Chapter 309 Fifty-four photos
Yue Tianxiong is actually not ugly, but his expression always shows a trace of gloomy, especially at this moment when he is ferocious and more afraid of people. Li Weidong smiled and didn't say anything. He just played with the lighter in his hand. Yue Tianxiong stared back at him, and his squinting eyes flashed. After a while, he said, "Brother Li, don't you want to know what happened between me and Xia Jiling?"
Li Weidong said faintly, "I really want to know, but I prefer to eat with my head. It's better to have less than one more thing. What do you think, Boss Yue?
Yue Tianxiong couldn't hide a trace of appreciation in his eyes, nodded slightly and said, "Yes, you are a very cautious person. Curiosity kills cats. People who are too curious often don't talk too tightly. Only people like you can live for a long time. Ha ha, Brother Li, you are very different. I find that I am more and more interested in you.
Li Weidong suddenly had a feeling of goose bumps. He said to himself that it was a pity that it was not easy for him to recite. I'm afraid it would be a waste no matter how interested you are. In fact, of course, it is impossible for him to have no curiosity at all. The reason why he doesn't ask Yue Tianxiong is that he knows that this man is deliberately testing. Yue Tianxiong is the kind of person who is deeply in the city at first glance. At least he will not lose to Fang Zhennan. If he wants to say what he wants to say, he will say it without asking, otherwise it will be in vain. In this case, it's better to just ignore it and see what he wants to do.
After a pause, Yue Tianxiong said, "In fact, there is no need to hide this from you, but it's not the time to tell you now. I think you will naturally know in the future. What I want to tell you today is another thing. Xia Jiling doesn't need to comment on how he is, but he started from nothing and has been in the business world for decades. He is indeed a genius. So Brother Li, do you know how he dug up the first bucket of gold in his life?
Li Weidong couldn't help but be stunned. As a generation of business tycoons, there are different opinions about Xia Jiling's entrepreneurial history, but almost all versions only start with Xia Jiling's involvement in the international market, and there are few words about how he made a fortune when he was young. Li Weidong's understanding of Xia Jiling is that he began to work in the jewelry industry at the age of 16. Later, he started his own business from scratch, and later married Lu Yingying, the daughter of the famous Hong Kong tycoon Lu Bohan, before he officially entered the international market. From then on, he became uncontrollable.
At this moment, when he heard Yue Tianxiong's question, Li Weidong hesitated for a moment and whispered, "You mean... Hong Kong Lu family?"
"Smart! It seems that I, Yue Tianxiong, really didn't see the wrong person. Brother Li guessed it!" A sneer appeared on the corners of Yue Tianxiong's mouth and said, "The jewelry business that Xia Jiling originally worked in is the industry of the Lu family! The special thing about the jewelry circle is that unless you have strong capital and enough qualifications, let alone ten years, or fifty years, a hundred years, is just an errand boy, and you can't get ahead! Hey hey, what are you talking about starting from nothing? How can there be so many pie falling from the sky in the world? To put it bluntly, it's just that Xia Jiling is better at drilling and more calculating, winning the favor and trust of Mr. Lu, that's all!"
Li Weidong's heart moved. In fact, such examples that rely on the owner's appreciation and reuse, and finally make a fortune have been everywhere since ancient times. It doesn't sound like anything special, but when it comes to Xia Jiling, all the words coincidentally put aside this stubble, and it seems that they are avoiding it intentionally or unintentionally, which is a little taboo. Li Weidong did not ask questions, but quietly waited for Yue Tianxiong's follow-up.
Yue Tianxiong seemed to know his temper, and he didn't care about his silence at all. He continued: "You said it was the Lu family in Hong Kong just now. In fact, you were wrong. Long before the return of Hong Kong in 1997, the Lu Bohan family had immigrated to Singapore. Although they still took care of the Lu family's ancestral business, they should be regarded as Singaporeans until September. After nine years of financial turmoil, he returned to Hong Kong as a foreigner.
