Chapter 131: Settled

Jiang Chao drove his big Mercedes out of Qingpu Town.

He was quite familiar with this area. He was originally from the next town. When he was young, he was brave and fierce. With a group of more than a dozen brothers, he monopolized the sand and gravel business in the nearby towns.

At first, it was consignment, and he didn’t produce it himself. Later, he directly invested in a few sand dredgers and also opened a quarry. The business grew bigger and bigger.

Later, he was the first to see that the situation was not good. He first decisively withdrew from the illegal sand mining business. Later, he only kept a small part of the shares in the quarry business, and the largest share was taken by a person with a big background.

Sure enough, not long after, his former brothers got into trouble one by one. Except for him and two others who withdrew earlier, they all went to prison. Even the two leaders were sentenced to life imprisonment.

He withdrew early, and he was willing to spend money and find the right connections. Although he lost a lot of money back then, he still managed to get out unscathed.

After that, he basically didn’t touch the underworld anymore. He started doing real business, successively opening a packaging factory and a furniture factory, which could be said to be making a lot of money every day. Now he has a net worth of fifty or sixty million. In Linnan, this county town, he is not as good as the top, but he is better than the bottom. At least he is considered a rich man.

With his current net worth, of course, it was impossible for him to use force on Lin Yujiao, and he had never thought of using force on her. Although he was lecherous, he had never forced those women to submit.

It was a matter of mutual consent and fair trade.

He was rich now and didn’t lack women. There was no need to do illegal things by force.

To put it simply, although he had always been thinking about Lin Yujiao and coveted her body, it had not reached the point where he would not hesitate to use force.

It was just that today, Chen Feng, Lin Yujiao’s “boyfriend,” appeared and made him lose a lot of face in front of Lin Yujiao. He wanted to get this face back, and he had to get it back.

So, after driving the big Mercedes out of Qingpu Town, he pulled over to the side of the road, took out his phone, found a person, and dialed.

This person’s nickname was “Skinny Monkey.” He was one of his underlings when he was in the underworld. He was from Qingpu Town. Now that his boss had gone legit, Skinny Monkey was still half-black and half-white. He hung around in the Qingpu Town area, contracting some small projects and so on. He was a construction team foreman, nominally.

Jiang Chao was asking him about this person, Chen Feng. Skinny Monkey was very familiar with this area of Qingpu Town. It was no exaggeration to say that he knew or knew of most of the people in the town.

Sure enough, as soon as Jiang Chao said it and described it, Skinny Monkey knew.

“This Chen Feng should be Chen Rui’s younger brother, the college student. I’m very familiar with his older brother, Chen Rui. His brother used to drive a small truck and often delivered goods for people. I’ve called him to deliver goods several times. He now has a car wash shop, the newest one, right next to the national highway. The business is very good. I heard that most of the money was from his college student younger brother. The two brothers are doing quite well now and have some fame in our town.”

“Oh, so he’s also the boss of this car wash shop?”

“Yes. I heard that this Chen Feng used to work in Xiuzhou. He should have some money. Brother Chao, did he offend you, or… something else?”

“You don’t need to know about that.”

Jiang Chao hung up after saying that. Then, he started the car and drove along the national highway. From a distance, he saw the eye-catching sign of the car wash shop.

He turned the steering wheel and drove to this car wash shop. Sure enough, the business here was very good. The parking lot in front was almost full, with twenty or thirty cars, all waiting in line.

It was impossible for Jiang Chao to be so bored as to really come here to wash his car or do car beauty. He looked at it and turned the steering wheel again, driving back to the national highway.

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Back in the county town, he immediately called a person he knew in the environmental protection bureau and invited him out for a meal.

In the evening, Jiang Chao treated this section chief to a meal alone at a private restaurant. After they were full, he said that he had gone to Qingpu Town to play today and found a car wash shop that was polluting the environment. The problem was very serious. He felt that they should go and shut down that polluting car wash shop.

The meaning was already very clear.

This was Jiang Chao’s method of revenge. He had to get back the face he had lost in front of Lin Yujiao today. But times were different. It was impossible for him to directly use violence and find someone to beat up Chen Feng or something. That would be satisfying, but it would also bring him trouble. And fighting and killing was too low-level for him now. It wouldn’t show his superb means.

Like now, directly ruining Chen Feng’s car wash business, making him lose a lot of money, making him feel the pain, and letting him know his means, that was truly powerful and awesome.

It was just that he didn’t expect that this section chief he had invited was Section Chief Zhang, whom he had met once with Chen Feng. When he heard about the matter Jiang Chao was entrusting him with, he was immediately startled and quickly asked, “Is this car wash shop you’re talking about a ‘Thumb’ chain store?”

