Chapter 575 — The Tang Family's Tragedy
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"No demolition? That's not up to you!" Zhao Qibing had been wanting to make an example of someone to warn the others, and had yet to find a target. This time, he'd use the Tang family as that target! He glanced at Zhong Fabai, who nodded and stood up. Together with Li Erlan, he walked out of the square.
Mother Tang looked helplessly at her daughter. Now that Tang Zhi had spoken that way, the talks had reached a deadlock, and there could be no going back. So much for the commercial unit! She took her daughter's hand and started to head back.
"Did I say you could leave?" Jin Gubang snapped coldly. With Zhong Fabai and Li Erlan both gone, it was now his turn to speak.
"We're not going through with the demolition, so can't we leave?" Tang Zhi glared at Jin Gubang.
"Let them go. They'll change their minds soon enough," Zhao Qibing said mildly, though his words carried utter certainty. For he could already hear the roar of the bulldozers and excavators.
Tang Zhi and her mother were baffled. How could they change their minds in a little while? Still, since they were free to go, they had no wish to linger. Mother Tang pulled Tang Zhi toward home; she needed to have a good talk with her daughter and work out a plan. They couldn't just leave it at this—if they gave up the commercial unit, what would they do afterward? The dream of opening a barbecue restaurant would be dashed as well.
The two of them had only just reached the vicinity of their home when they saw an excavator thrust its arm out and smash it down on their house! And behind it, the bulldozer roared into the Tang family's little courtyard, flattening the fence in front!
"Dad!" "Old Tang!"
Tang Zhi and her mother screamed in unison and ran toward their home! They had never imagined that Zhao Qibing would actually send people to carry out a forced demolition! But Tang Jucheng was still inside the house—what were they to do?
Without a thought for danger, Tang Zhi charged into the house, while Mother Tang went to stop the excavator from tearing the house down further. By now the roof beams had collapsed—no telling whether Tang Jucheng had been hurt! Without someone to help him, he couldn't get out on his own!
"What are you doing? My father's still inside—stop it now!" Tang Zhi shouted at the excavator driver as she ran.
But beside the excavator driver, Li Erlan's eyes flashed with a ruthless gleam as he said to the driver, "Keep tearing it down. She's lying! Young Master Bing said if anything happens, he'll take responsibility!"
The excavator driver nodded and went on swinging the machine around to tear the house down. Seeing that they would not listen, Tang Zhi could only rush into the house—but was there still a way in? The bulldozer was parked squarely in front of her home, roaring as it pushed forward, plainly meaning to work with the excavator and bring the house down.
Though bricks and tiles were crashing down from the roof beams in a clatter, Tang Zhi was frantic over her father's safety and threw caution to the winds. Gritting her teeth, she scrambled up over the bulldozer's blade and charged into the house. Her leg was gashed open in a long cut, blood pouring out, but Tang Zhi paid it no mind—her one thought was to get inside. Yet just as she was about to enter, the excavator's arm came smashing down again, shattering the beam above her head in an instant. A huge roof tile whooshed down and struck Tang Zhi square on the head, opening a gash seven or eight centimeters long across her forehead. Blood at once streamed down her whole face, and Tang Zhi was knocked unconscious, dropping straight to the ground...