Volume 3: The Richest Man in the World Chapter 39: If you want to break off, break off. If you want to end it, end it!
Seeing that Cai Qiaozhu was feeling sad and angry, Ye Youyu couldn't say anything and left silently.
Cai Qiaozhu wiped her tears, but every time she wiped them away, new tears came out.
Wu Chenggou paced back and forth in the hall, constantly complaining about Wu Chengjian.
Uncle Fifteen sighed repeatedly, while Mr. Zheng kept shaking his head.
They were all waiting for Wu Chengjian to come and give an explanation, but after waiting for a long time, Wu Chengjian didn't come, and even Ye Youyu didn't come. Only Wu Qi came. He came to the hall with a nervous face, and didn't say a word to Cai Qiaozhu for a long time.
"Where's Officer Hao?" Cai Qiaozhu shouted, "Isn't he coming? He doesn't even take me seriously now!"
Inside the room, both the Fifteenth Uncle and Mr. Zheng felt that Wu Chengjian's behavior today was too much. Wu Chenggou even jumped up, ready to scold at any time.
“This, this…” Wu Qi hesitated, and seemed to have become a stutterer: “Hao Guan… let me reply to the eldest young lady…”
Cai Qiaozhu was furious: "Go back, let him speak for himself if he has anything to say!"
Wu Qi grew up in the Wu family. Wu Chengjun's influence on him was no less than Wu Chengjian's. He could often joke with Wu Chengjian, but he was deeply afraid of Wu Chengjun . At this time, Cai Qiaozhu was angry, representing the eldest house, so Wu Qi's fear of Wu Chengjun was also transferred to her. When Cai Qiaozhu scolded him, he didn't dare to speak and ran away with his head in his arms.
After a long time, another person finally came to Ritianju, but it was not Wu Chengjian or Ye Youyu, but Changzi.
Cai Qiaozhu saw him and laughed in anger, saying, "Okay, okay! You don't even want to see me! Wu Chengjian's legs and feet are so noble. Guang'er and I are so humble! Okay, okay, little stutterer, just say it, whatever Wu Chengjian wants you to say, just say it!"
Although Changzi was under great pressure, he had not experienced the power of Wu Chengjun and his wife in the past like Wu Qi did. He stammered, "Hao Guan, say... say..."
"What did you say!" Wu Chenggou asked.
"Hao Guan, say..." Changzai stuttered to begin with, and now he stuttered even more severely. But after stuttering for a long time, he finally mustered up the courage to say that sentence in one go: "Hao Guan, say: If you want to, break it off, then, break it off! If you want to, forsake it, then, forsake it!"
The hall suddenly became quiet.
Cai Qiaozhu was stunned and said, "You...what did you say? Say it again..."
After Changzi's anger had subsided, he felt guilty again and stammered, "Hao Guan, if you say...if you want to, break up, then, break up. If you want to, never, then... never..." The last word could hardly be heard.
No matter how angry Cai Qiaozhu appeared on the surface, no matter how angry she was in her heart, no matter how harshly she spoke to Wu Chengjian, she still kept a bottom line and never crossed it. She was pushed to the point of anger, and even if her words went to extremes, she never thought of really breaking up with Wu Chengjian in her heart - this is why she could quarrel with Wu Chengjian freely, but would not allow anyone else to say a word - not even Guang'er.
Just now she was so angry that she said "break off all ties with Wu Chengjian". In fact, she didn't really want to break off all ties with Wu Chengjian, but she wanted to force Wu Chengjian to bow to her.
Who would have thought that not only did Wu Chengjian not accept the pressure, but he actually... said he would cut off the relationship if he wanted to, and would end it if he wanted to.
Cai Qiaozhu's heart seemed to fall into the abyss all of a sudden.
Wu Chenggou also panicked all of a sudden.
He dared to act rashly just now because he was sure that Wu Chengjian would not dare to disobey his sister-in-law. Others might not know what kind of relationship the uncle and sister-in-law had, but didn't he know it clearly as they lived under the same roof? Who knew that Wu Chengjian would really be so cruel this time? If Wu Chengjian was so cruel, Wu Chenggou would be afraid.
After experiencing the last two major incidents, how could he not know the methods of this third brother?
How could Wu Chenggou afford to offend someone who dared to burn the entire Thirteen Hongs?
He was so hesitant that he almost wanted to run away. He really regretted it so much! He really shouldn't have gotten involved in this mess today.
Fifteenth Uncle coughed, breaking the silence, and said to Cai Qiaozhu: "When family members quarrel, nothing good will come out of their words. I think we should all keep quiet about this matter. We are a family, and blood is thicker than water. There is no need to break off ties. Let's not mention it anymore."
Wu Chenggou also hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, what Uncle Fifteen said is right."
Cai Qiaozhu raised her head.
She knew very well that her Fifteenth Uncle was trying to give her a way out, but she was the one who said "severance of ties", and then Wu Chengjian took it over. If she gave up this way at this time, everyone would see that she was showing weakness and had no confidence.
She didn't understand why Wu Chengjian responded like this, and she didn't understand what Wu Chengjian was thinking. Could it be that, as Ah Niang said, he had really changed? Or had she misjudged the situation?
