There were quite a few students in the stands, each holding an iced drink in the sweltering summer heat. Some held watermelons, while others held ice cream, all gazing down at the high school students in their military training uniforms.
They huddled together in twos and threes, talking about something.
The three of them were also standing on the stands, and along the way, many younger members of the family bowed and greeted Shen Bei'an.
The capital city, it's not small, but it's just a small piece of land.
Just as Sheng Jingchen said, the marriage alliances between the various families in the capital are intricate and complex. You never know which two seemingly unfamiliar families might turn out to be related after going around in circles.
This makes the generational hierarchy even more confusing. It's perfectly normal for an elderly man in his seventies to have a father or grandfather who was an infant.
"Where is Qingqing?" Shen Bei'an looked around but couldn't find his nephew.
Fu Mutian handed the paper bag in her hand to Sheng Jingchen. Sheng Jingchen glanced inside and, unsurprisingly, didn't leave him a single one. He crumpled it into a ball and threw it into a basketball.
Three-pointer!
It went smoothly into the recycling bin.
A cheer erupted.
"Young Master Shen should be busy in the briefing hall right now. And didn't you say that Young Master Shen is also starting to prepare to take over Old Master Shen's affairs?" Fu Mutian raised her eyebrows, sipped her juice, and looked at the young men with a leisurely air.
It's really hard to say when the heirs of the powerful families in the capital will be able to take power. There are almost none like Gu Nanyan, and very few like Shen Juanqing.
Many of these cases involve heirs who become so capable that they threaten the position of the ruler, or the ruler discovers that he can no longer control the heir and is forced to abdicate.
"Probably." Shen Bei'an didn't care about these things; for a lazy bum like him, there was no need to worry about them.
But since the old man put Qingqing and his older brother together, he must have meant that.
Moreover, the eldest brother isn't someone with much power, and Qingqing is so capable.
As the group chatted and laughed, the high school students below also finished their line.
"Let's go, the performance should be starting soon. Didn't Lao Xu say he reserved a front row for us?"
Shen Beian stretched, still not finished with the crystal cake. He always ate like this, only taking a bite or two when he was interested. Although he always bought the smallest portion, he couldn't finish all the different kinds.
At this point, the eldest son usually comes in handy.
"Alright, I'm full." Shen Bei'an held the jade pendant, his conversation with the old man still vivid in his mind.
To be honest, he never considered having children in the real world.
Growing up in such families, children are more often seen as tools for power struggles.
That old geezer once declared that whoever gave birth to the eldest grandson would receive a certain number of shares; he was extremely sexist.
In the end, it was his eldest sister who got it. The eldest grandson wasn't even born in wedlock, and the other child was long gone.
In that world, such things were perfectly normal. It seems that they also exist in this world, except that the preference for sons over daughters has been removed.
However, they still place great importance on having offspring.
There is no doubt that he didn't want it in the first place.
Seeing the way the Shen family got along, and his time with Gu Nanyan, made him interested in having a child with Gu Nanyan in the future.
However, his wife didn't seem too willing.
Oh no, I never even considered having children.
Looking at the two people beside him, Fu Mutian was twenty-two years old and Sheng Jingchen was twenty years old.
Each one of them is more extravagant than the last, and they are all known in the industry for their savvy and adventurous spirit.
There are plenty of people in the industry who know how to have fun, and plenty of people who have gotten into trouble because of it, but these two have never had a major mishap.
They are indifferent to marriage and have no idea what will happen next.
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