Chapter 41: Obtaining a Vast Mansion with Millions of Rooms

  I led them to the front of the dilapidated house, ran inside and turned on the faucet, then walked out slowly and quietly, telling them: "Be careful after you go in, this house may collapse at any time." I originally wanted to say not to make too much noise, but didn't.

  Xu Delong stood at the door and looked up at the cracks on the roof and walls that had already let in light, furrowed his brow and said: "I think it's better to just push it down."

  I asked him: "Will you use cement to build houses over there?"

  "What's that?"

  "Don't bother with anything else, this wall is very solid and can't be pushed down by human strength!"

  Xu Delong chuckled: "Let's try it - when we attacked Jiankang, the city gate was pushed open by us." As he spoke, Xu Delong began to divide the people into three groups, each holding down one side of the house. With a single command, over 100 people exerted their strength together, but the house creaked and groaned like a spoiled little girl, refusing to fall. Xu Delong waved his hand again, and another 100 or so people took turns kicking with all their might. Two rows of flying feet kicked past, and the wall collapsed inward with a loud rumble, smoke and dust filling the air. Finally, the house was toppled by the 300-strong crowd.

  I'm sweating, if the relationship with them doesn't go well in the future, even if I can afford to buy a house, it's not considered my own. But in the future, it's also very convenient to harm anyone, I found a bloodless way.

  They lined up to drink water. I taught Xu Delong how to use the faucet and then told him to let them finish drinking water before going back, and I'll get them some food.

  Returned to the camp and found two people still on guard, and a rabbit had already been roasted.

  I was holding a rabbit leg in my mouth, one hand grasping the handlebars of my bicycle, with my silk jacket unbuttoned, humming a tune as I rode along the small road. If this were being filmed for TV, the rabbits in their hutches would have jumped out in all directions. In the suburbs, there are several factories that process rice and flour. As long as you have money, food is plentiful. I bought 2 tons of rice and flour, 100 buckets of oil, and seasonings - whatever I saw, I bought. Finally, the owner of the grain factory even lent me his accountant, who kept writing in a notebook nonstop. After finishing shopping here, I asked the accountant to hand over the accounts to someone else to calculate, and said to him: "I still need to buy some pots and pans, you come with me and help me calculate the cost." The owner of the factory had originally wanted to take advantage of this earthquake to hoard goods and make a profit, but because I was such a big customer, he readily agreed to lend me his accountant. In the end, he even regretted that he didn't have a daughter, who knows what he wanted to do.

  It was already past 10 am when I finished buying all the kitchen knives, chopping boards and bowls. The factory owner asked his nephew to drive a large Liberation truck out, and because I had prepared in advance, I had two hundred yuan in my pocket, but in the end, not even one hundred yuan was spent - from now on, let's just talk about spending money by the board!

  Finally I sat in the deputy driver's seat of the Great Liberation, feeling the spring breeze was pleasant and the horse's hooves were urgent. Don't let the golden cup be empty against the moon. Things went smoothly beyond my imagination.

  But I soon changed my mind - when the car arrived, what unfolded before my eyes was a vast expanse of wild grass, and not only were there no tents or people in sight, but even the slightest trace of human activity had been erased. Had these 300 people followed me to the point where they didn't eat or drink and then left? It's not like Yue Fei's troops would do something like that.

  The driver looked at me foolishly and asked, "Where do you want to go?" I told him to wait, opened the car door and jumped out. Before my feet even touched the ground, a pair of strong hands grabbed me and dragged me into the bushes. Before I could shout, someone covered my mouth. I closed my eyes, and four words kept repeating in my mind: "I'm going to die!"

  Just then a voice exclaimed in surprise, "Xiao Zhuang Shi?" I opened my eyes to see a young warrior with a childish face staring at me. Then dozens of people emerged from the bushes. Xu De Long rushed up to me and apologized, saying, "A misunderstanding, we thought you were an enemy."

  The boss of the processing plant's younger brother-in-law was indeed a man, after being pulled out of the car, he held up a wrench and shouted at his own head: "Don't come over, come over and let you see what kind of filling!"...

  I explained to him for half a day, but he still wouldn't put down the wrench. A soldier got impatient and went up to him, using a small grappling move to take down my little brother-in-law. My little brother-in-law cried out in despair: "I've never sold fake pesticides or Japanese rice, you can't treat me like this..."

