Eighties Sweetheart Wife
Chapter 180: This is Under the Guidance of an Expert_1

Chapter 180: Chapter 180: This is Under the Guidance of an Expert_1

The meeting was over, and everyone first visited the Educated Youth Point and the entrance of Old Song’s house, and then they had an idea.

It wasn’t difficult, too simple really.

It was just after dinner, and the sky was not yet dark, so many people went to the nearby mountains and forests, and others to the fields.

In the countryside at this time of year, wild flowers and grasses were abundant.

Carefully digging them up, these old farmers had decades of experience tending to their crops; taking care of some wild flowers and grasses was a piece of cake, wasn’t it?

Some planted flowers and vegetables, others swept the road in front of their house, and each household maintained a standard, dividing the space according to the boundaries set by the fence walls.

The village had a yellow gravel road which was actually quite smooth. Before, no one made much of the small pits and bumps, but now, taking a shovel and adding a shovel’s worth of dirt here and there, and then laying down some gravel and sand on top, stamping it down hard, it all turned out to look quite pleasing after smoothing it out.

For a while, under the remaining glow of the sunset, Erdao River was bustling again, all thanks to a suggestion from Song Yunuan.

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Xia Bowen quickly found the hotline for the Xiangjiang Tax Bureau.

He then got the phone number for the office of the president of Shen Distribution Hypermart.

It was quite a coincidence; the person who answered was Shangguan Heng.

Xia Bowen certainly didn’t give Shangguan Heng a chance to hang up. With a grave tone, he began, "Shangguan Heng, I have the hotline to the Xiangjiang Tax Bureau. If you don’t send my son back to Nanshan County Town safe and sound immediately, I will report your underground laboratory under your name for tax evasion and fraud!"

There was no need for a lengthy conversation, effectiveness was all that mattered.

Shangguan Heng’s face went pale, and a cold sweat broke out on his back.

"Xia Bowen, aren’t you being a bit too harsh? No matter what, I raised your son. If not for merit, I at least put in hard work, didn’t I?"

Xia Bowen was stunned by Shangguan Heng’s shamelessness. "Shangguan Heng, are you saying I should be grateful to you because you didn’t kill my son?"

"That’s not what I mean."

Shangguan Heng ground his teeth as he spoke.

"Yunqi is inhuman, and so are you. Xia Bowen, think about how I have treated your Shangguan family with your conscience.

Am I neglectful of my three children because I don’t like them?

No!

It’s because I don’t want to hurt your sister’s feelings; I want to live well with her and the children.

Your sister has an especially strong jealousy, and she is indulgent and unreasonable. I don’t want to upset her.

But this does not mean you can treat my three children like they are worth nothing.

Xia Xindong is not a small cat or a dog; what right do you have to lock him underground for thirty years?

Shangguan Heng, who is more ruthless, you or I?

And furthermore, the special medicine that was developed by my son, yet you made me beg for it.

All these things I, Xia Bowen, am keeping in mind.

I am not going to talk nonsense with you.

If I can find your number, I can find other numbers too.

I also know about your several shell companies abroad, and if necessary, I will provide clues to the Tax Bureau.

And we don’t have time differences; we are all on the same piece of land."

Xia Bowen glanced at his watch: "Well, I suppose you might not have much say, otherwise, why would you be the legal representative of this hypermart?

It’s obvious; if anything goes wrong, you’re the one to take the fall.

And it figures; your Shangguan family always likes to be too clever by half, only to end up shooting yourselves in the foot.

So, I am going to extend your time. Tomorrow morning at 8:00 is my absolute deadline.

If you call me to say that you’ve safely brought out my son, and that he can talk to me on the phone, then we will let this matter rest for now.

At 8:00, if I haven’t received your call, at 8:01 I will be making that call to the Tax Bureau in your name.

Shangguan Heng, I have plenty more information and evidence in my hands.

By the way, your daughter is also at my house.

I indeed can’t do anything to a girl, after all, she’s your biological daughter.

But I’m more than capable of ruining her reputation."

At the other end, Shangguan Heng felt as though a bucket of cold water had been poured over his head, right, his daughter was still there.

Although he had many children, this one was the child he loved the most, borne by his favorite woman.

She was even part of a set of dragon and phoenix twins, once a source of his pride.

Because having dragon and phoenix twins signified auspiciousness.

"Xia Bowen, you old bastard, if you dare do anything to my daughter, I will kill you."

Xia Bowen let out a light laugh: "See, it’s only when the knife pierces your own flesh that you feel the pain.

Similarly, Shangguan Heng, I don’t care about the other two families, I just want my son.

If anything happens to him even slightly, I will kill you as well. Now get moving."

Without waiting for Shangguan Heng to say anything, Xia Bowen abruptly hung up the phone.

On the other end, Shangguan Heng’s face turned ashen, his hands clenched tightly before he slammed them down on the office desk with force.

His mind had been a mess just now, but now that he was clear-headed, he finally realized that Xia Bowen was truly angry.

But how could he possibly know the number of the Tax Bureau?

Could it be that he found it in a newspaper?

But what would he be doing looking for a newspaper from over half a year ago?

Xia Bowen must have someone guiding him!

Otherwise, how could he know that he was the owner of that hypermart?

His own sister, Shangguan Yunqi, including his daughter, none of them knew.

Now he had to take the call.

Shangguan Heng’s fingers trembled as he called his secretary, telling her to answer immediately any calls from Beidu, especially those from his daughter, and inform him straight away.

His daughter might have already been wronged.

After doing all this, he had no choice but to summon the heads of the other two families.

With an ashen face, he relayed to them exactly what Xia Bowen had said.

Told them that Xia Bowen ordered him to release Xia Xindong immediately.

Otherwise, he would use his name to report the secret lab’s tax evasion.

He said one reason he didn’t want to end the marriage arrangement forcefully and preferred finding a substitute if necessary was because of the Zhong family.

The other one was the Wang family.

Chairman Wang’s eyes darkened as he looked at Shangguan Heng: "You mean all our efforts have been in vain, don’t you?"

Then he spoke unhappily: "Why didn’t you negotiate with him? Tell him if this research succeeds, we can give him half the profits."

Chairman Zhong’s face was also ashen as he said: "Who is Xia Bowen? He’s not some nameless lowlife, nor a short-sighted villager, he is now the chairman of a joint venture, on equal footing with you and me. Isn’t it much stronger for him to have someone in his grasp than you sharing half of your achievements with him?"

Then he questioned doubtfully: "But still, Shangguan Heng, how did he know the phone number to report to the Tax Bureau?"

Chairman Wang said: "There must be someone high up guiding him; out of so many newspapers he just happened to find that one, and he even knew about the hypermart."

But at this moment, Shangguan Heng had taken Xia Bowen’s words to heart.

He had been careless before, thinking that no one here bothered about anything.

But the main household in Xiangjiang doesn’t care if people fight to the death here.

However, they do care about money.

If things go poorly, it would no longer be his. He is scraping together as much as he can now, wishing he could even dig three feet into the ground.

This hypermart is bound to be a hidden danger sooner or later.