The deed has already happened, and it is irreversible.
With the help of some people, the news of Xu Zhengyang's illness quickly spread. Everyone who knew Xu Zhengyang knew the real reason why he had been missing for so long—he was sick and had become demented.
Xu Zhengyang's relatives and friends all came.
What should Chen Chaojiang do?
It's easy to explain to Yuan Suqin and Xu Neng, and it's easy to explain to Zhan Xiaohui and Deng Wenjing; but what about the others? Yao Chushun, Zheng Ronghua, Huang Chen, Yu Xuan, Ouyang Ying, Zhong Zhijun, Cao Gangchuan... how do we explain to them? And what about Chen Chaojiang's parents and the villagers of Shuanghe Village?
Xu Zhengyang has always been with you, Chen Chaojiang, so how did he end up like this?
Now that everyone knows about it, Chen Chaojiang regrets that he shouldn't have let Li Bingjie meet Xu Zhengyang, and even more so, he shouldn't have let that seemingly loyal bodyguard see Xu Zhengyang in his current state.
In reality, neither he nor Li Bingjie knew that the Li family allowed Li Bingjie to go to find Xu Zhengyang and had Li Chengzong follow Li Bingjie, all for the purpose of knowing Xu Zhengyang's every move.
When the news first spread, many people would come to visit Xu Zhengyang from time to time.
According to Li Bingjie, since the news has already spread, they might as well relax and let everyone believe that Xu Zhengyang is indeed sick. Anyway... Xu Zhengyang will come back sooner or later.
Chen Chaojiang nodded in agreement.
What a pity!
After that, Yuan Suqin and Xu Neng lived in this courtyard house for a long time. Although they had experienced Xu Zhengyang's previous coma and Xu Zhengyang had given them a heads-up beforehand, they were not too worried and believed that Xu Zhengyang would wake up suddenly, just like last time.
But as time goes on, hope, like a bar of soap, gets smaller and smaller the more you touch and use it every day.
They wanted to take Xu Zhengyang back to his home in the village to care for him, but Chen Chaojiang resolutely refused their request. Chen Chaojiang stubbornly believed that when Xu Zhengyang returned, he would inevitably come here to find his physical body. If he couldn't find his body upon returning, would he be unable to return to life? This was his concern.
This angered the gentle Xu Rouyue, who cried and argued with Chen Chaojiang, not understanding why.
What could Chen Chaojiang do? He could only coldly ignore him.
In the end, it was Yuan Suqin and Xu Neng who persuaded Xu Rouyue to go back.
Gradually, news of Xu Zhengyang's illness faded among those who knew him.
Xu Neng still had to lead his construction team to work everywhere. However, after the news of Xu Zhengyang's illness spread in Beijing, Yongcheng Group's assistance to their construction team became less and less.
Fortunately, there is still someone like Yao Chushun, a good person who is hard to find in today's society, and an elderly person living alone.
He didn't care whether Xu Zhengyang would wake up or not; that wasn't important. What mattered was that the more things were like this, the more he wanted to take care of Xu Zhengyang's family, as a way of repaying their kindness. Yao Chushun once woke up in the middle of the night, sighed deeply, and said with tears streaming down his face, "Zhengyang, you son of a bitch, I thought I could never repay this debt of gratitude to you in this lifetime. But now, you're sick and mentally unstable. Before I die, I'll help you as much as I can, and that will finally pay off this debt of gratitude."
Yao Chushun used almost all his connections to help Xu Neng's construction team find projects, just enough to keep the team going.
Unfortunately, without Xu Zhengyang's construction team, although they still maintained their strength, they were soon manipulated by Xu Zhengyang's uncle, who instigated Xu Neng to establish Shuanghe Construction Company. Naturally, the top position in the construction company was not held by Xu Neng, but by Xu Zhengyang's uncle, while Xu Zhengyang's uncle-in-law became the second-in-command.
In short, the construction team is no longer a construction team, but a construction company, and it no longer belongs to Xu Neng.
Xu Neng became an ordinary foreman at Shuanghe Construction Company.
It was only then that Xu and his wife realized they had been tricked by their relatives... The construction team that Zhengyang had worked so hard to help them establish had become someone else's.
The villagers of Shuanghe Village were indignant and wanted to confront them, but Xu Neng stopped them and advised them, "Let it go, we can all just earn some money honestly." The other villagers working for the construction company, however, had forgotten that Xu Neng had once helped them and offered no support, instead fawning over the new leader.
Soon, half of the people from Shuanghe Village were eliminated; those who remained were only kept because of Xu Neng.
When Chen Chaojiang learned of this, his immediate thought was to resolve the matter by force, to forcibly elevate Xu Neng to the position of head of the construction company; he was confident he could do it. After all, they were both from rural backgrounds, so there was no need to use any rules or regulations regarding business management or laws… But Chen Chaojiang couldn't do that. He worried about what would happen if he himself were sentenced. He didn't care about himself, but who would ensure Xu Zhengyang's safety?
