Chapter 81 (1/2)
Conflict
The piece of land at Third Ring Road was not large; it was only 20 acres. The government price was 6,000 per square metre, making the land worth at least 80,000,000. This was before bidding. If the government opened tender and developers get involved in the bidding, the price would double, or even rocket to over two hundred million. The location near the port was really good after all and developers wouldn’t mind paying the price.
Liang Si-Yao had an odd expression on her face after looking at the piece of land, “It’s such a waste to build a machine plant on this piece of land. If it were me, I’d build condominiums here. The location is good - there’s schools and a hospital nearby. I could simply set the price at 10,000 per square foot and add an elevator. Woah, I’d be rich overnight.”
Xia Lei laughed as he said, “Huang Yi-Hu wants to buy this piece of land to build condominiums; you have the same idea as him. However, I’ll insist on using it for a machine plant since he wants to build condominiums.”
“Are you trying to make him so mad that he’d kill himself?” asked Liang Si-Yao.
“It’ll be great if he died from anger but those sort of people don’t die so easily. Good people lead short lives while the bad live for ages.” He thought of Ma Xiao-An again.
Liang Si-Yao comforted him, “Don’t be sad. I’m afraid many developers will be interested in this land because of its value. Can your two friends really get this piece of land for you? You don’t have the money either.”
Xia Lei just smiled, “I’m not worried at all. Let’s go, Miss Liang. Let’s look for a place ahead to have tea and celebrate the establishment of my company.”
“Sure. Then stop calling me Miss Liang,” Liang Si-Yao smiled as she said, “Call me Si-Yao.”
“Okay, then stop calling me Mr Xia and call me Lei,” said Xia Lei.
“Lei.” Liang Si-Yao met Xia Lei’s eyes and she smiled.
They walked away from the empty plot of land and to the Great Wall H6 parked by the road. At that moment, three luxury cars stopped by the road. A black Maybach business sedan led the way, followed by a Mercedes-Benz S600 and a BMW 730i. These three cars were not something ordinary people could afford to drive.
The door of the Maybach opened and a young man in a black suit stepped out from the driver’s seat, then opened the back door. A middle-aged man alighted from the car; he was dressed casually but still had an upper-class air.
Xia Lei’s gaze landed on the middle-aged man and he stopped in his tracks.
The man who had got out of the Maybach was Huang Yi-Hu. Xia Lei recognised him from the picture he had seen last night.
Other people alighted from the other two cars. Every car had its main passenger and entourage; boss, bodyguard and driver. It was easy to tell who was who.
Just then, a woman also alighted from the Maybach. It was Li Yu-Lan.
Huang Yi-Hu and Li Yu-Lan had not yet discovered Xia Lei and Liang Si-Yao. The married couple brought the other bosses to a little street which led to plot number 13, talking as they walked.
“CEO Wang, I will give the project to your Ling-Yun Construction Company after we get this piece of land,” said Huang Yi-Hu to one of the bosses.
“Thank you, thank you. It’s not the first time that we at Ling-Yun Construction Company have worked with you, Boss Huang. It’s no problem,” he replied.
Li Yu-Lan spoke to the other boss, “CEO Zhou, we will contract all our building materials, sand and reinforced steel bars to your building materials company.”
The boss called CEO Zhou smiled, “No problem. It’s not our first time working together. Same old terms, eh?”
Huang Yi-Hu stopped in his tracks then and chuckled, “Since CEO Zhou says so, we shall abide by the same old terms. Let’s make a pile together.”
The one called CEO Zhou said, “Boss Huang, there are no problems on our side but there are several people eyeing this piece of land. I’m not being a naysayer but what if you can’t get this piece of land?”
“Can’t get this piece of land? There is no piece of land I, Huang Yi-Hu cannot get in Hai-Zhu City. I’m not only going to get this land, I’m going to buy it for the lowest price,” said Huang Yi-Hu.
“Are the other developers not bidding?” The boss called CEO Wang looked very surprised.
Huang Yi-Hu sneered, “Bid? I will visit them one by one and see which one of them dare to fight with me, Huang Yi-Hu, for the piece of land!”
CEO Zhou and CEO Wang looked at each other and smiled.
True. Who would dare to fight with Huang Yi-Hu over a piece of land in Hai-Zhu City?
Liang Si-Yao spotted Li Yu-Lan and said, “Lei, should we avoid these people?”
“Why should we? This place is not theirs and theirs alone,” said Xia Lei.
“Okay.” Liang Si-Yao was also a woman who was not afraid to dive in. She looked at Huang Yi-Hu, who was next to Li Yu-Lan and asked, “Lei, is that man beside that woman the Huang Yi-Hu you spoke of?”
Xia Lei nodded, “It’s him.” He snorted, “Did you hear them? Huang Yi-Hu is already treating this piece of land like it’s his.”
Huang Yi-Hu did indeed see the piece of land as his own property already by bringing people from a construction company and building materials company to view the site and talk business.
“He has triangular eyes and horizontal brows. That Huang Yi-Hu person doesn’t look like a good person,” said Liang Si-Yao.
At that moment, Huang Yi-Hu’s bodyguard spotted Xia Lei and Liang Si-Yao. He walked over to them, speaking loudly, “What are you doing here? This is a construction site. Who let you in?”