Road and bridge engineer Shen Qinghe spends 1.8 million yuan of her own money to build an orchard road in Mingde Village. Before the first shovel of soil even hits the ground, Zhao Laoshuan blocks the construction, demanding 940,000 yuan in compensation on behalf of 47 households, asking for 20,000 yuan from each. She immediately halts the project and redirects the road to Xinghua Village on the opposite bank, where she builds it without demanding a single yuan in compensation. The new road stretches 400 meters straight to the purchasing station. To save 18,000 yuan, Zhao Laoshuan refuses to lay gravel and instead covers the muddy road with an old tarpaulin. Vehicles get stuck, the fruit rots, the contract is terminated, his daughter is suspended from her job, and 400,000 jin of peaches are left without a buyer.