Chapter 27
Wu Jin showed a puzzled but respectful look: "Is that so? Then you have many ways to make extra money..."
But considering the business situation of this funeral home with only one order a month, it is no wonder that it has so many side jobs. I heard that funeral homes in some cities have poor performance, and undertakers will occasionally work as makeup artists to earn extra money. After all, it's not shameful to make money.
Su Yun nodded happily: "This kind of thing, once the first order is placed, there will be more orders after that. It's hard to refuse something that makes money. But I think someone saw this Yu more than 20 years ago. His existence should be easier to recognize. But now the uncles and aunts of the older generation of noble families will not see me casually. After all, I am not the eldest daughter of the Su family. I can only ask Brother Wu Jin to find out when you have time."
Having just agreed to help with something, Wu Jin naturally wouldn't refuse, he agreed directly: "No problem, I'll ask my parents, maybe they have seen it."
When Wu Jin lowered his head to send a message to his father and mother, Su Yun suddenly remembered what Wu Jin had said just now, that Wu's father had a few ordinary friends with the surname Yu, so he asked with a little more caution: "By the way, brother Wu Jin, you just said that Uncle Wu had a few friends with the surname Yu, what were their names?"
"Do you suspect that there is someone you are looking for among them? Let me think..." Wu Jin was multitasking, typing with his hands, but with a thoughtful expression on his face. After a while, he read out a few names, "...Yu Jiazhong, Yu Ming, Yu——"
Before Wu Jin could finish, Su Yun interrupted him abruptly: "Wait, Yu Ming, which Ming?"
Wu Jin was startled by her, and after he raised his head, he was also stunned for a moment: "Ah? Yu, Yu... I don't remember it very well, I'll send a voice message to ask my dad."
Combined with the news just now, Wu's father immediately understood that Su Yun was looking for someone named Yu Ming. The other party directly called him: "Wu Jin, is Su Yun next to you?"
Since the call came, Wu Jin turned on the speakerphone directly, and then put the phone on the coffee table: "Yes, Su Yun and I just had breakfast and are drinking tea. Dad, do you know who Yu Ming is that Su Yun is looking for?"
Su Yun politely called out, "Good morning, uncle."
"Good morning, Yunyun. The Yu Ming I know is named Yu as in redundant and Ming as in drunk. Is this what you are looking for?" Wu's father asked gently.
"Yes, uncle! The person who placed the order for me has been looking for him for thirty years!" Su Yun answered excitedly.
Father Wu sounded a little puzzled, "Thirty years? But he died twenty-five years ago. I attended his funeral, but the strange thing is that the name used at the funeral didn't seem to be Yu Ming. The family members who held the funeral said that Yu Ming was a name he changed later. His real name was Yu Fu'an. Twenty-five years ago, funerals were very particular and they said that the real name had to be used, so Yu Fu'an was used at the funeral."
When Su Yun heard this, she felt something was wrong. If there were two names, then it was not the person she was looking for. However, these could be verified later. She wanted to know more about Yu Ming: "Uncle, can you send me a copy of Yu Ming's file? If it is the same person, then his funeral that year might have been used to escape."
Hearing this, Father Wu was shocked: "Escape? How could he...did he offend someone? Why are you still looking for him after thirty years?"
Su Yun wanted to laugh about whether he had offended someone or not. "To be precise, if he is really the person I am looking for, then he has offended a lot. He stole the corpse of the royal concubine, defected from the sect where he originally studied Taoism, and insulted the sect leader. All these things are enough to make him die several times."
When he heard the words "corpse of a royal concubine", Wu's father's eyes darkened. That was no longer a crime of insulting a corpse, that was a crime of stealing a national treasure!
Wu's father immediately said, "I'll have my assistant sort out the files and send them to you now, but it may take some time. After all, it's been so many years. Also, Yunyun, thank you for saving Wu Jin's life. Wu Jin's mother told me about what happened yesterday. It was really dangerous. Fortunately, you rushed over."
