Five days after Lin Xiao returned to China, Yang Xile also flew back to Beijing and went directly to his father Yang Kai's company.
Yang Kai was in a meeting when he heard that his son had suddenly returned and was waiting for him in his office. The old man was startled and hurriedly interrupted the meeting to go back to his office to find Yang Xile.
Seeing that his son was safe and sound, Yang Kai breathed a sigh of relief. But this was definitely not normal. What terrible thing had Yang Xile done to suddenly return to China for help?
"Why are you back? What happened?" Yang Kai asked his son directly.
Yang Xile glanced at his father and said seriously, "Dad, if I said I hoped you would lend me some money and I would definitely pay you back later, how much would you lend me?"
Yang Kai's expression turned serious. He sat down in the chairman's swivel chair and asked in a somewhat somber tone, "Tell me first what you're going to do with this money?"
Yang Xile knew that if he didn't explain the purpose of the money, given his understanding of his father's temperament, Yang Kai probably wouldn't give him a single penny. But he didn't want to be too explicit, after all, it wouldn't make sense to take a huge sum of money from a businessman who had no connection with Yang Kai in order to save him.
After thinking for a moment, Yang Xile admitted, "I want to use this money to cover a hole, but the amount needed is quite large, and I don't have enough money on hand."
Yang Kai looked at his son and sighed, saying, "Tell me, just how big of a mess have you made, and how big of a hole do you need to clean up? Is it a mess even stupider than your second sister trying to hook up with a celebrity? Is it a mess even more ruthless than your eldest brother's back then? Did you run into a femme fatale and get tricked, or did you kill someone while driving under the influence of drugs abroad?"
Seeing the undisguised sadness in his father's deep eyes, Yang Xi felt a sudden pang of pity.
Seeing that his son didn't speak, Yang Kai said to him, "I'll give you 50 million at most. That's enough for anything, right? To put it bluntly, it's enough to buy a few lives. I've done more than enough for you."
"Dad, I need 300 million."
"What?!" Yang Kai was so angry that he swept the Pixiu paperweight off the table and roared, "Tell me! First, tell me what you've done?! Did you burn down Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris again after it was just renovated?"
"Dad, believe me, I'll earn this money back to you in the future."
"If you don't tell the truth, get out of the company and get out of the house!" Yang Kai was so angry with his most beloved youngest son that his voice trembled.
Uncle Zhai, who had been eavesdropping outside the door, hurriedly pushed the door open and came in to dissuade them, frantically gesturing to Yang Xile with his eyes. Yang Xile understood; if things continued like this, they might not only fail to borrow the money, but also anger the old man to the point of illness.
So I could only tell the truth: "Dad, don't be angry, don't get upset, be careful not to hurt yourself. It wasn't me, I didn't do anything. It's a friend of mine, his family runs a medical group. This year there was a big crackdown in the medical industry, and he's been arrested. I want to get him out."
Yang Kai looked at his son in disbelief. He knew that Yang Xile had always been very righteous since he was a child, but he never expected that his son would be so righteous as to be so foolish. How could he ask his son to spend hundreds of millions to redeem someone when they were friends who had risked their lives for each other?
But since it wasn't his son who had caused such a terrible disaster, Yang Kai finally felt relieved. His tone softened as he asked Yang Xile, "Tell me who it was? Did they have some leverage over you or save your life? Why would they make you pay so much money to ransom someone?"
Yang Xile knew that Yang Kai wouldn't give him money unless he told the whole truth, so he had no choice but to confess everything. He said it was the Lin's Pharmaceutical Group in Linjiang City, which previously mainly produced medical devices and had started to get involved in pharmaceutical research and development in recent years. The chairman was Lin Haitao, who had been arrested for more than a week.
"Who?" Yang Kai was a little confused for a moment; the name was unfamiliar.
“Lin’s Pharmaceutical Group’s main market is in the south, especially in XX province. You work and live in the north most of the year, so you may not be very familiar with the situation there,” Uncle Zhai explained from the side.
Yang Kai thought about it carefully. He recognized the name of the group, but he couldn't immediately place the name of the chairman, Lin Haitao. However, since the Lin Group's main market was in the south, how did his son, Yang Xile, know the chairman and offer him such strong support?
Yang Kai asked his son, "Explain yourself clearly. You've been abroad for most of the year and have never even been to Linjiang City, right? How did you get to know this Lin Haitao? What great favor has he done for you that makes you go to such lengths to save him?"
Yang Xile remained silent for a long time. He couldn't tell the truth either. He could say that he had a crush on the girl's daughter, but Lin Xiao had a boyfriend and didn't even look at him. Yet he still had to focus on saving the girl's father.
Yang Kai would definitely call him incredibly stupid if he heard this, saying there was no way he could get the money. But to be honest, the old man was very shrewd and couldn't be fooled.
After thinking for a long time, Yang Xile finally spoke: "I almost got hit by a car in Paris once when I was drunk, and Lin Haitao's daughter saved me. Please consider it an exchange of lives and go save her father."
"Bullshit!" Yang Kai immediately saw through his son's lie and cursed, "Do you think the bodyguard I assigned to you is a dead man? If you were in any danger, he would have reported it to me long ago. I've never even heard of this! You're still not telling the truth, are you?"
Yang Xile cursed himself for his oversight, forgetting that his bodyguards were not only protecting him but also his father's informants. But the words were already out, so he could only continue making things up.
“Dad, it’s true. I haven’t finished yet. Once, at a gathering of international students, I drank too much. I didn’t bring a bodyguard with me that time because I thought he was annoying. I figured it was just a gathering of rich kids, so there was no danger. That’s when Lin Haitao’s daughter saved me, and then, and then I fell in love with her.”
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