Chen Chaojiang doesn't trust anyone! Because he promised Xu Zhengyang that he would personally protect his physical body.
...
In the autumn of the second year after Xu Zhengyang fell ill, Jinghui Logistics Company's business suddenly and drastically declined. It lost most of its customers to a new logistics company called "Huatong Logistics," and many important clients were also lost.
At the same time, some of the company's middle-level managers began to leave, all going to Huatong Logistics and taking a large number of customers with them.
In the financial matters that Deng Wenjing was in charge of, bad accounts also emerged, and some financial secrets were leaked.
The transportation network established between provincial capitals and several major cities had to be aborted midway.
Because of the need to set up various branch offices, Jinghui Logistics borrowed more than 20 million yuan from the bank. At this time, the bank also began to urge repayment.
Wu Juan, the company's deputy general manager, suspected that someone inside the company was up to no good, but before she could investigate, the company was already in trouble.
Everything happened very suddenly. A large logistics company that had started at a rapid pace and rose almost like a rocket was already unstable. After a series of sudden changes, it quickly became shaky and on the verge of collapse.
Zhan Xiaohui is almost going crazy. What should I do? What should I do?
If one day the adults come back and find that the company is finished, how should I explain it to them?
Just then, Huatong Logistics Company approached Jinghui Logistics Company, offering to help it overcome its difficulties, but on the condition that Huatong Logistics Company would hold 40% of the shares.
The person in charge of Huatong Logistics was quite polite, stating that the staff of Jinghui Logistics Company would not be changed.
Zhan Xiaohui and Deng Wenjing initially strongly disagreed, but Wu Juan said she could accept it because if they didn't, Jinghui Logistics Company would be heavily indebted and unable to keep up with the funding, leading to bankruptcy; while in this way, although they would lose 40 percent of the shares, at least Jinghui Logistics Company would still exist.
Ultimately, after discussing it privately, Zhan Xiaohui and Deng Wenjing had no choice but to agree.
The couple planned to only earn their salaries, and as for the remaining shares… they'd give them all to Xu Zhengyang. That way, they could live with themselves, and besides, they were afraid that Xu Zhengyang would shift the blame onto them after his return. Amidst their fear and worry, the couple also desperately wanted Xu Zhengyang back, because they knew that Jinghui Logistics' rapid growth was all thanks to him.
They believed that as long as Xu Zhengyang returned, everything would change!
Everything lost will come back!
In this situation, who would care if an ordinary company employee resigned and left when the company was in crisis?
It wasn't until Jinghui Logistics was taken over by Huatong Logistics that the employee who had previously resigned reappeared as the deputy manager in charge of finances. Zhan Xiaohui, Deng Wenjing, and especially Dong Wenqi, suddenly realized—it was her! The person who caused all of this—Lin Shasha.
Dong Wenqi's good friend from university introduced him to Xu Zhengyang, the chairman of Jinghui Logistics Company, and he ended up working at Jinghui Logistics Company after having a meal with him.
Only she knew the company's finances and operations best.
She was the only one who was adept at social maneuvering and had excellent relationships with many middle-level managers and supervisors in the company.
who is she?
Did Huatong Logistics arrange for someone in advance?
But Huatong Logistics is just a new logistics company, albeit one with abundant capital and a strong background. Why would they have targeted Jinghui Logistics so early on?
Many people don't understand.
When Chen Chaojiang, who had always lived in that courtyard house, heard the news, he understood. Huatong, Huatong, is not just the name of a logistics company, but also the world's largest Chinese-language search engine and the world's largest Chinese-language website.
Who is its founder, current chairman and CEO?
Li Bingjie's mother is Jiang Lan.
When Chen Chaojiang first joined Jinghui Logistics Company, Xu Zhengyang gave him 5% of the shares for free. What was he supposed to do? Supervise…
As a result of the current regulatory oversight, the company has become someone else's property.
But Chen Chaojiang had no choice. He knew too little, and he couldn't live without the courtyard house. Reluctantly, he couldn't let the company go under, so he had no choice but to agree. Thus, the shares of the original shareholders of Jinghui Logistics Company were weakened.
Moreover, Zhan Xiaohui pessimistically believes that among these people, apart from Wu Juan who truly understands how to run and manage a company, the others are all laymen, lacking sufficient cultural knowledge... This will likely lead to them being squeezed out of Jinghui Logistics sooner or later, and the entire logistics company will belong to someone else.
Now we can only hope that Xu Zhengyang will return soon.
Although Xu Zhengyang is uneducated and knows little, he is a god, and no problem can stump him.
That is indeed the case.
