I'm incredibly ambitious after being reborn.

Chapter 26 Kind People
"What? Don't want to?"

Zhang Daxiang still had that ambiguous smile, which gave people a bad feeling. When he sat down casually on the armchair next to him, his arrogant posture made the old men of Taojiazhuang tremble.

If Zhang Daxiang were a college student, that would be fine, but Zhang Daxiang's current situation is that he "didn't even get into college," which is almost a label of "I have reason, but not much; I have culture, but not much; and I know even less."

To those who had worked in government offices, Zhang Daxiang was a tall, strong, and young traditional "troublemaker."

Small-time thugs are easy to deal with, but those guys who can summon a dozen burly men to follow them just by yelling are truly disgusting.

"It's just renting a field, there's no question of willingness or unwillingness. Right now, everyone only has a little bit of land for their own food. If we rent fifty mu, Taojiazhuang will have to redistribute the land again, and some families are relatively poor..."

"This old man."

Zhang Daxiang raised his hand to interrupt the other person's rambling, looking them straight in the eye. "I'm not arguing with you or Tao Xingfa. If you don't agree, the door is open, you're free to come and go; if you agree, then let's finalize the plan now."

"..."

"..."

The old men of the "Zhi" generation in our family also twitched their skin.

Good grief, does this mean they're issuing a notification, not discussing it?
Who taught you to act like this?

Our Zhang family is a kind and virtuous family, and we have abundance every year...

The last time we "borrowed" someone else's farmland was sixty or seventy years ago; and the time before that was more than ninety years ago?
Never mind, it's nothing.

Anyway, our Zhang family has always acted uprightly and honestly; we are kind!

"Zhang Xiang! Why do you have to drag the entire Tao Family Village into my business!"

Tao Xingfa, who had been cowering just moments before, finally couldn't hold back any longer and jumped out. In the end, he was reluctant to part with his own money. As a miser, he would rather have his legs broken than spend any money.

However, he had already lost money for a year and a half, and the sunk costs made him blinded by greed.

However, what Zhang Daxiang wanted was for him to be unable to hold back and jump out, or rather, for anyone in Taojiazhuang to be provoked by him.

He wanted to launch a "village-level missile crisis".

Only when the big treasure is revealed will people realize the deterrent power of 2,700 households with the same surname; otherwise, they'll just think everyone is from the same hometown and a close friend or family.

Boom! !

Before Tao Xingfa could even utter a sound, Zhang Daxiang overturned his armchair, slammed his hand on the coffee table with a loud bang, and then shouted, "Tao Xingfa, who are you barking at in the Zhang family's hall!"

Almost the instant the noise was heard, Zhang Daxiang's clever and adorable friends rushed in and surrounded the main room. Tao Xingfa was startled and instinctively ran away.

Zhang Daxiang originally intended to develop some kind of "strategic nuclear deterrence," but he didn't expect Tao Xingfa to respond to the emergency without even exhaling.

"Tao Xingfa!"

Zhang Daxiang's roar startled the old men, who wanted to dissuade him, but he simply turned his head slightly and glanced at them, and no one came out to persuade him.

Because of this delay, Tao Xingfa, who was running around like a headless fly, didn't notice that he had run into a big beech tree outside Zhang's ancestral hall.

Then Tao Xingfa cried out "Ouch!" and squatted down, clutching his head, to play "sweet duo" with the big beech tree.

The onlookers were speechless, and the people from Taojiazhuang looked at each other, wondering why Zhang's family had reacted so suddenly after only shouting a couple of times.
When the villagers heard that people from Taojiazhuang had come, the village chief brought his men to Sanxingli. They didn't go in to listen in; they just smoked outside the courtyard wall.

Before the cigarette butt even hit the ground, Tao Xingfa, like a wild dog that had broken free, crashed headfirst into the large beech tree in front of the Zhang family's gate.

That was practically a suicide attempt, leaving the village chief dumbfounded.

stunned.

As Zhang Daxiang and his clever and quick-witted friends walked out the gate, the village chief was startled, thinking they were going to demonstrate the energy of youth. He quickly stepped forward to stop them, shouting, "Zhang Daxiang, Zhang Daxiang, you can't kill someone! You can't kill someone! If this gets out of hand and someone dies, we'll be in legal trouble!" "What do you mean, 'kill someone'? What do you mean, 'in legal trouble'? What does that have to do with me? He just suddenly went crazy and rushed out, then inexplicably crashed headfirst into a tree. What does that have to do with me?"

"what?!"

The village chief was dumbfounded. No, it really was Tao Xingfa who had been thinking all sorts of things and then got possessed in broad daylight.
You really do see all sorts of things when you live long enough.

As they were talking, Zhang Daxiang grabbed Tao Xingfa and lifted him up, then shouted, "You, surnamed Tao, tell me, has anyone from the Zhang family hit you?"

"That's not true..."

"Look, we saw it all and heard it all. He's just scaring himself, thinking we're going to do something to him. Zhangshi Village has a great reputation over the years; everyone in the surrounding area knows they're good people. Tao Xingfa did something wrong; does he really want to frame us?"

"..."

The village chief's lips trembled as he thought to himself, "With your fierce and menacing appearance, it's no wonder that others are so frightened they feel dizzy."

However, he wouldn't dwell on it too much, since he was in charge of a large area in Zhangshi Village and needed the support of the three major clans.

On ordinary days, the entire Zhangshi Village relies on the Zhang family for help with grain deliveries, fees collection, and levies; otherwise, who would care about your status as village chief?

Things like water and electricity bills—if you're too smug, you won't get a single penny; if you dare cut off the power, you can pray that the night gods will protect you every time you walk at night.

The virtue of a great sage in the countryside is undoubtedly reflected in his "selflessness".

If the government says your family has a good reputation, then it is good, even if it isn't.

In fact, Zhangshi Village has become much like a normal village over the past few decades, and there have been no large-scale "village wars" since the era of fighting for water, land, grain, and women is over.

Peace is hard-won, yet some wicked creatures seem to be reverting to their ancestral ways.

It really makes people bald.

Fortunately, nothing too serious happened.
Furthermore, Zhang Daxiang even instructed the village chief to call the local police station and request that officials come to uphold justice...

Three people arrived: Zhang Qishun, Zhang Zhengtu, and Zhang Dayuan.

reasonable.

"You little coffin, are you trying to rebel? Look how scared Tao Xingfa is."

“Grandpa, you have sharp eyes. Just ask him and you’ll know. He scared himself and ran headfirst into the big beech tree.”

"Get lost, I can't be bothered to talk to you."

Zhang Qishun was actually only in his forties, but because of his seniority, Zhang Daxiang had to call him "Grandpa".

Zhang Qishun didn't waste any words. When they arrived in front of the big beech tree, he reached out and helped Tao Xingfa, who was "sweetly side by side" with the tree, and asked with sincere and kind eyes, "Xingfa, tell your uncle, did this small coffin hit you?"

"No."

"That's good. If it's not there, it means that Zhangshi Village and Taojiazhuang are still fellow villagers and will get rich together in the future."

"..."

"..."

The village chief was speechless upon hearing this.

　This book is about practicing against the grain; don't have too many illusions.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)