Chapter 249
At this moment the old village chief and the others all came over, they too were eager to know what was going on with the herbs in the first place.
“It’s actually quite simple, not as complicated as you think!”
Li Tian said, but his eyes were dripping around in their sockets, as if he was calculating something.
“Speak up!”
Lin Ran’s eyes were so cold that Li Tian shivered and dared not speak any more nonsense, saying at once.
“It’s the medicinal herbs that were collected from your village in the first place, and after they were bought by someone else something went wrong and they came looking for them!”
Li Tian hurriedly said, while his eyes were fixed on Lin Ran seemingly observing his expression.
“And then what!”
Lin Ran asked after him.
“Then, I approached your village chief, and seeing how much your village chief had worried about the village, I lowered the price a bit before continuing to work with your village!”
Speaking here, Li Tian hurriedly added.
“I didn’t want to do that, but the herb market has strict rules, so I couldn’t help it!”
Li Tian spoke in a painful manner, as if the matter of suppressing the price of medicinal herbs in Lin Jiawan had made him very sad and even painful too.
Lin Ran raised his head to look at Li Tian and laughed.
“Boss Li, you’re not telling the truth!”
“Sh… What do you mean!”
Li Tian’s face turned unnatural at his words and he played dumb.
“There’s something wrong with the herbs in the herb market, such a big deal, just you bargaining for a price and then you set it right? Is there nothing fishy in this do you think I believe?”
Lin Ran laughed lightly, while taking out his mobile phone and raising it in front of Li Tian.
“I have just checked on purpose, in the last six months there has been no news of any medicinal herbs in trouble in the town, why, is this also something that your boss Li is capable of suppressing?”
“This ….”
Li Tian was dumbfounded and his face turned iron blue.
“Since you don’t tell the truth, then I won’t be polite!”
Lin Ran’s face suddenly turned cold as he picked up Li Tian’s collar and dragged him right towards the edge of the falling cliff.
“Don’t… Don’t! I’ll say it! Can’t I say it!”
Li Tian was so scared that he peed his trousers and hurriedly said.
“Actually, I can’t be blamed for this, it’s true that your village had problems with this herb first, I just wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to suppress the price and make some profit from the middle ….”
The first thing I did was to tell the whole story.
It turned out that some of the herbs that had been handed in at the beginning did have problems, but they were detected by the quality inspectors at the time and did not appear on the market at all.
Li Tian then used this as a reason to find the old village chief, saying that there was a problem with the herbs and that he wanted to terminate the cooperation.
Herbs are a major source of income for Linwan Village, so naturally the old village headman panicked and eventually agreed to Li Tian’s request to lower the price.
“Actually, I’m really not to blame for this, if there were no problems with your village’s herbs, I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to take advantage of it right!”
Li Tian hurriedly explained.
Lin Ran couldn’t help but laugh at his words.
“You’ve picked yourself clean, so let me ask you, who sent the herbs in question, there’s always a sample left here!”
Lin Ran chided. Earlier, Old Seven had put the Sh*t on his own family, and when it came to this matter, Lin Ran naturally wanted to find out.
Moreover, in the herb market, there were usually some leftover samples, as long as they could be found, they would definitely be able to find out who had sent the herbs that were in trouble at that time.
“There are left samples, I can have someone check it out now!”
Li Tian said busily, while taking out his mobile phone and calling it.
The phone hung up and soon the message came back, Li Tian looked at the feedback and hurriedly said.
“It seems to have been sent by a person called Lao Qi!”
“Lao Qi?”
Lin Ran smiled at that, he had just made a messy hatchet job, but he hadn’t thought that it was actually him who had the problem.
“Where’s Lao Qi!”
The old village chief at the side heard what he was saying and directly opened his mouth to ask.
“Village Chief, Old Seven has disappeared, he was here just now!”
Someone immediately returned.
The old village chief’s face turned blue at this and he shouted directly.
“Go, take someone to Old Seven’s house and block it, this scum must be trying to run away!”
“Yes!”
Immediately, there were villagers with their weapons, heading straight for Old Seven’s house.
With the villagers’ help, Lin Ran was not worried that Old Seven could run away, and turned to look at Li Tian and smiled.
“Now that things are out of the way, let me also interject a word about the price of the herbs …..”
“Don’t worry, the price of the herbs is adjusted back to the original price and I am increasing it by ten percent!”
Before Lin Ran could finish his words, Li Tian added directly.
“Father! You’re crazy, a ten percent increase, the herb market won’t pay for it!”
Li Yingming instantly became anxious at his words.
Although his father was the manager, he was, frankly speaking, just a part-time worker, and the real owner behind the herb mayor would not pay this extra ten percent!
“Shut up!”
