Chapter 281: Night Talk on the Terrace

Looking at his somewhat abnormal big brother, Su Tianyu asked uncomprehendingly: "Where is this coming from?"

"Sigh, I don't know where to start either," Su Tiannan took a deep drag on his cigarette. "Anyway, lately, I suddenly have many new thoughts in my mind - feel I've lived too aimlessly before."

"Come off it - among our family, you're counted as the most driven," Su Tianyu evaluated objectively. "Back then if Second Uncle hadn't declined in energy and the family business hadn't lacked management, with your learning ability, testing into a famous Zone One university wouldn't have been a problem."

"The drive you're talking about is different from my current thoughts," Su Tiannan waved his hand.

"How different?" Su Tianyu prepared to have a heart-to-heart with his big brother, also taking a cigarette from the box on the table and lighting it.

Sitting in the night, Su Tiannan replied with somewhat lost eyes: "Before I just felt that, as the eldest in the family, I had to lead the younger brothers and sisters to run well the business that Old Man had put his whole fortune into. But honestly, I never thought about how big to make this business, also never thought about living that kind of extravagant, wasteful life - just simply felt having our own family company with stable income, then pushing up one level and maintaining status quo was quite good...!"

"Isn't this most people's thinking? Nothing wrong with it," Su Tianyu asked smiling. "Big Brother, is it that you feel after I came back, I sped up the family's rhythm?"

Su Tiannan shook his head without hesitation: "At first I thought this way, but now I feel what you're doing is right."

"Why?"

"Because where we live, and the social environment, it's not a normal society," Su Tiannan squinted looking at Su Tianyu. "Perhaps if you hadn't come back, your Second Uncle now... would either be sentenced to life or death, the family company might not exist anymore - very likely we would have already gone bankrupt and liquidated."

Hearing this, Su Tianyu was somewhat shocked, because in his fixed impression, given Big Brother's previous personality, he would absolutely never speak so directly words that seemed to curse their father.

"Some recent events have given me great feelings," Su Tiannan said with head lowered, voice hoarse. "When your Second Uncle got in trouble, I learned what powerlessness meant; after following Yu Mingyuan, our family faced having to flee Dragon City two or three times - this let me know what it means to have no control over one's fate. Also, do you know about that Xiao Yucheng?"

"Know about him," Su Tianyu slowly nodded. "Wasn't he that laborer who attacked the vice mayor?"

"Yes." Su Tiannan nodded: "Before his incident, I had several contacts with him - he was begging your Second Uncle then, wanting to work on getting Dragon City household registration, but he had stayed with the Chi Army - this was a black history. I found people to help him handle it but couldn't succeed."

"Mm, then what?"

"Then he died," Su Tiannan raised his head looking at his brother. "His matter, I actually understand more clearly than anyone. He returned to Dragon City just wanting to take care of his child, use the money saved in Xinaluo to live well, hehe, but unexpectedly just after returning his family was destroyed and people died - he also let me know what's called a bolt from the blue."

Su Tianyu roughly understood the meaning in Tiannan's words, looking at him silently without speaking.

"Before, I always felt doing things steadily, not inviting disaster or causing trouble, was quite good," Su Tiannan said with a sigh. "But now I feel, in this era, one still needs to grasp fate in one's own hands - you don't invite disaster, but disaster invites you. Especially in our current situation, being forced to take positions, having to watch others' faces in the vast majority of matters, having no voice, no choice, only able to drift with the current."

Su Tianyu listened quietly without interrupting.

"But have you thought? Once some problem appears in future, hehe, we might be the first to be sacrificed," Su Tiannan looked at his brother. "Just like Xiao Yucheng - when Dragon City needed him, they called him a glorious laborer, but when they didn't need him, they couldn't even be bothered to give him proper status."

"This kind of situation will happen - after all we live in such a society," Su Tianyu slowly nodded replying. "But I feel some things don't need to be thought of so extremely - we just do our best, because no one is a god, no one can control life."

Su Tiannan slowly nodded: "Little Yu, I also want to enter the system, also want to climb up."

"Good thing!" Su Tianyu immediately replied: "It's never too late to have this drive! If you want social status, you can attend night school, make up your education later, then find ways to take exams! Just think - even someone with black marks like me has worked things out pretty well now - you're just a bit older - this won't affect much."

"Mm, I'll prepare," Su Tiannan felt much better after getting Six's support. "Let's brothers do well, find ways to pull the clan's children along, all make something of ourselves! At least in future we won't need to run at every little disturbance! Even more won't need... your Second Uncle to be sleeping when someone puts a gun to his head."

"Right, let's work hard together, bring up all the people in the family," Su Tianyu replied agreeing. "If you want to learn something, I'll recommend a school to you then - be vice chairman while studying! Oh, let me tell you, you're easier to handle than me... you have no black marks - later when the association's level is a bit bigger, even without academic qualifications you can work your way into the city council... I'm thinking, in future I'll be in judicial departments, you can...!"

Under the moonlight, the two brothers talked excitedly in whispers, making future plans, and it was during this period that Su Tiannan's thinking slowly began to change.

He deeply loved his family, also loved his brothers and sisters - he always tried his utmost to handle family matters well, so his previous various thoughts gradually changed.

......

Three days later.

Yu Mingyuan sat in the living room, looking at his new suit in the mirror while saying softly to Su Tianyu: "Today Boss You is holding a banquet, wants us all to go support and make it lively! Call Tiannan, Tianbei and them, have them bring the girls and handsome young men from home - let's all accompany the guests and make it lively."

"Fine, I'll call Big Brother now!" Su Tianyu replied smiling.

......

At the Dock Workers Association.

Jing Yan held his phone, standing by the window saying: "The new Supervision Assembly chairman will be him? Right?"

"Right, it's confirmed - will be announced these days," the person on the other end of the phone asked softly: "How about your side? Made contact with Gui Mengjun...!"