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  Zhou Ming swaggered in, his eyes fixed on Shen Huai sitting by the door, until Xiong Wenbin turned around and glared at him. He was suddenly startled, and the slight intoxication also disappeared in an instant. Stammering, he asked: "Dad, dad, dad, how are you here?"

  "Why can't I come over?" Xiong Wenbin asked with a dark face.

  Shen Huai's face was cold as he stared at Zhou Ming who stood stiffly there.

  Since Tan Qiping's estrangement, Zhou Ming brought Su Kaiwen to Meixi Town for a demonstration, and Shen Huai also endured.

  Pan Shihua was transferred to Tangzhai District as Deputy Secretary and Acting District Head, Shen Hui endured it. He was just a small town party committee secretary, Tan Qiping didn't need to inform him in advance about the transfer of county-level cadres.

  Dai Lesheng and Dai Yi's matter, Shen Hua was also completely unaware beforehand; he seemed deaf and blind to the latest developments in the city, knowing nothing at all, and had no way to cope.

  But today Zhou Ming and Su Kaiwen heard that he didn't even want to walk a few steps, just wanted to call him over with a phone call, and even the PR manager of the British royal family looked down on him from the bottom of his heart, making Shen Huai's anger simmer.

  Since Zhou Ming and Su Kaiwen have already made public the fact that Tan Qiping has distanced himself from him, Shen Hua will continue to retreat without counterattacking, which will only make him more passive in Donghua.

  Zhou Yu knew that Xiong Wenbin's eldest son-in-law was serving as the director of the office in the Municipal Planning Commission, but he didn't expect it to be this person in front of him.

  She also turned around and was interested in hitting Xiong Wenbin's son-in-law. When she heard the words spoken by Xiong Wenbin's son-in-law when he entered the door, she also knew the truth:

  Originally, Xiong Wenbin's son-in-law and Tan Qiping's secretary were also having dinner at the Emperor. After learning that Shen Hua had arrived, not only did they not come out to greet him, but they were too lazy to walk a few steps and wanted to call Shen Hua over by phone instead.

  Shen Hua didn't go, but Xiong Wenbin's son-in-law actually came over to "make a big fuss"!

  Zhou Yu couldn't help but want to laugh:

  At first, in front of Ge Yongqiu, Shen Huai beat up Ge Yongqiu's younger brother without any scruples. At the gate of Meixi Steel Factory, he dared to knock over Gao Tianhe's son's car. Others thought he was fearless and relied on Chen Mingde and Tan Qiping to be reckless, but in fact, he was an arrogant and domineering person from the bone.

  Shen Huai called over Xiong Wenbin, and his previous attitude also showed that he dared to turn against Xiong Wenbin. How could he possibly swallow his anger and look at the face of Xiong Wenbin's son-in-law, a small role?

  It wasn't until then that Zhou Yu finally understood why Shen Huai had suddenly called for Xiong Wenbin to come over, and it turned out that he wanted Xiong Wenbin to teach his son-in-law a lesson.

  Giving his father-in-law a cold face and questioning him, Zhou Ming didn't answer for half a day.

  Yang Lili stood at the door, she followed Zhou Ming over, ostensibly to accompany Zhou Ming to toast, but actually wanted to see how Zhou Ming would put Shen Huai in his place. Unexpectedly, when opening the private room door, she encountered such a scene, standing there stupidly, for a moment not knowing what had happened.

  Shen Huai saw Yang Lili standing at the door and asked in a cold tone: "Manager Yang, you rushed over too. Are you here to fine me for drinking as well?"

  "I, we Wang Zong know that Secretary Shen is here, so I was asked to bring over two bottles of red wine." Yang Lili also felt the pressure brought by the extremely cold atmosphere in the private room, and her words were a bit knotted, stiffening there, not knowing whether to exit or enter.

  It took her a while to clear her mind, and then she thought of who the middle-aged man was that Zhou Ming called "Dad". She remembered Shen Hua mentioning the word "old bear" before, and she couldn't help but want to slap herself for not connecting it with Director Xiong Wenbin of the Municipal Committee Office.

  Shen Huai's eyes swept over the two bottles of wine in Yang Lili's hands, and Wang Ziliang seemed polite, but from the bottom of his heart, he didn't look up to these people at the table. He replied coldly: "Wang Ziliang has a big attitude; you go back and tell him that I can't afford his wine."

