Chapter 3364

Mr. Wang instinctively nodded his head. Zhang Lin's words had already been made perfectly clear, and if he kept dwelling on this point, it would only seem like he was pushing his luck.

So the next moment, Mr. Wang immediately asked, "Mr. Zhang, do you really think there are that many people like Wang Hu inside the Wang family?"

This was not a question asked knowing the answer; rather, there was a pleading tone in his voice. He hoped that, by drawing on Zhang Lin's penetrating analysis, he might find an answer.

Even getting a little advance time would be fine. He had been agonizing over this matter these past few days, afraid that he would be completely in the dark and unable to find any answer he wanted.

That would be utterly embarrassing. At this moment, tossing the question back to Zhang Lin, for some reason Mr. Wang felt a great weight lift from his heart. Perhaps for all this time he had been agonizing over exactly this point.

He was afraid that some things would develop terribly wrong, and faced with such deviations, he could find no good way to respond.

It was precisely at this moment that Zhang Lin appeared. He could rest easy, he could set his mind at rest, because Zhang Lin could help him resolve all of this, sparing him any further worry. If Zhang Lin knew Mr. Wang was holding such an attitude at this moment, he would certainly be at a loss between tears and laughter.

Because this was not what he wanted to see. He had finally broken the two archaeological teams' dependence on him, and including the current Archaeological Team One, some core issues still had not been resolved. Now here came another Mr. Wang on top of it all—this could not help but give Zhang Lin an enormous headache.

But this time Mr. Wang had, in effect, thrown the problem back to Zhang Lin again. Although Zhang Lin also understood that Mr. Wang was doing this deliberately to evade the issue, things had already reached such a point that evading them any further seemed to have no meaning.

After all, the Wang family was still in Mr. Wang's hands. Whether or not Zhang Lin later let Wu Ya replace Mr. Wang, at least at this present juncture, no one could take over Mr. Wang's work. Moreover, the current Zhang Lin would not show such an intention.

If he really did that, it would only make many people believe he was deliberately picking quarrels, and the majority of these people would certainly be members of the Wang family.

One must understand that the Wang family's internal situation was already unstable. If Zhang Lin stirred up more such trouble, who knew what would happen afterward. Clearly, that was absolutely not the outcome Zhang Lin wanted to see. At least when facing such matters, Zhang Lin had many ways to respond.

If he rushed for quick results now, it would certainly cause everything that followed to fall through completely. But Mr. Wang tossing the problem back to him was absolutely a mistake.

Only the impact of the mistake was not great, so Zhang Lin still patiently bore with it. In the final analysis, it was because Archaeological Team One had not shown any major deviation, and he was not in a hurry to make those Wang family people appear quickly to resolve the problem.

To put it plainly, this time Zhang Lin wanted to give Archaeological Team One a lesson, to let them understand these matters were not that simple, and at the same time that he could not keep supporting them all the way to the finish line.

In the end, everything had to rely on Archaeological Team One's own efforts. They could not always think of depending on Zhang Lin—this point was certain. But they had precisely committed this error, assuming that as long as they leaned on Zhang Lin, all problems could be solved. This might also be the main reason Zhang Lin was so anxious.

He did not want anyone continuing to hold such a mindset. If they did, Zhang Lin would only grow more and more disappointed. Moreover, after working so hard for so long, what Zhang Lin wanted was to cultivate their independent thinking.

If they had even the slightest bit of dependence, they would ruin everything that came after. And now Mr. Wang was also trending in that direction.

One must understand that the question of how many Wang Hu-like figures the Wang family actually had was one Mr. Wang should not be asking himself. Even if it were just fooling around or making a joke, such a thing absolutely should not be done. The reason was very simple.

That was because Mr. Wang had controlled the Wang family for far too many years. Although at the very beginning Mr. Wang had only been able to establish the Wang family with Wang Canghai's help, very soon Wang Canghai stopped concerning himself with all these messy affairs.

Because with the Yunsuanbu Sect and other such things serving as the foundational support, Wang Canghai only needed to attend to his own affairs. The Wang family was merely Wang Canghai's subsidiary product.

And the reason he had brought in Mr. Wang was so that he could be an absolute hands-off boss. If, with Mr. Wang already in place, Wang Canghai still had to attend to everything personally, then why would he have gone to all that trouble at the start to find Mr. Wang?

Once he had a candidate who could help him lead the Wang family, based on this point Wang Canghai could rest easy. But he had never expected that the thinking from that very moment would bring a fatal crisis to the present.

Mr. Wang's betrayal left Wang Canghai at a loss, not even knowing what to do next. At the same time, this was the retribution Wang Canghai deserved, except Zhang Lin had not said so outright.

Of everything Wang Canghai had encountered up to today, only a small portion was guided by Zhang Lin; the majority was the arrangement of fate. His past decisions had set the wheels of cause and effect turning, thus letting things happen just as they did.

Take Mr. Wang's betrayal, for example. Although Zhang Lin's influence was part of it, in the final analysis it was because Wang Canghai himself had not done his part. If he had handled everything properly, given Mr. Wang's current loyalty, he would not have betrayed him—this was an accepted fact, only Wang Canghai himself was unwilling to admit it.

Precisely because of this, Wang Canghai appeared all the more pathetic. But up to now, not a single one of his own people had realized it. Wang Canghai was even still preening himself, convinced that apart from Zhang Lin, neither Mr. Wang nor Xue Long could cause him any major impact.

He could continue following his original plan, and no deviation would occur—such was what Wang Canghai thought in his heart. Based on this point, the problem had come full circle again.

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