"You old fool, you want me to work hard with you in a poor and backward place? Are you kidding me!"
Xia Yuntao: ...
He looked at Xia Zicheng's angry and ferocious appearance, his eyes filled with disappointment.
He closed his eyes in anguish. "If you despise China so much, why did you come back?"
"Why? You old geezer, you have the nerve to ask me why? If I hadn't heard that you were making a lot of money back home, do you think I would have come back?"
Who would have thought that you, this useless old thing, would not only fail to make any money in the years since you came back, but also use this old house to pay off debts!
You deserve to rot alone in this filthy, impoverished place!
After hurling a tirade of anger, Xia Zicheng went upstairs, dragged his suitcase back with him, and left.
Xia Yuntao didn't try to stop him, but just closed his eyes in pain and sat in the distance, unable to recover for a long time.
Today's events were mainly handled by Guo Tao and his team.
But Huo Beixiao and Yang Qiaoqiao were worried, so they stayed with Wang Shuyi, keeping watch not far from the gate of the old house.
I saw Xia Zicheng leave with his suitcase.
Wang Shuyi couldn't wait to get out of the car. "That unfilial son is gone. Qiaoqiao, hurry up, let's go in and see the old man."
When Huo Beixiao and Yang Qiaoqiao helped Grandma Xia inside, they saw Grandpa Xia sitting alone on the sofa, looking dejected.
Guo Tao and Liu Hongjun stood in the room with their men, looking at the old man like this, not knowing how to comfort him, and not daring to go forward to disturb him.
"Old man!" Grandma Xia called out anxiously.
Xia Yuntao quickly opened his eyes and got up to help Wang Shuyi. "Shuyi, didn't we agree that you wouldn't show your face? Why did you still come?"
As he spoke, Xia Yuntao glanced nervously towards the living room door, clearly worried that Xia Zicheng might suddenly return and discover that their moving things and packing up the house was just an act.
Huo Beixiao calmly instructed Guo Tao and Liu Hongjun to lead their men out and stay outside to keep watch.
Grandma Xia, on the other hand, said very relaxedly, "Old man, don't worry! With Xia Zicheng's pig brain, if he had even thought to come back and visit more often, he wouldn't have been so easily fooled and tricked while he was abroad!"
Xia Yuntao wasn't as open-minded as Wang Shuyi. Hearing her words, he didn't know whether to be happy or worried.
Huo Beixiao and Yang Qiaoqiao also went to the kitchen at the right time to boil water and make tea for the old man, leaving the space to the elderly couple.
When Yang Qiaoqiao came out with a thermos filled with boiling water to make tea for the old man, she saw him shake his head slightly with a bitter expression and sigh, "I'm old, really old..."
In the past, even if these unfilial descendants were dissatisfied with him, they wouldn't dare to point their fingers at him and curse him like that.
Not only would they not dare to curse him like that, they would also have to kneel down in front of him and apologize properly.
After listening to Xia Yuntao's sigh, Wang Shuyi patted him on the shoulder and said bluntly, "You old man, that unfilial son dares to treat you like this now, not because you're old, but because you're broke."
When we were abroad, he hated you but treated you with utmost respect because he needed money from you.
Now that he knows you're broke, his true colors are showing, aren't they?
Yang Qiaoqiao handed the perfectly heated tea to Grandpa Xia, saying, "Grandpa Xia, have some tea to calm your nerves."
Although Xia Yuntao was upset, he hadn't had any expectations for his grandson Xia Zicheng to begin with, so the disappointment wasn't so great that he couldn't accept it.
After talking with Wang Shuyi for a while and taking another sip of tea, I didn't think about it anymore.
After putting down his teacup, he said to Huo Beixiao and Yang Qiaoqiao, "Beixiao, Qiaoqiao, I just asked that unfilial son of a bitch. The reason he came back is because someone told him that I made at least a billion yuan in China, and he came back for the money."
Wang Shuyi frowned and pondered, "Who would deliberately tell the most scoundrel among our descendants about our family's wealth, in order to lure him back?
What, then, is the purpose?
Xia Yuntao calmed down and said in a composed manner, "Shuyi, you should think carefully about who knows about all the wealth we have."
Wang Shuyi was jolted awake after Xia Yuntao reminded her.
Most of the money they have wasn't earned from doing business after they came back.
After all, China's economic development is limited right now, and they've only been back in the country for a few years. Even if they printed money, it wouldn't be that fast.
A large portion of this money was remitted from abroad in batches by Xia Yuntao in earlier years through arrangements with people in important positions and deposited in domestic banks.
He kept this very secret, and no one else knew about it except for the two of them.
Although they had been buying houses and hoarding land after recognizing the potential for development in China, they only bought as much as they could after returning to China and making a profit.
That money was not used.
That money was only available after Huo Beixiao invested in the construction company and they put the construction of high-end residential buildings in China on their agenda.
After listening to Xia Yuntao and Wang Shuyi's words, something suddenly flashed through Yang Qiaoqiao's mind.
The money had been in the old couple's names for so many years without anyone checking it or leaking information to the Xia family overseas. Just as they took it out to cooperate with them, the most unscrupulous member of the Xia family was lured back.
This shows that...
“Grandpa Xia, Grandma Xia, I think the other party lured Xia Zicheng back not to target you, but to target us,” Yang Qiaoqiao said.
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