Girl, I'll Teach You Cultivation

Chapter 264

Seeing her son return safe and sound after two months of no contact, Lin Yueling finally calmed down and laid down the worry in her heart. "Stinky brat, where did you run away for so long?"

"I went to Europe to do archaeology for student work."

"Why couldn't I reach your phone?"

Jiang Xiu took out his phone and placed it on the sofa, after which he too buried himself into the sofa as if he were very exhausted, "The phone fell into a river."

The most important thing was that her son had returned safely, so Lin Yueling spoke in a kinder tone, "Are you hungry? Shall I make something for you?"

Jiang Xiu nodded then asked, "Mother, you came to the Imperial Capital to look for me?"

Lin Yueling entered the kitchen, "Do you think your mother is so idle that I'd visit here for a stinky brat like you? I came for some other reason…"

Jiang Xiu didn't respond to her and began to speculate. Lin Yueling left the capital 20 years ago and didn't have anyone she was acquainted with in the capital now. He wondered why she had come over to the capital.

Jiang Yi needed her to take care of his life so she wouldn't have come here for anything trivial.

Lin Yueling turned back to glance at Jiang Xiu and saw that he didn't respond to her words, so she was forced to reveal the reason. "Your grandfather sent a group to Annan. Mayor Gu is already on his last stand and your second uncle wants the throne of the border region's governor position…"

"Grandfather?" Jiang Xiu's eyes narrowed. "The Lin family?"

The Lin family was an elite family of the Imperial Capital which was of the same grade as the Jiang family. The two families saw each other as archenemies and were political enemies. Therefore, both the families had opposed Jiang Yi and Lin Yueling's marriage.

The Lin family viewed Lin Yueling as a traitor.

When his mother had passed away in the previous life, Jiang Xiu had gone to the Lin family to announce her death and met his so-called maternal grandfather, uncles, aunts as well as a few cousins. Those people weren't the least bit sad after hearing the news of his mother's death. Someone even said that it's good she was dead and that she was already dead for them. They mocked and ridiculed Jiang Xiu severely. He could never forget that day; their apathy had given him the shivers.

None of the Lin family elders had come for his mother's funeral except for one of his cousin sisters.

"Why are they pestering us if they want to vie for the border region's governor position?" A cold sneer rose up on Jiang Xiu's face. Does the Lin family know I'm Mr. Jiang and are trying to forge a good relationship?

Jiang Xiu knew that these elite families had their eyes on all big shots. He wondered if they placed Mr. Jiang's name into their eyes.

Lin Yueling explained, "They know your father's case was redressed by Mayor Gu and that he got promoted thrice due to his assistance, so they think we have a good relationship with Mayor Gu. They want your father to reach out to Mayor Gu and work under him."

Jiang Xiu smiled coldly. So that's their angle.

The governor had a lot of authority regarding the successor, almost 30-40%. When the Diaoyutai is indecisive, and all the other parties vie too excessively, the words of the standing governor carried a lot of weight. Right now, it was precisely that kind of intense competitive time and the reason why the Lin family had set their eyes on Gu Dezhi.

Naturally, if the Jiang family didn't perish, the Lin family wouldn't have contacted Lin Yueling. Currently, the couple had no roots and facing such tremendous benefits, the Lin family was ready to use everything at their disposal. Lin family's traitor and all was nothing but a joke.

"What do you think?" Lin Yueling asked him.

"What do I think? How will the noble Mayor Gu be willing to listen to me!" Though the Jiang couple knew Jiang Xiu was Jiangnan's Mr. Jiang, they didn't know how much power he possessed.

His parents were after all children of elite families, so they didn't place much importance on underworld powers. Even if such powers had influence, it was limited to the underworld. At best, someone like that could use the capital they had to somehow rise up to the secondary official level, that's all. As for the Jiang family's fall, they didn't believe the reason for it was Jiang Xiu alone. The Jiang family had several political enemies and Crown Prince Ao's descent on Jiangnan was the tipping point while what Jiang Xiu had done was akin to the rat pulling out the radish.

Lin Yueling sighed, "They have put a lot of expectations on us."

The water began to boil at this moment.

She took out the noddle pack but accidentally dropped it down, so she crouched down to pick them up, "They want us to return for this year's spring festival as the Jiang family is no more. You father didn't oppose it as well, so we wished to know your intentions. If you don't want to go, I'll say we can't come there during the Spring Festival…"

After being driven out of the Lin family, 20 years had passed in an instant, so she naturally wanted to seize this opportunity to return. After all, it was her family. Jiang Xiu had observed all of this and shook his head internally. Lin Yueling had never really understood the mindset of these elite families, or it was possible that she had realized it but decided to turn a blind eye to it.

