Super Zoo

Yang Tao was always cheerful and rarely spouted such negative talk.

What's more, he was talking about his family business, reducing the enterprise his father had strenuously founded, the Yang Family's effort of decades, to a "thieves' den." This showed how immensely disappointed he had become with the company.

After graduating, Yang Tao traveled across the country, and then joined their family travel agency, starting from the most basic positions. Originally, Yang Lin's plan was for Yang Tao to work in every position in the company, to gain a better understanding of each aspect of the travel agency, preparing him to take over in the future.

It was precisely for this reason that Yang Tao came to understand the true state of the company even more deeply than his father, Yang Lin. These past two years, his stepmother took charge, working hand in glove with that assistant manager. One controlled the finances and the other people, they brought in a group of newcomers, and those early employees who had started the business with Yang Lin were sidelined or pushed out.

The enterprise belonged to Yang Lin, and he treated it like his own home, focusing on how to grow and strengthen the business. His stepmother Zhou Jing and that Vice Manager Chen did not see it that way; they treated the enterprise as an ATM, thinking only of how to make a quick buck from it.

As goes the leader, so go the followers; over time, the atmosphere within the travel agency naturally deteriorated. From the leadership to the employees, everyone was busy with underhanded schemes for making money, forgetting all the rules set by Yang Lin. The travel agency colluded with unscrupulous tour guides, deceiving and swindling people, and the quality of service plummeted. The reputation Yang Lin had painstakingly built over decades worsened, and like a person gravely ill, the company's condition declined further, becoming critically sick.

During his six months at the company, Yang Tao had seen all this happen before his eyes. At first, his lack of experience made it difficult for him to be certain if he was misunderstanding something, perhaps this was just how travel agencies operated.

Moreover, the two people effectively in charge of the company were his stepmother and Assistant Manager Chen. The relationship between a son and his stepmother was inherently sensitive, and as for Vice Manager Chen, he had always treated Yang Tao with great care, pampering him like a "Crown Prince." Yang Tao thus felt uncomfortable discussing these issues directly with his father.

By the time he had worked for over half a year and confirmed that the company's situation was indeed abnormal, ready to have a serious talk with Yang Lin, Yang Lin was already embroiled in divorce proceedings with Zhou Jing.

In the company now, the main positions were held by the cronies of these two, who naturally wouldn't visit Yang Lin; most of the remaining employees were just workers, who, even under normal circumstances, might not visit a sick boss, let alone now, with such controversy surrounding the leaders. Visiting Yang Lin under these circumstances would be asking for trouble, offending the two in power, not to mention getting involved in personal family matters—naturally, nobody wanted to wade into these murky waters.

"My dad these past two years, well...sigh..." It was said that a son doesn't speak of his father's faults, and with a sigh, Yang Tao swallowed the rest of the sentence.

But one could guess what he meant: a middle-aged man marries a young and pretty wife, his business partners are never as attractive as his companions in bed. Over time, catering to his young wife leads to neglecting old friends, and eventually cooling their hearts. Now that he was in trouble, even those who had struggled with him from the start were unwilling to visit.

"Let's not talk about this," Suming cut in, changing the subject, "The most important thing is his health. You just said your dad might be paralyzed. If it comes to it, send him to the capital for treatment, or maybe even straight abroad."

Yang Tao waved it off: "No need, the medical standards in Jiangcheng are not worse than those in the capital. My father's condition isn't some difficult or complicated disease. I've asked around, damage to the central nervous system, with our current medical ability, doesn't have much of a solution abroad either. We can only proceed with conservative treatment and wait for a miracle to happen."

"Do you have enough money?" Suming asked, because whether it was conservative treatment or future rehabilitation, neither would be a small expense.

The cost for this special care ward alone would probably be tens of thousands each day, and for most families faced with such a situation, without medical insurance, they would be bankrupted in short order.

The Yang family was once financially well-off, but now, money was indeed a big problem.

As expected, Yang Tao gave a wry smile and said, "We'll take it one step at a time. If worst comes to worst, we can sell the family villa. After all, it will just be my dad and me later on. We can't use that much space."

