Chapter 806

"Then you two talk, I'm going back to the room."

Yuan Liying knew Niu Hongjuan had something to say, so she turned back to the yard and took Su Su from the old man's arms.

"Su Su, call Grandma!"

The little girl blinked her big eyes and then yawned.

Actually, this little girl had already started talking; she called 'Mom' last night, but sometimes she was very lazy and wouldn't say a word no matter how much you teased her.

"Oh my, you're sleepy again." Yuan Liying rocked the little girl, "Then go to sleep."

At the gate, Zhou Andong lowered his head and lit a cigarette: "Aunt, if you have anything to say, just say it."

Niu Hongjuan lowered her voice and said: "Don't invest in Yuan Hongbiao's mine!"

Zhou Andong asked: "Aunt, why are you telling me this?"

"In any case, I won't harm you." Niu Hongjuan rode her motorcycle away.

Watching Niu Hongjuan's figure disappear at the end of the alley, Zhou Andong fell into deep thought.

"What are you thinking about?" Seeing Jian Qiu walked over.

Zhou Andong came back to his senses and took a puff of his cigarette: "Niu Hongjuan warned me not to cooperate with Yuan Hongbiao, and this is the second time she's warned me."

Seeing Jian Qiu frowned: "I thought she came to probe for information."

Zhou Andong turned and entered the yard: "Brother Hai, come with me to the backyard, I have something to ask you."

"Coming!" Yuan Hai followed Zhou Andong to the backyard, and the two squatted in a cool place.

Zhou Andong threw a cigarette to Yuan Hai: "Do you know Yuan Hongbiao and Niu Hongjuan, that couple?"

Yuan Hai lit the cigarette: "They moved to the town many years ago, and I've only heard some things through the grapevine."

Zhou Andong asked: "When they were in the village, how was their relationship? Did they often fight?"

Yuan Hai thought for a while: "Yuan Hongbiao is very overbearing outside. When he was young, he was into eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling, and would pull out a knife to hack people at every turn, but he was quite good to his wife. As for whether they fought often, I really haven't heard."

Zhou Andong thought for a while: "How did he become the town mayor? Is the mine the town's or his private property?"

"No one knows how he became the town mayor. Anyway, I still feel it's very magical to this day."

Yuan Hai chuckled, "For someone like him, it would be God's eyes not being open if he wasn't arrested and shot, yet he actually became the deputy town mayor. As for those mines, they are nominally the town's, but everyone knows in their hearts that they are his own.

After he became the deputy town mayor, he started to reorganize various large and small mines, and there were many large-scale armed fights, and it's said that people died."

Yuan Hai took a puff of his cigarette and then continued: "Think about it, there are no simple characters among those who can open mines. But relying on his official status, he had a legitimate excuse and sent many mine owners in, and the rest ran away.

Later, the mines fell into his hands. The workers' wages were reduced by a third, but the workload was greater than before. Because of this, the workers went to the county to make a scene.

But the arm couldn't twist the thigh. Those who made a scene didn't stir up any waves and were all fired in the end. One person went to the town to find him, and the two fought."

That person was detained by the police station for half a month. On the day he came out, he was bagged and hacked more than twenty times on the way home. He didn't die, but he was paralyzed from the waist down.

After this happened, the county established a special investigation team, but it ended up with nothing. Also, five years ago, a mine collapsed. The report said someone was injured, but no one died.

Half a mine collapsed, damn it, and it was after nine in the morning, exactly when people were at work. How could no one have died? That report was simply treating us ordinary people like fools, but there is one thing very strange."

Zhou Andong frowned: "What's strange?"

Yuan Hai said: "If people really died, how could the families not make a scene? But I haven't heard of anyone going to the town or county to look for them because of the mine disaster."

"There's nothing strange about that." Zhou Andong took a final puff of his cigarette and then threw the butt on the ground, "Pay compensation, what reason do the families have to make a scene."

Yuan Hai thought for a while: "Yuan Hongbiao is very harsh on workers. Even if he gives compensation, it's impossible to give too much."

Zhou Andong smiled: "Threats and intimidation, plus someone in the county muddling things for him, how can the families make a scene? They don't dare to."

Yuan Hai nodded: "Now that you mention it, it's really possible."

"Do you know?" Zhou Andong tilted his head and looked at Yuan Hai, "Niu Hongjuan warned me twice not to cooperate with Yuan Hongbiao and invest in his mine."

Yuan Hai was stunned: "She told you personally?"

"Yes!" Zhou Andong stood up and moved his legs that had been squatted numb, "Once at Su Yuling's funeral, and the second time just now."

Yuan Hai thought for a long time but couldn't figure out what Niu Hongjuan's purpose was.

Zhou Andong asked: "I heard from the neighbors that that Meng Shulin was born to Yuan Hongbiao and his sister-in-law?"

Yuan Hai said with a smile: "It's all spreading, but Meng Shulin doesn't look like Yuan Hongbiao at all, so everyone says it, but there are few who truly believe it."

"There's no smoke without fire." Zhou Andong pondered for a while, "That day Meng Shulin was taken away by the police, he shouted once, saying he was Yuan Hongbiao's son.

At that time, I didn't believe it either. After all, when a person has a desire to survive, they can do anything, let alone calling their brother-in-law 'Dad'. But now it seems that Meng Shulin's words might not be fake."

Yuan Hai asked: "How did you see that?"

Zhou Andong walked to the cucumber trellis, found a tender cucumber, picked it, rubbed it on his pants, and took a bite with a 'crunch'.

"Niu Hongjuan warned me twice, it definitely wasn't because she was afraid I'd be cheated."

Yuan Hai was stunned again: "What do you mean?"

Zhou Andong was eating the cucumber, and said somewhat vaguely: "Is there a possibility that Niu Hongjuan hates Yuan Hongbiao in her heart?"

Yuan Hai didn't speak, and Zhou Andong took another 'crunchy' bite of the cucumber: "Do Yuan Hongbiao and Niu Hongjuan have children?"

"Yes!" Yuan Hai also stood up, "A girl, studying in high school in the county,"

"A girl, huh!" Zhou Andong smacked his lips, "No son, how can it be okay if all the family property is given to someone with a different surname in the future."

Yuan Hai's heart moved: "He is the deputy town mayor. It's definitely not okay to want a second child to have a son, so he made an illegitimate child with his sister-in-law."

"This matter, it can't make Niu Hongjuan hate Yuan Hongbiao that much." Zhou Andong scratched his head: "There must be other things in this, which is why Niu Hongjuan is desperately interfering with the investment matter."

Yuan Hai also walked over and picked a cucumber: "Then what exactly are you thinking?"

Zhou Andong didn't answer, but asked Yuan Hai: "Did you get fined for having a second child?"

"No!" Yuan Hai said with a smile: "There are few people here, and I don't eat from the public pot, so no one cares if I have a second child."

At this moment, the fourth child ran out with a 'whoosh', followed by a string of little ones.

Looking at the fourth child, Zhou Andong sighed: "When your aunt gave birth to the fourth child, she was fined more than 800, and the family fortune was all fined away. Then not long after, your uncle had an accident."

"Old Uncle Guan is here." Yuan Ying shouted from the outer room.

Zhou Andong turned and entered the room, then walked out quickly to greet him: "Old Uncle Guan, come in and sit."

The old branch secretary had a smile on his face: "I came to tell you that the city called, the water quality test is out, there's no problem. And it contains rich minerals, very suitable for drinking. The mayor will come over tomorrow to discuss building a water plant with you."