Dou Jiahui's lighting store had caused quite a stir from the very beginning of its renovations. There was no way the merchants on this street wouldn't be paying attention.
This place was sizable, and the newcomers clearly meant business! The major merchants instinctively felt hostile toward them.
But they weren't in a hurry to suppress it. That would depend on how the other side operated. If it didn't encroach too heavily on their own market segments, then the people it affected would naturally be unable to tolerate it and step forward themselves.
In fact, everyone had expected Blue Mountain Lighting to be the first to make a move.
After the chief secretary had spent more than twenty minutes in the store, those major merchants knew they had to send over flower baskets.
But Blue Mountain Lighting hadn't sent one.
The chief secretary finally left the store at eleven-thirty. Just as he was getting into his car, drums and gongs sounded not far away. Blue Mountain Lighting had come to deliver a flower basket.
He merely glanced at it. Without waiting for the procession to approach, he got into the car and left.
Blue Mountain Lighting had deliberately chosen this moment. If they had sent it along with everyone else's, it might not have stood out, and they were worried Dou Jiahui might make things difficult and draw the chief secretary's attention. So they had waited until the car was about to leave before bringing it over.
The chief secretary had only taken one look before getting into his car and leaving. The moment the car drove away, however, the people delivering the flower basket reached the shop entrance, and Dou Jiahui kicked the basket hard. "Get the hell out!"
The flower basket immediately broke apart. The delivery man looked helpless