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Chapter 388 Who can outsmart whom? [Request full order]
Chapter 388 Who can outsmart whom? [Request full order]
In Xu Siqi’s opinion, she is not the boss’s woman. Why should the boss invest money just to bring political achievements to his third uncle?
And from the tone of my third uncle, less than 1000 million would probably not satisfy him. After all, even in a small place like Baoqing City, the boss has invested 2500 million in less than two years. In my third uncle’s view, the boss is probably just a machine for him to extract political achievements. But my third uncle is too naive.
She is only worried now, what if they fail to reach an agreement later?
Will I be unable to leave?
Moreover, the boss has no obligation to protect me. Those who want to take me away are not bad people, but my parents and uncle, and at worst some staff members of Tianfu District.
Du Qinian no longer looked at his niece.
What is there to say to my niece?
She couldn’t make the decision.
He looked at Lu Yang and said with a grin, “Boss Lu, you are so young and promising, you can’t be without even this much courage, right?”
As a man who holds a high position and has great wealth, he doesn’t believe that the other party will not touch such a beautiful niece.
But since he has touched the daughter of the Du family, he must pay something, right?
It’s ok to want to do it without paying anything and deceive a naive girl who is new to the world, but since her family is here, there is absolutely no reason for her to be treated as a prostitute. How can such a good thing happen in this world?
If the other party doesn’t give an explanation today, then he will have to take her back. Whether she marries him or keeps him locked up at home, he will have nothing to do with this kid anymore.
Dare to stop me?
Humph, you think it’s great to have a few bodyguards around you, right?
This is Dongda, Xingcheng, and the territory of my Du family. If you are a dragon, you have to coil around me, and if you are a tiger, you have to lie down. Dongda will not tolerate capitalists taking advantage of the situation. If you dare to stop me and are taken down directly, don’t blame me for being ruthless then.
It was the other party who took the initiative to cause trouble, and now it has fallen into your hands. You don’t even need to frame him. You can just accuse him of any crime. Are you still afraid that he won’t surrender?
Du Qinian’s eyes were sparkling. He even expected the other party to reject him next. After all, young people are easily impulsive. When his woman was about to be taken away, he was even told that she would be arranged to go on a blind date in a few days, and then get married and become someone else’s wife, and be bullied by others at will.
Who can bear to be cuckolded?
He has seen many such rich people. Relying on their wealth, they often ignore legal dogma. When the time comes, they will definitely want to kidnap people. As long as the bodyguards following the other party dare to move, then his chance will come. He will seize the other party’s sore spot and step on it hard as long as he can prove the other party’s motive of kidnapping.
You are a married man, and you raped a female college student in public, in front of her parents. No matter how rich you are, even if you are the richest man in the country, you will still have to bear the consequences.
Humph, you can’t escape unless you get a layer of skin peeled off.
Although Lu Yang didn’t know what the third son of the Du family was planning, fortunately he knew other people in the Du family.
Du Lingling, whom he always called his godsister, is also the fourth child in the Du family. Occasionally, when talking about her family members, the person Du Lingling mentioned the most, besides her second sister Du Yuanyuan, is the third child Du Qinian.
It’s not that she has the best relationship with her second sister and third brother in the family, but that her relationship with them is the worst.
In Du Lingling’s words, the eldest brother is like a father. The eldest brother Du Qiyuan is the oldest. When the old man was sent to the farm in his early years, the eldest brother has always been the pillar of the family, and the eldest brother also loves her the most.
I have been able to stay single all these years, even though I made the old man furious, and still live so freely and do what I like, all because I have my elder brother supporting me and making decisions for me.
Otherwise, with the old man’s stubborn temper, coupled with the second sister also being there to encourage him from time to time, and the third sister also often being sarcastic.
What she said: As the daughter of the Du family, she did not know how to contribute to the Du family. Not only did she not bring any political resources to the Du family over the years, but also because she had refused so many times, some people felt embarrassed and regarded the Du family as an imaginary political enemy, which caused several waves of trouble for the Lu family.
What’s the use of such an unfilial daughter?
