Chapter 37 Until this time, Li Decheng...

"Panpan, a few people came to your house just now to cause trouble. They said they had stomach problems after eating your pancakes. Seeing that they were about to cause trouble, your brother Yangyang called the police directly. Now those people, your brother Yangyang, and your grandparents have all gone to the town police station."

When Chen Pan was looking at the locked shop door in confusion, Aunt Qin from next door came out wearing a coat and explained.

After hurriedly thanking the other party, Chen Pan headed straight for the Liuping Police Station in front.

Liuping Police Station is about one kilometer away from the Qin family. It is located in the middle of various nearby factories and is next to where Chen Pan used to go every day to handle various business procedures.

By the time Chen Pan reached the police station, Grandpa Chen, Grandma Chen, and Qin Yang had already emerged. A few meters behind them, a police officer in a military green uniform was apparently disciplining three young men with fashionable Aaron Kwok-style haircuts.

"Since you're from Chenjia Town, why don't you stay here and live a good life? Why are you causing trouble in Liuping? As you saw earlier, all their paperwork is in order, and the sanitary conditions were recently inspected by our colleagues from the Food and Hygiene Bureau. You said their place was dirty and messy, but we saw that when we were there. Their shop is located outside, so everyone can see all the ingredients and the process of making the pancakes.

You said you had stomachaches from eating their pancakes, but when we separated, one of you claimed you had their beef pancakes, one claimed you had their cucumber pancakes, and the other claimed you had their carrot pancakes. But what about them? They didn't even make carrots yesterday, and they've never made cucumber pancakes before. Since you're all under 18, I'll let you three off for now. If you mess around and deliberately sabotage our Liuping economy again, don't blame us for officially detaining you all."

"Yes, yes, yes, Uncle Police, we won't dare to do it again next time!"

One of the people in Aaron Kwok's group nodded quickly. The other two also nodded quickly and said yes.

Chen Pan listened for a moment, then quickly walked up to his grandparents.

"Grandpa, grandma, are you okay?"

"It's okay, it's okay. Fortunately, Yangyang is here today."

"Yeah, that's okay. There's a beef noodle restaurant over there. Let's go in and talk while we eat."

Seeing Chen Pan coming over, Grandpa Chen smiled soothingly, and Grandma Chen reached out to wipe the sweat from Chen Pan's forehead. Then, at Grandma Chen's suggestion, the four of them went into a large beef noodle restaurant diagonally across from the police station.

After waiting there, everyone ordered a bowl of beef noodles and two side dishes.

While waiting for the beef noodles to be served, Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen told Chen Pan everything that happened around ten o'clock in the morning.

It turned out that at ten o'clock in the morning, three young men with exactly the same hairstyle came outside her shop.

Thinking they were customers, Grandpa Chen treated them kindly, and took the initiative to tell them the price and recommend the best beef biscuits in his store.

Before he could finish his words, one of the tall guys overturned the pancake frames they had placed outside.

The other one covered his stomach and said that he had eaten their pancakes last night and his stomach was upset.

"Panpan, you mentioned this kind of thing before. I thought we wouldn't encounter it so soon, but I didn't expect us to encounter it so soon."

"Yes, just as your grandfather and I reacted and explained quickly, your brother Yangyang called the police directly."

It was lunchtime at the restaurant, and the area was mostly filled with workers eating. Amidst the clamor, Grandma and Grandpa Chen recounted what had just happened, their faces filled with fear. When they recounted how the police arrived and the men had already begun attempting to break into the store and smash things, anger was evident on both of their faces.

"Thank you, Qin Yang——"

Listening to the conversation between his grandparents, a trace of fear and anger flashed across Chen Pan's face. Turning to look at Qin Yang who was silent beside him, Chen Pan subconsciously thanked him.

"It's okay. You rented our house, so we have an obligation to protect you. We've been through this kind of thing before. As long as you're sure your things are not in the wrong place, it's right to call the police directly. Don't worry, after this incident, those who want to mess with you will definitely think twice."

Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen, don't let this one incident scare you. I don't know about other places, but in Liuping, the government is very focused on protecting the economy and businesses. As long as you have all the necessary paperwork and the items are correct, they will naturally protect us locals and local businesses first.

Chen Pan felt that Qin Yang, who usually spoke very little, suddenly started talking a lot at this moment.