Li Tian coldly shouted, there is anger in his eyes, this son of his own usually do not do anything is just, now also out to find trouble, simply to headache dead.
“Why should we shut up? It’s already fine to adjust the original price, why should we pay for the extra ten percent!”
Li Yingming said angrily, although Linwan village is not big, but there are a lot of herbs in the surrounding hills, although the extra 10%, but the whole will have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars more every year, and all this money has to be paid out of their own pockets, how can he be willing to do it.
“You’re still in charge of me, aren’t you? I’m not dead yet!”
Li Wei gritted his teeth, he only had one son, and he was spoiled in his daily life, but now he was even fighting with himself.
“I don’t mean that!”
Li Yingming hurriedly explained, but Li Tian coldly snorted.
“Then what do you mean? Don’t think I don’t know, you’re not just thinking about the family fortune! I tell you, the old man is willing to give you that is yours, now it is not yours!”
“You!”
Li Yingming’s face turned blue with anger at his words, and the hatred in his heart for Lin Ran couldn’t help but grow even more.
His only son, who was also the second generation of the rich, was destined to inherit the family fortune in the future, but now that he had to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars more every year, his heart was dripping with blood, so naturally he did not want to agree to this.
“Boss Li, you don’t need to be angry, although our Lin Jia Wan is not a big place, it is still a reasonable place, the price can still be restored to the original price, but in the future you will have to personally send someone to pick up the herbs! How about that?”
Lin Ran looked at Li Tian and smiled, an increase of ten percent was hardly painful to the whole village, but if they could come and collect the herbs in person, it would be much more convenient.
It would take at least a day to go out from the mountains and back, and it was also very dangerous to walk at night, so sending someone to pick them up was actually what the villagers wanted the most.
“Yes, yes! No problem at all!”
Li Tian smiled at his words and hurriedly laughed, jokingly hiring a few people still words how much money, this account does not need to be calculated to know how to choose.
“Look at people, then look at you! They are both youths, why are you so useless!”
Li Tian couldn’t help but count up Li Yingming who was next to him.
“Me!”
Li Yingming was so angry that his face turned blue and he looked at Lin Ran at the side with hatred in his eyes.
Chapter 250
Lin Ran was laughing and talking with the old village chief at this moment about the follow-up cooperation, and did not notice Li Yingming’s face.
The men who had been waiting for a long time saw that Lin Ran was distracted and rushed over, surrounded Li Tian and Li Yingming and prepared to take them away.
However, Li Yingming was so angry that when he saw that Lin Ran was defenceless, he gritted his teeth and ruthlessly rushed towards Lin Ran, then lifted his foot and kicked him in the back.
Lin Ran was next to a falling cliff, if he was hit by this kick, he would have to fall down.
“Lin Ran be careful!”
At the side, Song Nuan saw what was really happening and hurriedly spoke up to warn.
“Ranzi!”
Grandma Lin looked even more anxious and directly fainted.
“B*****d, stop it!”
Li Tian was also shocked at the sight of this, if this caused a human death, not to mention that he was a herb market administrator, even the mayor of the town was afraid that he could not protect his son.
However, at this moment, Li Yingming was burning with anger, so he didn’t listen to Li Tian’s words and kicked Lin Ran directly in the back.
“I’ll kill you today!”
Li Yingming shouted.
However, just as his kick was about to land on Lin Ran’s back, Lin Ran violently turned sideways and directly dodged it.
“Ah!”
Li Yingming’s foot landed in the air, and his entire body, under the inertia of the impact, rushed straight off the cliff.
“Ying Ming!”
Li Tian was dumbfounded when he saw this scene, his feet went weak and he pa*sed out.
A few punks rushed to the edge of the falling cliff, but the bottom was full of branches and leaves, so there was no way to see what was going on below.
“Grandma!”
Lin Ran didn’t have time to pay attention to Li Tian and hurried to his grandmother’s side, pinching the latter’s human middle, and only sighed in relief when the latter woke up a moment later.
“Ranzi! Are you alright!”
Grandmother Lin woke up and saw Lin Ran, and tears immediately flowed down her eyes.
“I’m fine!”
Lin Ran smiled and wiped away his tears while helping his grandmother up.
“Why aren’t you guys going to save the people!”
At this moment, Li Tian was also woken up by his men, and when he saw that Lin Ran, the old village chief and the others hadn’t moved, he couldn’t help but shout.
He was not from Linwan Village and was not familiar with the place, so he had to count on the help of the people from Linwan Village if he wanted to go down to save them.
“Save what save! This is just a river down here, if you want to save someone just go down the hill and wait!”
Lin Ran glanced at Li Tian and said blandly.
“Huh?”
