo Prison at 3 pm that day. Shen Taian meant that if he was fine, he could go pick up the two brothers, who had suffered a lot in prison.
Yeongdeungpo Prison is the former Yeongdeungpo Correctional Center in Seoul, which was originally under the Correction Bureau of the Ministry of Justice. It has a long history and is said to have been established in 1949.
Although this prison is called Yeongdeungpo Prison, it is actually not located in Yeongdeungpo District, but in Guro District. The reason for this is that before 1980, Guro District belonged to Yeongdeungpo District, and it was later separated and became an independent district.
When An Rushong arrived at Gaocheok-dong in Gulao District, raindrops began to fall sporadically from the gloomy sky.
It's already October and people are afraid of rain. As long as it rains, the weather will get colder. This is what the saying "an autumn rain brings a chill" means.
After parking the car in front of the main gate of the prison, An Rushong got out, lit a cigarette for himself, and then looked at the high walls of the prison from afar.
In his previous life, he had heard that the prisoners in Yeongdeungpo Prison were treated well and had four dishes for each meal, two meat and two vegetables. Such food was obviously much better than that in the army.
Before he finished smoking a cigarette, the two heavy blue iron doors slowly opened. Then, two armed prison guards walked out. Then, Zhao Jingsheng, who was on crutches, walked out slowly with the support of Zhao Chenghao, who had one arm in a sling.
I don’t know why, but when I saw these two brothers, An Rushong actually felt like laughing.
(End of this chapter)