Married the Tough Guy After Transmigrating-Chapter 430: Change the Route for Road Construction

Chapter 430: Chapter 430: Change the Route for Road Construction

Mr. Xu came back and Mrs. Xu looked at him curiously, "How did it go, have you settled the matter of road construction?"

Mr. Xu frowned, "No one has money, and they’re unwilling to pay. How can we negotiate? Everyone’s acting like bandits, demanding that those of us in business should pay whenever road construction is mentioned."

Upon hearing this, Mrs. Xu immediately disapproved and suspiciously asked Mr. Xu, "Wasn’t Director Sun with you? Do those people not listen to him?"

Why, when it comes to road construction, should those of us in business be the ones to pay? We in business make money indeed, but wasn’t it agreed that we’d cover the major portion while they cover the minor?

These people will use the road too, so why can’t they even pay the minor portion? That’s just too greedy.

Mr. Xu sighed, resigned to the lack of a solution, feeling somewhat shaken inside, but he was afraid that agreeing to these people’s thuggish demands this time would lead them to make even more outrageous demands in the future.

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But not building the road would indeed be detrimental to them.

"Eldest Son, what do you think we should do?" Mr. Xu turned and curiously asked his eldest son, who had also been in business for a year and had presumably grown smarter.

Eldest Xu racked his brains but could not come up with a reasonable plan.

However, Xu Laoer hesitated and then spoke up, "Dad, have you approached all the villagers? Are they all unwilling to pay? If so, maybe we can ask some of the nearby villages. There are quite a few people living near us, aren’t they all working in our village’s factories?

The daily commute must be inconvenient, and they would surely agree if the roads were fixed. Later, for villages that agree to pay, we could even fix up the small paths in their villages beautifully. As for those villages that are unwilling to pay, we’ll simply construct the main delivery road directly and leave them out."

Mr. Xu’s eyes lit up upon hearing this, "Right, if those people don’t want to pay, we just won’t fix the roads in their villages."

Having figured this out, Mr. Xu immediately called Director Sun. Director Sun was a good leader, always considering the development of the farmers. Hearing Mr. Xu’s words, he looked a bit embarrassed.

Fixing roads is a major project. It’s not easy getting workers together to just fix the main road and ignore the rest. If the other villages want to fix their roads later, it won’t be easy.

It would also be both expensive and labor-intensive. He had hoped to fix all the surrounding villages’ roads in one go.

However, these people didn’t understand his good intentions.

Director Sun sighed and said over the phone, "Your method is feasible, but can we wait a few more days? I’ll go talk to those villages again. It would be so much better to fix everything at once while we have the workers here, instead of doing half now and leaving half unfinished—it wouldn’t look good either."

Mr. Xu understood Director Sun’s concerns and paused, "Okay, I’ll wait a few more days."

After finishing the conversation, Mr. Xu went to the surrounding villages to push for action, while Director Sun was still considering how to persuade the villages resisting the road construction.

The people from these villages had already convened a large meeting, with each household sending a representative. Hundreds of people gathered, with the headmen of each village leading the discussions.

"This road construction, as you’ve seen, is majorly because Xujia Village, where are businessmen dealing in greenhouse vegetables, frequently use these roads. Naturally, they want to fix them. We’re genuine farmers and can’t compare with Xujia Village’s greenhouse vegetable business owners. We won’t pay this money; let those in business worry about it when they become desperate enough to fix the roads."

"Regularly, as you also see, it’s they who use the roads the most, transporting goods several times a day. Last rainy day, did you see how their big trucks got stuck in the muddy middle of the road and couldn’t move at all? It’s the businessmen from Xujia Village who are anxious, so they’re agitating us to chip in and fix the road together," said a middle-aged man in his thirties, passionately speaking on the stage. No money coming out from them at all.

The other, older headmen, upon hearing the speaker, nodded their heads, feeling the reasoning sound.

"I agree with this. The people from Xujia Village are so wealthy—what’s wrong with them paying a bit more? Besides, it’s mostly them who use the road. We hardly ever go out on rainy days. I agree too: no need to pay for road repairs, let them do whatever they want."

"Exactly, let them do whatever they want. We don’t believe they’re so eager to use the roads yet unwilling to pay for the repairs."

These people harbored a hope that as Xujia Village was definitely anxious to fix the roads, they could just drag this out, and by the time Xujia Village had repaired the roads, they wouldn’t have to pay anything, saving their money and still getting a good road as well.

It was killing two birds with one stone.

The people from several villages promptly agreed, all refusing to pay.

The next morning, unable to contain himself, Director Sun went directly to these villages to outline the benefits of repairing the roads. However, these villagers had already prepared their stance and were all against it.

No matter how Director Sun tried to persuade them, they were unwilling to fix the roads.

Eventually, Director Sun had no other options and could only send a message back to Mr. Xu, not to fix the roads for these people.

Mr. Xu burst into laughter upon hearing this, having another piece of good news to share. He had contacted some nearby villages, and, unexpectedly, quite a few were willing to contribute funds for the road construction, saying it would make it more convenient to go to the county to buy things after the road was repaired.

Mr. Xu quickly figured out another route, which wouldn’t delay their deliveries and wasn’t much different from the previous one.

Hearing this news, Director Sun sighed and just gave a wry smile.

In the end, the road construction was decided.

Director Sun promptly reported the progress upwards, and Deputy Director Zhang was waiting for the road construction documents. Seeing that Director Sun hadn’t applied for government funding, he generously allocated a sum of money.

Then, he went specifically to Xujia Village to commend them, bringing his daughter for the occasion.

When Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu heard that Deputy Director Zhang was coming to Xujia Village, they immediately tensed up.

Hadn’t it been Deputy Director Zhang’s daughter who earlier hadn’t come to discuss marriage with their third son?

What was Deputy Director Zhang doing at their house now? Could it be regarding their third son again?

Thinking this, both Mr. Xu and Mrs. Xu’s foreheads creased.

"What do we do? Deputy Director Zhang wouldn’t be coming to settle scores with us, would he?" Mrs. Xu was anxiously sweating.

Mr. Xu shook his head, "That shouldn’t be the case."

Getting married is a big deal, and now they don’t encourage arranged marriages—it’s all about mutual affection.

His son was a living person, couldn’t he freely love?

While Mrs. Xu was worrying, car noises were heard at the door.

Deputy Director Zhang’s secretary drove Deputy Director Zhang and Zhang Linyu over.