Had a farm-style dinner at Holland Ranch, neither Link nor Neil stayed overnight. They returned to Huazhou overnight.

When the plane landed at Mora airport, it was almost eleven o'clock in the evening. Neil drove his own car back to the Ozette Bank building directly at the airport.

When Link returned to his room, Jessica was sitting on the bed in her pajamas and reading the papers.

"I thought you'd be back tomorrow!" Jessica asked, seeing that he was a little surprised, and got out of bed and walked over to help him get his coat. "How's the talk?"

"Someone can be sent to sign tomorrow. Link said as he took off his coat into her hands. "He has the potential to recommend our products to another 200,000 acres of cotton fields. ”

When he said this, he said, "I'll go take a shower first, and you won't look at the documents anymore, go to sleep!"

"But I want to know the details of your trip to Texas. ”

"It's time for you to sleep! I'll talk to you tomorrow. Link smiled and pecked her on the lips. "I'll tell you a story tomorrow!"

Jessica said to his back, "But I think the little one would prefer to hear bedtime stories." ”

Link comes out of the shower and finds that Jessica really didn't listen to his sleep.

Jessica lifted the quilt, patted her beside her, and said, "Come and tell our little one a bedtime story." ”

Link couldn't, so he got into bed and put his arms around her to make a long story short about today's event in Texas. But he didn't say anything about being followed, lest she worry.

Jessica listened to what he said, muttered for a while, and said, "So, Kempner Holland wants to work with you to promote a food production standard?"

"It seems so. ”

But according to him, he has a large ranch of his own, and the other members of the cooperative are cotton farmers, and he wants to implement that kind of food standard, which is completely unfounded. ”

'The key for us is that he has that goal and he will work for it. And our products are a perfect match for his standards. Besides, even if he just talks, there will be nothing to lose to us. ”

"But our foundation in the agriculture industry is almost none, and if we directly clash with the existing standard-setters now, it will definitely have a big impact on our development. She rested her head on his chest and listened to his heartbeat. "That would be a big headwind to our expansion. ”

"It's possible, but we also have to look at the other side. If he can really spare no effort for his own goals, we can also have one more ally, and we can directly use his achievements for our own use. Link played with her hair and said. "Besides, and I made it clear to him, we can provide technical support for his goals, but we don't easily make our contradictions with certain opponents visible. ”

"Wouldn't that be too idealistic?"

If you want to profit but don't need to pay, is there such a good thing?

Link smiled and said, "Anyway, all we have to do now is act on the opportunity. He paused and said. "Well, it's almost twelve o'clock, and the little ones are asleep. It's time for expectant mothers to rest, too. ”

Although Jessica didn't get a completely satisfactory result, she basically satisfied her curiosity. So this time she obediently obeyed, kissed Link on the face, and then shrunk into the bed to get ready for bed: "Good night!"

The next morning, Link still woke up early. The weather has taken a turn for the worse today, and it is raining lightly. He came back boxing, and neither Jessica nor Hannah were out of bed.

He went back to his room and took a hot shower. Just as he was about to quietly leave the room, his phone rang suddenly. He first turned the phone on and saw that Jessica was still asleep before answering the phone.

The call was from Kemp, and his voice on the phone was a little irritable: "Link, have you watched today's morning news?"

Link had carefully walked out of the hallway and closed the door. He lowered his voice and said, "No, did something happen?"

"You should take a look. Our new town project is mentioned above. ”

Listening to his irritated tone, Link knew it wasn't good news. He walked up to the elevator and said, "I'm going to take a look, but can you tell me what the hell is going on?"

"There are reports in the news that there are people who slander our project as the result of a black-box operation. ”

Link was stunned for a moment and said, "Is it said by someone who doesn't want to reveal his identity?"

"That's an old trick, isn't it? I can assure you, it's definitely a good thing for the Mid-Pacific Ridge homeland. We cost them $1.6 million. And the project had to be abandoned. They're taking revenge on us!"

Link was equally skeptical.

It's just that he and Fox did operate in the dark before, but all the procedures were legal. And the first residents were workers at his two factories near Fox. Even if the Mid-Pacific Ridge Homes stabbed the matter to the media, the most it would do was to make Fox's new town project more interesting, and it would not have any impact on him.

