After returning to Hong Kong City after a month, everyone was exhausted physically and mentally. Ling Hao gave everyone a few days off. Everyone went "crazy", but he went to Hong Kong City Hospital alone.
In a single ward, a man of about fifty years old was lying flat on the bed, with a ventilator and other monitoring equipment attached to him. He was lying quietly, as if asleep. The only sound in the ward was
The air bag of the ventilator pumps back and forth and the heart rate monitor makes a beeping sound.
Ling Hao pushed open the door and walked in holding a bouquet of flowers. "Dad, I'm back. This time I took on a big job. I've been away for a month. Have you been good during this time? Have you flirted with the little nurse?
?" Ling Hao said with a smile and threw the withered flowers in the vase into the trash can, then replaced it with water and inserted the flowers and placed them on the bedside table.
"I've seen something new this time. Guess what I saw this time? A Bobbitt worm as thick as a gasoline barrel and dozens of meters long! It almost pulled me and the Pipi Shrimp into the hole.
When the oysters are eaten, there are also swarms of hammerhead sharks, hundreds of them, covering the sky and the sun, it is a spectacle." Ling Hao talked eloquently, but the old man lying on the bed did not react at all. Ling Hao said
Hao didn't take it seriously. He stretched out his hand and touched the old man's chin and said, "You haven't shaved your beard for at least two days, right? The nurse is lazy, or are you too naughty to make people want to talk to you?" As he said,
He took out the electric shaver from the drawer again and began to shave the old man's beard.
After a while, after shaving his beard, Ling Hao looked at the old man with a smile and said, "Well, I'm so handsome soon."
Just as he was talking, the ward door was pushed open, and Li Liang walked into the ward with a bouquet of flowers. When he saw Ling Hao, he smiled and said, "You are here so early?"
"Uncle Liang, thank you for taking care of my dad during this time." Ling Hao gave Li Liang a grateful smile.
Li Liang rolled his eyes at him and said, "What's that? When your father and I were brothers, we didn't have you. If he hadn't pulled me out at the critical moment, I would have been buried under the sea. It's a pity that he was a kind man.
No, your mother died young, and he managed to bring you up, but he didn't expect that he would end up like this within a few days of enjoying the blessing. If I don't have the ability, that's it. Since I have the ability to take care of it, how can I not ignore it? "
Ling Hao sighed and said, "I shouldn't have insisted on going to the military academy and joining the army. I haven't been with him for a few days."
"You don't have to blame yourself. No one expected that things would turn out like this. How could you know in advance?" Li Liang comforted.
Ling Hao took a deep look at Li Liang: "Uncle Liang, do you still plan to hide it from me to this day?"
Li Liang didn't look at Ling Hao, but said lightly: "Do you think I've hidden something from you?"
"You still subconsciously treat me like a child. My father already has a fleet of more than 50 cargo ships in Luzon. Among the global shipping companies, although it is not at the forefront, ranking among the top 100 should not be a problem, right?
As the boss, why did my father appear on a cargo ship sailing in the Gulf of Aden? Is it necessary for him to escort the ship in person? What’s even stranger is that the entire cargo ship was filled with foreign garbage. I checked and found out that this
The ship’s destination is Singapore, will that be the place where foreign garbage is needed?”
"The most important thing is the injury on my dad's body. He has no obvious signs of trauma at all. Instead, there is a small pinhole in the second cervical vertebra. It is still obvious to this day. Have you ever seen a pinhole two or three times?"
Does it take years to heal? Frankly speaking, I suspect that he was injected with some kind of poisonous needle, which destroyed my dad's central nervous system and turned him into a vegetative state."
"Ling Hao, you really have a rich imagination, then tell me, no matter who it is, what is the purpose of doing this to your father?" Li Liang frowned.
"Our family has no background. The only thing my father deserves to be coveted is his shipping company." Ling Hao said without thinking.
Li Liang's face turned ugly, and a cold light flashed in his eyes: "Ling Hao, since your father became a vegetable, I have temporarily taken charge of the shipping company. I also wanted to hand the company back to you.
