20 years of restarting life

Chapter 3645 Ye Pinghe's Test
"Later I met Xiaoyan—her parents disliked me because of my lame leg and strongly opposed our relationship—but through Xiaoyan's persistence and struggle, we finally got together. She's been the only woman in my life, yet I'm truly content and grateful that she was my partner."

Zhao Chang'an followed Ye Pinghe on the beach in the freezing cold, walking like an idiot in the cold wind. He was really annoyed. Was Ye Pinghe going to tell him his memoirs and the benefits of having only one woman as a role model?
Zhao Chang'an roughly understood Ye Pinghe's purpose in inviting him over: he hoped Ye Pinghe would invest, as he was after the money in Ye Pinghe's pocket.

Then let's not waste time and focus on business.

Whether it's Ye Ying's alloy ankle or Ye Pinghe's prosthetic leg that allows him to walk on rocky beaches with ease, it shows that the research institute's decades of continuous investment have yielded some results. If the price is right and there is commercial potential for entering the market, it's not impossible to negotiate.

Because there might be an opportunity here, and perhaps through its own investment, China could reach or even surpass the world level in a certain field.

With RIM's immense reputation, Zhao Chang'an has never been so financially well-off. In this great transformation at the turn of the century, he will never refuse to place bets early.

"Your deeds are truly remarkable and worthy of being written into a memoir."

Zhao Chang'an said casually, but he really wanted to ask his wife whether she and Ye Pinghe had sex before marriage or saved their precious first time for their wedding night. The difference between the two was like heaven and earth.

Zhao Chang'an can't stay here for too long; he'll be returning to Stockholm by tomorrow afternoon at the latest. If he's planning to invest, Zhang Zhijing's cursory introduction is definitely not enough.

He knew a little about the Ye family's financial strength. The fact that Ye Pingbai could come up with a hundred million US dollars for investment more than ten years ago showed that the three branches of the Ye family had made a lot of money in Europe over the past few decades by deceiving wealthy Chinese.

Even now, let alone a decade or so ago, one hundred million US dollars is an enormous sum of money.

However, it was that investment that drained a large portion of the Ye family's funds, causing Ye Pingbai to relinquish management and move to the research institute to live with Ye Pinghe, who had just lost his wife.

Ye Pinghe withdrew from management due to the research institute's policy of only taking in funds and not giving them back, as well as his wife's departure and various dissenting voices within the family.

In the years that followed, thanks to Ye Pingbai's shrewdness and the annual share dividends from the two of them, the research institute was barely able to maintain its basic operations.

However, Ye Pinghe and Ye Pingbai's current research direction has completely deviated from the scope of traditional Chinese medicine. In addition, with the reform and opening up in China and the rise of the Chinese medicine industry in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, the situation of their monopoly has also changed here.

The Ye family has considered changing some of their industrial layouts, especially the He generation. However, the entire European business landscape, both legitimate and illegitimate, is already almost completely filled. Normal business competition is not their forte. If they want to engage in those highly profitable gray industries, they either need to go to Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the North Caucasus, or they need to enter Africa.

In the Balkans and North Caucasus, they gambled on geese, but the polar bear itself repeatedly demanded to join the EU and NATO, resulting in huge losses on massive investments. In North Africa, they also clashed with the Lu family, and similarly did not gain any advantage.

It was under these circumstances that Ye Henian and his team returned to China to start their own business.

Just as Ye Ziyu said, she and Ye Yiyi had not seen Ye Pinghe for four or five years, which in itself was a kind of severing of the Ye family from the bottomless pit that was the research institute.

"It's been a long time since anyone has come to chat with me. The last time was when Lao San came to stay for two months, and he couldn't help but nag." Ye Pinghe could also see Zhao Chang'an's indifference towards what he was talking about, clearly showing little interest. At least for now, their views on life were still very different: "Lao San came back to China thinking about that sunken ship. If it could be salvaged, this place would be prosperous for a few years. But you beat him to it. Lao San regretted it a lot, saying that if he had known a few years earlier that there was still someone alive in the Suzhou branch of the Ye family, don't be angry, I'm just relaying Lao San's words as they are, then those things wouldn't have ended up in your hands."

"I don't know what you're talking about. I personally witnessed Ye Jingchen leading the salvage team to retrieve something from the river that day."

Zhao Chang'an frowned and said, "It's a bit cold here, let's go back inside and talk."

Zhao Chang'an naturally understood what Ye Pingbai meant. A few years ago, he and Wen Ye were just two junior high or high school students. At that time, the Ye family had plenty of ways to deal with Wen Ye and his grandmother, who were a pitiful couple who depended on each other for survival.

"Logically speaking, those things on the ship belong to Wenye and his grandmother, since they are the only ones left in that branch. However, according to the principle of the three branches being one, these things should be jointly owned by the three branches, and Wenye has nothing to do with them."

"Then let's see who's tougher with their fists. Go for it if you dare."

Zhao Chang'an wasn't going to let the old man act arrogantly because of his age. He kicked the old man's elastic steel prosthetic leg, sending him sprawling face-first into the dirt.

"You admitted it?"

Ye Pinghe grinned.

"I admit that all the women in your Ye family are beautiful and virtuous, and I find them very attractive."

Zhao Chang'an was so disgusted with this disrespectful old man that he didn't give him a kind look at all.

“If you’re interested, go for it and have more children. Rather than letting others, or even those golden retrievers, have it, it’s better to let you have it. In this generation of the entire Ye family, not a single one truly practices this, which means the lineage has been broken. I’ve transplanted a bone from my left foot into Xiaoying’s leg and sealed a wisp of true energy inside, but even after all these years, I haven’t seen her be able to guide it out.”

Ye Pinghe didn't seem to care, making Zhao Chang'an feel like he'd punched thin air, and the meaning behind his words gave him a chill down his spine.

She really does get cuter (and more perverted) as she gets older!

“We can’t get those things back. Unlike abroad, the Ye family has been entrenched in China for so many years and can do dirty work. In China, we have to abide by the law. But can we take some of the cellar mud? It shouldn’t have any impact.”

"I have no idea what you're talking about."

"Yes, yes, I was too hasty. Once you invest and hold shares, I don't need to tell you, you might be even more anxious than I am."

Ye Pinghe knew it was a bit too early to talk about this, but he still wanted to say something about the topic: "Ye Changguang and his father, Ye Deming, went to Nanjing to board a ship. Ye Changguang was stopped, and only Ye Deming boarded. We know very little about this matter. After the Japanese occupied Mingzhu, Ye's Chinese Medicine Shop in Mingzhu soon resumed operation. Ye Changguang also returned to Mingzhu via Hong Kong Island. Later, he led people to search for the sunken ship, but they never found any clues. Later, his twin daughters who stayed in Mingzhu became the wife of a colonel in the Military Police Headquarters. When the Japanese surrendered, they were shot and killed by that person. After that, in the great fire, Ye Changguang and his eldest son died. Only Ye Pingbaihe's younger sister, Ye Pingju, escaped the disaster."