Chapter 31

"Ouch! You just wait, I’m going to call the police on you, you’ve hurt me so much." Qian Xiaomeng, with a bruised nose and a bloody mouth, lay on the ground. His originally thug-like attire was now covered in marks from Ye Qing’s kicks.

"Someone’s beating people up! Everyone, come and judge this! This pair of scoundrels are beating people up! Help me call the police." Qian Xiaomeng, who had been beaten several times, was now completely subdued. He turned his head and looked around for help.

The crowd gathered quickly, like they were grabbing red envelopes in a group chat, pointing and whispering.

However, they were clearly biased towards Ye Qing’s side. After all, the two lying on the ground and the few standing up all looked like thugs.

As for Ye Qing and Zhang Zhitong, calling them golden boys might be a bit of an exaggeration, but calling Zhang Zhitong a jade maiden was definitely an understatement.

The crowd quickly took sides, and no one was willing to call the police.

"I’ll satisfy you. I’ll call the police for you." Zhang Zhitong, with a cold expression, took out her phone and dialed the police internal line.

The street was chaotic, and no one except Ye Qing could hear what Zhang Zhitong said on the phone.

The crowd only thought the girl had called the police. A few young men who were also dining in the restaurant puffed out their chests, saying they would testify for her and Ye Qing when the police arrived.

"What happened? Why did you get into a conflict with these people?" After the call, Zhang Zhitong asked curiously.

Ye Qing shrugged helplessly and explained the whole story.

After listening, Zhang Zhitong was somewhat angry, nodded, and gave Ye Qing a look that said, "Leave it to me."

The police arrived quickly, and a few minutes later, a police electric patrol car squeezed through the crowd.

"Get up, get up, come with me to the station." An auxiliary police officer roughly poked Qian Xiaomeng, who was lying on the ground, with a rubber baton filled with mercury.

A group of young men quickly gathered around, describing how vicious Qian Xiaomeng and his group had been, almost portraying them as notorious bandits. They said that not only did they try to extort money for the car, but they also attempted to molest the girl.

"Good job, society needs more people like you who are willing to stand up against injustice." The leading police officer smiled and praised them.

"I’ll go back and handle this first." Zhang Zhitong whispered to Ye Qing, "If something like this happens again, find me, and I’ll take care of it."

Zhang Zhitong’s slightly tipsy whisper made Ye Qing’s ear itch and his heart flutter.

"Alright, I’ll treat you to a drink next time."

"Deal!" Zhang Zhitong smiled and got into the police electric vehicle.

Watching the police electric vehicle drive away, Ye Qing seemed a bit reluctant. Zhang Zhitong’s grace and poise left a deep impression on him, and the unpleasantness from before had dissipated.

Walking to the exit of Caiyi Street, Ye Qing bought a fresh juice to quench his thirst, then hailed a taxi to head straight to the building materials market.

Cables, hollow bricks, cement, gravel, sand, paint, rebar, windows...

The shipyard needed a complete overhaul, and Ye Qing ordered a hundred tons of cement alone.

The building materials market was currently in a downturn, and many stores had a large stock of goods. Ye Qing’s bulk purchase meant that bulk cement only cost 320 yuan per ton.

The delivery speed of these merchants was also very fast. As soon as Ye Qing left, they contacted the warehouse to ship the goods.

Buying these building materials cost Ye Qing about 300,000 yuan.

Next, Ye Qing went to the second-hand machine tool market in the old development zone in the south of the city to purchase a batch of machine tools.

Dual-spindle CNC lathe, precision double-column punch press, vertical CNC five-axis machining center.

These three types of machine tools, which the factory did not have, were mandatory for the metal rapid engraving machine design Ye Qing had extracted.

The success of the curb stones was a sure thing.

Ye Qing had to hurry and make the metal rapid engraving machine to earn a large sum of development funds.

The first two types of second-hand machine tools were relatively cheap, but the vertical CNC five-axis machining center was expensive. Even the small domestic XH1270 model cost 120,000 yuan.

There was no choice; it was the lifeline of high-precision machining.

After testing the accuracy and functions, Ye Qing paid directly and had them deliver the machine tools to the new factory location.

By the time Ye Qing finished all the purchases and rushed to Longxi Beach, dozens of trucks were already parked in the yard, and the workers were busy unloading the goods.

The crane motor in the shipyard had been dismantled and was unusable. The workers took a full hour to unload all the materials.

After signing the receipt, the three machine tools he had purchased also arrived. Fortunately, Ye Qing had called ahead and asked them to bring a forklift.

Once the three machine tools were moved to the old shipyard warehouse, they said goodbye to Ye Qing and drove away. The once bustling shipyard suddenly became quiet.

There was not even a ghost in sight. The place was so desolate and remote, with a barren mountain behind it where nothing grew. It was hard to imagine doing mechanical processing here, let alone dropping a heavy bomb to attract attention.

After waiting a few more minutes, Ye Qing looked around and nodded in satisfaction.

Taking out the Monster Factory phone, Ye Qing summoned ten Herculean Laborers and two Ingenious Masters.

When the ten Herculean Laborers, with their NBA star-like physiques and fists larger than sandbags, appeared, it seemed as if the air around them froze, stunned by their strength.

The two Ingenious Masters standing in front of them gave a comical impression, like ordinary people standing next to Yao Ming.

From the outside, the Ingenious Masters looked more like ordinary people. They were about 1.6 meters tall, with hunched backs like little old men.

The Ingenious Masters did not have the bull-like strength, but they had the intelligence to communicate normally and the dexterity of an eighth-level machinist. Ye Qing could confidently entrust them with overseeing the construction of the new factory.

After Ye Qing explained the general blueprint, the two Ingenious Masters immediately got to work, efficiently directing the Herculean Laborers to move the rebar and bricks.

Ye Qing planned to surround the shipyard with a three-meter-high wall, refurbish the small dock, and build a two-story office building in the yard.

As for the cable installation inside the factory, Ye Qing did it himself. He was familiar with laying three-phase 380V lines.

The Herculean Laborers worked ten times as efficiently as ordinary workers. They bent rebar as thick as thumbs without using any tools, easily twisting it to the desired shape with their bare hands.

While setting up the cables inside the building, Ye Qing received a call from an unknown number.

"Hello?"

"Is this Little Ye?" The voice on the phone laughed heartily. "This is Lezhengdong, the head of the Urban Construction Bureau."

"Hello, Director Le, hello." Ye Qing quickly put down his work. "What can I do for you, Director Le?"

"The curb stones have received a lot of positive feedback. This afternoon, many citizens called to ask if we could replace the curbs in front of their homes with the stone-carved ones."

"Ha-ha, of course, we can’t fulfill all the citizens’ wishes right away. Many of the streets have been recently renovated, and even with a generous budget, we can’t waste resources like that."

Director Le chatted casually with Ye Qing for a while, then, after some small talk, changed the subject. "By the way, Little Ye, where did you order that machine that can mass-produce the curb stones?"

"I have a friend who runs a stone processing plant in Sijun County. He saw the stone-carved curb stones on a friend’s social media and insisted I help him order a few of these machines."