"Do you mean to let the current Chen family give up resistance?" asked Chen Hongming with a smile.

Li Xian nodded lightly: "That's right, only in this way will the Qi family and the Li family fight among themselves." With a little bit of sweetness, they'll bite in. If Li Qing wins, we will take the opportunity to pick up the Qi family's advantage and deal with the Li family with a backhand. If the Qi family wins, it will be in our hands, and the high-level management of Lingang will definitely not ignore this, and in the worst case, they will take the lead in supporting the Chen family again. ”

Chen Hongming grinned lightly: "Do you know what kind of embarrassing position the Chen family is in now? Li Qing desperately wants to kill us, the Qi family and the Xie family are not idle, the past last month was the first loss in fifty years for all the businesses under the Chen family, and then, the Ledu was bombed, and half of the Chen family's wealth was stored in the underground vault, and now it is all gone!"

"At this time, you still want me to give up resisting? You say, should I go to Li's house in person and surrender in front of Li Qing?"

Li Xian's heart sank, and he lowered his voice and said: "If you can't bear it, you will make a big plan, the current Chen family is already a dead end, and only this one method is feasible." ”

"Do you know what I want to say now?" Chen Hongming picked and chose on the ground, and finally picked up a goblet that had fallen off the bottom of the glass, walked to the cabinet and poured half a glass of red wine, swaying gently.

Raising his head and drinking it all, Chen Hongming turned around and stared at Li Xian, and said coldly: "Get out." ”

"You..."

"Do you think I'll count on a loser to give me advice, not to mention that your advice stinks like shit!" Chen Hongming slammed his glass on the ground, the corners of his mouth crooked, "Because of my mercy, you will survive." I raise you, protect you, like a hound, the critical moment is to let you out and bite, not to make you turn your head and bark at me. ”

"Now, get out!"

Li Xian staggered back half a step and glared at Chen Hongming in disbelief.

Chen Hongming's face became colder and colder: "Didn't you hear me clearly? Do you want to send you to the Li family now?" I believe that the Li family will tear you apart without hesitation after seeing you. ”

Gritting his teeth fiercely, Li Xian's face turned pale, and he turned around and walked out.

When he opened the door, he hesitated slightly, opened his mouth, but said nothing.

"Young Master Li. The two bodyguards at the door pretended not to hear the conversation in the room, and nodded slightly at Li Xian, but the look on their faces was not as respectful as before.

The corners of Li Xian's mouth tugged slightly, and then walked out dejectedly.

"Give up resistance, what are you kidding!" Chen Hongming's eyes froze slightly, turned around and kicked open the door and strode out, "Go see the head of the family." ”

After a slight pause, Chen Hongming said again: "Let the maid clean the house, and in the future, without my instructions, you are not allowed to let Li Xian's cheap dog in, do you understand?"

"Yes!"

In Chen Hongming's view, the advice given by Li Xian is undoubtedly to let the Chen family bring about their own destruction, and the arrogant Chen family will naturally not adopt this seemingly extremely stupid method.

The sky was already white, Chen Hongming strode on the marble-paved road, his head bowed, his eyebrows tightly locked, and he was full of worries.

"Da Shao, it's already here. The subordinate cautiously reminded him.

Chen Hongming's body stiffened suddenly, and then he raised his head in a daze, and shook his head self-deprecatingly: "I almost walked by." ”

Walking up and knocking lightly on the door, Chen Hongming asked in a low voice, "Dad, are you sleeping?"

"How can you sleep, come in. The lights in the room came on, and a hoarse voice came from Chen Xueru, the head of the Chen family.

Chen Hongming hesitated, then turned around and ordered the two bodyguards: "You go farther away, keep this place to death, and don't let anyone in." ”

"Yes. ”

Seeing that the two bodyguards responded, turned around and walked to the porch to guard, Chen Hongming took a deep breath, pushed open the door and walked in.

Chen Xueru is around sixty years old, with a face like a heavy jujube, thick hair, and a little beard under his chin, which looks a bit like a fairy wind and bones.

Bypassing a carved wooden screen, Chen Hongming stopped. Chen Xueru, the head of the Chen family, was wearing a pure white nightgown at the moment, leaning on his ** head, staring at a photo in a daze. The whole room was spacious, bright and magnificent, but it was empty and extremely deserted.

Although the Chen family has fallen lightly in business, their family style has always been good. Perhaps because he knows the truth of greed and desire to harm others, the elders of the clan are quite strict with the juniors below. In this regard, the self-restraint of the descendants of the Chen family is often much better than that of the rest of the families who claim to be scholars.

Of course, there are inevitably a few scum among them, and Chen Xueru's second son Chen Luofeng is one of them. But if you want to investigate it carefully, Chen Luofeng's life is so absurd, and the end is so miserable, and it has a lot to do with his brother Chen Hongming.

