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 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 gone for a month. Have you been good during this time? Have you flirted with the little nurse?" Ling Hao said with a smile and put the withered flowers in the vase. Throw the flowers into the trash can, then replace them with water and place them on the bedside table.
"I've seen something new this time. Guess what I saw this time? A 'Bobbitt worm' as big 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 showed no reaction. Ling 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 dishonest to make others reluctant to talk to you?" , he took out the electric shaver from the drawer 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 door of the ward 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 helped me 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 taking the military academy entrance examination and becoming a soldier. 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 did not look at Ling Hao, but said lightly: "Do you think I hid 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 more strange is that the entire cargo ship was filled with foreign garbage. I checked and found that this The ship’s destination is Singapore, is that a place that needs foreign garbage?”
"The most important thing is the injury on my dad's body. He has no obvious signs of trauma at all. 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 made him 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 large 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 some Western plutocratic families that dominated certain industries and quickly accumulated considerable wealth with the rise of the Industrial Revolution. At best, they are coupled with the royal families that a few countries still retain.
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 perished as the mountains and rivers were shattered? The answer is no. Many of them dispersed their huge family wealth and descendants before the collapse of the country, hid themselves in the vast sea of people, and operated a huge underground network based on blood ties. Some are planning to make a comeback, some are disheartened and are willing to become rich, and even more have been running their underground network for hundreds of years, not seeking to enjoy the artifact again, but just to protect their family forever. Not withering.
For example, there is the invincible "Golden Family" that scares the whole world, and the descendants of the sultans of the "Ottoman" Empire that spans Europe and Asia. Li Liang's family is the descendant of the most powerful dynasty in China. In addition to inheriting this long-standing surname, he also has a huge underground family group and countless wealth. This family is entirely focused on business and has built an extremely large business empire over the past millennium, with tentacles covering 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 was just being excited and talking nonsense.
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. There are hundreds of children in each generation, and there are only a handful of people who can inherit the patriarch and hold certain power in the family. So who will stand out requires a strict selection process. Cultivate and evaluate the elimination mechanism. All young people will be sent to the most basic positions in the family, or even in the harshest and harshest environments. Only those who can stand out with their outstanding personal talents can continue to climb up the family, while the rest will be lost to everyone. , it is nothing new that some unfortunately lost their lives in harsh environments.
Back then, Ling Hao's father, Ling Yuan, was working as a first mate in a shipping company owned by the Li family, while Li Liang was an ordinary sailor on the ship. Ling Yuan is a descendant of pearl divers from the South China Sea. He is proficient in water and knows maritime affairs. He is admired by Li Liang. Since both of them are Chinese, they get along relatively well, so their relationship is very close. Their shipping route passes through the famous "Gulf of Aden", which has always been famous for being frequented by 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 with one shuttle, and took all the crew members hostage. Unexpectedly, the captain of the freighter is a very thief, and he doesn't know where to hide at the critical moment. 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 did not come out and surrender within 5 minutes, they would execute 5 crew members, and 10 after 10 minutes.
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 eight people below killed the abandoned corpses, but in the end they failed to force the captain out, so they had no choice but to sail the cargo ship to their home base. Although this group of pirates was later intercepted by a certain country's warship on their way back, and all of them were captured, and the cargo ship escaped safely, but this is a story for another day.
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" provides Li Liang with fresh water. This kind of jellyfish is not big and usually floats on the sea. A transparent sarcoma on its head contains a little fresh water. Although it is very fishy and there is only one mouthful, it saved 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 narrowly escaped death. From then on, Li Liang treated Ling Yuan as his elder 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 talents to become prosperous in the family, 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. day. 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. Li Liang looked at this and saw how good it could be. So he directly registered for Ling Hao and received Hua Xia to study. The child was smart and studious. He completed primary school courses in two years and middle school in four years. He was admitted to Ocean University with excellent results and became Ling Hao. Far proud. Seeing that he was about to graduate from college, the latter was still waiting for Ling Hao to come to his family's company to help him after graduation. Unexpectedly, this child actually took the postgraduate entrance examination of the military academy. Everyone knew that after graduating from the military academy, one must go into the army. How long would it take for this to happen? What about returning to yourself? Naturally, Ling Yuan disagreed a hundred and twenty times, and had a big quarrel with Ling Hao over this. Afterwards, no one ignored the other for several years until Ling Hao was assigned to the army after graduation. Because he was a special force, he had to perform tasks. They were all relatively confidential, and Ling Yuan didn't even know 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 'Octopus' On my body. 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 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 couldn't 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, go and contact her. "
"Who is she?" Ling Hao's eyes widened with curiosity on his face.
