While Chen Yu and others were thinking about how to help Lin Cheng maintain his image, Lin Cheng had already reviewed all the posts in the topic community.
After exiting Weibo, Lin Cheng took out his cell phone and made a call.
"Young Master." The person who answered the phone was Wang Yu.
"How's the cleanup going at the company?" Lin Cheng asked without any further ado.
"Things are going very smoothly. At present, the senior management of several companies under the Lin family, including Jiajing, Weihua, Jingzhi... have all been replaced. The personnel in the three eastern factories have also been cleared out. In addition, the people who were arranged to work in several other branches have also been thrown into the partner companies for various reasons." Wang Yu replied.
"In addition," Wang Yu paused and continued, "According to your previous arrangement, all the companies of the Lin family that had a cooperative relationship with Hongye Group have terminated their contracts with appropriate reasons."
"In addition, all the companies that Hongye had reached cooperation agreements with under the name of the Lin family also signed documents in the name of the Lin family to sever ties with them..."
Hongye Group is the company owned by Lin Cheng's father Lin Zhenhong and Ye Yun.
After Mr. Lin drove Lin Zhenhong and Ye Yun's family out of the Lin family, Lin Zhenhong used the power of the Ye family to establish this company. On the surface, Lin Zhenhong seemed to have taken every penny of the Lin family, but in fact, if he had taken advantage of the Lin family, Lin Zhenhong's Hongye Group would not have been able to develop to where it is today.
Over the years, Hongye Group has been like a leech sucking blood from the Lin family. On the one hand, it has signed so-called contracts with companies under the Lin family and used a series of meaningless projects to erode the Lin family's money into Lin Zhenhong's own pocket bit by bit. On the other hand, it has used the Lin family's banner, reputation and credibility to win over other companies to become allies or partners.
Old Master Lin knew about Lin Zhenhong's little trick, but because he was his son and Lin Zhenhong's trick was not unusual, Old Master Lin turned a blind eye to it.
This situation lasted for many years, until recently when Lin Cheng officially took over a considerable part of the Lin family's companies and industries, Wang Yu, the assistant, finally understood what it meant to be resolute and swift.
In the company, most of the middle-level, senior-level and key department staff who were arranged by Lin Zhenhong or bribed by him had been cleared out within two weeks, and almost all the projects that Lin Zhenhong had signed with the help of the Lin family were cut off.
Without the protection of the Lin family, it would be difficult for Lin Zhenhong's company to be as smooth as before.
After hearing Wang Yu's report, Lin Cheng responded and said, "Fill the vacant positions as soon as possible."
"Yes, I have already arranged it. Once the list of temporary appointments of relevant personnel is basically confirmed, I will send it to your email address, young master."
"Yes." Lin Cheng responded.
"As for the land and factory buildings of the Lin family that Hongye Group and the Ye family's real estate company occupied in the name of cooperation, they will all be taken back within one month. If the other party does not cooperate, we will directly go through legal procedures."
"That's all. Any questions?" Lin Cheng asked.
"What's the problem?" Wang Yu replied.
Hearing this, Lin Cheng nodded and said, "Then, prepare to deal with the southwest area."
Hearing this, Wang Yu on the other end of the phone changed his expression slightly: Although he had guessed Lin Cheng's plan, he didn't expect Lin Cheng's way of handling it would be so clean and neat.
It can be seen that the young master wants to completely clear out Lin Zhenhong and even Lin Zhenming from the Lin family within half a year.
While Wang Yu was thinking about it in his mind, he responded to Lin Cheng's instructions.
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The other side.
After receiving a series of contract termination messages from their partners, Lin Zhenhong and Ye Yun sat at home with gloomy faces, looking worried and angry.
"Is the old man doing this to bankrupt me and force me to death?!" Lin Zhenhong cursed angrily.
Ye Yun, who was standing by, snorted coldly and said sarcastically, "I think the old man is just being connivant in this matter. The one who really doesn't let you live is your son who is collecting debts."
Hearing this, Lin Zhenhong's face became even gloomier.
At this time, Ye Yun said unwillingly: "Who would have thought... that he would actually trick me."
Speaking of this, Ye Yun became angrier the more she thought about it.
Ever since she married into the Lin family, everything she did behind the scenes to Lin Cheng was just to make this eldest grandson of the Lin family who stood in the way of her own son completely fade out of the competition for the inheritance of the Lin family property.
Afterwards, Ye Yun used Lin Cheng's agency and agent to keep him in a lukewarm state, hoping to make Mr. Lin disappointed in Lin Cheng and completely destroy Lin Cheng's ability and opportunity to inherit the Lin family company.
Over the years, Ye Yun has been very satisfied with Lin Cheng's performance in his career.
No matter what, she thought: on the surface, she was the one who schemed against Lin Cheng, but in fact, she was tricked by Lin Cheng.
