In the Name of People
Episode 36
Baobao, are you full now?
You go back first, I got things to do.
I need to interview a fashion designer from Beijing!
I know, it's that "cleanse all harmful bugs", right?
It's him, a loyal bro!
A bro or a sister?!
Bro of course, you are funny!
Zheng Shengli I warn you, you are a married man!
Let me think: not really!
We married by spending 250!
Zheng Shengli, I warn you!
As a company stockholder, I refuse!
What are you doing?!
Baobao, this is how it goes:
"harmful bugs" studies in Beijing, majoring in fashion design.
Besides, our Alpha Inc will become big and strong in the future!
We'll need an office in Beijing!
I wanna train her as our future Beijing office manager!
So she's not in Jingzhou, but in Beijing!
Of course!
Why would a Beijinger come to Jingzhou, what do you think?
Fine then, but I must come with you!
OK, come!
Drive me home first, I'll get a dress!
Liangping, why do I feel this is a Hongmen Banquet? (Chinese idiom for murdering guests)
You better not go!
Qi Tongwei invited me,
besides princeling Zhao will be there in person!
So you insist on going?
You don't wanna waste this investigative opportunity?
If it's Hongmen Banquet,
I'll get a chance to watch Xiang Zhuang's swordplay! (Xiang Zhuang was the assassin)
This is different, because we don't know who's Xiang Zhuang!
The situation is clear now, Chen Hai's accident is solved.
We also have indirect evidence on Liu Qingzhu's death.
Our enemy is too powerful,
don't underestimate them!
The most dangerous of them, must be my old schoolmate!
Qi Tongwei?
I thought about him too.
Don't forget he's police chief, if he's Xiang Zhuang,
you'll be in grave danger!
Proc. director Ji...
I reckon Qi Tongwei won't go that far!
Don't reckon anymore!
Our enemies are merciless!
I won't let Chen Hai's tragedy repeat!
Unlike Chen Hai, I've been guarding against Qi Tongwei!
Actually when Chen Hai got hit,
the first suspect in my mind was him!
Based on what?
Because I know him!
What do you know of him?
He's a man like Julien! - Chen Hai told me too. (character from French novel "Scarlet and Black)
Is it because he married his teacher, who's 10 years his senior?
Her name is Liang Lu.
But do you know why Qi Tongwei married her? - Why?
Because her father was a provincial secretary,
political & legal secretary Liang Qunfeng!
Just to advance, Qi Tongwei made such a reluctant decision.
And now, to protect his power and wealth,
he will be ready to do anything!
People gathered around the teacher and felt clueless.
They asked: what do you see, what was Hun Dun doing?
The teacher said: playing weiqi!
It's in the wilderness, play with who?
The teacher was silent, long after, he muttered:
the sky!
The vulgar men kept asking: did he win or lose?
The teacher counted the stones to the bottom right corner.
There he found the game-winning "ko".
Hun Dun died kneeling,
and acted as a black stone to take the "ko".
The teacher was overwhelmingly inspired by Hun Dun's spirit.
With clenched fists raised high, he shouted so the earth shook:
"Beat the sky by half a stone!"
Are we...
at the point of life and death again?
You knew it!
Each time like this, you'll read Jiao Jian's "Sky Game"!
Each time like this, I can always see,
the mad weiqi-player who must beat the sky!
Tell me Xiaoqin, are we mad?
I don't know, maybe.
I just feel we got trapped in a whirlpool...
It's swirling faster and faster,
when you wanna stop, you can't!
Sometimes I think: what's the point?
We abandoned our love, marriage, and dreams,
is it really meaningful?
But again, what's the meaning of life?
How many people can really see through it all?
In today's world,
even monk is a profession, not a religion!
Plato once said,
life is just a practice of death.
But when has mankind given up fighting because of death?
Since you're gonna die, you must live differently!
No matter if you like it or not, you must gamble and fight!
If you don't gamble...
you won't have any chance to win!
After so many years,
I still remember Qi Tongwei's proposal to Liang Lu...
I remember it was noontime,
Chen Hai and I were in the 3rd-floor classroom,
taking Prof. Gao Yuliang's law class.
