Chapter 37: Chapter 37 She is Destined to Bring Prosperity to Her Husband
“They’ve dug sothing up!”
“It looks like a tomb!”
The crowd buzzed with voices.
Huo’s patriarch squeezed into the crowd with his walking stick. As the excavator beside the foundation stone dug down, shards of pottery scattered everywhere, revealing an entrance to a tomb.
Huo Beiting went pale, his whole body weakened, “Grandfather, there’s been a big problem!”
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A tomb on this plot of land!
Patriarch Huo’s face turned ashen, “Didn’t you do a cultural relics survey before developnt?”
Huo Beiting stamred, unable to speak.
To get the construction started quickly and slap Huo Xingzhou in the face, he had greased the palms of the approval departnt. He used connections and got an express pass.
Who would have thought that there would be a tomb under the land in the Western Suburbs?
“Fool! Fool!” Patriarch Huo was so angry his face turned red, and he hit Beiting hard with his walking stick.
“Grandfather, what should we do?” Huo Beiting was almost crying.
The Huo patriarch took a deep breath, “Jianjun, imdiately seal off the news. Fengxian, tell the guests present that if they can keep it a secret, our Huo family will reward them handsoly.”
This was to block the chorus of whispers.
Young Master Sun grinned in the crowd, boasting, “This plot of land used to be our Sun family’s ancestral ho! Our ancestor said a princess was buried here. I didn’t think the rumor was true.”
Patriarch Huo glared fiercely at him, “Don’t spout nonsense, Young Master Sun. There’s no princess’s tomb here, just a common graveyard.”
Young Master Sun stuck out his tongue slightly.
“Patriarch, people from the Bureau of Cultural Heritage are here!”
“So many people, with professional equipnt! They say they received a tip-off that there’s a Princess’s Tomb here! Our Huo’s are conducting illegal construction!”
This was a trap with foresight!
In a place like Haicheng, soone dared to make a move against the Huo’s!
Patriarch Huo was so furious that he turned purple and fainted.
“Dad!”
“Grandfather!”
“Call an ambulance, quickly.”
The site turned chaotic, with the Bureau of Cultural Heritage systematically sealing the area and surveying the soil. Huo’s construction team was forced to leave the site.
A grand foundation-laying ceremony ended abruptly.
Everyone shook their heads in disbelief.
“This project was supposed to be a sure win. How did a tomb suddenly pop up? I was planning to ride on the Huo’s coattails, but now I’m just relieved.”
“It seems that every step was within Tianyuan Group’s calculations. I heard a rumor that Huo Beiting bet 20% of the Huo shares that he would successfully develop the Future City project and in exchange, he would get shares of Tianyuan Group.”
“Could it be that Tianyuan Group knew all along that there was a tomb here?”
“You’re thinking too much, probably just luck. This year, Tianyuan Group is going to move their headquarters to Haicheng. They have won this first battle impressively, whom can underestimate them now?”
“That mysterious founder of Tianyuan Group, I wonder who they are!”
What was supposed to be a win-win project for both the Huo’s and Tianyuan Group ended up with Tianyuan dominating.
And they could swallow up 20% of Huo’s shares.
Brilliant tactics!
Admirable!
Su Weiwei was pale, the Huo’s early investnt of a billion had just gone down the drain? Then… would the inheritance still fall to Huo Beiting?
“Su Weiwei, your taste in n isn’t that great,” Young Master Sun added fuel to the fire, “Ever since Huo Beiting has been with you, he’s been plagued by misfortune.”
“Shut up! Don’t talk nonsense!”
If the main branch of the Huo family heard this, Huo Beiting would definitely break up with her.
“It’s Qiao Xi who is the jinx! She is! Ever since she married into the Huo family, there’s been nothing good!” Su Weiwei said agitatedly.
“Pah! I see Huo Xingzhou is doing great; she is a bringer of fortune!”
Young Master Sun wouldn’t allow anyone to insult Qiao Xi.
“Maybe it was you Sun’s who deliberately used this plot to harm Beiting! Just wait!” Su Weiwei left in a flurry, she needed to find a solution urgently.
Young Master Sun scoffed.
It was clear that Huo Beiting had been dishonest from the start. If he had followed the proper procedures, he wouldn’t have beco the joke he is today.