But he worries that there are other things that he doesn't understand: "What's the worst outcome? Will the project be canceled?"

"Our formalities are perfect and legal. But if we attract too much public attention, our project may be investigated and the project may be forced to suspend its implementation. ”

Suspension of implementation?

Link frowned and said, "Kemp, thank you for notifying me. I'll get the crisis PR done as soon as possible. I'll go read the news first. ”

"Good. What the hell. I hope that our project can go smoothly and not be affected by those who don't feel important. ”

"Absolutely not!"

Link hung up before he walked into the elevator, and his face became cold, as if the temperature was shut out by the elevator door.

Now it is his eventful season, and there are such unpredictable troubles to find him. It seems that he has been silent for too long lately. Everyone thinks he can be bullied at will.

He came to the living room, turned on the TV, and tuned to the TV station in Huazhou. After watching it for a while, I found that the morning news that was being broadcast on a loop reported on Fox's new city project.

According to an unnamed insider, Fox's New Town project was sold for $10 million at auction due to a black-box operation. The buyer was not the highest bidder in the auction, Mid-Pacific Ridge Homes. Our correspondent interviewed the company's top management, and perhaps we can learn more from it. ”

Then the news broadcast was connected to a handsome white man in his thirties, who was described on television as McCarmon, president of Pacific Ridge Homes.

Speaking to the camera of the interview, he said: "We have done a lot of work on the project. However, we found that the market had been completely controlled before that and it was impossible for us to meet the prerequisites proposed by Fox. So we sent senior management of the company to negotiate with Fox officials, hoping to cooperate with all parties. But we were denied. For this reason, we must not endure huge losses to abandon the project. ”

Reporter's voiceover: "Is there a multi-party cooperation, including the company that is now undertaking the project?"

McCammon seemed to hesitate for a moment and said, "Yes." ”

When Link saw this, he was basically sure that this matter was very likely to be related to the Pacific Ridge Homes Company. At least this McCammon wants to see the Fox New Town project have a hard time.

He told the truth in an interview that everyone who listened to him naturally thought of a black-box operation, and jointly squeezed out their original winning bidders from the project.

And Link was pretty sure that the other party hadn't contacted him at all, nor had they contacted Martha.

He seems to have been able to imagine what the public would think when they saw such news: black gold politics and official corruption. That's something that most Americans can't accept.

As long as the public raises doubts, there is a high risk that government intervention will halt the project. Once that happens, there's no telling when the project will start again.

He certainly didn't want that to happen. He didn't care that it wasn't work time, so he immediately took out the phone and dialed Martha's number and told her the news.

Finally, he said: "Now there are such rumors. We must clarify it as soon as possible. You try to contact the media as much as possible to get the construction company to refute the rumors. If there's anything that needs Fox's cooperation, you can contact Mayor Camp directly, and I'll talk to him about it. ”

Martha knew it was another test of their team's abilities. "I'm going to gather the management and key members of the team at the construction company, and I'm going to reach out to Catherine and Amanda to ask for their opinions," she said. We will contact all the media we can reach and inform them about the real state of the project. In addition, we will hold a press conference hosted by the construction company within the course of the day. ”

After listening to her plan, Link felt that he could not think of a better formal way to solve the problems faced by the new city project in a short period of time. He nodded and said, "Okay, you just let it go." ”

He thought for a while, stood up and called Kemp's phone back, asking him that he could communicate with Mashado and deal with the matter together. He said as he walked to the study.

In his study, he used his social networking sites to depict the causes and consequences of Fox New Town. All the evidence of the formalities was also photographed and sent to the public.

Of course, it is impossible to say that he had an agreement with Camp at the beginning of the project.

With all this done, he returned to the living room. By this time, Jessica and Hannah were already up in bed.

They had breakfast and then left the house together. At the entrance of the kindergarten, they met the parents who were also sending their children to school.

Someone asked Link, "Link, what is said in the news is not true, is it?"

Link laughed and said, "Of course it's not true. I also watched the news. The president of the Middle Ridge Homes Company was clearly not telling the truth, they simply could not meet the conditions proposed by our city, which were detailed in the bid. When Mr. Mayor refused to amend the terms, they had to abandon the bid. And my company didn't ask to change a single word of those conditions. He said, spreading his hands. "And, you see. I didn't have to make that money at all. ”