"Take it, donate it directly to the National Museum!" Mr. Huang said with a wry smile, and then had his secretary donate the two national treasures to the National Museum.
"Boss, should we publicize this? This is a great opportunity for the company's publicity!" the secretary asked cautiously.
"No need. It would seem like I'm showing off how much I want to be known, or how much contribution I've made to the country!" Mr. Huang waved his hand. The secretary nodded and was about to quietly donate the items when he heard Mr. Huang say, "Find someone irrelevant to leak the news to the reporters! We've done a good deed, we can't let people not know about it!"
"When you do a good deed, people should know about it, so you'll do more good deeds in the future!" Mr. Huang said to himself. The secretary suppressed his expression and left with a nod.
The next day, tabloids reported that national treasures lost for over a hundred years had been donated to the China National Museum by an anonymous individual. However, according to reliable sources, the donor was reportedly Huang Heyun of the Jiangnan Group, which indeed caused quite a stir.
"Brother-in-law, this bearded guy is really a good person, giving us so many precious gifts!" Perhaps having learned some dance moves from those foreign dancers, Leng Zhimeng reappeared in the office after several days.
During these days, gifts arrived almost every day, almost all of them being various Chinese national treasures lost overseas.
This clearly understood Mr. Huang's character; knowing that he possessed a strong sense of patriotism, he had no resistance to such gifts. He could only accept all the national treasures with a wry smile, and then re-donate them to the National Museum.
On the day Leng Zhimeng was talking to Huang He, three gifts arrived at once, all lost national treasures. Mr. Huang had to accept them again.
"He's not such a good person!" Mr. Huang rolled his eyes and threw a document onto the desk. "This person has over a dozen lives on his hands!"
"Really?" Leng Zhimeng was startled and quickly scanned the document in Mr. Huang's hand, her heart pounding.
This prince, who appeared cheerful and highly valued gratitude, sent gifts daily. However, according to the facts recorded in this document, this prince was also responsible for domestic security matters. Seven or eight political dissidents had been eliminated by this prince through various means.
If these actions were considered for his country and not personal crimes, then this prince was equally ruthless towards his own family.
This prince had a famous romantic history. Once, during a period of internal strife in his family, the prince's father fled to France with him to seek refuge.
At that time, this bearded prince lived a rather miserable life, even lodging at the home of a French woman.
On Earth in another world, there was even a trending topic on Weibo about harboring a stray Qatari prince, which was essentially the real-life version of that topic. This French beauty took in the bearded prince, they fell in love, and later had three daughters.
Later, the bearded prince's father successfully regained power and returned to become king. The prince also returned with his French wife, and this fortunate French woman naturally became the princess consort.
Up to this point, everything seemed like a fairy tale. However, soon, the princess consort discovered that this prince was actually a control freak. He dared not show it while fleeing, but once he returned to his country, his true nature was fully exposed.
The princess consort was forbidden from any public appearances not related to work, and was also prohibited from meeting any men other than her own family members.
Even meetings with male relatives from her own family were only allowed with the prince's accompaniment.
Therefore, the princess had one opportunity to go shopping each month, but even then, the entire mall would be cleared in advance, leaving only female staff to serve the prince and the princess consort. All other male beings were strictly prohibited from appearing.
Of course, this was not solely the prince's problem. Almost all countries in that region had such issues, given their religious traditions.
Furthermore, the law allowed men in this country to have four wives simultaneously, so the princess consort soon gained three sisters. These were only those given official status; the number of women without status was countless.
This princess consort had attempted to escape once but failed. Afterward, she disappeared from public view for a full two years. According to investigations in the documents, during this period, the princess consort's hair was likely shaved off, her limbs were broken, and she spent two years recovering.
Later, this princess consort gave birth to three daughters. Having grown up in France, she was somewhat influenced by a sense of freedom and could not accept such a family life. Her three daughters successively had escape attempts.
However, two of them failed. The only one who succeeded escaped to France. But when she announced her intention to marry a non-believer without the royal family's permission, she was shot and killed at the entrance of her school. As for who the killer was, no one admitted it.
Then, the princess consort went mad.
In fact, this princess consort was relatively fortunate. At least she remained the princess consort and did not lose her life. Even after going mad, she received attentive care.
