Chapter 819: We Seem to Have Been Tricked

Half an hour later, the two vans entered the village, and by coincidence, they ran into that villager again.

A young man with a bare chest, a cigarette in his mouth, and an 'uphill tiger' tattooed on his back got out of the car.

"Old fellow, do you know Zhou Andong?"

Although the villager was only in his forties, due to years of physical labor and exposure to wind and sun, he looked much older than his actual age. If someone said he was in his fifties or sixties, people would believe it.

The villager held a Yuxi cigarette between his fingers, tilted his head, and glanced at the van that had opened its door.

"I know him!"

The 'uphill tiger' asked, "Where is his house?"

The villager pointed north. "Go straight, turn right at the first alley, and after you reach the end, turn left again. His house has the biggest yard, and there is a very large old locust tree in the yard. You'll know it when you get there."

The 'uphill tiger' turned and got into the car. The villager watched the two vans enter the village, then turn right and disappear into the alley entrance, then he took off running toward the Yuan family.

The eldest aunt entered the house. "Dongzi, are we cooking lunch?"

Zhou Andong checked the time. "Do it!"

The eldest aunt asked, "What shall we eat?"

Zhou Andong said, "You decide. If there are no vegetables, let Wu Chao drive to buy some."

"Good!" The eldest aunt turned and went out again, finding Wu Chao in the backyard. "Dachao, Dongzi wants you to go buy vegetables."

"Alright!" Wu Chao greeted Zhao Hong. "Dahong, let's go!"

The two had just entered the house when they saw a villager run in, panting, and then shout.

"Grandpa Yuan!"

"Who is it?" Yuan Xizhang responded.

At this time, Yuan Hongjun came out of the room, saw the villager covered in sweat, and asked, "Seventh Brother, what's wrong?"

"Hongjun!" Seventh Brother caught his breath. "Just now at the village entrance, two vans came. A guy with a bare chest and tattoos got out of the car and asked me if I knew Chairman Zhou, and also asked where your house was."

"I took a look inside the car; it was full of people. Near the car door, there were knives and steel pipes. I could tell at a glance they weren't good people, so I directed them to the brigade headquarters."

"They will probably be here soon. You guys prepare first; I'm going to call people now. Damn it, Chairman Zhou came here to invest, giving us work and paying us wages. Whoever goes against him is going against all the old men and young men in our Zhenxing Village."

Seventh Brother, this man like the wind, drifted here and then drifted away again.

Zhou Andong heard it all inside the house and got up to come out. "Third Uncle, let Aunt and the others take the children to stay at Hai's place for a while."

The eldest aunt said with a somewhat pale face, "Otherwise, let's all go out and hide; they won't find anyone and will naturally leave."

"Impossible!" Yuan Hongzhan came out. "They are aiming for Dongzi; if they don't find anyone today, they will come tomorrow too."

"Right!" Yuan Hongqi also came out of the room. "You women take the children and go hide."

The eldest aunt wanted to say something else, but Yuan Hongzhan smiled. "Sister-in-law, what do you have to worry about? This is our Zhenxing Village; don't say they brought two cars of people, even if they brought ten cars of people, they would all have to stay here for me."

The second aunt said, "Can't we call the police?"

"It's too late." Yuan Hongqi said with some dissatisfaction. "Alright, stop nagging, hurry up and go. What if you get blocked by those people and the children get hurt?"

Jian Qiu said, "I'll stay."

"No!" Yuan Liying was the first to disagree. "You must go with us."

"Go, go, go!" The old aunt was very decisive. "Xiaoying, Xiaomei, Yuan Lu, hurry up and take the children; we're leaving."

The old aunt's child, Yuan Zhe, was just fifteen today. He was cut from the same cloth as the old aunt, with delicate features, but a newborn calf not afraid of a tiger.

"Mom, you guys go; I'll stay."

"Go!" Zhou Andong kicked Yuan Zhe in the butt. "You're not needed here; go with your mom."

Yuan Zhe stiffened his neck and was about to speak, but Zhou Andong glared. "What are you stiffening your neck for? If you don't listen, don't think about going to the capital with me."

This kid graduated from junior high this year and will be starting high school when school starts. His grades are usually pretty good, so Zhou Andong thought about taking him to the capital for high school, then moving his household registration there, hoping he could get into a better university in the future.

There was also Yuan Lu, who was only seventeen this year. Her junior high foundation was still there, so take her to the capital together and send her to high school. If her studies couldn't keep up, hire a tutor; it just so happened that the two children could make up lessons together.

The capital, for children nowadays, there was no one who didn't yearn for it. Hearing Zhou Andong's words, he immediately became obedient.

Gu Qing looked at Zhou Andong, her face full of seriousness. "Is it really okay?"

Zhou Andong smiled. "Pang Yong and Zhao Jianlong were both crushed by me; can a few little thugs turn the sky upside down?"

Gu Qing nodded. "In any case, be careful. If something happens to you, the stall we worked so hard to set up will collapse again."

"Rest assured!" Zhou Andong said to the other male employees of the working group, "You guys go with President Gu and the others too."

A young man who looked very refined said very proudly, "Chairman, when has our Yugong person ever been afraid of trouble?"

"If you ask me, the one who should leave most is the Chairman." Another burly young man smiled. "If we were in Jiangzhou, we could pull out two regiments of people."

Zhou Andong smiled and looked at the room full of men. "Alright, everyone find a handy tool."

With Wu Chao, Zhao Hong, He Ze, and Wang Wentian, the dozen or so little thugs had no threat.

Besides, they had quite a few people too, adding up to more than twenty people.

The main thing was to avoid scaring the children, so the women were asked to take the children away.

Soon, pickaxe handles, shovels, rakes, hoes, sickles, and kitchen knives were all found. Regardless of whether they were handy or not, everyone had one.

At this time, Seventh Brother had already run to three families. Hearing that someone wanted to go against Zhou Andong, how could this be allowed?

Seeing that the good days had arrived, if something happened to Zhou Andong, it would definitely be ruined.

Then these people split up to notify others, while Seventh Brother rode a borrowed bicycle to notify the old branch secretary.

"Daring to come to our Zhenxing Village to find trouble, tired of living?"

The old branch secretary glared, raised his foot, tapped the pipe bowl, and then stepped out to find the militia company commander.

Brigade Headquarters!

A dozen or so little thugs holding machetes and steel pipes were frantically smashing the glass while clamoring.

"Fuck your mother, Zhou Andong, get out here."

"Do you think that by locking the door, we can't find you?"

"The monk can run, but the temple can't. Today you hid, tomorrow we'll come again."

While smashing, suddenly a little thug shouted, "Don't smash, don't smash!"

"What's wrong?"

Another guy, with a cut on his face that was still bleeding, probably from glass shards jumping onto his face.

That little thug said, "Something's wrong. You guys look inside; there's no kang, only offices and chairs. It doesn't look like a residence at all."

"Mountain Brother!" The little thug shouted at the 'uphill tiger' who was sitting under the old locust tree smoking. "We seem to have been tricked by that old thing."

Mountain Brother walked over, swaying. "How were we tricked?" ===== CHAPTER 820 =====