I was reborn after playing a good hand badly

Su Mo didn't react, just quietly watched him and waited for him to continue.

Yin Liu sighed; in truth, he hadn't fully explained what he was saying earlier.

Xia Guo's transportation companies were indeed unable to accept orders because they had no cargo ships available at the moment. But in fact, even if the other party's cargo ships were all in place and ready, there were still many collaborations ahead of them, both public and private.

Before the insect plague, the Yin family could still be said to have a deep foundation, but the insect plague was a complete reshuffle, and the Yin family's losses were not much better than those of the Long family.

Of the four reclusive families of Xia Kingdom in those days, the Yang family is gone, the Long family, which was based in the eastern province, was also severely damaged during the insect plague, and although the Yin family was inland, its family resources and the companies it supported were not much better.

The most stable family is the Jiang family. Not only have most of their industries been preserved, but they have also received support from the association to carry out large-scale research and development. Although there are several large pharmaceutical companies selling medicines in Xia Country now, half of the medicines they produce are patented by the Jiang family.

The Jiang family holds a dominant position in the low-end medicine market, earning points and gaining public favor.

Yin Liu knew in her heart that even if the Yin family could buy transportation capacity from the transportation company later, the waiting time was unpredictable.

The head of the Yin family clearly could not accept this outcome.

Yin Liu said, "Some members of the Yin family have learned that the principal has cargo ships, and they are wondering if they can cooperate with the principal to rent his cargo ships."

"Will the principal also set up a transportation company?" Cao Duoduo asked, looking at Su Mo expectantly.

Su Mo looked back at them, but asked a different question.

"I heard that the hunting team you formed has always been under your own control and has not been involved with the Yin family. What's going on this time? Are you returning to the Yin family to get involved in the development of the planet?"

Yin Liu was born into a collateral branch of the Yin family. He was able to become Yin Xie's apprentice because of his exceptional talent in martial arts. Even so, after he grew up, he was mostly unable to obtain the resources belonging to the main branch.

When he returned to the Yin family, it couldn't be that the main branch of the Yin family gave him a share of the family business, could it? Or was he just going back home to work?

Su Mo had only heard about many things; she didn't understand the rules of such a large family, nor did she understand why Yin Liu, who had almost left the Yin family to work independently, would go back.

She didn't want her outstanding graduates to suffer, so she had to ask them.

When the topic of the Yin family came up, Cao Duoduo looked like she really wanted to complain, but after glancing at the person next to her, she turned her face away and shut up.

Yin Liu was also secretly observing Cao Duoduo's reaction, but seeing that the other party had no reaction, she dared not make any moves here.

He shifted his body forward and explained to Su Mo, "It was the patriarch who personally approached me and asked me to go back and take charge of all matters related to the development of the small asteroid."

"I have already agreed."

Under Su Mo's curious gaze, Yin Liu told her about some things from the past.

This time, in order to bring Yin Liu, who had almost completely broken away from the Yin family, back, the head of the Yin family was very sincere.

Back when Yin Liu first graduated, he returned to the Yin family, bringing with him Cao Duoduo, another outstanding graduate. If things had gone smoothly, the two of them would definitely have been able to contribute to the Yin family.

But Yin Liu didn't expect that as soon as he got home, he would run into the marriage partner that the clan had chosen for him, which caused a misunderstanding, and Cao Duoduo was about to leave.

There's no problem with Yin Liu getting married, but he can't attend the wedding banquet, and he can no longer work for the Yin family.

The head of the family and Yin Liu's parents felt that this matter should be handled naturally, but Yin Liu simply didn't take the bait and was completely unwilling to cooperate with their arrangements.

Yin Liu, who has no desire to possess the resources of the Yin family, is not easy to control.

Moreover, Yin Liu was admitted to the Spiritual Energy Academy by Su Mo through special recruitment. The Yin family did not contribute in this regard. During her time at the academy, Yin Liu helped the family purchase resources on several occasions, which can be considered as purely contributing to the family.

The Yin family is an old and established family, and they don't have many new resources at their disposal, so they can't provide much support to Yin Liu.

In the end, the only thing that could hold Yin Liu back was blood ties.

So after refusing the arrangements made by her family, Yin Liu did not leave, but instead accepted a task from the head of the family and went out to handle some business.

Cao Duoduo did not go with them; he was no longer living in the Yin family's property at that time.

No sooner had Yin Liu left than his father attacked Cao Duoduo.

He tricked people into going to a hotel for a meal by posing as Yin Liu's father. Accompanying him was a woman, a beautiful and dignified young lady from a wealthy family.

This situation made Cao Duoduo feel a little uneasy. He didn't know the other person and didn't understand what relationship the other person had with Yin Liu's father, which was why he came along.

Little did he know that the woman was the wife that the Yin family had arranged for Yin Liu.

During the meal, Cao Duoduo realized that something was wrong. Although Yin Liu's father treated him fairly well, two of the three of them were not acquainted with each other and had not been introduced. Was this appropriate?

With doubts in his mind, Cao Duoduo ate less. A moment later, when he saw the woman next to him faint, Cao Duoduo was stunned for only a moment, and then he ran away without saying a word.

However, Yin Liu's father was prepared and arranged for bodyguards to stop them.

Under normal circumstances, Cao Duoduo could have shaken off these people and left, but he also ate the drugged food, which was quite potent and weakened his strength.

He ultimately failed to escape and was taken upstairs to a room and locked up along with the drugged woman.

There were naturally other arrangements in the room, but although Cao Duoduo had been drugged, she did not faint. She stumbled to the bathroom, took out a knife, and cut a bloody gash on her palm. After bleeding, the effects of the drug were reduced, and her movements became more responsive.

Holding her breath, not daring to smell the fragrance in the room, Cao Duoduo glanced at the door, went straight to the window, kicked the glass with all her might, and jumped from the 20th floor without hesitation.

He activated the protective necklace Su Mo had given him, which reduced most of the impact of his fall, but he still suffered a heavy blow upon landing. Fortunately, there was no one guarding below, and he managed to escape.

When Yin Liu returned the next day and learned of this situation, her will to serve the Yin family died.

Those in the Yin family who knew about this matter did not think that Yin Liu's father had done anything wrong. They even criticized Yin Liu, gossiped about him, and angrily denounced him for being unfilial and disloyal.

He grew up eating the food of the Yin family, and the main branch of the Yin family also trained him to learn ancient martial arts. Otherwise, where would he be today?

Yin Liu stopped listening to these things; he couldn't find Cao Duoduo anymore.

A month later, Yin Liu went to the Psionic Association and registered a hunting team in his and Cao Duoduo's names, demonstrating that he was no longer involved in the Yin family's affairs.

But what those people said wasn't entirely wrong. His family had indeed raised him, so every year at the end of the year, Yin Liu would transfer a sum of points to the Yin family as a way of repaying them.

Without selling off any of its assets, no one in the Yin family earns as much as Yin Liu, including the future heir of the main branch.

His family was even more envious of his abilities. How wonderful it would be if such a promising member of the collateral branch could wholeheartedly serve the family!

But Yin Liu ignored them all.

It wasn't until a junior approached him, requesting to join the hunting team on a mission as training, without asking for any special treatment, that Yin Liu agreed after consideration.

From then on, no one in the Yin family openly dared to harass him.