After all, the youngest son has always been more loved, and in the Chen family, the only one who had the hope of competing with Chen Hongming was Chen Luofeng's younger brother. In order to make his younger brother willing to be **, Chen Hongming really spent a lot of effort. But if it is said that in addition to the struggle for power, Chen Hongming has no feelings for his younger brother, but it is not at all. On the contrary, maybe it is really flesh and blood, or maybe Chen Hongming has always felt guilty and takes great care of Chen Luofeng.

It's just that his care finally contributed to his younger brother being killed in Changhongqiao. And until today, Chen Hongming did not dare to tell his father Chen Xueru such news.

Chen Xueru only married one wife in his life and had two sons, Chen Hongming and Chen Luofeng. After losing his wife at the age of forty-three, Chen Xueru never married a wife in his later life, and even in the next 20 years, he never touched any woman again. This is an incredible thing for a generation of Chen family heads. You must know that with Chen Xueru's identity, even in the age of ancient times, there will still be a large number of beautiful women flocking to him.

Just in this one thing, you can also see how incredible the self-control of this Chen family head is. When it comes to Chen Xueru's steadfastness to his deceased wife, I'm afraid no one will not admire him.

"Daddy. Chen Hongming shouted, then walked to the side and sat down, his eyes involuntarily looked at the photo in Chen Xueru's hand.

It was the year when Chen Xueru was forty-two years old, and the family photo taken with his wife and two sons during a spring outing, was also the last photo taken by the family of four together.

That year, Chen Hongming was thirteen years old and Chen Luofeng was ten years old.

After that spring outing, in the summer of the following year, Chen Xueru's wife died of illness. Thinking of the past, the son of the hand, I thought that **** was free, but I didn't expect it to become eternal in an instant.

"Daddy. Chen Hongming called softly again, "Are you thinking about your mother?"

"Huh. Chen Xueru shook his head and smiled, put down the photo, "I've thought about it for so many years, it's boring, it's too grinding." I don't dare to think about it now, I really don't know if Huang Quanxia will see her in the future, how can I explain what happened to Luo Feng?"

"My Chen family is in Lingang, and I can't say anything, and I am by no means slaughtered. Why is it that after so much time, a good and decent living person can't be found?"

Chen Hongming saw that his father's eyes were red, and he couldn't help but feel a deep sense of guilt in his heart. I wanted to reveal the truth, but in the end, my lips squirmed, and I still changed my words: "I thought that my father would work hard for Ledu's affairs." ”

"Heh, it's all blown up, what else can I do? I'm ashamed of my ancestors. Chen Xueru took a deep breath, "The wealth accumulated over the years was ruined, but I don't feel very distressed. After all, the money is put there, and it is also dead. The living are always more important than the dead, I really hope that Luo Feng will not end up in the same fate. ”

Chen Xueru's unintentional words made Chen Hongming's body tremble violently.

"Hongming, what's wrong with you?" Chen Xueru turned his head, looked Chen Hongming up and down, and asked, "Why is your face so ugly?"

"I... I'm fine. Chen Hongming wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, he had already made up his mind in his heart, and he must not tell the truth about Chen Luofeng's death. Although it was an unintentional mistake, after all, he was bearing a huge responsibility, and with Chen Xueru's personality, he would definitely not spare himself easily.

Chen Xueru didn't know what his eldest son was thinking, and gently patted his back to comfort him: "Don't worry, I have just arranged for someone to calculate." Although the scale of this explosion was large, it can still be salvaged under the sea of Gangbei Bay with a little more effort in the future. Even though we have losses, they are not as bad as you think. ”

"Really?" Chen Hongming's eyes suddenly lit up, and this was the only piece of good news he had received recently.

Chen Xueru nodded: "This large amount of wealth, judging from the current financial resources of the Chen family, has not affected the current economic business. In other words, we've just changed the way we store it, and we can still salvage it whenever we want it in the future. The real loss is nothing more than the banknotes in circulation. ”

"But..."Chen Xueru's words turned sharply, his brows furrowed tightly, "The impact of the Ledu explosion on the Chen family in public opinion is immeasurable, and it will inevitably cause turmoil in the existing situation. You go back and discuss with a few elders in the clan and find a way to eliminate the influence as soon as possible. ”

Seeing Chen Hongming nodding, Chen Xueru gritted his teeth: "And that Li Qing, who has become more and more dishonest recently, like a wild dog that has gone crazy, he will not hesitate to gamble on the entire Li family to kill us." I was going to go to Li's house recently to meet Li Qizhi, and if this situation continues, it will not be beneficial to either side. ”