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The morning mist had not yet dissipated, but the aroma of millet porridge already wafted from the main room of the Lu family home.

Lu Qingshan sat at the table, slowly eating his breakfast with pickled vegetables.

"Squeak—"

The courtyard gate was pushed open, and a series of hurried footsteps approached from afar.

Scarface Liu stumbled in, his cotton-padded coat still damp with morning dew, his face bearing a complex expression—a mixture of excitement and lingering fear.

He walked to the entrance of the main room and saw that the Lu family was all there. He paused and turned his gaze to Lu Qingshan.

Lu Qingshan didn't even look up; he simply pointed with his chopsticks to the empty stool next to him.

Scarface Liu sat down, lowered his voice, and quickly reported, "Boss, we've found out everything."

"Li Yanwang's men did it last night. Yu Gaoyang's legs... were broken by iron bars. He's in the county hospital now, and he'll probably be bedridden for the rest of his life."

Wang Guifen's chopsticks trembled and almost fell to the ground, a look of reluctance on her face.

Lu Changgui also stopped eating, opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.

Scarface Liu paused, then continued, "And that Lin Xiumei... I heard she was thrown out too. She had a miscarriage and suffered severe bleeding. She was taken to the hospital, but the baby couldn't be saved, and she... was ruined. She'll never be able to have children again."

After he finished speaking, he carefully observed Lu Qingshan's reaction.

Lu Qingshan's expression remained unchanged. He picked up a piece of pickled vegetable, put it in his mouth, and chewed it slowly. It was as if Scarface Liu was talking about some unrelated family in a village ten miles away, an ordinary event that had happened.

After a while, he swallowed what was in his mouth and looked up at Scarface Liu.

"The mess the Yu family made is really awful." His voice was calm. "Go back and make it clear to all the brothers that no one is allowed to go and join in the fun, and no one is allowed to try to take advantage of the situation."

Scarface Liu's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately straightened his back: "Understood, boss!"

"You haven't eaten yet, have you?" Lu Qingshan glanced at the bowls and chopsticks on the table. "Sit down and eat something with us."

Scarface Liu felt a surge of warmth in his heart. He knew that his boss was both giving him a warning and protecting them. The Yu family was now a huge vortex, involving the police and loan sharks; anyone who got involved was doomed.

"Okay, sure!" Scarface Liu didn't stand on ceremony, pulled out a stool and sat down. Wang Guifen hurriedly went to the kitchen to get him a set of bowls and chopsticks.

The atmosphere at the table was somewhat somber.

Lin Xiulan put down the bowl in her hand, her delicate eyebrows furrowed slightly, and looked at Lu Qingshan with a hint of worry in her eyes.

"Qingshan, with such a big incident in the county, things are bound to be tense. Our factory in the western suburbs, which we just acquired and is about to start construction, will it... be affected?"

Lu Qingshan took out a neatly folded piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to her.

Lin Xiulan took it with a puzzled look, unfolded it, and saw that it was a cash deposit certificate from the county credit union. The number on it made her eyes widen slightly.

"The money's all gone, clean as a board," Lu Qingshan said calmly. "We're doing legitimate business, with all the paperwork in order, so nobody can say anything about it."

Lin Xiulan felt at ease immediately.

On the edge of the kang (a heated brick bed), Grandpa Lu, who had been silently smoking his pipe, tapped the pipe bowl twice on the edge of the kang to knock out the ashes.

His hoarse voice broke the silence in the room.

"With Yu Bo gone, can the transportation business be completely exposed now?"

This is the most critical issue for the Lu family right now.

Lu Qingshan put down his chopsticks and took a towel to wipe his hands.

"The way is clear." He nodded. "It means that once this case is settled, our factory will be officially recognized as a county-supported enterprise, and our fleet will have a legitimate name. No one will dare to openly trip us up anymore."

He abruptly changed the subject, a hint of coldness flashing in his eyes.

"Ke Yubo is, at best, just a knife blocking the road from the outside."

"The hand that was truly holding us by the throat, the one that handed us the knife in the forest, is now sitting comfortably in its office drinking tea."

Lin Xiulan immediately realized what was going on: "In the forest farm? Who has that much power and is connected to Yu Bo?"

Lu Qingshan looked at his grandfather and slowly said, "Grandpa, think about it, when my 'ice sling transport method' came out, the happiest person was Director Li. So who would be the least happy?"

Old Master Lu narrowed his eyes, a glint of shrewdness flashing in his cloudy pupils: "Cutting off someone's livelihood is like killing their parents. Whoever makes money through that old, rotten path will hate you the most."

"That's right," Lu Qingshan continued.

"Previously, it was Deputy Director Gao Jianjun who, under the pretext of safety issues, forcibly seized the dispatching authority of the fleet from me. No sooner had he obtained the power than Yu Bo set up roadblocks in the county. One blocked the road from the outside, and the other blocked the road from the inside, cooperating perfectly."

"I suspect he also tried to steal those three trucks that were supposed to be scrapped, but I intercepted them. With both old and new grudges combined, it would be strange if he didn't take action."

This analysis was logical and well-founded, and everyone in the room understood it.

It turns out that Yu Bo was just an enemy on the surface, with an even more sinister and venomous snake lurking behind him.

Lu Qingshan turned to Scarface Liu and instructed, "Scarface, after you finish eating, take all the brothers and retreat to the western suburbs. From today onwards, you have only one task: keep a close eye on the factory renovation of 'Xiushan Industry.' Especially that cold storage warehouse; it's our foundation, and we can't afford to make any mistakes."

Scarface Liu immediately put down his bowl and nodded solemnly: "Don't worry, boss, anyone who dares to touch a hair on the factory's head, I'll snap their neck!"

Lu Qingshan was trying to completely separate the "Jianghu forces" he controlled from the "systemic problems" of the forest farm.

Dealing with someone like Gao Jianjun using knives and fists is the worst possible strategy.

After breakfast, Lu Qingshan put on his worn-out cotton coat, and Lin Xiulan stepped forward to carefully button up his collar.

He hopped on the Forever brand bicycle, and under the worried gaze of his family, he pedaled, the wheels crunching through the morning frost, merging into the path leading to the Red Stone Forest Farm.

The wind of late spring has lost its chill, and when it blows on your face, it carries the fresh scent of earth and tender buds.

The courtyard of Hongshi Forest Farm was as quiet as ever.

Lu Qingshan parked his bicycle downstairs at the office building and went straight to the second floor.

The Transportation Planning Department's office is still that room converted from a storage room.

He walked to the door and found it ajar, with light shining through.

He twitched his brow slightly and gently pushed with his hand.

The door opened silently.

In the office, Deputy Director Gao Jianjun stood with his back to the door in front of Lu Qingshan's worn-out desk.

He was flipping through an encrypted file in his hand.

Upon hearing the door open, Gao Jianjun's body visibly stiffened.