Chapter 402

Relying on their authority to manage the market, they often acted like tyrants and had assembled a group of underlings who were also thugs by background.

Aside from the normal stall fees.

Tang Xiaolong and the others were actually collecting an extremely unreasonable and exorbitant hygiene fee!

In other words.

It was protection money!

And regarding this, everyone in the market dared to be angry but dared not speak!

Although Gao Qiqiang knew it was unreasonable, one has to bow their head when under the eaves. Seeing Xiaolong and Xiaohu reminding him that the hygiene fee would rise next year.

He could only force a smile and agree.

But then Tang Xiaolong further indicated he wanted to move the good location of Gao Qiqiang's fish stall! Hinting at demanding a plasma color TV!

And this point made countless older viewers gasp.

That was the year 2000!

An era when even telephones weren't popularized!

The average monthly salary was less than one thousand yuan!

The price of a plasma color TV... was at least ten or twenty thousand yuan!

And at that time, a "ten-thousand-yuan household" was already a sign of wealth!

This one TV could equal the annual salary of most people!

How could Tang Xiaolong and Tang Xiaohu even ask for that?!

Facing the lion's share demanded by the two.

Gao Qiqiang was very troubled.

On one side was the good location of the fish stall he had operated for many years; moving to another place would be a huge blow to his business in the market!

On the other side was a ten-or-twenty-thousand-yuan plasma color TV! Even if they buried him, he couldn't come up with that money!

Struggling as he arrived at the appliance market, looking at the twenty-one-thousand-eight-hundred-yuan price tag for a plasma TV.

Gao Qiqiang was completely powerless.

In the end, he had to grit his teeth and buy a seven-thousand-yuan ordinary color TV to use as a gift.

Although there was a gap compared to a plasma color TV.

But in that era when TVs and bicycles were still the "three major items."

A seven-thousand-yuan color TV was definitely a major household appliance that countless families dreamed of!

But what made the viewers even more furious was.

Even though Gao Qiqiang had already bled heavily to present the seven-thousand-yuan TV.

It couldn't satisfy the appetites of Tang Xiaolong and the others at all.

They made him take the TV back while also pushing it directly down the stairs.

Suddenly.

Looking at the smashed color TV.

Gao Qiqiang was momentarily enraged and rushed into Tang Xiaolong's house to demand an explanation.

And afterwards.

It was just as all the viewers saw at the beginning.

Tang Xiaolong and the others beat Gao Qiqiang up and even took the initiative to call the police, slandering Gao Qiqiang for home invasion and robbery.

And after understanding the cause and effect.

In the interrogation room, Li Xiang and An Xin displayed two completely different attitudes.

An Xin felt sympathy and pity for Gao Qiqiang.

After all, anyone with eyes could see that Tang Xiaolong's group was bullying others and the villains were complaining first.

It could completely count as the embryonic form of a criminal underworld!

And Gao Qiqiang was a complete victim!

But Li Xiang didn't carry the same sympathetic psychology as An Xin.

He fully intended to handle the matter strictly according to the law.

On New Year's Eve, he directly detained Gao Qiqiang at the police station.

But the soft-hearted An Xin secretly received Gao Qisheng and his sister in the reception room when they came to visit.

It counted as letting the three Gao siblings eat their New Year's Eve dinner together and watch the Spring Festival Gala together.

And because of this.

It seemed that an intersection had been created between Gao Qiqiang and An Xin!

【Could it be because of what happened here! That's why the two of them became friends!】

【It must be!】

【An Xin is such a good person!!】

【Gao Qiqiang is also honest... Li Xiang asked him who started the fight... and he actually admitted it was him who started it... isn't this taking the blame voluntarily!】

【Yeah... that really benefits Tang Xiaolong and them!】

【Originally Tang Xiaolong and them were powerful and influential, you can't afford to offend them!】

【I reckon it's right here, An Xin might have wanted to win Gao Qiqiang over as his informant!】

【But Gao Qiqiang is just a fishmonger... and he looks so honest, how could he mix into a criminal gang?】

And just as all the viewers in the live stream were discussing it eagerly.

The scene shifted.

The timeline arrived at 2021.

Amidst a festive atmosphere of lion and dragon dances.

A much older Gao Qiqiang, about fifty years old, appeared in the scene.

A low-key yet tasteful outfit, like that of an entrepreneur, showed his status was not insignificant at this time.

He took his seat at the banquet in the village's open-air square.

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Gao Qiqiang clinked glasses with the elders at the table.

And the Third Uncle sitting beside Gao Qiqiang took the lead with a gratified smile and praised:

"Ah Qiang... you've really made something of yourself now!"

"Ah Qiang is much better than his father now!"

"Look! This square in our village, and this cultural building, weren't they all funded by Ah Qiang! All us old folks in the village! We're enjoying them every day!"

Facing the praise of several elders, Gao Qiqiang responded with a polite smile:

"This is just a small gesture from a younger generation!"

His tone was calm, the smile on his face was kind, looking every bit like a well-mannered successful person.

And at this moment!

All the viewers were stunned in front of their screens!

This... what on earth happened?

Twenty-plus years later!

Gao Qiqiang had made it big!

Not only did he fund the village, not forgetting his roots, but his eloquence had also improved a lot!

Now, if you said Gao Qiqiang used to be a fishmonger, no one would believe it at all!

But what shocked all the viewers even more!

Was that at the banquet, sitting in the second seat next to the Third Uncle, looking every bit like Gao Qiqiang's underling... was Tang Xiaolong!

What on earth happened in these twenty years!

While Gao Qiqiang became a prominent entrepreneur, Tang Xiaolong actually ended up following Gao Qiqiang too?! **CHAPTER 403**