Chapter Fifty-One No Money, House as Collateral

  He followed the prompts on the documents in the safe deposit box and drove his QQ car all the way to find the property that already belonged to him.

  After arriving at the place, Li Yang got off the car and looked up, his eyes widened in shock!

  For him, 30 billion was just a number on his phone, but when he saw the actual goods, he was shocked!

  This is a maple forest district with an area of over 80 mu, located in the northeast of the city, about one kilometer from the city center, which is considered a golden location. It is located at the intersection of Maple Street and Book Garden Street.

  As far as the eye can see, there are over 20 high-rise buildings with more than 800 suites. The outer buildings along the street are all 10-story high-rises. The lower three floors are commercial shops, and the upper seven floors are also residential apartments.

  Li Yang took a rough estimate and knew that this building was on a grand scale, which he couldn't handle alone, so he dialed Li Yao's phone number.

  "Maple Woods Road and Bookyard Street intersection? Isn't that the new Maple Woods Estate developed by Longteng Company? How did it end up in your hands?" Li Yao's surprised voice came from the other end of the phone.

  "Haha, sorry about that. Today I was invited to an underground casino by them and won 7.6 billion from them in a chaotic game. The manager of Longteng Company couldn't pay me the cash, so he had to give me this entire district instead. I have all the documents with me now, let's take a look around."

  "I heard from a friend that our southeastern city has a new gambling god today, and it's actually you! Good kid, do you know how hard it was for Longteng Company to get this real estate project? It ended up being cheap for you!"

  "Isn't it just a broken land? The Longteng company seems to be very powerful, what difficulties will there be in taking it down?"

  "This land was originally the Guangming Fertilizer Factory, and Dehou Group won the bid for this land. Longteng Company used various means to compete with Dehou Company for this land, and even had a few armed fights that almost resulted in loss of life, before forcing Dehou Group to withdraw. In the end, more than a dozen core elites from Longteng Company were imprisoned, suspected of intentional injury, and two were sentenced to life imprisonment, resulting in significant losses."

  "I see! Let me take a look at what's going on. If it seems like there's a chance, Auntie, you should send some people over. With such a large compound, after I hand it over to Longteng Company, at the very least, someone needs to be keeping an eye on things."

  "What's going on here? The contract has been signed, can it still be fake?"

  "Hehe, after all, I won it through gambling, not bought with real money."

  "Li Yang, it can't be that Longteng Company is forcing you to gamble, right?"

  "Aunt, you won't believe it, this time they really forced me to gamble. That little brat Yin Tianlong and his mother Qiao Manager, they made me go to their casino and gamble no matter what, or else!"

  "I'm dizzy, Qiao Qian is so clever, but this time she's also become a big fool! This underground casino has ruined many people, causing them to lose their families and homes. The police have tried to shut it down several times but couldn't find the location. Li Yang, do you want to report it?"

  "Never mind, I'm still in school and don't want to get involved in this matter, let's talk about it later."

  Putting down the phone, Li Yang walked into the entrance of this community, and as soon as he reached the door, he was blocked by several angry-looking migrant worker brothers.

  The large gate has been completely renovated, with a brand new stainless steel folding door. However, someone has built a fence in front of it using bamboo and steel pipes. The fence only leaves a small opening that can barely fit one person through. Several burly men who appear to be migrant workers are standing there, holding iron trowels and knives, looking like fierce guardians.

  "Excuse me, is this Fenglin Community of Longteng Company?" Li Yang asked with a smile on his face as he stood in front of the door.

  "What's it to you?" a ruddy-faced burly man who was about 1.85 meters tall shouted.

  "Oh, that's great. The Longteng company has transferred this district to me, and I was thinking of bringing someone over to take it today." Lei Yang said with a smile.

  "Hah, little kid, scram! Brothers, come quick and see, Longteng Company is playing a new trick on us again, they've actually sent a young whippersnapper!"

  "Where is it? Where is it? Let me see! Ah, indeed it's a young child!" exclaimed an elderly dwarf.

  More than a dozen men who looked like migrant workers squeezed out of the small door and burst into laughter at the sight of Li Yang's high school student-like appearance.

  The red-faced big Han said to Li Yang, "Little classmate, hurry back to class. The Longteng Company sent over a hundred thugs and still couldn't take control of the building, what makes you think you can come here and try your luck?"

  Li Yang couldn't help but be shocked a thousand times over. Weren't migrant worker brothers all very kind? How could they now even dare to bully the underworld?

  "This big brother, the Maple Forest community is already mine now. If you don't want to move out, I'll call the police. All the documents in this box are here, including the land use right and house ownership certificate." Li Yang shouted loudly with his password box in hand.

  The red-faced man shouted: "Call the police? You call them!"

  "My dad has called the police eight times, but it's useless! Now we're worried that no one will uphold justice for us. If you dare, report to the police! I don't care who this neighborhood belongs to, if they don't return our wages, no one can enter!"

  "This little brat is here to cause trouble for us, brothers let's go, see whose fist is harder or whose brain is thicker!" The older migrant worker shouted.

  In an instant, all these migrant workers surrounded him. Lei Yang just wanted to escape back to the car, but when he turned his head, he found that his retreat had been cut off by them!

