Chapter 98: Shares Acquired

She probably caught a chill outside last night. When she woke up this morning, she felt dizzy, had a headache, and an itchy throat. Ye Baoling knew she was going to catch a cold.

Ye Huaizhang advised her, "Don't go to the company. Take some medicine and rest at home."

"Mmm." She lay in bed, not wanting to move.

Ye Huaizhang called Sister Ping over, got some cold medicine, fed it to her, and then she took another nap.

She was woken up by a phone call from her assistant at 10:30. After dealing with company affairs, she received the latest news from Ye Huaizhang: Fang Dingkun's suicide attempt had been saved.

In the afternoon, Fang Dingkun's lawyer called Ye Qizu, saying that Fang Dingkun wanted to see him.

Ye Qizu quickly called Ye Baoling and Ye Huaizhang over to discuss the matter.

Ye Qizu did not want to go to the hospital to see Fang Dingkun. "If I go to see him, he will definitely try to blackmail me and make me agree to some conditions."

But ignoring it won't work either.

After all, Fang Dingkun had something on him.

Ye Huaizhang understood what the old man meant: "We'll go in your place. Let's see what he asks for."

This was exactly what Ye Qizu wanted. He looked at his granddaughter and asked, "You two go?"

Ye Baoling suppressed the urge to roll her eyes: "You just want us to go, don't you? Why don't you just say it directly? You're going around in circles and wasting everyone's time."

Ye Qizu: "..."

My grandson-in-law is the most considerate.

After thinking for a moment, the old man said again, "You said I'm not feeling well and can't go to the hospital. No matter what he asks for, don't rush to agree to it. Just say you'll come back and discuss it with me."

Ye Baoling still had doubts about the old man: "Grandpa, is there some secret you haven't told us? If so, you'd better tell us in advance, otherwise it will be too passive for us to go directly to see Fang Dingkun."

Ye Qizu clicked his tongue: "Don't go, let Huaizhang go. You never trust me."

Ye Baoling: "Fine, I won't go. Let him go by himself."

Ye Huaizhang never expected that he would be caught in the middle.

Ye Qizu seemed to distrust his grandson-in-law again, after all, he was closer to his own granddaughter. He thought for a moment and finally said, "Raymond not only has a wife in England, but after having a child with your great-aunt in Hong Kong, he also got together with another French woman."

Sure enough, they were hiding something.

"Then what?"

“After we killed Raymond, the French woman searched for him everywhere and eventually came to us. She knew that Raymond had disappeared after visiting our house. I was afraid she would spread the news, so I decided to go all the way and tricked the woman into handing her over to Fang Dingkun.”

Ye Baoling understood; the remains of this French woman were also among the pile of bones on Silver Snake Mountain.

Why didn't you tell us sooner?

Ye Qizu always had his reasons: "That French woman was partly responsible for beating your great-aunt; she deserved to die. Since Raymond is already dead, I think it would be the same if another French woman were added..."

Ye Baoling retorted, "It's different. Fang Dingkun must have thought it through. He thinks this can drag you down with him, making you a traitor too, because you did the same thing as him."

Yeh Chi-tsu defended himself: "How did I do the same thing as him? He worked for the Japanese devils, while I was avenging my family and protecting myself."

Ye Huaizhang quickly tried to calm things down, saying, "Let's think about how to deal with this first."

After Ye Qizu suffered a stroke, his mind was not working properly, and he had no ideas. In the end, the couple went back to their room to discuss a solution, and it wasn't until evening that they went to the hospital to see Fang Dingkun.

Fang Dingkun was not surprised to see them come in.

He knew Ye Qizu couldn't have come alone, but he pretended to be clueless and asked, "Why is it you?"

He was injured in the right chest; his face was pale, but he looked energetic.

A spirit of not wanting to die, of living life to the fullest for oneself.

Ye Baoling nodded slightly: "Grandpa Fang, I really admire you. You're a ruthless person. Did you injure yourself so badly so that it would be easier for you to negotiate with the prosecution?"

Fang Dingkun: "I really wanted to die. It's just that I'm getting old, and when I was holding a gun, I couldn't tell left from right for a moment."

Ye Huaizhang exposed him: "If you really wanted to die, you wouldn't have waited until dawn, when the servants were all awake, before shooting yourself."

A slight smile appeared on Fang Dingkun's lips. "As long as the prosecution trusts me. I'm a severely injured cripple now. I've already sent my lawyer to negotiate a plea agreement with them. I can tell the prosecution exactly where those dozens of foreign skeletons are located, and they'll only charge me with a suspended sentence instead of jail time. Currently, I'm the mastermind behind the arson case, which will carry a heavy sentence, but the others have passed the statute of limitations. I think the prosecution will agree to my conditions."

