Mixed in 1980

Chapter 510 Humiliating People
Hongshu Village is not far from Daping Village.

It only took about ten minutes to drive there. When Chen Yanche and Zhou Jingshu arrived, they were shocked by the scene before them. Was this still Hongshu Village?

When I came here before, there were neat greenhouses and busy villagers.

The greenhouses are now in disarray, with the plastic sheets tattered and several already collapsed. There are many people in the fields, but the scene is somewhat chaotic.

Many people were picking strawberries in the field with baskets, while many others stopped them. Some elderly men and women sat on the ground, crying and wailing.

Those who were blocking the way and crying were strawberry growers.

Where did the strawberry pickers come from? There were many tricycles parked by the field. After picking strawberries, they put them on the tricycle, took another basket, and continued picking.

Chen Yanche glanced around and spotted the village chief of Hongshu Village among the crowd blocking the way. He quickly went over to him and asked, "Village Chief Lin, what exactly is going on?"

Village Chief Lin cried out in a mournful tone, "What a tragedy! Just like the bandits, they've ruined everything."

"Give me specifics," Chen Yanche reminded him.

Village Chief Lin then composed himself: "A couple of days ago, someone stole some strawberries. They were strawberry growers who secretly picked some to sell at the market."

"After being criticized, I changed it."

“Many people in the village who didn’t grow crops also stole them. When they were discovered, they argued and even fought several times, but nothing serious happened.”

"I don't know what happened today, but suddenly the word spread that strawberries could be picked for free, and a group of people came outside, and more and more people came."

"People in the village who didn't grow strawberries joined in."

After listening, Chen Yanche understood: those who didn't grow strawberries went to steal them, and those who lost fights were resentful and sabotaged others behind their backs.

Spread the rumors.

Invite your relatives and friends, and then one person tells another. Once a group of people arrive, the fake becomes real, and you can't stop them: "We've come all this way, we can't go back empty-handed, can we?"

“Village Chief Lin, if this continues, your village will lose everything. Well, not exactly everything, as you can still make some money raising pigs and chickens, but you definitely won’t be able to keep the strawberries.”

"That's right, we couldn't stop them at all, there were five or six hundred of them." Village Chief Lin's eyes reddened, and tears streamed down his face.

My condolences.

Chen Yanche patted him on the shoulder: "These people, they come in cars, haul away whole truckloads of them, and then they come back in cars again... cars!"

After saying that, he took Zhou Jingshu's hand and left.

Village Chief Lin immediately realized that cars are valuable items. You stole my strawberries, so I'll steal your car. Is that too much to ask?
Without further ado, they quickly gathered the villagers, pushed away the tricycles parked on the roadside, and even overturned cars that had come by.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Jingshu joked, "That's really ruthless. Those who drove here in cars will suffer significant losses."

"If you can't resolve the conflict, you'll only exacerbate it."

Chen Yanche took out a cigarette, lit it, and smiled coldly: "There's no such thing as a free lunch. Just watch, a fight is about to break out."

The fight broke out as soon as the words were spoken.

Pushing, punching, sticks... it only calmed down when the police arrived with sirens blaring. Then everyone had their own version of events, and it was impossible to resolve the dispute.

"That's great, the villagers are very united!"

Chen Yanche threw away his cigarette butt, stood up, stretched, and turned to Qiao Yu, saying, "Repair what needs repairing in the strawberry greenhouses, and replant what needs replanting."

"After this incident, Hongshu Village will be stable from now on. They will be united and able to fight back. The injured villagers will receive more compensation."

"You handle the rest."

After saying that, he took Zhou Jingshu back. The subsequent impact was quite significant, with many people filming the scene and the footage already being uploaded online.

Netizens have given the villagers a thumbs up.

"The villagers are really united. Many of them are elderly people. Facing so many people, they were not afraid at all and fought back and forth."

"You steal strawberries, I steal a car, awesome!"

"The car was overturned, and the owner was still crying and complaining. Who gave you the nerve? When you steal other people's things, do you not think about how they feel?"

"It was so heartbreaking to see the elderly couple sitting on the ground crying."

The matter has caused quite a stir.

The villagers impounded the car and wouldn't let it leave without compensation. The police could only mediate on the spot and settle the matter by offering some compensation.

As for being beaten and injured, that's mutual fighting. Everyone should go home and find their own mothers. No one should feel like they've lost out.

Anyway, that's the end of it.

