In an instant, Zhang Siyuan's hair stood on end, and goosebumps rose on his back. This wasn't just verbal intimidation; it felt like a fear that came from the very depths of his soul.
"I...I understand." Zhang Siyuan swallowed hard, then hurriedly left the ward.
After Zhang Siyuan left, the little elf flew out and said, "Master, can you stop being so childish? We had a perfectly legitimate transaction. Your tone scared me."
Shen Lang laughed heartily, then explained, "If you don't scare Zhang Siyuan, he won't listen to you."
"Aren't you afraid you'll scare him away?" the little elf asked curiously.
Shen Lang shook his head and said, "No, no one can choose to skip over things when it comes to interests. If Zhang Siyuan could be scared away by me, he wouldn't be on the list."
"Hmm! Master is right." The little elf sucked on his little finger and fell into deep thought.
Having entered society at a young age, Shen Lang has a clear understanding of the world, a truth that has remained unchanged for thousands of years among the Chinese people: all the world's hustle and bustle is for profit. This principle was already deeply ingrained in people's hearts when Confucianism controlled society two thousand years ago, let alone in today's materialistic era.
"By the way, little fairy, what if someone breaks the contract?" Zhang Siyuan's words made Shen Lang more cautious, so he asked the little fairy. He was genuinely afraid that someone might break the contract, and his earlier behavior towards Zhang Siyuan was just to scare him.
The little elf chuckled, revealing a devilish expression: "Those who break the contract will be struck dead by the divine lightning of the heavens. Anyone involved in the transaction, except for the master, will be implicated."
"Okay, then I'm relieved." "Little elf, quickly think of how we're going to spend this billion!" Shen Lang said.
The little elf thought for a moment and then said, "Buy me delicious food and pretty clothes. I saw so many beautiful and delicious things when I was searching this world."
Shen Lang looked at it temptingly and asked, "Where can I find clothes your size? And how do you, a virtual system spirit, eat?"
The little elf wrinkled its nose and said, "I'm a real person, not some virtual one. Besides, Master can have clothes custom-made for me. And I'll grow up eventually, so please don't look down on me, Master!"
"You'd better not grow up, I'm afraid I can't afford to feed a glutton like you," Shen Lang complained.
The little elf hurriedly climbed onto his head, tugging at his hair and pleading, "No, Master! I eat very little, really very little!"
"Get down here." Shen Lang rolled his eyes.
"No, Master, I'll come down if you promise me."
"Come down first," Shen Lang coaxed the little sprite.
"Then promise me you'll come down."
"Okay, I promise you."
"Yay! Thank you, Master." As soon as the little elf heard Shen Lang agree, it immediately flew to Shen Lang's side, its face full of joy.
Unexpectedly, Shen Lang grabbed the little elf, glared at it fiercely, and said snarly, "Little guy, who told you to mess up my hairstyle?"
"Master, please let me go!" The little elf's originally green face flushed slightly.
"No, I have to teach you a lesson, or you'll rebel in the future." Shen Lang didn't see the little elf's flushed face as he gently pinched its cheek with his fingers.
"Master, you're a pervert!" the little elf said coquettishly, forcefully breaking free from Shen Lang's grasp, then flew back to the system and refused to come out again.
No matter how much Shen Lang called out, the little elf wouldn't come out.
"Could this little one be a girl? Aren't elves supposed to be genderless?"
Unable to summon the little sprite, Shen Lang muttered something and then lay on the hospital bed playing on his phone, secretly pondering his future path. Being a wealthy man was just the beginning; if he possessed the All-Encompassing Trading System and only knew how to make money, then he would have wasted the system.
Looking at the pristine white walls and smelling the pungent disinfectant odor, Shen Lang couldn't come up with any solutions, so he covered his head with the blanket and went to sleep.
After returning to the ward, Zhang Siyuan said to Zhang Simin and Zhang Siyu, "Simin, Siyu, you two go back and rest tonight. I'll take care of Dad."
