Several off-road vehicles drove lightly and quickly on the winding asphalt road, with undulating mountains and dense forests and grass on both sides.
A large number of trees in the mountains of Duhe have lost their branches and leaves after winter, leaving them standing bare between the sky and the earth. Although the trees such as camphor, laurel, pines and cypresses still have green branches and leaves hanging on them, they are far less bright and green than in spring and summer.
The stream is also thin, and there is a feeling of desolation between heaven and earth.
However, for people who are used to living in big cities, the almost wilderness scene in front of them is refreshing.
Cao Mo had been busy at home for a while, and it was rare for him to accompany everyone to Duhe for vacation.
Jiaying said that she wanted to build a B&B manor on land in Duhe, but during this period of time in Duhe, there was no tourism or commercial-related land within the Qifeng Mountain Scenic Area.
Although many B&B investors go to Duhe to rent and sell land directly from the villagers, Muxiang Capital’s investment in the B&B manor in Duhe is partly aimed at accumulating family assets. Naturally, this is not the case.
I will play this kind of borderline game that has legal risks.
There has been no progress in investing in the B&B manor, but Tianyue's first domestically sold off-road vehicle was officially unveiled at the Xinhai International Auto Show and received reservations for more than 3,000 vehicles within a week. Cao Mo is Xu Bin, Xiao Jun and the others.
To celebrate, we specially booked an entire B&B in the Qifeng Mountain Scenic Area in Duhe and invited everyone to come with their families for vacation, which can be regarded as a relief from the hard work during this period.
Although it will take half a year for the first batch of new cars to be delivered to users, Cao Mo and the others have formed a complete off-road fleet for this trip.
Pickup trucks are included in the domestic transport vehicle management, and there are some restrictions on access to and from cities. Therefore, it is impossible for Tianyue Industrial’s senior managers to equip pickup trucks for daily use. However, now that Tianyue Industrial has developed its own passenger cars, they do not need to use pickup trucks.
At Mo Ti's request, Xu Bin and others decided that all senior managers must drive or ride in Tianyue's own passenger cars.
The off-road convoy stopped in front of a mountain col.
There is a quiet mountain village in the mountain col. After the asphalt road was built, transportation with the outside world became more convenient. A young couple from Xinhai came here two years ago to pursue their dreams. They rented several houses in the mountain village for renovation and built this building called
The "Flowers Blooming towards the Mountain" B&B is quite famous in the B&B circle.
Cao Mo and the others also made reservations in advance and booked all the guest rooms at "Huakai Chaoshan" for the coming week.
The female boss of "Baihua Chaoshan" received a call and she had already rushed to the pass to greet her. She was a neatly dressed and beautiful woman in her early thirties, wearing an orange-red coat.
Jiaying and Cheng Xin all know each other and the couple who run this B&B. They were originally from the investment circle of Xinhai Securities. They achieved financial freedom two years ago, and then came to Duhe to start a second business, mainly for the purpose of achieving financial freedom.
The life dream of "spring is warm and flowers are blooming, facing the sea".
"This place is so beautiful, we must implement our plan quickly!" Seeing the scene in front of him, Cheng Xi said excitedly.
Cao Mo curled his lips. He had seen more of this primitive environment than anyone else in Africa, and he had seen it thoroughly, including the wooden buildings on the shores of Lake Ibogu, the elegant houses on the shores of Lake Conero, the Lake Norquay Manor, and the current life of the employees of Quekotos.
The base can be said to be constructed as a manor.
Of course, Cheng Xi and Jiaying have little experience, so of course they have an unstoppable sense of freshness.
Although Mrs. Cao curled her lips and said that this was just an ordinary small mountain village, she got out of the car first as fast as flying.
His father, Cao Xiong, and Cheng Xi and her father, Cheng Zhengjie, are now obsessed with fishing. They also put a few sets of fishing gear in the trunk of the car. They were planning to find a den in a creek in the mountains after getting out of the car, but they were dragged here for vacation.
Cheng Xi’s mother is still thinking about things that haven’t been solved yet...
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There is a stone staircase leading to the entrance of the mountain, and vehicles can only park in a parking lot on the side of the road that is paved with fine stones.
Everyone picked up their suitcases and walked up the stone stairs to the village.
