The mobile phone in his pocket rang again, Shen Huan took out the phone and looked at the number, smiled: "Speak of Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrives..." He showed Zhao Dong and Yang Haipeng that it was a call from Xiong Wenbin's family.

  Zhao Dong thought: Maybe it was Xiong Daling who called back to say that she would be staying in Meixi Town, so Xiong Wenbin would take the initiative to make this call? Although he didn't want any discord between Lao Xiong and Shen Huai from the bottom of his heart, some things were beyond their control.

  Shen Huai answered the phone and said, "It's so late, Old Bear has just returned home? I have no way to entertain Kaiwen and Jingjing. I just received a snow prevention notice from the county government, and I'm at the government office now. Haipeng told me that the snow is heavy, and Kaiwen and the others will stay overnight. I'll go over there later..."

  Shen Hua didn't want to seem distant, so as soon as he answered the phone, he proactively said a lot.

  Xiong Wenbin was silent for a while on the other end of the phone, then said: "Su Kainian is Secretary Su's son, and he will temporarily come to Donghua first. The organizational relationship may not be transferred until after the new year... Secretary Tan also wants Su Kainian to take a few more days off in Donghua..."

  Sui Wei Jun!

  A name flashed through Shen Huai's mind.

  Su Weijun, Deputy Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee and Director of the Provincial Party Committee Office.

  Shen Huai only then suddenly understood why Su Kuiwen had such great hostility towards him when he heard Xiong Wenbin mention Su Kuiwen's family background.

  His father Su Wei Jun rose through the ranks as a secretary.

  Shen Huai spent some time sorting out the network of officials in Huaihai Province, although not very thoroughly, but did not miss Su Weijun, the most famous secretary figure in Huaihai Province.

  When Provincial Party Committee Secretary Tao served as Vice Mayor of Pingjiang City, Su Wei Jun began serving as his secretary; with the promotion of Provincial Party Committee Secretary Tao, Su Wei Jun also changed positions between Municipal Government Secretary, Secretary of the First Division, Deputy Director of the Municipal Government Office, Deputy Secretary-General, Director, Deputy Secretary-General of the Municipal Party Committee, Deputy Secretary-General of the Provincial Government Office, and Deputy Secretary-General of the Provincial Party Committee.

  Su Wei's only two years not doing secretary work was also the two years he spent as municipal party committee secretary in Songping City. Because Songping City organized flood prevention ineffectively during his term, resulting in unnecessary casualties, he was transferred back to the province.

  Although Provincial Party Committee Secretary Tao is approaching retirement age, before stepping down, Secretary Tao should still be able to promote Su Wei further.

  Tan Qiping's previous relationship with Su Wei was unknown to Shen Hua, but it shouldn't be too bad, otherwise there wouldn't be such a close relationship between Su Kaiwen and Tan Jingjing; at this time, Tan Qiping needs more support from the province, so he will naturally form a closer alliance with Su Wei.

  Su Wei Jun arranged for his son to take the secretary route, which was not unexpected at all; however, leaving his son directly in the province was not very appropriate, and letting him out to serve as Tan Qiping's secretary was a fairly high starting point.

  Tan Qiping's full-time secretary started as a regular clerk; after following Tan Qiping for five or six years, it is not hard to imagine that Su Kaiwen was promoted to a regular deputy director.

  Tan Qiping was not yet fifty years old and had enough resources to develop in the province; Su Kaiwen followed the trend of rising with the tide, waiting until he became a deputy hall before going down to the local level, which was already an unattainable height for ordinary officials.

  However, it is clear that this route is very good, but usually only one person can take it. Su Kai heard that even if he had Laozi as a backing, he was afraid that there would be people with stronger backgrounds than him competing for Tan Qiping's secretary route, and Shen Huai looked like a threat to him from any aspect.

  Shen Huai could now confirm that Tan Qiping knew he was the abandoned son of the Song family. In front of Tan Qiping, he was far inferior to Su Kainan, who had an advantage. After all, Su Kainan's father, Su Weijun, could bring the most direct alliance benefits to Tan Qiping in the province.

  Perhaps Tan Qiping would also be happy to facilitate a relationship between Su Kaiwen and his daughter?

  Shen Huai didn't say much to Xiong Wenbin on the phone either, and he also knew that Xiong Wenbin made this call to make up for something.

  Shen Huai just smiled at this:

  Xiong Wenbin has been through ups and downs in his career over the years, becoming worldly-wise and yielding to reality.

  Clarify all sorts of relationships here, Shen Huai still can't help but scold in his heart: thought that his own family was a rich second generation, didn't expect to come across a high-rich-handsome...

  Shen Huai told Zhao Dong to return to the dormitory early and accompany Xiao Mingxia. On a snowy night like this, it's not good to leave his fiancée in the cold dormitory either. He also asked Yang Haipeng to go and deal with Su Kainan and Zhou Ming, no matter what, the surface relationship must be maintained well - Shen Huai was not in the mood to deal with Su Kainan, he wanted to hurry back to the town government, before this snow disaster came, he still couldn't let his guard down.

  The county has also uniformly deployed disaster prevention and relief work, and Meixi Town has done a good job in advance, but some situations still need to be reported personally by the head of the town.

  Shen Huai rushed to the government, except for Li Feng and Huang Xinliang who were on duty, He Qing She, Guo Quan, Chu Qiang and others, after seeing that the county had uniformly deployed disaster prevention work, also returned to the town to wait for orders.

  After understanding the latest situation of each village committee and two residential committees, Shen Hua still couldn't put his mind at ease after discussing with He Qing She and Li Feng; the heavy snow blocked the road, and the villages below were temporarily neglected, but the two residential committees in the town area still needed to be inspected for dangers.