Yes, but you are saying that you have no business talent, and you have been denying it for so long. Now that the company is still running in my hands, are you saying that my experience with your father is related? "
Ling Hao was speechless. He knew that he had said the wrong thing and hurt Uncle Liang's feelings. Li Liang was born in a big family in China and had a very profound background. In the eyes of ordinary people, the world's top big families are nothing more than those who follow him.
With the rise of the Industrial Revolution, some Western plutocratic families controlled certain industries and quickly accumulated considerable wealth, at best, plus some royal families that were still retained in a few countries.
In fact, from ancient times to the present, many glorious dynasties and empires have changed. Although the country has changed hands, have those prominent imperial royal families really disappeared as the mountains and rivers were broken? The answer is no, and many of them are in the
Before the collapse of the country, they dispersed their huge family wealth and descendants, hid them in the vast sea of people, and ran a huge underground network based on blood relationships. Some were planning to make a comeback, while others were disheartened and willing to become rich.
Most of them have been running their underground relationship network for hundreds of years, not seeking to enjoy the artifact again, but just to ensure that the family will never wither.
For example, there is the invincible "Golden Family" that scares the whole world, and the descendants of the "Ottoman" Empire sultans spanning Europe and Asia. Li Liang's family is the descendant of the most powerful dynasty in China. In addition to inheriting
In addition to this long-standing surname, there is also a huge underground family group and countless wealth. This family is entirely focused on business and has built an extremely large business empire over thousands of years, with tentacles spread across various industries around the world.
Although the family is no longer involved in politics, the personal connections accumulated over the years have made the Li family inextricably linked to many countries, groups, and chaebols, and their energy is considerable.
As the current head of the Li family, it would be a bit of a joke to say that he is eyeing the more than 50 freighters owned by Ling Hao's father.
Ling Hao knew this very well. He had never doubted that the uncle who had watched him grow up had just been excited and made some random remarks.
Although Li Liang came from a famous family and was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he did not grow up with all kinds of care. The training of the children by the big family is far beyond what ordinary people can imagine. The process of training, selection, and elimination is very cruel.
As a super big family, of course, there is no need to worry about the severance of blood. Each generation of the clan has hundreds or even thousands of children. There are only a handful of people who can inherit the clan leader and hold certain power in the clan. So who will stand out requires a strict selection process.
There is a training, assessment and elimination mechanism. All young people will be sent to the most basic positions in the family, or even in the most harsh and harsh environments. Only those who can stand out with their outstanding personal talents can continue to climb up the family, and the rest will
Some people just disappeared into the crowd, and it is nothing new that some people unfortunately lost their lives in harsh environments.
At that time, Ling Hao's father, Ling Yuan, was working as a first mate in a shipping company owned by the Li family, and Li Liang was an ordinary sailor on the ship. Ling Yuan is a descendant of pearl divers in the South China Sea. He is proficient in water and knows maritime affairs.
He was admired by Li Liang very much, and because they were both Chinese, they got along relatively well, so their relationship was very close. Their shipping route passed through the famous "Gulf of Aden", which has always been famous for frequent pirates.
Once, a cargo ship was robbed by pirates. A group of pirates carrying Aka 47 boarded the cargo ship at night, knocked down several sailors, and took all the crew members hostage. Unexpectedly, the captain of the cargo ship was a thief. At the critical moment,
I don't know where he hid. The pirates put a gun to the head of a crew member and asked him to speak on the ship's radio. If the captain didn't come out and surrender within 5 minutes, they would execute 5 crew members, and 10 in 10 minutes.
name.
The captain was probably frightened and had no intention of showing up. The five crew members were blown off their heads and thrown into the sea. Then 10 more people were pushed to the edge of the deck. Among them were Ling Yuan and Li
good.
Seeing that 10 minutes were coming, Ling Yuan grabbed Li Liang and jumped into the sea. The pirates fired wildly at the sea. However, as soon as the two entered the water, they dived desperately and escaped the fatal shots. The pirates were left with nothing.
The 8 pirates killed and abandoned the corpse, but in the end they were unable to force the captain out, so they had to sail the cargo ship to their home base. Although the pirates were later intercepted by a warship from a certain country on the way back, and all were captured, the cargo ship was also safe.
