Faced with these words, the numerous younger members lowered their heads and fell silent. Although none of them argued back, the atmosphere made it obvious that some of them were clearly unconvinced.
After coming in and learning the rules, most of the Lei family members had still wanted to go out and become lord players. After all, who would want to be a civil servant when they could be a Local Emperor?
But Old Lei had never allowed it. He had assigned them one by one to the City Defense Army. Only a few younger members who had arrived late had been sent out to make their way in the world. By the time the later members went out, however, the New World market was already saturated. There were far too many people in the Emerald Starfield. Unless they dared to explore unfamiliar starfields, it was difficult to seize any market share. In the end, they had all become wage earners.
This had caused many of the family members to start blaming Old Lei, believing that he should have sent one or two outstanding members out to make their way in the beginning instead of keeping them trapped in Hua Xia City, living off the state payroll.
Perhaps the Lei family would already have one or two lord factions of its own by now.
Seeing everyone like this nearly made Old Lei furious enough to die. In the corner, Lei Jiaming watched his grandfather, who had always doted on him, tremble with rage and could not help saying, "You wouldn't have made it either if you'd gone back then."
Those words instantly gave the third-generation members a target for their anger.
They could not openly contradict the old man, but this third-generation cautionary example actually dared to speak up?
A