Qi Tongwei had a bouquet of roses.
On the courtyard opposite to our classroom,
he fell down on his knees!
Attention, Prof. Liang Lu of the law department!
On this beautiful day,
somebody wants to speak to you from his heart!
Attention Prof. Liang Lu of the law department!
On this beautiful day,
somebody wants to speak to you from his heart!
Attention, Prof. Liang Lu of the law department!
On this beautiful day,
somebody wants to speak to you from his heart!
Attention, Prof. Liang Lu of the law department!
On this beautiful day,
somebody wants to speak to you from his heart!
Prof. Liang, come out!
Prof. Liang Lu, hurry up, don't let him kneel there!
Let Qi Tongwei kneel a bit longer! - That's right, Liang Lu!
Prof. Liang, come out!
Modern jurisprudence, is the study of law.
It involves the research of social values.
Prof. Liang, come out!
Prof. Liang come out!
Yeah!!!
Liang Lu, marry me!
Marry him!
Kiss her!
That's how Qi Tongwei destroyed Prof. Gao's law class!
Later, Qi Tongwei told his friends:
his self-respect died that noon,
on the university courtyard!
I think, it's not just his self-respect that died,
but his soul!
If the soul is dead, then there is no humanity left!
From then on, this school brother I once respected,
was gone with the wind!
But Chen Hai's family earned my respect over the years!
Do you know who's the girl Qi Tongwei abandoned?
Is she related to Chen Hai?
Chen Hai's big sister, Chen Yang!
Some of us felt Chen Yang was being wronged,
we wanted to beat up Qi Tongwei!
Chen Hai stopped us.
Some people complain about fate or bad social environment,
but given the same situation, people make different choices!
That depends on your self-cultivation!
This self-cultivation can earn people's respect!
I remember sister Chen Yang said this:
"breaking up is also a kind of arrival."
"To help each of us arrive to our souls."
Well said!
A lady who can say this deserves better than a soulless shell!
I grew up with people's disdain!
I ate other people's leftovers, wore their leftover cloths.
That's why I pushed myself to study and to gain knowledge.
I hoped knowledge could change my fate!
But I was wrong.
What changed my fate was not knowledge,
but power!
We have no starting capitals, only ourselves.
Luckily we are worth some money,
what a waste if we don't use it well!
I knelt down after figuring this out.
I knew at that moment, my back was full of disdain and sneer!
No, but also respect!
The courage to go against the world,
is the prerequisite of great accomplishments!
If we don't become their toy, how can we make them our toy?
You are the only woman who can touch the depths of my soul!
Or put it this way,
"stinky people find each other!" (Chinese idiom)
That's a nice idiom!
Really, from the moment I knelt down,
I knew that compassionate and youthful Qi Tongwei died!
From then on I fought against the heavenly father and my fate!
I know I won't care what other think, or what measures I take!
Even if I must consume my own life...
I must beat the sky by half a stone!
We've been fighting fate all along.
From your kneeling to me losing my innocence...
to Chen Hai and Liu Qingzhu's death.
We've walked far on the road of no-return,
might as well walk more!
Tell me,
are you ready to take on Hou Liangping now?
Don't ask about that, you don't need to know!
You just read your script, that's good enough!
Is it still possible to have secretary Gao talk to Hou Liangping?
If we can avoid that step, we should avoid it!
Let's not tell Gao Yuliang too much.
I don't wanna scare him!
I tell you,
this old fox is ready to bail any moment!
If I didn't ask Chen Hai to help catch Ding,
maybe he won't get murdered!
But you didn't have to tell Qi Tongwei!
If someone inside leaked the information,
and had others coordinate Ding's escape,
that would be a very well-organized chain-of-command!
3 of his distant relatives in Luezhou,
they raped a girl who went there for work!
Qi Tongwei even meddled in this!
Last night he called Luezhou PD,
to drop the case with 200k of settlement money!
I reckon those rapists are already released!
Some things are more complicated than we thought!
Don't you see it, mentor?
They are reshuffling the deck of power!
