How A Ride-Hailing Driver Comes To Dominate The World? [EN]: Chapter 245

Is Ten Buildings, Not Ten Apartments

_What’s Wrong with a Ride-Hailing Driver Having Some Money?_

Is Ten Buildings, Not Ten Apartments

The villagers rushed over.

“Director Chen, what are you doing here?”

“Didn’t you say you were only demolishing Chen Village?”

“Is this area going to be demolished too?”

…

Chen Guangshou replied very frankly, “Because the city government couldn’t meet the excessive demands of some villagers, the city leaders decided after a meeting not to demolish Chen Village anymore, but to demolish the steel factory’s residential buildings instead. Since you all think your houses are good, then keep them. When the chip research base is built here, Chen Village can engage in catering and other services, which can generate long-term income. It’s also a good choice.”

Given the chance to get rich overnight, who would want to slowly work to earn money?

“Leaders, you can’t do this. I’ve already spread the word. Now you’re saying you won’t demolish it. I’ve already accepted gifts. How am I going to explain this to my relatives and friends?”

“That’s right! I promised my future daughter-in-law a villa in the city center. If you don’t demolish it, where will I get the money to buy it? What if she breaks off the engagement if I can’t fulfill my promise?”

“We can still negotiate! If you think we’re asking for too much, you can haggle. Don’t just say you won’t demolish it.”

…

Chen Guangshou said with a smile, “This is the decision of the city government leaders. We are just executing orders. Okay, go back. Don’t interfere with our discussion with the owners of the residential buildings about important matters.”

“Where is he? We want to talk to him.”

“Yes! Call him over!”

“Who is the new owner of the steel factory’s residential buildings? If you’re a man, stand up and talk to us.”

“That’s right, you dare to do such a shameless thing, are you afraid to confront us?”

…

Oh, these villagers are quite tough.

Yang Chen wasn’t afraid of them in the car, but he didn’t want to waste words with them.

The city government wants to demolish this place, and Yang Chen is also willing to relocate. As long as they both agree, he doesn’t want to get entangled with the villagers.

Some villagers have a weak sense of the law and like to dwell on minor points. It’s impossible to reason with them. They might even do something extreme.

However, they are now clamoring to see the new owner of the steel factory’s residential buildings, so Yang Chen has to show up.

At this moment, Chen Min, who had just been fired from Anjia Tianxia [a real estate agency], returned by taxi. Seeing the villagers were all here, she quickly came over to watch the excitement.

Chen Min’s husband, Chen He, saw her holding a cardboard box and quickly asked, “What’s wrong?”

Chen Min sighed and said, “Don’t mention it! The ride-hailing driver we took last night is a rich man who bought these five buildings. Today, he went to our agency to get the property certificates. Because I gave him a bad review, he was very angry, and the store manager fired me.”

Chen He: “Ah? Really? That ride-hailing driver is so rich! I thought those JAC cars [a Chinese automobile brand] looked familiar. Brother, come down and talk, don’t hide in the car.”

Yang Chen opened the car door and got out, waving to Chen He and his wife, saying, “What a coincidence, we meet again.”

Chen He: “It really is you! Brother, how can a ride-hailing driver like you be so rich that you can buy these five buildings?”

Yang Chen: “Hard work leads to wealth. In this era, as long as you are willing to work hard, you can achieve anything.”

All the people looked at Yang Chen with a helpless expression. Keep bragging, we’ll just quietly watch you talk nonsense.

Chen He: “Brother, you heard it last night too. My brother-in-law is waiting for a house and a car to get married. If the city government doesn’t demolish our village, where will I get the money for him? Please, don’t agree to the city government’s demolition request, okay? When we get the demolition compensation, we’ll give you 100,000 yuan [approximately $14,000 USD] per household. With so many households, you’ll get several million for nothing. If you keep these buildings for rent in the future, you’ll get hundreds of thousands for nothing now. Wouldn’t that be great?”

Yang Chen: “The city government needs to demolish, and I am willing to relocate. It’s that simple. I don’t need to explain anything to anyone. Everything will be done according to the law and the city government’s demolition policy.”

Chen He: “But if you accept the demolition, then we won’t have the opportunity to relocate.”