However, the other women fared much worse. According to the documents collected by Mr. Huang, this bearded prince had four or five women who suddenly disappeared, leaving no trace of them in this world.
Leng Zhimeng curiously looked at the information of these women and exclaimed, "Oh my god, there's even a Chinese person here! Damn it, she's even from our hometown, from Wenzhou!"
Leng Zhimeng was greatly shocked by this woman's information. Indeed, this was a native of Wenzhou, whose family address was only two streets away from her own. She had even attended the same school, but they were not in the same grade, so they were not very familiar with each other.
After carefully reading through this woman's experience, Leng Zhimeng scratched her head and said, "I remember, when I was studying, our school actually had a genius chess prodigy or something. She won the national championship while still in school. I was playing games at an internet cafe back then and didn't pay any attention to her. She actually married into Qatar!"
"Brother-in-law, is she really as miserable as described in the document?"
"It shouldn't be wrong. After all, I require the information to be accurate, not comprehensive. So, the information department only sends confirmed data, not legendary ones!" Mr. Huang said calmly.
According to the description in the document, this compatriot's life could not be described as just bad; she was basically no different from a prisoner.
In fact, before 2004, this compatriot was a nationally renowned genius chess prodigy.
Well, to be precise, it was international chess. At the age of 12, she won the global championship in international chess, and at 16, she won the world championship, earning the recognized title of Grandmaster.
Afterward, she went on to win several more world championships, all before the age of 18. It can be said that to this day, no female Chinese chess player has surpassed her achievements.
Then, this genius girl met this bearded prince during an international competition.
At that time, the prince was one of the contestants in the competition. He fell in love at first sight with the Chinese genius girl, who was more than 30 years younger than him, and then used all sorts of means and money to marry this genius girl who was not yet 20 years old.
Initially, the genius girl seemed to be living a good life. As a foreigner, she was indeed granted the title of princess consort, although the price was that another princess consort had her title revoked.
Afterward, the genius girl quickly integrated into the local life. She not only gave birth to two sons but was also said to have perfectly adapted to the customs, even actively persuading a female friend to marry her husband.
This was not a joke; she personally admitted this during an interview with Phoenix TV. By the way, it was said that the entire film crew consisted only of women, otherwise, it would have been impossible to see her.
But even such an adaptable genius girl eventually met an unfortunate end. It was said that during an intimate moment, she failed to satisfy her husband's demands, was beaten severely, and eventually had to have a body organ removed to save her life.
However, she then suffered from complete endocrine imbalance, losing her youthful beauty. Naturally, she could no longer receive her husband's favor.
But because she had given birth to two sons, she was merely confined to a room, not allowed to go out. Her daily necessities were said to be very luxurious, but the information department could not ascertain these details, appending a question mark to indicate that the information was not extremely accurate.
"So pitiful!" Seeing the plight of her former classmate, Leng Zhimeng couldn't help but feel a pang of sympathy and said, "Brother-in-law, he needs something from you, why don't we rescue her and bring her back to the country? If you ask, maybe he'll give you face!"
"Not interested!" Mr. Huang waved his hand. "I'm not interested in doing such things!"
"But brother-in-law, she's our compatriot!" Leng Zhimeng said.
"Cough, cough, Zhimeng, look here!" Mr. Huang pointed to a document within the file. "See, their royal family does not accept foreign women marrying into the royal family. So, before marriage, this genius girl had already renounced her Chinese nationality and switched to the other country's nationality."
"Meaning she is no longer Chinese, nor is she my compatriot. Why should I save such a person?"
"Furthermore, even if I find a way to rescue her, with her current nationality, she wouldn't be able to return to the country. Customs would not allow it! In the end, she would still have to stay in her own country, so rescuing her would be in vain!" Mr. Huang said calmly. "She chose her own path. Since she doesn't want to be Chinese, then I naturally can't consider her my compatriot!"
"..." Leng Zhimeng said nothing further. She knew Huang He very well and understood that he would never save a woman who rejected her own country.
In fact, Leng Zhimeng herself had not noticed that the other party had changed her nationality. Otherwise, Leng Zhimeng would never have made such a request, as she also looked down on such women!