CH 256

The Wang Ningkai father and son did not tell Li that the price of their house was 150,000 less than  expected. It was useless to mention it now that things were different than they had been a few days ago. No matter whether or not Granny Wang ran to Wang Cheng’s house to threaten them with her death, as long as Wang Cheng ignored her for the whole day, the Wang Ningkai father and son would be taken to jail.

For now, the next step was for them to go through the procedures for the transfer of the house. This process had to be done in the city, so Wang Cheng asked a bodyguard to drive them there, and also called Zhang Wu to help them.

The procedures were a bit cumbersome, and various fees had to be paid. Some of those fees were Wang Cheng's, who as the buyer, had to bear that part of the cost; the Wang Ningkai father and son bore the rest.

With Zhang Wu's assistance, after they arrived at the relevant department, they directly handed in their documents and went through the transfer procedures of the house. After that, they had to run to several other departments. All in all, it took over three hours to successfully transfer the house under Wang Cheng's name.

When the Wang Ningkai father and son saw their thin booklet now that now had Wang Cheng's name on it instead of theirs, they felt a little uncomfortable. Who would have thought that their previously extravagant life in the village was reduced to the point where their house must be sold to pay off the debt.

Although Wang Cheng had given them 850,000, in reality, the final amount they received was not that much. After deducting part of the cost through these procedures, only a little over 800,000 was left. Both the father and son were a bit shocked.

Back in the Guan’s Village, the Wang Ningkai father and son first returned the 500,000 they owed to Jiang Jiarong, revoked the business contract they had had with him, and finally avoided the danger of going to jail.

Their newfound money was also returned to the workers who were present. The fees were distributed bit by bit, until soon, 200,000 yuan was gone in the blink of an eye. Li and Granny Wang went back inside their house, as they couldn’t bear to watch the scene.

The workers were satisfied once receiving their owed money, and finally all left.

When the Wang Ningkai father and son returned to their house, the living room was quiet, and no one spoke.

Wang Xiaoyan hid upstairs, not daring to come down. The size of her belly was now conspicuous. This was the firstborn of the fourth generation of the Wang family. Even if no one from her husband’s family liked her, she still had the blood of the Wang family in her belly. Granny Wang wanted to hug her great-grandson, so she now only scolded Wang Xiaoyan at most.

“Ningkai, don't be discouraged. Although we have lost 700,000 yuan, at least our family is able to keep a few hundred thousand. With your skills, it is absolutely possible for us to let others see that our Wang family will never be reduced to this." When Li saw her dear son’s depressed expression, she attempted to comfort him.

Wang Ningkai was not comforted at all, and yelled irritably, "Where would those hundreds of thousands come from? The value of that house was reduced a few days ago, so Wang Cheng was only willing to pay 850,000."

"How dare Wang Cheng do such a thing, that bastard!" Li was surprised.

Wang Ningkai sneered. "Why wouldn’t he dare? He is rich now. He doesn’t put his eldest uncle’s family in his eyes at all! Dad and I pathetically begged him, but he was indifferent to us. I believe that even if the price of our house had been reduced, it would have been impossible for it to drop by 150,000 all at once. He only said such a thing because he knew he was our last chance."

Li immediately became anxious when she heard this, and said without thinking: "No, we can't let him take advantage of us, we must get our money back."

"You want it back? It’s not like we didn’t exchange goods. Right now, the house is registered in his name." Although Wang Ningkai’s intentions were the same as his mother’s, he knew that such a thing was impossible. Wang Cheng would never allow himself to be taken advantage of.

"It may be impossible with Wang Cheng, but not necessarily with his parents. Wang Cheng won’t stay in the Guan’s Village forever. After he leaves, we can demand an explanation from his parents." Li’s heart throbbed every time she thought of that one hundred fifty thousand. They’d lost two hundred thousand, and were cheated of another one hundred and fifty thousand. How could their family's life be so bitter? If it weren't for Wang Cheng, how could they have fallen to this point?

"My daughter-in-law is right, we definitely can't let the third family take advantage of us." Granny Wang was no less angry than Li, but she was now a bit anxious when it came to Wang Cheng.

...

At this time, Wang Cheng was reporting the battle statistics to Papa and Mama Wang.

The two were very happy when they heard he had resolved the matter. Mama Wang asked, "By the way, son, how did you drive the old lady away from the house?"

"At first, I just offered her a bunch of amenities. She later pretended to become angered to the point of an injury, so I sent her to the health clinic. When she saw that I was stubborn about properly treating her, she voluntarily returned," Wang Cheng explained with truths and lies. "Oh, there is one more thing. They only compromised this time because my eldest uncle and cousin cheated a businessman of 500,000 yuan. Today, that businessman went to their door and threatened to call the police and send them to jail if they didn’t pay the money. My eldest uncle and cousin were afraid of going to jail, so they decided to sell the house to pay off the debt."

The two were startled. "No way, how could they deceive someone of half a million? That is not a small number."