  Finally, I gave him a half-day smile and told him that this was a group of friends who loved to joke around. After unloading all the food and sending off the driver, I rushed over to Xu DeLong, who looked a bit apologetic, and shouted: "Remember, in this era, apart from those who stretch out their hands to ask for money from you, there are no enemies!" I curiously asked him, "Why aren't you all staying inside your tents? What's going on with the others?"

  Xu De Long pointed to the surrounding grass: "They all hide, we have rules, after three poles are raised, it is not allowed to stay in the tent."

  I looked at the grass thicket, which was full of crises, and carefully observed that there were soldiers sitting in the grass with their knees in their arms. I asked nervously: "You haven't attacked any passersby, have you?" I really pulled out several unconscious people from the grass to say that this is a Jin army scout. Fortunately, Xu Delong shook his head and said: "We can distinguish between civilians and enemies."

  At that time, I was listening to this speech awkwardly, but didn't know what was wrong. Later, I realized that Xu Delong meant that I looked like a public enemy of the people.

  Leave the food, I should have gone back anyway. Let Baozi know that I ran out since midnight yesterday, and the consequences are very serious. Just as I was about to leave, I found a group of workers busy on the empty land in the distance, and there was an excavator, those few dangerous houses had been demolished. Anyway, it's already late, so I called Xu DeLong to lead 4 soldiers, and we went over together to take a look.

  The old bricks of the house had been piled up together, several strong workers drew a large circle on the ground with lime, and stacked bricks in the circle. I don't know what they were doing, smiling and saying: "Hard work, said today came true, talking about credibility." A worker with a full face of flesh looked at me and hummed as a greeting.

  I stood there for a long time with a sullen face, feeling more and more that something was off. I suddenly grabbed the fatty: "What are you people doing?"

  He slapped a shovel of mud onto the brick pile, shook off my hand and said impatiently: "Who are you? Can't you see that this is a canteen?" As he spoke, he threw a brick onto the mud and piled it up with his shovel.

  I pulled him up again: "This is the canteen your mother built for me, don't bully me for not understanding, I may not understand but I know that building a pigsty also needs to lay a foundation first!"

  He originally wanted to turn against me, but seeing that there were still people behind me, he suddenly opened my hand and said loudly: "Our boss allows us to do so, if you have anything to say, go find him!"

  "Where is your turtle head?"

  Laozi carried a bag of water pipe from the workshop and said lazily: "What's the matter?"

  "I pointed at his nose and scolded him: 'I only used you because of your second uncle's face, the money was paid to you without a cent missing, can't you do a good job for me?'"

  The bald man smiled slyly and said with a hidden threat, "Speak more politely - aren't you just a scam school that declares bankruptcy after three or five months? What's the use of laying foundations?"

  I kicked down the pigpen they had built with a single foot and roared: "Rebuild it for me!"

  Lai Zi's face changed color, and he said viciously: "You don't even ask around to see what kind of person your Lai Er Ge is. You really have no shame. Now I'm giving you a chance to apologize to me. If not, none of you will be able to leave here today!" At this time, seven or eight workers with evil faces came out of the workshop, adding to the ones who were already surrounding us, and nearly 20 people surrounded the six of us. Lai Zi looked around and saw that it was still not enough, so he shouted towards the construction site: "Someone's looking for trouble!" Suddenly, another dozen or so people rushed over, holding steel bars and iron shovels. I took a closer look and realized that none of them looked like real workers. It turned out that Lai Zi had gathered a group of thugs to cause trouble.

  With a sorrowful heart, I calmly told him: "We agreed that you would work hard, I didn't let you slack off..."

  The rascal stretched out his hand and sneered: "Where's the contract?"

  I sighed. The rascal proudly swung his arms and said, "Now apologize to me, and I'll pretend you didn't say anything, how about it?"

  "What if I don't?"

  "Haha, then take a look at what these brothers of mine have to say?"

  "You should know that this is against the law."

  "You tell me to go." said Lai Zi with a swagger.

  "Alright..." I sincerely asked for his opinion: "When we fight later, can we not hit each other's faces?"

  "That's hard to say, fists and feet are blind, but don't worry, there won't be any permanent damage."

  I sighed and said, "Your kindness has finally saved your life—" I turned to Xu DeLong and the other five and said, "Did you hear that? They want to cover up their tofu dregs project and harm you. When we fight later, it's okay to hit each other in the face, but don't maim anyone." The little warrior who had been captured by me earlier asked seriously, "Can we kick them in the groin?"

