Old Master Xie was so furious that he grabbed a throw pillow and hurled it at him. “I’m not yet at the point where I can’t hold a pen. It’s not like writing one for you would be impossible!”
Xie Heng’an immediately surrendered. “Hey, hey, hey! No, no, no!”
“Dad~ I know I was wrong~ Please forgive me!”
Old Master Xie let out an arrogant snort, then rose with the support of his cane and headed straight for the elevator to the study on the second floor. “You little brat, just you wait! I’m going to write a family code for you right now!”
“You’ll be the first person in this family to have it enforced on you!”
Seeing the old man moving as swiftly as if he were flying, the butler hurried after him. “Oh dear, Old Master!”
“Take it easy! Your body can’t handle this kind of exertion!”
The elderly men and women on the sofa watched Old Master Xie’s furious retreat and laughed so hard they could barely straighten up.
When he was young, the old man had been a combination of a stubborn mule and a firecracker—stubborn and quick-tempered.
After being tempered by the passage of time, he had matured and become much more steady.
But whenever he encountered Xie Heng’an, that rebellious son of his, he was guaranteed to blow his top, just as he was now.
Lu Wenhua and Qi Rou were left speechless by Xie Heng’an’s attempt to anger his own father to death and prepare an early funeral. They could not help giving him a thumbs-up.
“You really are something, in-law! You truly aren’t afraid of driving Old Master to an early grave!”
“What a filial son!”
The whole room erupted in laughter!
Chen Linmei was completely unfazed. After all, her husband’s rebellious behavior was hardly anything new.
Xie Heng’an turned and glared at Lu Wenhua. “What choice did I have? That old man has been secretly battling the online haters all day.”
“If I didn’t find him something to take his mind off it, he really might have gotten himself worked up to death!”
There was no helping it. Protecting their young was etched into the bones of the Xie family. Even though they knew the malicious trending topics online had all been anticipated long ago and did not need to be taken seriously, Old Master Xie still could not resist arguing with the haters and their paid trolls.
When it came to defending his own child, he was serious!
The husband and wife, Qi Rou and Lu Wenhua, fell silent. They could only say that at least half of Da Yu’s shameless behavior had been inherited from his grandfather, Xie Heng’an.
Even the tricks he used against Old Master Xie were exactly the same.
At this hour, aside from the security staff working in shifts, all the household employees had already gone home to rest.
With no one else in the living room, Chen Linmei finally sent the several files she had just copied to Qi Rou and her husband.
“These are the project and product files for the research Da Yu and that Shen boy are working on. Given that brat’s personality, we’re stuck covering for him this time.”
“Everyone, take a look. Let’s deal with the follow-up work in advance. Otherwise, once he finishes recording the show and comes back, he’ll raise the roof!”
The old lady’s voice was full of disdain. She had said long ago that the eldest was even worse than his two younger brothers.
Who would have thought he would actually come up with the shameless idea of making a bunch of elderly men and women cover his shifts for him!
The worst part was that if they refused to clean up after him, that brat would make even more of a racket than the other two, giving them all a splitting headache!
Lu Wenhua and Qi Rou wore helpless expressions. Clearly, they knew all too well that Lu Huaiyu was even more troublesome than the other two brats.
Lu Wenhua let out a wail. “Being chairman is so easy for him! What’s the difference between this and not being chairman at all?”
Qi Rou answered honestly, “The difference is that before he became chairman, we were making money for ourselves.”
“After he became chairman, we’re working for him!”
Xie Heng’an looked as if someone had forced a bitter mask onto his face. “That wicked grandson! Lu Huaiyu really isn’t human!”
“He actually came up with the rotten idea of making several old men and women go to work in his place. I don’t know whether I should praise his cleverness or praise him for having something wrong with his brain!”
He had not gone to work in how many years? And now his own precious grandson had forced him back to the company to work in his place!
The key was that the precious grandson was out enjoying himself, all while claiming that appearing on the show would draw the enemies’ attention and, as a bonus, protect the two younger ones at home.
What a load of bull!
Seeing their pained expressions, Chen Linmei could not help asking, “So how did that boy manage to convince you to cover his shifts?”
“You’re all old enough to have lived for several decades. Don’t tell me you actually fell for his tricks?”
Fashion was Chen Linmei’s field of expertise, while the other three had far more experience in finance and technology. Lu Huaiyu had never planned to ask her to cover for him.
More accurately, it was because Lu Huaiyu did not yet have the nerve to trick the highest-ranking women in the family into going to work for him.
Unless he had a death wish!
At her words, the other three fell silent as one, particularly Xie Heng’an and Lu Wenhua.
Chen Linmei was quiet for two seconds before speaking in a complicated tone. “You really did fall for it? You two useless old men!”
The two old men had nothing to say. Between them, they were well over a hundred years old, yet they had still been outplayed by a young man barely in his twenties.
It was humiliating!
Qi Rou looked at the two old men, who were cosplaying quails, and felt her eyes ache. She clicked her tongue and lightly kicked her husband in the calf.
“Are you two still sitting there feeling sorry for yourselves? That brat used the Lu Group’s name to invest in that Shen boy’s project, and the press conference has already been held.”
“There’s still a mountain of follow-up work to do. Hurry up and draft the proposals and handle the rest! Yisen has already made a move. It’s time for us to send him a little gift too.”
Lu Wenhua looked utterly lifeless. “Why do I have to work overtime after eleven at night? I was a wage slave when I was young, and now that I’m old, I still have to be an old wage slave?”
Qi Rou gave a cold laugh. “Why you need to work overtime after eleven? Don’t you know perfectly well?”
They insisted on copying the schedules of young people, sleeping until noon and going out to have fun in the afternoon. Naturally, they had to work at night!
Although the three old men did not need to sit at the company every day, Lu Huaiyu had already instructed Assistant Zhao to send the work schedules and assignments to the two old men at exactly the same time every day.
The two old men could not even try to shirk their responsibilities!
Xie Heng’an cast a sympathetic glance at Lu Wenhua. “It can’t be helped. You Lus are always the ones screwing over other people named Lu.”
“Just like big-data price discrimination—only the familiar customers get exploited!”
Lu Wenhua snorted coldly. “Don’t sit there making sarcastic comments. It’s not as if you haven’t been screwed over too. Who is it that has to attend international conference calls in the middle of the night? Gee, I wonder!”
The blow landed directly in the center of Xie Heng’an’s heart. He sucked in a sharp breath.
“The more I think about it, the angrier I get. Doesn’t he love appearing on shows so much? I’m going to become one of his haters and flame him!”
Lu Wenhua thought this made perfect sense. He immediately took out his phone, opened the trending topics, clicked on a random one, and started posting insults.
“I’m such a kind person. I’ve just saved Yisen the cost of hiring another troll army!”
Chen Linmei and Qi Rou: “…”
There was a reason that their grandson was a troublesome little devil. After all, his grandfather and maternal grandfather were hardly saints themselves.
The two old men had just posted their first negative comment when Old Master Xie’s powerful roar came from the second floor.
“You two idiots, delete those hate comments for me! I’ve been battling haters all day, and you two are taking their side now, huh?”
“So tomorrow, when I’m trading insults with the antis and cursing their ancestors eighteen generations back, am I going to have to curse our own ancestors too?”