At the beginning of this year, many employees of the original Jinghui Logistics Company, including Dong Yuebu and his daughter, Wu Juan, and the original employees in Beijing, were laid off.
Zhan Xiaohui and Deng Wenjing still hold a place in the company because of their shares, but they no longer have real power.
...
Also at the beginning of this year, the battle for control of Ronghua Group began.
Zheng Ronghua's daughter and son-in-law secretly colluded with the company's major shareholders to remove Zheng Ronghua from his position as chairman at the shareholders' meeting.
Zheng Ronghua's eldest son, Zheng Yaokai, unexpectedly emerged from the conflict between the two sides and reaped the benefits, becoming the new chairman with the support of his father.
Afterwards, Zheng Ronghua stepped down to a secondary role.
Next, Zheng Yaokai set about transforming several resort sites in the Jingniang Lake tourist scenic area, investing heavily to build the most luxurious and high-end Jingniang Lake mountain and water villa complex.
Huayang Tourism Company lost ownership of several resorts and became an ordinary tourism company.
When Yao Chushun learned of this, he was furious. He immediately found Zheng Ronghua and asked him, "What about Huayang Tourism Company, the several resorts, and Xu Zhengyang's 40% stake? You're getting into real estate, so what about the tourism company? What about Xu Zhengyang's shares?"
Zheng Ronghua sighed helplessly and said that he could no longer make the decision.
Yao Chushun angrily said, "Don't lie to me. Although Huayang Tourism Company was under the Ronghua Group, it was funded by you personally! It was only you and Xu Zhengyang who owned the shares."
"Yes, that's right, but Huayang Tourism Company was poorly managed and went bankrupt, and was acquired by Ronghua Group." Zheng Yaokai suddenly appeared and said this.
Speechless with anger, Yao Chushun berated Zheng Ronghua and stormed off.
After leaving Zheng Ronghua's house, Yao Chushun went to the courtyard house in the western suburbs. He just wanted to confide in Xu Zhengyang, who had become demented, and have a chat. Although he knew he wouldn't get anything out of him, who else could Yao Chushun talk to?
Unexpectedly, he met someone in the courtyard house—Jiang Lan.
Jiang Lan came for no other reason than to see what was so good about Xu Zhengyang, why the old man had valued him so much when he was alive, and why he had instructed her husband and brother-in-law to take good care of him after his death; and her daughter, her own daughter, whose relationship with her had become increasingly cold after hearing that she had established a logistics company and acquired Jinghui Logistics.
Jiang Lan had always harbored deep resentment towards Xu Zhengyang, or rather, female jealousy.
Why is her own daughter so good to this country bumpkin, even better than she is to her own mother? Even when he was sick, became mentally challenged, and was in a vegetative state, his daughter still missed him and visited him frequently.
Jiang Lan felt that this young man's success was too sudden and too rapid, and that he must have something shady going on. So she arranged for someone to infiltrate Jinghui Logistics Company early on to investigate whether it was secretly transporting drugs or other prohibited items. She wanted to prove to her daughter that Xu Zhengyang was not a good person.
However, after investigating, they couldn't find anything, which is why Jiang Lan had someone set up a logistics company to take over Jinghui Logistics Company.
Ultimately, Jiang Lan wasn't after money; she just wanted to vent!
She wanted to erase all traces of Xu Zhengyang's success from this world, to show her daughter what it meant to have special abilities. His success was nothing more than borrowing the Li family's fame and power; otherwise, what did he have to rely on?
As for curing Li Bingjie's illness... wasn't what the Li family gave him enough?
And what is he now? Just a piece of trash!
When she arrived at the courtyard house with an arrogant attitude, saying she wanted to buy it back, she was met with a cold and flat refusal from Chen Chaojiang, who didn't even bother to discuss it.
Jiang Lan sneered, "Young man, do you think you can just refuse? Are you his guardian?"
Chen Chaojiang wasn't stupid. He knew that without Xu Zhengyang, no matter what property certificate or law, no one could stop the Li family from taking back the house.
But... Xu Zhengyang still has to wait here!
So, as Jiang Lan was about to leave for Xu Zhengyang's house, Chen Chaojiang said, "If Zhengyang is still not well this year, this house will be returned to you."
Just then, Yao Chushun arrived. He was already fuming, and upon hearing this, he berated Chen Chaojiang, while also indirectly dragging Jiang Lan into the conversation.
Jiang Lan ignored them completely and went directly to Xu Zhengyang's house, demanding that Yuan Suqin and Xu Neng, as guardians, hand over the property rights to the courtyard house in the western suburbs. Faced with immense pressure, Yuan Suqin and Xu Neng had no choice but to return the courtyard house to Jiang Lan as guardians.
The couple thought that since they had already returned Zhengyang, they might as well bring him home. They figured they could just go to the local temple to burn incense every day, and when Zhengyang returned to life, the local god would always tell him to come home.