Xiao Zhuzi recounted everything he had seen in a halting manner.
It turned out that he accidentally saw the representative of the cooperation partner having a secret conversation with a stranger. The words revealed contempt and calculation for the village, and even mentioned words such as "trap" and "risk transfer".
"They...they want to make fools of our village!" Xiao Zhuzi's face turned red and he clenched his fists angrily.
Lu Qing's face turned ashen, his fists were clenched so tightly that they made crackling sounds, and his knuckles turned white.
Shen Qiqi took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in her heart, and gently patted Xiao Zhuzi's shoulder, "Xiao Zhuzi, thank you, you did a great job on this matter."
Night fell over the entire village, but the preparation site for the cooperative project was now brightly lit.
Shen Qiqi and Lu Qing stood in the center of the venue, their eyes as sharp as torches, scanning everything around them.
The wind blew, bringing with it a hint of coolness and a hint of tension.
The villagers gathered in twos and threes, whispering to each other, their faces full of worry and vigilance.
"Qiqi, it seems we have to have some fun with them." Lu Qing curled his lips into a cold smile, his eyes flashing with determination.
Shen Qiqi nodded, her eyes falling on the partner representative who was busy not far away, "Don't worry, it won't be that easy for this group of 'Old Six' to cheat us!"
The two returned to the room and spread out the thick cooperation agreement. The densely packed clauses made people's scalps numb.
Shen Qiqi rubbed her temples and felt a blackness in front of her eyes.
This is not a cooperation agreement at all, it is clearly an elaborately woven spider web, just waiting for them to crash into it!
"There really is something fishy!" Lu Qing pointed at one of the inconspicuous clauses, his face terribly gloomy.
This clause may seem insignificant, but it actually contains hidden secrets. Once signed, the village will bear huge risks, while the partner can get away with it unscathed and even make huge profits.
Shen Qiqi looked at the complicated contract terms, the anger in her heart erupted like a volcano, and she wanted to rush out immediately to argue with those "old foxes".
But she knew that now was not the time.
She took a deep breath, forced herself to calm down, and carefully studied each clause, looking for loopholes.
The air seemed to freeze, so oppressive that it made people breathless.
Lu Qing also frowned, flipping through the agreement page by page, tapping his fingers lightly on the paper, as if thinking about something.
The room was eerily quiet, with only the sound of shuffling papers and the occasional whispers of two people.
Suddenly, Lu Qing raised his head, a gleam in his eyes, "Qiqi, look here..."
Shen Qiqi looked in the direction of Lu Qing's finger, and her expression changed accordingly.
"This... this is simply..." Shen Qiqi gritted her teeth and spoke word by word, "Open robbery!"
Lu Qing sneered, "Qiqi, it seems we have to give them a little surprise."
The next day, the representative of the cooperation partner came to the village committee again with a determined smile on his face.
He thought that this remote little mountain village had no ability to see through their trap.
"Mr. Lu, Ms. Shen, what have you considered about the cooperation agreement?" The representative of the partner said with a hint of arrogance in his tone.
Shen Qiqi and Lu Qing smiled at each other, "Of course I've considered it."
The representative of the partner showed a smug smile on his face, "That's good, then please sign."
Shen Qiqi picked up the pen, but did not sign the agreement. Instead...
"We've decided," she paused, her tone cold, "to modify the way we cooperate..."
Shen Qiqi didn't refuse directly. Instead, she showed a "harmless" smile: "We feel that the original plan is more beneficial to your company, but it is not suitable for the long-term development of our village. We have come up with a new plan that is fairer to both parties and can achieve a win-win cooperation." As she spoke, she handed over a new cooperation plan.
The representative of the partner took the plan, glanced through it quickly, and frowned.
This plan looked very reasonable and flawless, but he always felt that something was wrong, like a sugar-coated bullet, which made him feel uneasy.
"This...this is not what we expected..." he stammered.
"It's better if they're different!" Shen Qiqi blinked, her tone innocent, "It would be so boring if they were the same! We racked our brains to come up with this plan, and it's guaranteed to make our cooperation more pleasant!" She smiled like a little fox who had stolen some fish, making the representative of the partner even more uneasy.
Lu Qing stood beside Shen Qiqi the entire time, smiling and saying nothing, but he gave people an invisible pressure, like a towering mountain, making people dare not act rashly.
The partners began to whisper among themselves. Some thought the plan was good, while others thought it was a scam. There was a lot of discussion at the moment.
"Who is this woman? Why does she feel like a con man?" "Stop talking, or she might hear you!" An uneasy atmosphere spread among them like a plague.
In the end, the representative of the partner gritted his teeth and agreed to the new plan.
After all, you can’t let a cooked duck fly away just like that!
He forced a smile and shook hands with Shen Qiqi: "Then I wish us a happy cooperation!"
After the project was officially launched, the partner really started to make trouble.
Sometimes they said the equipment was broken, sometimes they said the raw materials were in short supply, and sometimes they said the weather was affecting the construction progress. All kinds of weird things kept popping up.
At the project site, the roar of machines was mixed with the workers' complaints, and the tense atmosphere was like a fully drawn bowstring, ready to explode at any moment.
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