"They probably did it precisely because it was such a large number, and they happened to be short of money at the time. In fact, my eldest uncle and cousin should rejoice that the businessman didn’t call the police from the get go, otherwise, it would have been the police knocking on their door instead."

Wang Cheng had previously heard from Zhang Wu that when his people found Jiang Jiarong, he was actually about to call the police. Once the two pillars of the family went to jail, the remaining women would just stretch their hands out for tea, and open their mouths for food*. The Wang family would have been bound to end in chaos.

[T/N: sit back and relax; expect everything to be done for them]

Originally, Wang Cheng could sit back and watch. However, after thinking that the old lady and her husband would most likely fall to his father afterwards, he could only ask Zhang Wu to stop Jiang Jiarong.

"Such sinfulness. I can only hope that they will become clear-headed after this lesson. How can cheated money be used with peace of mind?” Papa Wang said emotionally.

"Parents, would you like to stay there for a couple more days?" Wang Cheng suggested.

"Why?"

"Although the matter has been settled, I am worried that they will not give up and start trouble with you after I leave. You don't know how despicable the old lady is, she will do anything."

Papa Wang said helplessly: "But she is your father’s mother after all."

He really hadn’t known anything yet.

‘This will all end soon’, Wang Cheng said in his heart. He had recently asked someone to investigate the truth, so he would soon discover what went down over 50 years ago. He was now quite sure that his father was not Granny Wang’s biological son.

In the end, his parents decided to come back in the afternoon. Regardless of whether Granny Wang came to their door or not, they couldn't leave the affairs at home unattended for so long. Mama Wang had to take care of the vegetable field in their backyard and the little fragrant pig in the shed.

The Guan’s Village became calm again, but no one thought that it might be the calm before the storm.

Around two o'clock in the afternoon, Papa Wang and Mama Wang finally returned.

Wang Cheng was about to go out, but before he did, he made up a reason for his eldest uncle’s family’s complaints against them and warned his parents to go out as little as possible, otherwise they might easily run into them. It was unknown what the other party would do at this point.

Papa Wang and Mama Wang knew their eldest brother and sister-in-law very well, and agreed to their son’s request when they saw him speak so seriously. Mama Wang didn’t need to go to the jam factory and the north mountain’s medicinal herbs were just picked last month, so Papa and Mama Wang were both now free.

Wang Cheng relievedly went out and rushed to the Dongwang Group to meet Zhang Wu.

Zhang Wu lived up to his expectations in helping him manage the Dongwang Group. Not only did he manage the company in an orderly manner, but he also secretly helped him acquire some shares of the group. Now that the shares Wang Cheng held exceeded 40%, he no longer required Liu Dong’s support. As long as they continued to work hard, the Dongwang Group would sooner or later truly belong to him.

However, the situation was worsening due to the fact that the Sun family had recently been making trouble with Zhang Wu. It was said that Sun Jian had been sentenced. Sun Degang, whose only son ended up in jail with no hope for the rest of his life, believed that this matter had a lot to do with Wang Cheng. So, he didn’t spare them. Regardless of whether or not it went against the group's interests*, he frequently framed Zhang Wu and attempted to drag him down. However, would Sun Degang really turn completely against the Dongwang Group just because his son was in jail? Zhang Wu didn’t think so.

[T/N: Sun Degang is still part of the Dongwang Group here, it's just that he and his supporters no longer hold majority shares. So, when he is doing these petty tricks against Zhang Wu, it is sometimes harming the company and the company’s worth. The question here is: why is he harming the company while he is still a shareholder and it directly affects him?]

Recently, there had been frequent incidents of important information becoming lost within the company. Various signs pointed to this matter being done by internal senior management, but they all protected each other. Although Zhang Wu knew who it was, he wasn’t able to gather evidence because he didn’t have enough people on his side in the company. So, he wanted to discuss it with Wang Cheng.

"I found someone to hack into their computer, but we found that their computer defenses are very advanced. Apparently, this is the work of a computer expert. The other party's methods are very clever, my subordinate was not their opponent."

"Computer expert?" When Wang Cheng heard these two words, he immediately thought of David, who was also a computer expert, and based on Chu Yifeng’s statement, not just any computer expert. "Wait, I know someone who is a hacker, maybe he can help us."

"That's great," Zhang Wu said.

Wang Cheng took out his cell phone and dialed David's cell phone number. When David heard that this matter was related to his field of expertise, he agreed to resolve it. However, they had to find another time because he was working right now. So, Wang Cheng made an appointment with him for later.

Zhang Wu gave Wang Cheng the relevant clues and information, and Wang Cheng discussed things with him for a while.

Zhang Wu suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Zhou Shao, we can use this opportunity to buy some more shares, so that maybe we can avoid future troubles."

"What are you saying?"

"The company seems to be stable now, but the frequent problems recently have caused panic. Two days ago, I heard that the company's share price might fall, so I suspect that Sun Degang might be preparing to make big moves in the near future."

Wang Cheng understood, this was indeed a good opportunity. "I understand. Let’s first wait for David's results, maybe we will receive some information that we don't yet know."

"Okay, then I will be waiting for Zhou Shao’s good news."

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