On both sides of the stone staircase are ordinary buildings in the village, built along the mountain, with blue bricks, white walls and black tiles, moss creeping at the base of the walls, or courtyard walls made of stone or mud, with a few withered grass stems at the top of the walls.
Swaying - there were old people in front of and behind the house, and children looked curiously at Cao Mo and the tourists here. Most of the young people went out to work, so they were rarely seen.
These situations are relatively common in eastern rural areas, but they are novel enough for people in cities.
The B&B is also used as the lobby, entertainment and dining main building. It is a stone house that retains the old scale as a whole, but the side facing the valley and distant mountains is changed to floor-to-ceiling glass windows, which provides a clear view and can reduce the bleakness of Qifeng Mountain in winter.
The mountain ridges are in full view.
The boss gave up the bustling life of securities investment and came to Duhe to invest in a B&B. His aesthetics and taste are indeed above the standard.
Cao Mo set off after having dinner in Xinhai at noon. It was only four o'clock in the afternoon when he arrived at the mountain village. It was still early before dinner time. Everyone had divided their rooms and either walked around in the mountain village or went to the leisure area of the main building to drink tea and chat;
Organize the card game directly.
Cao Mo and Cheng Xi walked around the mountain path for more than half an hour, sweating slightly. When they returned to the main building, they saw many people gathered here to drink tea.
The male boss who had not shown up just now also appeared at this time. He was about thirty-five or six years old and very energetic. Because he knew Jiaying and Cheng Xin, he was sitting and chatting with Jiaying and Xiao Jun.
The boss also knew Cao Mo's identity. When he saw him and Cheng Xi walking over, he stood up to say hello and handed over a business card.
The boss ran a B&B and gave out business cards in the hope that guests would stay here again and help promote the business. Cao Mo took the business card and looked at it, using a simple freehand painting of the B&B as the background. The boss’s name was Lu Xinyong and he asked with a smile: “What are you talking about?
, in full swing?”
"Three or four kilometers to the east at the foot of the mountain, a company has acquired a piece of commercial land for tourism development. There are more than a dozen old buildings from the late Ming and early Qing dynasties on this land - although these buildings are somewhat dilapidated and scattered among the mountain villages.
There are no relics of famous people in the messy buildings, and they have never been included in the municipal cultural heritage. However, the location and construction of the buildings are very characteristic of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The government also promised to preserve these buildings when the land was first acquired and auctioned.
However, the person who acquired the land was a local company that actually did not have the ability to develop the land. The purpose of acquiring the land was to resell it. They have currently found a company that is willing to take over the land.
company, but the new company is unwilling to invest too many resources in protecting these old buildings. It just wants to get a piece of clear land for new planning and construction. In the past few days, this local company has invited a demolition team to enter the site without authorization.
, they just wanted to demolish all these old buildings, but the local government and Xi Ni showed up to stop them. The nearby villagers organized spontaneously and drove the demolition team away in the past few days, causing a lot of trouble," said Lu Xinyong, the male owner of the B&B. "Ms. Cao
It is said that Muxiang Capital also intends to invest in Duhe
To finance the construction of a large B&B, I think it is appropriate to take down that land - if those dozen old buildings can be preserved and properly repaired, it will be a great asset. I am worried that the villagers will not be able to stop it in the end, so this afternoon I deliberately
I rushed over and took some photos to keep, so I can show them to you..."
The male boss Lu Xinyong brought a digital camera and showed Cao Mo and the others some photos taken this afternoon and before. The photo was located in the valley at the southeastern foot of Qifeng Mountain, relatively close to Duhe City.
There is a mountain lake, sandwiched between peaks and lakes, with crisscrossing streams and dense valleys. The scenery is more distinctive than the scenery here.
There used to be a village on this land, and most of the buildings have been demolished, but there are still a dozen old buildings that were planned to be preserved and still stand in place.
Because the village has been demolished to pieces, a large amount of construction waste is still piled in place and has not been disposed of. It is very messy and old buildings are mixed in. It is also very dilapidated and has no special beauty.
There are also some photos showing the confrontation between local villagers and the demolition team at the mouth of the valley.
"Brother, what do you think of this land?" Cao Jiaying looked at Cao Mo and asked.