  Xiong Wenbin now understood, he knew why Shen Huan called him over and why he publicly exposed their estrangement in front of Zhou Yu and Zhou Zhi Bai.

  Xiong Wenbin looked at his son-in-law Zhou Ming's face, and he couldn't help but want to knock on his skull to wake him up: even if Tan Qiping was distant from Shen Hua again, how could you show off your attitude to him?

  Xiong Wenbin didn't want his son-in-law to lose face, so he said in a calm tone, "You go tell Kaiwen that I'm here having drinks with Shen Huai, and I won't go over there to greet him..."

  Zhou Ming did not expect Shen Huai to bring his father-in-law over to slap him in the face. He gave Shen Huai a resentful glance, but didn't dare say anything. He also had no idea what his father-in-law thought about his frequent visits to the Ying Huang Club, so he could only slink away and tell Su Kai about it first.

  Yang Lili had to follow Zhou Ming out, she couldn't understand why Tan Qiping's secretary Su Kaiwen and Zhou Ming both looked down on Shen Hua, what was Shen Hua capable of that he could get Xiong Wenbin to come out and slap Zhou Ming in the face?

  She remembered what Shen Huan said to her earlier: "Su Kaiwen and Wang Ziliang are not qualified to call him over to say hello!"

  Yang Lili sadly discovered that she was just a small crawling insect sandwiched between these big shots, who couldn't afford to offend anyone, and offending anyone could make her suffer for eternity.

  Yang Lili followed Zhou Ming back to Su Kuiwen's private room, and Su Kuiwen saw Zhou Ming walk out with a proud expression and return with his head hung low. He asked in surprise: "What happened? Didn't the wine get served properly? Won't Shen Huai give that much face?"

  Zhou Ming cried with a sad face and said: "Shen Huai has called my father-in-law over, they are drinking wine over there."

  "...Su Kai didn't expect Shen Huai to be so ruthless, directly calling over Xiong Wenbin. Hearing Zhou Ming say this, he also felt a bit foolish."

  Su Kaiwen no matter how to show off in front of Shen Hui, no matter how he thought of ways to squeeze out Shen Hui, did not want Tan Qiping to know about these things, after all, he did not want to leave a bad impression on Tan Qiping.

  Tan Qiping's relationship with his father Su Weijun is an alliance of political interests, and there is no dependency between them. Moreover, even if we don't consider his development with Tan Jingjing, since he chose the secretary route and wants to make progress in his official career, currently he can only rely on Tan Qiping's promotion.

  Su Kaiwen certainly didn't want today's events to be spread from Xiong Wenbin's mouth to Tan Qiping's ears, although he was very resentful of Shen Huai in his heart, he could only swallow his anger for now.

  Su Kai heard stood up, took a deep breath, and said to Wang Ziyang: "Since Lao Xiong has come over, I should also go over and say hello..."

  Wang Ziliang nodded and stood up, but Xiong Wenbin was not someone he could easily deal with. As soon as Tan Qiping arrived at Donghua, he reinstated Xiong Wenbin as his trusted aide; moreover, Xiong Wenbin was also nominally Su Kainan's direct superior, so even if Su Kainan's family background was strong, they couldn't afford to offend Xiong Wenbin.

  Yang Lili followed Su Kaiwen, Wang Ziliang and Zhou Ming to Shen Hua's private room, like a puppet on strings.

  Just as Shen Huai had just poured the wine, he saw Su Kuiwen and Zhou Ming push open the door and walk in again. It seemed like they had only just realized that Su Kuiwen was eating here too. In a flat tone, he said: "So Secretary Su is also having dinner here!" Seeing the middle-aged man standing next to Su Kuiwen, with a shaved head, who would rather others didn't know he was the one who controlled both the black and white worlds of Donghua, he thought to himself that this must be Wang Ziliang, the boss of Ying Huang.

  Su Kaiwen almost choked on her blood when she heard Shen Huai's words, and could only force a smile, saying: "Shen Huai, you're really something. Are you saying I'm not even worthy of being in the same room as Pengyue's Zhou Zong and Zhou Qu? I thought you were going to discuss some secret matters with them, so I didn't come over to disturb you. You won't blame me for being rude, will you?"

