Chapter 346: Margaret Wood

'That's enough. 'Zhou Ming said to Martin, 'Mr Mayor, some things are better said once. If you go on talking about them, it's a bit much. Do you still think I'm an idiot who can be easily taken advantage of?'

Zhou Ming's tone was very calm, because no matter how good Martin's acting was, Zhou Ming did not believe that he had inadvertently brought it up. He hoped to use Margaret's identity behind her back to make up his mind, but this kind of trick obviously didn't work on Chau Ming, although he was indeed curious about what identity Margaret, who was already so impoverished, could have that would influence the powerful Wood family on the throne of Etruria.

However curiosity is curiosity, but it doesn't mean that curiosity can be manipulated.

Martin was very surprised by Ming's calmness, but he quickly adjusted his emotions and said, 'I'm sorry, Mr. Ming, I was rude.'

After apologising to Zhou Ming apologised, and Martin left. After Martin had left, Margaret also came over and apologised to Zhou Ming: 'I'm sorry, distinguished sir. You are a benefactor of Julia and me . We should have told you everything, but we didn't mean to hide our identity from you. It's just that...it's a memory I don't even want to face.'

Zhou Ming, on the other hand, said with a wave of his hand, 'It's fine, I'm not yet in a position where I need to squeeze the last value out of a poor woman.'

Margaret but shook her head: 'Although I believe Mayor Martin did not come to you with good intentions, he was not wrong in one respect: my is enough to threaten the stability of the Greatwood family, because I am the third successor of the Greatwood family. My name is Margaret Wood.'

This answer was completely unexpected. In fact, after hearing Mayor Martin mention it just now, Zhou Ming had also wondered what Margaret's identity was, but he never imagined that she would be the third-in-line heir to the Bigwood family.

Due to his involvement in the competition for the inheritance of the Down family, Ming Chow also learned about the rules of inheritance in these conglomerate families. Generally speaking, the closer the blood relationship to the current head of the family, the higher the inheritance qualification. Put simply is the same as the succession of emperors in the past: the first consideration is the crown prince, that is, the son of the clan leader, which is the first priority. After him, it is the turn of the full brothers and the children of the full brothers, which is the second and third priorities.

'According to the generation I am now the first cousin of the head of the Great Wood family, George, and the first cousin of the aunt of the heir, Wood.

Zhou Mingxin said and Mingxin Zhou said, 'That's right. 'So it was due to the competition for inheritance rights. Your cousin George wanted to find a way to get you out of the Bigwood family in order to take the position of head of the family, right?'

Mingzhou Zhou said and asked Julia, 'Because of the black issue?'

Margaret nodded, and then she told Ming Zhou the whole story. In fact, it was more or less the same as she had said before. She was driven out of the family because she was pregnant a black man's child and was driven out of the family. Later, she suffered from uremia and fell into this state. The only difference was her identity, and none of this was what she wanted.

Thirteen years ago, the previous leader of the Daewood family died suddenly of a heart attack, and all his heirs had to fight for the right to inherit.

Margaret was the youngest daughter of the previous patriarch and the third in line of succession. Logically, her position should have been relatively secure, and she herself had no desire to actually inherit the family business. However, the problem was that she was the younger sister of the first in line of succession.

So, as as the saying goes, 'innocent until proven guilty'. Everything was like the most melodramatic romantic drama. George, the second-in-line heir, saw that he could not compete with Margaret's brother, so he set his sights on Margaret.

At a state party, George got someone to get Margaret drunk, then got a black man with aphrodisiacs to have sex with her. Later, Margaret became pregnant pregnant, and more importantly, the black man's child. This was generally unacceptable for white families in Etrile, let alone the Bigwood family, which was an absolute family disgrace.

As a result, Margaret was driven out of the family, and her brother was also implicated and lost his succession rights as the head of the family.

However, Margaret Margaret's brother didn't want to give up, the black classmate also wanted to make amends for his mistakes, and the three major car families also wanted to use this incident to take advantage of the Bigwood family, so there was the later shocking the Itely riots that shocked the whole of America. It must be said that the riots dealt a very heavy blow to the Wood family, not only in terms of the losses to their business, but also in terms of the incalculable damage to their influence.

However, thanks to the decisive action of the new clan leader George, who called in the federal army to suppress the uprising, the unrest was quelled.

In the end, Margaret's brother was killed on the spot during the crackdown, and the black classmate was nowhere to be seen. As for Margaret, perhaps George never took her seriously, and coupled with the fact that she herself kept a low profile and never showed her face, she has been able to live safely until now.

