Road to becoming the wealthiest: Starting From Treasure Hunting in the Cabinets
Chapter 177 - 176: Awkward or Not Awkward?

Chapter 177: Chapter 176: Awkward or Not Awkward?

Robert looked at the young man sitting across from him, feeling very uncomfortable, but he had no choice.

His supporting city councilman was dismissed for child molestation.

He wanted to expand his business, but no one would vouch for his loan.

Although the few freight yards he owned were making money, it was just a small fortune.

Compared to the business he wanted to expand now, it was just a drop in the bucket.

He never thought that the young Chinese man he once looked down upon had grown into a giant figure he now needed to look up to!

It was just embarrassing that he needed to borrow money from this youngster now.

"I want you to know, Sean, that I am borrowing money just for business, and I will pay you interest as agreed," Robert said solemnly, "I don’t want this to affect your relationship with Joanna. If you threaten her to do something she doesn’t want to because of this, I definitely won’t borrow this money!"

Sean smiled and said:

"Understood, understood."

"I won’t change my opinion on you and Joanna because you lent me money, I still think you two are not quite suitable... "

Robert said this with a weaker tone, less confident than before.

Sean earnestly said:

"You can rest assured, Joanna and I truly love each other, our feelings can withstand the test. I won’t change my attitude towards Joanna because of this money, the reason for my loan to you is only because you are Joanna’s father... "

After finishing the procedures and seeing the 20 million dollars in hand, Robert felt like he was dreaming and somewhat emotional.

He had worked hard for most of his life, relying on his family’s foundation to earn several tens of millions of dollars, all of which were invested in solid businesses.

This young man had come to New York for less than a year, and his wealth had already surpassed his own by so much!

Although there were reasons for inherited wealth, his ability to make money was also exaggerated!

If Robert didn’t have acquaintances in the tax department and knew that Sean’s money was from legitimate sources, he might have already taken Joanna back by force.

Perhaps it’s not a bad thing for Joanna to be with this Chinese young man?

On the other side, Sean was talking to Joanna:

"Don’t worry, I won’t look down on you because your father borrowed my money. You are you, and your father is your father... "

Joanna didn’t really worry, but she was somewhat proud:

"Of course! My vision is way better than his!"

Sean laughed dumbfoundedly, in a way, that was true.

He changed the topic:

"What does your father want to do with this borrowed money? The freight yards are making good money."

"I heard he wants to buy boats, like ocean-going cargo ships or container ships," Joanna replied, not knowing much more, "Now ocean transport is very profitable. I heard that due to special reasons, there is not much cargo in many ports. Many ocean-going cargo ships’ shipping plans have already been scheduled for two years later."

Sean nodded, and this was indeed a good business.

"Not bad, your father’s business sense is quite impressive," Sean praised without sincerity.

Joanna, holding his arm, said:

"I won’t pay for my father’s actions, though!"

Although she said so, Joanna knew that resolving her father’s problem would make her whole family happy, so she enthusiastically tried new positions with Sean that night.

It must be said that although Joanna was slightly chubby, she was flexible and quite capable.

In China, after hanging up the phone call with his grandson, Sean’s Grandfather Benjamin Lewis stroked his beard and sighed. He never thought that the dream of his youth, which he believed would be impossible to achieve in his lifetime, would be realized by his grandson Jackson.

It was like a dream!

He suddenly asked his son, Ethan Lewis:

"Ethan, what is that thing you use on your mobile phone to show things to others called?"

"WeChat Moments," Ethan was curious about his father’s question, "I told you about it before, and you said it was too troublesome and didn’t want to use it. Now why are you asking about it?"

"Don’t talk nonsense, can my phone do that?"

"No, when I wanted to get you a new phone, you refused, saying the old-fashioned phone was good enough..."

"Like I said, stop talking nonsense!" Benjamin interrupted his son:

"Get me a new phone, a domestic one! By the way, get that circle thing you mentioned as well. Your mission for the next few days is to teach me how to use it! I want to add all my old classmates... "

Ethan didn’t know why his father changed after receiving a video call from his nephew, but he went ahead with it.

He should have bought a new phone for his father already.

He couldn’t understand why his old-fashioned father suddenly became interested in it, and even wanted to post in "Moments"?

Then he heard his father muttering:

"Humph! I’ll show off too, let you old guys who keep bragging to me on the phone every day see it! I’ll post in the ’Moments’ and shock you all to death!"

Ethan was stunned, so this was his father’s plan!

Benjamin returned to the countryside to practice medicine after graduating from the Traditional Chinese Medicine School.

His classmates mostly went to work in professional hospitals, and some stayed in schools to teach.

At present, the most successful one was the vice-principal of a certain Traditional Chinese Medicine University in China.

Most of the others had retired, either running Chinese medicine clinics or returning to work in hospitals. There were even several well-known elderly physicians among them.

His father’s old classmates often called him. Elderly people calling each other usually bragged about their children, very normal.

Benjamin was not a showy person, but he too got "corrupted"!

However, this was good, as elderly people also need to keep up with trends; otherwise, they could easily develop dementia.

"Dr. Chen, my throat is uncomfortable, can you check it out..."

When an elderly villager came to see Benjamin for treatment, Ethan went out to buy a new mobile phone for his father.

Sean didn’t know that his little show-off changed his grandfather’s habits, and he came out of Joanna’s embrace to continue packing his things.

Originally, he had planned to take Joanna to China for the Spring Festival, but her studies were not yet completed, and she was still in class during the Chinese Spring Festival, so they had to wait for another opportunity.

Sean asked Elijah, and he also hoped to go back together. After all, it had been a while since they had left, and they missed home.

He went to say goodbye to Mr. John and gave him a golden coin he had found on the island:

"John, you don’t celebrate our holidays and we don’t celebrate yours. Consider this a New Year’s gift to you."

Old John accepted the coin with a smile and said to Sean:

"You should go back now. I don’t know if you’ll come back after you leave?"

"Of course, I have to come back," Sean smiled, "Most of my assets are here, I definitely need to come back to manage them."

"Then I wish you a pleasant journey."

Sean then went to see Paul, also giving him a gold coin and jokingly said:

"This is a souvenir, not a bribe."

Paul looked unhappy:

"Oh, how I miss the days when I could travel around. Now there are endless things to deal with... "

"Don’t play innocent after taking advantage."

Finally, after saying goodbye to Kathy, Sean and Elijah boarded a plane and transferred to China.