Jiang Chao thought for a moment and nodded, “I think so.”

Section Chief Zhang smiled bitterly, “There’s only one regular car wash shop in Qingpu Town now. It can only be this one. This shop is very regular, a national chain, and also has sewage facilities and measures. There are no problems with environmental protection. It was just reviewed and filed with our unit two months ago. It was personally approved by our Director Feng.”

Jiang Chao frowned and asked, “What do you mean? This shop can’t be touched?”

Section Chief Zhang smiled bitterly and nodded, “I just said, this shop was personally approved by our Director Feng. It’s registered with the bureau. And it’s legal and compliant, operating and paying taxes regularly. How can we shut it down?”

Only then did Jiang Chao understand. He said in surprise, “You mean this shop has a connection with your Director Feng?”

Section Chief Zhang quickly shook his head, “I didn’t say that. I don’t know what you’re thinking.”

This was already very obvious. Jiang Chao’s face didn’t show it, but he was shocked in his heart.

He ran a packaging factory and a furniture factory. For these two types of factories, especially the furniture factory, it was too easy to find environmental problems. One check and you’d find one.

So, he spent a lot of money on environmental public relations every year. Fortunately, after years of public relations, Section Chief Zhang’s relationship with him was very good. As long as his factory wasn’t too outrageous, he could easily pass.

But Section Chief Zhang obviously couldn’t compare to Director Feng. If Chen Feng had this connection with Director Feng, it would be too easy to target him.

Anyone who runs a factory and does business, who can guarantee that they are 100% law-abiding? Impossible. Especially when it comes to environmental issues.

What’s more, Jiang Chao’s background was not clean in the first place.

“Old Jiang, we’ve known each other for many years. I’ll give you a piece of advice. Don’t mess with that shop, especially don’t mess with that Chen Feng. You’re a businessman, after all. You should make money in harmony. If you make enemies, your business will be difficult to do.”

Section Chief Zhang hesitated for a moment. Thinking of his relationship with Jiang Chao over the years, he finally gave him a piece of advice.

“You also know that Chen Feng?” Jiang Chao was a little surprised.

Section Chief Zhang smiled bitterly and nodded. It was because of this Chen Feng that he had almost been disciplined last time.

“Oh, then how did you get to know him?” Jiang Chao asked with feigned curiosity.

Of course, Section Chief Zhang would not expose his own shame. He just said, “You don’t need to know about that. We’ve known each other for so many years. I won’t harm you, right? You also know about the pollution problems of your two factories. If you are reported by this Chen Feng, I can only say that I can’t hold on here. I can only handle it officially.”

Jiang Chao was suddenly in a difficult position. What he had to think about now was not how to retaliate against Chen Feng, but on the contrary, to worry about whether Chen Feng would retaliate against him. Damn it! Was there any justice?

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Chen Feng had a fulfilling day at home. In the afternoon, he went to weed and plant vegetables with his father. He mainly helped out, dropping seeds and so on.

This work was not tiring, but it was not easy either. After all, he had to bend over often.

The afternoon passed just like that. He went home, took a shower, then had dinner. After that, he went back to his room to chat with Sun Xiaorui and Wu Mengting on WeChat, read novels, and scroll through short videos. It was soon past ten o’clock.
He turned off the lights and went to sleep before eleven o’clock. The next morning, he got up at seven-thirty, washed up, had breakfast, rested for about ten minutes, and then went out for a run.

It was still the same route. Then he saw Lin Yujiao again. It was at the place with the outdoor exercise equipment last time. She was sitting on the waist-twisting exercise equipment, holding the handrails with both hands, and twisting her waist from side to side.

When she saw Chen Feng coming over, she stopped her movements, immediately stood up, and ran towards him, saying with a smile, “Why are you so late? I’ve been waiting for you for almost half an hour.”

Chen Feng looked at her with a puzzled expression. Yesterday, she was so angry with him. Now she was greeting him with such a smile. What was going on?
“What’s wrong?”

Seeing Chen Feng looking at her with a strange expression, Lin Yujiao asked while looking down at her clothes. Then she reached out and brushed her bangs. It seemed there was no problem.

“Are you Lin Yujiao?” Chen Feng asked in a strange tone.

“Yes. What’s wrong? Why are you looking at me with that expression?” Lin Yujiao asked with some annoyance.

“Alright. Why are you suddenly so enthusiastic towards me? I’m really not used to it.”

Hearing this, Lin Yujiao was a little happy. She rolled her eyes at Chen Feng and said, “You’ve helped me so much. Isn’t it normal for me to be a little more enthusiastic towards you?”

“I helped you?” Chen Feng was puzzled, his face full of confusion.

