Chapter 624: Taking Responsibility

Sheng Zerong received a call from his uncle, and upon learning that he wanted to sell his shares to him, he did not agree immediately, but instead said he needed to consider it.

He hung up the phone.

He immediately called Shi Youxuan: "Sister-in-law, Uncle wants to sell his shares to me. What should I do?"

Shi Youxuan: "Then you should just buy them."

Sheng Jiang holds a significant amount of shares in the Sheng Family Group, which is also a rather awkward situation.

After he passes away, these shares are meant for Sheng Hanyu to inherit, but if Sheng Hanyu inherits his father's shares, his total shareholding would exceed that of Sheng Zerong.

Who would be the Chairman of the Sheng Group then?

Although the brothers have always had a good relationship, there is a saying: even brothers must settle accounts clearly.

On these issues, it is better to be clear.

If he buys Sheng Jiang's shares, the Sheng Group, which the old master founded single-handedly back in the day, would truly be under the control of the second branch.

Shi Youxuan agreed readily, but Sheng Zerong still felt that this matter should be handled with caution.

He said: "Sister-in-law, how about this? Uncle is short of money right now, so I will lend it to him, and we can decide on the matter of selling the shares after Big Brother returns."

Shi Youxuan: "No need, you should buy them. This is your Big Brother's intention."

Sheng Zerong is meticulous and thinks a lot.

But Sheng Hanyu and his wife have never cared about the shares of the Sheng Group; the family business they have now was all earned by themselves, so there is no need to fixate on what the ancestors left behind.

"Alright, then I will buy them." Since it was also Big Brother's intention, Sheng Zerong had no more concerns.

Sheng Jiang sold his shares to Sheng Zerong and distributed all the money he received.

He has lived for more than half his life and had never tasted the feeling of being short of money, but now he has tasted it.

Sheng Jiang is now a pauper.

He smiled bitterly at his wife: "Ah Hao, I originally wanted you to live a good life with me, but it turned out that we have to live a poor life. If you regret it and want to leave me, I won't blame you..."

"I don't regret it, and I won't leave you." Wang Yinghao was firm.

Sheng Jiang: "Silly wife, what is the use of you following a good-for-nothing like me? I used to be unconvinced, feeling that Father didn't give me a chance and Hanyu looked down on me... Now I see that everything they did was right. I am just useless, unable to accomplish anything but good at ruining things..."

Wang Yinghao covered his mouth, not letting him continue.

For the first time in her life, she spoke in an imposing tone: "I don't care what you think, nor do I care about others' opinions of you. I only trust my own judgment."

"In my heart, you are the best man, very outstanding. I, Wang Yinghao, have never regretted knowing you in this life. I didn't before, I won't now, and I certainly won't in the future."

"You may not be the best in others' eyes, but you are good to me, so I will be good to you. Never say things about leaving me again, unless you have taken a fancy to another old lady. But no one else wants you now anyway; you are mine, forever and always mine."

Shi Youxuan swore that she really didn't mean to eavesdrop on her parents-in-law.

She appeared at the door of her parents-in-law's room intending to knock and tell them that Hanyu would be back soon.

But she ended up hearing a confession that was plain and simple, yet moving enough to make one want to shed tears!

She left quietly; it was better not to disturb them.

L Country.

The Zhu Family Castle was in chaos.

Servants were moving things onto vehicles, and the sounds of gunfire and artillery from not far away were audible, making one's heart race with fear.

"Hurry, hurry up."

The butler urged them on, while cursing foully: "Are you all pigs? Dawdling like this—if you don't run fast while fleeing for your lives, are you planning to wait for those people to attack and turn you all into roasted pigs?"

"Bang!"

A servant, in a flurry, accidentally dropped a box on the ground, and the contents scattered everywhere.

Dolls, little clothes, little furniture... they were all children's toys.

The servant went to pick them up, but the butler kicked the box away: "What time do you think it is to be wanting these pieces of junk? You are not allowed to pick them up."

"Dolly, my dolly..."

A pretty five or six-year-old girl ran over to pick it up, and her mother tried to pull her back but couldn't hold on.

"Come back, Tingting, don't take those anymore, Mommy will buy you more later."

But the child turned a deaf ear and still ran over!

Two men were carrying a box, struggling to walk this way.

The box was not large, but it looked particularly heavy; it was either cash or gold bars.

The servants' attention was all on the box, and they didn't see the little girl picking up things on the side. A man stepped on the girl's leg—"Tingting, move away, no!"

"Ah!!!"

The woman wanted to pull her daughter away, but she was just one step too late.

The girl's leg was stepped on, and she could even hear the sound of her daughter's bones breaking.

The little girl cried out and fainted from the pain.

The butler went to report to Zhu Yiwen: "Head of the Family, a servant accidentally broke Miss Zhu's leg. Madam Lu Si now refuses to leave with you no matter what; she insists on sending the young lady to the hospital. What should we do?"

"Idiots, how could such a thing happen at a time like this? Who stepped on her?" Zhu Yiwen was furious.

He was about to retreat, to leave his Castle and go somewhere else to hide for a while.

Reliable news had come in that in one day, his Castle would be attacked, and since the troops had all been sent to the front to fight, the people in the Castle alone could not hold them off.

The people coming to attack his Castle were all elite troops; although the Castle was easy to defend and hard to attack, it was not impenetrable.

The government that had been in exile abroad had suddenly returned, and they returned without any warning.

But they clearly had ample preparations; they were unstoppable upon their return, and those who had come to power through the rebellion could not hold their ground at all and soon collapsed into a rout.

The leader told him to retreat first and move all the funds in the country abroad.

Zhu Yiwen was the Minister of Commerce on the surface, but in reality, he also held the position of Finance Minister of L Country; all the money was in his hands, and there could not be the slightest mistake.

At such a critical moment, trouble had to arise.

He said to the butler, "Go tell Madam Lu Si that the hospitals outside are now full of wounded soldiers; there is blood and death everywhere, and it will frighten the child."

"Yes."

The butler agreed and was about to leave when he added from behind, "Wait, tell Madam Lu Si again that doctors and nurses are in extreme shortage right now, and the operating rooms simply cannot be scheduled; it is even more dangerous for them to go to the hospital."

"Yes, Head of the Family, I understand."

The butler went out.

Zhu Yiwen slammed a fist onto the empty table: "Useless."

Things are not being handled well; his subordinates are not useful at all now, each one worse than the last.

If it were anyone else, he would simply abandon them.

But that little girl cannot be; she is the daughter of Zhu Xingye and must be taken away, as his future comeback relies mainly on Zhu Xingye helping him accumulate wealth.

He truly missed the time when A Qing was around; such trivial matters would have been arranged perfectly without even needing to report to him.

But A Qing can never come back, and all of this must be blamed on those two people!

The image of Sheng Hanyu appeared before Zhu Yiwen's eyes.

He had an intuition that this turmoil in L Country must be closely linked to Sheng Hanyu, and it was even very possible that Sheng Hanyu was in L Country!

Not long after the butler went out, he returned.

He looked troubled: "I am sorry, Head of the Family, I am useless; I conveyed your words to Madam Lu Si word for word, but Madam simply refuses to leave. She said, she said that Miss Zhu's leg cannot handle being jolted around outside, and if she cannot go to the hospital, she must stay in the Castle."