  Shen Huai first took Huang Xinliang and Chu Qiang to the town hospital, and also asked Li Feng to mobilize all the people from the town's joint defense team, except for the police station's duty officer.

  No collapse occurred, but two villagers who rode bicycles on the night road fell and broke their bones. They were sent to the town hospital for treatment overnight. The conditions of the town hospital are poor, but there is no way to send them to the city in this weather.

  In addition, before nightfall, two residential committees in the town also temporarily relocated more than a dozen households from dangerous houses to the town hospital.

  The housing conditions of urban residents are actually worse than those in rural areas.

  Villagers' house rebuilding plans are still relatively relaxed, with more spacious homesteads. In recent years, the proportion of newly rebuilt houses has been high. On the other hand, the old houses in the town area have a particularly high proportion, and large areas of residential areas are like shantytowns, which are more likely to cause problems.

  The small clinic was momentarily noisy, with children running around in the yard throwing snowballs.

  Hurry Chen Dan to pick up Little Li, Chen Tong also didn't know when he left the dormitory, or went out with Yun to talk about love. Little Li was unwilling to leave, seeing Shen Hua come in, ran over and asked: "Does the town need volunteers? Can I stay and be a volunteer?"

  "Okay," Shen Huai said, standing under the eaves and shaking off the snowflakes on his body. Seeing Xiao Li's face turn red from the cold, and knowing that the town hospital didn't have any heating facilities, and the temperature would drop even lower at midnight, Shen Huai took off his down jacket and gave it to her to wear. "Be careful not to make yourself sick, or we'll have to find another volunteer to take care of you tomorrow," he said to Chen Dan and Chen Tong. "If everything is fine at the hotel, why don't you two stay here as volunteers too?"

  The town hospital has six inpatient rooms, except for one room that needs to accommodate two fracture patients and their families, and another room is reserved for new injuries. Old Man Kou and more than a dozen other households temporarily squeezed into the remaining four inpatient rooms.

  Chen Dan and Chen Tong also followed Shen Hua to patrol the streets and alleys, checking on the snow conditions. The joint defense team had been summoned before nightfall and was now mobilized to conduct in-depth inspections of the streets and alleys for any hazards.

  After midnight, the snowfall grew heavier. Shen Huai stood with Li Feng, Huang Xinliang and Chu Qiang at the entrance of an alley, smoking and taking a break from the wind. Chen Tong also wanted to come over to smoke, but was pulled away by his sister.

  Kuo Ch'üan-shen came running over, one foot lightly following the other: "In Pei-chü-erh-tzu, two houses have collapsed right in front of T'ung-t'ang River. One family has been temporarily evacuated; another says it's nothing and refuses to move. The residents' committee didn't insist on doing any work, possibly three people were crushed inside..."

  “……” Shen Huai wanted to scold his mother, but didn't know who to scold, so he stuffed the half-smoked cigarette into a snow pile and ran towards Tongtang River, saying to Huang Xinliang and Li Feng as he ran, "I'm going with Old Guo to Beiju No. 2 team to organize people to dismantle houses and rescue those trapped. You two immediately return to town: first, dispatch all idle personnel to inspect for hazards, second, use loudspeakers to wake up everyone in town. Before the house collapses, there will be warning signs; if people are awake and see that something is wrong with the house, they can escape in time...”

  Li Feng did not expect the situation to be more severe than he had imagined, and he ran to the town government with Huang Xinliang through the snow.

  Chen Dan couldn't keep up with Shen Huai's pace and fell, getting covered in snow. She followed him for half the night, exhausted.

  Shen Huai walked over to help her up, brushing the snow off her body. He told her and Chen Tong, "You and Chen Tong go to the health clinic to find He Qing She, have him move all the people to the town's small houses. The houses there are more solid, we need to empty out the hospital rooms, tonight the number of injured may increase greatly..." Then he told Chu Qiang, "You immediately lead a team to the vegetable market, guard it and don't let anyone in, the color steel shed can't withstand the pressure."

  Shen Hua was worried that those who didn't dare sleep at home would squeeze into the vegetable market's color steel shed, but he didn't know that the large area of color steel sheds in the vegetable market had an even weaker structural strength and couldn't withstand the snow pressure; someone had to keep watch there.

  Bei Ju's second team was just in front of the Tongtang River, Shen Huai and Guo Quan rushed to the scene, where the joint defense team members and surrounding neighbors had already started to rescue a family of three from the collapsed house. The action was very quick, and they managed to pull out the family of three who were pinned under the beam, covered in blood but still moving.

  Shen Huai immediately organized people to dismantle the door and rushed to the hospital carrying the person.

  Shen Huai rushed back to the town center primary school to meet with He Qing She, and the number of people who had temporarily come out to avoid the disaster suddenly increased. Zhao Dong also rushed over from the dormitory, mobilizing more than 20 night shift workers from the production line to reinforce, and the scene was no longer so chaotic.

  In the past, disaster prevention was mainly based on persuasion, but many residents did not take it seriously and had no risk awareness of snow disasters; during the Chinese New Year, who would want to stay up all night outside?

  A collapse accident occurred here, and Li Feng ordered the joint defense team members to follow the police station's civilians to all houses that didn't look very solid, go straight to knock on the door, kick in the door, and inform them that there have been casualties from collapses.

  Two residential committees' loudspeakers were also turned on, broadcasting disaster prevention information, mainly to wake up all the residents in the town, as long as they are awake, they can still have time to take shelter when encountering danger.