Chapter 538 - 536: Bullies Making Trouble
"I told you to come over quickly for inspection, didn’t you hear me?" Du Babao shouted loudly, his demeanor extremely arrogant and full of domineering arrogance.
Chen Tianlong furrowed his brows. These people were clearly looking for trouble. As for the fact that there were only three of them, Chen Tianlong absolutely didn’t believe it. So he immediately activated the Heart Method, closed his eyes, and tried to see if there were any ambushes nearby.
The next moment, Chen Tianlong was a bit surprised to find that there were dozens of people ambushed around the open space where the products were being inspected.
Although not too many, there were still thirty or forty of them, holding iron rods in their hands. After all, they were helping with the government’s inspection here, so they couldn’t use guns or knives and took some iron rods instead.
However, Chen Tianlong didn’t tell Liu Hu, for this would cause them to feel afraid and cause trouble. Nine people got off the car seamlessly and opened the truck door.
Du Babao, Zhao Sifang, and another person specializing in product inspection climbed onto the vehicle, looked around a bit but couldn’t see anything, and then asked Liu Hu to take out the product details report and continued to look at it over and over again.
Actually, they were just pretending. Without a leader’s signature, they definitely wouldn’t let it pass. The leader was on vacation exactly at that moment. Thus, the remaining task was simple, if they gave the professional inspector a look at the report, if there was no problem, they could sign and release directly.
But they were here simply for extortion, where would they talk about any normal procedure?
The inspector looked at it for a while and directly said, "Our leader is on vacation, no one’s signing, you should return, the New Year is near, prevent criminals from taking advantage to smuggle, and sell illicitly."
"This... we are really in a hurry, can you accommodate a bit, and have your boss come over to sign? All of these have production and product shipment qualification certification reports, it’s definitely no problem, we can also sign a guarantee document, if there’s any issue about the quality of this batch of steel, we pledge to compensate." Liu Hu explained eagerly.
"Oh, I can’t manage that, talking to me about it is useless, I advise you to quickly take it back, otherwise later we will directly confiscate it, the reason is simple, you didn’t listen to law enforcement’s advice and forcefully tried to pass." The inspector said very arrogantly.
"..."
Liu Hu was really speechless, this obviously had someone stirring up trouble, otherwise it wouldn’t be so difficult: "We have all the proofs, is it just because your boss is celebrating the New Year, you want us to lose money? Moreover, our enterprise pays taxes strictly according to the country’s regulations, and now because the leader is celebrating the New Year, we have to incur losses, what’s the sense in that."
"Oh, you’re getting angry, huh? What do you want to do? Don’t think because you have more people I’m afraid to detain your vehicle."
After speaking, he gave Du Babao and Zhao Sifang a wink, and they began to close in. At this moment, the inspector became blatantly aggressive: "Just a few of you, still too green, want to pass, should know what to do, right?"
"Hmph, what do you think you’re doing, we’re just a small business, hardly earning any money, and you still want to squeeze us?" Liu Hu saw the situation and knew they coalitioned with the Du Family Gang to squeeze their profits.
"Haha, it’s not up to you. Now you can’t even retreat because you’ve obstructed us from fulfilling official duties, this car needs to be kept here, wait for our leader to come back after New Year to handle it."
The inspector saw that Liu Hu still didn’t get it, started to threaten.
"You... you’re simply robbers, I want to sue you."
Liu Hu was helpless. Saying this, he lost his confidence, even if he sued them, would it be useful?
If it was only this inspector, it would be reasonable, but they had the backing of the Du Family Gang, even if they won the lawsuit, in the end, his steel plant probably wouldn’t be able to operate, the Du Family Gang would relentlessly sabotage it, and then where would any workers dare to go to work.
"Haha, that’s the funniest joke I’ve ever heard, sue us?"
Du Babao finally couldn’t endure it anymore, he had long wanted to deal with Chen Yong’s steel plant. It wasn’t because he heard that they had some backing and some strength in Lotus Village that he didn’t mess with them, otherwise, he would have taken it for the Du Family Gang long ago.
At this time, apart from Chen Tianlong, the other eight people simultaneously surrounded them. Everyone was a brother from the factory, now the deputy plant manager was bullied, how could they stand idly by?
Even if those two were from the Du Family Gang, they shouldn’t bully people like this, should they? Furthermore, in their view, nine against three still had some chance.
Just when Liu Hu felt confident about winning, Du Babao snapped his fingers, "pop," suddenly dozens of people jumped out from the grass in all directions, scaring everyone into huddling in the middle.
"Du Babao, what are you trying to do, I haven’t offended the Du Family Gang, just want to transport my steel out to deliver, do you have to go to such extremes? We are all people with status in the same town."
Liu Hu saw this situation and felt a bit cowardly. You must understand, each of them held iron rods, and the bunch of brothers he brought, were basically working people, how could they fight, it’s just posturing.
If it really came to a fight, they would be doomed, it would definitely be a mess.
"Hehe, what do I want to do, it’s what you want to do, right?"
Du Babao glared at Liu Hu, speaking impatiently: "Don’t pretend with me, just now you called these people to surround us, preparing to beat us, didn’t expect me to have so many people ambushed here, now you know you were wrong?"
"You... hmph, don’t think I’m afraid of you. I don’t believe... I haven’t broken any laws, what can you do to me, just leave the steel here, handle it after New Year."
Liu Hu felt things had become severe, otherwise, next time the brothers would suffer. He knew these people were ruthless, if they really fought, perhaps they wouldn’t be able to pass the New Year either. So he deliberately turned to the brothers behind and said: "Alright, let’s retreat."
"Hold it! Hmph, offended us, and you think you can leave unscathed? There’s no such easy thing."
Zhao Sifang couldn’t resist speaking out. He felt Liu Hu was really naive, knowing they were from the Du Family Gang, and now offending them, acting like nothing’s wrong, deceptive, isn’t it?
"Then... what do you want, don’t push too far, we just want to ship the goods out, if not, can’t we take them back?"
Liu Hu knew troubles had come, now explaining was actually useless, but the opponent had thirty plus people, he only had nine, undeniably only part of the abuse.
"What do you think?"
Zhao Sifang spoke with a wicked smile, "Leave the steel here, people you can roll out, as for whether the steel will still be here after the New Year, I can’t guarantee it, haha."
"You..."
Liu Hu knew it was a bad situation, but under such circumstances, leaving was wrong, not leaving was wrong.
If they left, the steel would essentially be thrown away, this group could do anything, certainly upon turning around would they transport it away to sell. But if they didn’t leave, they might be spending New Year lying in a hospital.
Thinking about it, Liu Hu finally said: "Do you really have to force us into a corner? No room for negotiation at all?"