But it has an impact on the surrounding villages. In Daping Village, Zhang Dapang, who raises pigs, often goes to the village entrance to talk nonsense whenever he has nothing to do.

“I don’t care about other villages, and I can’t control them, but we can’t let this happen in our village. If anyone dares to loot in our village, I’ll show them the power of a butcher’s knife.” “I have nothing else but a mountain of debt.”

"If anyone scares the boss away and makes it impossible for me to recover, I'll kill them."

Zhao Di's father would tell everyone he met, "If anyone comes to our village to steal or rob, I will beat them to death."

"What a rare opportunity."

"I want to be able to go home, be with my child, and earn money. I also want to bring my wife back. Anyone who tries to ruin my plans, I'll kill them."

There's also Lazybones, who carries a broadsword every day.

He would go to the fields in the morning and again in the evening, telling everyone he met that he had made a deal with the matchmaker to get her to introduce him to someone once he had earned some money.

What grows in the ground is money.

It's my wife!

He would punish anyone who messed things up for him: "If you cause me to die and no one will burn paper money for me, I'll burn paper money for you first, and then send you off to the afterlife."

Someone joked, "You lazybones, you don't even have a wife, and you're already thinking about kids? Stop loitering around here, go get to work, earn some money before you start dreaming."

Everything is developing in a good direction.

Zhou Jingshu also had good news: she was pregnant. Chen Yanche was so happy that he jumped for joy: "Sister, you rest, I'll go pack my things, we're going back to Beijing tomorrow to rest and prepare for the baby."

"Go!" Zhou Jingshu narrowed her eyes.

Xiao Wu already knows how to take care of people and seems quite capable; he'll be a good father in the future.

Chen Yanche packed his luggage, left the rest to Qiao Yu and Lin Yi, and flew back to Beijing the next day.

We didn't give any prior notice; we wanted to surprise everyone.

As soon as they entered the house, Zeng Ali grabbed her son's ear and said, "You little rascal, you went to suffer in the countryside by yourself, but you insisted on taking Jing Shu with you."

"Take a look for yourself, see how much tanned Jing Shu has become."

"And what about you? Look at yourself! You look like a lump of coal. People who don't know you might think you came back from Africa." The more she talked, the more disgusted she became.

"Mom, be gentle, your ear's gone!"

Chen Yanche screamed and begged for mercy, but seeing that his mother wouldn't let go, he quickly said, "I have good news, your daughter-in-law is pregnant."

Zeng Ali immediately let go and looked at Zhou Jingshu: "Are you really pregnant?"

Zhou Jingshu nodded shyly, and Zeng Ali immediately grinned, taking Zhou Jingshu's arm and walking inside. As for their son, he had been forgotten.

Neither my stepmother nor my stepmother paid any attention to me.

Chen Yanche sighed, finally understanding that the feeling of being collectively ignored by his parents when his sister-in-law was pregnant was completely unnecessary.

"You spent a few months in the countryside. How's the project progressing? Can it be pushed forward?" Chen Fan called his youngest son over and tossed him a cigarette.

Chen Yanche took the cigarette: "I'm not smoking anymore."

"The project is pretty good. There have been various small problems from the beginning, but none of them are big and they are not difficult to solve."

"Now we are integrating various issues, developing standard templates, and starting to contact various regions in the second half of the year. We should be able to scale up next year."

Upon hearing this, Chen Fan lit a cigarette and frowned slightly: "Next year? It's not a good year. As for the scale, how should I put it?"

"Either speed up the pace."

"We will either increase the scale directly in the second half of the year or limit the scale. By the end of next year, there will be a lot of uncertainty for the entire project."

"Is the risk very high?" Chen Yanche frowned.

My father is very reliable when it comes to important matters. His judgment is never wrong. Perhaps he will make mistakes in the future, but he has never made mistakes in the past.

"It must be huge, like a biological warfare attack."

Chen Fan took a deep drag on his cigarette: "You decide for yourself. Expanding the scale is not out of the question, but you need to hurry. You can use the family's resources as you see fit."

"Then let's expand it?" Chen Yanche asked cautiously.

Chen Fan rolled his eyes at his youngest son: "It's your decision. Your second aunt said she'll endorse your project. Do a good job, or you'll regret it."

"Alright, I'll go all out in the second half of the year."

"Go inside and rest."

After waving his son away, Chen Fan continued smoking, gazing leisurely ahead. Time really flies; next year will be 2019, and there are many things that need to be prepared for.

(End of this chapter)