Chapter 920.
Anyang City, Ling Mansion Study Room.
Ling Hongfeng leaned breathlessly against the eunuch chair, his eyes looking at the ceiling listlessly.
Sitting in the position of the Ling Family’s head was once his greatest dream.
One of the biggest reasons for Ling Hongfeng’s youthful foppishness and degradation was that he knew he would never be able to compete with his wise and powerful elder brother, so he simply let himself go.
But when his dream came true and he took the Ling family into his hands, he realized how naive he was.
This seat, really not ordinary people can sit!
The internal rivalry within the family, and the open and shut battles in business operations, made Ling Hongfeng’s heart pine away.
In just half a year’s time, he felt like he had aged ten years.
Most importantly, after Ling Hongyun’s death, the Ling family’s reputation had gone down considerably, and quite a few collaborations with other families had been interrupted as a result, with great losses occurring.
Moreover, many people within the family were unconvinced by Ling Hongfeng, believing that he was nothing but a first family name.
He has a serious lack of prestige and not much talent, so what can he rely on to solve the Ling family’s external and internal problems?
Ling Hongfeng is now a daily regret.
If he had known it would come to this, he would not have done it in the first place!
Bang!
Just as he was wandering around, the door to the study was pushed open.
Ling Hongfeng didn’t even raise his eyelids and lazily asked, “What happened?”
There was a hint of boredom in his tone.
In the entire Ling family, there was only one person who dared to rudely barge into his study like this, and he still had to coax and hold the other person up.
The person who came was none other than Butler Zhang.
Looking at Ling Hongfeng, who was leaning back in his chair like a puddle of mud, butler Zhang’s eyes flashed a color of disdain as he said in a deep voice, “The Thousand Chance Tower has already found out the whereabouts of Ling Zhiyuan!”
“Found out?”
Ling Hongfeng immediately straightened up, “Where is this little brat now?”
When the plan had gone awry and allowed Ling Zhiyuan to run away, this matter had always been his heartache, fearing that the former would suddenly run back and drive himself off the stage.
Although Ling Zhiyuan was also very incompetent, he was the rightful heir to the family head!
And once Ling Zhiyuan returned, there was a great possibility of his plot being exposed.
Butler Zhang did not directly answer Ling Hongfeng’s question, instead he sat down in front of the desk in a grand manner, picked up the teapot on the table and slowly poured himself a cup of tea.
Ling Hongfeng froze.
He wanted to get angry, but he also knew very well that he couldn’t afford to be offended, so he could only hold his tongue and say: ”Housekeeper Zhang, didn’t you say last time that your nephew wanted to do the grain business? My family has a rice and grain store in the east of the city, so let your nephew go and be a shopkeeper.”
When this matter was brought up by the other party last time, Ling Hongfeng didn’t want to cut his meat and feed it to the wolves again, so he made a vague and perfunctory reply.
Butler Zhang didn’t say anything at the time, but now he came to pinch him!
Ling Hongfeng is not at all able to do anything but satisfy the other party’s greed.
It was only a matter of time anyway.
“Many thanks to the proprietor.”
Butler Zhang revealed a hint of a smile as he put down his teacup and said, “Ling Zhiyuan is now in Linjiang County.”
“Linjiang County?”
Ling Hongfeng was bewildered, “What is that place?”
He hadn’t even heard of it.
“Linjiang is an upper county of Taiping County ……”
Butler Zhang patiently explained to this uneducated fellow, “Ling Zhiyuan’s current status is as a Blood Clothes Guardsman, serving as an errand boy in the Linjiang County Guardhouse!”
“What?”
Ling Hongfeng couldn’t believe his ears, “How is this possible, how can this little brat be a Blood Clothes Guard?”
Although he did not know Linjiang County, he had a fair understanding of the Blood Clothes Guards.
Ling Zhiyuan was a mere martial arts apprentice, what qualifications did he have to join the Blood Clothes Guards?
Impossible!
