"Bang!"

  Chengnan Pengyue Golf Practice Field, Zhou Zhi Bai watched as Gao Xiaohu answered a phone call, and then "slammed" the phone away. The brand new Motorola phone smashed into pieces on the stone pillar of the corridor, making people feel a pang of heartache.

  Zhou Zhi sat in a leather armchair, wiping the titanium alloy rod with a cloth, narrowing his eyes to look at the high net around the court, outside the high net was a vast expanse of clear sky, seemingly ignoring Gao Xiaohu's reaction.

  Gao Tianhe was tall and sturdy, while Gao Xiaohu was quite small and thin. His dark face looked even darker, like the bottom of a pot. Zhou Zhi thought to himself: What could have made this old man so angry?

  "Damn it," Gao Xiaohu thought, getting angry and uncontrollably kicking the phone parts in front of him. If Zhou Zhibai hadn't been present, he would have liked to smash everything in front of him to vent his anger.

  "What's going on, that you're like this?" Zhou Zhi Bai stood up and grasped the golf club, slightly bending his knees, and swung it with force, hitting the ball out. Only then did he casually ask Gao Xiao Hu what had happened.

  The white ball shot out like lightning, and the landing point was not very good, directly hitting the nylon high net in front of the practice court. The high net was shaken by the ball, and it can be seen that Zhou Zhi's swing this time was quite powerful.

  "It's still not about that little thing at Meixi Steel Factory,"

  Gao Xiaohu pulled over a chair and sat down, trying his best to calm himself down, but the anger in his heart was burning more and more fiercely, with no possibility of extinguishing it. He scowled, speaking with a stuffy nose and rough breathing, as if he wanted to drag the person who had offended him over and devour them alive.

  "Mei Creek Steel Factory wants to bypass us and give the steel to other distributors to sell. I'm not insisting on occupying this pit, nor am I unwilling to reason with these turtle sons. These turtle sons, their mother didn't even make a sound, today they directly found another family to transport the steel out of the factory. If I didn't react at all, how could I still mix in Donghua in the future? So I dispatched a few cars to block the gate of Mei Steel Factory, wanting to teach them a lesson, but those turtle grandsons, directly drove a heavy truck loaded with steel and crushed the car I sent to block the gate into an iron pancake..."

  Gao Xiaohu's face turned iron-green with rage, his eyes bulging as if about to burst.

  In front of Zhou Zhi Bai, Gao Xiao Hu also didn't have the nerve to mention one of the two cars that had been flattened, which was a black Mercedes-Benz he had just purchased through connections. This model of Mercedes-Benz is rare in Donghua City, with only two in existence: one belonging to Zhou Zhi Bai and the other to Gao Xiao Hu.

  Gao Xiaohu has the nerve to say that his Mercedes-Benz was flattened by a deputy secretary of Meixi Town in a heavy truck accident?

  It's common knowledge that Bai Fuhe said: "Nowadays, those township enterprises below are really too ignorant of the rules..."

  The Zhou family made a fortune by collecting and selling scrap materials, which in the eyes of outsiders who didn't know the inside story, was just a junk collector. Those who knew about Wu Haifeng's relationship with the Zhou family even thought that Wu Haifeng was an official who didn't take care of his own brother's interests, which made Wu Haifeng's reputation in Donghua slightly better than Gao Tianhe's.

  In fact, from the mid-to-late 1980s, Donghua's steel industry has vigorously developed short-process steelmaking. The so-called short-process steelmaking does not use iron ore, but instead puts scrap steel and old iron into a furnace to melt it into a steel billet, which is then used to produce various types of steel products.

  The Zhou family had long controlled the scrap steel procurement in Donghua City and gradually infiltrated surrounding cities. After Zhou Zhi Bai returned from studying in the UK, he further opened up channels for importing overseas scrap steel, becoming a major supplier of furnace materials for Donghua's short-process steel industry.

  It is well known that Bai Guan's Pengyue Furnace Material Trading Company supplies more than 20 million tons of scrap steel to Meixi Steel Plant every year, and usually pays close attention to the situation in Meixi Town. Who would have thought that such a thing would happen today?

  However, in front of Gao Xiaohu, Zhou Zhibai also found it inconvenient to make a phone call to ask someone about the more detailed situation.

  "Damn it, I'm so angry! Can I borrow your phone to make a few calls?" Gao Xiaohu didn't want to go back to the rest hall to make calls either. He borrowed Zhou Zhi Bai's phone and dialed the number. "Director Song, it's me. I'm using Zhou Gongzi's phone to call you. You know what happened in Mei Creek Town, right? Good, now let's see how the Municipal Bureau is going to give me an explanation. My face hasn't been slapped by anyone before, and that broken town deputy secretary's mother... today she's pissing on my head! If I tolerate it today, tomorrow won't she be shitting in my mouth?! Fine, I'll wait for Director Song to handle this matter..."

  Listening to Gao Xiaohu on the phone, Zhou Zhibai was shocked in his heart: Could it be Shen Huai who negotiated with Second Uncle to transfer to Meixi Town?

  Gao Xiaohu made a few more phone calls before saying to Zhou Zhi Bai, "Damn it, I've lived for 30 years and never suffered such humiliation! No way, I have to go to Mei Xi Town to keep an eye on things, in case that bastard Song San He agrees to something with his mouth but does something else behind my back." He tossed the phone back to Zhou Zhi Bai, turned around and left the Peng Yue Golf Driving Range with his driver and bodyguard.

  Zhou Bai watched as Gao Xiaohu stormed off, then picked up his phone and dialed Zhou Yu: "Sister, do you remember your colleague at the municipal government, Shen Huai, who framed Ershu in the Gaotian River scandal and asked to be transferred to Meixi Town?"

