Hong Kong: Rise of the Kings.

Chapter 1015 1000 [Debts are cancelled when a person dies]

Li Zhaoheng walked into the bedroom where his father Li Xiaohe was staying with somewhat unsteady steps.

The eldest brother Li Zhaoyuan and the third brother Li Zhaozhen looked at him coldly at the door, as if they were looking at a dead person instead of brothers.

Li Zhaoheng said nothing and walked inside.

The eldest brother Li Zhaoyuan suddenly said, "Father is almost mad at you, and you still have the nerve to see him?"

Li Zhaoheng stopped and said without turning his head: "Since I did something wrong, I admit it. I will apologize to my father."

"Are you asking for compensation? The Li Group is almost gone. What's the point of paying more?" Li Zhaoyuan said angrily. "If you weren't so greedy and hadn't fought Du Yongxiao without telling us, things wouldn't have turned out like this!"

The third brother, Li Zhaozhen, said, "The Li family is almost finished. Are you happy now? Are you satisfied? Second brother, you have always been so smart and wise that you never take me and my elder brother seriously. You think you are Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, and that you conquered the entire Li family. You are wrong. The Li family belongs to our surname Li, not just you!"

Li Zhaoheng trembled slightly, bit his lips and repeated, "Let me see my father first!"

The eldest and third brothers tried to stop them, but a voice in the room said, "Come in, and say whatever you want to say!"

Then there was a violent coughing sound.

Li Zhaoheng walked into the bedroom, where his mother, brother and sister-in-law, younger brother and sister-in-law and others were, and everyone looked over at him.

There may be resentment, hatred, sadness, or despair.

Li Zhaoheng walked past these gazes with an expressionless face, walked to the bed in the bedroom, slowly knelt down, and kowtowed to Li Xiaohe who was leaning on the bed, unable to get up.

Boom boom boom! ! !
Boom boom boom!
Li Zhaoheng's head hit the floor hard and blood soon came out.

Li Xiaohe looked at his son, covered his mouth and coughed continuously. The violent coughing made his chest and abdomen rise and fall, and his breathing became even more disordered.

It was not known how many times Li Zhaoheng kowtowed before Li Xiaohe said in a weak voice, "Enough!" and then he coughed again.

Li Zhaoheng raised his head and looked at his father Li Xiaohe with tears in his eyes.

Li Xiaohe looked at his second son, who he had high hopes for, and saw that his forehead was cracked and bleeding. He couldn't help but gently touch the head of Li Zhaoheng, who was kneeling in front of him, with his hands as rough as tree bark. He asked in a vague voice, "Is the Li family really finished? Is the empire that your grandfather and I built gone just like that? Is Du Yongxiao really not going to let our Li family go at all?"

He just asked three questions casually, and the women at the scene turned away, covering their mouths with handkerchiefs and whimpering.

Li Zhaoyuan and Li Zhaozhen looked even more sad, their fists were clenched, their teeth were gritted, and they said nothing.

"I'm sorry, father! It's all my fault! It's me who brought disaster to the Li family." Li Zhaoheng kowtowed deeply to his father, his voice choked with sobs.

"Now our Li family is gone, and even this ancestral home is about to be confiscated. You and I... the whole family, we have to move out!"

The voice of this sentence was not loud, but the women with different expressions in the living room heard it clearly. They immediately stopped crying subconsciously, while Li Zhaoyuan and Li Zhaozhen widened their eyes slightly and looked at their brother who was kneeling in front of their father in disbelief.

The company is gone.

Can’t even protect the ancestral home?
What do you mean?
Are we going to let their whole family become beggars?

Such an outcome was beyond the expectations of these people. In their opinion, no matter how cruel and ruthless Du Yongxiao was, he would not kill them all. But now -
The Chinese people have a deep-rooted concept of home. Country is country. Only when there is a country can there be a home. Only when there is a home can there be people. Only when there are people can there be reunion.

Now that the Lian family is almost gone, where will their Li family go?

"Second brother, what did you say? Did I hear you wrong? Are you going to gamble with our ancestral home?"

"Brother, are you crazy? We could still tolerate the loss of the Li Group, but now we don't even have a place to live, where are you going to let our family go?"

The eldest brother Li Zhaoyuan and the third brother Li Zhaozhen almost yelled at Li Zhaoheng in a roaring voice.

Li Xiaohe remained silent as he watched his two sons getting angry at Li Zhaoheng.

He is now nearly sixty years old. After the war, he started a business with his father Li Xizhen and conquered the world. He is involved in all the Li family's businesses, including pharmaceuticals, real estate, etc.

