0044 All things in this world can be measured, only the human heart is hard to measure.

Even a fool would know that this was not a good time to make a move, and Michael quickly left after glaring viciously at Lynch.

Within a few minutes, Mr. Fox came in from outside with a puzzled look on his face, he closed the door, saw the gifts, and said with a smile, "I saw Michael just now, he seemed angry?"

Lynch nodded a bit, gesturing to those he'd sent, and said casually, "He came to ask my forgiveness, and I didn't grant it."

Mr. Fox sighed and walked over to one side of the round chair and sat down, casually picking up a piece of fruit and nibbling on it, which was quite hydrating.

These stores and stalls in the hospital are the hospital's own business, which concerns the livelihood of many people, so they naturally do not dare to be perfunctory, and this is some of the potential advantages brought about by capitalization or commercialization, that is, competitiveness.

Uncompetitive people, or businesses or even industries, are quickly eliminated in the great wave of capital, and to make sure that they don't become part of that elimination, these people will just try to make themselves competitive enough as much as possible.

Mr. Fox swallowed the pulp in his mouth, slightly hesitated, but still said, "In fact, in this case, it's best to settle if you can, and really get Michael out of the way, the tax office side may not be like blind and deaf pretending not to see and hear."

In Mr. Fox's opinion, this matter Lynch had got the result he wanted, the fight won Michael, and the latter came to plead for his forgiveness, so everyone compromised with each other to settle the issue, and both sides would not fall too hard.

That's what people like Mr. Fox always think and do, they sometimes bully law enforcement who are a threat to them, but never actually stab them in the back.

To put it bluntly, their own asses are full of shit, and if they can get one down today, someone new will do it to them tomorrow, so they're very much about point blank, everyone's better off.

When Lynch did that, Mr. Fox thought it was just a little too much, a little too aggressive, and said, as if he meant it, "You've disgraced the Revenue, and they'll be watching you all the time."

This statement can't be wrong, but it can't be right either.

Lynch twisted his head to look at him and asked a question, "Mr. Fox, even if I stop now, do you think that things have gotten to the point where it's common knowledge in the Commonwealth that a small-time federal tax commissioner in Sabine City can just say stop?"

"No!" , he raised a finger and gestured, "The people above want to see who disgraced them, and the people below are thinking of taking back some face from me, and they'll be watching whether I forgive Michael or not."

"It won't be three or five days before they start looking for trouble from me, and me forgiving Michael now will only make them think that I, a young man with no backstage background, am someone who can be bullied at will and be weak."

"Since forgiving or not forgiving won't change the situation I'm going to face next, then why should I condemn myself?" , he said and laughed, "Since you've decided to do it, don't think about leaving a way back, the more carefully you think about it, the less guts you'll have."

There was some change in Mr. Fox's expression as he frowned and thought for a while before nodding his head in approval of Lynch's idea, "You have a little bit of truth in what you're saying, so what's next?"

In fact, from the beginning of the whole thing, no one was much at fault, and if they were, it was only that Michael was staring at the wrong people.

If Lynch doesn't fight back, it's his own bad luck that ends up being his own, either by Michael being thrown in jail to live or die, or by Mr. Fox's stream of quiet underhandedness.

So someone has to fall, and every successful person who goes from lying down to standing up often does so not entirely by their own strength, but by the corpses of those who have failed.

If Lynch's guess was correct, the tax system would next start investigating Lynch for evidence, and even those law enforcement units beyond the tax system would start testing Lynch's side.

Lynch wasn't too concerned about those questions to the point of being concerned, "We're legitimate businessmen, Mr. Fox, and this is actually going to be a huge opportunity for you and your business as well."

Mr. Fox was a little more on top of things when it came to things that concerned him, he tossed the half nibbled fruit into the trash can and pulled a silk handkerchief out of his pocket to wipe his slightly sticky fingers, "What do you mean?"

"Sabine City is being watched from above, they're sure to send some investigative teams or ask local law enforcement units to clean up the chaotic city streets, there will always be someone who disappears at that time, and isn't the vacuum after the disappearance just your chance?"

There was a seductive quiver in Lynch's voice, "Imagine if you were the only one in the whole city ..."

Mr. Fox swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his heart thumped violently, this kind of thing had never been considered by him before, because the division of territory was not something that could be stipulated by a few people with a few words, it was a rule that had been left behind for many years.

There must be rules in any industry, and only with rules can there be order. Wanting to expand the scope of his business and expand his chassis, as long as he had the idea, others would warn him not to mess around, or else he would be going against everyone.

It's a solidified logic of thinking that neither one can afford the cost of an all-out war, and Sabine is just a small city, they don't have the swagger, the guts, the means or the substance of those in the big cities.

But now, Lynch drew him a big pie, if the whole city only do this business ... by himself, the thought of it makes people tremble, so much profit, if all of it in their own pockets ....

But he quickly shook himself out of this unrealistic fantasy and hastily shook off his head, saying with a bitter smile, "I would like to, but I can't do it." , his tone and eyes were sincere, "First of all, I know that my business is illegal, and secondly, I don't have the ability to declare war on everyone else at the same time, and I can't beat them!"

Every step in the expansion of the underground world is accompanied by bloodshed, every bill is bloodstained, and when someone's interests are touched, the only way to quell the anger is death.

Mr. Fox is just a finance company, and he does have some men under him, but not strong enough, not many enough, and not ruthless enough.

Lynch waved his hand, "You'll know when the time comes, I'm only telling you this because I want you to be mentally prepared."

On the other side, Michael, who had been frustrated on Lynch's side, went to jail immediately afterward, and in two days it was Michael Jr.'s trial, and he now hoped even more that Michael Jr. would retract his confession and not admit to his crime.

On the one hand the purpose of this is that there is still a chance to tie Lynch to this case, and by finding a way to prove that Lynch planted the evidence against him, then his previous assault on Lynch that led to his hospitalization can be interpreted as just another transgression that can be forgiven by the public.

He used a ring to get his own child killed, then the fact that he hit Lynch has nothing to do with law enforcement, or who he is, he was just standing up as a father to do what a man, a father, should do.

The public and public opinion will also boil over from whether he is suspected of some criminal behavior to sympathy for him, and not only will he keep his job, but his family won't have any problems either.

The other side of the coin was that in case it didn't work out, while he still had some power, he could get Michael Jr. out as soon as possible, and maybe later on he could go through his old boss's door to get Michael Jr. a good job.

Based on these two points, he had to talk to Michael Jr. again.

But how could he know that what had happened between him and Lynch was not only publicized by the Federation, but also by the human inmates in the prison - they were allowed to read the newspaper, which was protected behavior.

The idea that Michael Jr. was going to give up on pleading guilty and let his father fish him out was completely erased from his mind when he realized that his father was already in big trouble.

Now that Michael is in trouble himself, if he intervenes in his own affairs, he might be caught abusing his power, and things will become even more troublesome then, so when confronted with Michael's request for a visit to the prison, Michael Jr. rebuffed the prison guard.

His idea is actually very correct, only to keep Michael, this family has a future, just sometimes the teenager s brain ... will always somehow appear some problems.

Teenagers always think that they are old enough and mature enough to think as adults, but they overlook a fatal problem.

How do they know what real society is like when they have been living in a simple ivory tower?

After being rejected by Michael Jr. Michael was devastated and just felt like the end was near .