  Yang Lili did not expect Su Kainan to take the initiative to soften his tone, and when he saw Shen Hua still with a cold face, he thought that as Tan Qiping's special secretary, Su Kainan had already spoken softly, so Shen Hua shouldn't be too overbearing, right?

  Su Kaiwen looked at the private room with a large round table and, ignoring Shen Hua's cold face, smiled and said: "Don't mind if we also come over to join in the fun..." Seeing that Shen Hua didn't show any expression, she took the initiative to instruct Yang Lili standing behind her, "Help us add three chairs."

  The waiter quickly brought over three chairs. As the waiter was about to push the chairs up against the table, Shen Huan finally spoke up and said: "Adding two chairs is enough..."

  Yang Lili was stunned there, Su Kaiwen, Zhou Ming, and Wang Ziliang, three people, Shen Hua only allowed to add two chairs, who did he plan to drive out?

  Zhou Ming's face turned bright red, and he thought Shen Huai was scolding him. His face was embarrassed, his father-in-law was present, and he didn't dare say a word of dissent, so he could only stand aside with an awkward face, not even daring to storm out in anger.

  Su Kaiwen and Wang Ziliang didn't care about Zhou Ming's face, they just wanted to sit down. Shen Huai glanced at them, stared at Wang Ziliang's face, and asked: "Who are you? Who invited you to sit down? This is Director Zhou's seat, do you understand the rules?"

  Not only was Wang Ziyang's face burning there, but Su Kaiwen's face was also hot and swollen.

  Shen Huai's palm struck Wang Ziliang's face, and then slapped him again even harder.

  Yang Lili no longer had the courage to look at anyone's face, she only felt that the private room was extremely cold, and even standing for a while would be unbearable.

  Xiong Wenbin knew that Shen Huai had a fire in his heart, and he dared to crush Gao Xiaohu's car at the beginning, forcing Gao Tianhe to bow his head. Today, slapping Wang Ziliang's face and Su Kainan's face is not unexpected.

  Wang Ziliang may be able to get away with anything in Donghua City, but in Xiong Wenbin's eyes, he is just a small fry. However, he needs to prevent Su Kaiwen and Shen Huai from having a public falling out.

  In that case, Lezi would have made a big fuss, and it would be impossible for Tan Qiping to get away with it. It would also make Gao Tianhe, Wu Haifeng, and Dai Lesen, who is behind Gao Tianhe, stand by and watch Lezi.

  Tan Qiping may not punish Su Kaiwen and Shen Huai, but if he finds out that Zhou Ming was secretly adding fuel to the fire today, Zhou Ming will never be able to turn his life around.

  "Zhou Ming, sit down," Xiong Wenbin let out a long sigh in his heart, asking Zhou Ming to sit down, then turned his head and looked at Wang Ziliang, asking, "You are the boss of Ying Huang?"

  Wang Ziliang was furious and wanted to skin Shen Hua alive, but he didn't dare to be presumptuous in front of Xiong Wenbin.

  Xiong Wenbin in Donghua, is not just Tan Qiping's deputy secretary-general, his prestige in Donghua is even higher than that of an ordinary deputy mayor. Wang Ziliang hurriedly took out a business card and handed it over with both hands, saying: "Wang Ziliang, please take care of Secretary Xiong..."

  "Secretary Shen is the Party Secretary of Meixi Town and also the director of Meixi Steel Factory, someone that even Secretary Tan has to pay attention to," Xiong Wenbin said with a hint of warning in his tone, staring at Wang Ziliang. "It's rare for Secretary Shen to come over for a meal, and you didn't even come out to greet him, that's your fault; go apologize and offer him a toast."

  Wang Ziliang had been socializing for a long time, and although Su Kaiwen and Zhou Ming looked down on Shen Huan, he could still hear the meaning in Xiong Wenbin's words. Tan Qiping said "must pay attention", which means Tan Qiping "had to pay attention". He glanced at Shen Huan and thought: What is this guy's background?

  He is ruthless and lawless, but in the end, he can only be arrogant to ordinary people. Those despicable means of his, even if he had two more guts, he wouldn't dare use them on certain people.