He looked around and, seeing Qiao Xi, smiled warmly as he walked over, “Hey, Fairy!”
Qiao Xi was so embarrassed she wanted to curl her toes, “Young Master Sun, don’t call that, just use my na. There are so many people around.”
“That won’t do.”
Young Master Sun walked closer, “You are the Fairy in my heart.”
Qiao Xi was helpless.
“Huo Xingzhou, you really are lucky!” Sun Weing looked at Huo Xingzhou in the wheelchair and lavished praise, “You married a good wife, a real bringer of good fortune! Ever since she married you, you’ve been on a lucky streak every day!”
“Young Master Sun, you’re exaggerating.”
Qiao Xi felt sowhat embarrassed.
“You’re right,” Huo Xingzhou said thoughtfully, nodding his head, “She brings luck.”
On the first day she married into the family, he awoke.
Latter on, he discovered she was indeed a disciple of Cheng Han.
And later still, he successfully dumped the big project onto Huo Beiting.
“It’s not that mystical.” Qiao Xi knew about the sches Huo Xingzhou had worked out in private.
Young Master Sun didn’t care about the details, and said in a mysteriously hushed voice, “I’ll tell you a little secret.”
He gave Huo Xingzhou a suggestive eyebrow raise.
Huo Xingzhou raised an eyebrow back at him.
“I think my ‘thing’ is starting to react,” he said with a sleazy smile, “I don’t know if it’s because of my light diet recently, or the daily exercises, but the more I drink that prescription, the more energetic I feel, so now I’m drinking it three tis a day.”
Qiao Xi was stunned as she listened.
“I, for one, am bound to make a spectacular coback!” He decided to give it a try whenever he had the chance.
Huo Xingzhou’s expression instantly turned cold.
“Don’t be jealous, Huo Er,” Young Master Sun boldly patted his shoulder, “There’s plenty of ti, you’ll get better too.”
After speaking, he left with a raised eyebrow and a triumphant breath.
Qiao Xi and Huo Xingzhou looked at each other, and she said with a guilty conscience, “I told him to drink it once a day, it’s slow to take effect.”
Who would have known he’d treat it as a al and drink it three tis daily!
With an overflow of energy and blood, wouldn’t that have side effects in the short term?
That’s what happens when you nourish without moderation!
“Mr. Huo, did I… ruin your plans?” As soon as Sun Weing’s health improved, it was impossible to keep it a secret any longer.
Stifling his anger, Huo Xingzhou said coolly, “It’s fine, I’ll handle it.”
Sun Weing was seeking death.
“Oh.”
Qiao Xi sneakily glanced at him.
n compare themselves in that respect, had he lost to Sun Weing and that’s why he was angry?
“Let’s go ho, things are chaotic lately.”
With such a big incident at the Huo Family, Huo Beiting’s temper was bound to cause him to look for a scapegoat.
He cautioned again, “Be careful when you go to work, I might have to go out tonight.”
“Okay, I’ll keep the herbal dicine warm.”
Qiao Xi quickly added, “I didn’t add any other ingredients.”
The corners of Huo Xingzhou’s mouth turned up slightly, “I didn’t ask anything.”
Qiao Xi’s palms felt warm as she followed behind him with her head lowered.
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Municipal People’s Hospital.
Old Master Huo clutched his chest, lying on the hospital bed. Wang Fengxian hurriedly brought over a cup of warm water, attending to him as he took his blood pressure dication.
Huo Jianjun and Huo Beiting stood by uneasily.
After swallowing the dicine, the old master glared at them and scolded, “Eager for quick success! Gambling with Huo’s shares, truly reckless!”
“Grandfather, I know I was wrong. No one expected an absolutely safe project to run into trouble,” Huo Beiting’s head had been filled with fa and fortune.
He was bent on proving he was better than Huo Xingzhou!
“You fell for soone else’s sche! All of this is part of Tianyuan Group’s conspiracy; the Huo Family has beco their stepping stone into Haicheng.”
It pained the elder like a knife, those were 20% of the shares!
Given away for nothing!
Wastrels!
“Grandfather, perhaps… perhaps I still have a way,” Huo Beiting said through his tears, as if grasping at the last straw.
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