Chapter 574 — Harboring Designs

"Tang Yun, have you ever heard of her? She is the campus belle of our Songshan No.1 High School, and the number one beauty of the shantytown!" Li Erlan said. "I have photos here. Young Master Bing, take a look?"

"Oh? Let me see." Young Master Bing took Li Erlan's phone, which was full of candid photos of Tang Yun that Li Erlan had snapped on the sly.

Zhong Fabai was overjoyed. He had been fretting over how to shift the target toward Tang Yun, and now Li Erlan had shown up at just the right moment. It could not have been better timed. Now he would have a proper excuse when they moved against Tang Yun's family.

"Young Master Bing, I have heard of this Tang Yun. My son also studies at Songshan City No.1 High School, and there is indeed some so-called commoner campus belle named Tang Yun!" Zhong Fabai chimed in at just the right moment. "But I hear she just found herself a boyfriend?"

"Just found one? None before?" Young Master Bing's eyes lit up. If that was the case, then the odds were high that this girl was still a virgin. He looked again at Li Erlan's photos, and she was indeed the finest of the finest. Even a casual secret snapshot looked this beautiful, so how stunning must she be in person. A woman like that was exactly what interested him most.

"None before. Young Master Bing, I dare say Tang Yun is definitely still untouched!" Li Erlan said. "I know a thing or two about this. You can tell when a woman has been with a man!"

Zhao Qibing nodded. "Old Zhong, think of a way later and start with this Tang Yun's family. I am determined to have this girl."

"Rest assured, Young Master Bing, I will get it done!" Zhong Fabai felt his very heart singing with joy. Heaven itself was helping him. This Li Erlan was truly a marvelous fellow.

"I hear Tang Yun's family wants a shop from this demolition. We can squeeze them on that point." Li Erlan had already looked into Tang Yun's family circumstances. He was from the shantytown himself, so finding out such things had been no trouble at all.

Zhong Fabai nodded after hearing this, feeling all the more grateful to Li Erlan. This was even better. Now he had a ready-made excuse to make things difficult, without having to rack his own brains.

After dinner, the group returned to the square in the shantytown, except now there was one more man on the rostrum, and that was Li Erlan. The residents of the shantytown were all baffled. Why had these big bosses come only to leave, and left only to return? What kind of act were they putting on?

When they saw Li Erlan up on the rostrum, the shantytown residents grew furious. This Li Erlan must have gone over to the enemy and told the developers everything the residents had decided. Because Li Erlan was also one of the shantytown, no one had kept him out of their meetings to discuss, so he knew a great deal. Looking back now, that had been a real mistake. This brat was rotten to the core, actually turning traitor and playing the spy.

"Have you finished your discussion? If not, then let me tell you about the demolition compensation terms of our Qibing Real Estate." Zhong Fabai cleared his throat and looked at the crowd as he spoke. "The demolition resettlement payment is eight hundred yuan per square meter. Once the new buildings are completed, returning households will receive a certain preference, with an eighty percent price for repurchase, but shops and garages are excluded!"

"Eight hundred?" The shantytown residents present immediately refused and started shouting. "How high are housing prices now? You give us eight hundred, where are we supposed to buy a house? Prices here are already ten thousand. Even at eighty percent that is still eight thousand!"

"We are counting your sheds and storehouses toward the floor area. With all that added together, it will be no problem for each family to buy a small unit of thirty or forty square meters." Zhong Fabai said flatly. "All right. If there are no problems, let us start signing the agreements now."

Everyone was stunned. The compensation figure they had agreed upon was three thousand, with a bottom line of two thousand. With that kind of money, they could buy a decent large apartment elsewhere. Who would have thought the developer would offer only eight hundred. Was that gap not far too wide?

No one was more disappointed than Tang's mother. Her family's floor area was small, with neither storehouse nor shed. She had only hoped that after demolition she could use the money Wei Zhao had given her to buy a shop and run a barbecue business. Yet returning households got no discount on shop units. What kind of logic was that?

"Then we will not demolish! What kind of compensation is this? Once we demolish we will have nowhere to live. Am I right, everyone?" Someone began to shout.

With one man leading, many more voiced their anger, all declaring they could not accept such compensation and resettlement payments. It was simply far too little.

"Three thousand, not a cent less! If it is less we will not move. Go build your houses wherever you please!"

"Li Erlan, are you in league with them? You dog of a spy, selling out the interests of our shantytown!"

"We are all on the ground floor. Why is there no discount when we buy shops? If that is how it is, we might as well not move!" Tang's mother could not help questioning aloud. She cared less about the amount of compensation. Even at two thousand, it would only mean a few tens of thousands more.

Tang's mother had not wanted to stick her neck out. After all, on such an occasion it was hardly fitting for a woman to take the lead. But now that everyone else had spoken up, she stopped caring and shouted along with them.

Yet strangely enough, it meant nothing when others spoke. The moment she opened her mouth, Zhong Fabai pointed at her and said, "You want a shop? Then come over here!"

Tang's mother froze, but she could read nothing from Zhong Fabai's tone. Could he mean to give her a better deal on a shop? Her heart stirred at once, and she started to walk over.

Tang Yun was frightened, however. "Mom, do not go. The bird that sticks its head out gets shot!"

"Silly child, can you not see everyone is making a fuss? If you do not fight for your interests now, when will you?" Tang's mother glared at her daughter. "There is strength in numbers, do you not understand? Are you counting on dealing with them in private? Do not forget what happened to your father. Going to make trouble on our own will solve nothing. Now that we are many and powerful, if we raise our demands together, they will surely settle them!"

"Then... I will go with you." Tang Yun was still worried. After all, recent days had shown her just how wicked bad people could be.

Tang Yun walked over with her mother, and Zhong Fabai's eyes lit up at the sight of Tang Yun. That Wei Zhao certainly had an eye. This little girl was quite pretty. What a pity.

Young Master Bing's eyes lit up as well. He glanced at Li Erlan with approval. The living person was indeed even more beautiful than in the photos. Young Master Bing loved this kind of decent young girl best, youthful and charming, and afterward there would be no trouble to clean up.

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