Drip....... Drip.......

A white-haired old man is lying on a hospital bed, the room is not large, except for some medical facilities, there are some simple wooden furniture, and the floor is covered with a light coffee-colored carpet, on which there is a silhouette of a car logo, and the silhouette is surrounded by some parts and tools.

Locke sat quietly on the chair on the side, there was a sound of celebration outside, the entire Phoebus Manor has now been built, and many facilities are supported by large-scale light and shadow technology, which can be changed often, and the Phoebus Resort Manor opened last year, up to 2,000 yuan a night of top resort.

At the estate, you can enjoy good food and excellent service, and participate in a variety of estate activities.

Tonight is extremely important for Locke, just 11:21, Locke is still waiting for his father to wake up, his father is running out, 101 years old, is the first generation of the founder of the Bright City.

Kirdell is the name of the old man, who has been a direct force of the gods since the war-torn era, who has taken over the automobile technology from his parents since he was a teenager, and has been serving the city for nearly a century.

Locke's mood was a little heavy at this moment, this day had finally come, and his father was going to hand over the head of the Phoebus family to Locke in front of the other seven families and several gods.

Locke knows very well that he has no ability to take over this position at all, because he has no talent, and his talent is not very smart, and he has always relied on his father's shadow, and there is no actual achievement at all.

The Phoebus family now controls 30% of the city's car sales market, but many auto parts and auto repair industries are actually under the control of the Phoebus family.

Over the years, the city's automobile industry has been extremely stable, and the price of automobiles is the most stable thing except food, all thanks to the regulation of the automobile industry by Cordel.

Locke is still waiting for his father to wake up, and if it weren't for Locke, who is now the only one in the family, he would not have been able to take over the Phoebus's place, Locke had an older brother and older sister who died when Akara was raging, and his sister died in a serious accident.

Brother and sister are too good than Locke, over the years, Locke has also been in accordance with his father's orders, taking care of everything in the Phoebus family, basically everything is under his father's behalf, when his father planned to start the family handover ceremony a few days ago, Locke was only excited for a short time that day, and then fell into a daze.

Locke didn't know how to carry such a huge and heavy family business, Locke asked his childhood friend Zhang Yang, and he just told Locke because his name was Locke. Phoebus, nothing else.

Locke knew what Zhang Yang wanted to say, and now he was in a nervous mood, always in Locke's heart, he didn't know when his father would wake up, recently, although his father was in good health, but as soon as he fell asleep, he would fall into a coma, and he could move less and less.

Outside Locke's room was a spacious corridor with four walls covered with paintings and intricate wall decorations.

Opposite Kodel's room was a large living room, where Suri and Violet sat on a set of sofas, with Wang Degui and Field sitting next to them, and Eddie sitting at a small single round table next to the sofa area, always smiling and drinking alone.

Chen Qiao sat opposite Violet, Jiang Hao sat on the left, the patriarchs of the seven families came 6, Violet represented the Angus family, and now her husband Avano needs to recuperate before he can recover.

The room full of people didn't talk much, and no one expected that they would suddenly be contacted by Congress and needed to come to Phoebus's house to participate in Locke's house. The inauguration ceremony of the patriarch of Phoebus's family.

The families in the city, every inauguration ceremony of the eight major families is extremely grand, and there are other family patriarchs who have been invited, large and small, outside, and the inauguration of the patriarchs of the eight major families requires the presence of the gods to witness in person.

Although the eight families are no longer as strong as they used to have over the city, their economic ability is still among the top in the city, some people have calculated that the wealth of the eight families on the surface, if added up, accounts for 40% of the current urban economy, this figure is extremely exaggerated, but some people think that it may actually be more.

The city has been established for more than half a century, and the accumulation of wealth of the eight families has reached its peak in this half century.

Even though the families have handed over a lot of things because of the gradual and in-depth implementation of the anti-monopoly law, there are still the shadows of the eight families in many related industries.

