No matter how noisy the outside world was, the Xiao family was filled with gloom. Xiao Zhiyuan's usually elegant and refined face was distorted. He looked at the news in the newspaper with his eyes wide open, as if he wanted to stare a hole in the newspaper in his hands. His hands holding the newspaper were shaking so much that the newspaper was trembling. He suddenly crumpled the newspaper in his hands into a ball and smashed it against the wall.
Thinking about how he had worked so hard to acquire Ai Shang and invested a large amount of money, only to end up using it to benefit the Wen's Group, he became extremely angry and tugged at the tie around his neck in annoyance, making it a mess.
"Zhiyuan, this is the ginseng chicken soup that I spent the whole afternoon making. It's very nourishing. Try it and see how it tastes." Madam Xiao, Lin Yuechan, sat next to him with a bowl of shiny golden chicken soup.
The fragrant chicken soup looked delicious, but Xiao Zhiyuan felt greasy and sick at the first glance. He was furious and waved away the chicken soup she handed over, yelling, "Get lost. Do you think I'm not angry enough? Are you trying to disgust me with the chicken soup?"
"Ah!" Lin Yuechan screamed, and the bowl in her hand fell to the ground with a sharp clang. The hot chicken soup in the bowl immediately poured onto Lin Yuechan's hands.
"What are you making so much noise for?" A majestic and angry voice suddenly sounded in the living room, and Mr. Xiao walked in with a gloomy face.
Xiao Zhiyuan's irritable mood cooled down immediately. Looking at the back of Lin Yuechan's hand that was scalded red, he suddenly felt guilty: "Yuechan, are you okay? Rinse with cold water for five minutes immediately. I'll call the family doctor to come and help you."
"I'm fine, don't worry." Lin Yuechan felt a burning pain on the back of her hand, which made her face pale. She had no choice but to hold her hand and hurried to the bathroom to rinse it with cold water.
After Lin Yuechan left, the servant came over immediately to clean up the living room.
Xiao Zhiyuan looked at his father, who was looking at him gloomily. He looked a little embarrassed: "Dad, I just..."
Old Master Xiao interrupted him coldly and said, "You are just angry and lost your mind because Xiao's acquisition of Ai Shang failed and helped Wen's Group."
Xiao Zhiyuan lowered his head, and his clenched fists on both sides of his legs proved his unwillingness and resentment.
Old Master Xiao sighed and said, "Zhiyuan, I have told you many times that no matter what happens, you must remain calm and composed. Victory and defeat are common in the military, and the same is true for the business world. If you lose today, you can win it back tomorrow."
"Dad, I get it." Xiao Zhiyuan slowly loosened his clenched fists, but his fingers were still stiff and a look of shame flashed across his face.
Old Master Xiao looked at him and said, "We, the older generation, are useless. The glory of the family business will always depend on the younger generation. I am much better than that old man Wen Zhihang. I have a son, a grandson, and a granddaughter, and they are all very outstanding. The Wen family has only one son, who is mediocre, stubborn, and hopeless. Looking at the current situation of the Wen family, it will sooner or later be cut off from the incense used to worship our ancestors. We have plenty of time to fight with the Wen family. Don't worry about winning or losing at the moment."
Xiao Zhiyuan's tense and stiff body softened. "Dad, you are far-sighted. This time, our Xiao Group suffered such heavy losses. The Group is seriously injured and it will take a long time to recover. What's hateful is the Jiang family. Jiang Shaofeng is simply an erratic villain. If he hadn't set me up behind my back, I could have taken down Ai Shang even if I suffered losses. It wouldn't have been a waste of time and ended up doing the work for the Wen Group."
Old Master Xiao sighed, "This time I was not thoughtful enough and forgot to take the nature of the Jiang family into account."
"Damn it." Xiao Zhiyuan cursed in a low voice.
Mr. Xiao said with a serious face: "I just got the news that our acquisition of Ai Shang this time failed because someone secretly accumulated Ai Shang's stocks before, so they took the opportunity to speculate on Ai Shang's stocks, causing Ai Shang's stock market to crash, and then made a lot of money by selling all the stocks."
Xiao Zhiyuan's elegant face was filled with shock. "How is this possible? When I acquired Ai Shang before, I sent people to investigate Ai Shang's stock market. Everything was normal, right?"
Old Master Xiao said sternly, "I checked. These stocks were purchased in the form of individual shares, and they were accumulated slowly, so you couldn't find any abnormalities in the Ai Shang stock market before."
Xiao Zhiyuan just felt incredible, and the shock on his face became more and more intense: "Who is this person?"
Old Master Xiao frowned, leaving one or two deep wrinkles between his eyebrows: "I sent people to follow the clues and found out that these scattered shares finally went to Wen Xinya, the granddaughter of that old man Wen Zhihang."
Xiao Zhiyuan looked at him in disbelief and said, "Dad, you are not mistaken. Is this really the little girl Wen Xinya who has been living on the streets for fifteen years?"
When the Wen family found Wen Xinya before, he sent people to investigate Wen Xinya and discovered that Wen Xinya was just a little girl hanging around on the streets. Even if the Wen family found her, she would only be a shame and not enough to pose a threat to the Xiao family.
Old Master Xiao nodded heavily and said, "Yes, it is her. I have confirmed it several times. Moreover, I found that there is no movement of funds in the Wen Group during this period, so the person who is competing with us to speculate on Ai Shang's stocks is not the Wen Group."
Old Master Xiao recalled that he had met Wen Xinya once before at her homecoming dinner, and suddenly realized that she seemed to have been reborn in just three months. Such a transformation made him a little wary, but after all, she was just an underage girl, so he didn't really take it to heart.
And this time, Xiao's fierce and decisive killing of Ai Shang is indeed very similar to the style of that old man Wen Zhihang. However, that old man has always disdained to use such inferior means. Could it really be Wen Wenya's work
No... Impossible! She is just an underage girl, how can she understand business matters
Even an outstanding grandson like Xiao Chengyu couldn't do such a thing.
Xiao Zhiyuan did not blindly deny his father's words. He naturally agreed with his father: "How could Wen Xinya know that Xiao Group was going to acquire Ai Shang and started hoarding Ai Shang's stocks so early? And where did she get the funds to compete with us and hype Ai Shang's stocks? Is there a traitor in our group?"
It is said that suspicion breeds evil. At this time, Xiao Zhiyuan's mind had already begun to filter out candidates who might be the traitor.
Mr. Xiao has always understood his son, and he quickly said, "Don't jump to conclusions. You have thrown your composure and made everyone in the company panic. We still need to slowly investigate what happened."