There is no wall that doesn't let wind through, officials above the municipal committee level all live concentrated on the north shore of Cuizhu Lake, and any movement or visitors at Tan Qiping's home are not exactly top-secret.

  On the day that Su Weijun, the son of Provincial Committee Deputy Secretary-General Su Weijun, accompanied Tan Qiping's daughter to Donghua, Tan Qiping hosted a private dinner at home and invited Xiong Wenbin and his family, including his daughter and son-in-law, but no one else was present, nor was Shen Huai...

  This matter is enough to cause rich associations for people who are politically sensitive:

  No matter how important the work of a town party secretary is, it's impossible to be more important than attending the private dinner at the municipal party secretary's home. It was obvious that Shen Hua didn't receive an invitation from Tan Qiping that time.

  Shen Hua, in the case of the rolling car incident, borrowed Tan Qiping's power, who had not yet taken office at Donghua, to force Gao Tianhe to bow his head. After inspecting the Meixi Steel Plant, Tan Qiping talked with Tao Jixing, Secretary of Xiapu County Committee, hoping that Meixi Town could create a better situation, almost directly supporting Shen Hua - all of which undoubtedly make people affirm: although Shen Hua is in a township, he is actually Tan Qiping's trusted and loyal confidant.

  For Wu Haifeng, Gao Tianhe, Ge Yongqiu and others involved in the death of Chen Mingde, it is even clearer what role Shen Hua played in this matter and how important this matter was for Tan Qiping to become the secretary of the municipal party committee in Donghua. It can even be inferred that Tan Qiping's reuse of Xiong Wenbin after arriving in Donghua may have been due to Shen Hua's recommendation.

  Many people in the city had previously speculated that Tan Qiping would eventually transfer Shen Hua from the town to the municipal party committee as his assistant.

  Tan Qiping's first two or three months at Donghua, indeed as everyone guessed, mainly worked under the assistance of Xiong Wenbin. The entire Secretariat of the Municipal Party Committee was responsible for the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, but the three secretaries in the Secretariat only did some other unimportant auxiliary work. Among so many secretaries in the Municipal Party Committee Office, no one received special trust from Tan Qiping, and their status was not even as good as that of Huang Xi, a driver brought by Tan Qiping from the provincial capital.

  Su Ke's appearance shocked many people.

  Su Kuiwen is the son of Su Weijun, deputy secretary of the provincial party committee. He came to Donghua to work and it was obvious that he couldn't be an ordinary secretary in the municipal party committee office.

  Once Su Kainan became Tan Qiping's full-time secretary - the fact that Su Kainan accompanied Tan Qiping to various official events in recent days also confirmed this speculation - at least two or three years, Shen Huai will not be able to move from the countryside to Tan Qiping's side to take an important position.

  There were some secrets that outsiders found hard to know, but Zhou Yu was quite clear about them.

  The township party secretary is generally an administrative deputy director, and the municipal party committee secretary's full-time secretary also starts as an administrative deputy director. Between the two, there may not seem to be much difference in status. However, in the eyes of ordinary people, the township secretary is far from being mentioned in the same breath as the municipal party committee secretary.

  Zhou Yu thought Shen Huan was doing a great job in Meixi Town, so she didn't think he would particularly want to be Tan Qishu's secretary. But when she saw Shen Huan coming out of her uncle's house, she became uncertain again and couldn't guess what Shen Huan was thinking.

  Shen Huai didn't know what Zhou Yu was thinking, but looking at the little girl she was holding, he couldn't help but find her adorable. The big round eyes stared at him, and he couldn't resist leaning in to pinch her chubby cheeks. He picked her up in one swift motion: "I've never met District Chief Zhou's daughter before! She really does look just like her mother, what's her name? Come give your uncle a kiss..." As he leaned in again to force another kiss on Zhou Yu's daughter.

  "Don't kiss me!" Zhou Yu's daughter, who had just learned to speak, refused Shen Hua's kiss in a soft and cute voice, turning her head away and trying to struggle out of the man's arms.

  "Gu Qinqin, just give your uncle a kiss..." Zhou Yu saw that Shen Huai still had the mood to kiss his daughter and thought that this kid wasn't worth sympathizing with. No matter how bad he was, at such a young age, he was already the head of a town government, and when it came to prestige, he might not be inferior to her, the deputy district head.

  "I don't want to, Uncle's beard is really prickly; if you want a kiss, Mom, you give it to him." Zhou Yu's daughter thoughtlessly suggested her mom take her place.

  Looking at Zhou Yu's delicate and charming face, deep and enchanting eyes, Shen Huan thought he would like to take a bite of her face, but didn't know if she would slap him. Zhou Yu blushed, avoiding eye contact with Shen Huan, pinched her daughter's cheek and said: "This little mouth only knows how to talk nonsense."

  Shen Huai didn't care whether Zhou Yu's daughter was willing or not, and quickly went over to give her a kiss. Seeing her raise her hand to wipe away the lipstick on her face, he couldn't help but burst out laughing loudly.

  Zhou Yu took his daughter from Shen Huai's arms, and couldn't help but touch Shen Huai's side with his hand. He was still concerned about his body and asked, "Is your body really okay? Do you want to have a more thorough check?"

  "It's really nothing," Shen Huai said, "I had an IV drip yesterday, slept soundly and woke up feeling fine. Oh, Xiao Chu gave me your phone number, I just woke up a bit late, so I didn't call to tell you..."

  Zhou Yu nodded slightly awkwardly, indicating he understood.