Yang Chen: “That has nothing to do with me. You guys discuss it; it has nothing to do with me.”

After speaking, Yang Chen turned around to get back into the car.

Seeing that the demolition benefits were about to be lost, the villagers became very agitated and clamored to grab Yang Chen.

At this moment, the five bodyguards responsible for protecting Yang Chen rushed over, separated the villagers, and protected Yang Chen in the middle.

Chen He looked dumbfounded and shocked, saying, “You, a ride-hailing driver, even have bodyguards with you?”

Yang Chen: “Yes, nowadays passengers are difficult to deal with. If I encounter someone with a bad temper, I’ll have the bodyguards help them calm them down.”

Everyone looked shocked. This ride-hailing driver is so arrogant.

But thinking about it, he can afford to buy five buildings, so he does have the capital to be arrogant.

Yang Chen said with a smile, “Brother Chen, I have the property certificates and everything with me. If you want to do the demolition, let’s do it today, so I don’t have to take them home and bring them out again another day.”

Chen Guangshou: “No problem! Let’s go, I’ll take you to the demolition office now, and we’ll sign the contract immediately.”

Under the protection of five strong men, Yang Chen got into the car and left.

Chen Guangshou also quickly got into his car and followed.

The villagers wanted to stop the car, but they were stopped by the staff of the Housing and Construction Committee and other departments.

“You can’t leave! You’ve taken away the demolition opportunity that belongs to us!”

“Can’t we just not ask for one-to-five compensation? How about one-to-three?”

“The demolition opportunity belongs to us; you can’t take it away!”

“No, we’re going to complain; we’re going to fight!”

…

The villagers roared loudly, but it was too late.

Since the city government decided not to demolish Chen Village and instead demolish the steel factory’s residential buildings, it would naturally not easily change its mind.

Moreover, from the actual situation, the owner of the steel factory’s residential buildings is only Yang Chen. As long as he nods and signs, the demolition work can be completed.

But there are so many people in Chen Village, and everyone has different ideas, each one more greedy than the last, which is obviously troublesome.

Anyone in charge of this demolition work would definitely want to demolish Yang Chen’s house directly, rather than demolishing the houses of these villagers.

Yang Chen followed Chen Guangshou’s car to the city government’s demolition office and signed all the demolition agreements.

After the agreement was signed, Yang Chen’s five old and dilapidated buildings became ten newly built resettlement houses.

Yang Chen left with all the relevant documents for the ten buildings, and he will have Yu Shishi take these documents to apply for the property certificates later.

Having just obtained ten new bungalows, Yang Chen couldn’t help but want to take a look.

Yang Chen followed the navigation and found the Longteng Jiayuan community.

According to Chen Guangshou, this community was built specifically for the demolition of Chen Village.

Originally, they wanted to call it Chenjia Garden, but the people of Chen Village didn’t want such a rustic name.

Since there was an overpass next to the community, someone suggested calling it Longteng Jiayuan [literally “Dragon Soaring Garden”].

If Yang Chen felt that this name was not good, he could apply to change it later.

Yang Chen thought Longteng Jiayuan was pretty good, so he would use this name.

Chen Guangshou had called the property manager of Longteng Jiayuan in advance to notify the property to prepare to welcome the new owner.

Therefore, the staff of Longteng Jiayuan Property had already started to get busy.

The property manager said loudly, “Everyone, hurry up. These are all relocated households, people from the same village, and they are more united. They are more difficult to deal with than the owners of commercial housing, so we must satisfy them. Otherwise, our work will be difficult in the future.”

The staff quickly sped up, put up the banners that had been prepared long ago, laid out the red carpet, and played ‘Today is a Good Day’ [a popular Chinese song] on the radio, doing all the work as quickly as possible.

More than an hour later, Yang Chen drove to the gate of Longteng Jiayuan.

Looking at the banner hanging on the gate of the community, Yang Chen couldn’t help but smile.

“Descendants of the Dragon Live in Longteng Jiayuan, Welcome Home!”

Seeing Yang Chen’s car slowly driving in, the property manager quickly told everyone to get excited.

The property staff, cleaning ladies, and security guards all waved the flags in their hands and shouted.