'Originally, my brother wanted me to abort the baby, but I refused. Although the family politics is dirty and despicable, the child is innocent after all. And now that we have lost the family, I don't want to lose my child, even though she is the culprit who caused everything.' Margaret said with a helpless smile, and then looked up at Zhou Ming and asked, 'Sir, am I being silly?'

Zhou Ming shook his head and replied, 'Not really. At that time, I think Julia was the biggest driving force for you to go on living.'

Margaret said with a bitter smile, 'Maybe, but despite my brother's failure back then, I think my identity and the things that happened to me were at least very helpful when dealing with the Daewood family.'

Margaret said in the end, 'Mr. Zhou Ming, you have helped Julia and me, and we have never been able to repay you. So if you want to use my identity, I will cooperate with you...'

Before she could , Zhou Ming interrupted her, 'I already said that I don't need to exploit a poor woman. That was already your most desperate memory, so how could I still insist on using your identity?'

'Thank you very much! Mr. Zhou Ming, you are indeed an angel sent from heaven, my last hope in my despair!'

Margaret cried to Ming Zhou, saying that she could imagine that in the past 13 years, there must have been many people who wanted to use her identity against the Daewood family, but she had not agreed or simply not cooperated, so she had ended up in in this mess. Otherwise, with her important status, no matter if it's the black mayor or the three major car families, if someone helps out, they wouldn't have lost their house.

While talking , Margaret waved to the little black girl Julia and said, 'Julia, come over here and thank Mr. Zhou Ming together. He is the only truly kind person!'

Zhou Ming said in response, 'I'm not a truly kind person. I've just not yet completely turned into a cold-blooded capitalist.'

At the same time outside Margaret's villa, a car pulled out of the opposite alley, drove back to Orlando, and finally pulled into the Greatwood family estate.

'What? You're saying that Zhou Ming is now at Margaret's villa? And today Richard Tufford and Mayor Martin had also been there?

A surprised voice sounded in the back yard of the manor. It was Wood, the first-in-line heir and son of the family patriarch George, who had come out. Although he had arrived later than Ming Zhou, had returned to Etrile as soon as the route for his private jet was cancelled. Now that they had heard the situation on Ming Zhou's side, they immediately let out a cry of alarm.

Meanwhile, his George, his father, was also there. Wood said to him, 'Father, they must be planning to do something to us, and they still want to use Margaret's identity. I said that we should kill her as soon as we find her, because she will only cause trouble if we keep her around!'

George also meaningfully said, 'I initially kept her because we are siblings, and she is so understanding. She has never used her identity for anything, but I never thought that she was waiting for the perfect opportunity.'

'So father Father, then let's just set the villa on fire or blow it up to prevent them from causing us trouble,' Wood said angrily.

George turned to Wood and asked, 'Do you think that's a good idea? After all, Zhou Ming is also a member of the Down family, and our Wood family is also very famous in the United States. Although we are competing with each other, it is not to the extent that we will kill him if he comes here. This kind of behaviour will make it difficult for us to establish ourselves in the United States.'

'Father, But that Zhou Ming is not really a member of the Tang family!' Wood said, 'And he came to our Etly without saying hello to our Wood family. We are only dealing with Margaret, who knows there is another Zhou Ming there?'

'Moreover, it can't be done. We can also create a conflict between black groups that will affect that villa, and that will have nothing to do with us,' Wood added.

George looked at Wood intently and asked, 'It seems that you have a deep grudge against this Ming Zhou?'

'Don't you don't you hate him? It was he who trapped us into losing billions of dollars in San Francisco, and now he has even come to Etrile in person. This is simply showing no respect for the great Wood family. If we don't do something about it, we will really be looked down upon by all the other big families!' Wood concluded said Wood, 'Besides, I don't believe the Downes would dare go to war with us over a Zhou Ming. Even they don't have the ability.'

George laughed, then said to Wood, 'In that case, do whatever you want.'

Having George's permission, Wood was very happy: 'Thank you, Father, I will make him regret coming to Etruria!'

Wood then left the family estate with a grin, and two hours later hundreds of blacks armed with flaming bottles bottles. Two hours later, hundreds of blacks armed with flaming bottles surrounded Margaret's villa. Finally, with a whistle, the blacks let out a strange cry and threw the flaming bottles at the villa, which immediately burst into flames. flasks wildly into the villa, and suddenly the villa was ablaze.