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Chapter 154.1 – The Fourth Concubine’s Clandestine Love Affair
Luo Yang and Jiang Sheng did not directly investigate the An Family Restaurant, instead they investigated the An family.
They already knew what kind of industries Prince Fu’s Mansion had a hand in and the industries that Fu Yi managed had nothing to do with catering. They also did not hear any news of him going into the catering industry recently, so they could basically rule him out.
Then that only left An Zi Ran.
An Zi Ran was the eldest son of the An family, and with the An family’s financial resources, he should have more than enough to help the cattle farm owner get through his difficulties.
They specially sent people to An Yuan County to investigate and found that An Zi Ran was involved in the grain business, but there were only a few restaurants when it came to the catering business. The meat used and sold by those restaurants every day was estimated to be less than three hundred kilograms.
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As for the two restaurants in Jun Zi City, even if they sold two hundred kilograms of meat a day, ten thousand kilograms would last for nearly two months. By that time, the meat would have spoiled, not to mention the cattle rancher had actually slaughtered more than ten thousand kilograms worth of meat, because he had not anticipate his long time customers returning the meat that’s already been sold. Regardless of how much beef the restaurants could sell in a day, they would not be able to sell everything before the meat spoiled.
And the last point, if An Zi Ran really was the man behind Tian Long Gambling House, then where did he get so much money? The money that the An family earned every year would not have been enough to cover all his expenses in the early days [of business].
So the conclusion was that the possibility of that person being An Zi Ran was less than five percent.
The two told Fu Yuan Jian this conclusion, but Fu Yuan Jian did not say anything. In fact, he had already thought that it could not be An Zi Ran.
“Some time ago, the matter that Zhuo Gao Sheng spoke about, reject him.”
Fu Yuan Jian was silent for a while before raising this issue.
Zhuo Gao Sheng was Elder Zhuo’s oldest son. He was a money-grubbing and snobbish person. He was slightly more talented than Zhuo Gao Ming, but he was not a talent for accomplishing big things. He was the type of person who would become timid in his decisions when he encountered something important. He lacked the courage and resolution that a real businessman should have.
Luo Yang was not surprised at all. In fact, he did not recommend cooperating with Zhuo Gao Sheng.
“Wangye, then what about Zhuo Gao Yan?”
Zhuo Gao Yan was Elder Zhuo’s youngest son. There was a relatively large age gap between him and his three elder brothers. He was already twenty-four years old this year, but he was not yet married and he did not have any children, whereas Zhuo Gao Qian – Elder Zhuo’s third son – had a son that was already eleven years old.
Many people knew that Elder Zhuo’s favorite son was Zhuo Gao Yan. Not only because he was the youngest son, but also because Zhuo Gao Yan inherited Elder Zhuo’s appearance and personality. He was just like Elder Zhuo when he was young. The elder has praised his more than once; so many people believe that Elder Zhuo would pass the Zhuo family to him.
Because of this, Zhuo Gao Yan’s three older brothers did not like him.
Human beings will die for riches, just as birds will for food!*
[*T/N: Chinese idiom that means “man will do anything in his means to become rich”]
In the face of personal interests, even family affection would turn into a ruthless blade.
Fu Yuan Jian said, “Zhuo Gao Yan is a talented person. Last year, I heard that Elder Zhuo had handed over all of the textile business to him to manage.”
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“Elder Zhuo gave him control over the textile business in September of last year, and he has indeed done a good job. I heard that during the time he managed the textile business, he increased the textile business’s turnover by ten percent.”
Ten percent did not sound like a lot, but one must understand that the Zhuo family’s textile business was different from the small clothing store under Fu Yi’s management. The Zhuo family’s textile business was a chicken that could lay golden eggs.
The fabrics produced by the Zhuo family’s textile business have always occupied a large share of the market in Da Ya. However, because they were already the lead in the textile industry, it was difficult to take the textile business to a higher level. Therefore, the fact that Zhuo Gao Yan could increase the textile business’s turnover by another ten percent was proof that his ability could not be underestimated.
Elder Zhuo was very proud of his younger son and often praised him for having the same demeanor as when he was young.
His words drew the envy and hatred of the other three sons towards Zhuo Gao Yan, but those three really did not have the ability to be Zhuo Gao Yan’s opponents.
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