Chapter 89#

The Disabled Big Shot’s Stepson#

This attack caused a great subsequent impact.

Not only were almost all the local police mobilized, but it even caused a shock among the upper levels of the entire country.

Such malicious competition methods—those who didn’t know better would think it happened in those small war-torn countries outside—actually even hired mercenary killers with guns!

The Fang family naturally denied it flatly. Since they dared to do such a bold thing, they naturally had the confidence not to be caught. Moreover, the IP address of the so-called “middleman” found by the police was also on some obscure small island in the Pacific, and the bullets at the scene were all models prohibited in the country. One look and it was known that they were prepared.

It made Ye Shiyuan, whose injuries hadn’t healed yet, walk around the castle angrily every day like a firecracker.

“This is outrageous!” he cursed, “Is it just going to end like this? I can’t swallow this anger!”

“What’s the rush?” Lin Pei, lying on the bed, flipped through the information and said without looking up, “Do you think without evidence to prove it was done by the Fang family, they will be fine? Not to mention that under today’s Skynet system, those mercenaries will eventually show their tail. Just talking about the bad influence this incident caused them, it will definitely not fade for twenty years.”

“What influence can they have?” Ye Shiyuan frowned, “I think those old men are almost dead from pride! They even hypocritically brought some gifts to visit you, bah!”

Lin Pei said flatly: “So to say, that group of people in the Fang family are short-sighted and not worth mentioning. To make a simple analogy, it’s just like when Jing Ke assassinated the King of Qin back then. Did he stop the pace of Qin’s unification of the six kingdoms? Not only that, the assassination attempt instead enraged the King of Qin, causing Yan to be destroyed faster. What the Fang family did this time is as stupid as Prince Dan of Yan back then.”

Ye Shiyuan thought about it, and it was indeed the case.

Although Lin Pei had faded from public view in the past two years due to physical reasons, the Lin family’s presence at home and abroad had never been underestimated. Lin Pei’s disability made many people relax their vigilance, and they even began to mock the man like a tiger in a flatland—however, a sleeping lion is always a lion, and noisy flies are after all just flies.

“Hearing you say that, I can finally vent my anger.” Ye Shiyuan said enthusiastically, “Then Head of the Family, how do you plan to arrange the third stage of training next?”

Lin Pei was silent for a moment and said: “Except for the two children, Lin Yi and Lin Shanshan, the others, send them all home.”

Lin Yi was that boy with the pageboy haircut, the perennial second place who ranked below Lin Shanshan in every competition and exam.

“Okay… wait a minute, what did you say?” Ye Shiyuan’s eyes widened, “Send them home? Including Xiaodong?”

“Yes.”

“But, but…” Ye Shiyuan was conflicted. Didn’t Lin Pei say before that he wanted Lin Xiaodong to be his successor?

“He’s not suitable for this position of intrigue,” Lin Pei sighed, “Although I really want to personally conquer a territory for him, we all know he won’t be happy.”

“That’s true,” Ye Shiyuan nodded with a face full of understanding and sighed, “This is probably the common feeling of fathers all over the world, only wishing for their sons to grow up healthy and happy, and asking for nothing else.”

But for some reason, after he finished this sentence, Lin Pei stared at him for a long time.

“…Head of the Family?”

“I suddenly remembered, the family happens to have an agricultural project in Sweden,” Lin Pei said slowly, “It happens, you set off next week and go there to recuperate for a period of time.”

Ye Shiyuan: “…………”

No! He doesn’t want to go to Sweden to plant potatoes!!!

Not mentioning how Ye Shiyuan here, because of his loose tongue, took a plane to Sweden with resentment, on the other side, Lin Xiaodong in the castle was also busy packing his luggage.

“Said he wanted a drawing of a sunflower every week for him, but in the end there weren’t many,” he couldn’t help saying to the system while moving the easel, “and I don’t know where Lin Pei threw those drawings. Maybe it’s just as he said himself, used for footstools.”

Thinking of his hard work being wasted like that, Lin Xiaodong couldn’t help but feel a bit annoyed.

The youth dawdled in the room for a moment, and finally, under the urge of the driver outside, he walked to the castle gate carrying his suitcase.

“At least I saved his life, and he didn’t even come to see me off when I left. Too bad.”

He looked back at the empty hall, a faint flash of loss in his eyes.

The system was just about to comfort the host when he heard Lin Xiaodong snort and turn his head, saying: “Forget it, after finishing the task in this world I’ll say bye-bye, then find Old Gu.”

System: “…………”

Up to this day, Lin Xiaodong still steadfastly refused to admit that Lin Pei is Gu Xi. I don’t know if he is too obsessed with abs, or because he is unwilling to face the cruel reality.

