Chapter 526 - 288: Even the Richest Man is Nothing More Than This (Part 2)

Zhu Min subconsciously put on a benevolent smile, but it quickly morphed into utter confusion.

"Hehe. Mom, surprise! Bet you didn’t see this coming, huh?"

Qi Sheng finally showed his face, ushering his girlfriends into the house.

"You little brat, get over here!"

Zhu Min saw the girls at the entrance all changing their shoes.

Twisting Qi Sheng’s ear, she dragged him into the room she usually stayed in.

"Where’s Dad?"

Qi Sheng asked casually, noticing his old man wasn’t home.

"He went out to buy things for the New Year... Wait, no, I’m the one who’s supposed to be interrogating you!"

Zhu Min answered instinctively, then glared at Qi Sheng once she caught herself.

"Sit down and behave!"

"Hehe, ask away."

Qi Sheng sat on the edge of the bed, his back ramrod straight.

With his thick eyebrows and large eyes, he was impossibly handsome.

’That’s my boy, alright!’

Zhu Min almost forgot the important business of interrogating him, but fortunately, she was still somewhat clear-headed.

"What’s the deal with that group of girls calling me ’Auntie’?"

"And that little girl who called me ’Grandma’—don’t tell me you knocked some girl up in college?"

Qi Sheng chuckled and explained, "They’re all your daughters-in-law. And some of them will be arriving a bit later."

"The one who called you ’Grandma’ is Tang Guo. She’s not my biological daughter, but I’m quite fond of the kid."

"Aren’t you two always nagging me about giving you a grandchild to hold? Well, you should be satisfied now, right?"

Qi Sheng answered his mom’s questions in a calm and orderly manner.

"Satisfied my foot! You little rascal, where did you get these playboy tendencies? You must have gotten them from your father!"

Zhu Min glared at her grinning son, then suddenly latched onto a crucial point.

"You just said... some of them will be arriving a bit later?"

"That’s right. I was just considering how the Qi Family line rests on me alone, so I wanted to help you and Dad achieve your grand dream of having a sprawling family."

"We can’t break the law, of course, so my plan is just to have each of my girlfriends give birth to three children. That should be enough."

"In the future, the Old Qi Family will become a truly big clan. You and Dad will have so many grandchildren you won’t even be able to hold them all."

Qi Sheng’s tone suggested he was doing this all for their sake, which made Zhu Min want to pinch and twist the little brat all over again.

"Oh, I can’t thank you enough," she said sarcastically. "I was pushing you to get married and have kids early."

"But I never told you to bring home so many girls! How am I supposed to face Huahua now?"

Zhu Min had spotted Tan Hua just a moment ago.

She remembered how last year, Tan Hua had come to visit with Qi Sheng.

Now that this huge mess had happened this year, she couldn’t help but feel exceptionally guilty.

"Don’t worry, I’ve already worked things out with Huahua. I’ll be getting the marriage certificate and holding the wedding banquet with her first."

Qi Sheng gave a carefree wave of his hand, putting Zhu Min’s mind at ease.

"That’s more like it. But will the other girls agree?"

Zhu Min breathed a sigh of relief, but then couldn’t help but worry again.

"I’ll just get a marriage certificate and hold a banquet with them too. Problem solved, right?"

Qi Sheng began to explain his audacious plan to Zhu Min, leaving her completely dumbfounded as she listened.

’You have to admit,’ she thought, ’my son is a damn genius!’

Although marrying and then divorcing repeatedly didn’t sound great,

as long as these girls kept quiet, what outsider would ever know?

But it would be a lot of work for her and Qi Zhizhong. They would have to attend their son’s wedding 25 times.

’What a sin!’

Zhu Min looked at Qi Sheng, who was grinning from ear to ear, and repeated a mantra in her head: ’I gave birth to him, I won’t get angry... I gave birth to him, I won’t get angry...’

But she couldn’t hold back. She grabbed the bed brush and gave Qi Sheng a good whack.

"You little brat! Your father has the desire but not the guts, but you? You’re audacious enough to challenge the heavens!"

Qi Sheng was thick-skinned, so he wasn’t afraid of the pain.

Besides, Zhu Min couldn’t bear to hit him hard anyway. She was just putting on a show, giving him a couple of light taps.

"I’m telling you, this is all the girls you’re getting. No more. Do you hear me?"

"Ha... I’ll try my best."

Qi Sheng touched his nose and laughed it off.

"What do you mean, ’try your best’? It’s a must!"

Zhu Min twisted Qi Sheng’s ear again, saying exasperatedly, "I don’t even know how I’m going to face all those in-laws in the future. In their wildest dreams, your father and I never imagined you’d give us such a massive ’surprise’!"

"You should give Dad a call. I’ll head out for a bit, so they don’t get the wrong idea."

Qi Sheng reminded her kindly before slipping away.

"Oh, right. Remember to prepare 25 red envelopes. The ’one-in-ten-thousand’ standard for each will be fine."

"I know!"

Zhu Min laughed and chided him, "Your father and I are old enough. We don’t need you to remind us of these things."

"Hehe, I’ll be heading out then."

Qi Sheng waved his hand and slipped out.

...

"Sigh, that boy is such a handful."

Zhu Min sighed, but when she thought about being surrounded by hordes of children and grandchildren in the future, she couldn’t help but break into a silly grin.

As an elder, of course she liked the idea of having as many descendants as possible.

But young people nowadays weren’t very keen on having children.

Previously, Zhu Min had only told Tan Hua that it would be nice if she could have a second child in the future.

Now, this was great. Even if they each only had one child, she would still have over twenty grandsons and granddaughters.

If they all had three children, that would be nearly a hundred.

Imagining the scene of a whole crowd of little tykes calling her "Grandma,"

Zhu Min grinned from ear to ear and gave Qi Zhizhong a call.

"Old Qi, go to the bank in a bit. Withdraw 260,025 yuan in cash—make sure it’s all new bills—and buy 26 red envelopes."

"Why are you withdrawing so much money?"

"You’ll know when you get back. I guarantee you’ll be pleasantly surprised."

On the other end of the line, Qi Zhizhong had already bought a load of fruits and snacks, all prepared for Tan Hua, his prospective daughter-in-law.

Although he was puzzled by his wife’s strange instructions,

Qi Zhizhong still went to the bank and did as Zhu Min had told him.

The twenty-six red envelopes were bulging, each stuffed with at least 10,000 yuan in crisp, new bills.

As he reached his front door, Qi Zhizhong had a sudden premonition for no apparent reason.

’Could it be that my bratty son brought a whole bunch of girls home?’

BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.

Qi Zhizhong expertly keyed in the password.