"Dad, so you've already come up with a plan to deal with that brat Lin Yu?" Wu Sen asked with a look of surprise and delight.
Wu Tiande nodded. "Now that I've left the cabinet, I'm no longer burdened by my official position. Being free of official duties is a great relief, and I can finally get things done!"
Wu Tiande thought for a moment and continued.
"Here's what we'll do: in my name, send invitations to the Yang, Zhang, Chen, and Xu families, inviting these old fogies to gather at Yan Gui Lou tomorrow to discuss important matters!"
Wu Sen's eyes lit up. These families were the strongest in the cabinet, and some of them had deep-seated hatred for Lin Yu.
If Father can bring these people together, great things can be expected!
"Yes, Father. I will write the letters overnight and deliver them to each family before dawn!" Wu Sen respectfully accepted the order.
"Go ahead!" Wu Tiande waved his hand.
As he watched his son leave, his eyes narrowed slightly.
"Lin Yu, you little brat, one person's strength has its limits. Once I cut off your escape route, I'll see how long you can keep jumping around!"
...
night.
The Chen family's old residence, a prominent family.
A man dressed in a five-star general's uniform arrived at the old house late at night and knelt down respectfully.
"Second Master, what's going on here..." The butler opened the door, looking surprised.
"Your unfilial son, Chen Hu, has urgent business to attend to and requests an audience with his father!" Chen Hu shouted. The entire gate seemed to tremble.
The butler's eyes flickered. According to the rules, the old master Chen Fusheng was not allowed to see anyone at night, not even his family.
This has been the rule for decades.
The fact that Second Master, a key figure in security, came to see the Old Master in the middle of the night suggests that something big must have happened!
"Second Master, please wait a moment, I will go and inform the Old Master immediately!"
A moment later, the five-star general, dressed as an old man, arrived at the main room of the old house.
An elderly man with gray hair was lying on his side on the heated kang bed; it was Chen Fusheng.
"father!"
"You're here?"
Chen Fusheng slowly sat up, picked up his pipe, and the butler beside him quickly lit it for him.
"Please sit down!"
Chen Hu sat down and said directly, "Father, I've come to see you today because it's important! When you came back from the Garden within a Garden, you told me not to provoke the Lin family for the time being, but this time..."
"Is the world about to change?" Chen Fusheng asked calmly.
Chen Hu nodded, "Yes!"
"Who started this?"
"Wu Tiande!"
Chen Fusheng nodded. "I heard he has already resigned from the cabinet. What gave him the right?"
Chen Hu was immediately speechless.
Indeed, the Wu family today has lost its military power, its business is failing, and it has lost its seat in the cabinet. Even if it still has some official positions and connections in the local area, it has gone too far. The name of the aristocratic family exists in name only.
"Qi Mei, the granddaughter-in-law of the Wu family, is the younger brother of Yu Guozhang, the commander of Feidong. If he can influence Yu Guozhang in Feidong, he is certainly qualified. Moreover, it is said that the Qi family gave him a painting! A Tiger Descending the Mountain!" Chen Hu said.
"A tiger descending the mountain?" Chen Fusheng's lips curled into a disdainful sneer. "They're just some local ruffians. After the Great Enterprise was established, they weren't properly dealt with, but they're not of much use anyway. It seems the Wu family is going to take the commercial route from now on and plans to withdraw from the center stage! I've watched Tiande grow up; he's cunning. Although he's the one leading this time, if he fails, it seems it has nothing to do with his Wu family. He just wants to use you to take revenge!"
Chen Hu frowned and asked, "So what do you mean?"
"Didn't I tell you before? What's the relationship between that kid from the Lin family and the Divine Blood now?!"
"Yes, you said that before!"
Chen Hu took a deep breath and slowly clenched his fist. "But, Father, I still can't get over Yu'er's death. As his grandfather, I can't swallow this anger if I can't avenge him!"
Mentioning Chen Yu, Chen Fusheng's old eyes instantly dimmed.
As the patriarch of the Chen family, he never cared about any of the younger generation, except for Chen Yu.
He even sent Li Nan, the undead who was protecting him, to protect Chen Yu.
In the end, they still couldn't save their great-grandson, losing both their wife and their army!
This matter has always bothered him.
He went to the garden in the garden to find Feng Li and seek justice, but unexpectedly, he was instead reprimanded.
Cough cough!
He choked on a puff of smoke and couldn't help but cough violently.
"father!"
Chen Hu quickly stepped forward, patted him on the back, and said, "Father, I'll bear with this and won't cause you any more trouble!"
Chen Fusheng waved his hand, his cloudy old eyes gradually becoming long and drawn out. "That's not what I meant. On the contrary, this is the last chance for our clan, and we must seize it!"
"Hmm?" Chen Hu's expression showed some surprise, as well as some confusion.
Chen Fusheng explained calmly, “Throughout history, major changes have occurred at crucial junctures. No one can remain uninvolved. The reason for this is the difference in stance and ideology. If Pang Wensheng wins this time, he will definitely carry out the policy of weakening the power of the princes, and there will be no more aristocratic families in the world. The Lin family brat is just a knife in his hand! After he deals with the threat from the south, we aristocratic families will be nothing more than moss on a stone, and we will become the sacrifices of reform at any time and be eliminated! If the aristocratic families do not want to fall, this sharp sword must never be sheathed!”
"But the sword is already drawn, what should we do?"
Chen Fusheng revealed a sinister sneer, "The sword that has been sheathed is the sharpest, but it is easily broken. Why don't we just break it!"
Click!
The veins on his withered old hands were bulging, and the pipe in his hand snapped in an instant.
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