Chapter 251: What? Want to rebel?

The one speaking was Zhao Banxian, his goatee showing a deathly gray in the sun.

The restless crowd quieted down again, watching my actions with bated breath.

"Boss Qian!" I shouted behind me: "Come over and talk about how much money you invested in this project."

Qian Youyu hesitated and dared not come forward. The people standing in front of him were all from Yue Bai's village, and they had intricate relationships with her. If there was the slightest mistake and he offended Yue Bai, he would rather give up the money than give up her.

I saw through Qian Youyu's thoughts at a glance, and I encouraged him: "Speak boldly, what plans do you have for developing Laoyingzui?"

Qian Youyu's mouth opened and closed, but no sound came out. He was flushed red, turned back to look at me, smiled awkwardly, lowered his head, and retreated to the side, squatting down and shrinking his head between his legs, refusing to lift it again.

"Mud can't stick to the wall!" I laughed, kicked him, and turned to the villagers: "I tell everyone, Boss Qian wants to invest hundreds of millions in this place. What is the concept of hundreds of millions? I tell you, it's almost enough to build a Chunshan County city. Who benefits from so much money invested here? It's you!" My finger pointed at this group of people who were lowering their heads and saying nothing, and I felt even more aggrieved: "The government is trying every possible way to change your lives, but you, on the other hand, see a little bit of petty profit and forget your own name. It's true that there are minerals underground, but how much? No one knows. Without drilling and surveying, everything said is nonsense. Maybe there is a big mine here, big beyond imagination, or maybe the little bit of minerals here is not worth mining at all. You squeeze out the investment boss, squeeze out the government, what will you use to mine? I tell you, just one excavator costs over a million. What will you use to buy it?"

The crowd was silent, and Zhao Banxian squinted and stroked his goatee.

"What if the ore mined underground isn't worth an excavator? What will you do?" I reached out behind me, wanting a bottle of water to quench my thirst. But my eyes dared not leave them for a moment. As long as I watched them, they wouldn't move randomly. After all, I was their Town Mayor!

Suddenly I felt a bottle of water stuffed into my hand. I turned back to glance, and it was Xue Bing, holding the phone and pointing at it, indicating that the call had already been made.

The commotion at the Laoyingzui water plant construction site brought Guo Wei. He ran over panting, looked at the group of people nervously, and asked me: "What's going on? Why are so many people here?"

I whispered: "Gold sand was discovered here, there is a mineral vein."

"Is that so?" Guo Wei looked at the bottom of the pit suspiciously, muttering: "Is there really?"

Guo Wei's arrival caused the crowd to become restless again.

This new Party Secretary was very disdainful of reasoning with them. Just from the fact that they were asking for land acquisition compensation, it was clear that this Party Secretary wouldn't even meet them, and he was definitely harder to talk to than me.

Sure enough, Guo Wei looked at the crowd and said: "What? Want to rebel?"

Zhao Dequan had dealt with Guo Wei several times, and Zhao Banxian knew Guo Wei's style even better. When he led a group of old men and women to camp at the township government, this Party Secretary didn't even show his face. In their view, the reason he didn't show his face was that the Party Secretary was afraid of them!

"We are all good citizens, what could we rebel against? You, this Party Secretary, cannot just label the common people," Zhao Banxian said eerily, opening his half-closed eyes, poking the ground with his cane, poking a few small holes, and then using his feet to rake a few pieces of soil to fill them, stepping on them and saying: "We stand on our own sky, step on our own land. For thousands of years, Laoyingzui has belonged to our ancestors. Stepping on our own land, whose rebellion are we making?"

Guo Wei was choked by him and couldn't speak for a long time. He himself carried a scholarly air, and standing among a group of tiger-eyed farmers, he appeared especially powerless.

"Not rebelling, why are you surrounding this place? Why don't you go home?" Guo Wei finally softened his voice. Anyone who has worked in the countryside knows that if you go head-to-head, the country people won't buy it at all.

"We are just standing on our own land. This is our home, where should we go back to?" Zhao Banxian said sarcastically, causing the crowd behind him to stir again.

The sudden change made Professor Xu at a loss. He held the stone with the gold sand and walked to our side, saying to Zhao Banxian and the others: "Can everyone listen to me for a few words?"

