Chapter 972 Choose Him or Me
"Since he's here, let's meet him. Mr. Huo, please make room for me. I need to have a good talk with our old man."
Huo Xingzhou stood up and pulled Qiao Xi towards the restaurant. "I brought back all the food you wanted to eat. I asked Aunt Qian to prepare it for you. You haven't had much rest these past two days, so eat more if you can. I'll be home with you every day from now on."
"good."
Sun Weimeng wanted to stay and watch the fun, but was also taken away by Lao Chen.
The living room suddenly became quiet.
Wan Jiang invited the old man of the Zhong family in.
The old man still looked very poor, and he trembled when he walked, needing the support of the housekeeper. He must have been injured at the fork in the road that day, but more likely due to the internal strife in the Zhong family.
He was uneasy.
The old man of the Zhong family sat opposite Zhong Yi and looked at his expression.
He hadn't seen Zhong Yi since then. He only heard about him from outsiders. After being discharged from the hospital, he didn't return to the Zhong family, but went to the home of his rival.
The old man knew Zhong Yi's temper. He would rather stay here than go back, which meant that this time he was really estranged from the Zhong family.
He also felt a little regretful.
I'm used to being in a superior position and giving orders.
He had other plans when he asked Zhong Yi to let Zhong Lingxiao go, and he hadn't considered his feelings. After thinking about it for a while, he was a little flustered.
I'm really worried that Zhong Yi will completely abandon the Zhong family.
After waiting for a few days, he couldn't wait any longer, so he came over.
Fortunately, the child was still willing to see him.
However, Old Master Zhong understood his character. If he was unwilling to see her, it meant that he still had hatred towards the Zhong family, and that he cared about them.
He actually wanted to meet her, which made him confused.
"Wan Jiang, pour the old man a glass of water. The Huo family doesn't like to drink tea, so I'll follow the host's wishes. There's only warm water here, so drink some if you want, and don't drink if you don't like it." Zhong Yi's attitude was very obvious.
He no longer tried to please the old man carefully.
"I'm not here for tea." The old man looked at his familiar handsome face and said, "How is your injury? Did Doctor Qiao say it can be cured?"
"Are you asking this to assess how much value I still have?"
Zhong Yi's tone was very bad.
He held a water cup in his hand and said to Wan Jiang, "Peel me an apple. I'm a little hungry. I've been tired all night and was just about to rest when someone came to the door."
The old man is very domineering in everything he does and in everything he does, and he has never spoken so kindly before.
He also knew what happened last night.
But he never thought that Zhong Yi and Huo Xingzhou could really bring down the Pei family. The old man was not happy about the fall of the Pei family. He was afraid that one day the giant Zhong family would also fall.
It is so easy for them to bring down a noble family.
"I came here today just to see you. You don't have to hurt me with those stinging words. After all, we are blood relatives. Even if I have done many seemingly inhumane things for the Zhong family, I still have a sense of family affection for you."
Zhong Yi almost laughed when he heard his words, "Then I thank you for your charity."
The old housekeeper couldn't bear to watch it any longer, "Young Master, the old master is very concerned about you. He's worried about your health and can't eat or sleep. Please at least take care of me..."
"Are you worried about me or Zhong Lingxiao?" Zhong Yi said impatiently, "Just tell me what you want to say. Beating around the bush like this makes me feel uncomfortable. You're wasting my time too much."
For him, meeting the old man was no better than having breakfast with Qiao Xi.
The old man realized that Zhong Yi was really alienated from him.
He felt a little uncomfortable.
But it did not show that desolation and fragility.
"I came here for two things."
He still spoke in that commanding tone, "First, I want you to return to the Zhong family. Take over the Zhong family's business. From now on, the Zhong family will be handed over to you. I will no longer interfere in the affairs of the Zhong family. You will be fully responsible."
"Your tone is like a gift. You're giving me something so easily that I haven't gotten after fighting with Zhong Lingxiao for so long? Or do you have no choice but to let me clean up the mess? Unfortunately, I don't want to. Tell me the second reason you came here."
"This is the most important thing! You are a descendant of the Zhong family. Do you want to watch the Zhong family be eaten away?"
"I'm just an illegitimate child, a bastard you took back home to use as a stepping stone. If it weren't for my good fortune, I would have died long ago. Do you think I still have any feelings for the Zhong family? Old Master, when did you become so naive?"
Zhong Yi laughed wildly and ostentatiously.
To be honest, he has a vengeful mentality.
A high and mighty person in power was described as worthless by him here.
"You...you really don't want the Zhong family's centuries-old fortune?"
“There’s so much money and it’s impossible to spend it all.”
"You don't have any power at all, so how can you protect the people you want to protect?"
"She already has a home."
I like to watch those who are stubborn and unyielding.
Old Master Zhong was almost mad. How could there be such a stubborn guy? He had already bowed his head, so didn't this kid know to give the old man a little face?
"Please tell me the second thing quickly. I also want to try the breakfast that Huo Xingzhou brought back."
The old man took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart and said, "Where is Ling Xiao?"
Zhong Yi showed an expression of "as expected" and a hint of mockery: "Are you really coming to pick him up? It's a pity that I didn't know either."
"How could you not know!"
"Huo Xingzhou locked people up, how could I possibly know?"
"Don't play dumb. I asked about his whereabouts not because I wanted him to return to the Zhong family, but because I wanted to save his life. It's not good to have the blood of your brothers on your hands."
"Don't talk to me in such high-sounding words."
Zhong Yi sat in a wheelchair, a smile on his face. "Let me ask you a question. If you had to choose between me and Zhong Lingxiao, who would you choose, him dying or me dying? You'd better think it over before you answer. I'm not kidding."
He only gave him one chance.
I will never ask again.
Old Master Zhong didn't waste any words. He looked at Zhong Yi and said, "We are both made of flesh and blood. If you ask me to choose, I naturally can't. But if you ask me to choose for the future of the Zhong family, I will naturally choose you."
He has been thinking about the glory and interests of the Zhong family all his life.
Choose whoever is more valuable.
"That's just like you."
Zhong Yi sighed, "But the resentment in my heart is hard to get rid of."
Old Master Zhong knew that he had a condition, and he also understood that as long as he fulfilled this condition, Zhong Yi would take over the burden of the Zhong family.
Who could have thought that the Zhong family's property would become such a hot potato that he would have to beg to give it to others.
"Tell me, what are the conditions?"
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