Flip the table and divide the family property! Take his wife and daughter into the mountains and eat

Upon hearing the name "Zhao Shanhe," the smugness that had just appeared on Li Cuihua's face instantly froze, replaced by a gnashing resentment.

"That damned little bastard!"

Li Cuihua spat fiercely on the ground and yelled in her hoarse voice, "What kind of eldest son is he? He's a heartless ingrate! He lives in a big brick house, bringing home lavish meals every day, even feeding his dog until it's plump and healthy, while he forces Shanlin and me to this drafty, dilapidated mud house to freeze! He's the one who broke Shanlin's leg!"

Wei Baoguo's eyelids twitched upon hearing this, and his mind immediately began to race with calculations.

He feigned surprise, widening his eyes and lowering his voice to ask, "An older brother broke his younger brother's leg? And he doesn't even care about his own mother? Is no one in the village going to do anything about this? If this happened in the city, it would be considered filial impiety, and if it went to the authorities, his future would be completely ruined!"

"Manage? Who's in charge!"

Li Cuihua slapped her thigh in exasperation, her face trembling with rage: "That little bastard has gotten too powerful now, he keeps a bunch of men under his command, and everyone in the village and town sides with him! I've been there a few times, and I almost got bitten to death by his dogs, he's practically a living devil!"

A glint of light flashed in Wei Baoguo's cloudy old eyes.

That's exactly what he was waiting for.

Now that he's fallen into this trap of extinction and can't climb out anytime soon, he has to find someone to take down with him if he wants to turn things around.

Isn't Zhao Shanhe's luxurious courtyard and his group of men just a ready-made piece of fat meat?

Wei Baoguo lowered his head, using the action of picking up the broken bowl to hide the undisguised greed and malice in his eyes.

He spent most of his life working at the county grain depot; he had nothing else to offer but the best information.

The weather station has already reported that there will be a few days of autumn rain in three days.

There are still tens of thousands of bags of newly harvested wheat piled up at the open-air grain yard in the southern suburbs of the county, not yet stored.

The county transportation team simply doesn't have enough vehicles and loaders.

If rainwater gets in, the entire batch of grain will heat up and mold.

The grain depot is now desperately searching for people, paying by the bag, and doubling the rate for nighttime! Whoever can load all the grain into the warehouse before the rain, the loading and unloading fees alone will be an unimaginable sum for ordinary people.

But this job is definitely not something they, being old and disabled, can do alone.

We must use borrowed resources to achieve our goals!

Wei Baoguo gripped the edge of the empty bowl tightly, his mind racing as he devised a vicious plan:

Zhao Shanhe is known for his arrogance, isn't he? Doesn't he keep people under his control? But in the eyes of this seasoned county official who has spent half his life as a cunning man, what is he? A country bumpkin who has never seen the world, no matter how much he bullies others in the village, is nothing outside of Kaoshantun!

Back in his day at work, Wei Baoguo was a master at writing reports.

As long as he writes an anonymous report to the county discipline inspection and public security bureau, pinning the charges of bullying his mother, crippling his younger brother, and gathering idle people on this kid, once the higher-ups investigate, Zhao Shanhe will definitely be in jail and shot!

Once he dies, Li Cuihua, as his biological mother, will naturally be able to take over the large brick house and all the family property.

Then, he would act as the "head of the family" and operate from behind the scenes, using Zhao Shanhe's money to recruit all those scattered underlings and lead them to take on big orders from the grain depot!

They took Zhao Shanhe's money and used Zhao Shanhe's people to make huge profits from the grain bureau!

By the time this huge job is finished, he will have already made a fortune.

He'll kick Li Cuihua, that brainless wicked woman, aside, and return to the city in style with the money. He'll make those unfilial ingrates kneel on the ground and beg him!

Thinking of this grand plan, Wei Baoguo's old face flushed red in the dim room due to extreme greed and scheming.

He took a deep breath, forcefully suppressing the twisted ecstasy in his heart.

When he looked up again, he had dropped his previous mournful expression and resumed the demeanor he had when he was a leader in the county.

He slammed the broken bowl in his hand heavily against the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), making a dull thud.

"Cuihua, you're being foolish!"

Wei Baoguo snorted coldly, his cloudy eyes revealing a condescending shrewdness: "The more men he has under him, the more arrogant he is, the more we should skin him alive! What is Zhao Shanhe anyway? A country bumpkin who's never seen the world, a peasant who toils in the fields, who's gathered a few vagrants to show off in the village. You really think he's some kind of superhuman Yama?"