Especially after his father Li Xizhen was shot to death, he single-handedly supported the entire Li family. Not only did he prevent the Li family from decline, but it also continued to rise. At this age and despite the misfortunes, he can still sit here stiffly. It is because of the hardships of half a lifetime that have tempered the nerves and state of mind of this generation of heroes far beyond others.

"I don't know what's wrong with me, but I've been dreaming a lot lately. I especially like dreaming about your grandfather. I remember that day when he finished negotiating a pharmaceutical business, he drove me to Guangfa Foreign Trade Company and said that he would buy me a new set of clothes when he made money. He said mine were too old and it was not decent to follow him out on business."

"When we got to the place, he got out of the car and asked me to wait inside, saying that he would choose clothes for me and give me a surprise. Unfortunately, I didn't understand much at the time and thought that he was restraining me. I couldn't even choose my own clothes, so what independence and freedom were we talking about? Since he wanted me to inherit the Li family business in the future, he should respect me and give me the right to choose."

Li Xiaohe stroked Li Zhaoheng's hair with his hand, his eyes completely unfocused, looking past Li Zhaoheng in front of him and into nothingness.

"But this is the tradition of our Li family. Father is like a mountain, he is majestic and he is the master of everything. So I could only wait in the car, thinking that after he has chosen the clothes, I will find fault with them and embarrass him. Just as I was daydreaming, gunshots were heard in the Foreign Company Department Store. Bang, bang, bang, three shots in a row! I heard it clearly, and I still remember how sharp and short the gunshots were, just like a child suddenly setting off firecrackers, scaring you."

"At the time, I thought someone was setting off firecrackers. It wasn't until someone shouted, 'Murder! Murder!' that I realized something had happened. But I never expected that the person in the accident would be your grandfather. He staggered out of the department store, holding the clothes he had picked out for me in one hand and covering his chest with the other hand, blood oozing from between his fingers—"

"I was so scared at that moment. I didn't know what happened. I just knew that he smiled and stuffed the clothes into my hands. He told me that this was the last time he would help me choose clothes. From now on, I would be free and could choose whatever I liked and any path I wanted to take." Li Xiaohe's tears started to flow as he looked down at his son Li Zhaoheng. "It's just like you now. The Li family is finished, and I'm leaving soon. You can choose the path you want to take. I, as a father, who has always been strict with you, will now give you freedom!"

"Give me... freedom?" Li Zhaoheng seemed to have thought of something, and his voice trembled a little.

"Yes, now I give you freedom. You should also do something for the Li family, right?" Li Xiaohe looked at his son with a resolute tone.

Li Zhaoheng understood.

The old father is trying to sacrifice the car to save the driver.

The situation is very clear at the moment. It is better for Li Zhaoheng to die alone than to drag his entire family down with him.

"Father, thank you!" Li Zhaoheng said bitterly, "Thank you for raising me, and thank you for supporting me and trusting me so much. Really, thank you!" Li Zhaoheng kowtowed to Li Xiaohe three more times.

"That's what I should do." Li Xiaohe said calmly, but he felt very uncomfortable in his heart.

From the very beginning, he did not blame his son Li Zhaoheng for ruining the Li family and leaving everyone homeless. He did not scold him like he did in the past, nor did he burst into tears. He just chattered like a nagging old man, telling about every little thing he had experienced with his father Li Xizhen and his feelings after his father's death.

He was ill and had not much time left. He no longer cared about the future of the Li family.

At this age, the family has experienced a great change, and he doesn't know what to do. He can only numbly try to recall the past with his father to fill his brain that is on the verge of collapse. He has experienced so many ups and downs, and he knows very well in his heart that it is useless to blame his sons. All the beatings, scoldings and blames in front of him are useless. There is only one way for the Li family to revive the family business, that is to let go and let the three brothers go out independently.

Divide the family property quickly before the bank comes to confiscate the property. At least the eldest and the third son can be saved.

There is a very traditional Chinese saying: As long as there are people, there is still a chance.

As for Li Zhaoheng——
Li Xiaohe has actually said it very clearly -
Sacrifice him to benefit the Li family.

Li Zhaoheng knelt in front of his father's knees for a long time before he slowly stood up and looked at his eldest brother, third brother, and the women in the family. His usually gentle and warm face was now full of determination: "Eldest brother, third brother, and eldest sister-in-law, younger sister-in-law - please rest assured, I will take responsibility for everything from now on, and will never implicate the Li family again! In short, you will take responsibility for the Li family from now on, and I will take all the blame! Don't worry, the Li family will not collapse!"

Li Zhaoyuan, Li Zhaozhen and others all looked at Li Zhaoheng who spoke with certainty.

