Chapter 527: Turns and Turns, Turns and Turns
Zhang Jiucheng's head was buzzing.
This woman, looking at the corners of her eyes and brows, should be Lu Chengwen's little sister Xiao Houzi from just now.
But!
He doesn't know this person either!
"Your Excellency, exactly... who might you be?"
Jiang Xiaohou smiled: "Jiang Xiaohou."
"Oh... then... you are His Highness Tiger's... little sis..."
Jiang Xiaohou said: "That Zhang Ningxin is quite flirtatious, but you underestimate Lu Chengwen too much."
"Ah?"
"Lu Chengwen is an experienced man, impossible to be so desperate for food that he'd pounce on any silk stockings and beautiful legs he sees. Of course, this niece of yours looks quite astute. Actually, I think she's more astute than you."
Zhang Jiucheng stammered, not knowing what to say.
"Whatever Your Highness commands, please..."
San'er outside the car looked coldly at Zhang Jiucheng: "Call Your Highness."
"Oh, Your Highness." Zhang Jiucheng said: "Whatever Your Highness commands, please command. This humble person is dull-witted, Your Highness please enlighten."
Jiang Xiaohou said: "Why did Jiang Xiaohu give your family face? Do you know?"
Zhang Jiucheng shook his head.
Jiang Xiaohou analyzed herself: "Should be related to that bitch Xia Ying... He came to the North Kingdom nominally to find me, actually to find Xia Ying. After seeing Xia Ying, went to the Yu family... He might have some official business, but what can a small shrimp like the Yu family do? There's definitely a problem here..."
Zhang Jiucheng sat there, just watching Jiang Xiaohou analyze, not daring to make a sound.
Jiang Xiaohou turned back: "Jiang Xiaohu dares not offend me, so is he trying to use the Yu family to deal with Lu Chengwen?"
This, Zhang Jiucheng knew. Quickly said: "No no no, His Highness Tiger has no such meaning! His Highness Tiger's statement then was, not to let the Yu family provoke Lu Chengwen. The Yu family also analyzed for a long time, thinking that standing still and pretending not to see was the best choice."
Jiang Xiaohou smiled: "Consider him sensible."
Then sighed, slightly dazed: "Tell me, will father agree to me and Chengwen-ge being together?"
Zhang Jiucheng pursed his lips tightly, tears silently sliding down, trying hard to maintain composure:
"I... I don't know... but... I am very good at keeping secrets... many things, I don't tell people, just know them myself. I actually have an illegitimate son outside, this matter has been for many years, no one knows..."
Jiang Xiaohou looked at him, smiled: "Afraid of death?"
Zhang Jiucheng nodded: "This humble person begs Your Highness not to tell this humble person any more important information. I'm scared listening."
Jiang Xiaohou said: "Want to do things for the Jiang family?"
Zhang Jiucheng nodded.
Jiang Xiaohou said: "From now on, your Zhang family listens to my orders, understand?"
"Yes!" This time Zhang Jiucheng was very forthright: "Whatever Your Highness commands, the Zhang family will definitely go through fire and water, sacrifice life and limb, bow down and exert all efforts, until death do us part..."
Jiang Xiaohou said: "No need to be so serious. Lu Chengwen's matters, you manage less. All news completely blocked, don't mention to anyone. As for that illegitimate son of yours... you have a son and still hold a martial arts marriage contest?"
Zhang Jiucheng said: "My son... is... I... had him with a courtesan, the family finds it hard to acknowledge. My wife's clan is somewhat tyrannical, for family interests, also won't recognize his identity. Now the Zhang family is beset by internal and external troubles, the power structure is very complex, I cannot let him formally enter the family..."
Jiang Xiaohou smiled: "How's his aptitude?"
"Alright." Mentioning this, Zhang Jiucheng got excited.
"Let him go to the capital, find a person, acknowledge him as master. Three years later, if he achieves something, he can enter the Jiang family sequence. At that time, the Jiang family will endorse you, say he was selected by the Jiang family since young, secretly cultivated."
Jiang Xiaohou stared at Zhang Jiucheng: "Someone selected by the Jiang family, your clansmen should be able to recognize, right?"
Zhang Jiucheng was stunned. This time he really cried, so excited he wanted to kneel:
"Receiving such immense grace from Your Highness! The Zhang family for generations will remember Your Highness's great kindness, will definitely be loyal, never have second thoughts! Mountains of knives, seas of fire..."
Jiang Xiaohou said: "No need to be so exaggerated, go back and do things. You should know how to do it."
"Yes! Understand! This humble subordinate understands!"
Zhang Jiucheng put the driver in the back seat, drove himself, parked at a place, got out, first knelt on the ground, raised both fists: "Thank heavens! Saved! The Zhang family is saved! Hahahaha... wuwuwu..."
...
Sun Fugui gathered with people from the Long family, Pang family, and Sima family.
Sun Fugui said: "The Zhang family people are negotiating with Lu Chengwen."
The Long family head immediately got angry: "What!? Beaten like this, and they go negotiate!?"
Sun Fugui said smilingly: "Rest easy, this is a delaying tactic."
The Pang family head frowned tightly: "What kind of delaying tactic?"
Sun Fugui said: "Lu Chengwen has money, what's the point of killing him? The Tianmen Dan is probably lost, but extorting a large sum from him, letting our few families have an annual income of at least one hundred million, isn't that fragrant?"
The Sima family head stroked his beard: "Brother Sun, speak directly, what exactly is going on?"
Sun Fugui said: "The Zhang family asked me to tell brothers, we are responsible for hunting down, he is responsible for demanding money. The first sum can directly extort twenty billion from Lu Chengwen; then ask him for annual dividend interests from Dasheng Group. The twenty billion we five families divide equally. Future annual dividend interests, each of our families gets one hundred million, the rest is the Zhang family's."
