Chapter 607: The path to the peak (2)

Xu Tingsheng stared wide-eyed at Fang Yuqing as if to say, “Such a bigshot?”

Fang Yuqing shook his head to indicate that he had not known too as he too was surprised.

It was not just him as Fang Chen and even Fang Ruju were similarly stunned. This might be sufficient in exhibiting how the Fang family had actually become very far removed from the people on top these past years.

In wishing to reclaim their former relationship and getting him to take care of their descendants, just being pitiful and tragic wasn’t enough for the Fang family. They also needed the possibility and chance to be thought highly of. After all, the Ling and Xiao families were also involved.

Old man Fang had used the end of his life and his funeral to add a final, heavy emotional chip to the gambling table, awaiting the revealing of cards.

If this did not succeed, the Fang family’s defeat would be completely set in stone. Even if it could survive, it would never have a chance of making a strong resurgence.

And now, he had come. This meant that not only would the remainder of the Fang family be able to live on in peace, they also had a big tree to lean on for support and a road to walk...they might even have a chance to be as successful as they were in the past.

As footsteps resounded from the door, Xu Tingsheng hurriedly stepped back a little, a solemn expression on his face.  

A major figure whom Xu Tingsheng had seen on television countless times in lives both present and past appeared in the flesh, entering the mourning hall with around a dozen followers.

First, he glanced at the Ling and Xiao families by the doorway. Next, he glanced at the trio of the Fang family’s third generation.

He did not speak, walking slowly before the portrait of old man Fang. He stared at it for a long time before sighing lightly and bowing to send him off.

“He was an old comrade from the revolution,...