Chief Ruijin wants to use Hou Liangping as his sword,
to break the status quo of Handong!
Secretary Gao!
Secretary Bai, is chief Sha around?
Yes, you got things to report?
No, it's fine.
Maybe I've sat for too long in my office, I feel rigid.
I wanted to take a walk.
As I walked on, I eventually got here!
Such nice weather today!
Don't let me keep you!
OK!
Did secretary Yuliang have things to say?
I asked him, he said nothing.
Nothing? Then why would he come here?
Secretary Gao said he sat for too long in office,
and got tired, so he took a walk.
Shall I call him to be sure?
No, if he got things to say, he'll find me again!
Baobao, don't you feel cold?
Why do you care?
Where is he?
Caterpillar! - Harmful bugs!
Boss Zheng, not so loud!
Not "harmful bugs", but "cleanse all harmful bugs"!
Cleanse all...
Hello, I'm caterpillar's girlfriend!
Boss' wife!
Hello!
Well...
Liangping, I'll be honest with you.
I've suspected Qi Tongwei ever since Ding's escape!
But with Ouyang Jing's case later on,
our focus got distracted away.
But as we dug deeper into the 1/16-case,
lots of things are focusing again on Qi Tongwei!
To successfully coordinate Ding's escape,
only this police chief Qi Tongwei can do it!
He's not simple, never let down our guards!
Several murders that took place around 1/16-case,
I bet he's involved in them all!
Therefore I don't want you to go, too dangerous!
That's exactly why I can't give up!
It's an ideal opportunity to get evidence!
Even if it's dangerous, it's worth it!
Proc. director Ji,
do you know what I do at Supreme Procuratorate?
Investigative division director! - Yes!
Therefore, please let me attend this Hongmen Banquet!
If you must go, you must be armed!
Is it necessary? - Yes!
You must also wear surveillance device to record everything!
To solidify the evidence, and don't let them frame you!
OK, I'll listen to you.
Boss Zheng. - Hmm? - Your car is quite good!
This car... - We bought this car from Donghui with car loan!
The downpayment is very low, you can buy it too!
Baobao, I think she was asking me!
Harmful bugs, no, "cleanse all harmful bugs".
This car is nothing!
Our Alpha Inc is starting up.
When our company gets big, everybody gets one!
Even the guards!
Are we driving to the interview now?
We just did!
Both of us are happy about you!
Right, since you are anyway in Beijing, just do whatever.
Are we driving to the company now?
No, we'll show you the factory first!
Does our company even have clothing factory?
Come on, what do you mean "even", of course we do!
What is "Internet Plus", do you know?
Yes yes!
How do you like it, this is our factory!
Boss Zheng, our factory is indeed an oasis in the ruins!
Hmm, this is a hard-fought oasis!
We paid the price in blood!
I know, when you defended factory, I spread the word for you!
Yes yes yes, I begged you to repost for me!
That's right, and the police visited me twice for it!
I didn't sell you out!
This way please!
Our factory looks good!
Here, this way please!
Boss Zheng! - Going for lunch?
This way! - Boss Zheng...
Why do our workers walk through windows?
You mean this?
This...
This is Feng Shui!
I hired a Feng Shui master from Taiwan to arrange this!
These tables and chairs,
their placement, direction and the valves, are all by design!
It's Feng Shui and wealth attraction!
Even the railing here, there's knowledge behind!
You really know a lot!
Don't just think only Beijingers have knowledge!
How about this boss Zheng, can you reimburse my train ticket?
Sure!
Vice-CEO Bao...
Vice-CEO Bao! Baobao!
Reimburse her ticket!
OK.
Train ticket? - Hmm.
Before reimbursement, boss Zheng,
can you pay out my last month's salary first?
Let's have a look inside the factory first, OK?
Liangping!
Have you picked up your gun?
Good!
I'm still worried! - Nothing to worry about!
I've been to Shanshui Manor, I know it somehow.
My reception was in dining hall 1.
I reckon it'll be there again!
I know that room, 1/3 of it is dead space for shooting!
You only went there once,
you could only know it roughly.