Jiaying has been struggling to find suitable commercial land in Duhe. She was a little excited when she had such a good opportunity to step in and win a piece of land. The plan of the B&B Manor could be implemented in advance.
Otherwise, we have to wait for the tourism service land launched by the local government to enter the land auction market, and it will be delayed until the end of the year.
"Which company plans to take over this land?" Cao Mo asked.
Cao Mo said that he would not interfere in Muxiang Capital's decision-making, but in fact it was impossible to completely let go.
At this time, it is impossible for an unknown small company to acquire land at the foot of Qifeng Mountain in Duhe River for tourism development - they leave the dirty work to the previous company and hope to get the clean land to make a new plan, which will definitely cost a lot of money.
Build a large-scale comprehensive tourism project at a high cost.
Wood Elephant's rash intervention is actually very offending.
Of course, Jiaying and the others will definitely want to take that piece of land, and Cao Mote will not refuse, but they must pay attention to their strategy in everything.
For example, let the villagers start a quarrel with the demolition team, force the local government to come forward to clarify the "promise", and ask the company that took over to quit before they came forward to talk to the local company that holds the land property rights to take over.
More appropriate.
"I'm not very sure about this. It seems to be a company in Xinhai," said the male boss Lu Xinyong.
"You can't see much in the photo. It's not far anyway. Let's just drive over and take a look." Jiaying said.
"It will be dark soon. What can we see?" Cao Mo said.
Although the male boss Lu Xinyong's intention was more to preserve these buildings, his intention to encourage Jiaying to come forward was too obvious. Cao Mo yawned and changed the topic and asked what delicious food was prepared for dinner here.
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“We mainly specialize in local dishes from mountain villages, free-range chickens, bacon, fresh local pork, and reservoir fish. We also have a sika deer farm here, and venison is also a specialty of our place. Drinks
It is our home-made bayberry wine. When it comes to the base wine for soaking bayberry, I have selected dozens of varieties. Finally, I found that sugarcane wine is very suitable. There is also a blueberry wine purchased from a local town, which is brewed using wine technology.
The taste is also very outstanding..." The male boss Lu Xinyong introduced the evening's dishes and drinks in a gushing manner.
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After dinner at the B&B, they sat lively by the fire and played cards until twelve o'clock before going back to their rooms to rest. They slept until nine o'clock the next day, and then Cao Mo and Cheng Xi left the room and walked to the main building to have breakfast.
His father, Cheng Xi's father, Gu Fan, and Zheng Chuyuan went fishing in the mountain stream early in the morning. It was a bit cloudy outside and the temperature was very low. In addition to central air conditioning, there was also a stove built in the leisure area, where they sat and drank tea.
It was very pleasant to play cards and chat; of course, there were some people who got up even later than Cao Mo and others, and even slept in the room at this point.
Cao Mo and Cheng Xi had breakfast. Seeing that it was cold outside, they hid in the house and drank tea with everyone. After a while, they saw Jiaying, Cheng Xin, Xiao Jun, Zhao Qianyun and others walking in from outside with the male boss Lu Xinyong.
, Jiaying was very angry, her clothes were a little dirty, Xiao Jun's down jacket had a cut, and the down was exposed.
"Where did you go this morning? Don't you want to fight with others?" Cao Mo was shocked when he saw them like this.
“We had breakfast and drove to see the land, but we saw that the company had recruited a bunch of gangsters from nowhere and were about to drive away the villagers who blocked the demolition team from entering. They also used sticks to beat them.
Jiaying couldn't see it and ran over to stop it. Fortunately, someone called the police before and the police arrived at the scene quickly and there was no conflict - my clothes may have been scratched somewhere during the chaos!" Xiao Jun said
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Without thinking, Cao Mo knew that Jiaying was impatient and grabbed Xiao Jun. Cheng Xin and the others followed Lu Xinyong, the owner of the B&B, to see the land. When they went there and saw the chaos, the villagers were being bullied, he couldn't help but intervene.
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However, in his opinion, when something happens, you must first distinguish right from wrong, and you can't be afraid of getting into trouble.
If he was afraid of this or that, he would have been frightened back to China in the face of such a powerful alliance between the Evans Foundation and the Savvy family. Was he still afraid of continuing to play like this with them in Africa?
