The stock market performance on the second day did not go as the fourth family had hoped. All the money they had poured in was lost, leaving the three brothers of the fourth family dumbfounded.
The second and third brothers looked at the patriarch and exclaimed, "Big Brother!"
Suppressing his inner turmoil, the fourth head of the family responded to his younger brother, "Yes! I saw it!"
The three brothers seemed to have never encountered anything like this before, and for a time, the two brothers placed all their hopes on the eldest brother, who was the head of the family.
"Let's go back first and then figure out a solution."
No one in the room dared to make a sound; everyone silently went about their business, afraid that if they did something wrong, they would provoke the three brothers from the fourth family, whose anger was something that the lowly clerks in the room could not withstand.
The head of the Lu family, leading his team, emerged from the stock exchange with great pride. As he turned his head to talk to the person next to him, he encountered a group from the fourth family, who were also coming out of the stock exchange.
The head of the Lu family looked at the fourth family head with some smugness, no longer so cautious about the fourth family, which was about to withdraw from the five major families.
He stopped, smiled, and said to the fourth head of the family, "Fourth head of the family, it seems your company's stock hasn't been doing so well these past few days! You'd better think of a solution; it's quite worrying to see it like this."
But his laughter was nothing short of provocation and mockery to the fourth family.
Before the fourth head of the family could speak, the second master of the fourth family angrily said, "When did it become your place to interfere in the affairs of our fourth family, you rat in the gutter!"
The head of the Lu family said disdainfully, "Fine, stubborn as a mule. Let's see how long you can hold out! Let's go!" Then he led his men away triumphantly, leaving behind only the resentful group from the fourth family.
An Moxue followed the Fourth Family out, expecting to see them in a hysterical state, but nothing happened. Based on this, An Moxue felt it was necessary for her to reinvestigate the Fourth Family.
That night, she went to the bar again, sat at the bar, and said to the bartender, "Reinvestigate the Fourth Family, focusing on its hidden forces."
The bartender, wiping glasses, asked, "Boss, is something wrong?"
An Moxue swirled the glass in her hand and said, "Everything seems normal so far, but the fourth place is too quiet. Mobilizing everyone to investigate this matter seems unusual to me."
"Yes," the bartender said, placing the glass on the wine rack before walking away from the bar.
An Moxue sat for a while longer, then left before the bartender returned.
She drove to a street near the Fourth Family Manor, parked the car on the side of the road, and then turned left and right until she reached the outer wall of the Fourth Family Manor. Looking around and seeing no one, she jumped onto the wall and then jumped down.
This was a garden, and there were hardly any people around. Following the map she had gathered, An Moxue avoided the patrolling personnel and made several turns, one after another.
This is the main building of the Fourth Family. An Moxue saw that several rooms were lit up. She checked along the way and finally found the study.
"Brother, what should we do? Are we really going to give up on the company?"
"At present, we can only give up. We don't know how much money the other party has prepared. It's not worth it for us to keep pouring money in."
"But once the company goes under, there will be a lot of people kicking us while we're down. Not to mention other families, even the Cui and Han families, who are related to us by marriage for generations, have treated us like this. If one of them takes a bite out of us, we'll be in enough trouble. If it weren't for this, we would have restructured this lousy company long ago."
"It's already like this. If we don't give up, it will only become a greater burden to us. Besides, we've already used up all the gold bars the old man left us, and there's nothing else we can do."
"So what if we have to give it up? It was just an empty shell anyway. Getting rid of those parasites isn't a bad thing. But, bro, are we really not going to make our company public?"
"I'm not going to make it public. I'm taking this opportunity to show you who's real and who's not, so you can be more clear-headed in the future and know what's most important and what you need to hold onto."
"Brother, is there still no news from the people we sent to Lan Kingdom?"
"No."
"Is it possible that the entire Nalan family really perished back then?"
"Which aristocratic family doesn't keep a few hidden descendants outside? It's all for fear of losing their lineage. The Nalan family is even less likely to do so."
"But after all these years, we still haven't found anything. I'm starting to doubt the truth of it all. After all, it's all just a legend, and none of us have ever seen it."
An Moxue never expected that her spur-of-the-moment decision to investigate would lead her to hear news about the Nalan family.
"There must be a huge treasure. Our ancestors witnessed the glory of the Nalan family back then."
"But wasn't it all donated to fight against the Japanese pirates back then?"
What do you know?
“Our ancestors said that their family had countless treasure troves, and if you found just one, it would be worth far more than our fourth family’s most glorious period.”
"How is that possible!?"
"Why not? It's said that the Nalan family's ancestors were able to communicate with the gods, and it was a family affair, not just one person. Just think about it, how much wealth must they have accumulated? It's something our tiny country can't compare to."
An Moxue nodded. Indeed, the head of this fourth family was quite knowledgeable, no matter what.
"Well, brother, I've always had a question: how are you so sure that the Nalan family has a huge treasure?"
"Yes, brother, why?"
"Because back then, after the Nalan family members died, their bodies disappeared overnight. But it seems that people have been overlooking one question all along: where did these bodies go? The Lan people are very particular about burial. Who collected their bodies? Were they other hidden members of the Nalan family? Where is their main grave? Can you still say that the Nalan family has no one? That they have no treasures?"
An Moxue listened from outside and thought what he said made sense. However, they didn't know that in the Lan Kingdom, there was something else: the nation, the country, and the world. Unfortunately, the Nalan family was a family that valued national righteousness and the world, so they all sacrificed themselves, including the last Nalan Dieyi, who couldn't escape this fate.
"So, the company is hiding it so that it will be easier to find the Nalan family and their treasure in the future?"
"That's part of the reason. We don't want the fourth and fifth sons to keep clinging to us. If it weren't for their mother, our mother might not have died. She found out about their affair and was so angry that she passed away so quickly. I'll never forget that afternoon when that woman came to my mother's bedside, showing off her pregnant belly." The fourth head of the family said through gritted teeth, "And our shameless father, who tied the three of us to them with a pile of gold bars, letting them live comfortably for so many years. They've been lucky enough. It's time to collect the debt."
Roar! An Moxue was excited when she heard this. Was this the start of a bloodbath?
She likes it.
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