Chapter 221 — The Life Ahead

"Don't mention it," Li Shu waved his hand. "What is there to celebrate? Whether we can even keep our footing here is now the question. If Yang Ce wants to move against us, it's a matter of a single word…"

"That's it! I've got it!" Li Tianyu, who had been standing nearby, suddenly cut in.

"Got what?" Li Tianjia, annoyed at her brother for interrupting their father, shot him a glare and demanded.

"Before, we seized the Huang family's gold mine right out from under them and nearly drove them to ruin. Now we've put money into an iron mine and a gold mine too. Tell me, when the time comes, won't Yang Ce pull the very same trick on us..." Li Tianyu said, sounding rather alarmed. "Won't he snatch our iron and gold mines away just the same?"

"Eh?" Li Shu was taken aback for a moment, then at once saw the sense in Li Tianyu's words. "Tianyu, you've analyzed this well. It's what they call paying a man back in his own coin. Now that you mention it, there really is such a possibility!"

Li Tianjia no longer had the leisure to bicker with Li Tianyu, for what he said did make a certain amount of sense. "Tianyu, you really do have a point. No wonder Yang Puqi hasn't made a move all this time. Maybe that's exactly what he's thinking! Let us first savor the joy of winning the bid, and once things have settled down and we've sunk all our money and equipment into the mines, he'll simply take back our operating rights, and then we'll have nothing to do but cry!"

"Tianyu, your mind is certainly quick, and those words of yours have reminded me of something!" Li Shu nodded heavily. "It seems we can't wait for Yang Ce to take his revenge. We ought to do something."

"Do something? What can we do?" Li Tianjia asked, puzzled.

"Transfer the mining rights, take the money, and get out of this den of trouble as fast as we can. Once we're back in Singapore, Yang Juehuan can stretch his arm as far as he likes, it won't reach us. What more can he do to us then?" Li Shu said.

"That's a good plan, but doesn't it mean we've bid for nothing?" Li Tianyu agreed that his father's idea was workable, yet at the thought of pulling out his investment here, he realized he would no longer have any business holdings with which to contend against Li Tianjia, and it left him rather uneasy.