Li Zhaoheng looked at his father again: "Your health is not good, so you don't need to get involved in future matters!"

His father sighed, closed his eyes and stopped looking at him.

Li Zhaoheng could not bear it any longer and turned his head away, gritted his teeth and remained silent for a while, then said to everyone in the room: "I will go to the police station and turn myself in now, admitting to forging the seal and fabricating the contract! At the same time, I will file for bankruptcy of the Li Group. You must transfer the property as quickly as possible, as much as you can, and I will take care of everything!"

As if to prove his determination, Li Zhaoheng looked at his trusted subordinate Li Tianwang again: "Awang, please go to the police station with me and record the news of my surrender. Come back and tell everyone, so that everyone can see clearly that since my surname is Li, I am also a man. I can bear all the consequences for the Li family! I am not a good-for-nothing scum, nor am I a hopeless person!"

Li Tianwang looked at Li Zhaoyuan and Li Zhaozhen, and they both nodded slightly at him. This was the only thing they could do at this moment. Sacrificing one person was better than the death of the whole family.

After Li Zhaoheng finished speaking, he took a step and was about to walk out -
At this time-
Father Li Xiaohe suddenly said from behind: "When a person dies, his debts are cancelled!"

These four short words were like a thunderbolt that struck Li Zhaoheng.

He couldn't help but shake his body.

Li Zhaoyuan and Li Zhaozhen also showed a hint of horror in their eyes.

Li Zhaoheng said nothing. After a slight pause, he continued to walk out.

Behind--
The room fell silent again, leaving only the sound of Li Xiaohe's violent coughing.
A moment——
He just said, "As the saying goes, even a tiger won't eat its own cubs. Am I a little too cruel?"

No one answered him.

There is no way to answer this.

The debt of death is wiped out!

So what if Li Zhaoheng took responsibility for everything and went to jail?

All the debts will eventually be borne by the Li family.

But if he died--
Everything is gone!

The Chinese are most particular about——
Death is the greatest thing!

……

Just half a day.

Li Zhaoheng took the initiative to surrender himself to the Wan Chai Police Station and was immediately detained.

The next day, the barrister hired by the Li family slowly arrived accompanied by Li Tianwang.

In the prison visiting room, Li Tianwang met Li Zhaoheng again just half a day later. Although he was not in handcuffs and shackles, he had changed into the prison's unique uniform. Under the supervision of two prison guards, Li Zhaoheng sat opposite Li Tianwang behind the iron bars.

"Have a cigarette!"

After Li Zhaoheng sat down, he spoke to Li Tianwang.

When Li Tianwang heard what Li Zhaoheng said, he took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to Li Zhaoheng.

Li Zhaoheng reached out to take the cigarette handed to him by Li Tianwang, picked up the match, lit it with a click, and smoked it slowly.

Seeing this, the two prison guards in charge of guarding him pretended not to see it and turned their heads away.

"Lisheng, the situation is not favorable for you. Although you turned yourself in and voluntarily admitted to forging signatures, forging contracts, and suspected commercial fraud, the legal team of the Du Group has filed new charges against you. The charges alone are thirteen pages long. Take a look first!" The accompanying barrister handed the information in his hand to Li Zhaoheng.

Li Zhaoheng didn't even look at it, and directly threw it back and said, "If you want to accuse someone, you can always find a pretext."

The lawyer was embarrassed for a moment and said, "Mr. Li, you lost more than 5 billion in the stock market. Now the Li Group has filed for bankruptcy, but it is still insolvent. You personally need to repay at least 300 million Hong Kong dollars--"

Li Zhaoheng smoked silently for a long time before saying, "Three hundred million? My life is too worthless—"

"Uh, what do you mean?" The lawyer was stunned.

Li Zhaoheng did not answer, but looked at Li Tianwang: "Tell me a message, I will take on the three hundred million! Debts are wiped out when a person dies, right? I, Li Zhaoheng, am not a coward, but before I complete this task, there is something I need you to do-"

"What do you want me to do, Lisheng?"

Li Zhaoheng looked at Li Tianwang and said, "You know why I lost so badly this time? I heard that Jiang Ling'er, that bitch, betrayed me! Otherwise, how could Du Yongxiao be in control of the situation? How could he plot against me?"

Li Zhaoheng said coldly: "There are rumors outside that the woman is now having a hot affair with the Du guy, and she even gave birth to a child for the Du guy. The family is reunited!"

Li Zhaoheng's eyes were filled with viciousness.

"I understand, Lisheng!"

Li Tianwang nodded.

"When a person dies, all debts are wiped out, haha!" Li Zhaoheng laughed, "Even if I die, I'll take someone with me!"

(End of this chapter)