"Sigh, what was bound to happen has happened!" Xia Yuntao sighed.

Wang Shuyi grasped Xia Yuntao's hand, "Didn't we already discuss this? Their return is just in time."

Xia Yuntao looked at his wife and nodded, but his face still showed an unconcealable bitterness.

He knew when he used that debt collection act to fool Xia Zicheng that he could only fool that brainless Xia Zicheng.

It wasn't so easy to fool the rest of the Xia family, especially his children.

That's why he moved quickly and made all the necessary preparations.

Huo Beixiao and Yang Qiaoqiao didn't know what to say about the two elderly people's family affairs.

The two could only say to the elderly couple, "Grandpa Xia, Grandma Xia, if there's anything we can do to help, please don't hesitate to ask."

Xia Yuntao patted Huo Beixiao on the shoulder, "Don't worry, I definitely won't be polite to you and Qiaoqiao."

It's getting late, you should take the children and head home first!

"Grandpa Xia, Grandma Xia, please take care of yourselves," Yang Qiaoqiao said.

Wang Shuyi smiled kindly at her: "Qiaoqiao, don't worry, health is the foundation of everything. We two old folks will never compromise our health."

Huo Beixiao and Yang Qiaoqiao took their two children and said goodbye to Xia Yuntao and his wife.

After getting into the car, Yang Qiaoqiao said to Huo Beixiao, "Brother Xiao, I think we need to find a few people to keep an eye on Grandpa Xia and the others."

Huo Beixiao nodded. "That's what I was thinking too. I've already asked Guo Tao to make the arrangements."

*

On the other side, after Xia Ruizhe and his family took a taxi and fled, they could only find a small hotel to stay in.

"Oh my god!"

"Shit!"

As soon as Xia Jingtong and Xia Zicheng followed Xia Ruizhe into the small hotel, they were met with a series of exclamations and curses.

Ning Ya also screamed several times in succession.

"Dad, don't tell me we have to stay here tonight." After arriving at the room, Xia Jingtong looked at the simple room and asked in disbelief.

Xia Ruizhe never expected that after spending most of their money and taking a flight of dozens of hours to return, things would turn out like this.

They hadn't even seen the old man yet, and they almost got beaten up first.

Hearing Xia Jingtong and Xia Zicheng shouting and yelling, he couldn't help but get annoyed and snapped, "If you don't want to stay here, where do you want to sleep on the street?"

Xia Zicheng looked utterly disgusted. "This lousy place, whoever wants to stay can stay, I can't stand it. Give me the money, I'll buy a plane ticket back to the US myself!"

Ning Ya also wiped away her tears, "Aze, why don't we go back to the US? Look at the environment here, it's dirty and chaotic everywhere, this shabby hotel is simply not a place for a human to live."

Hearing his wife and children's words, Xia Ruizhe only sneered twice, "Fine, go back then. Go and get the money for plane tickets, and we'll go back right away."

Upon hearing his words, Ning Ya instantly stopped crying and exclaimed, "We don't even have money for plane tickets anymore?"

Xia Ruizhe glared at her. "They don't know how much money we had left before we came back, but don't you?"

Upon hearing this, Ning Ya instantly collapsed onto the old, tattered bed in the room. "Oh no! Aze, what should we do now?"

Are we destined to live in this poor and backward place?

"No! I don't want to!" Xia Jingtong shouted as soon as she heard Ning Ya's words. "Even if I have to wash dishes, I'm going back to the US to wash dishes!"

Xia Zicheng then said, "We don't have enough money to buy four tickets, but we do have enough to buy one ticket, right?"

Give me the money, I'm going home now!

Xia Jingtong jumped up instantly, "Why should I give it to you? If anyone should be given it, it should be to me. When I go back to the US, I can find a rich and powerful boyfriend and bring my parents over too."

"What good will you do if you go back, you piece of trash?"

"Xia Jingtong, who are you calling trash?" Xia Zicheng retorted defiantly.

Seeing the siblings arguing more and more fiercely, Xia Ruizhe shouted irritably, "Shut up! Stop arguing! Neither of you are going back! And we don't have any money to give you a way back!"

As he spoke, he took all the money out of his wallet and threw it onto the bed with a thud. "This hundred-odd yuan is all the money we have!"

Ning Ya, Xia Jingtong, and Xia Zicheng were all in disbelief.

Xia Ruizhe took all the money back. "Now our only way out is to find the old man, otherwise none of us will have a good life!"

Ning Ya then came to her senses, "But those people said that the old man had already mortgaged that old house to them, and that the old man had run away to avoid the debts, and that even they couldn't find him."

Where else can we look?

Besides, even if we do find him, the old man is already penniless. He might not only have no money for us, but we might also have to support him in his old age!

The more Ning Ya thought about this possibility, the more she felt she had lost out.

The other siblings of the Xia family are still enjoying themselves in the United States. Why should they come back to take care of the old man?

If the old man had money, she would be willing to do anything for him, even cleaning up his excrement and urine.

But if the old man has no money, who would be willing to take care of a dead old man?

Xia Ruizhe frowned and analyzed, "It's impossible that the old man is short of money. It's very likely that when Xiao Cheng came back last time, he realized that we knew he still had money."

He was afraid we were after the money, so he hired those fierce-looking men to put on a show, fabricating a story about him being in debt, to scare us away.

Hearing this, Ning Ya frowned and said unhappily, "Other parents try their best to leave more money for their children and grandchildren. Unlike your deadbeat father, who has a lot of money in his hands but doesn't give it to us."

"He even came up with these terrible ideas. I don't know what he's going to do with all that money in his hands, take it to his grave?"

Unlike Ning Ya, Xia Jingtong and Xia Zicheng, the siblings, did not complain about Grandpa Xia as much.

They anxiously asked, "Dad, even if your analysis is correct, where are we going to find Grandpa?"

Xia Ruizhe had calmed down by this time. "Let's take a nap first. When we wake up, we'll go to the police station. Now we're Chinese expatriates from the US. We'll tell the Chinese police that we've come back to find our relatives, and they'll definitely help us find them."

Ning Ya, Xia Jingtong, and Xia Zicheng all nodded, mainly because they had no other choice at the moment.

Moreover, after a flight of dozens of hours, I was indeed extremely tired.

Although the small hotel was dirty and dilapidated, at least it allowed them to get some sleep.

Meanwhile, in Beicheng, after listening to his subordinate's report, He Zhengguo wrote calligraphy as he said, "Only one has returned. It seems that Haicheng is still not lively enough."

Go and make arrangements, and also speak to the other children in the Xia family. They can't all inherit their parents' property, can they?

"yes!"