Even the Angus family, which is the most troublesome of the eight families, still has two almost semi-permanent profit rights in the city's subway and logistics corridors, and this kind of huge bill related to the city as a whole is excluded from the anti-monopoly law.

It can be said that the Eight Great Families single-handedly established the Bright City, no matter which aspect it is, if there were no Eight Great Families, the Bright City would not exist.

"Do you want us to play cards first?"

Chen Qiao finally couldn't stand this dull atmosphere and spoke, Jiang Hao leaned over with interest, Chen Qiao took out a deck of playing cards and invited Wang Degui and Field on the opposite side to join together, but the two shook their heads, and finally Chen Qiao could only turn his gaze to Eddie, who smiled and waved his hand.

"Interested, ladies and gentlemen!"

Chen Qiao asked, but was directly rejected by Su Li and Violet's eyes.

Eddie looked at these two people quietly, they were both raccoon dogs, and they didn't have much ability, if Chen Qiao hadn't relied on Wu Qun's guy, let alone be in charge, he would have been asking for food on the street now, and Jiang Hao was the same, if he hadn't relied on his incomparably shrewd wife Honghong, the family business would have been ruined by him a long time ago.

Nowadays, among the patriarchs of the eight major families, Chen Qiao and Jiang Hao are the most incompetent, and several other people are more capable, especially Su Li, a series of practices over the years have made Eddie feel amazed.

The moment Eddie saw the anger in her eyes when Violet's eyes met, the Angus family had completely broken with the Hillman family.

Everyone present knew that if the Angus family continued, the economic strength would be even inferior to that of the Albert family, which was steadily rising.

And what annoys Eddie the most is that the people present, unlike those years, will stretch their hands from their own pots to other people's pots, and are very friendly to do their own industries in their respective fields, and will not rashly cross borders, all of which are planned by Eddie's eight classmates behind the scenes.

Originally, I wanted to use the hands of these guys to continue to suppress the economy of the Angus family, but now it seems impossible.

"Do you think Locke has what it takes on the Phoebus family?"

At this time, Eddie spoke, and everyone's expressions had given a clear answer in an instant, and Chen Qiao sighed.

"To put it mildly, Locke is not capable, of course it doesn't mean that I am capable, but it is the truth."

Wang Degui laughed.

"What are you capable of?"

"Each other, each other!"

Chen Qiao sneered and said, everyone knows that Wang Degui relied on his nephew Queen Ying's gambling practices to make a lot of money, and the Wang family's industry under his control instantly surpassed the brothers and sisters who were still fighting, and finally the position of the head of the Wang family fell into the hands of Wang Degui, although he himself had some ability, but compared to his nephew Queen Ying, it was too far behind.

Field laughed.

"Chen Qiao, don't you think that now that you are the patriarch of the Chen family, you can be on an equal footing with us!"

Chen Qiao stared at Field coldly, this guy has always used to ridicule himself at banquets and make fun of himself, at that time he was really powerless, just an out-and-out loser and a waste of firewood, but now it is different.

"Don't think I don't know, Field, how many ideas Lin Xiao gave you, and how many relationships he helped you unblock, I know."

For a while, Field's face instantly lost a good face, and Jiang Hao next to him yawned and said.

"What's there to fight for, hurry up and end my meeting later, I have to go to the awards ceremony in the film and television area."

For a while, the living room was calm, Chen Qiao couldn't sit still, and he still couldn't vent his anger after being choked by Field just now, he flipped over the playing cards, and the playing cards of Hula Hula sounded.

"Would you like to have fun with you?"

At this time, Eddie said and came over, he sat next to Jiang Hao, but the others were obviously not interested, and they all wanted to hurry up and finish the inheritance ceremony of this patriarch, and then go back to do their own thing.

Although Eddie is also riddled with miscellaneous things, he is enjoying this state even more now, because Ran Zhi has already gone to the barrier area, and now he can rest assured, as for the question of whether there are traitors within the family, Eddie does not plan to think about it in the short term.

"Well, I think we can discuss an issue, and I'm sure that's something that everyone is very concerned about."