"Doing good and saving lives is a matter of accumulating merit. I have had a relationship with Wu Yu for so many years, so it is only right for us to help each other. Uncle, you and aunt should pay more attention to safety at home and don't let others take advantage of you. Also, Wu Yu is on the way to my place, and I will arrange someone to take care of him." Su Yun did not take the credit. It was all for Zhao Tuhu and Yu Ming. They were cooperating for a win-win situation.
"Thank you for your help. By the way, Yunyun, do you have anything else you want to ask?" Father Wu felt that he should say more about Yu Ming, although he actually didn't know much.
Su Yun naturally would not miss this opportunity, she hurriedly asked: "Thank you uncle first, I want to ask, how did you know Yu Ming?"
It has been so many years since the incident, and Father Wu is still a little unsure when talking about it. He said, "In fact, Yu Ming and I can only be considered acquaintances, because it was another friend who introduced us to each other. He said that Yu Ming saved his friend, and it was reasonable for him to help him."
This was very strange, and Wu Jin couldn't understand it: "What kind of help are you trying to provide? Find a job for Yu Ming?"
Father Wu explained, "No, Yu Ming seemed to be doing antique business at that time, but he didn't have a particularly good way. You were born not long ago, and Yu Ming was just casting a wide net, pulling in whoever liked antiques. But after you were born, the old man wanted to buy something for you, so he let that friend think we were interested in antiques."
"So, Dad, you didn't agree to cooperate with them in the end?" Wu Jin thought about the family business, and there was indeed no antique business.
"Of course, our family is engaged in heavy industry, which is completely different from antiques. To put it in today's terms, one is in the arts and the other is in science, and we can't even talk to each other. But in those years, the old man got older and liked antiques. He always used you as an excuse to buy a bunch of miscellaneous things, so I had a little more contact with them." Father Wu said truthfully.
The process of the Wu family's contact with Yu Ming was not complicated. Yu Ming was in the antique business, and the old man of the Wu family wanted to play with antiques, and he also wanted to buy some for Wu Jin. Later, Wu Yu was born, and the number of purchases doubled. If you have acquaintances, you have a way to buy, and the main thing is to be able to judge.
From ancient times to the present, the antique market has always been one where those with knowledgeable connections are less likely to be cheated. Therefore, those who deal in antiques will more or less have connections with professors, antique families, and antique dealers. They can ask people to check whether the antiques are real, how old they are, whether they are official or civilian goods, whether they are genuine or imitations, when they were imitated, etc. The person who can give the answers to these questions is called an expert in antiques.
Generally, people don't play with big items. They just ask some antique professor to touch them and determine their approximate age. They know whether it's auspicious or not. If they like it, they can buy it. Of course, it also depends on whether they have enough money.
This was probably the situation of the Wu family at that time. If they liked something, loved playing with it, or wanted to buy something, it didn't matter who recommended it. As long as it was authentic, even if one or two pieces were missed, the Wu family didn't care. At most, they would find someone else to judge it later.
As for Yu Ming, he had no chance to contact the old man from beginning to end. At that time, the old man took over the government order and did not pass it on to Wu's father who had just joined the company. He thought that Wu's father was not good at talking and could not do things well, so when Yu Ming came up, he contacted Wu's father.
At first, Wu's father's friend wanted to introduce Yu Ming to the old man of the Wu family through Wu's father. However, when the old man of the Wu family came back after he had time, he felt that Yu Ming and Wu's father had almost gotten along well, and it was no big deal for him to interfere. What's more, Yu Ming had contacted Wu's father first, so he was a junior to him. How could an elder contact his son's friend without going through his own son?
This resulted in Yu Ming's identity always being suppressed as that of Wu's father's friend. However, Wu's father was not very interested in antiques. Every time the old man needed something, he would cast a net everywhere to call people, and Yu Ming would always come to take the order and ask if he could meet the old man.
Mr. Wu had received several orders from him and felt embarrassed to disappoint others, so he asked the old man if he could find time to meet him.
But, it was just such a coincidence that the meeting was originally scheduled at a banquet, but the old man was suddenly invited by the government to another dinner party. He drank all night and missed the banquet.
