Chapter 141 — Old Buffon's Origins
Years of Heartflutter · Page 73 of 214
Sun Lin was thoroughly provoked by Yang Ce. "Fine!" he roared. "You said it yourself. Once you've unified the underworld of these two cities, I'll hand my daughter over to you. Hmph!"
With that, Sun Lin rose to his feet and turned to head upstairs. In his view, this Yang Ce was simply too arrogant. Even if you're not after my Sun family's business, you still can't talk like that!
Now that he understood Yang Ce had no designs on the family fortune, Sun Lin was nonetheless furious.
Back in his study, the phone happened to ring. Sun Lin frowned. This line wasn't public—only a few of his subordinates knew the number. Unless something major had happened, they wouldn't call.
"Hello, this is Sun Lin," he said, picking up the internal line.
"Elder Brother, this is Old Tian," said Tian Qianren, head of the Tian family.
"What is it?" Sun Lin was in a foul mood, so his tone was a little impatient. "If it's nothing major, let's talk later. I want to rest a while."
"Elder Brother, something big has happened!" Tian Qianren's voice was somewhat urgent.
"What is it?" Sun Lin turned serious, because he knew Tian Qianren's temperament—ordinary trifles wouldn't disturb him.
"Guo Jinbiao of Jidun City has been taken out," Tian Qianren said.
"What? You're saying Guo Jinbiao has been taken out?" Sun Lin was startled, his voice cracking.
"Yes. I just got the news, and it's solid. The official word is that Guo Jinbiao died in a car accident," Tian Qianren said.
"A car accident?" Sun Lin frowned.
"When it happened, Guo Jinbiao was in Songjiang," Tian Qianren said.
"Songjiang? Could Baolin and his people have done it?" Sun Lin knew all too well about the feud between Guo Jinbiao and Baolin of late, so his thoughts jumped straight to Baolin.
"Can't be certain yet, but it's almost a sure thing," Tian Qianren said.
"What's the situation over in Jidun City?" Sun Lin's eyes lit up as he realized at once that if Guo Jinbiao was gone, Jidun City's turf presented a golden opportunity for expansion.
"This old man," Mother Sun said with an embarrassed smile at Yang Hengye. "Little Yang, don't listen to his nonsense. Things will be handled properly. I'll have a word with him later."
"It's all right, Auntie Sun," Yang Xu said with an easy smile.
"Little Yang, don't you worry," Mother Sun said. "I think highly of you. For all the prestige that old man enjoys out there, at home he's only second in command."
"Ha ha, then I'll have to trouble you, Auntie Sun," Yang Minlan said, quite amicably, for he held a rather good impression of Mother Sun.
Mother Sun smiled too. "Just for that 'Mom' you called me a moment ago, I have to help you out. Besides, I'd like to hear you call me that from now on."
"Heh heh." Yang Mo scratched at his scalp, a little embarrassed.
"Xiaojie, Yang Ce has come to Donghai. Why don't you take him around and show him the sights? I'll have a good talk with your father, and we'll all have dinner together tonight," Mother Sun said.
Yang Shuoxuan understood that Mother Sun wanted him and Sun Jie out of the way so she could work on Sun Lin, so he said, "That works out well. I've been to Donghai several times and never really had a proper look around."
"Then it's settled, Xiaojie. You two have lunch out at noon—no need to make the trip back," Mother Sun said.
"All right, Mom, I understand," Sun Jie said. "Don't worry. We'll grab something when we're hungry. We're not children anymore."
After saying goodbye to Mother Sun, Yang Ce and Sun Jie left the Sun family villa together.
"Yang Ce, what's the matter with you?" The moment they were outside, Sun Jie frowned and scolded him. "If you keep this up, aren't you afraid of making my father angry?"
"Sun Jie, what's between us is between us. I just can't stand your father's tone—as if I'm after his fortune," Yang Ce said with a curl of his lip.