Everyone looked at Eddie to hear what he had to say, and Eddie glanced at everyone with his hands folded.

"What do you think of the company's qualification review now?"

For a while, everyone sensed what Eddie wanted to say, and Jiang Hao spoke first.

"The guys in the acting section, this doesn't work, that doesn't work, I originally wanted to invite the section chief of the 9th section to dinner, but I couldn't invite it once."

Although the others did not speak, in the past few years, they have been in contact with the department, so that their companies have a large number of qualification review problems, because the speed of the review is very slow, resulting in some problems in many links, and it is some family enterprises that are affected.

Everyone tried every way, especially in the expansion of some related industries, the progress is very slow, often need to accept the joint review of several sections, and the detailed rules of the review are also outrageously strict, which has seriously hindered the development of many family enterprises in recent years.

Everyone knows what the reason is, the purpose of the business department wants to cut down the family's immunity, the purpose is very obvious, and compared with the family, the speed of the businessman's review is often faster, and even the senior management of the business department often accepts the invitation of the businessman, and will send a special person to assist the businessman to complete the examination of business qualifications.

The intentions of the Operations Section against the family are very obvious, even the Angus family is the same, even if the eldest daughter Alpha is the head of the 5th Section, she is ruthlessly reviewed.

The behavior of the Acting Section has made the whole family a little angry, but nothing can be changed, and the behavior of the Acting Section has made many families angry.

There are already some people from small families who can't stand it anymore, and they gather together every time they meet, hoping that the eight major families will come forward to solve some problems.

"These are real problems, and I think it's important for us to take advantage of this opportunity to talk to the gods privately when they come."

Chen Qiao smiled and nodded, and Jiang Hao next to him also spoke.

"It's true, we haven't had a meeting for many years, and we're all busy with each other, although some of us are just representatives of the patriarch, and there have been conflicts between families, but I think our family must be a whole, and if we let the people in the department continue to do this, I can't stand it."

At this time, many people looked at Violet, and then at Eddie, Violet stared at Jiang Hao angrily.

"Your mouth is still the same as it used to be, it stinks."

Jiang Hao smiled awkwardly, Jiang Hao is this virtue on weekdays, he always says something without concealment, and the things he used to do with Violet, everyone present knew it, and that incident made Violet's family completely break with the Jiang family, and now the two families basically meet and never speak.

And the problems of the Angus family and the Hillman family, everyone also knows that the two families have become enemies, although Eddie is always humble, but it is too insidious in his bones, the Hillman family has reaped the benefits of the fisherman in the construction of Angus, and has made a lot of money by this construction, and it is the Angus family that ultimately suffers damage.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became tense, and Su Li, who was silent for a while, spoke.

"It doesn't matter what you want, don't pull me, it has nothing to do with me, as for the immunity, whether there is or not has no impact on our Su family."

Field looked at Sully.

"Humph! Su Li, it doesn't matter, don't you care about the life or death of the rest of your Su family? If there is no immunity, those ........ of your Su family"

"What does it have to do with me? It's something they did on their own, it's just a matter of not repenting once or twice, just sweep the floor out of the house for the third time, our Su family doesn't need black sheep, but your own Field, your sister Wilsie's situation at that time, if you are willing to intervene, as for this! ”

"Enough is enough, Suri!"

In an instant, Chen Qiao roared angrily, his emotions were almost out of control for a while, his anger made his expression seem a little distorted, his body trembled, he stood up directly and pointed at Su Li.

"Wilsie's matter, you'd better not mention Sully again!"

Su Li giggled.

"When I'm alive, it's not good to think of a way, if I'm a man, I don't want everything, no matter what method I use, take her away, it's a pity that you're just a coward Chen Qiao, what kind of ability are you yelling at me now?"

Chen Qiao was speechless for a while, and the face of Field on the opposite side also showed a hint of shallow sadness, and his face was very bad.

"Which pot is not opened, which pot is not mentioned? What do you mean by saying this? Okay, everyone, calm down. ”

Jiang Hao stood up and wanted to ease the atmosphere, but at this time Wang Degui laughed.