Chen looked forward to the other party, who was wearing a denim jacket and jeans today and looked energetic. He couldn't help but feel happy: "That's good. You don't know that when I came here just now, I was already wondering whether we should pay compensation or close down for rectification."

"It's not that serious, but the key is that the police here are very capable. They got scared as soon as we separated them a little, and they confessed everything one by one."

The waiter finally arrived with a large plate containing two large bowls of steaming hot beef noodles with chopped green onions and cilantro. As the noodles arrived, Grandpa Chen first served them to Qin Yang, who had been a big help today, and then to Chen Pan, who had to go back to school soon.

"Grandpa, please come first—"

Qin Yang felt panicked and subconsciously gave way.

"No, no, the noodles will be here soon. Just eat like us Panpan."

Grandma Chen stretched out her hand to stop Qin Yang from pushing the noodles away. At this time, another waiter also brought the other two bowls, so Qin Yang stopped trying to give up the noodles.

"Those guys were young and had never been to a police station before. They got scared the moment they got in, and told us they were jealous of our business and wanted to take advantage of it to extort some money. If they were veterans, this wouldn't have been so easy."

When Grandma Chen's parents were young, they were in the pancake business. From their mouths, Grandma Chen also heard about this kind of thing.

At this moment, when she talked about those young men who had bad intentions, she took the chopsticks and bit the noodles fiercely, her expression became angry again.

"There's nothing I can do. Basically, any business will encounter such things. Like my family—"

Seeing their excitement, Qin Yang briefly talked about the various strange things they had encountered over the years since they opened the shop.

When everyone was talking, Chen Pan was basically very quiet.

Chen Pan's expression improved a little after he heard his grandparents say that the three boys behind him collected 20 yuan to compensate them.

But I was still a little worried, so when we all finished lunch and went back.

Chen Pan began to tell his grandparents not to sell the cooking oil at home recently.

"I know! I'll tell your second uncle and the others when I get back, and ask them not to collect more cooking oil recently." Chen Aiguo knew that selling anything outside required procedures and qualifications, so he nodded immediately.

"Our shop can't even sell that?"

His family's cooking oil sales have been booming lately, selling a case or two a day. Fearing they might run out of stock, two nephews from the countryside rushed over on their bicycles a few days ago to bring them over a dozen cases. Thinking they couldn't even sell that much now, Xu Chunhua couldn't help but sigh softly.

"Grandma, if our family wants to sell that, we have to go to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau again. Our business scope is only about making cakes and dining in. At that time, we didn't think we could also sell cooking oil and flour, so we didn't register those-"

Chen Pan immediately explained to her grandmother and said that she would find time to go and complete the formalities.

"No, you can leave your extra cooking oil and flour with us and we will sell them for you."

Knowing that the Chen family had just purchased rapeseed oil and was also selling that stuff, Qin Yang immediately said.

"May I?"

Grandpa Chen, who was feeling bad about this matter, immediately confirmed it excitedly, and there was now a glimmer of light in Grandma Chen's originally disappointed eyes.

Chen Pan felt that this was a good idea, so he stopped moving forward and quickly turned around to look at the other party.

"Of course, my family does this. If you trust us, just leave the things at our house. If others ask, you can just push them to our house. Anyway, my family has all the necessary procedures, so we are not afraid of anything going wrong. Of course, if you have completed the formalities later and want to sell it yourself, you can tell us right away." Facing the burning gazes of the Chen family's three members, Qin Yang agreed with a smile.

"Thank you, Yangyang. You've really helped my family a lot."

"Yes, then we'll negotiate a suitable price. Our family will definitely not let you help us for free."

"Is this unnecessary?"

"Yes, even brothers have to settle accounts clearly. Just listen to my grandparents."

After the Qin family brought meals to Chen Pan when his grandparents were away, Chen Pan took the initiative to remind the Qin family to let Qin Yang take his mother for a checkup early, and Qin Yang took his mother to the hospital for surgery and took the initiative to give the family dog ​​and the keys to the family store to Chen Pan's family, and today's events, the relationship between their two families had long been very close.

So that afternoon, when Chen Pan went back to school, Grandpa Chen and Grandma Chen, with the help of Qin Yang, moved all the extra cans of rapeseed oil and several bags of flour from their shop's kitchen to the grain and oil section of Qin's shop.

Fortunately, they moved in a hurry. The next day, the market supervision department came to Chen Pan’s house for an inspection. They said they had received a complaint that they were operating in an irregular manner and selling cooking oil and flour without a license.