"After this banquet, Yu Ming and I had less and less interactions. Later, when the old man went to buy antiques, he didn't come. I apologized to him, but he thought I was playing a trick on him. If it were someone else, I would definitely find a way to get the old man to come that night, but it was a government invitation, and I had no choice but to go." Father Wu said this with a lot of grievances.
After much difficulty, the old man agreed to a meeting, but Yu Ming was unlucky. The government temporarily organized a dinner, saying that there would be new developments soon, and invited many bosses of leading companies in various industries to the dinner, not just the Wu family. How could he blame Wu's father alone?
Su Yun listened and touched his chin. "Actually, it's not your fault, uncle, or the old man. Yu Ming is indeed unlucky. The person who placed the order here gave me his birth date and horoscope. This person is destined to encounter the most unlucky situations in everything he does. Even if you make further arrangements, there might be a sudden storm that night, which would prevent the old man from getting through."
There is a saying that goes, "When a person is unlucky, even drinking cold water will get his teeth stuck." It is very true. When a person is destined to be unlucky, unless he changes his fate to someone else or uses some means to resolve the problem, he will be truly unlucky.
Especially for someone like Yu Ming who has done few good things but a lot of bad things, God will not let him be happy all his life and will always be annoyed with him in some aspects.
Father Wu sighed: "It seems that this may be the person you are looking for, but he is dead, and I don't know where he is buried. How about I ask my assistant to check it out?"
"Thank you very much, uncle. It doesn't matter if we can't find out. If this person's death was faked, we won't be able to find out anything." Su Yun said with a smile, so as not to put too much pressure on Wu's father. She still tended to believe that Yu Ming's funeral was to change his fate.
Otherwise, how could it be possible that Yu Ming died twenty-five years ago and Jingling Sect just lost any trace of Yu Ming since then?
Later, Father Wu told Wu Jin about the current situation in the hospital and at home. The old man is still in the ICU, and Uncle Wu has been guarding him without much rest. He may not be able to hold on any longer. As for Sister Lan at home, she is still packing towels for the old man, but now the towels cannot be delivered to the ICU, and she seems a little anxious.
In short, you can rest assured by leaving these things to Wu Mu. Wu Mu is a very careful woman, and Sister Lan's little tricks cannot be hidden from her.
When Wu's father was about to hang up, Su Yun suddenly remembered something: "Wait, uncle, I want to ask, who was the friend who introduced Yu Ming to you? Do I know him? How is he doing now?"
"You ask this? Of course you know him. When you came to the Wu family to attend the banquet, wasn't there a chubby uncle who wanted to hug you, but you ran away? It was him. His name was Chu Feidu. Later I heard that he was in poor health and went abroad for recuperation." Father Wu seemed to remember how Su Yun was when he was little and had a lot of ideas, and laughed out loud.
"Ah... Is it that Uncle Chu? I remember that I didn't hold him at that time because there was a smell on him that I didn't like." Su Yun remembered it after thinking about it carefully. When she was a child, she followed the Su family to various banquets. There were so many that she couldn't remember them clearly. But when Father Wu mentioned the fat man who was not allowed to be held, she had an impression.
Father Wu was stunned for a moment: "Ah? You didn't let him hug you because he smelled? But you didn't say that at the time."
After the words fell, without waiting for Su Yun to answer, Wu Jin hesitated and said: "Speaking of which... Dad, I also think that Uncle Chu smells strange, but you said he is your good friend, so I still endured and let him hug me."
Whether it was Wu Jin or Su Yun, they were both well-educated since childhood, but Su Yun was more spoiled and was not held. She chose to give face to the uncle named Chu Feidu, saying that she was willful, which was better than embarrassing others.
Both children said this, and Father Wu was confused: "What's wrong with you? The banquet that day was normal, and Chu Feidu didn't have any strange smell on his body. Your mother and I didn't smell it. Besides, if you smell it, you can just pretend, but Wu Yu can't pretend, right?"
"In case Brother Wu Jin and I remembered it wrong, you can call Wu Yu now. He should not be on the highway yet, so he can answer the call." Su Yun took out his cell phone and called Wu Yu without saying a word.