As I know, Shanshui Manor is like a club.
Every building has a dining hall!
How can you be sure it's gonna be dining hall 1 again?
Let the fate decide! - But...
Besides, I don't believe Zhao Donglai don't have undercover!
Zhao Donglai? - Yeah.
Yeah, what's why he caught Chen Qingquan so easily!
In that case, it gets easy!
Give Donglai a call!
Donglai, Liangping here.
I need your help. - What for?
Can you put some stuff into Shanshui Manor for me?
How about here?
No problem! - OK, mark it!
Qi Tongwei understood that he's being reckless again.
But he didn't understand why he always got the cruelest deal,
forcing him to always become monster?
How's it here?
He knows that he's being crazy,
but he has no other options!
(To the right! - It's OK here!)
Alright. - Are we gonna tell boss Gao?
So she won't hang around the danger spot and get in the way!
You better not tell such things to women,
or you'd get even more trouble!
Chief Hou! - Boss Gao!
Hello!
Isn't manager Cheng supposed to pick me up?
He got something coming up, therefore chief Qi sent me!
Are you unhappy or what?
No no, it's surprise!
Sounds good, this way please! - Hmm!
Are you planning to make certain people...
cry first?
I can't help, people will cry if somebody dies!
Like Liu Qingzhu's family!
You are testing me, chief Hou!
You can be straightforward!
How did Liu Qingzhu die, why did you give them 2 millions?
How generous! - Generous?!
Your old schoolmate chief Qi thought I was stingy!
Really?
Does chief Qi know Liu Qingzhu very well too?
Of course!
Liu Qingzhu worked for us for over 10 years,
he was very calculating and saved us lots of expenses!
For our company,
he made huge contributions!
To be honest, even 5 millions won't be too much!
Boss Gao said "us"...
Who are "us", does it include chief Qi?
Wait, are you eyeing at your old schoolmate?
Do you wanna make him cry first or what?
How would I dare! I hope he doesn't make me cry first!
Yeah, you are brothers!
It's best if you don't make each other cry, right?
Cheers!
Boss Gao, let me ask you something.
Why is princeling Zhao suddenly here, asking to see me too?
Is it about...
Handong Oil & Gas and Liu Xinjian?
It's exactly that!
This Liu Xinjian worked for 8 years as Zhao Lichun's secretary.
Here to bail him out?
Then I can't eat this dinner!
Why not?
Your old schoolmate will eat with you,
and bail him out together!
You let him go because he said so?
I can't stop the monkey boy!
Let Donglai run an anti-prostitution to protect him!
Let me go to municipal PD! - I must be sure!
If I go, Zhao Donglai will take it seriously, get in!
It's hard.
He's arrested, the case is filed.
Suspects can be released, cases can be dropped!
Not so simple, I'm not Qi Tongwei!
He's a tall tree with deep roots, and full authority at the police!
How long have I been to Handong, I won't dare!
I better skip the dinner tonight.
Pull over! - Don't!
Look at how scared you are!
It's fine if you don't help,
but you must meet princeling Zhao!
I'm no businessman, why should I?
He's a friend of your old schoolmate!
Are you not giving your old schoolmate face anymore?
I have to!
But I really can't help with Liu Xinjian, really!
Fine, let's just have dinner and be friends!
Is that OK? - Alright!
So Hou Liangping went to the banquet just like that?
Who does he think he is?!
So reckless!
Cut the snide comments.
Let's discuss how we coordinate this operation!
What do you want me to do?
Proc. director Ji, tell us!
Liangping's operation tonight is very dangerous!
At worst, they'll show hands!
If that happens, anything is possible!
Correct!
Shanshui Manor hides a big secrets!
Those who get close are either dead or gone!
Or stay in coma at the hospital!
Chief Hou, actually I knew,
even if I did pull over, you won't get off.
In your mind, you really wanna dine with us!
Am I right?
Why? - Why.
Because you smell prey, don't you?
Be honest, am I right? - Yes yes!
I admit, as anti-corruption bureau chief, it's my natural reaction!
Are you getting more and more interested in Shanshui Group?
Yeah.
