After sitting downstairs in Xuanweiju for less than ten minutes, Du Shaoqiang came hurriedly. After Hong Jingtian stood up and greeted him, the two simply went upstairs to drink tea and chat. After chatting for a while, Hong Jingtian remembered that day when he and Zhong Qinghua from Yuanba Village, and Xiao Zhigang went to see the topography of the dock, they found the river beach less than one kilometer away from the dock. The river beach happened to be at the bend of the river. It was the flood season that day, and all we could see was the slow-moving river water because the river suddenly widened. However, there were still large areas of reeds clearly visible on the shore. Hong Jingtian took a closer look at that time and found that the sand and gravel resources there were very rich. For this reason, he also asked Zhong Qinghua implicitly what kind of land the river beach was. , Zhong Qinghua casually told him that the land belonged to the second group of Yuanba Village, which was the group Zhong Qinghua belonged to. However, because it was a river beach, it belonged to the state. As for why no one contracted the project, Zhong Qinghua said that Tongping Township has no roads connected to the outside world. If the sand and gravel were transported by ship, there would be no profit at all due to the freight. Besides, if the sand and gravel are sold to Jiangling City, several sand and gravel quarries in Jiangling City will jointly resist it. It turns out that a villager who did not believe in evil once dug out sand and gravel from the river beach and transported it to Jiangling City by boat. After selling a few ships, they were beaten up by a group of gangsters from Jiangling City. They were let go until they promised not to sell goods to Jiangling City. From then on, no one has ever used that river beach to build sand. Stone field. At that time, Zhong Qinghua also joked that Mayor Hong knew a lot of people, so why not find someone for them to contract and develop this river beach. Du Shaoqiang heard Hong Jingtian describe the situation on the river beach, and he asked with some excitement: "Jingtian, what do you think?" "Haha, Shaoqiang, I think this is an opportunity. How about we form a partnership? If we find someone to take over the river beach first, we don¡¯t need to sell goods to Jiangling City. As soon as the wharf construction project starts, a lot of sand and gravel will be needed. Of course, this sales volume alone will not lead to anything, but If the national highway really passes through Tongping Township, the sand and gravel materials needed will be gone. "Du Shaoqiang is his best friend, and Hong Jingtian did not hide anything from him. ¡°And in the future, delivering goods to national highway construction projects will be inseparable from Du Jiaguo¡¯s help. Although Du Shaoqiang worked in the county party committee office, he immediately understood the benefits after hearing what Hong Jingtian said. However, he thought about it carefully and said: "Jingtian, both of us are state workers. We can't come forward in this matter. We have to find someone else we can trust to come forward. In addition, for such a big matter, I have to deal with it first." Listen to what the old man thinks." As soon as the two of them finished talking about this, Xiao Dongmei and Xu Xue walked in with a smile. Seeing Hong Jingtian and Du Shaoqiang, Xu Xue said crisply: "What are the two leaders talking about? Happy?¡± Hong Jingtian stood up and asked them to sit down and said with a smile: ¡°Shaoqiang said that when he was in high school, you were his dream girl, but when he was about to confess to you, you were already Luo Fu. She has another husband." When Xu Xue heard what Hong Jingtian said, her eyes flashed and she looked at Du Shaoqiang who was sitting aside, "Shaoqiang, is this serious?" Du Shaoqiang didn't expect Hong Jingtian to make such a joke. Xu Xue and Xiao Dongmei were considered the most beautiful among the female classmates in the class at that time. It was not a lie to say that they had a crush on Xu Xue. However, when they went to college, they saw many beauties. This former The good impression is just a good impression. Besides, he and Jiang Yuqin are ready to talk about marriage. Naturally, towards Xu Xue, it is just a friendship between classmates. "Xu Xue, don't listen to this kid, that's all in the past." Du Shaoqiang smiled a little sheepishly. However, in his words, he still revealed his original appreciation for Xu Xue, which made Xu Xue look at him with a little more tenderness. Xu Xue now works in the Procuratorate. A year after she started working, she married Shen Xufei. Shen Xufei is a section chief of the County Water Conservancy Bureau. The young man is good-looking. Du Shaoqiang and Hong Jingtian have had dinner with him several times. As for Xiao Dongmei, she works at the Internal Revenue Service and got married at the end of last year. Her husband is a criminal policeman named Tan Gang from the County Public Security Bureau. It is said that he is also an expert in solving crimes. When old classmates met, they were naturally chatting and laughing. After the four of them joked for a while, the service