281: Family Heirloom Jade Pendant

Both Papa Wang and Wang Hongwen were present as this new contract was signed. The two were still a little hesitant when faced with this contract that measured familial affection with money. Granny Wang was afraid that they would change their minds and repeatedly urged them to sign it, erasing their last shred of hesitation.

The two finally wrote their names down, and the Wang De husband and wife also hurriedly signed their names. With this agreement, the Wang De husband and wife were none of their business, even if they became down-and-outs*.

[T/N: *destitute, poor and hopeless]

Wang Cheng soon gave them 200,000 in cash. Wang Cheng was worried that they would recognize it if he returned the money he stole from them, so he switched it out for new cash.

With this money, the Wang De husband and wife no longer pestered Wang Hongxin, and the three members of Wang Hongwei's family also thought about how to use this money to make a comeback.

However, after they’d run away with the 500,000 from Jiang Jiarong, the news of what had happened had quickly spread. Many potential business partners learned about the 'good deeds' of the Wang Hongwei father and son, and their reputation in the construction industry became so bad that no businessmen were willing to cooperate with them.

A comeback sounded good in theory, but was quite difficult to execute.

Money was the foundation of cooperations; however, if their credibility was no good, no one would be willing to take a single order from them, no matter how much money they put in. Wang Hongwei and his son knew this very well, so they planned to venture elsewhere to do business. Things would certainly not be as difficult for them as when they had first started their company, anyway.

At this point, they still didn’t know that the nightmare had only just begun.

...

Papa Wang thanked Clan Uncle Wang Zhiren* for making this trip for them, and invited him to stay for a meal. Wang Zhiren couldn’t find a way to refuse and ended up staying. Mama Wang's face that had been downcast for so many days finally cleared up. She asked Wang Cheng to treat the guests well, and then went out to buy groceries.

[T/N: *remember, Wang Zhiren had been a clan uncle for the Wang’s Village]

Wang Ning’an returned later on: he had also been very busy now that Yu Hongzhi's affairs had come to fruition.

Due to the way Wang Ning’an had set things up, Yu Hongzhi not only escaped from the accident, but also found someone to confess to committing the crime and refused to admit his mistake. As expected, in the end, he was found out and punished for several crimes and sentenced to six years in prison; he was also ordered to pay over 700,000 to the victim as compensation.

Yu Hongming had begged for mercy for his son, but when he realized someone was working behind the scenes, he didn't dare to continue trying to help Yu Hongzhi. In the end, even he gave up. It was now only Li Xin, the mother, who was unwilling to accept the result of this. She went and visited Wang Ning'an a second time, but this time, Wang Ning'an did not meet her.

Guan Meifang knew that this woman's son had harmed Wang Ning'an, so she was furious when she saw her and did not bother to let her in the apartment.

However, this result did not signify the end of things.

The Yu family subsequently caused another scandal. A woman claiming to be Yu Hongming’s mistress brought a fifteen-year-old boy to their door, and the teenager was naturally Yu Hongming’s son. The mother and son pair had been hiding in fear for over ten years. Now that something had happened with Yu Hongzhi, this boy was Yu Hongming's only son left. The strangest part was that Yu Hongming did not refuse them or try to hide things and actually let the mother and son live in the main house of the Yu family, directly angering Li Xin.

Li Xin then had a quarrel with Yu Hongming: his son had just been sent to jail, yet Yu Hongming couldn't wait to let his mistress and illegitimate child into their door. He clearly wasn’t considering her, the main wife’s, thoughts on this. She was afraid he already had all this planned.

Yu Hongming didn't have the time to appease Li Xin, and only warned her not to touch the mother and son. Li Xin had originally intended to give him a grace period, but now decided to ignore him.

Although Li Enterprise* was not as good as Shenghui Pharmaceuticals, it was an established enterprise all the same. It still had connections and a strong background. Li Xin seemed like another only-child daughter, but in fact, she still had to compete with many of her related peers back then, who were many times more difficult to deal with than some mistress. In any case, Li Xin was definitely not the kind of woman who would only buy, buy, buy. In order to retaliate against Yu Hongming, Li Xin used Li Enterprise to cause some trouble for Shenghui Pharmaceutical.

[T/N: *it could also be Li’s business or Li’s enterprise, not sure if it’s the company name]

Yu Hongming’s reputation was damaged some time ago, when he tried to save his son. The company’s stock was also affected, and many took advantage of this to buy the cheaper shares. This matter had not yet been resolved when Li Xin retaliated, worsening the company’s problems. When he noticed the worsened situation, Yu Hongming became so angry that he cursed at her, and the couple almost began to throw hands.

Wang Ning'an took advantage of this opportunity to acquire many of Shenghui Pharmaceutical’s shares.

Originally, Yu Hongming still kept in mind the way Wang Cheng targeted his son, and lost the good impression he had of Wang Ning'an. However, this incident let him realize that it would be impossible to run things without Wang Ning'an, so he personally went to his door and invited him back to the company.

