The Tenth Elder opened the folded letter, lowered his eyebrows and looked over, then raised his eyebrows, looked at Elder Mu with dark brown eyes, and said with a strange expression: "She wants half of the Smith Bank shares that Nie Qingru gave you."
Elder Mu's face turned pale on the spot, he curled his fingers into a fist, and just answered: "Impossible..."
The words haven't finished yet.
The old lady on the right hand stood up suddenly and angrily shouted at him, "You are the one who caused this. If you hadn't agreed to Nie Qingru's request behind our back, there wouldn't be such a farce. Now that things have become like this, my grandson is still in the hands of that girl, and you tell me it's impossible? What, you want to be irresponsible?!"
Others hurried to stop the fight: "Mr. Ying, please don't be angry."
Someone pulled the old lady's sleeve and said, "Calm down, calm down. We are all from the island, we are one family. Don't hurt the harmony."
The old lady didn't give him any face at all. She snorted and said sternly, "I'm saying this today. If you let my grandson die at the hands of Qiao Nian just for the little benefit Nie Qingru gave you, then our two families will be enemies forever! From now on, it's either you or me on the island!"
Elder Mu's already ugly expression became even more embarrassing on the spot. There was a hint of anger in his eyes, but he couldn't show it.
He knew very well that the reason why this old woman was so angry and wanted to hold him back was because in recent years, apart from Ying Shi, there were no other talented people among the younger generation of the Yingzi family. If Ying Shi died outside, it would affect the old woman's core interests...
"alright!"
At this time, the ten elders stepped forward, mediated, and stopped the angry old lady.
For his sake, the old lady stopped arguing with Elder Mu and sat back in her original seat reluctantly with a sullen face.
The Tenth Elder then asked the relatively younger elder beside him in a leisurely manner: "The Shadow Ten is still in the hands of the other party. Since she is willing to negotiate the terms of releasing him, we should not make any more trouble. What do you think?"
“…It’s not that I don’t agree.” Even if Elder Mu was unwilling a thousand times or ten thousand times, he couldn’t refuse because of the old lady’s harsh words.
But if he were to spit out the benefits he had swallowed, it would feel as uncomfortable as eating a fly.
He could only direct his fire at Qiao Nian: "She has such a big appetite!"
The Tenth Elder said calmly: "Yes, but Ying Shi is in her hands. We can't gamble with Ying Shi's life."
This is a very well said statement.
He seemed to be the kind-hearted person who put everyone on the island first, and made Elder Mu, who usually had a gentle and kind image, seem hypocritical.
Elder Mu realized this, and while gritting his teeth, he had to force a smile: "You are right."
The people around him were waiting for him to express his opinion.
Elder Mu was surrounded by a group of gazes, which felt like needles piercing him. He suppressed the anger in his throat and forced a fake smile on his face: "I am willing to hand over my shares. The lives of the people on the island are the most important."
The Tenth Elder looked at his frustrated look, suppressed the flash of joy in his eyes, turned to the old lady and said, "Why don't you thank Elder Mu?"
The old lady turned her head away and said, "I'm not thanking you. He should have solved it in the first place!"
"…If he hadn't insisted on interfering in other people's affairs, there wouldn't have been such a scandal. Not only did the Shadow Family lose face, but the entire island has lost face as well!"
Elder Mu really couldn't laugh this time.
(End of this chapter)