The workers could only make use of Mayor Wu's name to fend off this young intruder.
They hoped that he would back off after hearing Mayor Wu's name.
But to their surprise, the young man burst out laughing.
That laughter was so chilling.
"Mayor Wu? Are you referring to Wu Wei-Tao? Excellent. Call him now. I'm going to see what sort of consequences await me," said the young man frostily as his he smiled coldly.
"Well..." The workers felt their lips twitch.
Nobody knew how to respond to that.
They didn't expect the young man to reply this way.
They thought that once they dropped Mayor Wu's name, the young man would back off.
But now, instead of backing off, the young man was even boldly telling them to make a call to Wu Wei-Tao.
All the workers were taken by surprise and couldn't respond to him.
"Young man, do you think we're just scaring you or joking with you? We're serious here. Mayor Wu was the one who called our foreman personally to give him this Mount Yunding Villa renovation project. Our foreman is an old classmate of Mayor Wu's. If you apologize and compensate us now, then we won't have to call Mayor Wu down," someone spoke up after a brief period of stunned silence.
"No need for all this nonsense. Call him now," said the young man.
"You little punk! So you wanna play, huh? Fine! We'll play this game with you! Niu, give Mayor Wu a call!" The workers got their foreman to just call Wu Wei-Tao directly since this young man refused to give in.
The call got through in no time.
"Mayor Wu, it's me, Niu Zhao-Yang, your old classmate. Something's happened at the villa. There's a little hooligan making trouble for us and he even injured me. On top of that, he's a really audacious one. He doesn't have any regard for you at all and said such unpleasant things about you," Niu Zhao-Yang, the foreman, started complaining to Wu Wei-Tao over the phone.
"What?! Who dared to do such a thing?! Where is he? Is he still there? Hand the phone over to him! I'm going to talk to him myself!”
Wu Wei-Tao was sitting in his standalone bungalow and his head was already bursting from thinking about how Ye Fan was possibly still alive.
He was already in a foul mood, so this matter only made his mood worse.
He was looking for a way to vent his frustrations earlier but couldn't find any outlet. And now, an outlet had come knocking on his door!
"No problem, Mayor Wu. I'll hand the phone to him right now," replied Niu Zhao-Yang respectfully.
He turned to look at the young man standing with his hands behind his back.
"Punk, Mayor Wu is on the line. Do you dare to take the call?" scoffed Niu Zhao-Yang coldly. His smile widened when he saw that the young man wasn't responding.
"Why, you don't dare to now? You were so boastful earlier, but now you're backing out at the last minute? So you're just a bloody coward after all?" mocked Niu Zhao-Yang as his workers helped him to his feet.
Everyone else also looked at the young man in the shadows like the young man was nothing but a joke.
"And why wouldn't I dare to?” replied the young man arrogantly with a scoff.
The workers were all shocked.
"What the hell? This fellow really dares to take the call? Sure! I'll see what happens to him! He'll probably be so scared he'd cry!" laughed Niu Zhao-Yang coldly as he got one of his workers to pass the phone over.
"Hello? Who are you! How dare you do such a thing! You've injured my classmate and you even have no regard for me? What a lawless little fellow! If you don't want to spend the rest of your life behind bars, you'd better quickly apologize and compensate them! Otherwise, I'll make sure you regret this for the rest of your life!" came Wu Wei-Tao's stern and angry voice over the phone.
When he was saying all this, Wu Wei-Tao had just finished his bath and his wife had come over with a basin of water for him to wash his feet.
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