Chapter 348 - Fire and Water (1/1)

Chapter 348: Fire and Water

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

Zhang Feng was in her sixties Before her incarceration, she was a woh standards and proo to the extremely private HS Beauty Clinic for biweekly treatments, for example She was always refined, from head to toe, and did not appear a day over 50 years old If it weren’t for the fact that Grandfather Huo disliked plastic faces, she would have certainly done so now appeared much older, like she was in her 70s However, she wasn’t in theBaochen as her last lifeline when he ca on? I hear that Dacheng Industries is in hot water and that we’ve lost all our shares?”

The lost shares were just the beginning: they had been forced to spit out all that they’d gleaned all these years Zhang Baochen couldn’t help whining, “Mo Industries went under and had iving ht now”

“What?! How could Dacheng Industries cause you to lose your fortune?” Zhang Feng was shocked “Zhao Da had toldhad no idea what had been happening outside since she’d been locked up Her hearing hadn’t yet begun either

Zhang Baochen gri Industries had been involved in several illegal arreed to let es if I repaid all the illicit funds I sold all ed to scrape together 2 billion RMB to avoid jail ti Feng screeched, her face pale as her gnarly hands reached out The veins looked like wor under her skin

“Prisoner 38! Watch yourself! You will be forbidden fro visitors if you keep up this unruly behavior!” The fe

“Mo Baochen i our way!”

Gasping in deep breaths, Zhang Feng’s eyes were bloodshot as she stared blankly at Zhang Baochen “You …You idiot! You paid all the o to court! Just how scared of jail are you exactly!”

“I don’t want to go to jail!” Zhang Baochen objected “I won’t go to jail, even if it means I have to lose all o to jail than than lose allwas extremely furious “It seems I coddled you too much; you don’t even knohat it’s like to be penniless!”

“Mo’s been sold already anyway Also… the Chief gaveco Baochen meant to say that the apartment was more comfortable than a rental It was no comparison to the apartments they had previously owned or the Huo manor

“You shouldn’t have accepted the house Instead, you should have pleaded with the Chief to allow you all to live back at the Huo ainst the long table as she muttered; her heart was broken She couldn’t accept this outcohest point and had looked out, finally, out at the o back to the low and miserable place she had started froh it here she really belonged, she had never accepted it

Zhang Baochen gripped Zhang Feng’s arm and whispered, “Mom, the Chief is here to see you too Why don’t you ask hiet you out of here?” All this ti had refused to believe that Grandfather Huo would sit by idly and allow Zhang Feng to rot in jail

Grandfather Huo certainly wasn’t sitting idle After Zhang Baochen had left, he went in to visit Zhang Feng As she waited, Zhang Feng coed into a white sweater hite straight-leg trousers Her waxy coht colored fabric, and she seemed especially pitiful and vulnerable This was how she had initially caught the interest of Grandfather Huo in the first place As soon as he saw Zhang Feng in the visiting room, he immediately felt distressed for her “What…What’s the point of this? You ended up in here after all that trouble” Grandfather Huo sat across froreat concern, “Are you co to you?” Grandfather Huo surveyed Zhang Feng’s white hair and was just as shocked as Zhang Baochen had been He had never seen Zhang Feng so unkempt

He recalled the moment he had first met her: he had just been promoted to Lieutenant Colonel, but had stayed in the military hospital for sixhad been assigned to be his personal nurse and aid hi nurse had worn a pure white uniform and stood humbly by his side, obedient as a shadow At the time, Grandfather Huo had only had eyes for his wife Xie Ziyan had been a renowned beauty, bold and electrifying; like hard liquor that intoxicated people with a single sip They had been a happy couple and had two sons in succession as he clilass ceiling and beca stayed by his side and was promoted to Head Nurse Xie Ziyan had been born into the Xie faround, ethics, and aura However gorgeous and acco temper and a very stubborn streak Grandfather Huo hadn’t seen anything wrong with Xie Ziyan until he had been able to co became his nurse that Grandfather Huo realized not all woently like a still water pond Water is soft and silent, a hu fodder for its flames in order to stay alive Between the touish the flames That hen Grandfather Huo had known that he couldn’t leave water anymore His expression was conflicted as he watched the terrified Zhang Feng and patted her hands “Don’t fret I’ll pull some favors No matter what, you’ve been my nurse for over 40 years and I won’t sit idle” This was more than a matter of pride—he wouldn’t allow anyone to disrespect her Of course, it would be i’s case because Huo Shaoheng would have to be the one to do it, but not even Huo Guanchen would be capable of cohed in relief She was reassured as long as Grandfather Huo promised to help She had never come across a situation that Grandfather Huo couldn’t handle “Chief… Thank you My entire fa’s eyes welled up, her waxen co red “Do you remember the year you came to my family home, and to see Baochen’s family?”

Of course Grandfather Huo re’s raded the’s father had been so thankful that he and his wife as even knelt before him He had been shocked and had hastily helped the Feng’s father had been insistent, however, and had said, “The Chief is the savior to our faratitude”

Nor’s parents were elders to Grandfather Huo because he’d had relations with their daughter and had sired a son with her However, they treated hiuest and did not put up airs as the in-laws Grandfather Huo had only met them that one time and yet, it was still seared into hiswho had been by his side all that time was about to face jail tiain? “Sort out your assets and sell off what you can to pay off asowed” Grandfather Huo kneould be a tricky situation, and said in frustratedly, ” Really though! Over 1 billion RMB? How could you have been so brazen!”

“I still have to repay? But we earned everything through doing business—how can we give up all ourwas eness to help her and his concern for her “Elder Huo, I really don’t have much money left All I have is a bit I saved for Baochen, since he can’t officially be a part of the Huo family How can I leave hihter to care for!”

Grandfather Huo frowned “Well, what do you want to do? Are you really going to refuse paying it back? Do you want to spend the rest of your life in jail?” Capital punishment was also a possibility, but Grandfather Huo didn’t want topursed her lips as she shi+fted in her seat anxiously and muttered, “What if you were help me… repay the debt?”

“Me?” Grandfather Huo was stunned “I don’t have that ht not have it, but Sister Xie’s trust fund has enough…” Tears gli’s eyes and she nearly sobbed “Just her trust fund’s annual income alone is more than that amount anyway! A wealthy person like her is no co as you withdraw the fund’s income for the year, you can help me out I won’t ask you to marry me or even ask that Baochen officially become a Huo I just want to leave hi I can do for him as a mother”