Chapter 2847: An Album

An Chengxi had been very worried about the shaping of Ye Chen's personality, character, and values during his growth.

As a mother, she naturally hoped to always give Ye Chen the best education, the best environment, and the best guidance.

But the actual situation was that she could only watch Ye Chen grow up hard with other children in the welfare home, and could only watch Ye Chen drop out of school voluntarily after graduating from high school and go to the construction site to work, but could not intervene to carry out any interference.

Once upon a time, she was also worried about whether Ye Chen's values would be distorted in that environment, whether he would be too snobbish, too worldly, but fortunately, Ye Chen found a very good middle point for his values between the rich young master in his childhood and the poor orphan later.

This not only allowed him to maintain a normal set of values and a sense of justice that he should have, but also allowed him to avoid the overly harsh moral standards of his father.

In other words.

To a certain extent, this greatly made up for Ye Brother Changying's personality shortcomings.

Just like the position of the head of the Ye family,

The normal succession process of the head of the family should be that after the old master Ye Zhongquan decides to retire, Ye Zhongquan personally points out who will inherit, and if other children have objections, they must find a way to make the old master change his mind. Those with more ruthless minds might first find a way to get rid of the original successor, and then they will take the top position.

Today's wealthy families are like this, and the princes and generals in ancient times are the same.

But Ye Chen didn't play this set with the Ye family.

Not only did he not follow the traditional process, he didn't even say hello to the Ye family when he helped himself to the top.

He just told Wan Pojun in front of the Ye family that he had just taken over the affairs of the Ye family and happened to be short of manpower. Since Wan Pojun wanted to surrender to him, he had to be loyal to him.

One sentence, not only conquered the entire Wanlong Palace, but also directly told everyone that he was already the head of the Ye family, not giving the Ye family any chance to react and consider, and even too lazy to say his decision to them in person, but directly told the result to a third party, letting them listen on the side.

But it was precisely this kind of strong way of not following the rules and not talking about respect and inferiority that allowed Ye Chen to sit in the position of the head of the Ye family without any obstruction. No matter how reluctant Ye Zhongquan was to that position, he could only get up obediently and abdicate to the virtuous.

When An Chengxi heard about this from Tang Tang Sihai, she was so excited that she didn't

An Chengxi had never cared for the meager assets of the Ye family, but the position of the Ye family head was a knot in her heart.

Back then, everyone knew that her husband was the most suitable for this position, yet everyone in the Ye family played dumb, to the point that until her husband passed away, he was never able to truly become the leader of the Ye family.

An Chengxi had always felt a sense of injustice for her husband regarding this matter.

And this knot in her heart, after twenty years, was finally opened with ease by Ye Chen, which gave An Chengxi immense comfort.

At the same time, it also made her look forward to Ye Chen's future even more.

Meanwhile.

The old Ye family residence.

After Ye Chen finished eating with the old master, he said to the old master and Tang Tang Sihai with some impatience, "Grandfather, Steward Tang, please continue eating. I'm going to take a look at my parents' room."

Tang Tang Sihai asked respectfully, "Young Master, do you need your subordinate to accompany you?"

"No need." Ye Chen waved his hand and said, "I'll go with Xiao Wan. You don't need to worry about us."

Lin Wan'er also stood up and said politely, "Grandpa Ye, Steward Tang, please continue eating."

After saying this, she followed Ye Chen out of the dining room and headed toward the courtyard where Ye Chen's parents had lived back then.

Because this courtyard house was quite large, Ye Chen's parents had possessed four connected rooms here; in addition to a main hall and a bedroom, there was also a study and Ye Chen's own room.

To put it simply, it was a three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment.

Ye Chen had lived here for several years and was still quite familiar with the overall layout, and since there had been almost no obvious changes here, it was even easier to distinguish.

Arriving at the main hall, the furniture and furnishings inside were exactly the same as when his parents had taken him away back then.

Images of his childhood, living here with his parents, instantly surfaced in Ye Chen's mind, and he was suddenly filled with a flood of emotions.

Afterward, he took Lin Wan'er to quickly browse through these rooms.

In the main hall and bedroom, besides the furniture, there were some prepared quilts and pillows, though it was clearly visible that they had been newly replaced.

In this way, the main hall and bedroom lost their value for finding clues.

So, Ye Chen focused his energy on the study.

This study, converted from a side room of the courtyard, was not very large, covering nearly 30 square meters, but it had bookshelves covering three full walls, housing a large number of books.

"Yes." Jingchen nodded and said: "After I closed the door, I looked through the crack in the door and watched her go down the mountain before coming back to report to you."

Ye Chen took a rough look and discovered that although there were many books here, they were roughly divided into only three categories.

One category was finance and management, most of which were related insights written by world-renowned economists and financial practitioners; another category was history and biographies; and the third category was the I Ching and Bagua.

Ye Chen didn't understand much when he was young, so every time he came to his parents' study to find books, his eyes were only fixed on those interesting history books, and he basically ignored all the others.

And it was only today that he realized, in hindsight, that his parents had started studying the I Ching and Bagua a long time ago.

Lin Wan'er also took a rough look at these books and then remarked to Ye Chen with emotion, "Young Master, your parents collected almost the best books on the I Ching and Bagua in this world. Some are even out-of-print editions from hundreds of years ago. It seems they had a very deep involvement and research into the I Ching, Bagua, and Feng Shui secret arts."

Ye Chen nodded somewhat distractedly; at this moment, his mind was occupied with how to quickly go through all these books.

So he searched carefully on the bookshelves, wanting to see if any clues had been left behind in these books, but there were too many, and even with a quick browse, it would be impossible to finish them all in a short time.

As he flipped through the books, he said to Lin Wan'er, "With so many books, it seems it will take at least a few days to sort through them all."

Lin Wan'er smiled slightly and said, "No matter how many days it takes, we can just sort through them slowly. If the Young Master doesn't mind, I will stay here and search with you."

Ye Chen said, "Then let's start by looking at this batch of I Ching and Bagua books. My parents both had contact with Daoist cultivation, so there should be notes they left behind in the I Ching and Bagua books."

Lin Wan'er nodded and asked him, "Young Master, I also want to share your burden, but I don't know if you are willing to let me help."

Ye Chen said, "Since Miss Lin has nothing else to do, let's flip through and search together. If you see anything that feels suspicious, tell me immediately."

"No problem!" Lin Wan'er agreed happily and readily. She then took a book from the shelf and carefully flipped through the pages in her hands, quickly searching for anything that might be tucked inside or notes left on the pages.

However, after looking through many books in a row, neither of them found anything that made their eyes light up.

Just when Ye Chen didn't know where to start, Lin Wan'er suddenly took out a black item about the size of a book from the shelf. She opened it, looked at it for a few seconds, and said with pleasant surprise, "Young Master, there is a photo album here!"