Return to the Day When My Pregnant Wife Jumped Off the Building-Chapter 35: Bastard, Stop Pretending to Be a Good Person_1

Chapter 35: Chapter 35: Bastard, Stop Pretending to Be a Good Person_1

As the day turned, the sun had not yet fully risen, and Xiao Ming was already steaming with heat from his morning run.

After two years of decadence, he felt his body had become extremely frail; he had the memory of his past life’s skills, but his strength and speed couldn’t keep up.

His spirit was willing, but his flesh was weak—a phrase that did not sound good when applied to a man. To take good care of his wife and child, he needed a strong, healthy body, so he had devised a complete fitness plan based on his previous life’s experience.

A ten-kilometer morning run was just a warm-up.

He ran all the way to the riverside and began stretching towards the sunrise.

On the distant river, several sand dredging boats were busy at work, which made Xiao Ming gasp in astonishment.

You see, although this was the old city area, it was still an urban area where, according to regulations, sand mining was absolutely prohibited.

Which meant those sand dredging ships were all illegal, operating so brazenly, they were probably not far from their demise.

Huh?

Xiao Ming silently calculated the days and his eyes lit up.

If he remembered correctly, in these couple of days, a joint operation to crack down on illegal sand mining across several provinces was swiftly launched, leaving not a single sand dredger on the river, and naturally, the market price of river sand soared.

Soon after, the city would issue a draft plan for consultation that mentioned the construction of specialized trails and bike paths along the river to optimize the environment and create fitness parks,

with the old city area being a key focus of the plan.

Here, the transformation would be earth-shattering, making it the perfect first peg for his rise to power.

After a random bite to eat at home, Xiao Ming rode his bicycle to a sizable sand material field in the suburb.

Following the guidance of the gatekeeper, he circled around several piles of sand and gravel that looked like small hills and stopped in front of a row of simple bungalows.

Pushing open the door marked "Factory Director," a pungent smell of smoke hit him in the face. Taking a closer look, he saw several tough-looking guys sitting around a square table, each holding a few cards in their hands.

This was definitely not what a factory director’s office should look like; they were asking for trouble!

"What are you doing? Don’t you know how to knock?" a man with a face full of flesh scolded.

Xiao Ming put on a smile: "Sorry, the door was unlocked, so it just opened when I pushed. I’m here to see the factory director."

"That would be me."

"Oh hello! My last name is Xiao, and your honorable last name, Factory Director?"

"Cut the crap, get to the point. Can’t you see I’m busy?"

Xiao Ming curled his lip: "I want to buy river sand."

"How much?"

"Depends on the price."

"One hundred and seventy, no bargaining."

"If you can drop to one hundred and fifty, I’ll take ten thousand tons."

The factory director abruptly looked up: "When do you need it? How will you pay?"

"If it can be transported today, I’ll pay on the spot."

The factory director pushed away the person beside him and stepped forward with an eager handshake: "I’m terribly sorry! Boss Xiao, it’s a pleasure, Lu Xiangjie."

With a major river flowing through Longyin City, the number of sand material fields large and small added up to no fewer than a hundred.

Although most of them were controlled by the big boss behind Lu Xiangjie, given that they were so scattered and widespread, it was great if an individual field could turn a profit of a million a month.

Now, with Xiao Ming asking for one and a half million dollars’ worth of sand up front, Lu Xiangjie had nearly achieved half of this month’s KPI in one go, how could he not be overjoyed?

Xiao Ming shook his hand: "Factory Director Lu."

"No need to be formal, Boss Xiao, just call me Old Lu."

Lu Xiangjie heartily pulled him inside, then kicked and shoved the card players out.

"We were just playing a few hands to kill time when we had nothing to do, made a bad impression on you, Boss Xiao," he said with a sheepish smile, handing Xiao Ming a glass of water.

"I understand."

Xiao Ming nodded and asked directly, "Can you fulfill my request within today, Factory Director Lu?"

"No problem! Boss Xiao, don’t be deceived by the small size of my place, but the amount of sand material we move here is in the millions of tons each month, and it can go up to ten million at times!"

After all, there was no tax on boasting, so Lu Xiangjie said whatever he wanted.

"What about the price?"

"Seeing as it’s our first meeting today, Boss Xiao, and you seem like a straightforward person, as long as we can continue doing business in the future, consider the one hundred and fifty a gesture of friendship from Old Lu!"

Lu Xiangjie spoke with the air of someone accustomed to the ways of the world, more like a man of the jianghu than a businessman.

After setting the price, Lu Xiangjie went to prepare the contract, and Xiao Ming called Yang Hanqing.

"Get a few trucks and a construction site ready for me, send them to Red Flag Sand Material Field in the southern suburbs."

Yang Hanqing, completely baffled, asked, "What are you up to?"

"I just bought ten thousand tons of river sand. The trucks are for transportation, the construction site is for storage."

"River sand? Why are you buying that?"

"That’s my business. I will settle the costs of the trucks and the construction site with you separately."

Yang Hanqing pinched the bridge of his nose: "Brother, we at Maohe Architecture are in the design business, not construction.

You suddenly come up with this idea out of the blue, where am I going to find you trucks and a construction site at short notice?"

"Well, I’ll find someone else then."

Hey? He actually didn’t force me or even use a domineering tone.

This...this is not normal.

Doubts crept into Yang Hanqing’s mind, and he quickly said, "Don’t rush, let me make a few calls and ask around."

"Well, you better hurry up, I don’t have that much time to waste."

After finishing, Xiao Ming hung up the phone.

That’s more like it!

A bastard is still a bastard, who was he trying to fool by playing the good guy?

Yang Hanqing, with a smile playing on his lips, listened to the busy tone on the line.