Chapter 80: Rich People Really Know How to Play

Liu Yue blurted out bluntly: "Great-great-grandma's life experiences are quite rich, huh."

Grandpa was utterly helpless: "Very rich indeed."

"After all, she could handle literature, martial arts, business, and managing a household."

"A true all-rounder."

"The only flaw is that when she educated people, she was too ruthless, her methods too explosive."

Once Grandpa started talking, he couldn't stop, and began telling Shen Mo and Liu Yue about the old lady's glorious history.

After taking over the Qin Family, she ran the entire Qin Family business so well it was thriving day by day.

During the War of Resistance, she could go to the battlefield, help with governance in the rear, rescue countless people, and also cozy up to overseas merchants to buy weapons for the troops, provide medical supplies and logistics, and reach out to merchants and friends outside.

You could say she was extremely impressive.

Grandpa bragged: "Back then, people had two ways to address women—one was 'Sister-in-law,' the other was 'Big Sister.'"

"Calling someone 'Sister-in-law' meant the man was impressive; calling someone 'Big Sister' meant the woman herself was impressive."

"Your great-great-grandma was called 'Big Sister' by people."

"She once carried quite a few people out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood."

A gleam shone in Grandpa's eyes.

As if to say, that impressive woman is my mother.

Shen Mo and Liu Yue nodded together. Okay, okay, we're all envious.

Immediately after, Grandpa's expression turned despondent again: "But her way of educating people was too explosive."

"She demanded that in thought, morality, ability, mindset, and ambition, not a single aspect could go wrong."

"For this, she chose the path of the capable taking everything, the losers eating dust."

"To show the entire Qin Family it was fair, she herself was the loser who ate dust and had to fight her way back up."

The words were simple, the expression lonely, but both Shen Mo and Liu Yue could feel that deep resentment.

Clearly the Qin Family was so powerful—if only mom weren't so absolute and shared just a little, he, as her son, could have had it much easier.

But the old lady just wouldn't share, insisted on her choice, so much so that Grandpa had to start fighting his way up from nothing.

Oh, he did have some things, like startup capital, like some connections.

Shen Mo and Liu Yue sighed. As two juniors, they couldn't really say anything against the old lady.

The matter was thus let go.

What happened next was something Shen Mo and Liu Yue hadn't expected.

Uncle Qin Meng found Liu Yue to talk privately, chatting a bit, hoping to hand the Qin Family's foundation over to Liu Yue to run.

He wanted Liu Yue to take the lead and organize an internal supervisory committee.

This left both Liu Yue and Shen Mo stunned.

How does something like this fall to us?

Uncle Qin Meng didn't beat around the bush, stating bluntly: "The assets of your branch will definitely all be yours two in the future."

"You two are also on the family register."

"So you are definitely Qin Family people—never treat yourselves as outsiders."

"Besides, aren't you two still going to have sons who'll take the Qin surname?"

The meaning behind his words was simple too: the day your branch dies out, your assets will return to the main Qin Family.

This meaning was unpleasant, but it was also a template for how big families operated.

Shen Mo and Liu Yue could only say that in the future they'd try their best to have sons, and if they had daughters they'd work hard to raise them well too, absolutely not letting them become useless people who only relied on the family.

Before leaving, Uncle Qin Meng also revealed this meaning to every branch.

Then everyone's private reaction was simple: unite when they should unite, cooperate for win-win when they should, enjoy the benefits when it's time to enjoy them.

What was left was to work hard raising the next generation, not producing useless people.

If one really did appear, still teach them to be a proper person, not to cause trouble, to know how to live, how to make money, how to get their own share within the family.

Of course, Uncle Qin Meng also announced another matter: the position of Family Head could be competed for.

If his branch produced a useless person, others could take their place.

The premise was that the person taking over had to show the ability to lead the entire family to soar.

For example, in business, creating a conglomerate worth hundreds of billions yourself.

Not long after Liu Yue took over the Qin Family's foundation, Liu Xinhua came looking.

Seeing this person who hadn't shown up at the Qin Family gathering, hadn't shown up when the ancestral hall was being built, but had now come, both Shen Mo and Liu Yue were curious about his reason for coming.

After arriving, Liu Xinhua stated directly: I'm not here to take advantage—I'm here to make demands.

The demand was simple: while I'm still alive, you two hurry up and give me a grandson with the surname Liu, to inherit our Liu Family's assets.

Everything else doesn't matter. Even if I die and the grandson changes his surname to Qin, that's fine.

Anyway, I'll be dead by then, and I'll have answered to my ancestors.

Those words were really crude.

Both Shen Mo and Liu Yue were helpless.

Still, the two agreed, and said they'd start the baby-making campaign right away.

Liu Yue calculated—she'd have to have at least three children: one surnamed Qin, one surnamed Liu, one surnamed Shen.

Each inheriting one share of the family business.

It was pretty absurd.

But it was still okay.

Liu Xinhua really threw a tantrum, rolling on the ground, making all kinds of demands, and had even written out his will.

Ms. Qin Hao also sided with Liu Xinhua on this matter.

Ms. Qin Hao also felt that the Qin Family couldn't do something so heartless as to devour the last of a line; they had to have a sense of honor.

Then the marriage-pressure army gained another member.

Watching the elegant ladies, grandmothers, and grandfathers who showed signs of joining the marriage-pressure army, Shen Mo silently thought to himself.

【The wedding needs to be put on the agenda.】

That one sentence made Liu Yue's heart tremble.

Her own husband — he still remembered?

May.

Erbin's snow had already melted completely; in the blink of an eye, Shen Mo and Liu Yue had also been here for almost half a year.

Time really does fly.

Liu Yue was already thirty, and Shen Mo was already twenty-four.

So, on this day of spring warmth and blooming flowers, Shen Mo took Liu Yue to take wedding photos.

Hearing Shen Mo's excited muttering in his heart, the corners of Liu Yue's mouth also rose into a smile.

This must be what it feels like to be cherished.

The photographer was Mr. Lei Ni, a top-tier photography master from San Sheng Entertainment — and indeed the whole country — who had won awards.

The wedding dress was personally picked out by Shen Mo.

The style was very simple: a phoenix coronet and ceremonial robes.

When Liu Yue saw the complete set of gold jewelry Shen Mo had prepared, she was stunned.

A phoenix coronet crafted from pure gold.

The ceremonial robe was actually sewn with real gold thread.

Looking at the shocked Liu Yue, Shen Mo smiled smugly.

【Shocked, right? I had this custom-made right after your dad arrived.】

【This whole outfit cost me a full thirty million.】

The finest fabric, a phoenix coronet crafted from pure gold, real gold thread.

For this, Shen Mo had specially sought out Shen Yilong, asking his grandfather to contact Grandfather Qin Meng.

Because some people weren't ones Shen Mo could invite on his own.

Liu Yue was happy.

She immediately posted the phoenix coronet and ceremonial robes online.

"Zhi Nu," the top silk atelier over in Jiangnan, also issued a statement.

This outfit had taken them three years to make; it was a work of art and had never been for sale.

But who could blame them — they were moved by the romance.

Of course, they couldn't say it was Grandfather Qin Meng who had moved them.

The two statements, especially the phoenix coronet and ceremonial robes that looked dazzlingly extravagant at first glance to ordinary people, made everyone exclaim that they'd really broadened their horizons.

Right after that, everyone remarked that rich people really knew how to have fun.

And also…

"Brother Mo really went all out on this one."

Seeing what Liu Yue had posted — that this time, all the money spent was from her husband's pocket —

Everyone silently said.

(End of chapter)