  Li Yang didn't expect these people to be so quick to use violence, he was almost scared out of his wits!

  Fortunately, these migrant worker brothers looked fierce but were actually very civilized, and only used verbal abuse without resorting to physical violence. They just brandished iron rods, bricks, and knives in front of Li Yang, but didn't really hurt him.

  Never had he seen such a commotion in Liuyang, and was so frightened that his face turned pale. Just as he was about to call for the mining boat to transform and save him, a young migrant worker whispered: "Uncle Zhu, why does this student look just like our village's Yangzi?"

  Li Yang's body trembled, and he turned around to look in the direction of the speaker. He happened to make eye contact with a sturdy-looking laborer with a flat head, and blurted out: "You... you're Ding Gouwa?"

  "Wow! It's really Yangzi! So many years haven't seen, Yangzi has grown so tall! Zhu zi uncle, he is Tian jun uncle's family Yangzi!" exclaimed the young man called Dog Wa.

  Hong's face turned red as he grabbed Li Yang, taking a closer look and exclaimed in surprise: "It really is Young Master Yang! I was wondering why you looked so familiar earlier! Young Master Yang, don't you recognize me? I'm your Uncle Zhu Zi! When you were still wearing split pants as a kid, I even took you bird hunting with a slingshot!"

  Li Yang looked at him intently, and with a loud laugh, he punched the sturdy chest of Zhuozi and said: "Haha, how can I forget this? I still remember Uncle Zhuozi using a slingshot to shoot birds, hitting every single one!"

  He patted Ding Gouwa's crooked head and laughed: "You little guy slept with your head tilted when you were young, and it still hasn't grown back to normal, haha!"

  The dog looked embarrassed and said: "This is a skull, you think it's a pumpkin, it can grow back if it grows long."

  "Hahaha!"

  Everyone burst out laughing, and the tense atmosphere of just now was gone. Moreover, Li Yang was even invited into the spacious lobby of the residential area by them.

  There are over a thousand migrant workers in this group, at least half of whom are from the same village as Li Yang, and the rest are also fellow villagers from nearby villages, all considered to be from Li Yang's hometown.

  Li Yang's hometown is in a poor mountain village called Baozi Ridge in Shandong Province, more than 600 miles away from Southeast City. Ten years ago, when Li Tianjun had a car accident, Wang Fang took Li Yang to Southeast City for medical treatment, and since Li Tianjun's condition never improved, they never returned home.

  Wang Fang is unwilling to go back, one reason is that Li Tianjun's illness, another reason is that Li Yang's grandmother owed their family 100,000 yuan, she does not want to return to that sad place.

  At that time, Li Yang was already about ten years old when he came out, and naturally had a deep memory of these fellow villagers.

  He gradually recognized several playmates from childhood, who played mud together or caught fish and swam in the river ditch. Ding Gouwa was one of them, as well as Shi Tou, Sheng Li, and Qiang Zi. They were all the same age as Li Yang, but had become the pillars of their families early on, going out to work as migrant workers, making Li Yang, who was still in high school, feel deeply ashamed.

  Li Yang reminisced with them about their childhood, bursting into loud laughter when they talked about happy times and sobbing quietly when they spoke of sad ones. In an instant, many memories from his childhood came flooding back, leaving Li Yang feeling deeply moved.

  It turns out that Longteng Company is also self-inflicted, this community has been built for more than two months, because of the arrears of wages to these migrant workers, it has not been delivered. It's not that Qian doesn't have money, mainly because she has been doing underground work for a long time and has become accustomed to being domineering, feeling that these migrant workers are easy to bully, preparing to throw them away with just a few pieces of money.

  Zhu Zi Daming, also known as Lei Tiezhu, is a big contractor who led over 1,000 workers from his hometown to take on the construction project of Longteng Company's residential area. Previously, Longteng Company signed an agreement stating that they would pay half of the labor costs and material fees upfront to allow them to start work, with the remaining balance to be paid in full upon completion of the project.

  Unexpectedly, after completing the project, Longteng Company claimed that their engineering quality had problems and the 80 million yuan in arrears for the project could only be paid 30 million. Now Li Tiezhu owes suppliers 68 million yuan in goods and also owes workers' wages of over 11 million yuan. If Longteng Company cuts off 50 million, he will have to jump off a building!

  Lai Tiezhao did not plan to jump off the building in the short term, he led a group of migrant worker brothers who were quite bloodthirsty, and they actually used the iron trowels in their hands to block the violent eviction by Longteng Company several times, and they clashed with them!

  The underworld thugs were fierce, but these peasant worker brothers were used to doing physical labor and weren't easy to mess with. With their large numbers, they managed to withstand the attack from Longteng Company.

  After several confrontations, the overbearing and arrogant Qiao Qian also fired up, thundering that he wouldn't give them a single cent, and told them to get out! As a result, Longteng Company mobilized hundreds of thugs to deal with them, each time with greater intensity than the last. Just when Lei Tiezhu and his fellow migrant worker brothers were about to collapse from exhaustion, Lei Yang arrived.

  After understanding the situation, Li Yang nodded and said: "I see, so Longteng Company owes you that much money! In that case, I'll pay it back."