The atmosphere throughout the Zhang Family's old residence seemed to have been utterly transformed overnight...
What had happened in the old residence last night had shaken the Zhang Family's younger generation to the core. On one hand, one of their own had risen from Golden Crow Shipyard and been promoted to manage a family fund worth hundreds of millions, making countless eyes burn with envy. On the other, their Ninth Uncle Zhang Fan and Zhang Tie and Zhang Yang, three cousins of the same generation, had been "exiled" to Liao Province before Grandfather's funeral arrangements were even complete. They might not have any hope of returning for decades. These two treatments—one heaven, one hell—instantly cleared the heads of all the Zhang Family's descendants and relatives. They understood that the Zhang Family was no longer what it had once been.
At the same time, Zhang Tie's words spread among the Zhang Family's descendants overnight.
The three words "follow the rules" sank deeply into everyone's hearts.
Someone had already provided a demonstration of what happened to those who refused to follow the rules at home.
Once the Zhang Family's descendants learned the reasons behind Zhang Fan and those sent to Liao Province, many of them despised them and applauded their fate. Very few truly sympathized with them. Anyone with a functioning brain understood what those gift offerings were about. Before Grandfather's affairs had even been settled, some people had already jumped out and incited everyone to divide up the money. Either such people had their hearts smeared with lard, or they thought the Zhang Tie brothers were easy to bully—how else could they dare be so brazenly shameless?
"Zhang Fan's wife, as well as Zhang Zhukang's mother and the mother of Zhang Zhufang and Zhang Lide, tried to make a scene