started. However, Dong Jiahui hadn't arrived yet, so Hong Jingtian said to the three old classmates and prepared to go downstairs to have a look. As soon as he walked to the door, Hong Jingtian heard several people surrounding him on the street not far away, and there were waves of questioning sounds coming from inside. It seemed that someone was surrounding him and asking him to pay back the money. Hong Jingtian didn't pay attention, but looked away. Those few people were eagerly waiting for Dong Jiahui's arrival. Suddenly, a familiar voice begging for mercy came from the crowd. Hong Jingtian was stunned. How did this voice sound like Dong Jiahui? He had no time to pay attention., hurriedly ran over, squeezed through the crowd, and saw that it was Dong Jiahui who was in a panic and begging in a low voice. Looking at the few people surrounding him, they were wearing flashy T-shirts and had stern expressions on their faces. One of them was wearing big sunglasses, obviously imitating the style of a gangster in Hong Kong and Macau movies, and was holding Dong Jiahui with one hand. The white shirt shouted fiercely: "You kid, don't think that we can't do anything if you hide in school. This is an IOU written by you in black and white. How dare you default on it? Pay it back quickly!" "Brother, I am now I really don¡¯t have any money, please give me some time and let me think of a way, I won¡¯t default on my debt.¡± Dong Jiahui¡¯s eyes were full of fear. As soon as Hong Jingtian saw the clothes of these people, he immediately knew that the matter was not as simple as owing money. Dong Jiahui was the deputy director of the education department of the county middle school. How could he borrow money from people in the society? Moreover, looking at the clothes of these people, it was obviously not anything. Right path. Hong Jingtian reached out and separated the hand wearing sunglasses, then looked at Dong Jiahui and asked with concern: "Jiahui, what's going on?" Seeing Hong Jingtian appearing in front of him, Dong Jiahui felt as if he had seen a savior. He grabbed Hong Jingtian's hand and whispered: "Brother Tian, ??they are Brother Biao's people, and I owe them a sum of money. Please tell them for me, and I will definitely pay them back after a while." Listen When Dong Jiahui said that these people were from Brother Biao, he didn't take it seriously. This Brother Biao, whose real name is Ma Biao, is only in his mid-twenties. When Hong Jingtian was in high school at Nanping Middle School, he once I had several conflicts with this Brother Biao. The reason was that Ma Biao's people came to the school gate to collect protection fees from students. At that time, Hong Jingtian was in his prime of life, and he had a special relationship with Du Shaoqiang, Yang Yang, and Han Zhijun. Iron, no matter what happens to the four of them, they always advance and retreat together. Ma Biao was only 18 or 19 years old at the time. After the boy he sent to extort money was beaten to a pulp by Hong Jingtian and others, Ma Biao took the people and took a look. When Han Zhijun was alone, he led someone to give him a good beating. He thought that this would scare Hong Jingtian and the other students. Unexpectedly, after Hong Jingtian, Du Shaoqiang and Yang Yang heard about it, they comforted Han Zhijun. At twelve o'clock in the evening, the three men broke into Ma Biao's house, slapped the girl who was with Ma Biao, Hu Tianhu Di, and knocked her unconscious. She stuffed a towel in her mouth and tied her to the bed. As for Ma Biao, he was Hong Jingtian and Du Shaoqiang held him down and beat him, then tied him into a ball, gagged his mouth, put him in a sack, and carried him to a mass grave in the north of the city. Ma Biao, who had been randomly put on his pants, was pulled out of the sack by Hong Jingtian and others. He saw the mass graves under the pale moonlight, and Hong Jingtian and the other three who were staring at him with cold eyes. In front of him, Not far away, there was a newly dug hole, and he suddenly felt a kind of fear from the bottom of his heart The next day, Ma Biao personally sent two hundred yuan as compensation to Han Zhijun. At the same time, the gate of Nanping Middle School The group of troublemaking gangsters outside suddenly disappeared without a trace. "Are you from Ma Biao?" Hong Jingtian turned around, looked at the man wearing sunglasses, and asked coldly. "Who are you? You are, Brother Biao's name, you can call it casually. I think you are tired of living." The man wearing sunglasses shouted arrogantly. "Pa." With a crisp slap, the man's sunglasses suddenly fell to the ground and were broken in half. He covered his face with bright red palm prints with his right hand and looked at Hong Jingtian with an unbelievable look on his face. . "You dare to hit me?" "Why, you don't accept it. I'll teach you a lesson for Ma Biao today so that you won't be embarrassed when you go out later. Go back and tell Ma Biao that I, Hong Jingtian, invited Director Dong to dinner today. What's the matter? Dinner We'll talk about it later." As he said that, Hong Jingtian pulled Dong Jiahui away from the two gangsters in front of him and walked towards Xuanweiju.