mchenry-crisis.org Chapter 389 Village Infrastructure Project Hindered, Bald Liu, the Sand and Gravel Bully, Makes His
Chapter 389 Village Infrastructure Project Hindered, Bald Liu, the Sand and Gravel Bully, Makes His
After spending a lively and unique Mid-Autumn Festival with my parents-in-law in the provincial capital.
Jiang Chen and Su Qing then returned to Jiangjia Village.
The village is developing at breakneck speed, and not a moment can be wasted.
The school has officially started classes and is operating normally.
The "Longevity Base" project, personally approved by Empress Dowager Su Mingzhu, has officially entered a phase of large-scale infrastructure construction.
According to Jiang Chen's design, this base will integrate top-level recuperation, life science research, and cutting-edge technology experiments.
Its scale far surpasses that of the previous schools and factories.
In addition, there is the expansion project of the second phase of the Hui-style villa complex in the village.
In an instant, the entire Jiangjia Village was transformed into a bustling, massive construction site.
The machines roared and the noise of people filled the air.
However, just as this infrastructure boom reached its most intense stage, an unexpected problem arose.
Building materials.
Especially for the most basic but also most in-demand items, sand and gravel, the supply has been severely hampered.
That morning, Wang Dagou drove the newly bought eight-wheel drive Steyr heavy truck from the village to the sand quarry in town to pick up goods.
The car had just driven a short distance from the village entrance when it turned onto the main road leading to the town.
"Creak—!!!"
A screeching sound of brakes rang out.
Wang Dagou slammed on the brakes, and his dark face instantly darkened.
On the road ahead, five or six dilapidated, rusty dump trucks were parked haphazardly, blocking the entire road like a bunch of lazy dogs.
Along the roadside, a makeshift wire fence was erected, with a tattered wooden sign hanging on it that read "Private Property, No Entry" in crooked paint.
A group of shady-looking young men, shirtless and tattooed, were gathered in the back of a beat-up truck, smoking, playing cards, and occasionally bursting into foul-mouthed laughter.
A burly man, nearly 1.9 meters tall, with a shiny bald head and a gold chain as thick as a finger around his neck, was sitting imposingly in a grand chair.
He saw Wang Dagou's heavy truck but didn't even raise his eyelids. He simply took a lit cigar from the hand of the henchman next to him.
This man was a notorious local bully from the neighboring town, nicknamed "Bald Liu".
This guy, relying on a group of thugs he kept and some shady relationships with certain departments in the town, forcibly monopolized all the sand and gravel business within a radius of dozens of miles.
Any construction site that wants to use sand must buy it from him.
Moreover, the price is outrageously high.
Wang Dagou pushed open the car door and jumped out. His two-meter-tall body was like a moving iron tower, exuding a strong sense of oppression.
"Hey! What are you doing? Get out of the way!"
Wang Dagou's voice was like a booming bell, making the hands of the card-playing thugs tremble.
Bald Liu then slowly stood up, looked Wang Dagou up and down, and a disdainful sneer appeared on his lips.
He walked up to Wang Dagou's brand-new heavy truck, stretched out his flip-flop foot, and kicked the huge tire that was taller than him.
Then, he took the cigar out of his mouth and, with an extremely arrogant gesture, flicked the burning cigarette butt directly onto Wang Dagou's smooth, mirror-like hood.
With a "whoosh" sound.
The brand-new paint was instantly burned with an unsightly black spot.
"Oh, a new car? From Jiangjia Village?"
Bald Liu tilted his head and said in a smug tone.
"It's not impossible for you to pass through my brother Liu's territory."
He pointed in the direction of his sand quarry with the hand holding the cigar.
"However, there are rules."
"From now on, all the sand and gravel at your Jiangjia Village construction site must be purchased from me!"
"As for the price, that's easy to negotiate. We'll just take the market price and triple it!"
Wang Dagou's fist clenched instantly.
He suppressed his anger, walked to the side of the other party's truck bed, and grabbed a handful of sand.
As soon as he got his hands on the sand, Wang Dagou's face turned even uglier.
This isn't sand!
It contained at least half mud and clumps of soil, an astonishing amount of impurities!
This kind of extremely poor quality thing is so bad that it's not even suitable for building high-tech structures like longevity bases. It wouldn't even be sturdy enough to build a pigsty!
Building houses with this kind of thing is utterly reckless and disregards human life!
Fuck your mother!
Wang Dagou's fiery temper could no longer be contained.
He slammed the mud and sand in his hand to the ground, rolled up his sleeves, revealing his arm, which was thicker than an average person's thigh and had prominent veins.
"Are you fucking asking for it?!"
It looked like they were about to take action.
Bald Liu, however, remained completely unfazed and instead let out a cold laugh.
He clapped his hands.
"Whoosh—"
More than twenty henchmen wielding shovels and steel pipes sprang out from the bushes on both sides of the road, their faces grim, and surrounded Wang Dagou.
The atmosphere instantly became tense, as if a sword were about to be drawn.
Although Wang Dagou is a skilled fighter, he can't fight against a large number of opponents. If the fight really breaks out, he will definitely suffer a loss.
He took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down.
He knew that this was no longer a problem he could solve alone.
He glared at Bald Liu, retreated to the driver's seat, took out his phone, and dialed Jiang Chen's number directly.
The call was answered quickly.
"Brother Chen! Something's happened! Our building materials supply chain has been cut off!"
Wang Dagou gave a brief report on the situation at top speed.
His tone was filled with barely suppressed anger.
"Brother Chen! Give the order!"
"I'll go back to the village right away and bring all the brothers from our security team over!"
"Today, I'm going to twist this son of a bitch's head off and use it as a chamber pot!"
In Wang Dagou's view, the only way to deal with these thugs is to use an even stronger fist to beat them into submission and fear!
However, Jiang Chen's tone on the other end of the phone was unexpectedly calm.
"Da Gou, don't be impulsive."
Jiang Chen's voice was calm and powerful, like a tranquilizer, cooling down Wang Dagou's head, which was about to explode.
"We are now legitimate entrepreneurs with a good reputation, and we are the face of Jiangjia Village."
"Fighting and killing are the lowest level of methods; we don't do the double-crossing stuff."
"Listen to me, don't do anything, just turn around and come back."
"I'll handle this."
After hanging up the phone, Wang Dagou was still seething with anger, but he chose to obey Jiang Chen's orders unconditionally.
He started the truck and, amidst the smug laughter of Bald Liu and his gang, turned around and returned to the village.
On the other side...
Jiang Chen sat in a grand chair in his own courtyard, his face showing no anger whatsoever, but rather a playful smile.
Bald Liu? Sandstorm bully?
Just then, he was worried that the Longevity Base needed a free, long-term labor supplier who would bring their own equipment.
Jiang Chen didn't rush to call for help, but instead directly opened the system's special access interface.
Using his computing power, he uncovered all of Bald Liu's secrets in just a few seconds.
This includes all the violations recorded at his illegal sand mining site, and all his personal criminal records.
However, Jiang Chen focused on the ownership of the highway that Bald Liu had illegally blocked.
Jiang Chen's smile deepened as he investigated.
It turns out that the road wasn't private property at all.
Instead, it was a section of road that the town government had planned years ago, but construction had not yet begun due to funding issues.
The property rights clearly belong to the town government.
A brilliant plan, killing two birds with one stone, quickly took shape in Jiang Chen's mind.