Therefore, he would not blame Jiaying for anything, nor would he even complain that Lu Xinyong deliberately encouraged Jiaying to come forward. He hesitated whether to immediately ask people to find out the background of the company that acquired the land and the company that was about to take over the land.
"These people are really hooligans. They are clearly in the wrong, but they find a group of local gangsters and beat anyone they catch with sticks. There are also people who are screaming and driving an excavator to run over anyone who dares to block the road. It is really lawless.
"Jiaying was obviously pulled back by Cheng Xin and Xiao Jun. At this time, she was still aggrieved. "The police rushed to the scene but they were indifferent. They saw two villagers with their heads bruised and bleeding, and they didn't say what they would do.
Measures, just watching those gangsters leave arrogantly, it’s really annoying!”
"The company that acquired the land has some background in Duhe, right?" Cao Mo turned to ask Lu Xinyong, the owner of the B&B.
"Lvying Group is quite powerful in Duhe. I heard that it has a very close relationship with a certain leader in the city, so it stretches out its hands wider and wants to take over any profitable projects..." Lu Xinyong
He said with some apprehension.
Lu Xinyong did not want to see the Luying Group, which had acquired the land, go back on its word and demolish the dozen or so old buildings that had preservation value. He was weak and powerless, but he saw that Muxiang Capital had strong power behind it and at the same time was determined to do something in Duhe.
A large-scale B&B project was planned to encourage Cao Jiaying to take over this land from Luying Group.
However, what happened today was somewhat beyond his expectation.
He did not expect that in order to solve the final obstacle to the land resale, Luying Group would use this method to deal with the villagers who blocked them, and
The local government actually has the intention to condone it.
He knows that Muxiang Capital and Tianyue Investment behind the scenes are extremely powerful, but he also knows that strong dragons cannot overwhelm local snakes. The vast majority of domestic companies and businessmen pay attention to being harmonious and making money. No matter how strong they are, in fact,
They are not willing to fight with local factions - a waste of resources and connections, but usually not very good results.
His instigation yesterday was not malicious anyway, but when something like this happened today, he really didn't know if Cao Mo would be angry with him because he was involved in unnecessary local troubles and disputes.
What do you think?
Cao Mo was still thinking about asking Lu Xinyong to explain in detail how strong the local background of Luying Group was when he heard a harsh horn sound coming from outside. He turned around in surprise and saw two Beijing jeeps walking directly along the road.
Drive up the ramp and steps.
Regardless of the width of the ramp steps, cars can pass through them, and the slope is not very steep. A slightly more powerful off-road vehicle can drive up the ramp, but the stone slabs on the steps are easily broken at the corners, and generally speaking, no one will allow it.
The off-road vehicle drives directly to the main building.
The two Beijing jeeps honked their horns and rushed up from the foot of the mountain quickly. Two staff members of the B&B were so frightened in front of the small field outside the main building that they almost fell down while trying to avoid them.
The two Beijing jeeps stopped in front of the main building. Six or seven young men with shaved legs got out of the car and "violently" pushed open the glass door in front of the lobby. There was a loud "clang" sound, which made people doubt whether they were going to do anything again.
If you use more force, the two strong tempered glass doors will be smashed directly.
Most of the staff employed by the "Hua Kai Chaoshan" B&B are nearby villagers. They were shocked when they saw these people barging in with such force. They stood aside with pale faces and did not dare to speak.
"What are you doing?" Lu Xinyong stood up, walked towards the front hall, which was separated from the leisure area by a row of large bookshelves, and asked sternly.
"What are we not going to do? Can't we come here to spend money?" The young man leading the charge stared at Lu Xinyong in an irritated manner, sat down on the sofa against the wall in the front hall, crossed his legs, rolled up his sleeves, and exposed a pair of sleeves on his arm.
With a dragon head tattoo, he whistled unscrupulously at the proprietress who came out from behind the front desk, and laughed obscenely with several of his accomplices.
"I'm sorry, our hotel is full this week and will no longer accept new customers - whether you are staying or dining, you may need to find a new hotel!" Lu Xinyong said in a neither arrogant nor humble manner, "Cars are not allowed on the steps.
