Chapter 286: Why Don’t You Dare Fight The Director?
“Yes, yes, yes, Group Leader Wen is absolutely right.” Guang Yuhua chimed in, though he secretly smiled bitterly in his heart.
She didn’t know what would happen to Cao Weida in the future, but for now, they had to rely on Cao Weida’s favor.
Actually, he wanted to go ‘report’ it in his heart, after all, Cao Weida’s performance was too overbearing, and his small frame really had no confidence to withstand it.
But he was also afraid that after Ji Hongxin came out later and found out about this, it would put him in a bad position.
While he was pacing back and forth, Wen Yongwang found him and told him to pretend not to know about this together with him.
Now it’s good, they called just the two of them alone, even a fool knows it’s definitely not something good.
“I don’t know if Director Ji can hold out, this Director Cao is no tough character.”
His heart was full of worry, but at this point he had already offended the other party, so saying more was meaningless.
There was one more worry he didn’t voice, that was, based on his understanding, the Japanese side basically wouldn’t let Ji Hongxin be the director of this district office.
He thought that even if Cao Weida hadn’t been parachuted in as director this time, it would probably be someone else parachuted in.
As mentioned before, the puppet government and the Japanese side weren’t as harmonious as they appeared on the surface; once it involved disputes over interests and power, both sides often argued until they were red in the face.
Both sides had infiltration of power into each other.
For example, the group led by Ji Hongxin appeared to belong to the police station institution controlled by the Japanese side, but in reality they had long since belonged to the puppet government side.
He suspected that the reason Cao Weida could become this director was first because he had made contributions for the Japanese side, plus he had friendship with Ono Shiota and the others.
Second, because the Japanese side didn’t want people from the puppet government to sit in this position.
Yet Ji Hongxin showed a posture of determination to get the director’s position, so conflict was inevitable.
The superiors fight like gods, and in the end the ones who suffer are still these little minions.
The two arrived at the door of the Director’s Office with different thoughts, and Guang Yuhua knocked on the door.
A voice came from inside the door: “Come in.”
The two pushed the door open and entered, standing at attention: “Director, you’re looking for us?”
“Mm, yes, I do have something for you.” Cao Weida didn’t even lift his head as he hummed, then said nothing more, his pen scribbling on a document, as if he had forgotten the two had arrived.
Seeing that Cao Weida had no intention of looking up or speaking for a long time, the two showed different expressions; Guang Yuhua had a fawning smile on his face, while Wen Yongwang looked angry.
They knew this was Cao Weida giving them a show of authority!
After an unknown amount of time, just as Wen Yongwang was getting impatient, Cao Weida finally put down the document in his hand, leaned back in the boss chair, and said with a faint smile:
“I just had an important document to handle, sorry to keep you waiting.”
Guang Yuhua gave a dry laugh: “The matter is important, it’s fine if we wait a bit longer.”
Wen Yongwang was more direct: “Director, you called us here, is there something?”
His tone had no respect at all, even carrying some impatience.
He snorted inwardly; his mouth said nice things, but after coming in so long, he didn’t say a word, didn’t offer seats, not even a cup of water.
“Looks like Deputy Group Leader Wen is impatient,” Cao Weida didn’t show any anger at his attitude, instead smiling:
“For the work we do, we need that kind of drive from Deputy Group Leader Wen.”
“However, having that intention is good, but you also need to do the work properly.”
He pulled out a document from a pile, opened it and scanned it, saying as he looked:
“The task of your Communications Group is not only to ensure smooth communications within the police station and locally, but also to monitor communications of anti-war or resistance forces in the jurisdiction.”
“But!”
His eyes turned cold, staring straight into the other’s eyes, and he slammed the document in his hand over.
He used some hidden weapon throwing technique, and the folder ‘smack’ hit Wen Yongwang on the forehead before bouncing to the ground; ignoring Wen Yongwang’s pained cry, he said sternly:
“Pick up the document! I told you to pick up the document!!”
Wen Yongwang clutched his forehead where it was broken open, his face flushed red with anger; he wanted to flare up, but was firmly held back by the startled Guang Yuhua, who subtly and urgently shook his head at him.
Big Brother, don’t you see where we are!