"Everyone should not stand and talk without backache, everyone has their own position, and I think it's better not to mention some things again."

Violit never spoke, she didn't want to get involved in any family affairs, and she wouldn't talk to Eddie.

"I'm telling the truth, what a bullshit position!"

Su Li spoke again, as if she was not afraid of adding fuel to the fire at all, and for a while Chen Qiao was already trembling with anger, and Field's face was even more ugly.

"My sister has already married, and she did it voluntarily, and our Horsen family has also given her a sufficient dowry, not to mention ........"

"You two big men shut up, okay? These things are not a reason or excuse for your weakness, Chen Qiao, don't pester your nephew anymore, recently I occasionally heard that you often run to the middle level. ”

Chen Qiao looked at Su Li with a solemn face.

"He should have his own life, you are still uncles and nephews, and family, but his name is Jewell now, and his surname is no longer Chen."

Chen Qiao sat down calmly, what he felt in his heart at this moment was not anger, but loss, and every day such a sense of loss would strike in the dead of night.

Field tilted his head sideways, he knew very well that he was thinking about his sister all the time in his heart, but somewhere he could never admit that he was wrong, and it was his cold sidelines as the eldest brother that finally led to this series of tragedies, and because of Wilcy's affairs, the family's immunity finally began to waver.

"I'll say it straight!"

Violet stood up at this point, and everyone looked at her.

"No matter what you think, my daughter will one day do everything she can to cut off the family's immunity, and she will not compromise."

Wang Degui's heart trembled, Jiang Hao looked a little helpless, and Field next to him nodded.

"Indeed, with your daughter's cold-blooded character, Violit has no means to solve it at all, because as long as there is the slightest problem, it will be held by the 5th Branch."

The road of the Huo Sen family in industry over the years has been really very difficult, because some industrial products have problems, and as a result, they have been targeted by the 5 branches, and some young people in the Huo Sen family have misbehaved and have been completely targeted to death by the 5 branches, and it is difficult to move forward in many industries.

"What are the imps talking about! I think I'm having a lot of fun. ”

Accompanied by a high-pitched female voice, with a smile in her voice, Tang Rao stepped in, wearing a dark green long skirt, carrying a small bag in her hand, and several other bodies also walked in one after another, and all the family patriarchs present hurriedly got up and bowed solemnly.

"Isn't that kid Kirdell awake yet?"

Li Chu asked, and Eddie replied.

"It's been two hours since we've been here, Master Li Chu."

After the gods walked in, Werther motioned for the patriarchs to sit down, and the six gods also found a place to sit down, Jiang Hao hurriedly got up and came over with wine and wine glasses, and poured a glass of wine for the six gods in turn.

"Jiang Hao, your father Jiang Tianci used to say that you would ruin your family, but fortunately, you married a capable daughter-in-law, if you really have a soul, your father should be snickering!"

Deguna teased, Jiang Hao scratched the back of his head with a smile, and Eddie asked at this time.

"Didn't Master Jean come?"

Gu Yi was dressed in a white coat and still smelled of metal on his body, he leaned against the door and shook his head.

"He probably won't come, he doesn't really like this kind of occasion."

At this time, the patriarchs of several families exchanged eyes and moved to Eddie, hoping that Eddie would open his mouth, and Eddie held it up after seeing it, and bowed with one hand on his chest and said.

"Six gods, I have a question that I hope I can say."

Rose lit a cigarette and smiled and nodded.

"Is the Bureau's control over our family too strict now?"

"You should go and negotiate with the councillors on this issue yourself, after all, your family's business is in some districts, go and discuss with the councillors, little ghost, don't talk about these things tonight."

Li Chu said immediately, and Eddie didn't say anything anymore.

"Is that kid Avano better?"

Tang Rao asked, and Violi nodded.

