Overbearing Immortal Doctor
Chapter 383: 83: Growing Wary

Chapter 383: Chapter 83: Growing Wary

Wu Xiaoyu nodded and followed Accountant Liu to the table with the microphone, cleared his throat first, and then shouted: “Hello everyone!”

The surrounding villagers, upon hearing his formal greeting, couldn’t help but laugh out loud. This Wu Xiaoyu has really learned to be westernized!

Whether the smiles were mocking or simply goodwill, Wu Xiaoyu didn’t mind at all and continued: “I know everyone has a lot of opinions about me this morning…”

The villagers, upon hearing him mention this matter, restrained their smiles one by one, their eyes wandering, avoiding Wu Xiaoyu’s gaze.

“There’s no need for that! Actually, I understand everyone, after all, who doesn’t want to make money? Isn’t that right?” Wu Xiaoyu laughed heartily.

The villagers saw that he really didn’t seem to care about everyone’s criticisms and complaints, then they all started to smile again.

Seeing this, Wu Xiaoyu restrained his smile and explained: “Actually, I have some concerns about asking everyone to make soy sauce!”

“I know some people among you dislike me and even try to trip me up at every turn. The reason is jealousy, but can this jealousy make everyone wealthy?”

Facing Wu Xiaoyu’s direct and soul-searching question, the villagers fell silent once again. The majority of them were somewhat jealous of Wu Xiaoyu.

Jealous of his good luck, jealous of his wealth, jealous of his capability compared to their own, but jealousy after jealousy, they were still poor and miserable while Wu Xiaoyu became richer and richer.

Does jealousy really work? Hell no! It only helps you escape reality!

Seeing their silence, Wu Xiaoyu continued: “I sincerely want to help everyone, to help everyone get rich, to help everyone improve their living conditions!”

“But there are always some people who maliciously denounce me and spread rumors about me. How can I not be guarded against them?”

The villagers below, hearing Wu Xiaoyu’s complaints, secretly glanced at Liu Sheng and several young men of the Niu Family.

These people spent all day talking bad about Wu Xiaoyu in the village, spreading rumors about him. They’re truly evil and extremely detestable.

Liu Sheng, seeing the people around him rolling their eyes at him, felt very unhappy. What do you people mean?

When I spoke ill of Wu Xiaoyu, didn’t you all chime in? Now you’re pretending to be good people?

“What are you all looking at me for? Do I have money on my face?” Liu Sheng frowned and harshly scolded the women around him.

These women were eager to ingratiate themselves with Wu Xiaoyu, they had no time to argue with him. They each glanced at him and then concentrated their attention on listening to Wu Xiaoyu speak again.

Wu Xiaoyu gathered the villagers at the Village Committee to talk about soy sauce, partly to facilitate the formation of groups.

On the other hand, he wanted to expose the ugly faces of people like Liu Sheng in front of everyone and let everyone know that he was clashing with Liu Sheng. If anyone wanted to associate with Liu Sheng, they shouldn’t blame him, Wu Xiaoyu, for being ungracious!

Seeing Liu Sheng cursing and ranting among the crowd, Wu Xiaoyu chuckled craftily and continued: “After careful consideration, I have decided to purchase soy sauce from everyone!”

The villagers, upon hearing Wu Xiaoyu’s decision, immediately cheered up enthusiastically. Selling soy sauce to Wu Xiaoyu was a guaranteed profit without loss!

Everyone was neighbors, he wouldn’t shortchange the payments, and more importantly, they could make money just by staying at home!

Some were delighted, naturally, some were worried. Liu Sheng, seeing Wu Xiaoyu receiving praise and admiration from the villagers, felt even emptier inside.

Despite now having a chance to deal with Wu Xiaoyu again, seeing him so arrogant always made him seethe with hatred.

But you won’t be arrogant for long, wait until I put a little laxative in the soy sauce and see if your factory doesn’t go bankrupt!

No matter how clever and guarded you are, you’ll eventually find yourself vulnerable!

While Liu Sheng was feeling both angry and pleased, Wu Xiaoyu continued speaking: “Although I decided to purchase soy sauce from everyone, I have one condition, let’s clarify it beforehand!”

Among the crowd, an elder pulled out his voice and shouted: “What condition? Just say it!”

Wu Xiaoyu turned back and exchanged a glance with Accountant Liu, a faint smile appearing on his face. He scanned the crowd and saw several young men from the Niu Family looking at him disdainfully.

You bastards have also learned to collude with Liu Sheng? Just watch, I’m going to deal with you today.

“My condition is simple. Everyone should form production groups with trustworthy people, and mark the soy sauce they produce.” Wu Xiaoyu shouted.

The villagers, hearing his eccentric request, were puzzled. Isn’t this redundant? Do we have to pull people into groups?

What’s Wu Xiaoyu up to? Is he deliberately making things difficult, having fun at everyone’s expense?

A woman who was somewhat related to Wu Xiaoyu stood up from the crowd and questioned: “Xiaoyu, what’s this for? This is like taking off pants to fart!”

The remaining elders, hearing his relative speak this way, laughed heartily.

Wu Xiaoyu was very satisfied with his relative’s timely help but still put on a bitter, resentful look and explained:

“Didn’t I just say? There’s a very few individuals in the village who dislike me and have always wanted to mess with me!”

“If everyone forms production groups and marks the soy sauce, in the future, if there are any issues with the produced mushroom sauce, I’ll trace it back to its source!”

As soon as Wu Xiaoyu finished speaking, the crowd erupted again. Wu Xiaoyu’s ideas were indeed clever!

To prevent anyone from tampering, he came up with this responsibility contracting idea. If someone really wanted to sabotage the soy sauce, it would immediately narrow down the scope for identifying malicious actors. This Wu Xiaoyu should become a policeman!

While everyone was enthusiastically discussing, Liu Sheng realized Wu Xiaoyu’s intention and his face turned livid.

Wu Xiaoyu was preparing to isolate him! Everyone in the village knew he often spoke ill of Wu Xiaoyu, disliked him, so who would want to form a production group with him?

If no one wanted to join his family in a production group, his family wouldn’t be able to produce soy sauce.

More importantly, the households producing soy sauce would avoid him like the plague, fearing he might do something shady.

In the future, when he tried to visit anyone, they would become anxious or directly drive him away.

Although everyone in the village cared about reputation, who would dispute money? This way, he would be thoroughly isolated and no one would dare approach him for making money from Wu Xiaoyu.

That cunning Wu Xiaoyu is a vile scoundrel, encouraging everyone to isolate him, truly despicable!

After a heated discussion among the villagers, Wu Xiaoyu stopped the crowd and said: “Everyone go back and discuss it.”

“Report the list of each group to me tomorrow. Remember, each group must have at least five households!”