Chapter 12 of Volume 1: Why Not Break the Cauldron and Sink the Boat?

  Everyone's red tickets are very powerful, with over 6,000 votes every day. Thank you for your support, the next chapter will be uploaded around midnight.

  Before long, there was a sound of cars driving from the other side of Building 6.

  Shen Hua drove to the east side of the lake bank's water pine forest and saw two black Nissan cars coming over, with "Hua A" license plates, led by a police car from Donghua City Bureau in front, stopping at the parking lot in front of Building 6.

  Chen Mingde is a provincial official. When such an incident occurs, it is natural for the province to send personnel and Chen Mingde's family members to rush over immediately after Donghua handles the aftermath.

  The highway between Donghua and the provincial capital is still under construction, taking the provincial road requires a detour of 240-250 kilometers, being able to arrive at Donghua at this time shows that the province received the news and reacted extremely quickly.

  Right after that, Shen Hua saw Mayor Gao Tianhe's black Crown also following behind, coincidentally entering the Nanyuan with the people from the province in a staggered manner, making one suspect whether Gao Tianhe had been waiting outside the gate all along.

  Gao Tianhe, with a dark face and medium build, wearing a deep blue suit, got out of the car first and walked to the front of the first Nissan car. He enthusiastically helped open the door and welcomed a middle-aged man with a wide face and a broken left eyebrow who came down from the car.

  Shen Huai thought: When I called Second Uncle on the phone, someone mentioned "Director Tan" in the conversation. It should be this person, right?

  It's unclear whether Erbo mentioned himself when he was on the phone with Director Tan, but the opportunity to turn things around came in an instant. Wu Haifeng emerged from the corridor and Shen Huai walked quickly over from the lake shore...

  At this time, Wu Haifeng was dissatisfied with Gao Tianhe's delay in showing up. Shen Hua knew that his only chance was to break through before Gao Tianhe and Wu Haifeng reached a tacit understanding, disrupt their formation, make the two old dogs suspect each other, and bite each other...

  Before taking this step, Shen Hua had considered the consequences of thoroughly offending Gao Tianhe and Wu Haifeng.

  It started with some hesitation, but then couldn't help but laugh at myself.

  In the past, he was a nobody in the municipal steel plant who could be trampled on by anyone. Let alone Wu Haifeng and Gao Tianhe, those two tigers sitting on the mountain, even Ge Yongqiu and Peng Yongci, those snakes at the head of the place, he couldn't afford to offend half of them.

  Shen Huai clearly understood the weight of people like Gao Tianhe and Ge Yongqiu in Donghua, and even if he had risked himself before, he couldn't ignore the possibility that his family would suffer retaliation afterwards.

  Who am I now?

  Although he was betrayed and abandoned by his family, and was banished from returning to Yanjing, he was still a member of the Song family after all.

  He himself beat his uncle in the steel plant in front of Ge Yongqiu, and he was afraid that he would offend Gao Tianhe and Ge Yongqiu even more.

  He was in Donghua, and could be considered a carefree bachelor. As the saying goes, "a barefooted person is not afraid of one who wears shoes." What's to fear from Gao Tianhe and Ge Yongqiu going to take revenge on the Song family?

  Gao Tianhe forced Wu Haifeng to come out, but the timing of his appearance was also very appropriate. Just as the deputy head of the provincial organization department, who had been sent by the provincial party committee and government to Donghua, saw him arriving at the Nanyuan Hotel, before he had met with Secretary Wu Haifeng of the municipal party committee.

  Gao Tianhe's face was solemn as he grasped the hand of Tan Qiping, Deputy Director of the Provincial Party Committee Organization Department. "Director Tan," he said, "I and Hai Feng are deeply grieved by this incident; however, there is a very important investment promotion activity in the city that I couldn't leave until now, and I feel guilty towards Mingde..."

  In just a few words, remove yourself from this matter first.

  Needless to say, Gao Tianhe didn't say much more, he just tightly grasped Tan Qiping's hand, revealing the pain in his heart.

  Tan Qiping's face was calm, but his heart was not calm.

  Donghua reported the news of Chen Mingde's death in a vague manner. The provincial committee realized that the nature of the matter might be somewhat serious, and only then hastily dispatched him to accompany Chen Mingde's family members to come to Donghua to handle the aftermath.

  On the way to Donghua, Wu Haifeng, secretary of the Donghua Municipal Party Committee, further reported the details of the rescue to the province - dying suddenly in a hotel room with no clothes on, making people think of that kind of thing, and Tan Qiping felt deeply on the road The complexity of things...

  Chen Mingde, as a cadre sent by the provincial party committee and government to Donghua, was involved in an improper relationship and died suddenly, which would put the province in a very passive position.

  Of course, as Chen Mingde rose to prominence in the political arena as Song Huas secretary, he was always seen as an important branch of the Song faction in Jiangsu Province. If he is involved in such a malicious and unclear event, the impact on the Song family will be huge.

  Tan Qiping's father and Song Huajun, the old master of the Song family, were old comrades-in-arms for many years.

  Although Tan's father had been working in Guangnan Province for a long time after liberation, he was affected in the 1970s and died of illness early on. The connection between the Tan family and the Song family is not so close, but there are some emotional ties between the two families.

  Tan Qiping had a phone call with Song Jiaoren on the way, exchanging opinions, but both of them felt unusually tricky about this matter and didn't have a good strategy, they could only take it one step at a time.

  Tan Qiping stood in front of the car door, waiting for Wu Haifeng to come down the stairs and shake hands. He seemed to be chatting with Gao Tianhe, but was secretly pondering Gao Tianhe's words: if Gao Tianhe could get rid of him cleanly, then what came next would only require convincing Wu Haifeng?

