The residents of Xingfu Community planned to rest well for the next two days because they were going to the Ye family's house to prepare for a family banquet. So they usually went to bed early. However, the Ye family's house was still brightly lit at this time.
Three days ago, all the important personnel within the Ye family's businesses, along with their relatives, came to the Ye family's residence to attend a family banquet.
This has been a tradition of the Ye family for a long time. They hold a family banquet around this time every year to strengthen their bonds.
After all, it is a family business. If there are rifts or divisions of interests among the members, the entire family could easily collapse.
However, this year was a bit of an exception, because someone tried to tamper with the food at the Ye family banquet.
"That's why I said it from the start, why make it so complicated? What's so special about the delicacies of Aquamarine Star? Our Ye family banquets have never had anything like that!"
"Yeah, look what happened this time, didn't you?"
"Old man, what exactly is going on? Why have we been kept here for three days?"
"What's going on? I heard that those people from Planet Blue tampered with the food? That's going too far!"
"What is the truth? Grandpa, you can't just protect them because your grandson-in-law is from Planet Blue. What is the truth? We have the right to know, don't we?"
The Ye family members sat at a long table, and the most important decision-makers were all present.
There was a long table with twenty seats, arranged in two rows. Old Master Ye sat in the middle, with Ye Chaoqun and Ye Chaonan standing behind him.
Despite being questioned by so many people, Grandpa Ye remained calm and quietly took a sip of tea.
"Someone wants to harm our Ye family!" Old Master Ye said.
At this point, a heated discussion broke out among those present, who all seemed somewhat skeptical.
"How could that be? Are they people from Planet Water?"
“I said it before, these guys are ungrateful wretches. It's only because the old man was so kind that he took them in and even built a community for them!”
"Could it be that they feel they can't repay the Ye family's debts, so they simply want to destroy the Ye family?"
"If that's the case, I definitely won't let those people from Xingfu Community get away with it!"
"Are they really that bold? Small-scale pranks are one thing, but would they really dare to tamper with our food?"
Several elders of the Ye family also participated in the discussion, but their opinions were not as intense as these others.
Most of them were giving Old Master Ye face, since today's event was a family banquet hosted by the Ye family, and Old Master Ye was the one with the highest authority, so naturally they had to give him face.
"Alright, enough of this nonsense. In the end, I still need to wait for the old man to speak."
Since the second-in-command of the Ye family's business had spoken, everyone else fell silent.
At this moment, Grandpa Ye remained calm and placed the test report directly on the table. He also made more than twenty copies so that each of them would have one.
When Zhan Siyu asked Pei Jun's private agency to help test the food's ingredients, Old Master Ye had already received the news.
With his abilities, obtaining a test report wouldn't be difficult.
But when Mr. Ye received the test report this afternoon, he was really shocked.
He originally thought that the troublemakers just wanted to frame the people of Xingfu Community, make Nan Xiangwan and Zhan Siyu's projects lose credibility, and then their projects would naturally go bankrupt, and then they would have a reason to ridicule and belittle the Ye family.
This is still within the normal scope of business tactics; it's a common occurrence in business competition, with various forms of framing and slander emerging one after another.
But he never expected that the chemical ingredients and dosage in the food were enough to kill him!
This is going too far. It's one thing to use some tricks in business competition, but this involves human life.
"As you all have seen, this is the food we almost ate that day. The toxic components in it are enough to kill us!"
"But I disagree with one of your points of view: those people on the Blue Planet discovered something wrong with the food, which is why they came to me!"
"Other families have always coveted our Ye family's assets, and I think everyone is well aware of this. Therefore, we need to thoroughly investigate which of the seven major families is trying to use us as a tool to kill them!"
Grandpa Ye gathered them together mainly to explain what had happened over the past three days.
Another purpose was to make them pay close attention to the movements of other families.
Even if those tens of thousands of people from Blue Star hadn't come to Rose Star, the conflict between the eight major families would have already reached a fever pitch.
When a planet's resources have been exhausted, if a country wants to continue to grow its strength, it will inevitably have to seize resources from others; this is an unchanging fact.
In fact, the planet's environment has only been stable for a hundred years. During this hundred years, the eight major families have divided up 99% of the benefits, and everyone is content with the status quo, so there is no trouble.
However, a hundred years ago, Rose Star did not only have seven major families, but more than seventy families fighting and struggling for resources.
The peace and stability we enjoy today for over a century was actually bought with the bloodshed of over a century ago.
The situation is now the same as it was a hundred years ago; the history of Rose Star has once again reached a point of chaos.
"What is united for a long time will eventually divide, and what is divided for a long time will eventually unite. It seems that someone is indeed making underhanded moves behind the scenes!"
"What kind of reckless thing is it? Could it be the Hua family? Or perhaps the Xue family?"
"Anything is possible. We are in the open now, but the enemy is in the shadows. If the Ye family doesn't unite, we might be the first major family to be destroyed!"
"I knew it! Those families have been having frequent gatherings and meetings lately. Turns out they're plotting how to dismantle our Ye family!"
"Why? On what grounds? Don't they know how the Ye family rose to prominence?"
"The situation has become a bit complicated now..."
The elders of the Ye family breathed a sigh of relief, but they were not surprised by the current situation and accepted it very naturally.
After all, they have lived for a long time. The average lifespan on Rose Star is three hundred years, so they personally experienced the conflict a hundred years ago.
This planet has always been rife with conflict, so the fact that it has been able to maintain stability and peace for the past hundred years is actually quite an exception.
It is clear that with the start of the resource war, new conflicts could arise at any time. This is the law of historical cycles, and no one can escape the crushing force of history.
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