Chapter 1501: The Old Fox Was Almost Angered to Death 4

Huo Zhenteng did not expect him to suddenly launch a counterattack; how did this person suddenly become so smart?

Of course it won't do to write it in the contract; once it's written in black and white, it cannot be denied, so it absolutely must not be written!

A smile hung on his face, but it didn't reach his eyes.

He prepared to gloss over this point vaguely: "Village Chief Gu, there's no need for this, right? We do things based on face and sentiment. If every little thing is written coldly into a contract, then there won't be any human touch left."

Sheng Hanyu had been silent, but now he suddenly spoke: "Since you are so full of human touch, why didn't you give more at the very beginning? What is the difference between the price you offered and robbing people?"

Huo Zhenteng did not expect the first sentence Sheng Hanyu said to him to be so powerful and irrefutable.

But the two of them had now swapped positions.

He didn't want to pay any attention to Sheng Hanyu now; he didn't want to acknowledge a single word.

Huo Zhenteng turned to Gu Zhihao and said: "I don't have the money. If my funds weren't tight, then there would be nothing to say; let alone a 30 million annual contracting fee, even 80 million would be no problem."

Heaven and earth are my witness, he was just saying that casually.

But he didn't expect Sheng Hanyu to chime in again: "That's easy to handle, you can owe it for now. Write it in the contract, and you can pay it back from the dividends once you start making money."

Huo Zhenteng:...

He could only stare blankly.

No, he couldn't agree; if he agreed, he would become a worker for free, and if things went poorly, he might even have to pay out of his own pocket.

He couldn't do a money-losing business; even in front of the high-ranking leader and so many people, he could not agree!

But while he couldn't agree, he also couldn't argue, so he could only laugh sheepishly: "Hehe, hehe, Chairman Sheng is joking..."

"Don't, I don't have the leisure time to joke with you, I am serious." Huo Zhenteng tried to ease the awkwardness, but it became even more awkward.

"There's no need to write it into the contract, is there..."

"Why is there no need?"

Sheng Hanyu rarely spoke, but when he did, he was aggressive, not leaving Huo Zhenteng a single chance to breathe: "This isn't a piece of candy where it doesn't matter who eats it; this concerns the vital interests of over a thousand villagers. If you don't even write it clearly in the contract, isn't that too much of a farce?"

"Or is it that you don't care about the villagers' interests at all?"

Everyone focused their gazes squarely on him.

Other people would be fine; at worst, he'd lose face, but how much is face worth?

But the high-ranking leader's gaze was also staring fixedly at him, and he was afraid.

Offending others didn't matter, but this person could not be offended; if he left a bad impression in front of the leader, he feared his future path would not be easy to walk.

Huo Zhenteng felt he had been backed into a corner, and he could only agree: "Alright, it can be written in the contract."

Sheng Hanyu immediately handed over a contract: "Take a look. This is the contract our Dingsheng prepared. If you have no objections, then sign it; I'll yield the contract to you."

Huo Zhenteng:...

He didn't take it.

He only felt his brain "buzzing"; Sheng Hanyu had actually prepared the contract already!

Too excessive.

However, something even more excessive was yet to come.

At this moment, the electronic big screen at the village committee lit up, and the contract content was clearly written on it, scrolling by.

The villagers stared at the big screen, watching very carefully; some who didn't recognize all the characters asked those around them to read it out and explain what it meant.

The contract prepared by Dingsheng was very standard, with many clauses; every detail was written clearly, not leaving a single opening. If he wanted to find a loophole—there was no way!

Gu Zhihao was about the same as the villagers and didn't understand much of it, but Huo Zhenting could understand it, and looking at it gave him a headache.

He now seriously suspected that this was a trap Sheng Hanyu had set for him, a setup just waiting for him to walk into, and he had walked right into it obediently.

Now that the arrow was on the bowstring, it had to be fired; he was forced into a dilemma.

Sign?

Or not sign?

According to the strict requirements in this contract, he wouldn't be able to make much money.

Actually, it wasn't that there was no profit, but it was just too far from what he had imagined; the gross profit was only twenty percent, which for Huo Zhenteng was a money-losing business.

But if he didn't sign, he wouldn't be able to step down from the stage. He was so anxious that a layer of sweat broke out on his forehead, and suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration and thought of an idea.

Huo Zhenteng stood up, seemingly to go get a pen to sign, but suddenly put on a pained expression and collapsed to the ground, trembling.

He clutched his chest with his hand, his features almost twisted together, and he wailed in pain: "Oh, my chest hurts, my heart condition is acting up."

"Call someone, call an ambulance quickly, call 120, I need to go to the hospital..."

The bidder suddenly had a heart attack, and this matter was left unsettled.

Sheng Hanyu was very "magnanimous"; seeing that Huo Zhenteng had gone to the hospital due to a "sudden illness," he took the initiative to request a delay, waiting until Huo Zhenteng's health improved to continue the bidding.

He stayed in the hospital for a week. He didn't have a heart condition, but he almost worried himself into one.

Huo Zhenteng racked his brains for a countermeasure and finally reached a conclusion: as long as Sheng Hanyu was involved in this matter, it was impossible for him to pick up a big bargain like he used to!

But he did not retreat; he had gone to such great lengths to get the Resort to its current state, and it would be a pity to just give up now; he was not reconciled.

He had spent quite a bit of money back then to bribe Chen Xiang and Ergouzi and have them take the blame for him and go to jail.

Although this money couldn't be counted on the surface, it was real money that had been spent, so it had to be counted in the costs.

That's right, Huo Zhenteng was the person behind Ergouzi!

He was the true mastermind behind the scenes.

Huo Zhenteng didn't want to increase the price for contracting the Resort, but he also didn't want to give up this piece of fat meat already at his lips, so he prepared to find a breakthrough from another angle.

Going head-to-head definitely wouldn't work; he couldn't win.

Conspiracies and tricks wouldn't work either; his tactics were more than enough to deal with Gu Zhihao, but to deal with Sheng Hanyu... they weren't enough to even look at.

Huo Zhenteng stewed in the hospital for a week and finally thought of a good idea.

Jiangzhou University.

Zichen was not surprised to receive a call from Huo Zhenteng.

"Chairman Huo, is there something you need from me?"

He was dissatisfied and corrected him: "Zichen, why call me Chairman Huo? Call me Uncle Huo." Huo Zhenteng was very sensitive and could hear the distance in Zichen's form of address.

Zichen did not dwell too much on the form of address and changed his tone: "Alright, Uncle Huo."

"That's right, that's better. Although your father and I are competing for that Resort project, our relationship must not change..."

Huo Zhenteng talked on and on, launching into a long-winded speech.

If he were allowed to keep going, the call wouldn't end for at least an hour.

Zichen saw this man for who he was, yet he had to play along with him.

He still had to keep up appearances, so Zichen said: "I heard you were hospitalized; how is your recovery going? I should have gone to visit you, but my school courses are very busy and I haven't had the time. I hope you won't blame me."