“Welcome home, owners! Welcome home, owners…”

Yang Chen opened the car window, nodded to everyone, and drove in to take a look around to see what the community environment was like, and whether there was any cutting corners because it was a resettlement house.

After Yang Chen’s car drove in, no cars or people came for a long time.

“Manager, what’s taking so long?”

“Why haven’t the others come?”

“Could it be that he’s the only one willing to relocate?”

…

The manager also looked puzzled and quickly walked to the side of the road to look left and right, but there was no large-scale traffic or pedestrians coming over.

This was strange. Since today was the day for the owners to receive their houses, why did only one person come?

The manager quickly called Chen Guangshou and asked, “Director Chen, we have made full preparations to welcome the owners home. Why hasn’t anyone come yet?”

Chen Guangshou: “Ah? No one? Didn’t a JAC Refine S3 go over? He said he was going.”

Manager: “Yes! A JAC car did come in a dozen minutes ago, but no one has come since then. We used all the props we needed to welcome the owners, but only one person came. What about the others? You can’t expect us to prepare another welcome for others, can you?”

Chen Guangshou: “Haha… That’s right, he is the owner. All ten buildings are his.”

Manager: “Ah? Wh…what? All ten buildings are his? Director Chen, don’t tease me. Ten buildings, each building divided into 1, 2, 3, 4 units, each unit with 12 apartments, a total of 480 apartments. You’re saying they all belong to one person. How is that possible?”

Chen Guangshou: “Haha… Isn’t your imagination limited by poverty? But that’s the fact. He bought the five residential buildings of the steel factory. According to the standard of demolishing one and compensating two, all ten buildings happen to be his. So, you must work hard and please him. Whether you can do the property work in that community for a long time depends entirely on his opinion. Other communities have to be decided by the owners’ votes, but this community only needs him to decide. Understand?”

The manager instantly became uneasy. The wealth of the rich really exceeded his imagination.

Ordinary people have to empty the wallets of three generations to buy an apartment, and they may still have to take out a loan.

But now someone owns ten buildings alone. This is really the difference between heaven and earth.

Manager: “Thank you for the reminder, Director Chen. I know what to do.”

Chen Guangshou nodded and hung up the phone.

The manager looked up at the sky, preventing tears from flowing down, and thought, “God, I have worked hard for ten years and still don’t have my own house. Someone can have ten buildings at once. Isn’t this too unfair?”

The property staff looked at the manager staring at the sky in a daze, all confused.

“What is the manager doing? Is there an airplane in the sky?”

“The manager has good eyesight. He dares to look at the sun like that. Doesn’t he find it dazzling?”

“I know him. He looks up at the sky whenever he encounters something sad, saying it can prevent tears from falling down.”

“Ah? Then why is he crying?”

…

Just as everyone was whispering, the manager adjusted his emotions and walked over.

“Okay, everyone, put away your things and do what you need to do,” the manager said loudly.

“Ah? Why? Aren’t the other owners coming today?”

“Then we’ve used up all our props. If they come next time, won’t we have to buy them again?”

“That’s not the worst part. The worst part is that only one person comes every time. Won’t we lose a lot? I think we should put away these reusable props, wash them clean, and use them again next time.”

…

The manager sighed and said, “No need, the owners have already come. Put them away.”

Everyone was even more confused. Didn’t a car just go in?

How can you say the owners have already come?

“Ah? Just one owner?”

“No way, is he the only one who agreed to relocate?”

“Those people are too greedy. Demolishing one and compensating two, plus other land, and they’re still not satisfied?”

…

The manager sighed again and said, “I have been hit hard, and I have to let you feel my mood. You’re right, he’s the only one who agreed to relocate, so the entire community of ten buildings is his.”

“Ah?” Everyone exclaimed.

“Manager, are you kidding? How can one person own ten buildings?”

“That’s right! You’re insulting our intelligence.”

“It might be possible in other cities, but ten buildings in Haicheng [a major city in China], even if they are resettlement houses, would cost a lot of money. Ordinary people don’t have that much money, and people with that much money would never want resettlement houses.”

…

Manager: “Alas… I don’t know what this kid’s vision is. He bought the steel factory’s residential buildings at the bottom not long ago. The villagers of Chen Village asked for too much, and the city government couldn’t afford it, so they turned to demolish his steel factory’s residential buildings. There are five residential buildings in total, and demolishing one and compensating two is exactly ten buildings, isn’t it?”