However, in the end, only seven cans of cooking oil and seven bags of flour were found in his home, which was only enough for his family to use for a week and did not look like they were for sale to the outside world. So after the people from the Food Inspection Bureau came to take a look, they left immediately.

On the first day, someone came up and said he had an upset stomach. On the second day, it was the Food Inspection Bureau. On the third day, it was the fire inspection. On the fourth day, it was the industrial and commercial department.

Fortunately, apart from secretly selling cooking oil and flour, the Chen family did everything else quite well.

There is absolutely no problem with hygiene, all the documents are complete, and the Chen family even has two fire extinguishers, and all of them are within the shelf life.

Although this hassle delayed some business, seeing that so many departments came and found nothing, it gave the neighbors and old customers a feeling that the Chen family shop was indeed a good place.

After the fire department, food safety bureau, industrial and commercial bureau and other relevant departments came, more and more customers came to Chen Pan's house to buy sesame cakes.

When these departments came, Chen Pan was attending classes at school. He was never on the front line and had never been able to help his family.

But after things at home calmed down for a few days, one Sunday, Chen Pan used the excuse of going to Xinhua Bookstore to read with friends, and then went into the city early.

That morning, Chen Pan not only went to the library to read and buy books, she also secretly ran to a telephone booth behind the Xinhua Bookstore and made several anonymous reporting calls.

"Yes, it's Qingshui Village under Chenjia Town. There's a cement factory there—"

In this day and age, there is no surveillance outside at all.

The place he chose was very lively in the front and very quiet in the back, so Chen Pan was not afraid of being seen at all.

Anyway, even if there was no evidence, Chen Pan still complained about the Li family cement factory's tax evasion, inadequate fire protection facilities, indiscriminate discharge of sewage, and the opening of underground casinos that allowed employees to gamble outside the factory.

Yes, maybe when the accident happened at home on the first day, Chen Pan still thought it might be a simple coincidence and accident.

But in the next few days, Chen Pan had to think more.

Anyway, she and her family have been honest and upright all their lives, and the Li family is their only enemy.

So no matter whether it was them or not, Chen Pan was the first one to suspect his family.

Chen Pan would report the Li family cement factory for tax evasion and incomplete fire-fighting facilities because this was the first thing that came to her mind when she thought of reporting.

As for the indiscriminate discharge of sewage, this has actually always existed.

In fact, the above two points are both true and false. As for the indiscriminate discharge of sewage, as long as the local government still wants the Li family cement factory to exist and pay taxes, there should not be any big problem.

As for the fact that they were running an underground casino outside the factory, Chen Pan had framed them based on a letter a good friend had written to her not long ago.

Anyway, the Li family has annoyed their family, so Chen Pan wants to annoy them.

In addition, there was no surveillance outside, so Chen Pan made several reporting calls without any psychological burden.

Chen Pan made the call on Sunday morning in the urban area of ​​Longcheng City, and then at nine o'clock the next morning, many vehicles from the supervisory department came to the Lijia Cement Factory in Qingshui Village.

"Please come in, everything is in order in our factory, and we welcome you to come and inspect us at any time!"

Li Decheng has managed to get to where he is today because he actually has quite a good network of contacts.

Even though the tax department, fire department, and environmental protection bureau all came from the city today, he had received the news yesterday and had already done everything he needed to do.

But just as he was taking those people to visit and inspect without fear, he first heard a clear burst of sirens and a commotion in his office, and soon his newly hired college student secretary hurried over and whispered in his ear.

It was not until this time that Li Decheng realized that the small chess and card room opened by his nephew outside his factory had actually changed from a small chess and card room where people played for a few cents to a real underground casino where people played for a few dollars, tens of dollars or even dozens of dollars at a time.

Not only that, they secretly rented two empty storefronts next to the chess and card room, connecting them to create a small casino with dozens of gambling and mahjong tables. While he was being inspected by several other departments, the only thing he hadn't received was a call from the city police, who had already completely shut down the underground casino. Even in broad daylight, they had already apprehended dozens of people.

"The money for the expansion and the purchase of the mahjong tables was all paid by Master Chengcai, and the wages of the thugs outside were also paid by Master Chengcai."

The secretary spoke nervously and quickly, and listening to the other party's whispers, Li Decheng's eyes went dark and he subconsciously moved forward.