"This is what annoys me about you, Mr. Yang," Wang Hao glared at Yang Tao and then looked at Suming.

Seeing Suming nod, Wang Hao pulled a card from his wallet and handed it to Yang Tao, "There's seven hundred thousand inside, the PIN is 123456. Suming put in five hundred thousand, and I contributed two hundred thousand. Use it first. If it's not enough, we'll talk again."

Yang Tao hesitated for a moment but then nodded and took the card.

"Don't worry about money; you have us," Suming said, patting Yang Tao on the shoulder, his tone shifting slightly, solemnly speaking, "As for the situation at home, do you need our help?"

When it came to "family matters," Yang Tao's face turned an ashen gray, Suming even felt like his hair was about to explode, the whole person exuded an extremely dangerous aura.

"Old Yang, don't be impulsive, whatever it is, let's discuss it as brothers," Suming said, adding a bit of force on Yang Tao's shoulder with his hand.

Yang Tao slammed his fist down on the railing of the balcony, his eyes bloodshot as he gritted his teeth and said word by word, "I'm going to slaughter that pair of dogs!"

"What nonsense are you talking about!" Suming frowned, not expecting Yang Tao to say such a thing, "If you kill both of them, what about your dad?!"

"My dad, my dad was hit by someone they hired!" Yang Tao ground out.

Hearing Yang Tao say this, Suming and Wang Hao looked at each other, with Suming asking Yang Tao, "Do you have any evidence?"

"No, the dump truck driver who hit my dad insists it was because he was overloaded and couldn't brake in time, calling it an accident."

Yang Tao sneered with a twitch in the corner of his eye, "But how can there be such a coincidence in the world? They just got into a divorce dispute, and right after, my dad gets hit by a car. If anything happened to my dad, the biggest beneficiary would be that cheap woman Zhou Jing. Not only would the transferred property be untraceable, but she would also get half of the house and the company."

"Old Yang, stay calm, let's go through legal procedures first, hire a lawyer to fight in court; if that doesn't work, then we'll think of something else. If she's really transferred assets maliciously, it should be traceable, and we could even leave her with nothing. For people like her, leaving her with nothing is worse than taking her life."

"I'll listen to you," Yang Tao nodded, "I really thought about trading life for life, so I didn't intend to tell you guys in the first place..."

"Alright, let's not talk about the past. Tell your situation to the lawyer, I'll instruct the lawyer to take care of it." Suming called Taoyuan's lawyer, Zhang Si Ming, gave a couple of instructions, and then handed the phone to Yang Tao.

Yang Tao relayed the situation over the phone, and after about ten minutes, he passed the phone back to Suming.

"Mr. Su, I have a general understanding of the situation," Lawyer Zhang Si Ming's voice came from the other end of the line: "Theoretically, if there's evidence of malicious asset transfer, it's possible to reclaim it and leave the other party with nothing. However, the actual process of obtaining evidence is very tough. The situation your classmate described, where they used a shell company to transfer the company's funds in the guise of an investment, is a common method for asset transfer and involves overseas entities. Honestly, even if various government departments cooperate fully, it's very hard to trace."

"So, what do we do?" Suming asked.

"I recommend meeting with the other party face to face and negotiate privately. After all, if a legal process to trace is initiated, the other party is also taking a significant risk. If this goes to court, the court would likely first ask both parties to attempt mediation."

Suming looked at Yang Tao, "Are you willing to meet and talk with those two?"

Yang Tao's facial muscles twitched a few times. Deep in his heart, he had the urge to kill that couple and didn't want to see them at all.

But the situation was stronger than his will; he urgently needed the money for his father's treatment.

Suming and Wang Hao might be rich, but that didn't mean he always had the right to spend their money. As long as he could retrieve even a small part of the transferred money, it would be enough for his father's treatment.

Only by arranging for his father's treatment and recovery first, freeing himself from worry, would Yang Tao have the energy and mind to investigate other matters.

With that in mind, Yang Tao nodded.

"Mr. Zhang, please come to Jiangcheng City as soon as possible, arrange a meeting with the other party, and we'll take it from there," Suming said.