"Yes, Vice Premier Hong, you are contradictory. Do you realize that? You told us a lot about Ma Jianjun at that time. You didn't feel frightened. I also said, aren't you reporting to Deputy Secretary-General Ma? You still say yes." Hong Feng took over Wu Yinan's dialect and looked at Hong Lihua puzzled. "Don't you think it's contradictory to what you're saying now?"

"What's the contradiction?" Hong Lihua smiled and her little mouth lifted. She said, "All the words before are testing you and treating you as objects of suspicion. Now that I speak like this, I have taken you as my own people, and what I say comes from...