Chapter: 6191

The woman hurriedly replied, "I am Jennie Hogewitz, from the Hogewitz clan. My husband is your niece Julia's son, I'm not sure if you remember me..."

Howard furrowed his brow as he thought back to a niece named Julia. However, she had married into a collateral branch of the family and her children were even farther removed. He realized that this was an opportunity for all collateral branches to believe in him, so he opened his mouth to say, "Since you are Julia's daughter-in-law, Jennie, please tell me in detail about your husband and son's disappearance."

Jennie Hogewitz wept as she said, "Esteemed patriarch of our clan, my son Walter Hogewitz was sent to the Middle Kingdom at the beginning of the year to handle business for our family. However, he disappeared soon after arriving in Jinling, and my husband Steve Hogewritz went to find him but also disappeared!"

Walter Hogewitz is the scoundrel who tried to poison Wang Dongxue's father, causing his kidney failure, and attempted to use the source of kidneys to blackmail Wang Dongxue into being his lover and betraying the Emperor's business secrets. Now, Walter Hogewritz and his father Steve Hogewritz are being kept at Hong Wu's dog farm.

Howard's declaration caused Jennie Hogewitz to be moved to tears and repeatedly bow down in gratitude: "Thank you, esteemed patriarch! Thank you!"

For Jennie, she had already lost all hope, but there was nothing she could do. Originally, she didn't dare ask the Rockefeller family for help, as she knew they looked down on their distant relatives.

However, today is not a coincidence?

Howard suddenly extended an olive branch to the collateral branches, which immediately made Jennie realize this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

The other collateral branches saw Howard's sense of responsibility towards them and felt grateful and excited in their hearts.

At this moment, Howard stood up, smiling: "In the future, whenever similar situations arise, everyone can contact the family association first, and I will assign my most trusted subordinates to be stationed there, dedicated to handling your troubles."

When Howard said those two words, "subordinates", all the sons suddenly realized one thing - their old man was hinting at them.

Generally speaking, if one really wants to establish a connection with distant relatives, it's best to choose someone from among family members who is most suitable and can make those distant relatives feel valued.

However, Old Master deliberately bypassed so many sons and grandsons and chose someone else to take on this role, which means he wanted to strengthen ties with the distant relatives while keeping a distance between his children and grandchildren.

As a result, his true purpose was revealed - it's to prevent these children from combining with outsiders to rebel against him in the future.

At this moment, eldest son Steve felt even more anxious inside.

He muttered to himself: "Old Master is scared that I will team up with outside relatives to revolt in the future. Now he's launching a direct attack on me, both from within and without. The internal situation can't be broken through, external forces can't be borrowed... so I'll be stuck in this position forever..."

As Steve thought about this, he suddenly sighed: "Thank goodness Helen left Old Master to continue for only a few more years. Even if Old Master continues to scheme, it won't last long. When he's too weak to do anything, I'll have no choice but to let him pass on the throne..."

In an instant, Steve was filled with alarm.

He knew that with Old Master's current state of mind, he would definitely think of every possible way to live longer and cling to his position as family head, and would never give up easily. Therefore, his future was completely in Helen's hands.

As he thought about this, he wished he could go find Helen tomorrow and beg for forgiveness, and at the same time express his loyalty.

While this, Howard's attitude moved the collateral family members present to tears, giving them a genuine sense of sincerity.

For Howard, he wanted to gather these collateral family members and establish a typical one, but didn't expect that Jennifer Hogwartz would suddenly propose her demand in front of so many people, which he saw as an excellent opportunity to demonstrate his leadership, abilities, and credibility.

Moreover, this seemed like no big deal.

It was simply a matter of finding the Hogwart father-son duo who had gone missing in China.

Missing, there were only three possible outcomes: either someone died, or they lived but hid themselves, or they lived but were hidden by others. JrNovels.com