Chapter 318: Retaliation in Many Ways

'Teacher, there's been an accident in the dormitory!'

As Zhou Ming walked out of the courthouse and turned on his pager, a message was sent. Zhou Ming had to say goodbye to Allen and Deputy Attorney General Clark and hurried back to the school dormitory.

When he arrived at the dormitory and got out of the car, Zhou Ming noticed that the dormitory door was open. Ye Ning was waiting at the door. When she saw Zhou Ming looking back, she hurriedly came forward to take him back. As they walked, she kept saying to him, 'Teacher, something terrible has happened. Li Yang received a letter that exploded today, and he was hurt!'

'A letter that will explode?' Zhou Ming felt a little confused, and then Ye Ning told Zhou Ming that it was in the morning after Zhou Ming left, the doorbell of the dormitory was pressed. At that time, Li Yang happened to be in the hall. He rushed to open the door but found no one outside. When he returned, he found a letter lying in the doorway. Li Yang picked up the envelope and found that the letter was written to himself. He opened it to read it, but as soon as he opened the envelope, the letter suddenly exploded.

While they were talking, Zhou Ming had followed Ye Ning to the dormitory hall and saw that everyone in the class was there. Chen Shu and a few other female classmates were taking care of Li Yang, who was lying on the sofa with a wet towel over his face.

'Li Yang seems to have been hit in the eye by the explosion. He said his eye felt hot, so we put a wet towel on it,' Ye Ning whispered to Zhou Ming.

When he saw Zhou Ming coming over, Chen Shu, the monitor, also immediately stood up. 'Teacher, how could a perfectly good letter explode?'

'I think there must be some kind of unstable chemical in the letter. As soon as the envelope is opened and exposed to air, it will explode,' Zhou Ming guessed. He then asked, "How long has it been since it happened?'

'It's been more than half an hour. Teacher, what should we do now? What on earth is going on?" Chen Shu asked.

Zhou Ming made a quick decision: 'First, take Li Yang to the hospital. I'll pay for all the medical expenses. Then we'll call the police. Go and make the call.'

With Zhou Ming's arrangement, Chen Shu immediately went to make the call. But as soon as he walked over to the phone, he heard it ringing. Chen Shu answered, but the other end directly asked Zhou Ming to answer the phone. Zhou Ming came over to take the call, but he heard an elderly voice: 'Mr. Zhou Ming, I hope you and your classmates have received our gift. I hope you and your classmates like it. Originally, the path of reconciliation was something everyone liked, but now I have to do something that makes me sad. Finally, I wish you and your classmates a happy weekend. Goodbye.'

After that, the other party hung up the phone without any further ado. Chen Shu came over and asked, 'Teacher, whose phone was that?'

Zhou Ming turned his head and saw that all the students in the finance class were looking at him. Zhou Ming said, 'It's fine, everyone just go about your business. Ye Ning, go call an ambulance and the police, and save Li Yang first.'

Ye Ning nodded and said yes, and only then did Zhou Ming give Chen Shu further instructions: 'You must be extra careful with the students these few days, and call the police immediately if anything goes wrong!'

Chen Shu nodded in understanding, and then the phone rang again. Zhou Ming picked it up and answered, and this time it wasn't the old butler from the Brook residence, but a young voice: 'Teacher, there's a problem. The people from the industrial and commercial tax and health departments are here at the dorm convenience store. They said that the dorm convenience store doesn't have any procedures in place, and they want to close down our store. What should we do?'

'Don't worry, go find the teacher in charge, Mr Moore, to explain the situation. I'll be right there.'

Zhou Ming hung up the phone, told Chen Shu to 'take care of the dormitory', and then immediately went out the door with Chen Shu, restarted the car and arrived at the Collande Academy, only to find that several vehicles belonging to government departments had just left.

Zhou Ming's heart screamed out in alarm, but it was useless to chase after those vehicles at this time. And he only had one car, so he didn't know who to chase after. Zhou Ming could only sigh in frustration, and finally got out of the car and walked into the College of Corrand. When he arrived at the entrance of the dormitory convenience store, Zhou Ming saw two classmates from the finance class crying here. They cried even more when they saw Zhou Ming coming over.

'Teacher, I'm sorry, we couldn't protect our dormitory convenience store. Just now, those American law enforcement officers forcibly sealed it off.'

Facing such sad classmates, Zhou Ming comforted them, saying, 'It's okay, as long as everyone is fine. These things will be taken care of by our lawyers.'

Then, looking around, he asked, "Where is Professor Moore? Hasn't he come here?'

As if to prove a point, as soon as Zhou Ming finished speaking, Moore's voice came from behind, "Where are the law enforcement officers from the Department of Commerce and Taxation? This is a student freedom group, not under your jurisdiction!'

Zhou Ming turned around, and Moore immediately raised his hands and said, 'Oh! Zhou, you can't blame me. I already rushed here as soon as I received the notification. But as you know, my office is not here, and you can't expect me to be here 24 hours a day. I'm the teacher in charge at Colland Academy.'

