Star Tycoon

Chapter 202 Feast
With the arrival of summer vacation, housing prices in Taoxian County continue to soar.

Large groups of children and girls lined up to eat at the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3 Girls' Home.

The older people have all been driven away. As long as someone is not human, there are legal means to drive them away.

Those who do this dirty work are naturally some old ladies from Wangzhuang wearing armbands. The Linhe Road Neighborhood Committee has gathered a group of highly capable, agile, and energetic middle-aged women to handle the messy incidents on the periphery.

Many young women and housewives who couldn't go in were sitting near the square. Men would be stared at by the old ladies and would feel very uncomfortable after a few seconds and would go out to shop.

Young women and grandmothers watch the children here, little boys can play nearby, and little girls can go inside to eat.

"Who can afford a house in our county?"

A young woman who had brought her child to lunch sat chatting with a friend in a nearby cafe.

Another young woman holding a baby nearby said, "It must be those livestreamers, internet celebrities, and business people. Otherwise, how could someone with a salary of three or four thousand yuan in our county afford a house that costs thirty or forty thousand yuan per square meter?"

Two young women in their late twenties were chatting on a bench when three girls and a teenage girl came over. The oldest was only fourteen or fifteen years old, and the youngest was five.

Although the age limit is six to eighteen, it is actually very humane in this respect. As long as there is a young lady to take care of them, even a three-year-old can go in to eat and receive money.

The upper limit is set firmly; not even one day more is allowed.

Fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls are considered children by most people, but to the three little girls, they are like older sisters.

"Mom, we got our clothes and shampoo!"

The four girls were carrying clothes and daily necessities, and all had happy smiles on their faces.

An eight-year-old girl said, "Second Aunt! The ladies inside gave each of us 100 yuan! They let us buy food, took my picture, and gave me a bus pass."

Fang Linlin reached out and took the money from her three children. "I'll keep it for you. Boss Tian is giving you money. When you grow up, go work at Chengbang next door. Don't be like some people who jump ship."

Some of these children are Fang Linlin's own children, while others are left-behind children from her relatives' homes.

A six-year-old child next to me said, "Mom, don't you work at General Manager Tian's company?"

Fang Linlin smiled and said, "No, I work in a garment factory. That factory belongs to Li Chuhong. Mr. Tian's company is in this 123 Building next door. The shopping mall belongs to the Wang family. Mr. Tian only uses this one building as his company."

"A garment factory worker only makes three or four thousand a month, but sweeping the floor here in Building 123 can earn you more than two hundred thousand a year! Plus, you'll be provided with food for life!"

Fifteen-year-old Zhang Yujia asked curiously, "Then why have I heard that so many people have switched jobs from Chengbang?"

Fang Linlin said, "They're not honest. If I were in Chengbang, I definitely wouldn't leave."

The young woman next to him laughed and said, "It's because Mr. Tian didn't take a liking to you."

Fang Linlin gave her a disgruntled look, then took the children's daily necessities and sanitary napkins.

"I'm going home. There are too many people here. This is the only place in our county with good jobs. Other places only pay a little over two thousand yuan. I really don't know where all these rich people come from."

A group of people, young and old, started heading home. The little girl said, "Mom, the food here is delicious. The hot and sour noodles are especially good, and they're free. I want to come back for dinner tonight."

Fang Linlin also wanted to go in and eat, but unfortunately she was no longer a young girl.

Even though it's the weekend, they're still providing meals at Buildings 1, 2, and 3.

Zhang Yujia watched the women dressed in beautiful, wealthy clothes enter the building, her eyes filled with envy.

“Our school has a profile of Chengbang, and their company serves steak and lobster every day.”

Fang Linlin had never eaten it, but she had heard others talk about it many times.

The food there is much better than at the garment factory, but it's extremely difficult to get in.

When Tian Ersan was around, he would hire cleaners, train pretty but uneducated young girls to be managers, and even hire secondhand married women.

When he was away, the company only hired PhDs, refusing even undergraduates and graduate students. As the most well-paid and prestigious company in a small county, Chengbang could easily find enough staff if it lowered its requirements.

Unfortunately, they don't need any more people.

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Some are happy and some are sad.

There are many weddings and banquets during the summer vacation.

In rural areas, the bride price has risen to over 100,000 yuan. If she is a female employee of Chengbang, the price can exceed 200,000 yuan and there are still many people vying to pay it.

"Tian Ersan is a real piece of work!"

A middle-aged man, while drinking and eating at a banquet in the county, blushed and cursed Tian Ersan.

The people nearby all thought that his daughter had been harmed by Tian Ersan, and they all looked at him, thinking that this was a great joy, and that they might all become relatives of the emperor.

The man, smoking a cigarette, said sadly and sullenly as if his wife had cheated on him, "I can't keep my supermarket near the school anymore. These female students don't buy pens or notebooks, nor do they buy shampoo, toothpaste, or toothbrushes. Business is terrible on Sundays!"

When the people at the table heard that it was about stealing business, they thought it was nothing special.

A local resident, Da Congming, said, "That shopping mall has taken away all the business in the county, and now they're giving away free food and drinks to the kids. Anyone doing business in that area is definitely being ripped off."

"If it were me, I would definitely smash his shop tonight."

A man nearby said, "You're asking for it. Someone did it last month. He got arrested after just spraying something and they said he'd get fifteen years. As soon as he went in, his wife ran away."

Someone else said, "Anyone who wanders around there gets arrested, and even prostitutes who try to do business there are caught very quickly."

People in the vicinity started talking about various rumors surrounding Cheng Bang.

Rumors about county prison scandals, 24-hour patrols, and annual salaries exceeding 100 million yuan.

“I have a relative surnamed Zhou. Her daughter, Zhou Shanshan, worked for Tian Ersan for two years and earned over 100 million yuan in just one year as a live streamer!”

Upon hearing this, someone nearby quickly said, "Why don't you ask him to lend you some money?"

"He lent it!" the man cursed. "He's a damn fool! He only lent me 100,000, but he lent his sister over a million, and he even bought his son a 13 million yuan villa in the province! And he drives a sports car!"

A country man nearby, who was drunk and had gotten carried away, shouted, "Give me his phone number, and I'll borrow money from him for you!"

The person at the table laughed and said, "You don't even know him, why would he lend you money?"

The man in the lead got out of control and pointed at the man who had just spoken, saying, "Give me his phone number! I'll give it a try! Let's see if he'll give me any face!"

The Zhou family relatives dared not offend anyone, nor were they willing to take action, so they smiled and handed over Zhou Shanshan's father's phone number.

Under the watchful eyes of a crowd of jeering onlookers, the drunken, unruly traditional country folk quickly began to harass the Zhou family without any reason.

This is neither the first nor the last time this has happened.

Some people refused to lend money and moved away, resulting in their ancestral graves being dug up by some unknown villager.

After a large group of local women become rich by becoming internet celebrities, their first choice is inevitably to move.

Once you are bound by your family and refuse to leave, you will immediately be targeted by relatives and friends.

Even if some manage to escape, their families will call the police and locate them, leaving them pale-faced when reporters and family members knock on the door.

Even a society governed by the rule of law cannot solve this problem.

The only solution is to move to an affluent area in a first-tier city. If it were an ordinary area where anyone could come and go as they pleased, the security guards wouldn't stop the reporters and their family members from going up there to search for their relatives.

(End of this chapter)