Ye Baoling teased, "Since you've already made up your mind, why are you still looking for my grandfather? You don't mean to catch up with him, do you?"

Fang Dingkun didn't mince words. "If I tell the prosecution how Raymond died, guess what impact it will have on your family? The Raymond family is still a prominent noble family in Europe with enormous influence. Do you, Ye Qingtang, still think you can successfully expand into the European market? Also, your grandfather certainly didn't tell you that Ye Qizu personally handed over a French woman named Oliviere to me for human experimentation. How is his behavior any different from that of a traitor?"

Just as they had expected, Fang Dingkun wanted to use these two matters to blackmail them.

"And then?" Ye Huaizhang asked.

Fang Dingkun made his demands: "My assets are going to have to compensate for the losses of South China Hospital, and I will lose them all in the future. If I am given a suspended sentence and do not go to prison, I do not want to live a life of poverty and destitution. My demands are very simple: I will not compensate you for the losses from the fire and medical expenses, but you can give me another 200 million, and I will keep quiet about Raymond and the French woman."

What a big appetite!

Ye Baoling couldn't help but mock him: "Fang Dingkun, you're really something. So what if you're disgraced and abandoned by everyone? You can still continue to live your wealthy life through your last bit of effort."

Fang Dingkun was not ashamed but proud: "I've lived my whole life by my brain. Two hundred million is a piece of cake for you. In return, our two families can live in peace forever. This deal is very worthwhile for you."

Ye Baoling: "Do you think we have no choice but to agree to your demands?"

Lying on the bed, Fang Dingkun glanced at Ye Baoling and said, "You can go back and discuss it with Ye Qizu. He has money; let him come up with 200 million. I think he'll be willing."

Ye Huaizhang raised an eyebrow slightly: "How can you guarantee you won't use this to blackmail us again in the future?"

Fang Dingkun: "I'm a man of my word... I always stand by my word. This is a business deal, and I can absolutely keep your secret."

Ye Huaizhang leaned forward slightly and lowered his voice: "Only the dead can keep secrets forever."

Fang Dingkun's smiling face immediately turned cold. "What do you want?"

Seeing his fear, Ye Baoling bent down and said, "Do you think we would kill you ourselves? We're not that stupid."

Ye Huaizhang straightened up: "If you hadn't threatened us today, we might have ignored you, and you might have been able to survive. Now, that's impossible."

Fang Dingkun swallowed hard: "If you... if you kill me, my lawyer will call the police immediately."

Ye Baoling: "The lawyer does not have guardianship over you."

Only his family members have guardianship rights over him.

As they were talking, a woman who looked like a nurse walked in. She said to Fang Dingkun, "Mr. Fang, your son has completed the transfer procedures for you. We will transfer you to Aihe Hospital soon."

Should we transfer them to Aihe Hospital, the second branch of the Ye family?

Once he gets there, if his son and grandson turn a blind eye, the second son's family can decide how he wants to die.

Fang Dingkun shook his head in terror: "I won't go. I won't transfer to another hospital! Please call a lawyer for me!"

Before he could finish speaking, the nurse gave him an injection, which was probably a sedative.

Fang Dingkun struggled for a while in extreme fear before finally calming down.

He struggled for so long last night before finally steeling himself and shooting himself, hoping to prolong his life. Who could have imagined it would end like this?

Two days later, Fang Dingkun died from complications of wound infection.

On the day he died, Ye Baoling happened to be at the hospital signing the consent form for Ye Kaimin's surgery.

Zheng Junni was also hospitalized due to her mind being sometimes clear and sometimes confused, while Ye Baoxin has been so busy lately that she has gained weight.

The two met at the hospital, and Ye Baoling asked her with a smile, "Do you regret it? You've gone from living the life of a pampered young mistress to this state."

Ye Baoxin understood what Ye Baoling meant, and she dared not say she regretted it. "This is a matter of life and death. If I don't fight, I might die."

Still relatively sober.

Ye Baoling nodded slightly and said nothing more.

Watching Ye Kaimin, who had been given anesthesia, being wheeled into the operating room, Ye Baoxin asked softly, "Baoling, um, will you keep the promise you made to me before?"

She wanted to bring Ye Baolong to live with her mother. Ye Baoxin had grown up with Ye Baolong, and she genuinely loved her younger brother.

Although Ye Baoxin's life is not as affluent as it used to be, it is certainly much better than that of ordinary families.

Moreover, Ye Baolong receives a monthly living allowance from the family fund and has a nanny to take care of him, so he is not a burden.