For a while, the room fell silent again, and the patriarchs knew that although the gods did not directly explain the matter of canceling the immunity, the acting department was established by the elites cultivated by the gods, and the gods would definitely not solve the problems directly, but through the people who were cultivated, after all, it was the seven gods who signed this immunity with large and small families back then, and they at least had to take into account the face of the lower body as gods.

"Time flies so fast, and now the fourth generation of Bright City has been born, and it will grow up in more than ten years."

Tang Rao muttered, Jiang Hao leaned over, took out the lighter, and lit the cigarette on Tang Rao's lips.

The problem of the Phoebus family tonight, everyone knows it, it is clear that the Phoebus family used to be a direct force of the gods, and the head of the family, Kedel, almost lost his life for the gods because of a violent power conflict in the past, it stands to reason that the gods should support the Phoebus family, but the gods did not do this, and now the situation of the Phoebus family is a little bad.

Li Chu looked at the door of Kodel's bedroom from time to time, but it never opened, the Phoebus family was not so much a direct force of the gods, but a direct force of Li Chu himself.

11:51 a.m

Cordell opened his eyes on the hospital bed, and Locke leaned over excitedly.

"Father!"

Cordell nodded.

"What time is it?"

Locke picked up his father and fed him a sip of water.

"It's almost January 2nd."

Cordell nodded.

"Do you know why I let you inherit it, Locke?"

Locke shook his head, his heart was a little heavy, it was true that there were more shrewd and suitable people in Phoebus's branch than himself, but his father did not choose those excellent people at the overall meeting of the family, but chose himself, and immediately carried out the succession ceremony of the patriarch of the family.

Cordell looked at his uneasy son, took his hand and patted the back of his hand gently.

"Because you have something that no one else has, you're kinder than everyone else, Locke."

Locke looked at his father in some surprise, and he smiled and nodded.

"Remember Locke, if the city needs our help one day, don't be stingy, I'm sure you won't."

Locke snorted, all these years, the Phoebus family has been secretly supporting the construction of the Angus family, although all this is carried out under the authorization of Cordell, but his son Locke has never asked, nor does he care about these gains and losses, this is the best quality of a human being that Kodel values.

"Help me out!"

Locke hugged his fluttering father and put him in a wheelchair, looking at his father's legs, which had been amputated long ago, and now his thighs were only as thick as his own arms.

"I'm afraid that one day ........"

"If there really is such a day, it is just to return the wealth that our family has survived well, there is nothing to be sad about, borrow three to repay seven, remember? The story I told you. ”

Locke snorted, his father had already told Locke more than once about his encounter with the gods.

It was a long time ago, when the land was still at war, and Kodel, as the leader of a new force, was rich in resources and had a lot of troops and weapons in his hands.

One day a man of three or seven points visited the city, hoping to exchange the technology in his hand for some food, many people were rejected at that time, the man was arrested by them, and the man did not resist, but the man subdued all the people that night, and Cordell was surprised, the man who could have killed them and stole the food, did not do so.

At that time, the man said that he would borrow some food and pay it back when the time came, which could obviously be done by force, but the man wrote an IOU, and finally Kodell agreed, and lent a large amount of food to these seven people, and after they left, no one could swallow this breath, but the weapon had no effect on them.

In the end, there were the backbone elements of the force, tracking the past, and found a small town in the mountains, most of which were children, and these seven people were educating these children, even if they couldn't beat them, they could be angry with the children in their hands.

After all the preparations were over, Kodel finally gave up the attack, and after a long time, Kodel was about to forget about it, and a serious epidemic broke out in the territory of more than 300,000 people under his control, and it was miserable for a while.

However, at this time, the guy who was three or seven points came over with six other people, and they used the medical technology they mastered to successfully solve the epidemic, which could have killed tens of thousands, but in the end only a few hundred people died.

After that, the seven of them stayed in the city of Cordell for a while, teaching their people a great deal of knowledge before leaving.

Looking at his father's enjoyment, he seemed to be immersed in those good memories of the past.

"Remember Locke, the most precious thing between people is sincerity, and the noblest quality of people is kindness, and the most indispensable thing for people is courage!"