  Wu Haifeng heard Gao Tianhe's words, although he was dissatisfied in his heart, but he didn't think about it elsewhere. He even hadn't realized that Ge Yongqiu and Peng Yong had done many things behind the scenes, rather than simply circling around the peach-colored incident.

  Comrade Mingde returned to the Nanyuan Hotel for a rest at noon and had specifically instructed the staff on duty not to disturb him. It wasn't until 2 pm that afternoon, when Comrade Mingde hadn't emerged from his room, that the hotel went upstairs to knock on the door. Unfortunately, by the time the hotel discovered this, it was too late and the opportunity for rescue had been missed...

  Tan Qiping is the representative of the provincial government who accompanied Chen Mingde's family to Donghua to handle the aftermath. Gao Tianhe has excluded himself, so Wu Haifeng can only personally introduce Tan Qiping to Chen Mingde's illness and rescue situation.

  Wu Haifeng chose his words carefully, not wanting to say a single extra word. Pointing to Peng Yong and others behind him, he said to Tan Qiping: "Peng Yong is the Deputy Secretary-General of the Donghua Municipal Government and also the manager of the Nanyuan Hotel. Comrade Mingde unfortunately passed away due to illness, and it was Peng Yong who discovered it first. He participated in the entire rescue process and is most familiar with the situation. As for the specific details, let him report to Minister Tan..."

  From Wu Haifeng's unemotional introduction, Tan Qiping couldn't hear much news, and it was even briefer than Wu Haifeng's report to the provincial party committee over the phone.

  After all, Chen Mingde's wife was by his side, and the fact that Chen Mingde died suddenly in the room naked should be discovered by her after she went upstairs to see Chen Mingde's body.

  When Tan Qiping came out of the province, he was also in the car and did not tell his lover about Chen Mingde's specific situation before and after his death.

  Tan Qiping only felt that this approach was somewhat flawed: if Chen Mingde's lover, after going upstairs and seeing the naked corpse, lost control of her emotions, it would only make the province more passive in this matter.

  Tan Qiping knew it was impolite not to be the first to view Chen Mingde's body, but he could only force himself to say: "Then let Manager Peng introduce the specific situation first..." Thinking of Chen Mingde's loved one, he learned about the specific situation through someone else's introduction, and the impact should be smaller than directly seeing the naked corpse.

  Everyone leaned sideways, ready to let Tan Qiping and Chen Mingde's loved ones go upstairs first, when they heard someone shouting loudly from behind: "Aunt Tao, Aunt Tao..."

  Tan Qiping turned around to look, seeing a young man walking quickly towards him. At the same time, he also noticed that Wu Haifeng, the secretary of Donghua Municipal Party Committee, subconsciously frowned when he saw the youth.

  "Secretary Shen, Secretary Wu told you to go back and rest, what are you doing coming back here again?" Ge Yongqiu asked, seeing Shen Hua return once more, one foot on the step.

  Shen Huai ignored Ge Yongqiu and looked at Tan Qiping, thinking that he must be the "Director Tan" he had heard from his second uncle's phone call - before, he really didn't know much about the personnel relationships in the province, but for this kind of thing, the province would only send a high-ranking official to handle it in Donghua, and Shen Huai wasn't afraid of recognizing the wrong person.

  Shen Hua looked at Tan Qiping, then turned to look at Wu Haifeng and said: "Although my left shoulder was injured, how can I rest assured with Mayor Chen's sudden death from illness?"

  Chen Mingde's lover was suddenly struck by bad news, and was also heartbroken. She fainted several times on the bus and was so weak that she could hardly speak. Although she had a very poor impression of Shen Huai, this young man, at this time Shen Huai was the only person she knew in Donghua, and the only one she could slightly rely on. Turning around to come down the stairs, he asked in a hoarse voice: "Little Shen, what happened to Old Chen?"

  Shen Huai ignored him and continued, "I'm so regretful now: if only I had stayed by Mayor Chen's side when he asked me to take care of myself, if only I had taken good care of him, reminded him not to take a cold shower on a chilly day, reminded the hotel to provide hot water in time... if only I had been with him when his heart condition acted up and discovered it in time, none of this would have happened! I've let Mayor Chen down, I've let Aunt Tao down when she entrusted me before leaving the provincial city!"

  Shen Huai almost convinced himself when he said these words, tears and snot streaming down his face without regard for appearances, looking like he was consumed by grief and self-reproach, as if he would rather die in Chen Mingde's place.

  Shen Hua said these words seemingly unintentionally, but his words were like a bolt of lightning that pierced into the hearts of everyone.

  "Are you Shen Hua?" Tan Qiping was not a simple person, from Shen Hua's brief words, he quickly understood another explanation for Chen Mingde's death: Chen Mingde took a cold shower at noon and died of heart disease due to the stimulation.

  This information is too crucial, this is almost the only chance for Tan Qiping to take the initiative at this time.

  Tan Qiping also hesitated, and when Song Qiaosheng mentioned his nephew over the phone, he seemed to be unreliable. But at this time, Tan couldn't care too much about it, so he dispersed the crowd, walked down the steps, stretched out his hand and pressed it on Shen Huai's shoulder, asking: "When Mayor Chen Mingde had a heart attack, why weren't you by his side?"

  Wu Haifeng saw Shen Huai rush out, frowning and about to erupt, but the subsequent development of the situation was like two lightning bolts striking his heart:

  One: Shen Huai's words were clear and concise, Chen Mingde died suddenly from a heart attack caused by taking a cold shower.

  Secondly, Tan Qiping's actions indicate that he had a tacit understanding with Shen Hua.