Yu Hongming was originally suspicious when Wang Ning'an agreed so quickly. However, when Wang Ning'an demonstrated his strong leadership by quickly stabilizing the overall situation, Yu Hongming was rest assured again.

Yu Hongming and Li Xin married for business. The couple actually had no feelings between them. On the other hand, this mistress was Yu Hongming’s first love. Relatively speaking, he preferred the child born to his first love over Li Xin’s children. Now that Yu Hongzhi had an accident, he had an excuse to take his first love and son into his house, and he was no longer so unhappy with Wang Ning'an*.

[T/N: *basically, he’s a little grateful to Wang Cheng/Ning’an that Yu Hongzhi is gone]

Now that his position was stabilized, Wang Ning’an rushed over.

Papa Wang and Mama Wang had heard that he would be coming back and were prepared for him. Once they saw him, they quickly let him in to warm up. They had no idea what he was doing for so long in the Imperial Capital. After finally getting rid of his worried parents, Wang Cheng relayed the process of how he resolved things with the Wang family.

Once Wang Ning'an heard the whole story, he said, "Tell me honestly, was that 200,000 originally your money?"

Wang Cheng was once again awed by his elder brother's keen intuition - he really couldn't hide things from someone who knew him so well. "You got it, that was indeed not my money."

Wang Ning'an didn't ask him how he got the 200,000 yuan, he just congratulated him.

"By the way, how come I don’t see Chu Yifeng? Didn't he come with you?"

"Don't mention him. If it wasn’t for the Zhou Group’s cooperation with Eimer, he wouldn’t have gone back this afternoon." Otherwise, he wouldn't have been so bored as to go to work.

"You, ah, have you really decided to be with him for the rest of your life? In fact, you can still turn back." Although Wang Ning'an didn’t speak of the feelings between Wang Cheng and Chu Yifeng, it didn’t mean he didn’t care, he just wasn’t used to directly mentioning such things.

Wang Cheng shrugged. "I have no regrets, so there’s no turning back. I have already told my biological mother about our affairs."

"She didn't object?" Wang Ning'an was a little surprised.

"She actually guessed the relationship between me and Chu Yifeng. Just like our mother, she also arranged a ‘disguised’ blind date for me. Afterwards, I talked to her about it, and she said that it’s fine as long as I’m happy."

Wang Ningan smiled. "It seems that your mother indulges you more than our mother, even agreeing to this sort of thing."

Wang Cheng laughed happily.

Wang Ning'an also said: "You’re not planning to let the Wang family’s eldest family continue like this, are you?"

Wang Cheng smiled meaningfully and said, "Of course not. Elder brother, you just wait and see. The showdown will premiere in a matter of days."

"I’m returning to the Imperial Capital the day after tomorrow at the latest, so I can’t wait and watch. Tell me about our father’s matters. Didn't you mention over the phone that grandma left a piece of jade pendant for our father? Where’s that jade pendant?"

"Wait a second, I'll go get it." Wang Cheng went to take the jade pendant from his parents' room.

The jade pendant was a particularly pure dark green. It appeared to be a shade of turquoise at first glance, but more like emerald in the sun. Even a layman could see that this jade pendant was very valuable.

Wang Ning’an's expression was a bit solemn after accepting the jade pendant from his hand. "If I am not mistaken, the material used in this jade pendant is the finest jadeite; this noble beauty should be imperial jade. It is priceless, and now rare. A family that is able to use this kind of jade as a family heirloom is by no means ordinary."

"It’s that amazing?" Wang Cheng was taken aback.

"But there’s one thing I don't understand. If our grandma really does come from such an extraordinary background, why did she come to the Wang's Village, and why has no one come looking for her after so many years?" After Wang Ning'an finished speaking, his brain suddenly flashed, but the thought came too fast for him to catch it before it disappeared.

"Should we check it out? Since this piece of jade is so special, it should be some big family’s heirloom; maybe there will be some articles about it," Wang Cheng suggested.

"I can check it out, but I don’t have much time for now." Wang Ning'an had just returned to Shenghui, and there were many things that he needed to personally take over. Now was a critical time, he could not be distracted.

"Why should you have to do it? Just leave things to me, you can concentrate on your affairs. I'll let you know if I receive any news." Wang Cheng patted his chest.

Wang Ning'an nodded, this was the only way. "However, you can’t keep this jade pendant at home, it's too expensive. I’m afraid that our parents will be affected if it is lost. It is best not to let them know about these matters for now, our eldest uncle’s affairs have made them tired enough."

Wang Cheng put the jade pendant back into its small box. "Leave this jade pendant with me for now."

Neither of them thought that something would happen at their house the very next day. Wang Ning’an accompanied Papa Wang to the north mountain, while Mama Wang went to the jam factory. The workers who had previously been absent* ran back in tears. Mama Wang criticized them a little, but didn’t care too much about it, because she didn't want to cause more trouble.

[T/N: *because of the rumors about Papa Wang]

Wang Cheng was left at home alone, but went out after some time. When he came back, he found that the house had been robbed.

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