Li Tian was dumbfounded at his words, he felt that this cliff fall was just a front, the distance of four to five meters was a dark river below, falling down not to mention dying, I’m afraid he wouldn’t even be able to get a scratch.
“You!”
Understanding that he had been tricked, Li Wei’s face turned green, but at this moment his son was still waiting to be saved, so he had no time for nonsense and greeted his men and rushed out of the village.
Only before he left, he shouted at Lin Ran.
“Kid, you have guts, you wait for me!”
“What’s the matter? Is this a backtracking?”
Lin Ran looked at Li Tian and asked back with a smile.
“Regret? You dare to back out, you wait for me!”
With that, the group of people left the village.
“Ranzi, what should we do, if Li Tian reneges, our village’s medicinal herbs for next year ….”
The old village chief hurriedly came over and said worriedly.
“Don’t worry, he won’t renege!”
Lin Ran, however, laughed.
“Won’t back out?”
The old village chief was puzzled.
“He, the administrator, will be out of cla*s after today!”
Lin Ran laughed.
“Cla*ses are over?”
The old village headman was even more puzzled, Li Tian had been in the herb market for years, how could he say he was stepping down from his cla*s.
“Ranzi, this is not something to joke about, you can’t mix with the old village chief!”
The old village chief said solemnly.
Lin Ran couldn’t help but laugh at the situation.
“Don’t worry, someone will definitely come to the village tomorrow to look for you!”
“What do you mean?”
The old village chief was getting more and more confused as he listened, and Lin Ran laughed.
“Village Chief, just don’t ask, you’ll find out tomorrow!”
Said Lin Ran, looking at Song Nuan, who smiled faintly at him, followed by taking out his mobile phone and turning around to go back home.
The latter gave him a faint smile and took out his mobile phone, turning back to his home. A person like Li Tian, who was overpowering the people, would not sit idly by, not to mention Lin Ran.
He was not stupid enough to believe in Li Tian’s bullSh*t. He had been tangling with him for so long before, just to find solid evidence.
As for the rest, it was all left to Song Nuan. As Song’s own daughter, she was duty-bound to fight corruption.
Lin Ran took his grandmother back home, while the old village chief took his men to Lao Qi’s house. Li Tian was gone, but the matter of the herbs had also been investigated, and the only big thing for the village next was to find Lao Qi and talk about it.
…..
At the foot of the mountain, a river flowed out, the very same river that ran through Lin Jia Wan.
“There it is! Young master is there!”
Li Tian and a group of others had just arrived at the river when they saw Li Yingming lying on a log, shivering from the cold and not daring to move.
“Why don’t you go and save him!”
Li Tian hurriedly shouted, although his own son was scum, but after all, he was his own son, at this time, heartache was inevitable.
A group of men rushed directly into the river, fortunately the river was not deep, a group of people moved nimbly and quickly dragged Li Yingming to the shore.
“Father!”
As soon as he reached the shore, Li Yingming couldn’t help crying, while hugging Li Tian’s thigh, crying and shouting at the same time.
“Kill him! Kill him! I want to kill him!”
“Just give me a break!”
Li Tian was able to slap him directly, instantly dispelling half of the anger in Li Yingming’s heart.
“Father! I really thought I was going to die just now, I can’t swallow this anger!”
Li Yingming said with a sobbing voice, very resigned.
“You think Laozi can swallow it!”
Li Tian cursed angrily.
After so many years of rampaging through the town, whoever saw him on a regular basis was not respectful and afraid of offending.
But in the past two days, he had been humiliated by Lin Ran, and he had been humiliated to the point of shame, so how could he swallow this anger?
“Father! What shall we do then!”
Li Yingming asked, now his whole mind was on how to take revenge, how to trample Lin Ran under his feet and get out of this bad temper of his.
“Go home first! This kid is not an ordinary person, I have to go back and think about how to deal with him!”
Li Tian said in a cold voice, while greeting the others to set up Li Yingming, and the group of people quickly left Lin Jiawan.
However, when Li Tian and the others had just left Linjiawan and returned to the town, they had not yet reached home.
Li Tian’s mobile phone rang.
When he picked up the phone and took a look at the caller ID, Li Tian’s gloomy face disappeared and was replaced by a flattering smile.
“Mayor, why are you calling me now? What’s wrong?”
Li Tian asked with a smile.
However, an angry middle-aged man’s voice came from the other end of the phone.
“Nonsense, why would I call you if there’s nothing wrong, bring the accountant from your herbal venue and get your a*s over to my office now!”
“If you don’t arrive within half an hour, then you won’t have to come and see me in the future!”
“Yes! It’s a bout!”
Li Tian was startled and hurriedly greeted someone to send Li Yingming home, while he himself took a taxi directly towards the mayor’s office and rushed over.