Lots of the leads on the 1/16-case originated from your Manor,
and connected to Shanshui Group.
Old schoolmate told me,
we took some of your account books.
You got mad! - Of course!
I was angry indeed!
That director Lu of yours was a total bully!
She bullied you?!
If she broke any regulation, you can report to me!
Don't! Report what?
Chief Hou, let's talk about Liu Xinjian again.
I know regarding Liu Xinjian's matter,
he's caught, the case is filed.
We won't push you.
But...
we can focus on the issue can't we?
I think in the Hongmen Banquet tonight,
Liu Xinjian will be the VIP of their requests!
Liu Xinjian must be a core member of Shanshui's secrets!
They wanna bail him out,
or have him shut up, forever!
According to our intel,
ever since Liu Xinjian became CEO of Handong Oil & Gas,
with Zhao Ruilong's company and Shanshui Group,
they had lots of monetary activities!
We are still checking how much profits they transferred!
For so many years,
with so much profits transferred,
if Liu Xinjian is down, the trouble will be huge!
Therefore, only quick decisions can save us from chaos!
Chief Qi, you must decide now!
Ruilong, don't use the gun unless it's the last resort!
You butt will be too dirty to wipe clean!
BTW...
When Liu Xinjian was jumping, you didn't help him either!
I thought he wanted to jump, otherwise Tiger would've shot!
You think I want this trouble?
Not trouble...
But doom!
We are already doomed, let's keep it up!
Tell Tiger: once it's done,
leave the country immediately!
I know, I told him the details, nothing should go wrong.
Fine, let's focus on the issue.
Liu Xinjian's matter is huge,
otherwise he won't resist arrest with suicide!
But chief Hou, you really don't know him.
He's coward like a rat, and he loves to save face!
More than his life?
No matter what, he shouldn't joke with his life!
That's why I say, nothing escapes your eyes!
In that case,
chief, I think you understand this very well too.
If you keep digging into this matter,
you'll affect many,
and powerful people too!
Some of them may be controlling your fate!
Boss Gao!
Who told you to tell me this?
Sounds murderous!
Chief Hou, please don't mistake it as a threat!
I won't dare even if you lend me 10 men's courage!
Me, I just like to tell the truth!
Truth hurts!
OK fine.
I'll hear you out: how do we focus on the issue?
Focusing on the issue means,
we discuss whatever happened.
We didn't invent this, right?
Even the commoners understand,
how can chief Hou not get it?
So you actually know I'm anti-corruption bureau chief!
Can I do anything illegal?
Hmm...
Chief Hou, I just wanna say this:
we don't make you take unnecessary risks.
With risks comes rewards!
This princeling Zhao,
he must've come because of Liu Xinjian!
Actually, he may use his father's banner again,
like "a fox masquerading as a tiger". (Chinese idiom)
For Liu Xinjian, they'll do everything!
Therefore,
the Hongmen Banquet tonight has a clear motive:
1st, they wanna check us out,
check how much evidence we got on Liu Xinjian,
how close we are to their secret!
2nd, they will persuade,
or even threaten Hou Liangping to release Liu Xinjian!
If they succeed, their entire bunch...
can safely leave the mine field!
Got it!
If Hou Liangping doesn't handle it well,
he'll be in danger!
If his opponents misjudge during the scuffle,
and believe Hou Liangping knows their secrets,
and if he doesn't compromise, he'll be in life-danger!
I had him armed,
but it's in Shanshui Manor!
We are at huge disadvantage!
But chief Qi,
if Liu Xinjian is so troublesome, why didn't you take him out?
You waited for me to do it, trying to trick me?
No matter what, he was your father's secretary!
Even if I don't know the monk, I know the Buddha! (Chinese idiom)
Besides, how could I know Ouyang Jing sold him out so fast!
Hou Liangping didn't give me time!
Therefore, let's stop blaming each other!
Report!
Brother Long, chief, he's here!
Alone? - Alone!
Check carefully! - Yes sir!
BTW, keep an eye on the mine they planted!
Yes sir!
Therefore, Donglai,
I want you to help us conduct an anti-prostitution.
