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The car passed through a lush Xifu Begonia, and from a distance, the living room on the first floor of the Zhuang family's old house was still lit.Zhuang Shaodong frowned, feeling a little bored in his heart.

When he was young, he only felt that the corridors of this big house were too long and there were too many rooms, and he would feel scared when he was not accompanied by a nanny.After growing up, I gradually felt that although there were many precious antiques and rare flowers in this always empty house, it was missing the warm feeling that a home should have.

Mrs. Zhuang, Mrs. Zhuang, has settled abroad with her youngest son. Zhuang Shaodong's father bought a villa outside the city to raise his young wife, and has not been back for many years.In the years before his second uncle returned from England with his two cousins, there were only two owners in this mansion: Zhuang Shaodong and his mother Zhuang Liyunxin.

Among the aristocratic families in Daocheng, the situation of the banker is actually not complicated.Sometimes Zhuang Shaodong would also think: If his father had more brothers and sisters, if the fight between the open and the dark were more complicated, and the water would be muddied even more...

Maybe the development of the situation will be more interesting.

There were three brothers in Zhuang Shaodong's father's generation. His father was the eldest son, and when he was young, he was placed high hopes by the old man as his successor.This is proved by the fact that Mrs. Zhuang personally chose a marriage of comparable family status for him.Unfortunately, as he got older, Zhuang Shaodong's father became less and less interested in family affairs.Not long after Zhuang Shaodong was born, Zhuang Shaodong's father fell in love with a young woman who was studying oil painting. From then on, all his attention was focused on this girl.The two of them were busy running galleries and art exhibitions together, loving each other and flying together, leaving the banker behind.

Zhuang Shaodong's second uncle was the illegitimate son of Mrs. Zhuang, and he was not taken back to the Zhuang family until he was seven or eight years old outside.Because he wasn't a child who grew up watching him, he couldn't get close to the people in the dealer.After graduating from high school, I went to England.Therefore, the dealer's business was handed over to Zhuang Shijie so naturally.

There has always been such a contradiction in a large family: when there are no heirs, they want to have a full house of children and grandchildren, but when they really have a full house of children and grandchildren, they want to fight to the death.Zhuang Shaodong's mother, Zhuang Liyunxin, was born in a family, and under the influence of her ears and eyes, she is very good at playing this set of tricks in the family.At the beginning, she hoped to snatch her husband back from the vixen's hands, but after several fights, Zhuang Li Yunxin found out that she married a swinger who only knew romance, even if she snatched her back, it would be useless.So he decisively discarded this useless pawn and devoted all his attention to his son.

Zhuang Shaodong is the eldest grandson of the Zhuang family. In Zhuang Li Yunxin's view, it is far less legitimate to hand over the family business to the youngest son than to the eldest grandson.What's more, Zhuang Shaodong's age is also suitable for her and the whole Li family to stand behind the curtain and listen to the government... Oh, it should be said to stand behind and provide the young man with the necessary guidance and help.

As a result of this battle, Zhuang Shijie was defeated, and handed over the position of the owner of the dealer to the young grandson of the dealer, Zhuang Shaodong.

However, Zhuang Li Yunxin never expected that she would get rid of her unsightly uncle. Before she had a few years of comfortable life, her other uncle jumped out to make trouble again—just two months ago, this long-time resident in England The second young master of the dealer swaggered back to the old house of the dealer with a pair of twin sons with black hair and green eyes.

Zhuang Shaoqing and Zhuang Shaoran, a pair of beautiful mixed-race youths, not only inherited the deep and cunning inherent in the bones of the Zhuang family, but also inherited their father's unruly arrogance and domineering.On the second day after they came back, they showed Zhuang Shijie's 17.00% of the shares on the board of directors in addition to their father's shares, grabbing two prominent seats on the board of directors abruptly, and caught Zhuang Liyunxin by surprise.

And what troubled Zhuang Li Yunxin the most was not that her two younger uncles teamed up to deal with her, but that Zhuang Shaodong had learned to obey and obey, no matter what she said, he would nod and agree. Turn around but still go its own way.The opponent standing in front of her was a father and son hugged together, and on her side, besides her, there was only a husband who could not be counted on at all, and a son who lacked interest and was obviously out of shape.Although the natal family can provide assistance, if other family forces are involved in the internal strife of the dealer, she will lose the battle before it starts.

The obvious confrontation between pros and cons made Zhuang Li Yunxin restless.

Zhuang Shaodong knew all of this.But he just had an attitude similar to that of a bystander, watching them indifferently and asking each other, as if caring for each other with sincerity.Looking at the decent smiles on their faces, the eyes are full of scheming.

Deceitful, suspicious.

They're so similar that the tricks to tear each other down don't feel like anything new anymore.

But his mother is still addicted to this crappy game, and never tires of it.