Ye Baoling nodded: "It will take some time. I'll talk to the old man in a while."

"Thank you."

Ye Baoxin knew that Ye Baoling didn't want to be friends with her, so she gave up trying to please her and wouldn't bother her unless necessary.

Of course, their husbands are good friends, and the two still meet up.

After leaving the hospital, Ye Baoling went straight home.

She went upstairs to see Ye Qizu first.

Ye Qizu, sitting in a wheelchair, was pruning bonsai in the third-floor sitting room.

"I heard Fang Dingkun is dead?" Ye Qi asked her ancestor.

Ye Baoling: "Dead."

Ye Qizu was very satisfied with the result.

Their own granddaughter and grandson-in-law are quite capable.

However, he was still somewhat worried: "How will the police handle this?"

"Fang Dingkun's lawyer truthfully explained the contents of the plea agreement to the prosecutors and police. The police already know that the foreigners' remains are somewhere in Silver Snake Mountain, and they estimate that they will go to Silver Snake Mountain to investigate in the next few days."

Ye Qizu put down the scissors and asked worriedly, "Do the police know about Raymond and that French woman too?"

She replied, "It doesn't matter if their remains are found at the medical facility; the police don't know the details."

Ye Qizu thought for a moment, "But there is medical equipment from the second wife's family inside."

After placing the folder on the table, Ye Baoling helped Ye Qizu move the bonsai back to the flower stand: "We have already moved and destroyed those devices."

Ye Qizu's fans were shocked: "You...you got in? How did you get in? Did you just dig it in? If you dug it in, the bricks inside would collapse, and the soil would be wet. Once the police entered the medical base, wouldn't they also be able to find our blue brick tunnel?"

The small bronze door is cleverly designed. The bronze door is on this side of the blue brick tunnel, and behind the small bronze door is an invisible red brick door that perfectly matches the surrounding red bricks. So when you enter the medical base from the entrance halfway up Silver Snake Mountain, you can only see the red brick wall and it is difficult to find that there is a bronze door behind the wall.

Ye Baoling truthfully replied, "After successfully opening both the large and small bronze doors, we went inside."

Ye Qizu looked at his granddaughter in disbelief, "How did you get in?"

"Never mind that."

"You stole my ugly jade pendant?" the old man realized.

He suddenly remembered telling his granddaughter about using peach wood to suppress the Ugly King Jade. He thought that Ye Baoling found the Ugly King Jade and stole it because of this information.

He was so angry that his hands were shaking.

Ye Baoling: "I told you, I'll take what you don't give me myself."

Ye Qizu was speechless instantly. He was simply a robber!

After a long while, he asked, "You have three ugly jade pendants? That means the second son's pendant is also in your possession?"

Ye Baoling smiled and asked in return, "Grandpa, is there some other secret you can tell me?"

Ye Qizu coughed and shook his head: "What secrets could there be?"

"Ugly King's Jade, Blue Brick Tunnel..."

Strangely enough, she always felt there was a secret.

There are really no secrets.

"Fine, don't say it then." Ye Baoling didn't come today to talk about Ugly King Jue or the Blue Brick Tunnel; she came to force her way out. "I'm thinking of reforming the company recently. When do you plan to transfer your shares to me?"

"How do you plan to reform it?"

"I'll give you the documents later." Ye Baoling was clearly too lazy to report to him.

Yeh Chi-tsu: "You haven't agreed to my conditions yet."

His condition was that Ye Baoling and Ye Huaizhang would inherit both branches of the family, with the eldest son inheriting the eldest branch and the second son inheriting the third branch.

Ye Baoling disagreed: "I've already said that you can only take care of my generation. As for how the next generation will inherit, that's my business."

Ye Qizu was at a loss for words, but he gritted his teeth and insisted, "Think it through and promise me before we can talk about the share transfer."

"I heard that the French woman's name is Olivier, and you personally handed her over to Fang Dingkun. I recorded Fang Dingkun's conversation with us." Actually, she didn't record it; she was just trying to scare him.

Ye Qizu looked at his granddaughter in disbelief; she was blackmailing him.

"What are you doing? You want to tell the police? You're my granddaughter. If the police and the public find out about this, it won't do you any good."

"It's not bad either. I can also take the opportunity to empty Ye Qingtang's pockets."

That's what they say, but the cost is still too high. It's a last resort, not the best option.

The best course of action is, of course, to inherit the shares held by the old man. Whether it's through force, coercion, or his voluntary transfer, the final result is that she gets the shares.

Ye Qizu earnestly advised, "If you tell anyone, it won't do you any good."