Cai Qiaozhu couldn't figure out everything. She suddenly felt so tired, so tired - in the past, her husband made all the decisions on important matters. After her husband fell ill, there was still her father-in-law, who also passed away. In fact, she was counting on Wu Chengjian, but now Wu Chengjian has become like this too...
That feeling of being empty and helpless instantly drained all her strength...
But at this moment, she knew very well that she couldn't back down! If she backed down...if Wu Chengjian really changed...if he was really plotting against the first wife, and she gave in, then Guang'er...what would Guang'er do!
"Okay!" Cai Qiaozhu raised her head and said something that surprised herself: "Okay! If he wants to break up, then let's break up!"
Panjiayuan.
Manager Liu hurried in. Pan Youjie was there thinking about something and Pan Haigen was standing beside him. Manager Liu guessed what Pan Youjie was thinking about without asking.
"Official." He said, "I heard that the Wu family has completely fallen out! Is the news true?"
Pan Youjie came back to his senses, looked at him and nodded.
"They did fall out." Pan Haigen said, "After the news got out, I heard that Ye Dalin crossed the river overnight and went to Wujiayuan, but he came out again not long after. Most likely, Haoguan didn't allow him to interfere."
"This is a bit unexpected." Manager Liu said, "I originally just wanted to stir things up, but I didn't expect... it would really fall apart. People in Xiguan say that the eldest daughter-in-law of the Wu family is gentle and virtuous, and people in the streets say that the relationship between the uncle and the sister-in-law is deep, but I didn't expect it to fall apart so quickly."
Pan Haigen sneered: "What gentleness and virtue, what deep affection between uncle and sister-in-law, when it comes to money and roots, it's all fake."
He smiled gloatingly and said, "It's just that this matter probably made the Wu family's eldest son dumbfounded. They didn't expect Hao Guan to take advantage of the opportunity. With Hao Guan's methods, if they really want to divide the money, I'm afraid there will be nothing left of the eldest son's family."
"Not really, not really." Manager Liu shook his head. "We've had contact with Hao Guan before, and he's not that kind of person. I guess they made a big fuss and couldn't maintain the peace, so the talks broke down. But if they really fell out, he wouldn't force the eldest son's family to such a bad point. The second son of his Wu family was not born from the same mother, but he also got a lot of property. After all, Wu Chengjun is from the same mother, so no matter how much trouble he makes, he should still be treated with the proper respect. I just don't know... Will Yihe Bank split because of this."
Having said that, he looked at Pan Youjie again.
Pan Haigen's eyes flickered. "It would be interesting if Yihehang split up. I just don't know how it would look like."
"If a few years pass, Hao Guan will probably treat Young Master Guang like he treated his second son, and let him go out to be a rich man." Manager Liu said, "But right now, the eldest branch still has a few good cards. It wasn't long since Wu Chengjun passed away, and most of the guys in the bank still have feelings for him. This time, Wu Chengjian was disrespectful again, forcing his sister-in-law to bully his nephew, and being domineering. I'm afraid that all the old guys in the bank will not accept it. Although Hao Guan's methods are powerful, people's hearts are like this, and the eldest branch may not be without a fight."
The two of them each held their own opinions, but Pan Youjie remained silent.
Pan Haigen said: "Officer Qi, should we go with the flow?"
Pan Youjie frowned and said, "No, don't do anything. In this matter, we can't persuade them to break up, we have to persuade them to reconcile."
"Ah?" Pan Haigen didn't understand.
Pan Youjie waved his hand: "You don't need to understand, just do it."
While everyone else was busy, Wu Chengjian was focusing on another thing.
Many merchants in Xiguan were short-sighted and only focused on watching the fun of the Yihe business in front of them. The servants of Wujiayuan were even more focused on the dispute between the uncle and the sister-in-law in Ritianju and Lirongyuan. They felt that this was a huge event that would shake the world .
But what Wu Chengjian was worried about was another event that could really cause the world to fall apart. At this moment, Wu Qi hurried in and handed over a note.
Wu Chengjian opened it and took a look, then put it away again, thinking, "What was supposed to come has finally come."
The Thirteen Hongs Foreign Affairs Office was a place where foreigners were allowed to appear in public and where guarantors could discuss matters with them.
When Wu Chengjian came in, he happened to pass by Milton. The two nodded to each other, but Milton did not stay and left.
Wu Chengjian walked in and saw Pan Youjie sitting there with a livid face. At this time, Lu Guanhuan and Ye Dalin also arrived, and they both met Milton outside.
Lu Guanhuan asked: "Sir, what's the matter?"
Pan Youjie threw a piece of chicken intestine document in his hand onto the table and cursed: "This bunch of foreigners are looking for trouble! They want us to write to the court to allow them to replace the Portuguese garrison in Macau!"
Lu and Ye were both shocked and angry: "What!"
Only Wu Chengjian said nothing and sat down at a table coldly.
The development of the situation was not beyond his expectations, but things were moving rapidly in the direction he least wanted to see.
"Hao Guan," Pan Youjie turned to Wu Chengjian: "What do you think?"
