40: Chapter 40 Wang Family Village Demolition Crisis!

40: Chapter 40 Wang Family Village Demolition Crisis!

“What, over a thousand people from Wang Family Village are surrounding the County Government and causing trouble, specifically seeking me out for trouble?”

Hearing this news, Xu Qianli felt overwhelmed.

How could such an incident have suddenly occurred?

As for Wang Family Village, Xu Qianli quickly recalled that the county had planned relocations and demolitions last year, which included Wang Family Village.

Could it be because something had gone wrong with this issue?

“Sister Sun, I am the Government Office Director, such situations typically fall under my jurisdiction.”

“With such a big incident happening, and it’s directed at me, it would be unreasonable for me not to go back.”

“I’ll head back to the county immediately, see you soon.”

Xu Qianli made up his mind, hurriedly put on his clothes, left He Caixia in He Lili’s care for the time being, and rushed away.

He Caixia was extremely worried and wanted to stop him but couldn’t.

She watched helplessly as Xu Qianli left, feeling incredibly unsettled and anxious.

Seeing He Caixia’s concern, He Lili said, “Don’t worry, sister Caixia.

Xu Qianli is full of vigor and energetic enough, as if nothing can hold him back.

The issues in Jiang City, he can easily resolve, no need to worry about him.”

Though she said that, He Lili was also extremely anxious inside.

She had finally chosen Xu Qianli, wanting to have his child.

Now, before any good had come of it, and before the child was even conceived, Xu Qianli, you scoundrel, don’t you dare let anything bad happen!

Xu Qianli skipped breakfast entirely, drove at breakneck speed straight to Jiang City.

On the way, he made several calls to personnel involved with the Wang Family Village demolition to try to understand the situation.

But the responses he got were unanimously uninformed, unaware, unclear, and uncomprehending.

Xu Qianli was close to exploding and cursed several people harshly.

Such a major incident had infuriated almost the entire population of Wang Family Village, yet these departments connected to the demolition knew nothing; Xu Qianli felt they deserved more than just scolding, he wanted to kill them!

However, now was not the time to settle scores with them; the immediate issue was to handle the encirclement of the County Government by the Wang Family Village residents.

When Xu Qianli arrived outside the County Government, he quickly realized something was amiss.

Although it was extremely rare for villagers to besiege government buildings, there had been incidents in the past when the usual approach would be to dispatch a large number of police officers to maintain order and prevent chaos.

But today, there were only a bunch of villagers from Wang Family Village crowding in front of the County Government, and just a few dozen police officers on duty, who appeared to be from the criminal police team led by Wu Kai.

Such a small number of officers compared to the over a thousand villagers from Wang Family Village, simply wasn’t enough to control the situation.

As soon as Xu Qianli’s car arrived, before he could even get out, someone pointed at him, and it wasn’t clear what was said, but the villagers hastily charged toward him.

Seeing this, Xu Qianli involuntarily broke into a cold sweat and, gathering his courage, dismissed the thought of turning the car around to escape.

He steeled himself, opened the car door, and stepped out to meet the crowd of villagers.

“It’s him, that’s Xu Qianli, he’s the one who left us homeless, kill him, everyone, let’s knock him dead!”

“So young and driving such a nice car, he must have taken a lot of underhanded money.

The money from our village’s demolition must have all been embezzled by him, today if I don’t kill him, my name isn’t Wang!”

“Come on, everyone, beat him to death, kill him…”

A large group of villagers, as if driven mad, surged toward Xu Qianli, wielding hoes and shovels, ready to kill him.

Faced with this situation, Xu Qianli suddenly roared.

“Everyone, stop right there!”

“Although I don’t know what has happened or what wrong I, Xu Qianli, have done, can killing me solve the problem?”

“You just said you were homeless.

Okay, whether it’s my fault or not, if you kill me, will you have homes to return to?

Go ahead and kill me then.”

“My life, Xu Qianli’s life, in exchange for so many of you to live and work in peace, I accept!”

Xu Qianli’s words silenced most of the villagers of Wang Family Village.

Indeed, even if they killed him, it wouldn’t solve anything; they would still have no place to live.

Although it would allow them to vent their anger, it wouldn’t solve the problem.

Seeing that most of the villagers had calmed down, suddenly, a roar came from within the crowd.

“Killing you won’t scare other corrupt officials off, it won’t solve our village’s problems.”

“Don’t listen to him, everyone, let’s kill him, and our village’s problems will be solved!”

The villagers, who had just calmed down, flared up again at these words, their eyes reddening as they prepared to rush forward.

“Stop, all of you stop!

I’ll see who dares to touch Director Xu!”

Suddenly Wu Kai’s voice rang out.

He arrived with dozens of criminal police officers, surrounded Xu Qianli, and confronted the crowd of villagers.

He feared they would rush forward, even flashed his badge to try to control the situation.

When the police arrived, some villagers still shouted to kill Xu Qianli, to revitalize Wang Family Village, strongly egging on.

Seeing the situation getting out of control, Wu Kai sweated nervously and whispered urgently, “Bro, you better leave fast; it’s about to spiral out of control here—we won’t last much longer, and if you don’t leave now, you won’t be able to later.”

“If I leave, it will be complete chaos here; I cannot go!”

Xu Qianli refused without a moment’s hesitation.

Since he was here, he couldn’t leave without resolving the situation, not sneak away quietly.

Seeing someone in the village vehemently stirring up trouble, Xu Qianli took the gun from Wu Kai, cocked it, and threw it at a villager who was particularly loud.

“You there, catch!”

“Weren’t you the one shouting loudest that killing me, Xu Qianli, would revive the entire Wang Family Village and that everyone in Wang Family Village would have a house to live in?”

“Here’s the gun, come on, shoot me!”

The man, a forty-something burly, black-skinned fat man, caught off guard, caught the object only to find it was a gun.

Hearing Xu Qianli’s words, he shook violently, dropping the gun to the ground, too scared to pick it up, let alone use it to kill Xu Qianli.

Those around him were so frightened they quickly moved away.

Seeing the black fat man motionless, Xu Qianli shouted louder.

“Why aren’t you moving?

Go ahead, take the gun and kill me.”

“Or is it that you only dare to incite others to kill from behind and profit from it?”

“Also, when I was dealing with the demolition work for Wang Family Village, I frequented the village.

I’ve seen most of the villagers, even those not at home I’ve seen their photos, so how come I’ve never seen you?”

Having said that, the villagers of Wang Family Village finally cooled down and also looked at the black fat man.

The village chief Wang Dazhu even furiously pointed at the black fat man’s face, “Who are you?

You’re not one of us from Wang Family Village.

What right do you have to instigate murder here?”

The black fat man’s face changed, and he turned to run.

Xu Qianli shouted urgently, “Go, grab him!”