"No, brother, the doctor said Dad might only have one or two days left. We definitely have to stay with him and let him go," Zhang Siyu said, sitting in the corner.
"What? Dad hasn't left yet, so my words don't carry any weight in this house?" Zhang Siyuan said with a slight frown and a chilling tone.
Zhang Simin walked up to Zhang Siyuan and said with a smile, "Brother, what are you saying? We just want to accompany Dad on his final journey."
Zhang Siyuan glared at his younger brother and sister, knowing all too well what they were thinking. One was a spoiled brat who only knew how to put on a show to please the old man, and the other was an ingrate who was only thinking about how to transfer the Zhang family's assets to the government. As the group's general manager, he was fully aware of their actions, but he had never exposed them because of the old man's poor health.
Standing next to Zhang Guosheng, Zhang Siyuan said in an icy tone, "Do you think I can't control you after Dad's passing?"
He then looked at Zhang Siyu and said in a mocking tone, "Siyu, as a married daughter of the Zhang family, you must have transferred hundreds of millions of yuan of public funds to your company over the years under the guise of engineering projects, right? Oh, by the way, the manager your company placed in the project department should be Gong Shizhong, right? Do you think you could buy his center with just one million yuan a month in bribes?"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Siyu immediately stood up, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and shrieked, "Boss, don't slander people without evidence. And so what if I transferred assets? I'm a daughter of the Zhang family, can't I have my share?"
Zhang Siyuan laughed and said, "Since you got married, Dad has given you a lot of shares, and the annual dividends must be no less than 200 million. Moreover, the assets you transferred were not transferred to your own name, but to your company, Chuangfeng. And it seems that Chuangfeng did not give you any shares, did it?"
"Zhang Siyuan, you investigated me?" Zhang Siyu screamed, her eyes wide with anger.
Zhang Siyuan shook his head and smiled, "It's not that I'm investigating you; it's just my duty as the eldest son of the Zhang family."
Then his tone changed, and he said sternly, "At the same time, I warn you to stop while you're ahead, or I won't hesitate to put your family in the line of duty and take you to court."
"Zhang Siyuan, you wait, I'm not done with you yet." Zhang Siyu glared at Zhang Siyuan with a vicious look, then grabbed her handbag and stormed out of the ward.
"Second brother, how could you be so foolish?" Zhang Siyuan then looked at Zhang Simin.
Zhang Simin asked in confusion, "Brother, what's wrong with me?"
"Do you think Zhang Siyu wants to form an alliance with you, bring me down, and then divide up the Guosheng Group with you?" Zhang Siyuan said irritably, "Don't fall into Siyu's trap, you silly boy."
Zhang Simin gave an awkward smile and flatly denied it, saying, "Brother, don't talk nonsense. Don't try to pin this baseless thing on me."
“My silly brother, how can you not understand? We brothers are family. Don’t you really know what Siyu has done all these years?” Zhang Siyuan also laid his cards on the table with Zhang Simin at this time: “Those subsidiaries that were transferred to Chuangfeng Group were originally my plans to give you some experience. Do you think your older brother can support Guosheng Group by himself? We brothers still need to work together.”
Zhang Simin no longer hid his intentions. He stood up and said to Zhang Siyuan, "Brother, stop pretending to be a good guy. Dad has been planning to give me shares for a long time. Don't think I don't know you were the one stopping the old man from giving them to me. You just want to take all the family property for yourself, right? Then let's see if you have such a big appetite. You have something on Zhang Siyu, but I don't. We'll see about that."
After saying that, Zhang Simin left the ward. He wasn't worried that Zhang Siyuan would do anything outrageous, after all, this was a top-tier ward with 360-degree surveillance, and no one could tamper with anything here. Besides, the old man would only last until tomorrow at most, so he didn't want to continue pretending to be a dutiful son here.
Watching his departing figure, Zhang Siyuan sighed, then said to the unconscious Zhang Guosheng, "Dad, don't worry, I will definitely do everything in my power to save you."
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