Married the Tough Guy After Transmigrating-Chapter 429: Firmly Refusing to Build the Road

Xu Qingqing was furious, "My mom was sent to jail by Xu Ying. We’re all family, my mom just made some idle comments, what’s so wrong with that? She heartlessly sent my mom to jail without any consideration for familial affection.

The people in her family are all so selfish and self-centered. Since Director Gu is of higher status than you, Xu Shengwu will definitely choose Director Gu’s daughter."

Hearing this, Zhang Linyu started to hesitate. In his mind, Xu Shengwu was an upright and incorruptible man. Surely he wouldn’t be so mercenary, would he?

Deputy Director Zhang, upon hearing this, felt even more challenged. A wolf without ambition is not a good wolf.

What he hated most was people like Director Gu who had no understanding of human relations and worldly wisdom.

If the Xu family is not like Director Gu, then it’ll be much easier to deal with.

He grimaced slightly, "Comrade, a child has their own thoughts, and I, as her father, can’t interfere.

Let her learn her lesson the hard way, then she’ll know to turn back."

Xu Qingqing thought that Deputy Director Zhang had taken her words to heart at this moment and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Just as she sat down, Sun Yiliang on the hospital bed opened his eyes, his forehead stitched up with several stitches.

His face had also been scratched, and his leg was even in a cast.

The moment he woke up, Sun Yiliang was still dizzy, "Where is this?"

Xu Qingqing, seeing him wake up, couldn’t be happier. She immediately leaned in and softly introduced the identities of Deputy Director Zhang and Zhang Linyu.

She went through the things that could help them all over again, and Sun Yiliang’s eyes brightened up.

If he could get hooked up with Deputy Director Zhang, he would be set for life. Even if he didn’t do business, as long as Deputy Director Zhang looked after him, his days wouldn’t be bad.

Deputy Director Zhang, seeing Sun Yiliang awake, was also very excited. It’s good that the person has woken up, "Comrade, I’m sorry, it’s all because my reckless daughter caused you to suffer so greatly!"

Sun Yiliang put on a gentle and understanding demeanor and shook his head, "It’s fine, now that I’m awake there’s nothing serious.

From now on, you must be careful when driving a car, it would be bad if it resulted in a fatality."

Deputy Director Zhang nodded again and again, "Yes, yes."

After he finished speaking, he gave a stern look to his daughter, telling her and Wu Yu to go back and turned to start chatting with Sun Yiliang.

When he heard that Xujia Village was going to build roads and that Xu Ying was also going to donate, Deputy Director Zhang immediately felt this was a great opportunity.

An opportunity to get closer to Xu Ying and her family.

Xu Qingqing was shrewd. To prevent Deputy Director Zhang from reneging on his word, she secretly recorded a piece of audio as evidence proving that Deputy Director Zhang’s daughter had hit her man and nearly killed him.

Only then did she let Deputy Director Zhang leave.

After Deputy Director Zhang left, Sun Yiliang’s face immediately turned to anger, "Damn it, that stinky girl can’t even look where she’s going when riding a bike.

It made me suffer so much, it’s killing me." His pain was evident in his gritted teeth and grimace.

Seeing this, Xu Qingqing smiled and said, "We can consider this a blessing in disguise since we’ve gotten on Deputy Director Zhang’s good side.

Are we still afraid we won’t be able to snatch all of Xu family’s greenhouse business?"

She couldn’t help but laugh out loud, "We have to hurry up and get the road construction sorted.

When the time comes, we have to involve my cousin’s family and let everyone in Xujia Village know that we are better than them."

Sun Yiliang nodded, feeling that was indeed the case.

On the other side, Mr. Xu, along with Director Sun, quickly started to visit each village to discuss the construction of the road.

As soon as it was mentioned that donations were needed for the roadwork, many villages were immediately unhappy.

These people didn’t do any business and had no spare money to contribute.

"Director, we’re all honest, hardworking farmers. We’ve only just had our land allocated a year ago. Where would we find spare cash to build your roads?

We can’t compare with the people from Xujia Village, who are all business folks. It should be the villagers there footing the bill if any roadwork needs to be done.

They use the roads way more than we do."

"That’s right, we’re just a bunch of ordinary people, spending our days tending to the fields. We don’t have that extra money."

"Fix it or don’t, but there’s no way we’re paying."

One villager after another started to shout.

Director Sun looked at everyone, their voices louder than his, his face turning ashen. He shouted, "Everyone, quiet down! The road repair was supposed to be voluntarily funded by everyone.

You could contribute whatever amount you want, as long as we can raise enough money for the repair.

Besides, it’s not just the people of Xujia Village who will use the road, it will make things easier for all of you.

The road now is all mud. Not only is it impassable when it rains, but God forbid there’s an emergency and someone needs to rush to the county, they wouldn’t be able to.

This isn’t beneficial for anyone, right?"

Mr. Xu, also visibly agitated, chimed in, "Listen to me, everyone; road repair is a great thing. It can enhance transportation efficiency and make it more convenient for people to travel.

As roads become wider and more cars come into use, road works are happening everywhere. It’s not for any other reason but to improve transportation efficiency, to help people reach their destinations faster.

And it’s not just our area that needs road work; many places have already finished theirs."

"And road construction can also promote economic development, bringing new opportunities for the city.

It’s not just for easier travel; road construction can also stimulate local economic development.

For instance, the more developed the road transportation in an area, the more it can attract investment and boost the local economy.

Now our dirt roads become accident-prone with each rain. If the roads were fixed, it would ensure everyone’s safety too."

Mr. Xu’s words would have been fine, but as soon as he spoke, a barrage of objections arose: "Village Chief Xu, anyone can talk a good talk.

Road repair might mean huge benefits for your village; of course, you’d want to fix them. But we folks here are just trying to make a living farming, earning a bit of extra cash on the side. We don’t have the money for road construction."

"Director Sun, it’s not that we don’t respect you, but we genuinely don’t have the money," said the head of their village with a distressed expression, looking at Director Sun.

Indeed, road repair is a good thing, but who’s got money to burn on that? We used to walk just fine; why can’t we walk now? It’s all because these businesspeople want to make their lives easier.

They’re making plenty of money, so why the fuss about building a road?

If roads are built, it benefits them even more. Anyway, they won’t be the ones spending the money. Whoever uses the road the most should be responsible for fixing it.

Just couldn’t believe these people would just wait for them to pay indefinitely, hindering their opportunities to make money.

The people began to act belligerently.

Director Sun was at a complete loss. He pulled Mr. Xu aside and shook his head, "Let’s go back for now, we’ll talk about the roads some other time.

I’ll see if I can apply for some funding from the authorities, maybe get the government to subsidize a bit. Then some of you who are in business can chip in to get the road fixed."

Mr. Xu sighed heavily, out of options.

The road had to be fixed. Recently, after a heavy rain, the roads were terrible. His eldest son’s delivery truck got stuck halfway several times and couldn’t make it back.

If it wasn’t getting stuck, a one-hour trip took two to three hours to complete. It was not only a waste of time but also incredibly dangerous.

There was a family whose car overturned. Fortunately, no lives were lost, or the accident would have been a major incident.

Mr. Xu and Director Sun returned home dejected.