This simple sentence made Li Weidong's eyebrows jump involuntarily. In the financial storm of 1999, I remember that it was Xia Jiling's European business expansion setback, the overall performance declined, and Xia's industry fell into the most difficult period. At the same time, Xia Jiling himself was also involved in a Colombian counterfeit banknote case and was investigated. These things happened almost at the same time, which was just an accidental coincidence. Or...
"Lu Bohan is actually a member of the organization. Xia Jiling is actually just a puppet supported by Mr. Lu, right?"
Li Weidong couldn't help blurt out. Yue Tianxiong nodded approvingly, then shook his head and said, "You are smarter than I thought, but it's a pity that you only got half right. Lu Bohan is not only a member of the bloody hand. To be precise, he should be one of the elders. Otherwise, Xia Jiling will not be able to climb to a high position in a very short time.
Li Weidong breathed softly. The Lu family in Hong Kong is one of the few largest conglomerates. It has dominated the party as early as the Republic of China. When Sun Yat-sen launched the alliance meeting, he received strong support from the Lu family. However, the Lu family has always kept a low profile, so although the industry is all over the world, it rarely appears in the public eye. Because of this, when he heard Yue Tianxiong say this in person, although he had guessed it, he was still surprised.
Yue Tianxiong said slowly: "Business and political circles have never been separated. Money paves the way for power, and power saves money. This is the truth that will never change. At the beginning, Mr. Lu was optimistic about Xia Jiling and supported him with one hand. In order to stabilize his heart, he did not hesitate to marry him. However, I didn't expect that my son-in-law was much more ambitious than everyone imagined. He was always unwilling to live under the control of the Lu family and tried to kick his father-in-law away and start his own business. Because of this, he deliberately abandoned Lu Yingying, Xia Ruoyun's biological mother. Lu Bohan was angry and vowed to eradicate him. Unfortunately, at this time, Xia Jiling was full of wings and occupied a place in the organization. The most important thing was that he controlled the huge amount of fund in his hand, which was also a group. The lifeblood of weaving depends on survival, so almost everyone unanimously opposes Lu Bohan's use of force. In the end, Lu Bohan can only drop his front teeth and swallow it in his stomach. From then on, he broke off his relationship with Xia Jiling.
Miss Xia Ruoyun is also the daughter of Xia Jiling's wife Lu Yingying, Lu Bohan's direct granddaughter. Although neither the second uncle Hou Wanfeng nor Xia Ruoyun herself has ever mentioned this, Li Weidong has already guessed it. Hou Wanfeng once said that the biological mother of Xia Ruoyun and Xia Ruobing is also the direct sister, that is to say, Lu Bohan should have another daughter, that is, Lu Yingying's sister, Xia Ruobing's mother. According to Hou Wanfeng, Xia Ruobing's biological mother died soon after giving birth to her. As for what Lu Yingying did later, it is unknown.
Li Weidong lit a cigarette and took two puffs and said, "Mr. Yue, do you mean the death of Lu Bohan and Xia Jiling..."
When it came to Xia Jiling's death, Yue Tianxiong's face involuntarily darkened and was silent for a while before saying, "Although Xia Jiling was betrayed by me in the end, there was someone else who killed him. I haven't found out whether this person is the instructions of the Lu family or not until now, but judging from the life of Lu Bohan, I'm afraid it's difficult to let go of the feud with Xia Jiling.
Li Weidong nodded and meditated for a while before saying, "In this case, assuming that Xia Jiling died at the hands of his former father-in-law, does it mean that the fund has now fallen into the hands of the Lu family?"
Yue Tianxiong suddenly sneered and said, "Do you know why Lu Bohan spent so much money at the beginning that he even wanted to support a puppet even if he married his daughter to Xia Jiling?"
Li Weidong frowned slightly and said, "Why?"