'Mr Moore, I think I can understand. Your office is 100,000 li away from here, and you need to do 2,000 somersaults to get here. And as the teacher in charge of the Korand Academy, you are not even present every time there is a problem in the dormitory. Such a responsible teacher is no different from a salted fish left to dry outside. 'Zhou Ming said.

Moe opened his mouth to explain, but Zhou Ming said first, 'Teacher Moe, I don't want to hear any explanations from you. I just want to say that if next time I arrive at the scene before you again, then I cannot predict what will happen.'

'Zhou, can I understand that you are threatening me?' Moe asked seriously.

Zhou Ming shook his head and said, 'I have a really bad headache right now, and I think I will do anything.'

After saying this, Zhou Ming took the two classmates from the finance class and walked away. Back in the car, Zhou Ming immediately took out his phone and dialed Alan's number. However, before Zhou Ming could speak, Alan said, 'Mr. Zhou Ming, what a coincidence that you called. I was just about to call you.'

Zhou Ming's brows furrowed, and he had a very bad feeling in his heart: "Has something happened again?'

'Something very bad," said Alan. 'Do you remember what I told you before about the possible aftereffects of your current share acquisition?'

'Of course I remember. You mean that guy Wharton. He really changed his mind. He's not going to sell his company anymore?' asked Zhou Ming.

'I'm afraid it's much worse than that,' said Alan. 'Not only is he not going to sell his company, he also submitted to the court the materials on the violations of your dormitory convenience store, unilaterally declaring this business illegal, and he also asked the court to issue an injunction to remove you as a shareholder.'

Zhou Ming laughed: 'I never thought that this Wharton guy had such big ambitions. He shot me in the back and tried to take the money I paid for the shares and put it in his pocket.'

Alan thought for a moment and said cautiously, 'Mr. Zhou Ming, I think that at this time, he may not have done this on his own, and it may be related to the case we are currently working on. He wants to take advantage of the situation.'

Zhou Ming told him, 'Alan, I don't think you need to speculate. I can assure you that it is related to the case, and it may not be his own idea, but someone may have asked him to do it, because other things have happened at the school.'

Zhou Ming then told Alan about Li Yang receiving the explosive letter and the dormitory convenience store being sealed off, especially the phone call from the old butler. Alan took a breath after hearing this and said, 'This is really troublesome. The purpose of their actions is obviously to disrupt us and prevent us from concentrating on the case, so that they can do better in court.'

'Lao Brook is indeed an influential senator in Massachusetts. Is this the result of his full effort?'

Zhou Ming muttered to himself, then asked Allen, 'Is there a way to resolve the situation with Wharton and the government departments? The dormitory convenience store cannot be closed down like this without any explanation.'

'I think these two things can be handled as one. Right now, the government departments are only enforcing the law because Wharton unilaterally declared the dormitory convenience store project illegal. As long as we can get a hold of Wharton and re-declare the legality of the dormitory convenience store project, then the matter of the dormitory convenience store will be like flying a kite in the wind.'

Alan continued, 'When Wharton signed the contract, I made some changes to it. As long as Wharton unilaterally declares anything, we can always file a lawsuit in court and kick him out of the company.'

Zhou Ming laughed heartily, 'Alan, you've done a great job, so please get started right away.'

'Two cases at the same time, I suddenly found that following you, a student boss, is more difficult than the bosses of those big companies I used to take care of. Are Chinese businessmen good at utilising resources to the limit?' Alan complained.

Zhou Ming said to him, 'In China, there is a saying that those who can do more work have more work to do, and it refers to people like you, Alan.'

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Ming's face turned serious. Although he had spoken lightly to Alan, he actually knew that it was really difficult to fend off attacks from all sides like the one from Brooke. The reason was simple: the other party was a powerful state senator with too many resources to draw on, and he was also familiar with American law and ways of doing things. However, Zhou Ming was still groping his way through everything, and there was simply no comparison between the two.

In addition, Zhou Ming had a feeling that since Brook had made his move, he would definitely want to defeat his enemy, so things were definitely not over yet.

As it turned out, Zhou Ming's guess was correct. When Zhou Ming returned to the dormitory with the two classmates from the finance class, Huang Ping ran out and told Zhou Ming, 'Teacher, something bad has happened. My computer just received an email with a scanned photo inside.'

Although the development of computers in this era was not yet that good, and their functions were not yet that rich, Zhou Ming understood the close relationship between finance and the internet in the future. Coupled with the fact that the US financial industry had already begun to link up with the internet, and Zhou Ming's dependence on the internet as a person from the future, the first thing he did after settling into his dormitory at Harvard was to equip it with several computers. The configuration seemed like junk in the future, but it was the top of the line at the time.

Zhou Ming followed Huang Ping to the computer. Huang Ping double-clicked the mouse, and a photo immediately appeared on the screen. Zhou Ming frowned when he saw it: it was a photo of Brook's old butler playing basketball with the judge.

Zhou Ming sighed, 'This multifaceted revenge by old Brook is really a bit difficult.'