(Today red tickets broke 10,000, 12 o'clock add more one chapter)

  Shen Huai has been to Xuetang Bridge Village for the past two days and is very clear about the situation of dangerous houses in the village. He immediately assigned disaster prevention tasks directly to the Xuetang Bridge Village branch.

  "Xuetang Village, there are six more houses in danger of collapse. They are located in groups 1 and 6, two households in group 7, and two households in group 11. You must ensure that these six households move to a safe location before nightfall. If the village cannot arrange for this, you must promptly request support from the town. For other houses that may collapse due to snow pressure, village cadres must go door-to-door to eliminate the danger and make sure they have a clear count in their minds. For houses prone to collapse, we must organize a clearing of snow on the rooftops before nightfall, and don't be complacent. If an accident occurs where someone is injured or killed by the pressure, you will face not just dismissal from your position, but... think this through..."

  Shen Huai only then responded to Old Man Kou's words: "I still have to rush back to town to arrange for anti-snow disaster measures, I don't have much time to explain things to you, Old Man Kou; what I'm directly asking of you now is to get in my car with Kou Xuan and go to town..."

  Shen Huai spoke so seriously that Old Man Kou could only mumble and nod in agreement.

  Shen Huai walked over, carefully wrapped Kou Xuan in the quilt, and said: "If you bump into or squeeze your injured place, just shout 'ouch'." He didn't care about the stubborn little girl's face turning bright red with embarrassment, her eyes filled with reluctance. He picked her up along with the quilt and told Xiao Li: "Find a piece of clothing to cover Kou Xuan's face, it's still cold outside..."

  Xiao Li hastily tidied up Kou Xuan's clothes and followed them out. Huang Xinliang, Chu Qiang and the others were too embarrassed to compete with Shen Huai for hugging the little girl, so they carried Xiao Li's bicycle and Kou Lao's belongings onto the village road.

  When they came down from the town, there were three people. When they went back, there were six people. Kou Xuan had to lie down and could only drive with Zhu Qiang opening the car door. Huang Xinliang sat in the passenger seat, Shen Huai, Xiao Li, and Kou Lao Tou squeezed in the back, carefully letting Kou Xuan lie on their legs.

  Arranging for Zhu Xi Hotel is also inappropriate, Zhu Xi Hotel should still prioritize business and ensure that Sun Ya Lin and Yixin Bank personnel receive high-quality service first. Shen Huai directly arranged for Kou Lao Tou and Kou Xuan to move into the town's health clinic.

  The town's health clinic is the town's asset, with poor efficiency and unable to be contracted out. It mainly relies on the town's health expenses, with about a dozen inpatient beds. Even during Chinese New Year, no one wants to stay in the town's health clinic. Shen Hua considers that if villagers need temporary relocation and have nowhere to settle, they can temporarily relocate here.

  Shen Hua didn't linger at the town clinic, and hurried back to the town to convene a meeting with He Qing She, Li Feng, Huang Xinliang, Guo Quan and others.

  Donghua's annual disaster prevention focus is on preventing typhoons, floods and droughts. In recent years, there has been no such heavy snowfall, and old grassroots officials like He Qing She and Li Feng have no experience in handling it, nor are they particularly careful, let alone the city and county governments which have not made any arrangements for disaster prevention tasks.

  Shen Hua immediately called the meteorological department to confirm that the snowfall would likely continue until tomorrow morning. Without waiting for instructions from the city or county, he and He Qing She, Li Feng, etc. decided to notify each village committee and the two residential committees in the town to deploy anti-snow disaster measures, requiring village cadres to inspect dangerous houses prone to collapse in each village and evacuate the masses.

  Regardless of whether it is the end of the year or not, Shen Hua requires the town's stationed village officials to go down immediately, supervise and guide each village to complete disaster prevention and relocation work for households in danger.

  Today, I originally had an appointment to attend Yang Haipeng's banquet at Zhuxi Hotel. Shen Hua stayed in the office until 8 o'clock, confirming that all the residents of over a hundred households in danger in the town were temporarily relocated to safe places, and then arranged for Deputy Secretary Li Feng and Party and Government Office Director Huang Xinliang to stay overnight. Only after Yang Haipeng's repeated phone calls did he rush to Zhuxi Hotel to attend the banquet.

  Previously, he served as the deputy secretary in charge of economics, and Shen Hua only had to deal with the steel factory and asset management. Now that he is the party committee secretary, he is the one in overall charge, responsible for everything related to the 50,000 people in the town, and Shen Hua feels the pressure on his shoulders has suddenly increased greatly.

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  Shen Huai was used to taking the side door upstairs, which could avoid the eyes of other guests having a banquet in the hotel. Without running into Chen Dan, he directly entered the private room agreed upon by Yang Haipeng.

  Pushing open the door of the private room, he saw Zhou Ming, Yang Haipeng, Zhao Dong, Xiao Mingxia, Xiong Danni, Xiong Dailing and several others all there. Shen Hua saw that the cold dishes on the table had not been touched, and laughed as he asked: "When did you all become so well-behaved? You're waiting for me until 8 o'clock without even touching your chopsticks, don't starve to death!"

  "Secretary Su insisted on waiting for you..." Zhou Ming said as he stood up.

  Shen Huai only then noticed that the young man sitting against the wall was a stranger.

  "This Secretary Su" only then turned around and stood up, stretched out his hand and said: "Su Kaiwen, these past few days I often hear Secretary Tan mention you. Today I specially took a leave of absence with Secretary Tan, hoping it won't be too presumptuous..."

  Shen Huai's face clouded over, and he grasped Su Kaiwen's hand, saying with a smile: "Haipeng and the others are really something, not even giving me a heads up earlier. Now I'll have to let Secretary Tan and Old Bear know that you're so slow, Secretary Tan, you might just have to scold me again."