"Hey hey, of course, this Mr. Lu himself also wanted to withdraw from the organization, so he painstakingly pushed Xia Jiling to the top and let him be a scapegoat!" Yue Tianxiong's eyes flashed and he whispered, "Although money and power are not separated, things will be reversed. When power expands to a certain extent, it will be beyond people's control, and once the power gets out of control, the consequences will be terrible beyond your imagination! The current organization is no longer a few people, or a simple force, but an invisible black hand, holding everyone tightly in it. This kind of entanglement of each other's interests is like a big quagmire. Everyone is struggling, but no one can crawl out, because there are countless hands around you, from time to time. I try my best to drag you down all the time! Lu Bohan is undoubtedly a smart person. He knows when to enter and when to retreat, but he didn't think that Xia Jiling was more shrewd and more ruthless than him. He actually kicked him out of the quagmire first!"
Yue Tianxiong did not answer Li Weidong directly, but the meaning of this sentence is self-evident. Lu Bohan has not been out of the control of the organization from beginning to end, and the huge fund that the organization is eager to recover has naturally not yet surfaced. In fact, if Xia Jiling hadn't hung up, then the biggest winner in this competition would have been him.
So who killed Xia Jiling? Or is the mantis catching cicadas and the yellow finch behind? Li Weidong gently tapped the soot, and things seemed to be getting more and more complicated...
Yue Tianxiong sighed gently and said, "All this is just my speculation. Over the years, although Lu Bohan has endured on the surface, he has been competing with Xia Jiling behind his back. Xia's Group's several European investment failures are likely to be secretly done by the Lu family. Regarding this fund, it is the most powerful chip in Xia Jiling's hand, a trump card. I think Lu Bohan will definitely not give up. Although Xia Jiling is dead, it is not known who the fund will fall into. The most important thing is that although the Lu family's own financial resources are not as strong as the fund, the wealth accumulated by several generations is also quite considerable. According to the information I have received, it will not be less than 8 billion US dollars!"
Li Weidong suddenly smiled a playful smile at the corners of his mouth and said, "Are you worried that Fang Zhennan and Lu Bohan will form an alliance to deal with you?"
Yue Tianxiong glanced at Li Weidong, but did not deny it. He said slowly, "That's right. Now Fang Zhennan, that is, Xia Jiling at the beginning, is very ambitious and tries to cultivate his own power. In recent years, the father and son of the Fang family have been very happy and deeply appreciated by the organization. I can tell you without concealing that once the Fang family becomes the climate, there will be no foothold of my Yue family from now on!"
Li Weidong's face was rigid and he said coldly, "Boss Yue, in this way, don't you still want me to help you deal with Fang Zhennan?"
Yue Tianxiong suddenly smiled and said, "What Yue said has always been counted. If your brother Li is willing to help me, the door of Yue's family will be open to you at any time. If not, I won't force people to it. Although I'm not a person who is used to being rejected, at least it's an exception for you."
Li Weidong sneered and said, "Oh, I also want to thank Mr. Yue!"
Yue Tianxiong smiled, grabbed a pile of photos in front of him and said, "Since I said that you must do something for me today, there must be enough chips. I guess it's not the first time for Brother Li to see blood, so I want to invite you to have a look at this!"
These are the photos that Yue Tianxiong looked at at the beginning. He threw a thick pile on the coffee table in front of Li Weidong. At a glance, Li Weidong couldn't help frowning. Although he has seen dead people or even kill people more than once, it still makes him feel sick to see that dozens of photos are stiff bodies without exception, and the strange shapes and various postures of men, women and children die.
Yue Tianxiong stood up and walked to the porthole window, looked at the sparkling sea outside the window, and said without looking back, "You'd better check those photos to see if it's 54."
Li Weidong was stunned and counted the thick stack of photos from the beginning. One was not more than one, and the other was exactly 54. He gently clicked his finger on the photo and said, "What does this mean? Does Boss Yue want to play poker?"
Yue Tianxiong turned around and said word by word, "Then I'll tell you one more thing: the Lu family is qualified to inherit Lu's property from Mr. Lu's eldest son, Lu Nanqing. There are exactly 54 people in total. What do you think?"
"What?"