On the surface, Lin Cheng was hanging around in the entertainment industry and didn't care about the Lin family's affairs at all. However, from the fact that Lin Cheng could easily clean up the people they arranged in the Lin family's company, it could be seen that Lin Cheng didn't "care" at all about the Lin family's company's affairs in recent years.
"We were deceived by him!" Ye Yun said again gritting her teeth.
Lin Zhenhong was silent but his face was frighteningly dark.
After a long while, Lin Zhenhong said in a deep voice: "Call Lin Xiao back."
At the beginning, Mr. Lin drove away Lin Zhenhong and Ye Yun, and specifically said that he would drive their sons out of the Lin family as well.
Therefore, Lin Xiao is still working in the company owned by the Lin family.
Hearing this, Ye Yun nodded: "I've already told him that he will be back after he finishes handling the few orders over there. The fastest time will be one or two weeks."
At this point, Ye Yun complained dissatisfiedly: "The old man is really, our Lin Xiao is doing well, and the companies he manages are also well managed, much better than Lin Cheng. Is the old man so biased? He actually wants to hand over the company to Lin Cheng."
After that, Ye Yun looked at Lin Zhenhong and said, "Have you considered that matter? We can't delay it any longer."
"That matter..." Lin Zhenhong seemed to be hesitant.
Ye Yun interrupted Lin Zhenhong and continued, "Don't hesitate any longer. If you hesitate any longer, I'm afraid the Lin family will really become Lin Cheng's."
Ye Yun's last words seemed to move Lin Zhenhong, and he nodded slightly.
At present, it is clear that Grandpa Lin wants to hand over the Lin family to Lin Cheng, and Lin Cheng seems to be taking over the Lin family's industry at a very fast speed. This situation makes Lin Zhenhong and Ye Yun panic. The only way they can think of to stop it is to make Lin Cheng entangled in all kinds of troubles, ruin his reputation, or even send him to prison.
Ye Yun was very fortunate that she had planned so much back then and left behind the most important bargaining chip to defeat Lin Cheng.
There was one thing Ye Yun did not tell Lin Zhenhong.
As for Mr. Lin, she planned to send him away in the same way she had sent Lin Cheng's mother away.
…
Ye Yun thought she had arranged everything perfectly, but she didn't know that just one second after she finished talking to her subordinates on the phone and instructing them on their tasks, Lin Cheng received a message on his phone the next second: Ye was planning to take action against the old man.
After reading the message, Lin Cheng's eyes flashed coldly and he replied: Organize the evidence.
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After finishing his work, Lin Cheng looked at the time, 10:15 pm, and then looked at Lin Momo beside him.
At this time, Lin Momo moved a stool and sat on the table next to Lin Cheng's desk, holding the mobile phone he gave her in one hand and a notebook and pen in the other, with her head buried, writing or drawing something.
Lin Cheng took a closer look and saw that Lin Momo was searching for how to grow vegetables on the phone in her hand.
In addition to this, at this time, the notebook in front of Lin Momo was already filled with various farming and breeding strategies: how to grow potatoes, how to grow tomatoes, how to raise pigs, how to sell fat pigs, what fruits to grow to make the most money, what crops to grow to make a fortune...
Seeing that Lin Momo had already copied out half of the book "Agriculture for Wealth", Lin Cheng's mouth twitched slightly, wondering whether he should tell her: The most important thing in running a large modern farm is management.
"Momo." Lin Cheng called Lin Momo.
"Hmm?" Lin Momo responded, and finally raised her head to talk to Lin Cheng.
"You should go to bed." Lin Cheng tapped Lin Momo's forehead with the back of his fingers and reminded her.
"Well, wait a moment." She had just copied the part about how to milk the cows, and had just finished copying the last bit.
"Go to bed," Lin Cheng said again, and then said: "We still have to go out tomorrow, and there are still many things to do."
Hearing this, Lin Momo raised her head and looked at Lin Cheng.
"Are we going to buy chicks, piglets, lambs or something like that?" Lin Momo just saw this part.
“…” Lin Cheng’s mouth twitched again.
"No, we are going to see Grandpa tomorrow."
"Grandpa?" Lin Momo was stunned at first, then she thought of the name she saw on the household registration book that day.
"Is it the grandfather you mentioned before, the one listed in the household registration book?" Lin Momo asked, with surprise in her voice.
"Yes," Lin Cheng nodded, and then asked, "Do you want to meet Grandpa?"
"Yeah!" Lin Momo nodded vigorously, and couldn't help but ask Lin Cheng curiously: "I have seen Grandpa Da before. What kind of person is Grandpa Da?"
What kind of person...
A sasaeng fan? A weird old man? Someone who wants to kidnap children? And... Squidward
Lin Cheng's mind suddenly popped up a few words that Lin Momo had used to evaluate Grandpa Lin. He suddenly didn't know how to introduce her great-grandfather to Lin Momo.
