A 50-year-old man is reborn and becomes a complete slacker, leaving his scumbag children completely

"Captain, Captain."

Today, there was a routine meeting in their township, but Du Tianchuan had to go to check on his family's off-season vegetable base, so he asked another cadre from the brigade to go to the township meeting instead.

In his view, these routine meetings are mostly about trivial matters, just going through the motions and going through the motions.

It's more practical to stay home and watch these gold nuggets lay golden eggs for you.

"What's going on?!" Du Tianchuan opened the door and welcomed the cadre in.

"Big news. Great news. Great news!" the cadre said breathlessly. "At today's routine meeting, we received a notice from above saying that there will be a national highway along our Bake Line, which will pass through many of our brigades."

"Our Lingdong Brigade will also pass through, which will make our transportation even more convenient."

"Great!" Du Tianchuan was overjoyed. Of course, the more developed the transportation, the better.

Moreover, with improved transportation, their off-season vegetables can be delivered more easily, greatly benefiting their earning potential.

"Oh, right, Captain, there's one more thing. Some of our brigade's land is going to be requisitioned."

"I've looked, it's all fields, I haven't seen a single house."

The official then produced a document, a photocopy of a diagram issued from above.

As the blueprints were opened, Du Tianchuan couldn't help but examine them. He wanted to see where the road led.

But as he followed the road and passed the Qunyi Brigade, a red circle there made Du Tianchuan frown.

He asked, "What's the deal with this red circle?"

"Oh." The cadre looked over and said with a sudden realization, "During our meeting just now, a brigade cadre also raised a question."

"Finally, the higher-ups explained that during their inspection, they discovered a family living there. However, the road plan had already been finalized and would not be changed, so they decided to relocate that family."

"You can only say that this family is lucky; they will definitely receive some compensation for the land acquisition and relocation."

Hearing that someone's house was going to be demolished, Du Wu also peeked over and asked, "What's going on? Who's going to demolish our houses?"

"Oh, I heard Li Wude from the Qunyi Brigade mention someone named Hu Dahai. He was so excited, saying that Hu Dahai is a real genius."

The official scratched his head: "I don't know why he suddenly got so agitated."

Du Wu: "..."

Du Tianchuan: "..."

For a moment, the whole room became quiet.

No one spoke again.

"Ahem, I'm leaving now." The village official didn't know what was going on, but he suddenly became much quieter. He coughed and then quickly slipped away.

"This, this damn Hu Dahai, how can he be so lucky?!" Du Wu's chest heaved several times as he said angrily.

He found it hard to accept. Just moments ago, he was mocking Hu Dahai for being a fool and building such a lousy house, and now he was being told that Hu Dahai's house was going to be demolished.

This gave him the feeling that compared to Hu Dahai, Du Wu seemed more like a fool.

"Did Hu Dahai already know that his house was going to be demolished?" Du Tianchuan murmured, as if thinking of something new.

Upon hearing Du Tianchuan's words, Du Wu seemed to have an epiphany: "Holy crap, so Hu Dahai deliberately built such a garbage house? It's made entirely of junk materials? In other words, he didn't build this house to live in at all, but simply for demolition compensation?!"

Du Tianchuan nodded: "It seems that's how it is now."

Du Wu gasped in shock: "Hiss! Does that mean Hu Dahai has connections in high places? How could he know such confidential information in advance?"

Du Tianchuan did not answer; he didn't know how to answer.

A temporary silence fell over the room.

After a long silence, Du Tianchuan said, "Du Wu, you shouldn't make enemies with Hu Dahai so easily. Once we make money from these off-season vegetables, our lives will be better. There's no need to make things difficult for us."

To be honest, considering Hu Dahai's terrifying network of connections, including knowing factory directors of state-owned factories so easily, Du Tianchuan felt increasingly frightened.

"Oh," Du Wu replied, without saying anything more.

At this moment, the scene in the Qunyi Brigade was also very lively.

When Li Wude released the news about the national highway, everyone was very excited.

But when Li Wude revealed the location of the national highway, everyone was incredibly shocked.

"Damn, isn't that Hu Dahai's house over there?"

Someone immediately realized this and exclaimed in surprise.

Upon hearing this, Li Wude could only smile bitterly: "Yes, with the entire road being built, in our Bake County, only Hu Dahai's family in our brigade needs to be relocated."

When Li Wude learned of this at the meeting, he was completely shocked.

He felt both conflicted and distressed.

They envied Hu Dahai's good fortune, suspected he must have known about the demolition all along, and complained about why he hadn't told them; otherwise, the whole brigade could have built houses along the roadside and waited for demolition. Then they thought, if there were more houses, wouldn't Hu Dahai's house also stay in the demolition process? So they began to understand Hu Dahai a little better.

But no matter what he thought, Hu Dahai was definitely going to make a fortune.

Soon, thanks to the information relayed by the rural intelligence team, the news spread throughout the brigade. From the elderly to the young, almost everyone knew that Hu Dahai's house was going to be demolished.

"Hey, did you know? Hu Dahai's dilapidated house is going to be demolished!"

"I knew it all along, and now I'm so regretful. If I had known, I would have built one by Hu Dahai. If it got demolished, I would have both land and money..."

"Don't even mention it. I feel like I'm going to break my legs just thinking about it every day. Back then, I thought I'd made a fortune just by getting the foundation that Hu Guanbao had built. I never imagined that Hu Dahai was the biggest winner!"

"We even mocked Hu Dahai for so long, saying he built houses haphazardly and that he got things backwards. Now that I think about it, we were the ones who got things backwards. We were the clowns all along!"

Upon learning of this, Hu Guanbao was shocked and unconsciously straightened his back.

Looking at those around him who had once tried to persuade them to switch to better materials, he wanted to say: "Look, now you know my dad's true abilities."

Because there were no houses slated for demolition along the road except for Hu Dahai's place, the relevant officials found Hu Dahai the very next day after the demolition notice was issued.

"This house is so big? So nice?" The staff member couldn't help but exclaim when he saw Hu Dahai's house.

He thought to himself: It seems that the compensation I originally planned is not enough. I need to go back and discuss it properly.

After taking measurements, they went back and discussed it further before finally finding Hu Dahai to discuss the demolition compensation.