Li Weidong was shocked, and the photo in his hand couldn't help falling on the coffee table. A cold smile appeared at the corners of Yue Tianxiong's mouth and said, "Don't doubt your ears. You heard it wrong at all. Those who are qualified to inherit Lu's property, including children and grandchildren, as well as a brother, brother, sister and family, there are a total of 50 people in four generations. These people are all on these photos now!"
Li Weidong only felt a cool air rising from the soles of his feet and reaching the heavenly spirit through his body! A family of 54 died tragically, which doesn't mean that the Lu family, who dominates the country and can even cover the sky with one hand, has been destroyed?!
My God, who has such great strength and who has been so cruel! Li Weidong calmed down and grabbed the photo again and looked at it carefully. The people in the photo are adults and children, and the dead are also in a variety of cases. Some are shot in the forehead, and the brains are flowing out. Some are slashed with knives, the flesh and blood are blurred, and the limbs are incomplete; some can't see any scars all over their bodies, and they are neatly dressed. Qi, it seems that he died of poison; two of the young women were actually naked, as if they had been raped and killed. And the places of death are also different. Some are indoors, some are outdoors, some are still in cars, and even hospital diseases**!
"These...these are..."
"All of them were killed overnight." Yue Tianxiong sighed gently and said, "Mr. Lu's direct relatives, a total of four generations and fifty-four people, have now immigrated to at least 20 regions in nine countries, but the night before yesterday, all of these people died without exception!" Brother Li, to tell you the truth, when I first saw these photos, I was more afraid than you, because Yue Tianxiong asked himself that he had been living in black and white for so many years. He has traveled through all kinds of storms and waves and seen all kinds of things, but he has never encountered such a terrible thing. A family of 54, and there are nine people. The country unexpectedly killed all of them overnight! I don't know what evil Lu Bohan has done in his life, and I really can't figure out who has such a great power and such a cruel means that even Lu Bohan's youngest granddaughter secretly went to California to climb rock climbing in the United States!"
Yue Tianxiong's voice trembled slightly. It was hard to believe that people like him would feel fear. Of course, Li Weidong knew that his sigh was not out of kindness. It was just a kind of rabbit death, fearing that the bad luck that he agreed to him would come to him!
In the face of such a bloody, cruel and vicious scene, who can not be afraid?
It took Li Weidong to calm down for a long time, stared at Yue Tianxiong and said, "Do you suspect that this matter was done by Fang Zhennan?"
Yue Tianxiong shook his head slowly and said, "It's absolutely impossible. In fact, there are many people who can make such a big move, including me. I don't doubt Fang Zhennan's power, nor do I doubt his ambitions and calculations, but he never has such courage and can't use such vicious means! Brother Li, do you want to know that the Lu family was destroyed overnight? What's wrong with this?
This time, Li Weidong did not hesitate at all and said very simply, "Yes."
Yue Tianxiong took a deep breath and said, "Lu Bohan is seventy-three this year. There is an old saying that says seventy-three, eighty-four. The king of the world doesn't ask him to go. Maybe this year is really a hurdle for him. Lu Bohan has cancer, and it is already in the advanced stage, at most two months alive. I'm afraid the only thing he can do in the rest of the period is one thing.
"A will!"
Li Weidong blurted out. Yue Tianxiong nod to him and said, "Your mind never seems to let me down. Yes, the only thing Lu Bohan can do now is to make a will. The Lu family has been cultivated for many years. Whether in terms of money or power, it is a considerable piece of fat, so everyone's eyes are staring at who the Lu industry will eventually fall into!"
Li Weidong said thoughtfully, "Then it should be pure now. Except for Lu Bohan, everyone dies. But if this will is not settled in the end, who can get the greatest benefit?"
Yue Tianxiong stretched out a finger and shook it at him, and said word by word, "No, you're wrong this time!" Lu Bohan's heir is not dead. At least so far, there are still two people left!"
"You mean... Miss and Bingbing?"
Li Weidong stood up, and his face turned pale in an instant.
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