Li Cuihua and Zhao Shanlin, who was leaning against the door frame, were stunned and didn't dare to respond for a long time because of his sudden aura.

Wei Baoguo straightened his hunched back, his tone revealing the arrogance and contempt typical of a seasoned veteran of the system:

"You've never seen the world before, and you've been fooled by some local thug. In this area, who's the biggest? The policy! The law! He's arrogant in the village because the village chief is an ignorant old peasant who sides with him. But outside of Kaoshantun, he's less than a vermin!"

He leaned closer to Li Cuihua, lowering his voice like a venomous snake flicking its tongue:

"He crippled his own brother, abandoned his mother, and gathered a group of idle people. What do you call that? In the eyes of the authorities, that's called forming a gang of criminals! Back in my day at work, I was in charge of dealing with the higher-ups, and I know all the inside stories. We don't need to risk our lives to deal with these vagrants."

A sinister glint flashed in Wei Baoguo's eyes as he began to set the trap, word by word:

"Tomorrow morning, I'll teach you how to write the report, pinning down each of these charges against him! We'll skip the town and go straight to the county discipline inspection commission and public security bureau to submit anonymous letters. As long as the higher-ups send someone to investigate, this typical example of defying the law can be shot! Once he's in jail and gets executed, you, as his mother, can rightfully take over that big brick house and all his assets!"

He grasped Li Cuihua's rough hand and patiently painted a rosy picture:

"By then, with money and a house, will we be able to settle Xiulan's messy debts? Even if we take Shanlin to the city to get his leg treated and buy an apartment, that'll be more than enough!"

Li Cuihua gasped in shock. The greed that had vanished in her triangular eyes due to fear reignited like wildfire.

But thinking of Zhao Shanhe's ruthless methods, she felt uncertain. She swallowed hard and asked tremblingly, "Old Wei, you...you really have that ability? That little beast is very powerful now, he has dozens of men under his command, and he's quite a figure in town..."

"Long hair, short on brains!"

Wei Baoguo interrupted her without any politeness, his wrinkled face twitching, his eyes revealing the disdain and mockery of a city dweller looking at a country bumpkin.

"What are the people in town? You bunch of peasants, you've never seen the world, you've been stuck in your own little world your whole lives!" Wei Baoguo sneered, his tone growing increasingly arrogant: "You think this is some kind of game where you fight over well water and divide up private plots in your Kaoshantun village? You think you can become king by getting into a brawl with a few guys? Let me tell you, once we get to the county, those cronies of his aren't even worthy of carrying the shoes of the discipline inspection and police!"

Wei Baoguo's withered fingers jabbed forcefully at the broken table, producing a dull thud.

"That's the state apparatus! As long as we submit this incriminating evidence with the red handprint, it'll be an ironclad case! When the police go to arrest him, they'll be there in jeeps, armed with real guns! Those few scoundrels under Zhao Shanhe, can they outrun the law? Can they outrun bullets? Once he's in jail, we don't even need to lift a finger; the people inside have a hundred ways to make him cough up his entire fortune!"

Li Cuihua became more and more agitated as she listened, and slapped herself hard on the thigh, not even caring about the mud on her body.

"Yes! That's exactly what we should do!"

Li Cuihua gritted her teeth and cursed, "That little beast used to take advantage of our lack of education and ignorance of the policies from above, which is why he dared to piss and shit on our heads! Now that we have you, a veteran cadre who has been on the government payroll for decades, giving us advice, let's see how long this living devil can remain so arrogant!"

The two men talked animatedly, their eyes completely changed, as if Zhao Shanhe's magnificent, large tiled house had already fallen into their hands, waiting for them to move in and lord it over him.

But just as their blood was boiling with excitement, a sinister laugh, like that of a broken bellows, suddenly came from the outer door.

"Hehe...hehehe..."

The laughter was sharp and unpleasant, carrying a chilling aura that sent shivers down one's spine.

Wei Baoguo and Li Cuihua shuddered and turned their heads at the same time.

Zhao Shanlin was seen leaning against the peeling paint door frame, using a thick wooden stick as a support, like a ghost.

His bloodshot eyes, swollen from being cooped up in the shadows for so long, were fixed on the two people daydreaming on the kang (heated brick bed), as if they were two long-dead corpses.

"Shanlin, what are you laughing at?"