So our officers can enter the Manor at key moments,
and protect Hou Liangping!
Captain Qian, we do another anti-prostitution tonight!
We'll send men under joint command!
In the name of your public security team!
Remember, everybody must be armed!
Good!
Policemen as waiters? - They're chief Qi's followers!
Chief is doing better by the day!
Chief Hou! - Manager Cheng! - Boss Gao!
Manager Cheng, weren't you supposed to pick me up?
Something came up!
BTW chief said it's a private banquet,
neither he nor boss Zhao from Beijing wanna be disturbed.
Therefore,
please hand me your phones and electronic devices!
Please cooperate!
Manager Cheng, you think it's necessary?
Yes, of course, this is mine!
My phone!
Wait a sec!
Excuse me, boss Gao!
Excuse me, chief Hou.
I forgot I got a recording pen!
It's public property, don't lose it!
Public property is also our responsibility!
Please!
It's fine now? - This way.
You're too persistent!
Chief Hou is here!
Liangping is here! - Old schoolmate!
Here, Liangping, let me introduce you:
Zhao Ruilong!
This is chief Hou Liangping, of provincial anti-corruption bureau!
I tell you, he's a super sharp anti-corruption sword!
I've heard lots about you, here's my name card!
Boss Zhao, your name travels like thunder before you!
What name, I'm just a businessman!
The one with thundering name is my old man!
He worked in Handong for 30 years!
Modesty!
Being modest with such successful business, is very rare!
Don't just stand here, take a seat and I'll go prepare!
Please sit!
Come, Liangping! - Hmm.
Sit down!
Liangping, it's just like you said.
Although Ruilong has good business,
but he keeps a very low profile!
Therefore old chief, you gotta learn from him!
You are getting better at boasting!
You even brought police to a dinner!
Aren't you worried I'll snitch on you, and get you fired?
I tell you, even if you did, I still won't get fired!
Because I'm doing this just for you!
You've been here for less than 3 months.
We are all friends here OK?
I'll be honest, you upset lots of folks!
those who wanna kill you, are more than a dozen!
In that case,
I gotta thank you for your protection!
Manager Liu.
Can I call you manager Liu from now on?
Boss Zheng, you can call me whatever, even "harmful bugs"!
Nah!
You are no harmful bug, but an useful bug!
We are all useful bugs, Baobao.
We are all good bugs that help mankind, right?
Manager Liu, that Dafeng factory we showed you,
is just a small factory among many of our factories, very small!
We got many big ones, don't worry!
If you work with us Alpha Inc,
I guarantee you'll count money until your hand gets cramp!
Fine, boss Zheng, let's not discuss this now.
Please drive me to the procuratorate first!
I never met anyone like you,
no salary or travel reimbursement,
yet you still hire!
Look manager Liu, I've told you many times!
Our collaboration is your expertise for our stocks, correct?
You just design in Beijing,
I organize production.
Then we sell directly online and split the profit!
Hello auntie,
how come I can never reach my little uncle on the phone?
I'm already at the procuratorate!
Help me find him!
Then find his proc. director Ji Changming.
I find him?
Could such a high-ranked official bother with me?
Auntie, my train is at 11pm tonight!
I must take a break at his place!
Just find him!
Hmm, OK!
You already drove her here, can't we leave now?
Boss Bao, we still haven't found manager Liu's uncle!
Let's leave after we find him, OK?
I think you still haven't given up!
Don't mess around!
Boss Bao, I think you are getting narrow-minded!
Don't be like this, you know?
Manager Liu don't come here so often, I appreciate talent!
You squeezed my hair!
Sorry!
Hello?
Hello Xiao-Ai, can I help you?
Liangping's phone is off?
It's like this, Xiao-Ai,
Liangping has a special mission tonight.
He may need to be offline.
Xiao-Ai, don't worry,
I'll get people to bring Liu Shan to the procuratorate.
It's fine!
No problem, OK!
Did chief Hou turn off his phone? - Yeah...
Is he offline, or in trouble?
Before he left, I told him to never turn off the phone!
Has anything happened?