Chapter 313: The killing plot

Plot No. 4 was on the eastern riverbank of Yanzhou as one had to walk over a bridge to get there. In the words of the locals, after the bridge is the village.

This was the greatest problem. That aside, Plot No. 4 actually had its good points too. It was the biggest and the cheapest, also not needing anything troublesome like tearing down pre-existing structures. Now, it even seemed that there would also be no need to compete for it.

Therefore, it was just a matter of that bridge.

Everyone felt conflicted over that bridge. The bridge connected Yanzhou’s city district to what could only be considered a small town at most.

If it was a city was Shenghai, people would think that only needing half an hour to go to and come home from work was really great. Still, it was different for Yanzhou.

Of course, if this was three or four years later, Xu Tingsheng knew that people would definitely not face such an inner conflict in most of China’s second-rate cities. Sadly, this was 2004, even though it was really just a matter of time.

Xu Tingsheng met all those gazes, looking straight back at them.

No one expressed their opinion or deliberately hinted at the choice they wished to hear being made. Still, it was evident that quite a few people present were actually secretly hoping for Xu Tingsheng to give in and compromise.

While they might not be consciously thinking this, this was just how it was. Having borne that immense pressure for so long, anyone would look forward to what a relief and how wonderful things would be after it was gone. Moreover, so many good things had been promised to them.

Also, even if they really persisted to the end, they actually still did not have that great a chance of successfully obtaining...