Chapter 2664

Su Xinghui said, "Grandpa Hou, I bought this courtyard at the end of last year, is it okay?"

Hou Guangbi nodded and said, "This courtyard is beyond question. Having such a courtyard in the capital is a place to settle down! How much did it cost?"

Su Xinghui said, "At that time, this courtyard was sold by a prodigal son, so it cost more than 800,000, plus decoration and furniture, it was about 1 million."

Hou Guangbi said, "This price is too cheap. In a few years, this courtyard will definitely rise sharply."

Su Xinghui said, "No need for a few years. This year, the real estate market in the capital is rising. This courtyard can easily be sold for 2 million now."

Hou Guangbi said, "Then you can't sell it. If you want to sell it, sell it to me."

Su Xinghui laughed and said, "Grandpa Hou, this might disappoint you. I won't sell this courtyard."

Hou Guangbi nodded. Su Xinghui invited him and the Hou Wenhai brothers into the living room to sit down. It was July, and the courtyard was a bit hot. The living room had air conditioning, which was relatively cool.

Hou Guangbi said, "I wanted to come to the capital to see you for a long time, but there are many things at home during this period, so I came until now. Shangjun County is too hot this year, and the capital is relatively cool."

Su Xinghui said, "What happened at your home?"

Hou Guangbi sighed and said, "Alas, the Hou family is unfortunate!"

It turned out that since the Hou family split up, the people in Hou Guangbi's branch had all returned to the country and developed very well. Now their industry had grown dozens of times more than when they split up, and it was booming. However, some of the Hou family's descendants who stayed in Europe did not develop as satisfactorily.

The descendants of the Hou family who stayed in Europe, after the split, divided the industry of the Hou Group into pieces. Among them, there were indeed some talented people, but most were not materials for doing business, and there were even many prodigal sons.

This is also a common problem of big families. It is impossible for every descendant to be an elite. It is not bad that Hou Guangbi can cultivate a few elites among his direct descendants.

And the drama of big families fighting for family property is also often staged. Hou Guangbi is now only glad that he split up with those branches in time, otherwise he would definitely be implicated by them.

Some prodigal sons have squandered the family property they divided within these few short years. Although the Hou family's assets were large at that time, they only had tens of millions of US dollars when divided into the hands of several third and fourth generation descendants. Although this money seems to be a lot, how many years can it be squandered?

After these prodigal sons squandered the family property, they wanted to ask for money from others in the family, but they had already split up. Who would give them their own money?

They heard that Hou Guangbi's branch was booming after returning to the country, and now the Hou Group had become a world-famous large company, so they also ran back to the country, returned to Shangjun County with their faces, and went to find Hou Guangbi again.

When they returned to Shangjun County, they also specially prepared incense and held an ancestor worship ceremony, crying and howling, but how could Hou Guangbi not see their purpose in returning? No matter how lively they made it, he was just watching coldly.

These unfilial descendants had just finished the nondescript ancestor worship ceremony and went to see their uncle Hou Guangbi. They were snotty and tearful, speaking broken Chinese, complaining to this uncle, saying that they lost money in business, and now they were penniless and owed a lot of debt.

In short, they described themselves as pitiful. Hou Guangbi naturally understood what they meant. He also knew that it was only a matter of time before these people ended up like this today.

Therefore, Hou Guangbi arranged for them to stay in the hotel of the Hou Group in Shangjun County, entertaining them with good food and drink, but if they wanted money to spend, there was no way, and he wouldn't give them a penny.

Hou Guangbi's method was still good. Although these people had no worries about food and clothing, they had no money to squander, and there were people watching them wherever they went, not letting them mess around. This made them scratch their heads.

After living for a while, they went to find Hou Guangbi again, hoping that Hou Guangbi would lend them some money so that they could return to France to do business and make a comeback.

How could Hou Guangbi be willing to lend them money? He told them that if they just lived, he could buy them a house and provide them with food and drink for a lifetime, but if they wanted to borrow money, there was no way. If they wanted to work, they could also find a job for them in the group and earn money themselves.

In the end, these people stayed in Shangjun County for a few months, finally couldn't stand such a life, and returned to France. Of course, the air ticket money for them to return to France was paid by Hou Guangbi.