Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

After Er Yuehong returned home, he went to his father's room. The father and son whispered in the study for a long time.

"Dad, look."

Er Yuehong opened the bag that Hua Yu handed him today and let Old Man Hong take a look.

"The mermaid pearl."

At first, Old Man Hong was a little confused as to why Er Yuehong was so secretive. Why couldn't he talk about something in the hall but had to do it in the study, and he even asked the servants in the mansion to stay away from him.

Now, Old Man Hong finally understood.

"A few years ago, the Crescent Hotel in Peking auctioned a shark pearl, but that one was only the size of a blueberry. The ones in your bag are all full, and each one is as big as a longan."

Old Man Hong looked at the bag of mermaid pearls his son brought back, suddenly tightened the rope of the bag, then held it in his hand and walked around the study looking for a place to hide it.

"Dad, do you know who gave me this mermaid pearl?" Er Yuehong thought about it and saw that his father was running around in the study like a headless fly.

"Who?"

"The young master of Wanchongshan. The young master that these two keep talking about."

"Is it him? Did you see the mysterious young master today?"

"Who else has this ability? Who can take out so many mermaid pearls so easily?"

"That's right. The two people in Wanchongshan are both very capable. I heard that they have a very good relationship with that side, and they can avoid being discovered by both sides."

Old Man Hong suddenly stopped, walked up to Er Yuehong, and solemnly placed the bag of mermaid pearls in Er Yuehong's hand.

"I'm old, but you're still young. Making friends with that kind of person will only benefit you and the Hong family."

Old Man Hong put his hands behind his back and stood with his back to Er Yuehong.

"Going underground to steal gold is not a long-term thing. Once we are discovered, you and I will die. And judging from the situation, the two sides will fight sooner or later and there will be a winner."

"If our Hong family can win the favor of those two, we can also take advantage of the situation and get on board. Who knows, we might even be able to get a job as an official in the future."

"At the very least, I can become a wealthy businessman, which is better than digging for food in the fields."

"After the old queen's tomb was dug up, we all know what happened to the tomb robbers."

"father"

"Okay, I know what you're going to say. But every time I gave so much gold, silver and jewelry to please the officials sent to Changsha by the higher-ups, you always had something to say."

"But I am not only doing this for my family, but also for the people in our clan. There are so many people working in our house and the disciples learning skills. There are probably 18,000 people waiting to eat."

"In the eyes of those people, we are just actors who sing operas, the most useless profession. No matter how well you sing, in the eyes of those officials, you are just an actor who can be manipulated at will. If you die, you die. Who would seek justice for an actor?"

"It's because the imperial court is gone now, otherwise people like us would have been better off than those lowly people in the past."

"That's why I sent so many things to the officials who were going there to build relationships."

"Yes, we are the local bosses in Changsha, but we are just ordinary people. How can we go against those who hold guns?"

"Dad, I get it. It was my fault before."

Er Yuehong never knew that his father was doing all this for them. He once had an argument with his father because of feeding those fat people. Even when his father punished him to kneel in the ancestral hall, he didn't think there was anything wrong with him.

Now, he finally understood everything his father had done over the years.

"Hong'er, your father did so much and said so much, not because of your guilt, but to teach you the principles of dealing with people. You can't just be like before, only caring about romance and not caring about worldly affairs."

"I, your father, am old. One day you will have to shoulder these things on your own. From today on, you will stay with me and learn to do something."

Old Man Hong patted Er Yuehong on the shoulder and let him digest things slowly.

Old Man Hong left Er Yuehong alone in the study to calm down, while he strolled around the mansion with his trusted butler and chatted casually.