Return to the City: The Strongest King
Chapter 543 - 544: Clues

Chapter 543: Chapter 544: Clues

Song Xiaodong did not ask where Fang Boqing worked, and they just made idle conversation along the way, soon arriving at the Fang Family’s home.

Fang Boqing led Song Xiaodong into the living room and said to Fang Zhenguo, "Dad, I still have work at the TV station, so I’ll go to the office first and invite Mr. Song for dinner later."

Fang Zhenguo waved his hand and said, "Go ahead with your work, it’s fine for Mr. Song to eat here at home."

Fang Boqing said another word to Song Xiaodong, then left.

"He works at a TV station?" Song Xiaodong recalled Cheng Xiaoyue and asked.

"Yes, he’s busy all day long, hardly ever comes home for a meal, they all seem like they have successful careers, but the work they do, it’s really nothing special."

Song Xiaodong smiled and said, "If they’re all busy, it just shows your Fang family’s business is thriving."

Fang Zhenguo said, "It’s mediocre, we’re only okay in our province, compared to the whole country, our Fang family doesn’t rank at all, actually, it’s sometimes better this way, a big tree catches much wind, which isn’t always good."

Song Xiaodong said, "Elder Fang, I want to ask you about something."

"Oh? What is it?" Elder Fang asked curiously.

"I can’t exactly say what it is, I just wanted to ask, about twenty to twenty-five years ago, did anything significant happen in our country, like any family or any important person being dealt with or persecuted?"

Elder Fang asked doubtfully, "Why do you ask this? You were just born twenty-five years ago, right?"

Song Xiaodong hesitated for a moment and said, "There’s some reason, I can’t tell you, but it’s very important to me. I thought that with Elder Fang’s status, if there was something major at that time, you might know?"

Elder Fang pondered for a while and said, "More than twenty years ago, it was actually a very chaotic era, that time our country was developing greatly, and all the major families were competing for benefits, many significant events happened,"

"Could Elder Fang tell me about it?" Song Xiaodong suddenly became excited.

"Hmm, at that time our legal system was not perfect, and for the sake of benefits, they really stopped at nothing. The most famous was the Lin family; the Lin family was in its prime then, gained a lot of benefits, and almost monopolized the resources of a whole province, which caused dissatisfaction among many families, then I don’t know what methods they used, but overnight the family head of the Lin family died, the family inside also fell apart quickly and declined ever since, to this day no one knows exactly what happened."

"Is there more?" Song Xiaodong felt this might be irrelevant to himself, this happened overnight, whereas he and Feng Kexin were almost five years apart, indicating that it wasn’t an overnight issue.

Elder Fang shook his head and said, "There were many families that rose and fell at that time, I can’t remember too clearly now, some rose within a few years and then declined just as quickly, it was really chaotic then."

Song Xiaodong hesitated for a moment and said, "Between these families, were there any tokens or something, representing a family?"

"There really wasn’t such a thing that I heard of, our usual families are too young, simply no such accumulation, the kind of tokens you mentioned generally belong to families with many years of accumulation, able to maintain their standing through time, but our country has been established for less than a hundred years, the first few decades did not have such an economic base, so it is difficult for such families to appear."

Song Xiaodong said, "Oh, then if it’s convenient, could Elder Fang take some time to sort out the family secrets you remember for me?"

Elder Fang squinted his eyes and said, "It seems this matter is related to you, then I’ll sort it out well when I’m back, gather everything I can remember for you, hopefully it can help, but..."

Elder Fang turned his words, "If this involves any revenge, I still advise you to give up such thoughts, the major families that still exist have quite some strength, and our country governs by the law, committing a crime is something no one can afford."

Song Xiaodong humbly said, "Thank you for the reminder, Elder Fang, but I really have no thoughts of revenge, I just want to figure something out."

"Well, that’s fine," Elder Fang nodded.

Song Xiaodong treated Elder Fang, stayed the night at his home, and also discussed the matter of Kung Fu with Elder Fang.

Elder Fang had trained for many years and had a deep insight into Kung Fu, which was greatly beneficial for Song Xiaodong.

The next morning, Song Xiaodong arrived at Zhong Chuling’s home.

Not only was Lin Shu in Zhong Chuling’s home, Lin Yi was unexpectedly there as well.

Lin Yi said somewhat awkwardly, "Mr. Song, I’m sorry, I came without being invited, Xiao Shu told me about your treatment, it really is a miracle, Mr. Song’s medical skill is truly magical, may I observe it here?"

"That’s no problem, as members of the medical community, learning and exchanging ideas with each other is absolutely fine," Song Xiaodong readily agreed.

Lin Yi was overjoyed and said, "Then I thank Mr. Song very much."

At this time, Zhong Chuling’s face was filled with joy, and she said, "Big Brother Song, you are really amazing, my dad has been able to eat these last few days, his complexion has visibly improved a lot, although he still cannot get out of bed, he has no problem talking."

Song Xiaodong nodded and said, "To fully cure him, that’s still a long way off, right now I’m only preserving his life."

Zhong Chuling earnestly said, "Mm-hmm, I believe Big Brother Song will certainly cure my dad."

Song Xiaodong unceremoniously entered the sickroom with Lin Yi, then took out the silver needles and began administering acupuncture to the patient.

Lin Yi watched closely all the while, knowing acupuncture himself, but the techniques used by Song Xiaodong were beyond his understanding.

He widened his eyes, watching every move of Song Xiaodong closely, paying attention to every acupoint he targeted, afraid of missing the slightest detail.

However, being no longer young and having a weak memory, he remembered some and forgot others, which was extremely frustrating.

In fact, it wasn’t just because of his age, Song Xiaodong’s methods were so swift that even young people would struggle to remember them.

After the acupuncture session, Song Xiaodong returned tiredly to Zhong Chuling’s room, while Lin Yi observed the patient’s reactions.

A few hours later, Song Xiaodong awoke to find Lin Yi standing by the bed who suddenly knelt down with a thump, respectfully saying, "Mr. Song, I wish to take you as my master."

"Gah!" Lin Shu was startled, her eyes widened, and at that moment she was completely stupefied, had her grandfather gone mad? Surely this scoundrel shouldn’t agree, and if he did, wouldn’t she stand to lose for several generations? Then how could she seek revenge in the future?