novel for you Chapter 2586 2 year later
Chapter 2586 2 year later
Twenty years later.
City H, Province X
Several black cars drove up a flat-topped hill along the winding mountain road, finally stopping at the end of the road in front of the Long family's old house.
Upon seeing the cars, the security guards on duty at the entrance of the resort quickly opened the gate. They then came out of the guardhouse and stood at the entrance, saluting the people in the lead Maybach as it drove in.
The car quickly drove into the villa and stopped at the entrance of the main courtyard.
The door of the bodyguard's car opened first, and several bodyguards in black moved in unison, quickly getting out of the car and standing in front of the Maybach, waiting for the man inside to get out.
Long Tuo got out of the car, his face tense and looking very angry.
"dad."
A girl ran quickly out of the house. When she saw Long Tuo, the smile on her face slowly faded, and she asked cautiously, "Dad, how did it go? Did you meet the president of Longteng Group?"
Long Tuo looked at his daughter for a while and then said, "Come inside and tell me, is your grandfather home?"
"Yes, Grandpa is practicing calligraphy while waiting for news from Dad."
Long Tuo stepped into the house, but his only daughter, Long Ruoyu, did not follow him immediately. Instead, she asked one of the bodyguards, "Did my dad take you to Longteng Group and see their president?"
The bodyguard replied respectfully, "Miss, we didn't see him. We only saw the special assistant to the general manager of Longteng Group. We couldn't even see Vice President Zhou, let alone their boss."
Long Ruoyu frowned. "Even my dad couldn't get a meeting with them in person? The boss of Longteng Group is really arrogant. In our H City, who dares to disrespect my dad? Our Long family has been operating here for a hundred years. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that our family is like local tyrants."
The bodyguard remained silent.
Longteng Group has only been established in H City for six years. It started as a small company, but its boss, Ye Longting, is a formidable figure. In just six years, he built Longteng Group into a large conglomerate that can rival Longshi Group.
This seriously threatens the Long Group's position in the business world.
The most mysterious one is Ye Longting. No one in H City has ever seen his true face or knows what he looks like. Whenever he meets with customers or discusses business, he always wears black sunglasses and a large black mask, completely covering his face.
Only his sharp black eyes were visible, his gaze always sharp and cold, as if he could see through people's hearts.
The old family, which has been entrenched in H City for over a century, has a well-established intelligence department and is first-rate at gathering information. However, they ran into a wall with the Longteng Group and couldn't find out anything about Ye Longting's background after several years of investigation.
Longteng Group has a deep partnership with Qianxun Group in City A, but Longshi Group has been unable to connect with Qianxun Group. It's not that they didn't want to connect, but that Qianxun Group didn't want to cooperate with Longshi Group.
More than twenty years ago, Long Ruoyu's grandfather, who was then the acting head of the Long family, led her father, Long Tuo, to the Qianxun Group. He wanted to discuss cooperation with the Qianxun Group and also wanted to arrange a marriage between Long Tuo and Ouyang Ting, the second young lady of the Ouyang family.
Ouyang Ya, the head of the Ouyang family, sternly refused. Although the Ouyang family was dominated by women, the daughters of the Ouyang family were all very capable. Not only did they protect the Ouyang family business, but they also made the Ouyang family business reach new heights.
Even Long Ruoyu's grandfather didn't dare to act like an elder when he met Ouyang Ya, after all, her grandfather was only the acting head of the Long family, not the real head.
The Long clan still does not have a true patriarch because the patriarch's personal seal, token, and totem were lost thirty years ago.
The truth is that Long Ruoyu's grandfather led a group of collateral relatives to wipe out the direct line in an attempt to seize power. However, they couldn't find the personal seal, token, and family totem, and the Long family only recognizes those three things.
Without those three things, even if the direct line is wiped out, one can only be a temporary head of the family and cannot truly control the Long family. Moreover, the fruits of their labor over the past twenty or thirty years may end up benefiting others.
Years ago, a young boy from the direct line of the Long family ran away with the nanny. The acting head of the family sent people everywhere to search for him, and finally they located Long Ting, the adopted son of Mu Qing, the eldest daughter-in-law of the Jun family in City A, G Province.
But that was just speculation. They hadn't met Long Ting in person, so they couldn't be sure that Long Ting was the last surviving member of the Long family's direct line.
They tried countless times to find out about Long Ting in person, even going so far as to try to meet him through Hai Tong's nephew, Zhou Yang, but all their attempts failed.
The Long family could no longer find any news about Long Ting. They heard that Long Ting was no longer at Fengchen Manor and no one knew where he had gone. He was a ticking time bomb for Long Ruoyu's family, and he could explode at any time, blowing their entire family to pieces.
Long Ruoyu said fiercely, "If my father is the true head of the family, he wouldn't even care about ten Longteng Groups."
Their family no longer controls the true core of power in the Long clan. Even after serving as acting head of the family for two or three decades, they still do not earn the respect of others.
Just like more than 20 years ago, when her grandfather took her father to see Ouyang Ya, the president of Qianxun Group, because her grandfather was not the real head of the family, even Ouyang Ya, a woman, dared to look down on her grandfather.
Turning around, Long Ruoyu went inside.
When Long Tuo entered the house, he saw his father practicing calligraphy in a corner of the hall, while his mother ground ink beside him.
My father had a lot of mistresses when he was young, including several illegitimate daughters.
Even in his old age, it was still his mother, Mrs. Long, who stayed by his side.
Now he has become the acting head of the Long family, and his younger siblings also hold important positions in the Long Group. His mother can finally breathe a sigh of relief and no longer have to suffer from the mistress's temper.
The father also returned to the family, after all, he could only rely on his biological son.
Long Tuo walked over and first stood aside watching his father write.
Only after his father finished writing did he respectfully greet him, "Dad, Mom."
Mr. Long is eighty years old this year, with a face full of frowns and a head full of white hair. Thirty years have passed since he wiped out the direct line, and he has not been able to take the position of family head. For the past thirty years, he has been looking for that brat every moment, but unfortunately he has not been able to find him.
That kid is in his early thirties now. When his direct line was wiped out, he was just over a year old. Thirty years have passed, and he must be thirty-one or thirty-two now.
He couldn't sleep well if he couldn't find that little devil, and by his early sixties his hair was completely white.
"So, did you get to meet the president of Longteng Group?"
Long Tuo helped his father turn around and walk towards the sofa, while Long Ruoyu, who came in behind him, went to help her grandmother.
After his father sat down, Long Tuo replied, "I didn't see him. As usual, only a vice president received us. We didn't see their president."
Mr. Long pondered for a moment and said, "A-Tuo, have you ever suspected that the boss of Longteng Group is that kid from back then?"
"Dad, it shouldn't be him. His surname is Ye."
Night Dragon Thunder.
After a moment of silence, Mr. Long said, "The head of the Jun family is surnamed Ye, and he takes his mother's surname. I suspect that Ye Longting's real name is Longting."