Zhuang Shaodong walked into the living room and saw his mother curled up on the sofa watching the evening financial report.She was wearing a dark silk nightgown, and the dark ink pattern made her thin figure appear even more.When she was young, she was a slender woman. When she reached middle age, no matter how well maintained she was, she would appear somewhat haggard after being honed by life.Especially in the dead of night, when the lead is washed away, the crow's feet in the corners of the eyes seem to be soaked in the smell of desolation.

Zhuang Shaodong couldn't help sighing.He knew that whenever she wanted to talk about some conditions with him, she would definitely let him notice some...something about her that would make him feel soft-hearted.

"It's so late," Zhuang Shaodong sat down opposite her, trying to slow down his voice, "Why haven't you slept yet?"

Mrs. Zhuang glanced at him lightly, "Didn't you just come back?"

Zhuang Shaodong didn't say anything, but he was a little suspicious that she already knew about his going clubbing after get off work.

Sure enough, seeing that he was silent, Mrs. Zhuang sighed, "Shaodong, it's not that I want to force you. You're almost 25. You should pay more attention to business matters."

Zhuang Shaodong frowned, "Why are you saying this again?"

"If it weren't for the engineer you recommended to Longsheng, how could there be such a big accident in the factory?" Mrs. Zhuang opened her eyes, and there was a sharp taste in her eyes, "Why are you so careless in employing people? ?”

Zhuang Shaodong refuted him impatiently, "Isn't this matter already settled?"

"Solve it by losing benefits?" Mrs. Zhuang sneered, "Do you know that your second uncle and his two children are just waiting to see your jokes? It's better for you to take the initiative to hold the blame in front of them ..."

"Mom," Zhuang Shaodong interrupted her, "you and I are not the only ones living in the old house, so it's better not to say these things."

Mrs. Zhuang's face changed suddenly.

"The dealer's cake is only this big." Zhuang Shaodong leaned on the armrest of the sofa, somewhat dispirited, "If they want it, let them take it."

"How do you say such spineless words?!" Mrs. Zhuang straightened her back suddenly, "I have been worrying about it day and night all my life. Who is it for?"

Zhuang Shaodong asked her lazily, "Yes, for whom?"

"Shaodong, what do you mean?" Mrs. Zhuang's complexion changed again, "You are the eldest grandson of the dealer, and it is your responsibility to stir up the dealer's business..."

Zhuang Shaodong suddenly felt upset, "Mom, the dealer's most lucrative jewelry business is already in your hands, what else are you dissatisfied with?"

Mrs. Zhuang's red phoenix eyes suddenly widened, "Are you not guilty of what you said? Son? I've been thinking hard, isn't it all for your own good?"

What Zhuang Shaodong couldn't bear the most was this sentence "for your own good".

In fact, no one would want to suffer the consequences of someone else's actions so severely, as if whatever she did should be yours for granted, no matter how you feel about it all.

"It's really for me..." Zhuang Shaodong felt that the boredom in his heart had almost reached its peak, and he blurted out some words that had been hidden in his heart before he could think about it, "...Why do you ignore my opinion? Why do you Without my consent, you allocated the biggest piece of profit to the Li family? Why would you... use my name to do things that damage other people's reputation? You know that doing so will only make others resent me. You push me Go to the front and concentrate all the contradictions and hatred on me... Is this also for my own good?"

Mrs. Zhuang stared at him closely, her lips trembling slightly, "What are you doubting?"

"I don't suspect anything." Zhuang Shaodong turned his head to the side, and sighed wearily after a long time, "I was just thinking, I don't have much interest in the dealer's business..."

Mrs. Zhuang slapped the armrest of the sofa and stood up angrily, "I don't want to hear you talking nonsense!"

Are you worthless?

Zhuang Shaodong couldn't help laughing bitterly.This is also what he didn't understand.Why pick up the ready-made business of the predecessors and carry it forward is to be ambitious and ambitious, but it is useless to start your own business from scratch?

Mrs. Zhuang stopped when she reached the stairs, and she tried her best to speak in a calm tone: "Shaodong, I think it is necessary to remind you of something: you are secretly arguing with that man surnamed Su." I don't care about the tricks, but if there is any scandal because of him...don't blame me for not being merciful to you."

"Scandal?" Zhuang Shaodong twitched the corners of his mouth, and laughed inexplicably, "If you are worried that Second Uncle will use the tricks you used to deal with Younger Uncle to deal with me... I don't think Second Uncle would play such a boring game. trick."

Mrs. Zhuang took a deep breath, "Shaodong, I always thought you were past the age of rebellion and disobedience."

"Really?" Zhuang Shaodong asked her back, "For me, is the only word you ask for is obedient?"

Mrs. Zhuang tightened her hand on the railing, and then slowly let go after a while, "Go to sleep, son. I think we both need to calm down."

Zhuang Shaodong shook his head.He felt that it was not himself who needed to calm down.

He's calmed down long enough, it's time to make a proper decision.