The Long family was somewhat surprised: "Can it be divided so much?"
Sun Fugui said: "You don't know how much Dasheng Group earns annually. Their monthly profit is several hundred million. Now the construction of Chengwen District has entered the mid-stage, Dasheng Group's share growth these few years will be terrifying. I see, earning several tens of billions a year should be achievable."
The Pang family head said angrily: "Damn it! How come such trash has such good fortune!"
Sun Fugui said: "But this fortune requires our four families to unite and give Lu Chengwen enough pressure. Send the best combat power to Xuecheng, make Lu Chengwen restless, unable to find peace. This way, Brother Jiucheng can act well on Lu Chengwen's side."
"Remember! This matter is our spontaneous action, has nothing to do with the Zhang family. The Zhang family will also bite down and claim ignorance. For Lu Chengwen to survive, he has to seek help from the Zhang family, then Brother Jiucheng pretends to mediate for him."
"In a word, the more pressure we give, the more the Zhang family side can hold Lu Chengwen, and the more money they earn!"
Several people laughed together.
"Listen to Brother Sun."
"From now on, no matter what the Zhang family says, how they want us to settle things peacefully, you must all refuse! As long as we give enough pressure, Lu Chengwen will have to continuously raise the price! Even Brother Jiucheng might be calling in front of Lu Chengwen, we must put on a full show!"
"Wait until Brother Jiucheng gives me news, I will immediately notify you. At that time..."
Sun Fugui said: "It will be time for us to make money."
"Many thanks Brother Fugui! But your son's revenge..."
Sun Fugui looked tragic: "Correct! My son's revenge, I must take it! If Lu Chengwen doesn't pay enough money, he shouldn't even think about passing this hurdle!"
"Mainly, you must act your parts well! Especially when Brother Jiucheng calls, you must sternly refuse, act as if you share a common enemy with me, vowing not to rest until Lu Chengwen is dead!"
"This way the pressure will be sufficient, Lu Chengwen will panic! The more he panics, the more he will rely on the Zhang family to speak for him."
"Think about it, Lu Chengwen, one, no background, two, no backer, three, no master, four, no friends!"
The Pang family head said: "But he has quite a few Shangsimen masters under him, and also a Tiansimen personal guard."
"So! We must give him enough pressure!"
Sun Fugui said: "Anyway, what cannot be obtained on the battlefield, don't even think about getting it at the negotiating table. Want to make money, must hit hard! Hit Lu Chengwen until he cries for his parents! Hit Lu Chengwen until his heart trembles with fear! Hit Lu Chengwen until he's cornered, at his wit's end, with no tricks left... finally can only cling to the Zhang family's thigh."
"Then what if he doesn't submit?"
Sun Fugui said: "Our four families united! He won't submit!?"
The three cupped their fists together: "Listen to Brother Sun! Let's earn Lu Chengwen's dollars together!"
...
Zhang Jiucheng was at his wit's end.
A heaven-sent opportunity!
The matter of his illegitimate son had been a stone weighing on his heart for so many years.
He had four wives, yet it was an outside courtesan who hit the mark in one go, even giving birth to a boy.
That woman knew Zhang Jiucheng was a big figure, completely had him in her grasp.
On one hand, demanding money, cars, houses daily; on the other hand, making scenes, insisting Zhang Jiucheng marry her properly, let her enter the family gloriously.
That lady's thinking was simple and crude.
My background is not good, but I have a son! Aren't you just lacking a son?
You have many wives, who gave you a son?
If you want a son, you must first satisfy this old lady!
Now it's settled. As long as I control you, Zhang Jiucheng, I won't worry about food and clothing in the future, a person above others.
Zhang Jiucheng, for the sake of the child, endured in every way.
When the child was a bit older, he gave that woman some color (showed his power), intimidated her.
Although he intimidated the woman, took back his son, and began secret cultivation.
But the family hurdle was also very difficult to pass.
Zhang Jiucheng had always been planning, looking for an appropriate opportunity to let his son acknowledge his ancestors and return to the clan.
The old Zhang family has only this one seedling in a thousand acres of land. Won't the Zhang family be his in the future?
But the timing must be grasped well!
If mishandled, even his position as Zhang family head might become unstable.
Heaven's favor!
Lu Chengwen snatching the bride once was originally a devastating blow to the Zhang family's face.
The Zhang family had now become a laughingstock.
But who knew, a turn of events, he damn well actually connected with the lofty Jiang family!
Became a directly managed family of Jiang Xiaohou!
Jiang Xiaohou personally introduced a master for his son. Just this point alone was worth Zhang Jiucheng kowtowing three thousand times to the ancestral tablets!
And three years later, can directly become a Jiang family retainer, what concept is this!?
Yu family!?
Hehe! Be more mindful in the future! Speak politely when you see me, I might let my son give you a good errand!
In the future in the North Kingdom, in the provincial capital, the Yu family is just a younger brother!
Zhang Jiucheng thought, three years later, his son eighteen, in his prime, a Jiang family retainer!
The day he returns to the Zhang family, damn it, all the men, women, old, and young of the entire clan, who dares let out an extra fart!? Who dares look down on my son's birth!?
Everyone will have to suck up to my son! Everyone will have to watch my son's expression!
The Zhang family is my son's! The Zhang family will be one of the glorious families of the North Kingdom in the future!
But!
Another turn of events.
Sun Fugui went mad.
Insists on killing Lu Chengwen!
Kill Lu Chengwen!?
You are killing me! Killing my son! Killing our old Zhang family's future!
Grandma!(Expletive)