Chapter 2997: A Weathercock

Royce felt extremely aggrieved in his heart.

But aggrieved was aggrieved. Facing his furious father, he didn't dare to say even one more word.

Therefore, the father and son didn't say a word, one after the other, and came to the family meeting room.

In this meeting room, which resembled the style of a medieval European royal court, almost all family members had arrived.

However, the old master hadn't come yet.

Everyone knew that today must be the day the old master passed the position to Steve. After the old master announced it, Steve would officially become the leader of the entire Rothschild family. Therefore, although everyone had a very ugly expression, they all thought that they must try every means to please Steve as much as possible later.

In the future, everyone's resource income and the power of life and death would all be in Steve's hands.

Seeing Steve and Royce arrive, everyone stood up from their seats without exception. That neat feeling was very much like the solemnity when a group of generals saw the commander at a military meeting.

Steve's younger brothers gathered around enthusiastically and greeted him diligently.

Seeing that several people had false and flattering expressions, Steve felt unhappy in his heart, but he still nodded to everyone very politely.

The youngest brother, David Rothschild, said very diligently, "Brother, I wanted to visit you last night, but your butler said you refused to see guests. Today, you must give your younger brother a chance. I have prepared some small gifts and want to send them to your mansion personally!"

Steve smiled and said, "David, you have a heart, but how can I be embarrassed to let you spend money."

David said hurriedly, "Brother, what's there to be polite about with me? Among us brothers and sisters, you have always loved me the most since we were young."

Seeing David take the lead in licking, others didn't fall behind, and hurriedly tried to get close to Steve.

Steve looked at the performance of these people calmly, and his heart became clearer and clearer.

He knew that once the old master didn't pass the position of family head to him, these people would immediately change their faces. By then, they would definitely fight with him again to try their best to compete for the old master's good impression and the opportunity to replace him as the successor.

Therefore, as long as he couldn't succeed today, these younger brothers would still take replacing him as their goal, and they would definitely regard him as the biggest competitor and would never really bow to him.

At this time, the meeting room door was pushed open. Everyone looked at the sound and saw the old butler open the meeting room door. Immediately after, the old master Howard walked in with light steps.

When everyone saw Howard walk in by himself, everyone was stunned.

Most of the people here had seen the old master's stroke, so they thought that the old master must be sitting in a wheelchair and pushed by someone today. But who could have thought that after one night, the old master would have no signs of illness!

However, shock was shock. Seeing the old master look as he was before, everyone breathed a sigh of relief without exception.

In the Rothschild family, except for Steve's family who hoped the old master would die early, everyone else hoped the old master would be healthy.

For those family members who had no chance to become successors, the old master being healthy and in office was the best time for them. Once the old master was sick or dead, they would all be purged and cut by the new family head.

David Rothschild reacted the fastest. The last second, he was still surrounding Steve, occupying the best position closest to Steve. The next second, he had already stepped out of the crowd and ran towards Howard quickly.

"Father!" David took the lead and rushed to Howard, then immediately supported the old master's arm with his arm, saying nervously, "Father, why did you walk over yourself? Is your body okay now?!"

Those sons who had originally surrounded Steve all came back to their senses. While cursing David's younger brain for reacting faster than them in their hearts, they all left Steve aside and surrounded Howard quickly.

Royce, standing on the side, witnessed what a textbook-level weathercock was.

These people had just surrounded his father, so much so that he, the son, couldn't squeeze in.

But now, these people all squeezed to his grandfather's side. His father stood there alone, instead having a sense of loneliness.

Seeing these sons running to his side excitedly, Howard also felt a burst of gratification in his heart.

Just a moment ago at the medical center, he had been moved by the filial piety of his eldest son Steve. Now seeing that other sons were also so concerned about him, he was moved and couldn't help but feel complacent, feeling that he was quite successful as a father, and his sons were one more filial than the other.

Therefore, with a kind father's smile on his face, he announced to everyone in a sonorous and powerful voice, "I want to tell you a good news, my body has completely recovered."

Hearing this, these children and grandchildren, although they didn't know why a stroke could recover so quickly, were also excited beyond measure in their hearts.

David couldn't help but ask, "Father, did you summon us here for a meeting just to give us a surprise yourself?"

Howard smiled slightly, "More or less. This time I used some extraordinary means to be able to recover in such a short time."

Speaking of this, Howard's expression gradually became serious, and he said sternly, "So you must remember, no one is allowed to mention the stroke to the outside world. Once I know someone has leaked the news, no matter who it is, I will expel him from the Rothschild family!"

Hearing this, everyone felt a tremor in their hearts.

For the Rothschild family, being expelled from the family is the highest and most severe punishment. Although the old master had made harsh remarks before, this was the first time he had made such an indiscriminate high-level harsh remark.

Except for Steve, everyone else happily realized that the reason the old master didn't want others to know he had a stroke was probably that he wanted to turn this matter into an unknown episode, making the outside world look like the Rothschild family hadn't had any internal fluctuations.

Since he didn't want others to see fluctuations, it proved that the old master definitely wanted to continue to serve as the family head.

Therefore, everyone nodded excitedly and repeatedly, swearing that they would never reveal this matter, otherwise they would accept all punishments.

Howard nodded with satisfaction, then came to the head of the huge conference table and sat down. Other children and grandchildren also hurriedly came to the seats on his left and right sides and stood.

Howard signaled everyone to sit down, and then everyone carefully moved the chairs and sat down.

Although there were dozens of people at the scene, there was almost no sound in the entire meeting room except for the sound of clothes rubbing. Everyone kept their mouths shut and didn't dare to make any sound. They didn't even dare to pull the chairs directly, but carefully moved them, and after giving up the space they needed, they carefully put them back on the wool carpet.

During the whole process, the chairs didn't make any sound.

This was a rule that Howard had set for the family long ago, and it is still carefully followed by everyone to this day.

Seeing everyone's meticulous and cautious appearance, Howard felt very comfortable and satisfied. This was the charm of the family head position to him.

Seeing that everyone sat down carefully and straightened their backs without daring to be slack, Howard said very satisfactorily, "Summoning everyone to a meeting today is mainly to announce one thing."

Hearing this, everyone looked at Howard intently. Whether Steve could succeed would be revealed at this moment.

Only Steve himself knew that the possibility of his succession today was zero.

At this time, Howard cleared his throat and said very seriously, "I announce that from today, Steve will officially become the first successor of the Rothschild family, and Royce will become the second successor of the Rothschild family! And I, while I can still move, will lead the Rothschild family to a higher place in the remaining time!" ===== CHAPTER 2998 =====