“Dad, you can’t spoil me anymore. Back then, I married Xu Changping under your arrangement. If you hadn’t said he was a talented person with a promising future, how could I, Du Yuanyuan, a daughter of heaven, marry a country boy?”
“But after so many years, Xu Changping still hasn’t achieved anything. It was only with your help that he got a full-time job in his hometown. I have no complaints because it was arranged by you, Dad. But why should my little sister do whatever she wants? She is also a girl from the Du family. I don’t accept it, but you can’t be partial to her.”
“Second sister is right, Dad, you can’t watch my little sister ruin our Du family’s reputation any longer. Send someone to bring her back. While eldest brother is away and no one is standing up for her, we can find her a good family to marry into. That will be fair to her.”
These conversations were from 10 years ago.
At that time, Du Lingling’s elder brother Du Qiyuan, who was in his prime, had just been promoted to SL member of a military sub-district in the southwest.
The Du family was once very prosperous.
With this favorable wind, the old man of the Du family also became more active. He will retire in a few years, and after he retires, the Du family will have to rely on the eldest brother for support. But if he can take advantage of this time, while the Du family is still prosperous and he has not retired yet, to find a powerful relative for the Du family, then even if he retires in the future, or simply dies, the eldest brother will not have to fight alone, at least he has a powerful brother-in-law’s family to help him.
Why is it brother-in-law?
Because at that time, Du Lingling was the only unmarried young woman of marriageable age in the Du family.
And Du Lingling does have the conditions.
Not to mention that she is beautiful.
She was a top student and taught at a university. She was an intellectual and beautiful young woman. She was not very old at the time, only about 25 or 26 years old. Among intellectuals, this was the best age to get married.
But Du Lingling didn’t want to. She studied hard since she was young, and her grades were always among the best, from junior high school to high school to college, and then to graduate school, just to prove that even though she was a girl, she was not much worse than the uneducated man like her third brother.
But now if she just listens to her family’s arrangements, goes on blind dates, gets married, takes care of her husband and children, be a good vase, and maintain the Du family’s pitiful network of contacts, then wouldn’t all her efforts over the years and her hard work in studying become a joke?
So she resisted fiercely and even threatened to commit suicide at one point. If her eldest brother had not found out, he would have written back to scold her second sister and third brother, and also wrote to the old man to tell him that as a soldier, he could only achieve fame and honor on the battlefield. How could he rely on his sister’s marriage to consolidate his position?
He felt ashamed the first time he heard about it. If his father insisted and forced his fourth sister to death, he would have to resign as the commander of the military sub-district and simply return to his hometown in Liuyang to farm, so as to avoid feeling guilty.
Of course, Mr. Du was reluctant to see the eldest son of the Du family resign. After receiving the letter, he immediately called the second and third sons to his side and scolded them severely.
Then he warned the second and third sons: “This is the end of the matter. Your sister can marry whoever she wants. If she doesn’t want to get married, she can stay in school and teach. I, the old man, will no longer care about her. Also, you are not allowed to embarrass her, otherwise you know how terrifying your eldest brother is when he gets angry. If he enforces the family rules, you two will have to bear it. Do you understand?”
Du Qiyuan is the eldest of the four brothers and sisters in the Du family. He was born before liberation and has suffered more than the other three brothers and sisters combined. He is also several years older than all of them and is even 15 years older than the youngest, Du Lingling.
The eldest brother is like a father. The eldest brother is like a father. This is not simply the eldest brother is like a father, but he basically raises the youngest sister as his own daughter.
That’s why people like Du Yuanyuan and Du Qinian are jealous of their younger sister and afraid of their older brother.
What kind of person is Du Qinian?
Du Lingling is the one who knows it best. In her words, “My third brother was a playboy in his early years. He was almost spoiled by my father. He was just like many other children from big courtyards. He was always making trouble and causing chaos.
Later, my eldest brother became successful, and he also wanted to learn from him. However, he did not have his ability, nor was he as hardworking and diligent as him. When he was asked to join the army, he was unwilling to do so, saying that he wanted to pursue a career in politics and learn how to be an official.
Do you know what happened later?