Everyone’s faces showed an incredible expression. This kind of plot is only dared to be written by those online god-level novel authors who release poison every day [referring to authors who write addictive but ultimately unsatisfying stories]. Even a serious person wouldn’t dare to think about it in their dreams.

“I’m jealous. This is seriously beyond my cognitive scope.”

“Ten buildings, oh my god, I never dared to imagine that one person could have so many houses.”

“Those landlords and landladies exposed on the Internet in the past are all weak compared to this owner. This owner directly has ten buildings, 480 apartments, and a commercial building. Isn’t this directly the peak of life?”

…

That’s it. Everyone in the property company is in a bad mood. Everyone is sighing in their hearts about the injustice of fate, why they have worked so hard for so many years and can’t afford a house, while the new owner can sit on ten houses alone.

After a while, Yang Chen came out after visiting the entire community.

The manager saw the car from a distance and quickly reminded, “Quick, quick, cheer up! The situation is different from before. In the past, as long as most of the owners were satisfied, we could continue to work. Now he has the power to veto. If he lets us do it, we can do it. If he doesn’t let us do it, we have to get out. So, everyone must show their best side and don’t mess it up for me. Do you all understand?”

Everyone quickly nodded, immediately straightened their backs, put on smiles, and waited for Yang Chen’s car to drive over.

Yang Chen parked the car at the exit of the gate, got out of the car, and came over to say hello to everyone.

The property manager quickly stepped forward to greet Yang Chen.

“Mr. Yang, hello, I am Li Chenghao, the manager of your property team. These are all our team members. We will do our best to manage the community for you and let you completely rest assured here, putting all your energy into other investments.”

Yang Chen looked at everyone and nodded with a smile, saying, “Everyone’s mental outlook is very good. I am very relieved to hand over the community to you for management. Everyone should work hard. As long as I am satisfied, in addition to the property fees that should be paid, I will personally give you a bonus. However, if you don’t do well, I will not hesitate to replace you. Do you all understand what I mean?”

Li Chenghao quickly replied, “Understood! Mr. Yang can rest assured. We won’t say we’ll do our best, but we will definitely be able to make you basically satisfied.”

Yang Chen: “Okay. You guys are busy. The houses will be rented out or sold later. Everyone can have a relaxing and comfortable life for a while now. I’ll go first, bye-bye.”

It was almost lunchtime, and Li Chenghao wanted to keep Yang Chen for lunch and please him.

However, Yang Chen did not stay. He had to quickly send the materials in the car home, and Yu Shishi had made his lunch, so he would definitely rather go home to eat than eat outside.

Yang Chen drove away, and Li Chenghao led everyone to see him off.

“Mr. Yang, drive safely, welcome to come home often!”

Back home, Yang Chen handed the materials to Yu Shishi and said, “Find time to apply for the property certificates, one for each apartment, which will be more convenient for renting and selling in the future.”

Yu Shishi looked at so many materials and asked in surprise, “Sir, did you buy a community? Why are there so many materials?”

Yang Chen: “Yes, that’s right, I did buy ten buildings in a community. You should get the property certificates as soon as possible and sell or rent them out sooner, otherwise the houses will not create economic value if they are left idle.”

Yu Shishi’s shocked little mouth opened slightly, a little doubtful if she had heard wrong.

“Sir, are you sure it’s ten buildings, not ten apartments?” Yu Shishi asked very comically.

Yang Chen laughed and said, “I’m sure it’s ten buildings, not ten apartments.”

Yu Shishi was so shocked that she didn’t dare to speak.

At this time, the system issued a reminder.

“Yu Shishi’s favorability towards the host has increased to 92 points, an increase of 3 points from the previous value.”

It seems that ten buildings really exceeded the imagination of ordinary people, and Yu Shishi admired Yang Chen even more.

…

In the afternoon, around three o’clock, Tang Xia called Yang Chen.

She had been preparing for the piano grade exam these days and finally had time to find Yang Chen.

“Dear teacher, are you free tonight? I want to take a lesson,” Tang Xia said with a smile.

Yang Chen: “May I ask what kind of lesson? Where will we be taking it?”