Chapter 590: Why is it me?
“Oh dear, sister-in-law, why are you standing alone upstairs?” The Shi Family sisters-in-law downstairs had known that Shi Mother was upstairs. After finishing discussing their matters, they pretended to call out carelessly, “Shi Lan used to love standing there too. For a moment, I thought Shi Lan had come back. It was quite frightening.”
“Ah, if Shi Lan were here, we aunties wouldn’t need to worry about these matters.”
This was a veiled criticism of Shi Mother’s incompetence.
Shi Mother snorted coldly, turned around, and returned to her room, her face flushed with anger, yet she had no solution for the people downstairs.
“Shi Lan has been dead for a year now, haven’t you accepted the fact yet?”
“Tsk tsk, unless Shi Lan comes back to life, she will never have a place in the Shi Family again.”
Downstairs, the mocking laughter still echoed in the living room, but Shi Mother could no longer hear it. Whether she heard it or not, it wasn’t important because she had long known how these people ridiculed and mocked her behind her back.
After seeing Shi Mother, Shi Lan returned to Shuangshi.
Yan Shixiu put down his work and looked at her, asking softly, “How did it go?”
“How could it have gone? Ridiculed by the Shi Family, rolling on the floor, then running off to vent on outsiders. Pathetic,” Shi Lan said irritably. “Oh, right Yan President, there’s something I need your help with.”
“Asking for help with just words?” Yan Shixiu, seeing that she wasn’t distressed by the matter with Shi Mother, relaxed and started teasing her.
After hearing his words, Shi Lan walked up to Yan Shixiu, leaned over in front of him, and offered a kiss, “Is using words no longer effective?”
Pleased by the move, Yan had lunch with Shi Lan and then took her to the largest bank in Yancheng.
“The Shi Family still has some things in a safe deposit box at the bank, a secret only known to each successive heir,” Shi Lan informed Yan Shixiu. “Once the heir takes over these items, they can designate a trusted person to manage them, who will also be the next heir.”
“You probably haven’t designated a managing person yet,” Yan Shixiu guessed, or at least, it should be a descendant.
Shi Lan shook her head, smiled slightly, and said, “I’ve designated someone, so that’s why I need your help.”
Yan Shixiu looked at Shi Lan, puzzled.
“I originally hadn’t planned on taking these things out, so I never mentioned it to you. It’s not property deeds or treasures inside, but things that can be used in case of trouble for the Shi Family. After we got married, I went to the bank and designated a managing person, Uncle Yan, it’s you.”
“Because I have no one I can trust in the Shi Family, and I never thought you would have children with me, so I designated you,” Shi Lan explained. “Also, maybe out of a desire for revenge, I didn’t want the Shi Family to know about these things.”
“What exactly are these things?”
“You’ll see when we get to the bank. Just have the person in charge contact the bank president directly; he will have you sign some documents.”
Currently, the Shi Family’s enterprise is largely controlled by several uncles who have placed their own people and formed alliances with some minor shareholders, countering Shi Mother.
For Shi Mother to regain real power, the board of directors would need to have the say.
But the shareholders who had fought alongside Old Master Shi were now out of the worldly affairs, and with Shi Mother being ineffective, the Shi Family had evolved into its current fractured state. At such times, the items in the safe could persuade these old shareholders to do a favor.
After several layers of verification, the bank president finally brought out the items from the safe and handed them to Yan Shixiu, saying, “Miss Shi left so abruptly, I thought this Shi Family safe would never be opened again.”