From Sidekick to Bigshot

In the early years, he had made his fortune off real estate. As of now, he had companies in varying industries across the country.

This person wasn’t born in Hengyuan City. Rather, he had numerous businesses and estates in Hengyuan City. As a result, he had quite a few business dealings with the Jian family.

As he also loved orchids as much as Grandpa Jian, the two of them had quickly become acquaintances.

“Grandpa Jian! I knew that I’d meet you here today!”

“Grandpa Qian! You came here today as well?” Grandpa Jian said as he greeted the other man with a smile on his face.

“Yeah, I did! Wow, you’re quite lucky to have so many of your children and grandchildren following you around at an orchid exhibition. I could only come by myself. None of my children or grandchildren wanted to accompany me.”

“Nah, today is just an exception,” Grandpa Jian replied with a smile.

Typically, he always came to orchid exhibitions by himself.

However, today, he had planned to bring one more person with him. He hadn’t expected an extra group of people to tag along on the way.

However, he knew that they hadn’t come along because of him. He knew that they hadn’t come because they wanted to appreciate the orchids either.

“Oh, by the way, I heard that you saved the red-cross spider orchid.” Grandpa Qian asked curiously. He wanted to know more about the rare orchid species that Grandpa Jian had saved.

“Yeah, that’s true. Didn’t you see the photos?”

“Yeah, I did. That’s so amazing. I thought the roots were rotten from the last photo that you sent me. I thought that it’d be doomed by now.”

“Yeah, I thought that it’d be doomed as well! However, I happened to meet a lucky star! They helped me bring it back to life!”

As Grandpa Jian said this, his voice was filled with pride. He couldn’t hide it from his voice.

“Oh? Lucky star? Who is the lucky star?” Grandpa Qian asked in a hurry.

“Someone that is seemingly far away but actually close at hand.” Grandpa Jian replied proudly.

Someone that’s seemingly far away but actually close at hand?

Grandpa Qian took a look at the people around him in bewilderment.

Was Grandpa Jian referring to one of these people?

Hm… It was possible that it was Grandpa Jian’s eldest son Jian Shuxing. His eldest daughter-in-law Wen Nuan and his eldest grandson Jian Yuncheng also looked likely.

“Hey, stop looking there. Look here,” Grandpa Jian said. Then, he formally introduced his precious granddaughter to Grandpa Qian, “It’s my granddaughter, Jian Yiling.”

“Oh?”

He took a look at Jian Yiling. It was quite rare for a young girl of her age to have studied orchid cultivation.

“Hey, Grandpa Jian, you’re not bluffing right?”

“Why am I bluffing? I don’t need to bluff about my granddaughter’s skills, do I? Her brother studies biology. As a result, she’s learned a lot from him ever since she was a child.”

“Is biology useful in orchid cultivation?” Grandpa Qian asked. It was the first time he had heard of biology being used in this way.

“Why not? It’s also a study of natural science. Botany is a sub-discipline of biology.”

With a future biologist in the family, Grandpa Jian naturally knew quite a lot about this subject.

The pride in his voice was overflowing. Upon seeing this, Grandpa Qian couldn’t help but laugh at his acquaintance.

This man. All his grandsons were successful and incredibly capable. But this was the first time that he had seen Grandpa Jian being so pleased with himself.

He made it a big deal that his granddaughter knew something about orchid cultivation.

Grandpa Qian laughed as he said, “Grandpa Jian, I’m quite envious of you. You have so many children and grandchildren. All their futures are incredibly promising as well.”

“Why are you envious? Your first grandson is only two years old. If you wait for another two years, you’re probably going to get a second, third, and possibly even fourth grandchild.”

“Nah, that’s probably not going to happen. When my daughter-in-law was pregnant, she had gotten into a car accident. Both of them nearly died in that accident. Thank goodness that they lived. And now, my son doesn’t dare to have another child because of this. He said that one child is enough.”

Grandpa Qian was incredibly helpless as he said this.