  Shen Hua had worked with her at the municipal government, and her husband's situation as well as his increased sensitivity after the accident, Zhou Yu believed that Shen Hua knew something about it too, so he didn't call her last night, fearing to arouse her husband's unnecessary suspicion.

  Zhou Yu wouldn't tell Shen Huan that she had been worried about his situation all day yesterday, and seeing that his complexion looked much better than yesterday, she wasn't too worried; thinking carefully, Shen Huan at this moment looked healthier than when he was working in the municipal government, with bright eyes that seemed focused and full of energy.

  Zhou Yu thought to himself: Shen Huai has a face that little daughters-in-law and big girls like, why didn't he notice it before?

  Perhaps it was too long since he had been lonely, thinking of this, Zhou Yu felt a little warm, standing at the gate, chatting with Shen Hui about his work in Meixi Town, like an old friend who hadn't seen each other for a long time.

  "Bang bang......"

  Hearing the car horn sounding from behind, Zhou Yu was startled and turned his head to see that his younger brother Zhou Zhi Bai's Mercedes-Benz had somehow appeared from the north.

  The Mercedes-Benz car stopped beside the bushes, and Zhi Bai didn't get out of the car for half a day; Zhou Yu's head suddenly hurt twice, and he couldn't apologize to Shen Huai for his younger brother's rudeness.

  Shen Huai also recognized the black Mercedes as Zhou Zhi Bai's car. Seeing that Zhou Zhi Bai didn't intend to get out of the car and chat with him, he suspected that Zhou Zhi Bai still misunderstood his relationship with Zhou Yu.

  Men would be happy to spread some rumors with beautiful and unattainable women. Shen Huan's rudeness to Zhou Zhi Bai was just pretending not to know, smiling and bidding farewell to Zhou Yu: "Then I'll leave first, keep in touch when you're free..." Shen Huan's car was parked on the other side, so he turned around and left directly.

  Wait until Shen Hua walked away, Zhou Zhi Bai got off the car and stared at Shen Hua's figure that was about to disappear around the corner. Frowning, he said to his sister: "You haven't been working in the municipal government for a long time, if Qingqing's dad sees you, how will you explain why you're chatting so enthusiastically with your former colleagues?"

  "Are you serious? I don't think so," Zhou Yu retorted.

  "My car was parked on the corner for two or three minutes," Zhou Zhi Bai said, carrying his niece Qingqing over. "What did this person come to Er Shu for? Does he still want to get a official position?"

  Zhou Yu was too lazy to bother with his brother, so he directly pushed the door and entered the yard. After a while, Wu Haifeng returned from visiting the company and saw Zhou Yu and Zhou Zhi Bai's younger brother sitting in his living room, still ignoring each other. He asked: "It's New Year's Day, what are you doing at my house?"

  "Qingqiang is coming to ask for hongbao money..." Zhou Yu said.

  "You're not here for the New Year's money too, are you?" Wu Haifeng asked his nephew Zhou Zhi Bai with a smile. "What's going on, are you having a falling out with Zhou Yu?"

  Zhou Zhi naturally wouldn't tell the elders about his sister's inexplicable behavior, finding a young man at the municipal government office. He said: "Speaking of company matters, the city has started to build a dock in Ka Peng Yue, and reported it to the city, but Liang Xiaolin is holding up the approval..."

  " Peng Yue is a private enterprise, now thinking of buying land to build a dock, the pace is a bit big, Liang Xiaolin is also hesitant not to approve... Wu Haifeng retired as the director of the People's Congress, his temper has actually improved. He asked Zhou Zhi and Zhou Yu to go to the study with him to talk, knowing that the situation has changed, the Zhou family should seek development, and they should change their attitude too. Still worried that Zhi Bai is too impulsive."

  "I also know," Zhou Zhibai let out a light sigh and said, "Gu Tong has found another supplier of refractory materials for the municipal steel plant, seemingly a connection from the province. Not sure if it's related to Gao Xiaohu being active in the provincial city for some time before, but Pengyue's business is going to be cut off..."

  The city steel plant is mainly a blast furnace for smelting steel, and the raw material is iron ore. However, electric furnace steel with scrap steel as fuel also accounts for one-third of the total output of steel and steel materials, which is roughly equivalent to the annual business volume of Pengyue Trading Co., Ltd. in the past, with a transaction value of RMB 80 million, and it is also the main source of profit for Pengyue Trading Co., Ltd.

  It is well known that the Baiyuan plan will increase Peng Yue's trade volume to 200 million this year, and the municipal steel plant will account for half of it. If the business of the municipal steel plant shrinks greatly or even loses all due to being squeezed by other related enterprises, it will be a huge blow to Peng Yue Trade.

  Wu Haifeng also knew that some things were the inevitable changes brought about by his no longer serving as municipal party secretary, and there would be a fierce struggle between Gao Tianhe and Tan Qiping.

  In the Meixi Steel Mill incident, Gao Tianhe was forced to bow his head to Shen Huai, and then turned to the province to find resources that could counter Tan Qiping, which was also his inevitable choice.

  In the province, there are some people who will not be moved by a profit of one or two million for Gaotian River, but if it is a business with an annual turnover of nearly 100 million and a possible profit of 20 million or even higher, how many people can resist the temptation?

  Wu Haifeng picked up the desk calendar and pressed a list on it. Although he was not at home in the morning, whoever came to visit and give gifts, he asked his wife to write them down on the list.

  Wu Haifeng wanted to know how much his position at Donghua had been shaken up, and this list made it clear at a glance...

  "Huh? How did he come to pay New Year's greetings?" Wu Haifeng saw a person's name staring at him, quite surprised.