He really did it. Of course, this was related to the fact that he had been begging the old man for a long time. Whenever he had time, he would act weird in front of the old man, trying to force me to get married through the old man. It was because he wanted to get enough resources for him to climb up through the person I married. I failed to fulfill his wish, so he has been complaining about it over the years and never talked to me. Of course, I was too lazy to pay attention to him.
This man not only changed from a dandy boy to an official, but also became a bureaucrat. He would do anything to climb up the career ladder. In his eyes, family affection is only of value. Little brother, if you meet him in the future, you must stay away from him. We can’t afford to provoke him, but we can still avoid him.”
It was after she got drunk that Du Lingling said the above words to Lu Yang, and it took Lu Yang a lot of effort to coax her into calming down.
“Last time I only gave Sister Du 500 million, and Sister Du was already very sincere to me. This time I’m still in Pengcheng, but I’ve already transferred 2000 million to her. I’m afraid Sister Du must be so happy that she hasn’t slept for several nights, right?”
“Forget it, we can celebrate after we get back. At worst, I can just let her go this time. She’s a woman, she can get drunk, but I can’t. If everyone gets drunk, we’ll make mistakes as a single man and a single woman.”
Baoqing City’s Economic and Technological Development Zone is Du Lingling’s territory.
Lu Yang opened an electronics factory in the Economic Development Zone of Baoqing City, so it was inevitable that he had to deal with Du Lingling frequently.
The two of them were calling each other sister and brother, which was already ambiguous, so it was actually normal for them to drink together alone, just like what happened in the future?
Male best friends, female best friends, yes, yes, they are best friends, pure friendship between best friends of the opposite sex.
Lu Yang narrowed his eyes and said, “District Chief Du, you are such a joke. You are here and you are making such a big fuss. If I don’t give you face, would I dare to leave?”
In addition to Xu Changping and Du Yuanyuan and his wife, there were more than a dozen government workers standing behind Du Qinian.
A gang fight?
Of course not. This was an arrangement made in advance to capture Xu Siqi, the niece.
Lu Yang didn’t care about him. He pretended not to know and scolded this guy first.
Unfortunately, the person in front of him didn’t care at all. Du Qinian only cared whether he would vote or not: “Boss Lu, let’s stop beating around the bush and just give me a straight answer.”
To invest or not to invest?
“cast.”
Lu Yang made a prompt decision and nodded heavily, “I will invest 300 acres of land. I want the best land in your Tianfu District besides the currently developed land. I will buy it at the current Xingcheng land public price. It doesn’t matter if it is preferential or not, but I only require that the land must be good, the land certificate, and the industrial and commercial land should be half and half. After all, in addition to the factory, we have other supporting facilities. In the future, this place will follow the example of those state-owned enterprises and strive to become a self-sufficient comprehensive community, especially a hospital and a school.”
When Du Qinian heard this, he immediately became excited and didn’t care about the nature of the land, the risks brought by half industrial land and half commercial land. He kept asking: “What about the investment? The investment must be a lot, right?”
Lu Yang laughed and raised five fingers. “5000 million, divided into 5 years. In the first year, I know very well that due to the location, it may be difficult to demolish the house and conflicts may arise among the people. I will set a one-year deadline. I would like to ask District Chief Du to vacate the land. At that time, I will purchase the land at the most fair price according to the market price. I will pay as much as it is worth. In the second year, it will definitely not be less than twice the first year, and the same will be true for the third year.”
Du Qinian said in surprise: “Really?”
He almost wanted to call him his nephew’s son-in-law. If this guy is really that rich, and it is really as he said, and he is not exaggerating, and he can really invest 5 million to build a factory in Tianfu District in 5000 years, then this guy will be my benefactor from now on.
If we want to win him over, it seems my beautiful niece has to do the job.
Thinking of this, he turned around and said to his second sister, “Second sister, I don’t think Boss Lu is a bad person. There are not many young people as successful as him in China. Since Sisi is now his secretary, I think it’s a good thing. Don’t make things difficult for her. Just let her go. Maybe she can give you another surprise someday.”
As he said this, he blinked again.
He knew his second sister very well. She looked like a strong woman, but was actually a very traditional woman.
There was no way she wouldn’t listen to what her brother from her mother’s side said.
(End of this chapter)