The driver helped them load the luggage. Lin Shanshan and Lin Yi, who were left behind, stood at the castle gate, waving their hands vigorously to say goodbye to them. Lin Shanshan’s eyes were still a bit red, shouting to Lin Xiaodong: “Remember to call me!”

Lin Xiaodong, leaning on the car window, was also a bit tearful: “What a good girl, how did she fall into Lin Pei’s hands? Don’t let her be tortured by him into a heartless nun.”

He deeply hated that he still had a few days to be 18 years old, otherwise he would have definitely found a way to adopt Lin Shanshan. With such a smart and well-behaved little daughter, Lin Xiaodong felt he could wake up laughing in his dreams.

Second floor of the castle.

Looking at the receding back of the bus, Lin Pei, standing in front of the window, had a deep gaze.

In fact, making this decision also cost him a lot of courage. However, the man’s self-esteem didn’t allow him to show his weak side in front of Lin Xiaodong, and what was about to follow was no less than a painful transformation like breaking bones and rebirth for him…

“Head of the Family, the expert group has got off the plane and is expected to arrive tonight.” Someone behind him reported.

“I see.” Lin Pei came back to his senses and turned the wheelchair around, “Tell them for me, I’m ready anytime.”

One sentence: succeed, or die.

In this life, he wanted to stand up from the wheelchair and embrace his lover properly once.

From the moment the bus left the castle, Lin Xiaodong began to have a headache.

Unlike the kids who were excited because they were going home, as soon as he thought of that “home,” he felt his head buzzing.

That day after the search and rescue team found them, they soon found Lin Qi’s trace under the cliff. Although he was sent to the hospital at the first time, due to the delay being too long and the injuries being truly too heavy, in order to save his life, the doctor had to amputate one of his legs, and announced that from now on Lin Qi must live with a urinary catheter—but these were not yet the most serious.

What was truly serious was that his spine had suffered irreversible damage, thus causing all muscles below his eyes to lose control. In short, his consciousness was clear, but in the future, except for being able to blink, he could no longer let any part of his body obey the brain’s command, or even speak to express himself. It was more terrifying than high-level paraplegia.

In response, Lin Pei only instructed the hospital to try their best to save him, and the medical fees would be paid by the family unified fund. However, he never mentioned anything about compensation or even pensions, making the uncle and aunt who rushed to the hospital almost die of anger.

The couple made a big scene in the hospital, clamoring to go find Lin Pei to argue. However, this was a public hospital, not the Lin family’s private hospital. At the first moment they made trouble, the director called the police. However, the police were also not easy to decide on this matter—if it was an injury in a summer camp, naturally there would be the organizer to compensate. However, this was a selection competition within the Lin family. How could they easily intervene in the family affairs of such a big family?

Therefore, the police could only advise the couple that if they wanted compensation, they could try to file a lawsuit in court. But Lin Qi’s parents knew better than anyone that if they really did that, not only would the jobs they obtained by relying on the Lin family tree go down the drain, but also the inheritance grabbed from Lin Xiaodong would probably be liquidated together. How could the couple, who were used to living a good life, accept this?

In the end, they only symbolically cried for a few sentences before their son’s bed, sold their misery hard in front of relatives to win sympathy, and turned around to discuss having a second child behind closed doors.

After knowing this, Lin Xiaodong couldn’t help but feel some sympathy for Lin Qi.

Being born in such a family is truly eight lifetimes of bad luck.

However, his uncle and aunt, as his nominal guardians, he had to return to this home to live before getting into university.

Lin Xiaodong left with nothing, and came back with many bags. However, he didn’t expect anyone to come to pick him up, so he asked the driver to drive as close to home as possible to facilitate him taking things back.

As soon as he got off the car, he frowned deeply.

Away for a few months, it was expected that the sunflowers in the field would wither, but the original field was now no longer what it looked like when he left. Instead, there were patches of winter wheat and farmers busy in the field wearing bamboo hats.

He walked to an old man and asked tentatively: “Old man, is this field yours?”

“Hmm? No,” the old man wiped a handful of sweat and raised his head to say to him, “I’m just one responsible for farming. Look, this field is rented to me by the family over there.”

Lin Xiaodong followed his finger and indeed saw his uncle and aunt’s house.

Listening to the old farmer’s rambling complaints, he finally understood what happened.

It turned out that his two uncle and aunt found the sunflower field troublesome to take care of and couldn’t make money, so they simply cleared the whole field and rented it to the local old farmer for farming while he was away.

Lin Xiaodong’s mouth twitched, thinking to himself that not mentioning these few mu of fields were all bought by the youth’s parents back then, just this leasing method of the landlord taking half of the harvest and also letting the local farmers pay rent… it’s just bullying the rural people who don’t understand the law.

What is this, a landlord in the new era?