The guy opposite is a ruthless character who dares to gun down a sergeant in the police station!
Are you tired of living, daring to flare up at him?!
Wen Yongwang swallowed a belly full of anger, but his brain wasn’t too stupid after all; just now he hadn’t expected the other party to be so lacking in martial virtue, so he reacted instinctively.
Now that he reacted, though his heart was still furious, he could only bend down aggrievedly and pick up the document stained with some of his blood.
“Look at it yourself! See what you’ve been doing this time?!”
Feeling it wasn’t satisfying enough to curse while sitting, Cao Weida simply stood up, spittle flying onto the other’s dark blue police uniform with his roar:
“Three months, a full three months!!”
“Are your subordinates deaf or blind?!”
“Look at what it records above?!”
“All some gossip about this family and that!”
“The secret radio at night keeps having activity, yet you can’t even catch a frequency!!”
“Are you trash?! Even trash has reusable value, what about you?! Worse than trash!!”
Wen Yongwang’s face turned somewhat dark; being pointed at and sprayed in the face, no one would be happy.
What’s more, cursed so harshly!
He was just a deputy group leader!
Even if cursing, shouldn’t it be the group leader?!
At worst, call both to be cursed together!
Why single me out to be cursed?!
He wanted to retort, but had no reasonable rebuttal.
After all, he was one of the persons in charge of this matter; even if not the group leader, he was the deputy group leader!
When the superior’s superior wants to pin the blame on him, he couldn’t retort even a bit.
Damn bastard, in the end, it’s just wanting to give him a hard time!
He opened his mouth and squeezed out: “Director, you can’t blame it all on me; the resistance forces have been silent lately, and even when they send reports, the time is very short, we can’t lock on at all.”
“Don’t give me excuses!” Cao Weida slammed the table hard, the copper paperweight on the desk jumping:
“The Imperial Army pays you salary, spends money and grain to feed you, not to feed trash, and not to let you shirk responsibility!”
“The assassination at Tokyo Hotel, the arms warehouse bombing, the shooting at Bamboo Agency and East Asia Academic Research Association—one by one, tell me yourself, which one did you prevent in advance?!”
“If you could intercept the telegrams in time, would these things happen!?!”
Hearing this, Wen Yongwang’s eyes widened instantly: this crap, even this has to be blamed on me?!
You treat me like a Japanese to mess with?!
The Japanese side’s special agent agency, those government special agents from East Asia Academic Research Association couldn’t intercept or prevent them, what do you want me, a deputy group leader of the communications group, to do?!
I’m just the director of a district police station, not a god!
Guang Yuhua on the side listened with a wince, looking at Wen Yongwang with pity; as the saying goes, when there’s intent to convict, what need is there for words? If they want to find fault with you, they can pick bones from eggs.
Sigh, this is the price of not giving face to the new director; brother, just take it.
Then he thought, no, damn it, I’m also a target to be hammered and given a hard time!
His heart trembled instantly: it’s over, I won’t be cursed this badly too, right?
Cao Weida didn’t care about their feelings; this old man is already the department boss, can’t he even throw some weight around?
What’s more, they were subordinates who didn’t give him face; if he didn’t curse until satisfied, wouldn’t this official position be in vain!
So, he continued firing:
“Open your dog eyes and look clearly, what does ‘no abnormality’ in the report from the night before last mean?”
“The night before last, there was clearly a shortwave signal on Chenzhuang Street, the Military Police had already captured it, how did it become no abnormality on your end?!”
Wen Yongwang’s hand hidden under the document clenched tightly, his dark blue uniform collar unbuttoned two, his face turning greenish-black; after enduring and enduring, he finally couldn’t help retorting:
“Director, how can you blame us for this? You can’t push all the responsibility on us, right?!”
“That signal the night before last was intermittent like a mosquito buzzing; our station’s old monitoring machine is an old thing swapped from the Military Police two years ago, the bands are long inaccurate, how can it compare to the Military Police’s advanced machines!”
“Also, those cases you mentioned before, even the Japanese and professional special agent organizations didn’t receive them; you want me to intercept with that old machine?!”
“Old machine?” Seeing him still daring to talk back, Cao Weida, already dissatisfied with him, became even more dissatisfied.
