Peerless Martial Expert in the City
Chapter 543 - 541: The Fall of the Gao Family

Chapter 543: Chapter 541: The Fall of the Gao Family

Moreover, if we’re being practical, the significant losses suffered by the Li Family this time should bring tremendous benefits to our Zeng Family. I believe the Zhao Family and the Han Family are already taking action as well!

Though Chen Jianguo’s strength has greatly increased, it still falls short compared to the centuries-old local families like ours. He simply cannot compete with us!

"However, I didn’t expect Chen Jianguo to hide his abilities so well. When there’s a chance, I should really reach out and connect with him more!"

Slowly calming the excitement and joy in his heart, Zeng Tieshan’s face bore a slight smile, and his eyes reflected a touch of contemplation.

............

News about the once influential Gao Family brothers being arrested together quickly spread throughout G City, and all the major media outlets vied to disclose the truth about the Gao Family.

As this news spread, the Gao Group’s stock, already heavily hit by Jianguo Group in the stock market and suffering declining performance, immediately plummeted even further across various stock exchanges.

In a bid to salvage the situation, the shareholders and executives of Gao Group convened an emergency meeting and chose a highly experienced and capable manager, known both locally and in the professional managerial world, to take over as the general manager and chairman of Gao Group. Despite their efforts to reverse the downturn and extricate the group from crisis, the coalition of Jianguo Group and other unknown forces’ powerful strikes, compounded by the Gao Group’s internal issues and the disclosure of numerous scandals, including environmental pollution, tax evasion, and production of counterfeit goods, left the renowned manager unable to stem the decline.

The Gao Group, once rivaling the Jianguo Group in strength, could only endure less than a week of weary struggle before collapsing completely, eventually declaring bankruptcy. Jianguo Group then acquired the company at a bargain price.

With Chen Jianguo’s signature on the acquisition deal for Gao Group, it symbolized the end of the once prominent, second-tier Gao Family of G City, which was on the rise. They vanished into history.

Following the downfall of Gao Group, the other families that were completely dependent on the Gao Clan, including the Wang Qiang Family, the Li Han Family, and the Zhao Hu Family, all crumbled. Their families were tainted with many scandals in the Gao case, and all of their key members were controlled.

Like the Gao Family, the Li Family incurred heavy losses in this massive storm. While their deep foundation prevented them from falling like the Gao Family, their losses were nevertheless severe.

The significant loss of ’talent’ was already self-evident; after the storm, the Han Family, Zeng Family, and Zhao Family all very ’timely’ extended their enormous hands and ’rightfully’ swallowed up many of the Li Family’s interests. They almost caused the Li Family to collapse like the Gao Family.

Fortunately, the Li Family still had some cards up their sleeve, which they eventually played, forcing the three families to withdraw their hands and allowing the Li Family to survive. However, what the three families had swallowed was naturally impossible to regurgitate, and the Li Family didn’t have the guts to demand it, so they had to swallow the bitter pill themselves.

A week later, the patriarch of the Li Family, Li Wenchao, announced his complete retirement. All of Li’s enterprises were handed over to an obscure grandson, Li Ziyoung, who had been sent abroad since childhood and had grown up and studied there. Therefore, not much was known about him domestically.

After taking over the Li Family, Li Ziyoung kept a very low profile, seemingly bringing the entire family into a quiet phase where they kept their heads down.

.........

Xiao Yi was unaware that his phone call from yesterday had set off a storm throughout G City, and that Chen Jianguo and his Jianguo Group had become the focus of major forces overnight, with their status rising more than twofold in just one day.

After having lunch with Fatty Tang, he made a call to Mr. Ma to express his thanks and then stopped worrying about the matter. He believed that Chen Jianguo now had the capability to handle the rest, and with the help of the Qian Family brothers, even if the Li Family was powerful, they could no longer trouble Chen Jianguo.