The noisy crowd quieted down, all wanting to see what this gray-haired old man wanted to say.

"It's true that a gold mine vein was discovered here," he raised the stone in his hand: "But how much reserve there is is still unclear, and further drilling is needed. I understand everyone's mood. No matter whose land it is, as long as there is a gold mine, everyone is happy, don't you think?"

The crowd nodded in unison, and the chattering sound rose again.

"If you want to know if there is anything underground, we still need to survey further, right? You surrounding this place won't solve the problem, right? It's better to wait until we have surveyed clearly, and then come to discuss the ownership issue, right?" His series of "right?" left the crowd in disarray.

"This thing, it's better to figure out whose family it belongs to first. To avoid being swindled by him again when the time comes," Zhao Dequan blocked Professor Xu's words and whispered a few words in Zhao Banxian's ear.

In Laoyingzui Village, Zhao Banxian was the soul figure. This old man who had been a village official and made a living by geomancy had a decisive role in Laoyingzui Village. Taking him down was equivalent to taking hold of Laoyingzui's lifeline!

Thinking of this, I walked to Zhao Banxian's side and said sincerely: "Old Village Chief, you are a person who has been an official, your awareness is higher than theirs. Making trouble like this won't solve the problem. If something really happens, no one can protect anyone. Besides, your daughter is now a resident of the town neighborhood committee. The future development of the town still needs enterprises to drive it."

Zhao Banxian was moved by my soft and hard approach. I was telling him that Laoyingzui Village could kick him out for the sake of a household registration indicator, so who could guarantee that Laoyingzui wouldn't exclude him again in the future? Like him, a person with only one daughter, he belonged to the lonely and widowed in the countryside.

"Town Mayor Chen, you are right. But they..." Zhao Banxian stopped mid-sentence.

"Uncle, you must be firm in your position," Zhao Dequan saw that I was almost moving Zhao Banxian, and became anxious, pulling Zhao Banxian, who almost fell.

I reached out to support Zhao Banxian and said with a smile: "Professor Xu is right, we must figure out what is underground first."

Just as Zhao Dequan was about to speak, the sound of a police siren came from afar. I guessed it was Hao Qiang coming. Hao Qiang drove a sidecar, and whenever he went out, he would definitely sound the siren and turn on the police lights, looking majestic.

Zhao Dequan's face turned pale, and he looked at me nervously. The crowd behind him slowly disintegrated as the siren got closer. By the time the siren stopped beside us, the crowd behind him had already scattered like birds and beasts, leaving only the lonely Zhao Dequan supporting the trembling Zhao Banxian.

"Who is making trouble?" Hao Qiang shouted, jumped off the vehicle, pulled out the shiny handcuffs from behind his butt, and was about to rush over.

Zhao Dequan screamed "Mom!" and threw Zhao Banxian away, darting out like a dog. Zhao Banxian, who hadn't stood firm, was pushed by him and fell to the ground, cursing in pain.

I held back my laughter, bent down to help Zhao Banxian up, patted the dust off him, and said: "Go back quickly. The dust at the construction site is bad for your health."

Zhao Banxian stamped his feet hatefully and cursed: "These motherless things, if I meddle in other people's business again, I'll die a horrible death!"

The sun had risen to the top of the head, and the warm sunlight sprinkled on the body, making people feel like a pair of gentle little hands were comforting them. Although the people of Laoyingzui Village had dispersed, they would definitely come back again.

We only drew a pancake for the people of Laoyingzui, and this pancake was drawn to make people drool. First, we drew a picture of city people, making them hand over the highway land acquisition compensation; then we drew a picture of workers, making them all think they had become workers; and then we drew a picture of a farmers' market, making all the people in Laoyingzui Village think they could open businesses from then on.

Little did they know, behind these pancakes, except for the pancake I drew for them to become workers, the other pancakes were becoming more and more distant. With no money in their pockets, what would the people of Laoyingzui Village use to build a farmers' market?

It was precisely because they felt that these pancakes were just good to look at and couldn't solve the practical situation of hunger that they dared to incite Zhao Banxian to come out, wanting to catch a straw in the surging flood! ===== CHAPTER 252 =====