Good, very good, really eaten bear heart leopard gall!
Cao Weida’s voice was low, but carried gritted teeth viciousness; he took out a document, his finger poking hard at a spot:
“It clearly records here that at the beginning of last month, your monitoring device just replaced the vacuum tube; you tell me it’s an old machine?!”
“You need to find Group Leader Qiu for this; the vacuum tube is new no problem, but the user is stupid…”
At these words, Cao Weida couldn’t help narrowing his eyes in a smile: “So you mean all the responsibility is Group Leader Qiu’s fault?”
“You think your Group Leader Qiu is a brainless idiot, as communications group leader, can’t even use the monitoring device?”
Wen Yongwang’s face stiffened instantly: damn it, he caught my slip of tongue and set me up!
Though he didn’t get along well with Qiu Mingjie, it wasn’t to the point of enmity.
But if these words reached Qiu Mingjie’s ears, the other wouldn’t fight him to the death?!
“No no no, Director, don’t say that randomly, I didn’t mean that; I meant that the ones responsible for the monitoring device are all Group Leader Qiu’s people!”
“Little Wu stared for half the night that day, stubbornly heard 450KHZ as 480KHZ; by the time I noticed, the signal was long gone.”
“I scolded him a couple times, he still wasn’t convinced, said his ears had calluses from listening, really couldn’t stay up.”
“Don’t give me all these excuses!” Cao Weida rudely interrupted; joking, this old man doesn’t really want you to achieve anything, I just purely want to make things difficult for you!
He stepped away from the chair, came in front of Wen Yongwang, his gaze scraping like a knife on his face:
“Can’t even control your subordinates, that only shows you’re useless!”
“A grand deputy group leader, can’t even make subordinates obey, what group leader are you!”
“Might as well step down and yield, leave the position for capable people to sit!”
“I tell you, the Empire pays you salary to feed you to get things done!”
“If you can’t even do this little thing well, what’s the use of keeping you?!”
“Even raising a pig, you can slaughter it for meat at New Year! What about you?!”
Wen Yongwang was cursed until his face was flushed red, veins bulging on his forehead, his hands clenched with a ‘creak’.
Seen by Cao Weida, he gave a cold snort, “What, you still want to beat me up?!”
His heart cheered joyfully: go ahead, go ahead; as long as you dare move, this old man will make sure you don’t leave this office, become my KPI!
Unfortunately, Wen Yongwang endured and endured, and actually really held back.
He panted non-stop from holding it in, but in the end didn’t dare move, his anger deflating more than half; he unclenched his fists, lowered his head and admitted fault:
“Yes, Director, I was wrong.”
Cao Weida was a bit disappointed; even like this he didn’t move.
Seeing he couldn’t provoke him, Cao Weida lost interest, waved impatiently: “Get out! Giving you three more days; if there’s still no news, go explain to the Military Police yourself!”
Three days!?
Wen Yongwang suddenly looked up, just about to say something, but was suppressed by Cao Weida’s glare: “What, you have objections?!”
“Don’t dare.” Wen Yongwang lowered his head again; not sure if it was illusion, when he was about to move, a chill rose on his back as if it could freeze him into an icicle.
That feeling was like being prey stared at by a natural enemy, not arousing any courage in him at all.
Turning to walk out, just at the door, he was called by Cao Weida: “Wait… don’t use excuses like subordinates not listening again; if I hear it once more, try it!!”
Wen Yongwang paused his steps, didn’t dare turn back, just mumbled a response, and quickly walked out of the office.
After going out, he suddenly felt that his clothes had been soaked in cold sweat at some point, sticking uncomfortably to his body.
Guang Yuhua on the side secretly felt bitter: it’s over, Wen Yongwang is gone, isn’t it my turn next?
Seeing how badly Wen Yongwang was cursed, he seemed to see his future self…
At the same time, he felt some contempt in his heart.
Hmph, wasn’t he quite arrogant when coming? That disdainful look, that confident tone, where did it go?
If you’re really that brave, stand up tall; why not dare fight the director!
Now it’s good, I have to suffer with you!
Damn it!!
Really harms others without benefit!!