  "Secretary Shen is busy with official duties, I want to tell Brother Zhou and Haipeng not to say anything." Su Kai heard the words and tactfully excused Zhou Ming and Yang Haipeng.

  Shen Huai saw the pretty girl sitting next to Su Kaiwen at this time, and she looked very familiar. He felt even colder in his heart: Today's unexpected events are really many!

  Shen Hua was still smiling as he walked towards Tan Qiping's daughter, Tan Jingjing, and asked with unconcealed surprise: "Is this Jingjing? When did you get a holiday to Donghua? Secretary Tan didn't even mention that you would be coming to Donghua for winter break?"

  Tan Jingjing looks like her mother, plump and round-faced with some baby fat, narrow eyes, shoulder-length hair, a different type of beauty from Xiong Dailing; Shen Huai had only seen her in the photo on Tan Qiping's study desk.

  "It's only been three days," Tan Jingjing was still not used to responding to Shen Huai's diplomatic warmth, and replied in a soft and slightly shy tone, "I often hear my dad and mom mention you, so I followed Kairui over to grab a meal."

  Shen Hua only then had the leisure to glance at Zhou Ming and Yang Haipeng: Zhou Ming was complacent, while Yang Haipeng's face showed embarrassment.

  Shen Huai rubbed his hands together and said, "Hai Peng has been calling me one phone call after another. I should have realized that an important figure was attending. Letting Jingjing and Secretary Su go hungry is truly a serious dereliction of duty. Alright, you notify them to start the meal, I'll just go wash my hands..."

  As soon as Shen Huai walked out of the private room, Chen Dan rushed over from elsewhere and followed him into the bathroom, anxiously asking: "Zhou Ming introduced that Su Kaiwen is Secretary Tan's special secretary, and also Secretary Tan's daughter - Yang Haipeng booked a table, but neither of them mentioned they would come. You didn't mention it before either, so why did they suddenly show up? Did something happen?"

  Shen Huai smiled and stroked Chen Dan's tender face, saying: "Secretary Tan is the municipal party secretary, of course he needs a full-time secretary. What's strange about that? Secretary Tan's daughter is still in college, she came to Donghua for winter break, what's strange about that? Don't think too much..."

  Shen Huai knew that Chen Dan's mind was still quite sharp, knowing that he had never mentioned Tan Qiping having a dedicated secretary, and suddenly Tan Qiping's dedicated secretary brought Tan Qiping's daughter directly to the Zhuxi Hotel, there must be something fishy going on.

  Shen Huai couldn't tell her that the Song family had given up on him as a son, and that Tan Qiping might have already seen through his tricks and would likely marginalize him from then on.

  From the day he received a call from "his father", Shen Huan had some expectations for today's situation, and was only slightly surprised when he first saw Su Nan and Tan Jingjing, but now he has calmed down.

  Tan Qiping may not support him as much as before, so he didn't even notify him in a timely manner for such an important personnel appointment, but Shen Hua felt that there was no need to think about the problem too seriously.

  Tan Qiping let Su Kaiwen and Tan Jingjing come over to meet him, which means that even if Tan Qiping intends to marginalize him, he doesn't mean to kick him out of the circle.

  No matter what, Shen Huai is still a son of the Song family, and it's not up to Tan Qiping to trample on him.

  Tan Qiping also understood this truth, but before he really understood why Shen Hua gave up on the Song family, it was impossible to support Shen Hua more forcefully. Marginalization is undoubtedly the most appropriate treatment.

  This is the current situation Shen Hua has to face, although it's a bit disappointing, but it can't be said that it's very bad.

  "Cough! Cough!" Yang Haipeng coughed softly outside.

  Shen Huai patted Chen Dan's face and let her leave with peace of mind, watching Yang Haipeng walk in.

  "Zhou Ming brought Su Secretary and Tan Secretary's daughter over, Zhao Dong and I were both startled; Su Secretary said to wait patiently for you, but Zhou Ming urged me to make a phone call..." Yang Haipeng said awkwardly.

  Shen Huai smiled and said, "What's so important that you need to come and explain it?"

  Tan Jingjing now looks like a girl with no too many tricks up her sleeve, should be purely following to play.

  Su Kai heard, with a smile all over his face, speaking politely, but Zhou Ming urged Yang Haipeng to make a phone call, he didn't stop; also pretending to be mysterious and following Zhou Ming to launch a surprise attack, it means he came to show off.

  Su Kai heard that this was to make Shen Huan understand, from now on, in Donghua, only he is Tan Qiping's orthodox, Shen Huan is just a marginal person in this circle, and wants Shen Huan to recognize his own position.

  Even if they are in the same circle, they face competition. Shen Huai thought to himself: Su Kaiwen appeared and was aggressive towards him, probably because he was afraid that his position as secretary of the municipal party committee would be threatened.

  Shen Hua would not have thought of becoming Tan Qiping's secretary, but Su Kai saw him as a threat and had to draw a small circle in the big circle, so some things were beyond Shen Hua's control.

  Shen Huai is now a bit passive, and doesn't even know what Su Kaiwen's background is. He thinks to himself: Is this Tan Qiping warning himself? Warning himself that he didn't report the actual situation and circumstances truthfully to him?

  Or is Tan Qiping's upper position an art of balance? An upper position does not always want to see a harmonious team under him.

  Shen Huai's words were light, but his heart was delighted that Yang Haipeng could come out at this time. Especially when Yang Haipeng realized the problem wasn't normal and still chased after Su Kaiwen, it was even more rare. Otherwise, Shen Huai would really have to consider restricting Penghai Trade's further development on Meicui Steel Factory.

  What Xiang wants to support are his allies, those who support him, rather than opponents or even enemies who pose a threat to him.