Escape from danger, but these are things for later.
Ling Yuan and Li Liang drifted aimlessly on the sea for two days. During this period, they finally found a piece of wood as big as a door panel. Ling Yuan pushed Li Liang, who was still young and average in water quality, onto the wood and fished some in the sea.
The jellyfish commonly known as "sea well" replenished fresh water for Li Liang. This kind of jellyfish is not big and usually floats on the sea. There is a little fresh water in a transparent sarcoma on the head. Although it is very fishy and there is only one mouthful, it saves Li Liang.
Li Liang's life. However, Ling Yuan's arms and chest were scarred by jellyfish tentacles.
The two were finally discovered by a passing merchant ship when they were still breathing, and they escaped death. From then on, Li Liang treated Ling Yuan as his big brother.
Later, Ling Yuan relied on some of his savings to buy a second-hand small cargo ship to run freight in Luzon. Li Liang relied on his talent to become a prosperous family member, and provided Ling Yuan with a lot of help wherever he could.
With business support, he purchased his own large freighter in just five or six years and started running international routes.
Ling Yuan is also a smart and capable person. With Li Liang's support, the business is going smoothly, and the shipping company's fleet is getting bigger and bigger. Ling Hao, who was only five or six years old at the time, has also lived a rich second-generation life.
Life. However, life will never be smooth sailing. Ling Hao's mother died of brain cancer. Seven-year-old Ling Hao could only follow his father around on boats. In the blink of an eye, he was almost ten years old and was raised like a wild child.
As soon as Li Liang saw what kind of business this was, he immediately registered for Ling Hao and received Hua Xia to study. The child was smart and eager to learn. He completed the primary school course in two years and the middle school in four years. He actually passed the exam with excellent results.
Going to Ocean University has become Ling Yuan's pride. Seeing that he is about to graduate from the university, the latter is still waiting for Ling Hao to come to his family company to help after graduation. Unexpectedly, this child actually took the postgraduate entrance examination of the military academy. Everyone knows that graduating from the military academy is a must.
If you are going to be a soldier, when will you be able to return to your side? Naturally, Ling Yuan disagreed. He even had a big fight with Ling Hao over this. Afterwards, no one paid attention to the other for several years.
It wasn't until Ling Hao was assigned to the army after graduation. Because he was a special force and the tasks he performed were relatively confidential, Ling Yuan had no idea what his son was doing every day.
Until something happened to Ling Yuan, Ling Hao mysteriously retired from the army. Instead of continuing to run his father's shipping company, he handed over the company to Li Liang. He and a group of friends inexplicably opened a diving service company.
Li Liang has always been silently supporting him behind the scenes, and even many big clients were introduced to Ling Hao by Li Liang. Although they are uncles and nephews with different surnames, they have become emotionally like father and son over the years, so sometimes Ling Hao Hao would also lose his childish temper with Li Liang, and the latter would naturally not take it seriously, but what Ling Hao said today was really too hurtful, so how could Li Liang not feel sad.
"Uncle, you know I didn't mean that. I shouldn't have lost my temper with you. It was my fault." Ling Hao quickly admitted his mistake.
Li Liang sighed and said: "I know what you mean, and I also know that over the years you have been running a diving company on the surface, but secretly you have been investigating your father's affairs. I even know that you have found out about the 'Octopus' 'My child, listen to my advice, there are some things in this world that you cannot touch, and I cannot watch you step by step towards doom."
Ling Hao smiled and said: "Uncle, I know very well what an 'octopus' is, but what else do I have to be afraid of now? My mother has passed away and my father has become like this. I have nothing to lose. But Don't worry, I am a soldier. Even if I die, I will take my enemies with me and will not make unnecessary sacrifices. If anything happens to me, please help me take care of my father."
Looking at Ling Hao's firm eyes, Li Liang knew that he could not persuade him. He sighed longly and said: "I know you won't listen to me on this matter, but I am your uncle and I can't help but Help you. There happened to be something related to this recently, and it happened to come to my place. If you insist on getting involved, just go and contact her."
"Who is she?" Ling Hao's eyes widened with curiosity on his face.