“The higher-ups don’t believe it either, but Thousand Opportunities House checked it out clearly, it can’t be wrong.”
Butler Zhang said in a deep voice, “Ling Zhiyuan first went to Taiping County City and joined the Blood Clothes Guards there, then after coming out of the Iron Furnace Camp after three months of training, he was lowered to Linjiang County.”
“He was also the top student in the current class of freshmen and got the Silver Medallion status!”
Ling Hongfeng felt like he was listening to a mythological story.
Was Steward Zhang talking about Ling Zhiyuan?
He was confused.
Butler Zhang was more or less helpless.
There was one thing to say, when he had just gotten the information, he wasn’t much better than Ling Hongfeng.
Ling Zhiyuan was known to everyone, the tiger father and dog son was talking about this one, obviously having excellent family inheritance techniques, as well as high martial arts talent, but he was fond of literature and disliked martial arts, it was a waste!
“Ling Zhiyuan should have hidden his cultivation strength ……”
Butler Zhang said in a cold voice, “He fooled everyone, this must have been Ling Hongyun’s idea, wanting to protect his son.”
The Ling family had quite a few rivals in Anyang City, and if Ling Zhiyuan performed extremely well, it was bound to invite scorn and calculations from others.
“Ling Hongyun is very smart, honestly, even a hundred of you combined can’t compare to him!”
“So what!”
Butler Zhang’s relentless mockery caused Ling Hongfeng to storm out, “He’s dead now, and it’s me who’s sitting in this seat!”
Embarrassed, he swept everything on the desk to the floor!
Butler Zhang indifferently looked at the impotent and furious Ling Hongfeng and said, “Since we have found the rightful owner, we must eliminate the roots.”
“He is now a Blood Clothes Guard!”
Ling Hongfeng suddenly calmed down and shrunk his head and said, “Assassinating the Blood Clothes Guards for no reason is punishable by death!”
“So what if it’s the Blood Clothes Guards? It’s not like they haven’t been killed before!”
Butler Zhang sneered, “You also don’t think about it, after he escaped, why didn’t he go back to Anyang City, instead he ran to Taiping County City, which is thousands of miles away, to join the Blood Clothes Guards?”
“Thousand Chance Tower also found out that he was rewarded by a Hundred Household!”
“When he has a higher level of strength as well as status, and then returns to Anyang City, he will be able to hold you down without even having to make a move!”
Ling Hongfeng’s face turned white after hearing this, and he sat back in his chair powerlessly.
“Don’t worry.”
Butler Zhang said, “This matter can be entrusted to the Thousand Chance Tower to do, they and the Blood Clothes Guards were originally not on the right path, as long as the money is given in place, it will definitely not involve you.”
Ling Hongfeng revitalized his spirit, “How much money is needed?”
Butler Zhang put up a finger.
Ling Hongfeng froze: “Ten thousand taels so much?”
Butler Zhang snorted, “One hundred thousand taels!”
Ling Hongfeng almost spat out a mouthful of blood, “One hundred thousand taels? Is Thousand Chance Tower crazy?”
Butler Zhang was bland: “The market price, do you think the Blood Guards are that easy to kill?”
“Then it’s better to kill me!”
Ling Hongfeng howled, “My family spent tens of thousands of taels to rebuild the ancestral hall, and you guys scraped away so much, now where am I going to get another hundred thousand taels back?”
Housekeeper Zhang said viciously, “Who made you so incompetent, you didn’t find out the Ling family’s real secret vault even after so long, the Xuan Tian Seven Deadly Wheel’s technique wasn’t there originally either, we’re the ones who lost a lot of money!”
“Anyway, it’s one hundred thousand taels, no matter if you sell your store or your house or your son or daughter, you have to come up with this money.”
“Otherwise you will know what it means to regret!”
And indeed, Ling Hongfeng regretted it to the extreme right now.
The consequences of seeking skin with a tiger, he had truly learned, and it was far from over!