  In front of his second uncle and aunt, Zhou Zhi Bai had heard the name "Shen Huai" more than once, but he still hadn't connected this Shen Huai with the little white face "Little Shen" who swam with his sister at the city swimming pool that morning.

  Zhou Yuguang had just taken office in Tangzhai District, with a lot on his plate. His younger brother hadn't seen or heard from him for several days, and suddenly he called out of the blue to mention Shen Huai, which gave her quite a shock.

  Zhou Yu deliberately didn't tell his brother Ming that Shen Huai was the "little white face" he met at the city swimming pool that day, fearing that his father and second uncle would also misunderstand their relationship with Shen Huai as a romantic one, and make a big fuss about it.

  "How...how is it, Shen Huai is my colleague in the municipal government, and he also caused Second Uncle to lose his position. How could I forget him?" Zhou Yu still thought that his younger brother Zhi Bai had met Shen Huai before and saw through his identity, and asked with a tongue-tied tone, "Aren't you supposed to be playing golf with Gao Xiaohu at Pengyue to build relationships? Why did you end up eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling in Meixi Town?"

  Wu Haifeng was led by the nose by Gao Tianhe, and only then did he suffer a great defeat in handling Chen Mingde's sudden death. He naturally hated Gao Tianhe to the bone and also obstructed Ge Yongqiu's appointment, but practical problems were also in front of him: he was about to be driven out of his position as municipal party secretary, while Gao Tianhe remained unscathed. The Zhou family's business wasn't particularly clean either, so how could he avoid becoming a fat target for others?

  There is no eternal feud, only eternal interests.

  Cruel reality forced Wu Haifeng to put aside his grudges and take the initiative to ease his relationship with Gao Tianhe.

  Wu Haifeng couldn't bring himself to take the initiative to make amends with Gao Tianhe; as the heir of the Zhou family, Wu Haifeng's nephew Zhou Zhi Bai took on this heavy responsibility.

  Wu Haifeng resents Gao Tianhe, which is understandable. However, Gao Tianhe has a wary heart towards Wu Haifeng. When facing Wu Haifeng's loss of the municipal party secretary position, he is more pleased than concerned. At the same time, Gao Tianhe also knows that even if Wu Haifeng retires to the second line, his influence with the Zhou family will not be too weak. For now, he has no intention of encroaching on the Zhou family's assets and tends to ease the tension between the two sides.

  It is well known that Bai and Gao Xiaohu are both among the four young masters of Donghua, but they have never had any close relationship. However, through other people's efforts over the past half month, after playing three rounds of ball together, their relationship has at least appeared to be more familiar on the surface.

  It's well known that Bai Da Xin still looks down on Gao Xiao Hu, and when he heard his sister guess that he had gone to Mei Xi Town with Gao Xiao Hu to eat, drink, and gamble, he felt unhappy and said: "Where do you think they went? Gao Xiao Hu sent a car to block the gate of Mei Xi Steel Factory, wanting to continue monopolizing the steel sales of Mei Xi Steel. He didn't want Shen Hua to take over... Gao Xiao Hu had just rushed to Mei Xi Town in a rage to demand his due..."

  "What's wrong?" Zhou Yu suddenly couldn't imagine what kind of situation "what's wrong" should be.

  Zhou Yu knew that Shen Huan should have arrived in Meixi Town today, but he didn't expect him to provoke Gao Xiaohu on his first day. He thought to himself, "He's indeed a man who can't bear to be idle."

  Shen Hua initially hinted that he wanted to go to Mei Xi Town, and Zhou Yu and his second uncle Wu Haifeng thought about it carefully, but apart from the Mei Xi Steel Plant, they really couldn't think of anything else in Mei Xi Town that would be worth Shen Hua's while, or that of the forces backing him.

  For the transaction, Wu Haifeng still kept his promise, especially after knowing Shen Huai's relationship with Tan Qiping and Shen Huai's parents working in central ministries, he proactively included the personnel appointment of Meixi Steel Plant within the scope of the transaction.

  On the other hand, Wu Haifeng also hopes to see Shen Huai fight with Gao Tianhe's son Gao Xiaohu while competing for the benefits of Meixi Steel Plant, so as to make him and Zhou family safer.

  "Second Uncle, through Tao Ji Xing, directly transferred Shen Huan to Mei Xi Town, just to see if Shen Huan is a dragon that can cross the river. Who would have thought that on his first day in office, the play would be so exciting?" Zhou Zhi Bai said with schadenfreude, "Sister, I'm not convenient to go to Mei Xi Town to watch the show, why don't you find an excuse to join in the fun?"

  "What's the excitement about?" Zhou Yu said, but then thought that they knew Shen Hui and Tan Qiping had a direct relationship, and that Shen Hui's father worked in the central ministry, whereas Gao Tianhe and the others didn't know these things. If Gao Xiaohu came with an attitude and caused trouble, it was possible that he would directly order someone to make a move against Shen Hui.

  Thinking of this, Zhou Yu inexplicably started to worry about Shen Huai a little.

  Zhou Yu flipped through the documents on her desk, one of which was about the renovation of the lower reaches of Mei Creek River and had something to do with Mei Creek Town. She said to her younger brother Zhi Bai: "You tell Second Uncle about this, I'll go take a look at the excitement in Mei Creek Town..."

  Zhou Yu called the Meixi Town Government again and said, "I am Zhou Yu from Tangzhai District. I just read the file of the Meixi Town downstream renovation project. If Meixi Town can arrange someone to meet this afternoon, I'll come over to discuss it in person..."

  Put down the phone, Zhou Yu shouted at the driver to take her to Mei Xi Town.