Du Yujiao watched as Zhan Feiyu was at a loss for words, and finally eased her tone, speaking earnestly, "Little Fish, you're thinking from your own perspective without considering reality. It's dark outside already, we're more than ten kilometers away from the city center, and Zhu Bufan has to stand guard here. How could he possibly go out and buy things for Little Huang?"

"Right, the car has been driven away by you all, and we absolutely can't leave in the dead of night. I was just watching TV in the living room, and my husband made food for me to eat, which is already quite good. Sister, just stop talking," Zhan Feihuang joined Du Yujiao, also speaking up for Zhu Bufan.

This made Du Yujiao nod her head in agreement repeatedly. Now she could rest assured leaving her second daughter in Zhu Bufan's care. He was a good man who knew how to cherish his wife.

Zhan Feihuang, that girl, when she's stubborn, she doesn't think before she speaks. Du Yujiao had already taken out the meal from the lunch box, and yet, oblivious to everything, she said, "Mom, my husband has made a whole pot of it, and now that you and my sister have come, I'll get you two bowls, so you can also taste my husband's cooking skills."

"Uh... this..." Du Yujiao's face changed dramatically, utterly displeased, but she still had to tough it out and say, "Then get me a bowl, I want to see just how good our son-in-law's cooking skills are."

Du Yujiao, while suppressing a strong feeling of nausea, toughed it out and downed that bowl of swill, and even forced herself to repeatedly praise it. That did give Zhu Bufan plenty of face.

But Zhan Feiyu only symbolically took a bite and even that was forced down by Du Yujiao.

In Du Yujiao's own words, it was like this: "When your father and I first started building our business, what we ate was even worse than this. The beginning is the hardest, enduring the bitterest of the bitter is what elevates one above the rest!"

Du Yujiao wasn't comfortable with leaving the two girls alone there, so she did not leave that night. She and her daughters stayed in the upstairs room, while Zhu Bufan was by himself in the downstairs living room.

It made sense for Zhu Bufan to stay in the living room since he needed to get up at night for patrols. The big empty housing complex, with not a single household, was silent as the grave. It was practically a ghost town. Having someone walk around inside with a flashlight at night somewhat brought in a little liveliness, at least for good luck.

Zhu Bufan strictly followed the original security patrol system, coming out every two hours at night for a round. He ran a total of five rounds throughout the night. He was so busy that he couldn't catch a break, which made Du Yujiao upstairs nod her head in approval time and time again.

At dawn, after Zhu Bufan finished his last patrol round, Du Yujia's car still arrived at the door. Du Yujia's car was filled with people. Three men and two women.

The three men were all in their thirties, with pretty strong physiques, and they were the three security guards she had found. Two of them were put in charge of guarding the front and back gates of the new village, and the other was assigned as the patrol guard.

The other two women were in their twenties, sales ladies recruited by Du Yujia on short notice.

Chunjiang New Village couldn't sell out even under Wang Chaofeng's management, and if Du Yujia didn't adopt some tactics, the situation would be no different. Du Yujia had already come up with a plan, but the measures needed to be implemented step by step. A sales office was still necessary.

Since it was a company, it had to look like one, and it wasn't feasible to leave Zhu Bufan suffering alone in the complex day after day.

Du Yujia had a lot of tasks to handle; the first task was to renovate the existing residential area.

Chunjiang New Village was previously designed with uniform small independent houses. A major renovation would be too much trouble and not cost-effective, but a minor refurbishment would be quite simple.

Du Yujia and her sister had looked at several residential buildings in a row and unanimously decided to let the construction team break through the walls between the adjacent units, combining three residences: the left, middle and right, into one. Likewise, the initial goal was to consolidate over 300 small buildings along the banks of Chunjiang into 106 large villas.

No sooner said than done, Du Yujia contacted the construction team that very day. That afternoon, a large number of workers began to enter Chunjiang New Village to start construction.

It was evident that Du Yujia was in a hurry because she had already found buyers, just waiting for the houses to be ready so she could immediately sell the first property!

While the construction team was busy working onsite, Du Yujia asked Zhan Feiyu and her sister to stay and oversee the project, while she herself went with Zhu Bufan to handle the establishment procedures for the clinic at the relevant departments.

The next day, Jiajia Community Clinic was officially established. It was set up under Du Yujia's name, with Zhu Bufan as the chief physician in the clinic. Du Yujia also paid for another doctor to be on duty, and additionally hired two nurses. Including Zhu Bufan, there were four staff members in total in the clinic.

Zhu Bufan was only responsible for "serious cases" and did not manage anything else. In fact, the main reliance of the clinic was on Zhu Bufan, the chief physician. The rest of the staff were essentially for show, not much more use than to fill spaces—after all, Chunjiang New Village was like a ghost town, who would come here for medical treatment?

Everything was progressing in an orderly fashion, but troubling issues arose swiftly!

Just as Du Yujia had hung up the sign for the community clinic, a call came from Zhan Feiyu. She reported that the construction team had encountered obstacles and couldn't continue the work.

Chunjiang New Village's land was legally purchased by Wang Chaofeng from the town, and there were no disputes over it; no one cared about what Du Yujia did inside the community, but the problem lay not within but on the roads outside the community.

Chunjiang New Village is situated along the banks of the Chunjiang River, with a view of the city district across the riverbank. However, there is no bridge that directly connects to the city district here—if you want to reach the city, you must take a detour of about 5 kilometers to the upstream Qinglian Bridge.

The problem arose precisely on this 5-kilometer stretch of road.

The construction vehicles were heavy-duty trucks, laden with sand and stones, each weighing dozens of tons that required good road conditions to withstand the load. But this particular 5-kilometer stretch was just an ordinary rural road, which struggled to support these heavy vehicles.

Of course, this issue was not unmanageable; the construction company promised to negotiate with the local villagers to repair the damaged road section after the works were completed, and the village and town governments had already agreed to let them pass.

However, there were some ill-intended people colluding with local ruffians and hooligans, who set up illegal roadblocks and charged a fee for passing. They were actually charging 100 yuan for each vehicle to pass through the checkpoint.

The afternoon the construction began, the checkpoint started charging fees. At that time, there was only one such roadblock, costing 200 yuan for each vehicle to pass to and fro, which was still within the tolerable range for the construction team.

But within today alone, that group of people had set up multiple roadblocks one after another, and up till now on this short 5-kilometer stretch, they had erected 4 roadblocks. The most recent one was outrageously located just over 400 meters from the entrance of Chunjiang New Village.

A vehicle had to pay 400 yuan to pass through four checkpoints for a single trip, and 800 yuan for a round trip, which was utterly intolerable. The construction team sent people to negotiate, but instead, they were beaten by that gang of ruffians and hooligans.

Having no choice, they decided to stop working.

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