While making the call, Su Yun took a quick glance at the chat app and found that this thing had sent her dozens of messages, all of which were either about "going dark" or going somewhere. It was like a mentally retarded child with lots of fun.
The call was quickly picked up, Wu Yu's loud voice was as usual: "Su Yun, why did you call me? Do you know that I am not the same person I used to be? I am the darker me! The darker me answers the phone depending on my mood!"
Both phones were on speakerphone, and the voice reached Wu's father, whose face suddenly darkened: "What do you mean by evil? Are you a rebel? Wu Yu, can you behave yourself?"
Suddenly hearing Wu's father's voice, Wu Yu was so scared that he hung up the phone. Five seconds later, perhaps thinking that hanging up the phone was more terrifying, he called again.
Su Yun thought this was a real joke, so he quickly connected him to the phone, lest he get beaten up later: "Wu Yu, why did you hang up?"
Wu Yu said timidly: "You didn't tell me my dad was here..."
"I've been here all along. What? Are you going to hang me up again?" Father Wu said gloomily.
"Dad, Dad, how could I dare? The signal was bad just now. You know, I've always been a well-behaved person!" Wu Yu immediately tried to please him, fearing that he would be scolded again later.
Hearing the voice of this fool, Wu's father was furious: "Alright, alright, stop being so rude. Every time I ask you something, you have to talk nonsense. You!"
Wu Yu quickly expressed his loyalty: "Dad, don't worry, just tell me if you have anything to say! I will tell you everything I know--"
Before Wu Yu could finish his rant, Wu's father interrupted coldly: "If you say another word of nonsense, I will suspend your current card as well."
"Well, please go ahead." Wu Yu was quite sensible.
"Let me ask you, when you were a kid and you had your birthday party, there was a fat uncle who wanted to hug you. Did you smell anything on him?" Father Wu asked unhappily. He was fed up with this stupid son.
Wu Yu is worthy of being the gossip king, and immediately said: "Oh, you mean Uncle Chu Feidu? I know, I didn't smell it that day, but I asked all the children who didn't want to be hugged by him. There are only two reasons why they don't want to be hugged. One is that they think he is too fat. Some children really hate fat people. The second is that some children think Uncle Chu smells."
Some things that were originally uncertain were suddenly confirmed by Wu Yu.
There was no sound on the other end of the phone for a long time. Wu Yu waited for a while, but received no praise or reprimand. He suddenly felt itchy: "Dad? Dad? Daddy? Why are you not talking? Did I say something wrong, son?"
Father Wu replied slowly: "No, I'm just shocked that you actually have some use for this."
"Dad! This is pure personal attack and discrimination!" Wu Yu pointed out righteously, but was frightened by Wu's father's sneer and became timid again.
Seeing that the topic was about to turn into a denunciation meeting of Wu Yu, Wu Jin, a straightforward person who would not be disturbed, pulled the topic back: "It seems that I was right when I was a child. That Uncle Chu had a very unpleasant smell. Thinking about it now, I still feel very uncomfortable."
Wu Yu's surprised voice suddenly appeared: "Oh, brother, you are here too! Then should our family bring mom in to make a phone call?"
Hearing this, Wu's father's voice turned into a gentle female voice. It was Wu's mother: "Baby, mom is always here."
"Mommy——" Wu Yu was about to act coquettishly, but was coldly rejected by her mother.
"Don't interrupt. Listen to your brother."
Wu Jin was not annoyed by Wu Yu's interruption and said directly: "I've already finished talking. Since I was one of the children who went to be hugged, I didn't think much about it, and I'm not sure what it smelled like."
At this time, Su Yun continued, "It's the smell of a rotting corpse. After I came back to the funeral home, when the weather was hot, sometimes the family members had a lot of requests, and after a long time of negotiation, they couldn't get through. In the end, the corpse was not embalmed in time, and that smell appeared."