The reason she got driven away from the Lin family back then wasn't due to some betrayal or anything but rather because her actions had hurt the family’s interests. To protect the family's interests, as well as to avoid the powers they were cooperating with from thinking she had sold the family's interests to the Jiang family, they had resolutely exiled her from the family to declare their position regarding this matter. The Jiang family also did the same to protect their own interests.

Affection was nothing in their eyes, yet Lin Yueling was using emotions to evaluate them. There was no doubt she'd get hurt again sooner or later.

"Alright. It's been 20 years since you returned anyways."

Since his father had decided to accept the olive branch offered by the Lin family towards him, though it went against his own aspiration, to complement the grief his wife had felt over these years, he had decided to accept it. As their son, he even more so couldn't deny his mother's wish.

Lin Yueling revealed a happy expression on her face, "It's decided then."

"It looks like the noodles aren't enough. Mother will add another egg for you!"

Jiang Xiu became speechless. It wasn't a question of whether there was egg or not. Looking at his mother act so happy, he didn't really wish to pour a bucket of cold water over her head. In case their family isn't able to be of use for the contest over the border region's governor position, the entire matter would turn ugly.

Lin Yueling sat in front of Jiang Xiu, "Right, I forgot to tell you one good news! Your father-in-law is already able to walk now. His recovery is going well."

This was within Jiang Xiu's expectations.

"Did you forget what you promised?"

Jiang Xiu asked in astonishment, "What are you talking about?"

"Hey! You stinky brat…" Lin Yueling's eyes opened wide, "You promised to return the Cheng Conglomerate back to your father-in-law. You can't go back on your words. Your father is good friends with him again, and there's also the relationship between you and Susu. You don't want our families to still have this issue parting us, right?"

"Isn't it just a lousy conglomerate? It isn't even worth going back on my word for it."

Lin Yueling scolded him with a smile, "Stinky brat, your tone is really quite big. Lousy conglomerate you say? The Cheng Estates has several companies in Jiang City, it's something your father-in-law spent his entire life to create."

"Alright." Jiang Xiu replied.

The Cheng Conglomerate had a net value of 3 billion. The Wang family's assets which he had in his hands was over 100 billion, and there was also the Golden Brocade Group, the Jiang family's money bank which he had annexed. In addition to this, he had also taken over 50% of Jiangnan's market, and although the movable assets he possessed weren't as high as 500 billion, they surpassed 300 billion. The two pieces of jewelry he purchased didn't even amount to much compared to this.

Recalling the jewelry he had bought, he wondered whether the Wang family had brought them back.

"Do it quickly. Sun Xiaohong came over to find me several times. Since you were unreachable, she believed you ran away."

"Do I even need to do that?"

"My cell phone is dead. I'll settle the issue once I get a new phone…" Wang Xintong's number was inside the phone. All he had to do was call her and make her transfer the equity shares she held, it was a simple matter. Once Cheng Hanlin took over the company and gathered his former subordinates, it wouldn't be much difficult for the Cheng Conglomerate to get back on track.

Lin Yueling was quite hyperactive, "Mother will help you get it repaired."

Saying so, she left Jiang Xiu who was eating noodles and ran out with the phone to get it repaired at a phone service shop.

After Jiang Xiu finished eating, he came to the poolside to take a walk and saw a beautiful woman stare at him grudgingly from the other side. The two of them were separated by 30 m with a rock garden and tall trees between them, but that couldn't stop her passionate gaze from reaching him, "You're back. Why didn't you call me?"

After handling Jiangnan's matters, Wang Xintong wasn't able to contact Jiang Xiu, so she returned to her villa and waited for Jiang Xiu. She almost felt like she was becoming a fossil.

"I just came back!

Wang Xintong made a gesture indicating him to call her, but Jiang Xiu stepped on the pool's surface and walked over towards her.

TL Note:

Mentioning the note here since the site upgrade hasn’t finished yet. The note feature seems to have no formatting. *rolls eyes*

2 chapters were released a few moments ago.

I planned to release 4 chapters together but I had to accompany my mom for shopping since 2nd Oct. was a national holiday for us. I did 2 after returning home and decided to release them as I’ve already kept you peeps waiting for a long time.

Don’t worry about any delays this time since I’m done with all irl shit (except for my IELTS exam which is required for applying for my higher studies but there are a few weeks left for that).

I’m in touch with the PR who works on the chapters asap so we can dish out the chapters a few minutes after I finish translating them.

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