Chapter 2918 — The Company Is in Trouble
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Zhao Qilei did not know how he was supposed to face the Hidden Zhao family now. One by one, as he had departed, the people of the household had all turned and set themselves against him. Once he returned, his grandfather and Zhao Qibing might not dare to move against him again, but to live in a family like that was, in truth, a kind of sorrow and torment.
Wei Zhao watched Zhao Qilei mope in silence, clapped him on the shoulder, and sighed. "Let's go. Some things, there's no choosing. Could you have chosen your grandfather?"
"That's true enough..." Zhao Qilei smiled bitterly. "After I go back, what am I supposed to do? I honestly don't know what the point is in my staying with the Hidden Zhao family. Why is my grandfather so obstinate? Is it just because Zhao Qibing gave him a Qi-Gathering Pill, and that made him the Young Family Head?"
"Some things come about through a tangle of accidents and misunderstandings. There's no reasoning them out now. Given the circumstances at the time, the old man's decision was not without justification. But looking at it now, one has to say his vision was extremely short-sighted!"
"Isn't that the truth..." Zhao Qilei nodded. "Even several ancient sects have acknowledged you as their leader, and my grandfather is still..."
"We'll take it one step at a time." From the height at which Wei Zhao now stood, he weighed problems a little differently than before. In the past, he had not dared to touch the Hidden Zhao family or the Hidden You family, because his strength had not been sufficient. So he had always kept the relations between them pressed down to a point of balance, where neither side would advance a step further. But now, Wei Zhao was fully capable of wiping out any Hidden family at all.
Zhao Qilei nodded, and together with Wei Zhao he climbed into the Grand Cherokee and set off on the road home...
Tian Chan stood in the distance, quietly watching Wei Zhao get into the car and then drive off toward the far horizon. Softly, she sighed. "Since we parted, my sorrow has no bounds; forever together we should be, yet many things come between..."
Naturally, Wei Zhao did not know that behind him stood a girl who carried him in her heart. Tian Chan had not attended the final award ceremony; Wei Zhao had assumed she had returned to the Five Luminaries Sect long ago and would not show herself again.
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These past days Liu Tianli had melted down the pots and pans, borrowed from east and begged from west, and still had not managed to scrape together two hundred million. He had pieced together only a little over forty million, all of which he wired to President Lang's account. Just as he was waiting anxiously for news, what President Lang brought him was a thunderbolt out of a clear sky!
"President Liu, it's bad. Because we failed to get the snakehead his money by the deadline, the snakehead went to the border troops of that small country and informed on our smuggling operation. So the border troops have seized every last bit of our cargo!" Little Innocence said with an air of "grief."
"What!" Liu Tianli was stricken with alarm, as though he had dropped into an ice cellar. Yes, he had been hypnotized, but the hypnotism had touched only his boundless trust in Little Innocence and his belief that this venture would make a fortune!
Now the venture had hit trouble, and Liu Tianli was as alarmed as alarmed could be—he nearly brought on a heart attack. He demanded at once, "That snakehead, how can he be so unreasonable? It isn't that we won't pay him, we're only delaying a little while. How could he just..."
"There's nothing I can do either. Those people are desperadoes. I want to negotiate with them now, but they won't even see me..." Little Innocence sighed and spoke in deep frustration.