  "I didn't say it lightly: 'Look at you, kid. What I said can't be crippling - if you want to kick, that's fine, but leave at least one for others, got it?'"

  The scoundrel hastily and viciously said: "You're about to die, yet you still dare to play with your tongue..."

  He hadn't finished speaking when I slammed a brick on his head - heaven and earth, no one knew where the brick came from, the brick just came from where it should come!

  As I bent down to pick up the brick, the fight had already gone halfway - Lai Zi's men were lying on the ground, and the two 300 warriors saw that there were more wolves than meat, so they became polite. The younger one pointed at a thug wielding an iron shovel in front of them and said to the older one: "Brother, you come." The older one politely declined: "No, no, you come, brother, you're still young, need to exercise..."

  Xu De Long's legwork is too handsome, one kick flies one, like Zhou Xingxing in "Kung Fu", but the person he kicked down didn't die or get seriously injured, this is called fire level. The other warriors can't fight as smoothly as him, they have to be careful not to kill their opponents, and also make them lose combat effectiveness with one blow, so they delay, and if they see something go wrong, they run away, we are outnumbered, and can't catch up.

  When I held the brick and looked for someone, all that was left was a dazed look around. The bald man's men fell down, some ran away. I squatted in front of the bald man and said with concern: "Are you okay? I told you not to hit your face, but you didn't listen."

  The bald-headed man covered his head, knowing that the situation was already hopeless, but still shouting: "You wait, I'll gather my brothers and deal with you!" After he finished saying this, he suddenly looked very distracted, staring into the distance. Was he thinking of his old mother and the girl on the roof?

  I followed his gaze and smiled.

  Originally, we had turned the place upside down and had already alarmed the other 300. Seeing that the enemy had begun to flee, they cast their nets from all sides to capture them. Those poor migrant workers didn't have a single one who could escape the devil's clutches. In less than the time it takes to smoke a cigarette, the captured workers were all thrown to the ground. The 300 Iron Blood stood with their hands behind their backs and their feet naturally spread apart, surrounding us in an enormous circle.

  I strutted back and forth in front of Lai Zi with a smug expression: "You don't even ask around to find out who Xiao Qiang is, you have no shame - you've already lost the chance to apologize. To make up for the fright you gave my delicate heart, aside from the cafeteria, dormitory, and teaching building, you also need to build me a grand auditorium, add half a meter to the campus wall, and give me all the grass."

  "Hey, we didn't agree on this..." said Lai Zi with a sobbing voice.

  "I stretched out my hand to him: 'The contract, is it here?'"

  Lao Zhang was tongue-tied for half a day, weakly saying: "I admit defeat, I'll return the money to you without a cent missing, and these bricks I brought can be considered as my gift to you."

  "I said, 'That's not okay, how can I take advantage of you? You should finish the work and then leave, so we won't owe each other anything.' Then I called over Xu DeLong to tell him, 'Let our brother supervise these people as they work, make sure they have enough food to eat, don't mistreat them.'" Xu DeLong nodded.

  "You are detaining me illegally, this is against the law!"

  I threw up my hands at him: "Tell me to go!" Then I said to Xu DeLong, "Break the legs of those who want to run away!"

  Lai Zi finally burst into tears: "Qiang Ge, I knew you were a rascal too, what's the point of this?" In the end, he also felt that he had spoken out of turn. He wiped his nose and sighed, saying, "Let me die with some understanding, who are these people?"

  I said: "These are all students I've recruited. You want to break the legs of those people, aren't you going to introduce me to the campus police?"

  The pockmarked man sniffled and said: "From now on, I'll get all those who have a grudge against me to come to you."

  They're just pretending to work, they can't even demolish a broken house properly. This group of people are just here to eat and get paid for nothing. Besides, we can't really detain them. In the end, Lai Zi called in a few small contractors who were intimidated by him, and Lai Zi's team became a professional supervision team. After a special budgeting process, it was estimated that adding a large hall would cost around 400,000 yuan. Lai Zi wanted to exploit the small contractors into doing free labor, but I ended up paying them instead. Now Lai Zi is very submissive towards me, even though I slapped him with a brick, he can't bring himself to hate me. This just goes to show that he's a clever person.