“Hmph!” Lin Yujiao rolled her eyes at him again and said in a coquettish tone, “Didn’t you say yesterday that you would help me deal with Jiang Chao? Since you’ve dealt with him, why are you still pretending?”

What?!
Chen Feng really didn’t understand. What did she mean by he had dealt with Jiang Chao? He had just said that yesterday as a formality. She wasn’t his anything. She wasn’t even willing to be a temporary companion. She wasn’t related to him in any way. Why would he help her?
Besides, even if he wanted to help her, he didn’t have the ability for the time being. Jiang Chao was rich and powerful here. Although he had some money now, he really couldn’t deal with this person in a short time.

“You’re really good at pretending. Jiang Chao called me last night and sincerely apologized to me, and promised that he would never harass me again. He also asked me to apologize to you on his behalf, and said that if possible, he would like to treat you to a meal and apologize to you in person.”

Chen Feng was completely dumbfounded. What was this Jiang Chao up to? Was his brain short-circuited?

However, even if he didn’t know the reason, Chen Feng certainly wouldn’t be so stupid as to push away the credit that had been delivered to his hands.

“Oh, he apologized to you? He’s still sensible. If you’re still not satisfied and won’t forgive him, I can continue to deal with him.”

Chen Feng’s words were very domineering. Lin Yujiao’s eyes immediately lit up, her eyes shining. Her lips curved into a smile, and she looked completely moved.

Her appearance was completely understandable. In her eyes, a person like Jiang Chao was already a terrifying existence of a big devil, a very awesome big shot. As a result, Chen Feng had said yesterday afternoon that he would help her deal with him. In the evening, this big shot Jiang Chao immediately contacted her and politely apologized to her, and even tried to get close to Chen Feng through her.

From this, it could be seen that Chen Feng’s behind-the-scenes power was obviously much more powerful than Jiang Chao’s. With Chen Feng being so powerful, how could Lin Yujiao not be moved?

“No… no need. He didn’t really do anything to me. He used to patronize my shop often and introduced many friends to come and patronize. Speaking of which, I still owe him a favor.”

“You’re really a kind-hearted woman.”

A smile appeared on Chen Feng’s lips. He reached out and naturally went to hold her hand.

Lin Yujiao was stunned for a moment and subconsciously wanted to pull away, but in the end, she was weak and powerless. Chen Feng held her hand. The flesh on the back of her hand was very soft, and it was soft to pinch. The palm of her hand, however, was slightly rough. She was indeed a woman who had been working since she was a teenager.

“Then you should be free today, right? Let’s go to the county town to play again.”

Chen Feng held her hand and said calmly.

“Yes.”

Lin Yujiao glanced at Chen Feng with a mixture of joy and coquettishness, then turned her head slightly, not daring to look at Chen Feng again.

“Haha, then let’s go back first, take a shower, change clothes, and then go to the county town right away.”

“Are we going so early? Many shops aren’t open yet at this time.”

“Let’s go there first.”

“Alright.”

“That’s a good girl.”

Chen Feng reached out his other hand and patted her on the head. She returned a gentle look like a puppy and did not resist or show dissatisfaction.

She was really obedient.

Seeing this, Chen Feng was overjoyed. He had been credited with dealing with Jiang Chao out of thin air. It could only be said that this luck of being possessed by the European emperor was really something else.

Chen Feng first held her hand and walked for a while. When they were almost at the town, he let go of her hand. They ran back home one after the other.

About half an hour later, Chen Feng drove to her shop. Lin Yujiao, who had obviously dressed up carefully, quickly came out of the shop and got into his car.

As soon as the car started, Chen Feng smelled the faint scent of perfume coming from Lin Yujiao. He smiled and said, “Your perfume smells good. I like it.”

Lin Yujiao was slightly happy in her heart and said with a smile, “I don’t usually wear perfume.”

“It’s not necessary to wear it usually. But when you’re with me, you can wear it occasionally.”

“Yes, as long as you like it.”

As soon as she said this, Chen Feng immediately felt his heart beat a little faster, and the speed of the car also couldn’t help but speed up.

Ten minutes later, the car stopped at the entrance of the best hotel in the new city.

“You… what did you bring me here for?” Although Lin Yujiao was mentally prepared, she still couldn’t accept it when Chen Feng brought her directly to the hotel.

Chen Feng said with a straight face, “To give me a massage. I’ve helped you so much. It’s not a problem for you to give me a massage, right?”

Of course, Lin Yujiao didn’t believe it was just a simple massage. Her face couldn’t help but burn, and her heart also beat a little faster.

In the end, after Chen Feng got out of the car and opened the door for her, she could only get out of the car with her head down and follow him into the hotel.