Going to the Mining Area

After Wu Putun was reminded by Xu Youhai, he bolted away at an astonishing speed. He merely exchanged a few words with Chu Chen and the others before running off like a startled rabbit, leaving everyone speechless.

Yi Hongguo shook his head and patted Zou Taiping on the shoulder. "Old Zou, you'd better have as little to do with people like this as possible from now on. You were lucky this time to have Xiaoxiao's help, but will you be this lucky next time?"

Zou Taiping nodded bitterly. "Actually, I'd already noticed that there was something wrong with Wu Putun. I invited him to dinner this time because I wanted us to part on good terms. Who would've thought I'd be so unlucky as to run into something like this?"

"Old Zou, since that's the case, how about we work together?" Xu Youhai said with a smile from beside them.

Chu Chen and the others were all rather surprised when they heard this. Why did Xu Youhai suddenly want to get into the timber business again?

Seeing everyone staring at him in astonishment, Xu Youhai said with a smile, "Don't look at me like that. Apart from criminal enterprises, our family gets involved in any profitable business that suits us. Besides, you don't know this, but Old Zou's timber business is quite large in this region. I suspected before that Delun made such a huge fuss precisely because he had his eye on the industries you two own."

Zou Taiping had actually considered what Xu Youhai had said might be the reason. But with the powerful holding the knife and him being the fish, he was helpless. Although he had cultivated some connections locally, those connections were useless against Delun. They didn't even dare make a sound, let alone speak