For Xiao Yi, the fastest passage of time was undoubtedly marked by two activities: cultivating and reading. These two pursuits took up most of his life. After Chen Xue’s birthday party ended, his life seemed to enter an extremely calm state, even calmer than before. Aside from attending classes, he devoted almost all his time to cultivation, only occasionally visiting the school library to review pharmacopoeias and revise his knowledge of herbal medicine and pharmacology.

That day, after having lunch, he went straight to the library and spent the afternoon browsing through a tome.

He only lifted his head from the heavy medical volumes when the library staff began closing up and clearing the people out, and he suddenly realized that evening had arrived.

Although the medical books outside were very basic and almost worthless, the pharmacopoeias were quite comprehensive. Except for a few rare species, he could find almost all the herbs the old man dealt with in these external pharmacopoeias.

And the descriptions of the pharmacology were generally correct.

Xiao Yi closed the pharmacopoeia, gave the library staff an apologetic smile, then turned and walked towards the exit, glancing one more time at the name of the pharmacopoeia as he left.

Stepping out of the library, Xiao Yi was ready to head back to Azure Waterfront, but the moment he reached the doorway, his phone rang.

As he heard the ringtone of his phone, Xiao Yi couldn’t help but be taken aback for a moment; this time, the ringtone was not the familiar rhythm he heard every day, but a special one!

Situ!

After a slight moment of shock, a thought flashed through Xiao Yi’s mind, and his face suddenly changed. He quickly pulled out his phone and hastened to press the answer button.

Could something have happened to Situ?

While pressing the answer button, Xiao Yi couldn’t help feeling anxious; guilt emerged in his heart. This ringtone was the one he had set up specially when Situ Qingfeng had left to investigate a case, designated solely for Situ Qingfeng. Regardless of whether his other calls came through, this one call would definitely vibrate and ring, intended to prevent him from missing Situ Qingfeng’s calls!

However, during this period, he had been completely absorbed in his training and had almost forgotten that Situ Qingfeng was still investigating the child trafficking ring case!

"Hey, Boss, where are you?"

No sooner had Xiao Yi pressed the answer button than Situ Qingfeng’s voice came through the phone.

"I’m at the school. What’s wrong? Are you alright?"

Hearing Situ Qingfeng’s voice, Xiao Yi’s mind instantly tensed up, his tone revealing a sense of urgency. With his medical expertise and hearing, just by listening to his voice, he could tell that something was definitely wrong with Situ Qingfeng. The situation seemed exceptionally dire, his voice sounded especially weak.

"I... Boss, wait for me at the school’s main gate. I’m coming over to find you now!"

Situ Qingfeng’s voice carried a breathless quality, a hint of urgency in his tone.

"Okay!"

Xiao Yi nodded, hung up the phone, and walked briskly towards the school’s main gate with a somewhat heavy heart.

From the sound of Situ Qingfeng’s voice, he had been injured, and despite having reached the higher tier of the Bone Tempering Period, he was still hurt. Moreover, judging by his tone just now, it seemed that there hadn’t been much progress in the investigation.

Just how powerful was this child trafficking ring?

Xiao Yi silently pondered in his mind.

............

"Xiaomei, you take them back first. I have to leave for a bit."

On a street in M City, showing a hint of indescribable fatigue and a lackluster gaze—far from his usual assertive and imposing manner—Situ Qingfeng, after ending the call, walked out from around the corner to where Zeng Xiaomei, equally worn-out, her clothes somewhat tattered, and her face covered with a faint layer of dust, bearing no resemblance to the once cold and stunningly beautiful number one beauty of the G City police, stood and spoke in a soft tone.

"Senior brother, where are you going? We should take you to the hospital first."

Upon hearing Situ Qingfeng’s words, Zeng Xiaomei was immediately taken aback, then spoke with urgency and concern. She knew that although Situ Qingfeng appeared to be fine on the surface, he had in fact sustained very serious injuries. Otherwise, with his strength, even multiple nights without sleep wouldn’t reduce him to his current state, let alone cause his complexion to be so pale!

What he needed most right now was treatment from the most professional doctors!

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