Zhou Yu and her younger brother Zhou Zhi Bai left the British royal family and returned directly to the Peng Yue Golf Practice Court. Her father, Zhou Yanbin, second uncle Wu Haifeng, and cousin Wu Min were still having dinner at Peng Yue.

  Zhou Yu recounted every detail of what had happened with Ying Huang to his father and second uncle.

  Wu Haifeng was stunned for half a day and didn't say a word.

  "Is Shen Hua doing something, knowing that there is no way to get Tan Qiping's forgiveness, so he's giving up? Although my sister kept saying that she had nothing to do with Shen Hua along the way, Zhou Zhibai didn't like Shen Hua from the bottom of her heart and suspected his motives, not having anything good to say."

  "The achievements of Meixi Steel Plant, whether true or false, you should be clearer than us," Wu Haifeng furrowed his brow, and many places he couldn't figure out, just following the thinking to infer, "If the achievements of Meixi Steel Plant are not watered down, if Shen Huai really has the determination to make Meixi Steel Plant's electric furnace steel reach 500,000 tons in three years, Zhi Bai, what choice would you make?"

  "If that's the case, I can only pinch my nose and cooperate with him. As long as we take on half of the Meixi Steel Plant's furnace material business, Pengyue will also have a good development." Zhou Zhibai said helplessly.

  "This Shen Hua, ambitious indeed." Zhou Yanbin remained silent for half a day before inserting this sentence.

  "Isn't he afraid of offending Tan Qiping? Without Tan Qiping's support, what ability does he have to make Meixi Steel Factory as big as the municipal steel factory?" Zhou Zhibai asked doubtfully.

  "If Tan Qiping neither supports nor opposes him, who should he cooperate with to make Meixi Steel Factory bigger?" Wu Haifeng asked.

  "How could Tan Qiping not support him, yet not oppose him either?" Zhou Zhi Bai was momentarily stunned. As the municipal party secretary, how could Tan Qiping tolerate a small fry in his circle stabbing him in the back?

  "This is what Shen Hua deliberately did for you to see today," said Wu Haifeng, "Shen Hua almost fell out with Xiong Wenbin and Su Kainan today. If Tan Qiping still treats him coldly after a while, then it's possible that the previous guess was correct..."

  Zhou Yu remained silent and didn't speak, while Tan Qiping, as the core figure in their circle, would not normally tolerate someone under him causing a scene. If Shen Huai wasn't being impulsive today, she believed that Shen Huai shouldn't be just showing off his power, which meant that Shen Huai had the confidence to make Tan Qiping tolerate his "unbridled behavior" at Donghua.

  "Look, there will be results in two days," Zhou Yanbin sighed lightly, sat down, lit a cigarette and said, "I didn't expect that as soon as I came back, the situation would change so strangely. It seems that I am really old..."

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  Zhou Ming didn't have the face to go, and was also afraid that Su Kai would hear about it and have an opinion, so in the end he didn't go to apologize to Shen Huai again; however, the next day Xiong Danni personally ran to Shen Huai's office to apologize.

  "It's no big deal," Shen Huan said with a smile, as if he had slept off the unpleasantness of yesterday and forgotten all about it. "If anyone should be making a formal apology, it should be me to Zhou Ming and your dad. I was feeling a bit unwell in my heart yesterday because of something else, and after drinking some wine, I may not have been careful with my words. You go back and tell Zhou Ming and your dad that they shouldn't take it to heart..."

  Xiong Danni sat uneasily on the soft sofa, saying: "And there's also Penghai Trading's shares. I want to withdraw them. I haven't told Haipeng about this yet, but I thought of telling you first..."

  Shen Huai glanced at Xiong Danni, her beautiful face now expressionless. She let out a soft sigh, put down the documents in her hand and said: "I have no opinion about you, Zhou Ming or Lao Xiong. I also know that Zhou Ming is caught between Su Kainan and has a hard time. You go back and tell Zhou Ming that my attitude yesterday was for Su Kainan's benefit. If he still can't let it go, I'll invite him out for drinks another day to apologize. Don't mention the withdrawal of shares again, or we'll really fall out..."

  Shen Huai's tone was unquestionable, as if he really didn't put yesterday's matter in his heart, Xiong Danni hesitated; after all, Penghai Trading's shares could bring her family tens of millions of dividends every year, who can easily give up?

  Xiong Danni hesitated for a moment, and her determination to withdraw her shares wavered. She mumbled a few words to Shen Huai and didn't realize until they left the town government that her dad had told her to be firm in withdrawing her shares.

  Standing on the street, without hurrying back to the company, I found a public phone and dialed her father's number, telling him about this matter.

  Xiong Wenbin heard his eldest daughter say this on the phone, let out a light sigh and said: "I'll call Shen Huan right away, you go back to find him in five minutes..."

  Xiong Danni went back to talk about withdrawing shares, Shen Huai didn't persuade her anymore and let Xiong Danni go directly to Yang Haipeng to discuss this matter.

  Xiong Danni spent the whole day running back and forth between the town government, Penghai Trading, and the credit union. By dusk, she had finally settled the withdrawal of shares and her resignation from Penghai Trading. She took the bus home, where the sky was already dark. Zhou Ming also returned home from work and sat in his study smoking.

  "How is it?" Zhou Ming asked.

