Huo Ziheng received a call from Mother Huo, admitting that he needed to fifty million.
Mother Huo’s fingers trembled in shock, "Foolish! How could you dare to buy it at such a high price?"
Of course, in her heart, Mother Huo despised Jiang Ning even more. No matter what, she had brought her home and let her live there for two years, and there was an inseverable blood relationship between her and Huo Ziheng. As her biological brother, it would have been right for her to not only eat a chicken or two of hers but even if she had to eat her out of house and home every meal!
Huo Ziheng felt an overwhelming bitterness in his heart.
The taste of hunger, only those who have experienced it know, is worse than death.
However, if he had known that everything in the variety shows was fake, he would never have bought Jiang Ning’s stuff.
But now everything had already happened, and thinking about it was useless.
"Mom," Huo Ziheng began somewhat embarrassedly, "I have less than eight million in total here, how much do you have on hand?"
Mother Huo clenched her teeth, "I have less than ten million at most! I haven’t worked for so many years, I spent whatever your father gave me, and I’ve only been able to save up this one million with great difficulty, how could I possibly have that much money!"
Mother Huo was nearly driven to death by frustration with these two blockheads.
After hanging up Huo Ziheng’s call, she thought for a while and eventually decided to make a call to Huo Song, informing him about the situation.
Upon hearing the news, Huo Song flew into a rage.
The stock market value of Huo Corporation had been evaporating severely recently; in just over ten days, it had already lost tens of billions in assets!
Not just the stock market, but also problems with partners and the sales chain had arisen. If Huo Corporation didn’t save itself soon, it could be destroyed in this crisis!
If this had happened a month earlier, Huo Song might have been able to take out fifty million or even a hundred million, but during this period, he had almost used all of his personal funds to save the company’s liquidity.
Publicly, he was the respectable president of the corporation, but in actuality, his bank balance was even cleaner than his face.
Asking him to come up with a hundred million in cash now was a sheer fantasy!
With Huo Song out of funds, Mother Huo made another call to Huo Li.
Huo Li’s liquid assets were similarly limited.
These days, net worth doesn’t mean the balance in one’s bank account has to match up.
Huo Li owned several properties worth tens of millions, but he couldn’t possibly sell his own properties just to fill the hole created by Huo Ziheng and Huo Miao.
Huo Li was the most capable among the brothers. Even he couldn’t come up with so much cash, so there was even less hope for the other sons.
Mother Huo didn’t call the other sons but went upstairs in a fury and began banging ferociously on Huo Miao’s door.
After Huo Miao opened the door, Mother Huo, without a second thought, swung a slap at her, her voice shrill and furious, echoing loudly, "Look at the mess you’ve made!"
"Now there are netizens mocking us again."
"A hundred million! What were you thinking at the time? How could you dare to eat something so expensive?"
"Jiang Ning is crazy to set such a high price, and can’t you recognize your own limitations?"
Mother Huo, grabbing Huo Miao’s hair, shoved her around to vent her anger.
Her words were more stinging than the last, Huo Miao clenched her teeth and endured, seemingly subdued by the current situation, yet her eyes were filled with resentment and unwillingness.
Huo Miao cast her gaze downward to hide her inner thoughts and softly said, "Mom, don’t worry, I’ll resolve this issue."
"You’ll resolve it?" Mother Huo stopped her hands, her gaze filled with skepticism as she looked at Huo Miao, "Do you have that much money?"
Although the Huo family had indeed doted on Huo Miao previously, her allowance was not insignificant, but it was at most two to three hundred thousand a month.
After Huo Miao entered the entertainment industry and gained the ability to earn money, they basically stopped giving her living expenses, only occasionally buying her gifts or transferring her a few tens of thousands for pocket money.
Huo Miao had actually earned so much in the entertainment industry?
Realizing what Mother Huo was thinking, Huo Miao, covering her aching arm, said softly, "I don’t have that much money, but I can..."
Mother Huo, upon hearing this, frowned deeply and immediately refused, "No!"
If this got exposed, Huo family’s face would be thoroughly lost!
Seeing that Mother Huo disapproved, Huo Miao immediately fell silent.
Mother Huo’s piercing gaze fell on Huo Miao, "How much money do you have in your card? Fifty million for you, fifty million for your second brother. We’ll find a way to gather your second brother’s fifty million, but don’t expect us to help with yours! You’ve lived in the Huo family for over twenty years, after your background was exposed and we didn’t kick you out, that alone is the Huo family’s mercy..."