Super Rich from Winning a Lottery-Chapter 267 - 206: Spend the New Year in Jail!

Fan Taiping was calculating this way, dragging it out as long as he could, and if he could not pay, he wouldn’t pay.

If those migrant workers don’t come back next year, even better, there’s no shortage of laborers to hire.

If they come back, that’s fine too; he could keep prolonging the payment, give them some living expenses, as long as they don’t starve to death.

Fan Taiping never imagined that Yi Anguo would suddenly show up at the film city. If he had known, he definitely wouldn’t have let the migrant workers cause trouble.

"Why are you withholding the workers’ wages?" In the office of the film city’s preparatory committee, Yi Anguo looked at his nephew, ten years older than himself, and sternly questioned him.

"Uncle! It’s just a little delay in their wages, it’s not like we won’t pay them." Fan Taiping said with some displeasure.

"As long as the construction progress of the film city is unaffected and there’s no problem with the project quality, what’s wrong with getting a little benefit for myself without harming the company’s interests?"

"The wages for workers will be paid sooner or later, it’s just a slight delay." 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

Yi Anguo couldn’t help but sneer, "Just a slight delay, it’s almost New Year’s and you still haven’t settled their wages, and you call this a slight delay."

"They’ve worked hard all year and don’t even have travel expenses to go home. Do you still consider yourself a human? Even beasts wouldn’t behave like this."

"It’s their hard-earned money, and you dare to embezzle it."

"You come from a rural family, don’t you know what the countryside is like? Those migrant workers are all out here to support their families, they have to care for the elderly and raise children, pay for the sick, and for their children’s education. They would split a cent to spend it. Yet you still delay their wages, even thinking of not paying them at all."

"If you had any conscience, any decency, you wouldn’t be able to do such a thing."

"You have two days to settle all the workers’ wages, otherwise I’ll report you to the police and let you spend New Year in jail."

After driving Fan Taiping away, Yi Anguo immediately called Zhou Mengdie, asking him to organize the group’s financial audit team to send people over to audit all finances related to the film city project.

Yi Anguo then returned to the village to speak with his eldest brother’s wife, asking her to settle the unpaid wages to the migrant workers with all his other cousins, or else all of them should prepare to spend New Year in jail.

This time, Yi Anguo was truly angry, so he was not polite even to his eldest cousin’s wife.

The eldest cousin’s wife felt quite aggrieved, she had advised her younger brothers-in-law more than once, but in the face of great benefits, they were blinded like pigs and unwilling to listen to her, continuously withholding the workers’ wages, unwilling to settle the accounts.

She was quite disappointed with her brothers-in-law, knowing that Yi Anguo was genuinely angry this time. If they remained stubborn, Yi Anguo’s threat to send them to jail for the New Year was not just an idle talk.

The most important thing is that in the future, they might not even expect Yi Anguo to take care of them and help them earn money. Yi Anguo likely wouldn’t care about anybody’s face anymore.

That very day, the company’s financial audit team arrived in Xijiang Provincial City and then rushed to the film city in Jian’an, sealing and auditing all financial records there.

Very quickly, the audit results were out, identifying funds embezzled and misappropriated by Fan Daping and other members of the film city’s preparatory committee, totaling more than seventy million yuan.

Just in the form of bonuses, over thirty million were embezzled, and as the general manager of the preparatory committee, Fan Daping naturally took the largest share.

And it wasn’t a small share, he took more than half, a whopping twenty million.

He awarded himself twenty million in one year as a bonus. One has to say, Fan Taiping sure knows how to do it!

Yi Anguo was extremely furious and didn’t hesitate for a second before calling the police to arrest them, determined to have these pests spend the New Year behind bars.

Initially, if they hadn’t embezzled the company’s funds and settled the workers’ wages, at most Yi Anguo would just fire Fan Taiping without intending to imprison him.

But now! Yi Anguo couldn’t stand it anymore and was determined not to let him go, no matter who pleaded for him.

Originally, Yi Anguo planned to stay in the village for a few days, but knowing that if he stayed, his eldest cousin, Fan Taiping’s mother, would undoubtedly come to plead for her son.

On top of that, there would surely be many others coming to ask for help, so he simply left and stayed at the Holiday Inn in the urban area of Jian’an City.

As for those houses he previously bought in Jian’an City, they were too much trouble. Staying at the Holiday Inn was much more convenient.

The construction of the Fairy Maiden Peak Resort was going along smoothly, mainly because his brother-in-law oversaw it, with the help of Yi Dalin’s brother, Yi Dalin, so no one dared to cause trouble.

Yi Dalin’s brother-in-law, Huang Zhao, went to university early on, the first in their village to do so, and back then, the village even hired a projection team to show movies for three days in celebration.

After graduating from university, he stayed in Shanghai and got a good job assignment, but soon he paused his career to start a business in electronic components.

His business grew larger and larger, eventually opening an electronics factory. Now his assets should be worth several billion yuan, with a factory in Jian’an City’s industrial park, thriving in business. He even built an antique-style house in the village.

The entire house was exquisitely carved and painted, both beautiful and grand, often hosting Jian’an City’s officials as guests.

The Yi brothers were never ones to be bullied in the village, and local troublemakers and rascals would avoid them actively, no one dared to provoke them.

When Yi Anguo’s family’s granary was robbed, losing several carts of rice, it left his mother weeping and his father sighing—reporting it to the police was useless.

Back then, there were no streetlights, let alone surveillance cameras, so solving a case was not easy.

Even if you knew who stole it, you’d need proof.

But finding such evidence was no easy task.

Losing several sacks of grain meant starving for months when supplies ran out.

His parents planned to sell a few young pigs in the pen preemptively; they were only around 100 pounds, prime time for fattening, and selling them now would mean a loss.

But what choice did they have? Without food, they couldn’t feed the pigs.

Finally, upon hearing the news, Yi Dalin and his brother quickly found out who did it.

No evidence required; Yi Xiaolin directly confronted the thief, demanding he return the grain or face a beating each encounter.

Yi Anguo took Yi Xiaolin to Shenzhen, partly because they were family, and partly to return a favor.

This time appointing Yi Dalin to oversee the resort’s construction was because his brother-in-law was too gentle and couldn’t handle the local troublemakers.

Secondly, he wanted to pull in Yi Dalin, who was capable of managing the greedy rascals wanting to dip into benefits.

Even though Yi Dalin’s brother-in-law was wealthy, they weren’t poorly off, but with Yi Anguo’s help in managing the resort’s construction, he’d earn significantly more, making life even better, isn’t that great?

Yi Dalin of course didn’t refuse, as it was good news for him.

His brother, Yi Xiaolin, had earned considerably with Yi Anguo in Shenzhen these years, which Yi Dalin admittedly envied.

Despite his brother-in-law’s success and regard for him, as they say, no work, no reward; Yi Dalin, a proud man, couldn’t just take money without reason.

But working in the electronics factory his brother-in-law owned was not possible for him, given he hadn’t even graduated junior high.