  Xiong Danni told her husband about what happened today: "At first, Shen Hui didn't agree to let me withdraw my shares. Later, Dad called and he didn't say anything; it seemed like he insisted on Dad making that call..."

  "Of course, whether Dad makes this call or not makes a big difference," Zhou Ming said. "If Dad doesn't make the call, it can be said that he is unaware of the matter; if Dad makes the call, the situation is different..."

  "Unbelievable, is his city so deep?" Xiong Danni thought that if Shen Huai was really like this, it would make people feel a little cold.

  "You think Shen Huan is a good guy," Zhou Ming said indignantly. "What's on his mind, didn't your dad say it all yesterday?"

  Xiong Danni didn't say anything, but in her heart she regretted that things had turned out this way.

  "Withdrawal of shares and then withdrawal again, how are the previous dividends calculated? Is Yang Haipeng being deceitful?" Zhou Ming asked.

  "This isn't the case," Xiong Danni said, "The credit union people came to the company today too. The funds for withdrawing shares will be directly returned to the credit union. After calculating it, there are still over 700,000 yuan in dividends that can be received. You're also to blame, if you hadn't had a falling out with Shen Hua, by the end of the year, at least another million or so in dividends could have been divided. No matter how wrong Shen Hua was, we were able to get over 700,000 yuan from Penghai..."

  "You're really ignorant, 700,000 yuan is nothing," Zhou Ming threw a document on the desk in front of his wife and said, "Look at this. Shen Hua pretended to be very innocent, as if I was the one who wronged him. If he's really been wronged, why didn't he give you any hint about it?"

  Xiong Danni picked up the document in confusion, which was as thick as a book and heavy to hold. Upon opening it, she saw the words "Donghua City Meixi Steel Plant Equity Restructuring Plan" written on the first page. She flipped through several pages before asking in surprise, "How did you bring this document home?"

  "Mei Creek town sent the proposal book to the Planning Commission this morning, and it was originally intended for Director Yuan to review first. However, Director Yuan has been leading a team to inspect Guangnan for the past two days, so the proposal book can only be temporarily placed with me," said Zhou Ming. "This time, Mei Creek Steel Factory is being restructured, and Zhao Dong will directly take 2% of the shares. Such a good thing, did Shen Hua think of you? You still feel sorry for him? Your thoughts are really too simple."

  Xiong Danni was puzzled in her heart, holding the plan book to continue reading. At this time, the phone in the living room rang, Zhou Ming ran over to answer it, said a few "good", and then ran back, took the file away, saying: "We go to dad's place for dinner..."

  "What's wrong?" said Xiong Danni.

  "I just called Dad and told him about this matter. At first, he didn't say anything, but now he's calling back saying that he wants to see the document." Zhou Ming said.

  Katy didn't care about her exhaustion after a busy day and rushed with Zhou Ming to her father's place.

  Xiong Wenbin and his daughter-in-law brought over some documents, standing at the door, he said to his daughter Danni: "You stay home and have dinner with your mom..."

  "Where are you going?" asked Teddy.

  "Director Tan knows that Meixi Steel Factory is going to be restructured, and he wants to see the proposal," Xiong Wenbin said to Zhou Ming. "You bring the proposal with you, and come with me."

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  Chu got into the car and sat down, unable to help but ask his father-in-law, "Dad, Secretary Tan wants to understand the reform plan, why not call Shen Hua over?"

  Xiong Wenbin said: "Later on, in front of Secretary Tan, regarding the restructuring plan of Meixi Steel Plant, you don't have to express your opinion..."

  "I know." Zhou Ming nodded. Although Xiong Wenbin threatened to withdraw his promotion yesterday, Zhou Ming still had some worries, but now he could go with Tan Qiping and knew that his father-in-law would not be too harsh on him. He also knew that his wealth and glory were in his father-in-law's hands, and he couldn't afford to be careless.

  Xiong Wenbin didn't say much more and instead seized the time on the car to roughly browse through the plan book.

  Rushing to the South Garden, Tan Qiping was receiving several Hong Kong investors in the banquet hall. Xiong Wenbin told Zhou Ming to wait at Building No. 1, and he rushed to the banquet hall to attend the dinner party. It wasn't until then that Zhou Ming realized his father-in-law had come down from the banquet specifically to find him and get the proposal book.

  Zhou Ming waited for half an hour in the small living room on the first floor before he saw his father-in-law, Tan Qiping and Su Kaiwen walking over.

  Tan Qiping walked while flipping through the reform plan book, his eyebrows slightly furrowed. He saw Zhou Ming nod slightly as a greeting and sat down on the sofa, reading the plan book from start to finish.

  Tan Qiping thought that Xiong Wenbin had not seen the plan book, so he threw the file over and said: "Take a look..." Then he got up and stood by the window, gazing out at the Cuihu Lake while smoking.

  Zhou Ming's heart became uneasy, unable to understand Tan Qiping's thoughts. Su Kaiwen also leaned over to look at the plan book, no one spoke to him, he could only sit upright on the edge of the sofa.

  Tan Qiping did not directly look for Shen Huai, but instead had him bring over the plan book, indicating that Tan Qiping was indeed somewhat estranged from Shen Huai. At the same time, it also shows that even though Tan Qiping was estranged from Shen Huai, he still cared about Shen Huai's situation in Meixi Town, otherwise he wouldn't have specifically had him send over the equity reform book of Meixi Steel Factory overnight.