Just as Auntie Ban was about to speak, she heard the sound of hurried car engines outside.
Her eyes lit up: "You people, you're bullying me while my two sons are away, right? Now that my sons are back, I'll see what you do next."
After speaking, Ban Qin quickly walked towards the outside of the courtyard.
Her smile didn't change when she saw the people getting out of the two cars.
"Bao… Who are you?"
Big Chen glanced at Ban Qin: "Please excuse us, we need to take someone inside."
This courtyard must be where Xin Xuanlai was headed. If Master Wen hadn't told him to help Xin Xuanlai win the beauty's heart, he wouldn't have come personally.
"You, what are you doing?"
Before Big Chen could finish, he went to the back seat and pulled out two men who looked like skinny monkeys, with shifty eyes and aged faces.
Upon seeing their faces, Ban Qin's complexion immediately turned pale. For a moment, she didn't know whether to explain or to quickly leave.
"Gently, gently, brother, we'll cooperate with you. Please be gentle, we're old and frail. If we get hurt anywhere, it wouldn't be good."
"Does this place look familiar?"
The two middle-aged men looked around and exchanged glances.
"It seems a little familiar, but I can't recall the specifics. How about you let us go, and we'll take a look around? We'll tell you right away when we remember," one of the men said, bowing servilely to Big Chen with a flattering smile. "Don't worry about us running away, there are so many people around, we don't know where we'd go."
"Yes, big brother, we can't do anything in our current state. And we're old and forgetful. If we don't look around, we really can't remember past events. Please, big brother, do us a favor and let us have a place to think."
"Less nonsense," Big Chen said, rolling his eyes impatiently. He grabbed the back of their necks and walked into the courtyard.
"Auntie Ban, where are you going?"
"I have a feeling Auntie Ban is hiding something. When that person pulled those two men out of the car earlier, Auntie Ban's face changed, and then she hid in the crowd. Everyone, quickly recognize if you know that person. I'm young and can't remember things."
"Hearing him say that, I feel like these two people look a bit familiar, but I can't recall exactly when I saw them."
The villagers whispered amongst themselves.
The already small courtyard was quickly filled with people. Whether intentionally or not, everyone implicitly pushed Ban Qin, who had been walking out of the courtyard, back inside.
"It's you," a villager said, looking at the two men, almost growling each word through gritted teeth. "You actually dare to come back."
One of the men, who was relatively taller, saw him charging towards him and impatiently pushed him away: "Who the hell are you, daring to push me? Do you know who I am?"
Big Chen stepped forward and slapped the man on the back of his head.
"Don't you know to respect elders?"
The man clutched the back of his head, his eyes filled with wronged indignation: "I'm also an elder."
"Heh."
Xin Xuanlai walked to Big Chen's side: "Why are you here?"
"Master Wen sent me. He said to lend you a hand."
"Thank you, Master Wen and Brother Chen."
"However," Big Chen kicked a box placed nearby, "this village is quite deep."
"I can see that," Xin Xuanlai nodded honestly. "This family has almost become the overlords of this village."
It was unlikely to be resolved without some connections.
"I called the police when I arrived. You don't need to thank me."
Xin Xuanlai raised an eyebrow: "When something good happens, I'll treat you to a meal."
"It's you, it's the two of you. You two assured us that your materials and craftsmanship were the best, so our village agreed to cooperate with you and let your people build the bridge for us. But what was the result? That bridge was washed away in the flood, taking eleven children from our village."
"Nonsense, who the hell…" the older man saw something and his expression stiffened, then he blurted out unintentionally, "It's you."
"Who is what?"
The old man glared at the taller man, who was younger than him: "You, you damn idiot, look again, do you recognize that woman?"
Ban Qin wanted to escape, but all the villagers tacitly blocked her path.
"You people, aren't you annoying? It's just that you don't want our Da Niu to marry Yu Zhi. We won't marry her then. Hurry up and get out of the way, I'm so annoyed by seeing you all right now."
"I remember now," the taller man said, hearing the familiar voice and suddenly remembering, "Isn't this the woman who gave us shoddy materials fifteen years ago and had us build the bridge? That voice, it's too familiar."
Hearing this, Ban Qin frantically tried to push aside the villagers blocking her way, but not a single villager was willing to let her leave.
With things having reached this point, even the most foolish person knew there was a problem between Auntie Ban and these two men.
"Auntie Ban, don't you want to explain?"
"Explain what?" Ban Qin yelled. "What does this have to do with me? It wasn't me who told them to cut corners. Blame them if you want. If you think it's okay, you can call the police and arrest these two."
"As for your Yu family's door, I saw it. You can't afford to climb up to it. When my Da Niu becomes successful, you'll kneel at our door and beg our Da Niu to marry her, and it still won't happen."
"Wait a minute, you damned bitch. Didn't you say back then that these people were low-class and there was no need to build such a good bridge? Now you want to blame me for this? Dream on."
"I don't understand what you're saying. Also, I have family matters to attend to. Get out of my way quickly." Ban Qin could no longer hold back and directly resorted to physical action against the villagers. "Get lost, you bunch of trash."
"Heh, you good-for-nothing woman, how dare you say that? Don't forget, when you said that, you also withheld fifty thousand yuan. You took thirty thousand, and we took twenty thousand. There's still a note, dare you say the name and fingerprints on the note aren't yours."
"Nonsense," Ban Qin blurted out. "There's no damn note."
It was precisely because there was no note that she dared to be so brazen.
"Oh, so there's no note."
"Ban Qin, we trusted you so much, and you treated us like this. You're a scoundrel."
"Call the police, this must be reported. If it weren't for these people, how could our village have lost so many lives?"
"Exactly, exactly, call the police, hurry up and call the police."
"Call the police?" Ban Qin acted as if she had heard the biggest joke in the world. "See if you dare. Don't forget, my Er Niu is with Wen's Group. If anything happens to me, do you think the tourist village will be built in the village?"