Drive up directly, you will damage the steps..."
"The steps outside belong to your house too? Don't you know how to call the police? You call the police and ask the police to come over and make a review. Damn it, mother, we are driving on our Duhe road, and it is your turn to boss us around.
, you have a better fucking foundation than others?" The tattooed young man spat directly on the stone slab in front of the sand, took out a box of crumpled hard-shell Chinese products from his pocket and distributed them to the people around him, and unscrupulously took out a lighter.
Point.
"Liu Ying, if you call the police, I don't believe that Duhe really allows these scoundrels to be lawless!" Lu Xinyong stood in front of the front desk and said to his wife.
"What do you mean, you went to Qinjiadai and beat up the villagers, but you came here to act wild?" Cao Jiaying walked out and asked indignantly.
"It has nothing to do with you. Don't fucking jump out and find yourself unhappy. Believe it or not, I won't let you even get out of Duhe?! Speaking of running wild, Duhe has a place for you outsiders to run wild?!" The tattooed young man cut half of his body into pieces.
The cigarette was thrown at Cao Jiaying, and he stared at her angrily, cursing.
"Brother!" Cao Jiaying was trembling with anger and turned around to look at Cao Mo.
Cao Mo sat in the corner without moving, drinking tea slowly.
He could see that these people were just here to act rogue and interfere with the normal operations here. They might not even dare to smash up the store, let alone beat people under surveillance cameras. He asked Xiao Jun and Cheng Xin not to go there either. The scene in front of them was just right.
Let Jiaying temper her temper. Sometimes she cannot just have a sense of justice.
Cao Jiaying scolded these young men a few times, but they acted like scoundrels and scolded them harshly but did not take action. She was so angry that she could only sit back in the rest area and rolled her eyes at Cao Mo.
"...They just want you to grab them first if you are angry, and then you can go and wallow with them." Cao Mo said with a smile.
"They bully people too much, do you really ignore them?" Cao Jiaying said.
"They say that strong dragons can't suppress local cowards, but they are just acting rogue. What can you do?" Cao Mo asked.
"I have a way, can you listen to me?" Cao Jiaying asked.
"It's okay to listen to you, but you can't ruin everyone's interest in vacation because of this stupid thing - you'd better not get yourself to the police station. I'll have to go around asking people to say hello, and I can't afford to lose it.
This man." Cao Mo said.
"That's okay..." Cao Jiaying said.
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This group of people struggled in the front hall for almost an hour before two policemen parked their police car at the entrance below, walked over slowly, and glanced at the situation in the main building lobby: "Who called the police? What happened?
matter?"
"I'm sorry, comrade police, we came here to do some shopping. Unexpectedly, we got addicted to cigarettes when we walked in. We couldn't help but smoke a few cigarettes in the room. The people here were chatty and we were short-tempered, so we quarreled for a few times -
We just had a few quarrels, but we didn’t hit anyone, let alone smash things. We now realize our mistake and were about to apologize to them, but I didn’t expect you to come over! I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” Those young people were waiting for the police to come over.
After that, his face suddenly changed, "I solemnly apologize to them now! It was our fault, please cuff us!"
"You really didn't do anything else?" the policeman asked with a serious face.
"If he really does other things, he has surveillance here - we are not stupid. If we really want to do anything, we can't do it under the surveillance cameras. Police comrades, do you think that's right?" the tattooed young man said angrily.
"Don't fucking say such nonsense. If it's nothing, just get out of here. Don't interfere with other people's normal operations,"
The police reprimanded and drove several young people out of the hall, then turned to look at Lu Xinyong and said impatiently,
"As long as there is no loss on your side and you are sure that no one was beaten and nothing was smashed, then sign here - don't call the police casually for such trivial matters in the future. We only have a few police officers in the station and we don't have the energy to do this.
It’s just trivial matters that make you run away.”
Lu Xin was trembling with courage. He knew that after the two policemen left, the gangsters would come over to make trouble, but he had no choice but to sign where the policemen were pointing.
"……oops!"
There was a scream from the door of the hall. Lu Xinyong looked up and saw a foreign woman staying in the hotel with Cao Mo and the others. She covered her chest and then slapped the tattooed young man in the face with her backhand...