Ye Baoling softened her voice as well: "Then do something that will benefit me. Grandpa, have you ever helped me get to where I am today, even a little bit? Not at all."

Ye Qizu expressed his concerns: "You won't turn the assets of our eldest son's family into those of the third son's family in the future, will you?"

"Grandpa, do you think I have an IQ problem, or a brain problem? Why should my things become the property of the third son's family?" She was speechless.

Ye Qizu paused slightly, "Then why can't you agree to let the first child inherit the eldest son's branch of the family?"

He yielded and no longer insisted on having the first male heir inherit the eldest son's line.

Ye Baoling smiled and nodded: "If I have children, I will definitely have priority in inheriting the eldest son's branch. But the premise is that you have to let me inherit first. When it comes to inheriting the eldest son's branch, it's not just about the shares, not just about the Ye family mansion, but also about—your identity."

The identity of the patriarch of the Ye family.

The identity of the clan chief.

The person who is the first to offer incense upon entering the ancestral hall.

Seeing his granddaughter's appetite growing, Ye Qizu opened his mouth several times as if to say something, but in the end he held back.

After all, his only support right now is his granddaughter.

Ye Baoling picked up the documents on the table and handed them to Ye Qizu. She didn't care much about the status of the head of the family, nor was she in a hurry. What she cared about most right now was the shares of Ye Qingtang and Su Man Jewelry in Ye Qizu's hands.

What would be the most troublesome thing if the old man suddenly passed away one day, and she had to fight a lawsuit with her father and uncle for the inheritance?

With two or three swords hanging over his head, Ye Qizu had no choice but to take the document. He then made another request: "Leave 1% for Baoshun."

This request wasn't unreasonable, but Ye Baoling didn't want to agree. "If you convert it into money, if you give him money, or give him overseas properties and estates, I have no objection."

Ye Qizu still has at least a billion yuan in savings. His second uncle and aunt know that there is no hope of getting shares, so they are now eyeing this money.

Knock knock knock!

Uncle Xing knocked on the door and came in.

"Sir, the police have arrived. They want to know about Silver Snake Mountain."

Ye Qizu looked at Ye Baoling with slight nervousness, and Ye Baoling said for him, "Have the police wait in the study."

"Okay." Uncle Xing closed the door.

Ye Baoling handed the pen to her grandfather, saying, "Sign it quickly, the police are coming soon."

The police arrived.

Seeing the knife hanging over his head about to fall, Ye Qizu hesitated for a moment before having no choice but to sign his name.

Ye Baoling felt instantly relieved after receiving the transfer agreement.

From this day forward, she will no longer be afraid of anyone vying with her for control of Ye Qingtang and Su Man Jewelry.

When the police came to Ye Qizu's door to inquire about his knowledge of Silver Snake Mountain, Ye Qizu had no choice but to admit that he had once rented Silver Snake Mountain to Fang Dingkun.

“In 1942, Fang Dingkun said he wanted to plant longan trees, but nothing much happened. We had no idea that it was related to the Japanese.” Ye Qizu, fearing that the police might conduct random investigations and expose his family’s brick tunnel, provided another clue: “At that time, they had built a shed on the hillside to the north.”

After receiving information about the northern hillside, the police asked several more questions before leaving.

*

It's almost June, and Ye Baoling has to go to Dunhus University to hand in her assignment.

She has been writing her thesis at home during her free time these past few days.

That day she wrote more than five thousand words. After she finished writing, she stood up and stretched.

The feeling of satisfaction after finishing my homework is truly wonderful.

Ye Huaizhang has been busy with work lately, and the two haven't seen each other for several days.

They'll be celebrating their first wedding anniversary soon. Even if she doesn't bring it up, Old Madam Guan will, and Granny Tong will definitely organize some kind of ceremony.

Their marriage agreement is about to expire, and whether to continue it needs to be renegotiated.

According to the agreement, if they divorce, she would also be able to sell back the ugly prince from the second and third wives to him for 20 million.

Thinking of the Ugly King's Jade Pendant, Ye Baoling took all three jade pendants out of the safe and placed them on the table.

The three jade pendants are white, yellow, and purple, respectively, but the colors are not pure. When they are put together, they form a complete circular jade ring.

The color transition between the three pieces of jade is very natural.

Just then, Ye Huaizhang returned and asked, "Still researching?"

Ye Baoling: "These three ugly jade rings used to be one complete jade ring. They were split into three."

Ye Huaizhang sat down next to her: "It should be."

The script she's wearing is called "The Genius of Treasure Appraisal." Could this seemingly worthless jade actually be a treasure?

Should I ask Fang Haiming, the male lead of "The Treasure Appraisal Genius," to appraise it?

Perhaps.