"He's pretty much the same as Grandpa Zhou Haihua whom you met on the crew." Lin Cheng thought for a moment and replied.
“Ah…?” Thinking of the fierce old man in the crew who smiled at her from time to time in a scary way, an expression of rejection emerged on Lin Momo’s face.
However, when she thought that the other person was her relative, Lin Momo tried hard to convince herself in her heart and accepted the grandfather who she had not met yet and might be very scary.
"Then when are we going to see Grandpa tomorrow?" Lin Momo asked.
"Tomorrow morning," Lin Cheng replied, and then said, "So, you should go to bed now."
"Well, okay." Hearing Lin Cheng's words, Lin Momo nodded, obediently put away the "Secret to Getting Rich" on the table, and went back to her room to wash up and go to bed.
However, two seconds later, Lin Momo turned back again, lying on the door of Lin Cheng's study, and asked: "Dad, we are going to see Grandpa tomorrow, should we bring him a gift?"
"No need." Perhaps for Mr. Lin, the best gift is to meet Lin Momo.
"Will grandpa be unhappy if I don't prepare a gift?"
"Won't."
"Oh." Lin Momo turned around and went back to the room.
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Lin Momo returned to the room and lay on the bed, staring at the ceiling with her eyes open, unable to fall asleep.
After a moment of silence, Lin Momo climbed out of bed again - she thought for a long time and still felt that she should prepare a gift for her grandfather.
Lin Momo searched the room and found something worthy of being a gift.
—She wanted to prepare a special gift for the grandfather she met for the first time, but she didn’t know what she could think of that was special and suitable to give to him.
After struggling for a long time, Lin Momo still decided to ask Lin Cheng for help.
In the study.
Lin Cheng was reading Lin Momo's book "How to Get Rich" when he saw his daughter suddenly run out in her pajamas. Lin Cheng was stunned for a moment and asked in a softer tone, "What's wrong?"
"Dad, let me ask you a question."
"What?"
"What does grandpa like?"
This question stumped Lin Cheng: Compared with other old men, Grandpa Lin doesn't seem to have any broad hobbies. His only hobby is to scroll through his friends circle and complain about other old men's hobbies
Now he has a new hobby: watching his great-granddaughter’s live broadcast on a tablet.
"It's a special love." Lin Cheng said truthfully.
“Is that so…” After getting the answer she wanted, Lin Momo hung her head and went back to her room.
Lin Momo's eyes fell on the two caterpillar dolls at the bedside, but she quickly shook her head - although Lin Momo herself loved these two dolls, she was afraid that her grandfather would be dismayed by them.
Lin Momo sat on the edge of the bed and thought hard, and finally thought of a gift that she could give.
…
Lin Momo jumped off the bed again and came to the door.
Lin Momo opened the door and peeked outside through the crack. After making sure that Lin Cheng was still at the back of the study, she walked out cautiously.
Lin Momo thought she was very careful and would not be discovered by Lin Cheng, but she didn't know that her sneaky look had just caught Lin Cheng's eyes.
Seeing his daughter sneaking out, Lin Cheng's penis jumped and he blurted out, "Lin Momo."
"!" Lin Momo shuddered when she heard Lin Cheng calling her.
"It's half past eight." Lin Cheng reminded with a headache.
"Right away, I'll come out to get something." After saying that, Lin Momo quickly ran to the living room to get her schoolbag, then lowered her head and quickly ran back to her room under Lin Cheng's gaze.
Running back to the room, Lin Momo took out paper and a set of paintbrushes from her schoolbag and spread them out on the small table beside the bed.
—She plans to draw a picture for her grandfather as a gift.
Lin Momo held the paintbrush and thought for a moment. She had been to many places and seen many things. The few weeks she spent on the show with Lin Cheng should be the most colorful experience for Lin Momo so far.
After thinking for a while, Lin Momo took out a pen and divided the whole piece of paper into four parts, and drew the most interesting things and the most attractive places she had encountered in the previous four episodes.
"I hope Grandpa will like it..." Lin Momo muttered softly while drawing, praying in her heart that her gift would not be disliked by Grandpa.
Outside.
Lin Cheng thought Lin Momo should have gone to bed.
When he saw Lin Momo running out of the room again, he suddenly felt that his patience had been greatly challenged.
Meeting Lin Cheng's gaze, Lin Momo felt guilty.
"Well, I'll just ask one last question! One last question!" Lin Momo raised a finger and asked, "What color does grandpa like?"
"Color?" Lin Cheng frowned slightly, and finally answered casually: "Gray-green."
"What kind of gray-green?" Lin Momo asked.
So, Lin Cheng pointed at a pair of slippers at the door and said, "That kind."