Chapter 435 House-building Reported

He stared wide-eyed, asking Qiao Changdong in disbelief, "Comrade Qiao, are you kidding me? You don't want it anymore?"

Qiao Changdong chuckled and asked him in return, "Do I look like I'm joking?"

As he spoke, he pointed to the house that had already been built in front of him and the land surrounding the house.

"Look at me, do I lack your 100-plus square meters? Besides, your plot of land is on the edge. I just bought it because I figured I could have more, it's not like I absolutely had to have it."

After saying this to the old man's son, Qiao Changdong ignored him and got up to go inside.

The old man's son instinctively tried to chase after him, but was stopped by Wang Jun and others: "Comrade, please leave."

The old man's son slunk away in the end.

However, the old man's son did not give up. He was thinking of finding another opportunity to have a good talk with Qiao Changdong, and that if necessary, he would not raise the price.

However, because of Wang Jun and his group, he couldn't find a single opportunity to get close to him.

Five days later, when Qiao Changdong retrieved the cash he needed from the city, the old man's son, in a fit of rage, reported Qiao Changdong to the authorities while he was signing contracts with several other households.

Currently, there are no clear policies regarding the size of the land for building houses, but building a self-built house of more than 2,000 square meters is obviously not allowed.

However, since Qiao Changdong was going to build such a big house, he naturally wouldn't be unprepared. Back when they were having dinner at the Mo family's house, after Meng Zhengcheng reminded them, Qiao Changdong and Yan Liti had already made preparations.

So after the old man's son wrote the letter of complaint, when the relevant departments in the county came to investigate, Qiao Changdong showed the efforts that Yan Liti had made in recent days to the comrades who came to investigate.

These are two documents.

One document was a special approval granted to Qiao Changdong by the city, allowing him to expand his homestead to within 3,000 square meters.

One document concerns Qiao Changdong, who made significant contributions to Hongfeng Town.

The document states that Qiao Changdong donated a cement road about 30 kilometers long to Hongfeng Town in the name of his daughter, Qiao Qiao!

Construction will begin no later than next month.

Of course, Qiao Changdong doesn't have that much money to repair the road at the moment.

The money came from Yan Liti, but it was donated in Qiao Qiao's name under his own name.

Yan Liti's idea was simple: she just wanted her granddaughter to have more convenient travel options in the future, so she wouldn't have to be stuck in the car because of the bad road conditions.

Repairing 30 kilometers of highway is no small expense.

No matter where you are, the saying "build roads first, then get rich" is universally applicable.

No municipal government would refuse such a good thing, so the municipal government naturally approved Qiao Changdong's request for a larger plot of land for building his house without hesitation.

Several comrades sent by the county came to investigate, and they were astonished when they saw the specially approved document.

It's not just Hongfeng Town that's poor; the entire county is poor. Apart from the national highway, there isn't a single decent road in the whole county.

These days, wealthy people do good deeds in many different ways. Some do small things like building a playground for their hometown school or donating a certain number of books to the county. Others do big things like donating a school or building a road for their village.

This is truly the first time someone like Qiao Changdong has directly built a 30-kilometer cement road for someone else.

Building a highway is not as simple as just buying some cement and laying stones. It involves many aspects, such as land acquisition costs, design costs, construction costs, supervision costs, and so on.

This is an almost incalculable expense!

When the investigators from the county saw the two documents provided by Qiao Changdong, they exchanged glances and were all very excited.

It's often said that if you want to get rich, you have to build roads first, and that's absolutely true!

Hongfeng Town is rich in natural resources, with fruits such as watermelon and oranges being abundant in the summer.

However, in previous years, due to poor road conditions, transporting goods out was a major problem, and few merchants came to buy them. Even if they did come to buy, the price was driven very low due to transportation costs.

If the road is repaired... then all these problems will be solved.

Thinking of this, the investigators' eyes lit up with joy.

Instead of criticizing Qiao Changdong or forbidding him from starting construction, like the old man's son did, they held his hand and kept saying, "Comrade Qiao, if you have any problems with building the house, you must tell us, and we will definitely help you solve them!"

"And once the road is repaired, we'll definitely apply for an individual merit award for you in the city! You're truly a great person in our county, a really great person, and the entire county will be grateful to you!"

The old man's son, knowing that people from the county were coming to investigate, had been hiding in the shadows watching what was happening.

He was waiting for Qiao Changdong to suffer a setback, be criticized, or even be punished, but to his surprise, when those people found Qiao Changdong, they not only didn't have a bad look on their faces, but instead greeted him with smiles and jokes.

They even said they'd give him an award!

The old man's son could no longer hold back and ran out from the shadows.

Pointing at Qiao Changdong, he launched into a tirade of complaints, ending with resentment: "Comrades, I trusted you, that's why I wrote you this letter of complaint! How can you just let him off like this?!"

"Did you take bribes from him? Are you involved in collusion between officials and businessmen? If so, I'm going to report you to the city authorities..."

However, before he could finish speaking, the leader of the group of comrades from the county covered his mouth.

The leader was Cheng Zhisheng, 44 years old, who was there to investigate Qiao Changdong's house construction. He was the highest-ranking among the group.

He has been in his current position for about ten years.

After all these years, I haven't achieved any significant results.

This time, he finally got a performance bonus delivered to his door, and he was so happy that his mouth was practically hanging on his ears. But then he suddenly heard his son's accusations, and he was so angry that he almost wanted to fly to the sky.

He smiled at Qiao Changdong, then covered the old man's son's mouth, dragged him in another direction, and whispered in his ear as they walked, "Shut up!"

He covered the old man's son's mouth, wishing he could sew it shut with a needle.

Thinking to himself, if he really offended Qiao Changdong, losing his performance bonus would be a minor matter; if he ruined the road that the whole county had been looking forward to for so long, he would definitely skin him alive!

However, Cheng Zhisheng covered the old man's son's mouth and gave him a good warning before they reached their hiding place, when they saw a van driving in their direction.

Finally, a woman dressed neatly got out of the car and stopped a short distance away from them. She greeted them in a friendly manner and asked, "Hello, may I ask which one of you is Comrade Qiao Changdong? We are from XX TV station."