When Su Yun was a child, she didn't know that she almost vomited on the spot after smelling that smell. She pinched her palms to hold it back. If she vomited, Chu Fei would be embarrassed and the Su family would be ashamed, so she forced herself to hold it back. Later, when she saw her parents arguing with the family members at the funeral home, she ran to the stretcher out of curiosity and almost vomited when she matched the two smells.
But most people don’t understand what a rotten corpse smells like. At most, they know what it smells like when food goes bad. There is a saying to describe the smell: “Even a corpse doesn’t stink this bad.” It is easy to imagine the stench of a rotting corpse that can kill someone on the spot.
After hearing what Su Yun said, the Wu family members fell silent. They thought about how they had hugged Chu Feidu before, and now they felt like vomiting.
Wu Jin managed to regain his sanity: "This... but many people at the scene didn't smell it, so it shouldn't be something like a zombie, right?"
"I don't know about that. Whether he is a zombie or not has nothing to do with whether he will emit that kind of corpse smell. If a person is dead but is made into a puppet, it is possible that he will carry this smell. And the worse the smell, it means that he has been dead for a long time, so long that even the potion used to make the puppet cannot cover it up." Su Yun explained simply.
“So, Chu Feidu was not rescued by Yu Ming in an accident, but was made into a puppet by Yu Ming. He helped Yu Ming everywhere, and then Yu Ming disappeared, and he couldn’t survive. No wonder we haven’t received any news about Chu Feidu abroad for so many years…” Father Wu finally realized why such a good friend seemed to have drifted away from everyone after Yu Ming appeared, as if Yu Ming was the only one in his life.
From this perspective, Yu Ming, whom Wu's father knew, was the person Su Yun was looking for, and he might not even be dead.
Wu Yu didn't understand the whole story, so he asked in confusion: "Wait, wait, what are you talking about? Is there something wrong with this Uncle Chu? Also, what's the smell you smelled? Su Yun, how come some people can smell it and some don't?"
Seeing that he was really confused, Su Yun briefly described the order he had taken, and then explained: "As for the taste, that's very simple. It depends on the constitution. You can understand that the more innate energy a child has, the more sensitive they are. That's why people often say that children can see things that adults can't. In fact, that's innate energy. Taoists have been cultivating this thing, but innate energy is difficult to preserve after adulthood, so Taoists also cultivate acquired energy."
The content of Taoist practice could not be fully discussed even if one spent seven days and seven nights, so Su Yun simply mentioned a few terms and left the rest to the Wu family to understand for themselves.
Wu Jin is indeed the calmest and smartest person in the Wu family. He immediately grasped another detail: "Since the innate energy will dissipate with age, then the children who refused Chu Fei's hug at that time were the youngest in the field?"
"Brother, you guessed it right! Let me think about it," Wu Yu was quite enthusiastic about this kind of thing, "it seems that those under five years old are almost unwilling to be held by Uncle Chu. Su Yun and I were about the same age at that time, but I didn't smell it?"
"Because there's something wrong with your brain, you can't preserve your innate energy." Su Yun couldn't help but say this. Wu Yu was a person who couldn't preserve his energy at all, so he was really easily affected by the environment.
Wu Yu was unhappy when he heard this: "What do you mean by having a screw loose in your brain? You are the one having a screw loose in your brain!"
Compared to Wu Yu's anger, Wu's father, Wu's mother and Wu Jin were more worried about whether the lack of innate energy would have any effect on Wu Yu. Wu's mother asked worriedly: "Yunyun, will Wu Yu be in any trouble?"
Now the Wu family trusts Su Yun very much. After all, she can even find out about Chu Feidu's affairs.
Su Yun quickly comforted him, "It's okay. Most people can't keep it. At least it takes a fate and personality like Big Brother Wu Jin to keep a part of it. But it's true that Wu Yu is easily influenced. He will be affected by whatever environment he's in. Just spend more time with your family."
With Su Yun's words, the Wu family felt relieved. As long as the person was fine, it didn't matter if he was a little stupid, they would try their best to protect him.
They had been talking for quite some time, and Wu's father and mother were still busy, so they gave Wu Yu a few more instructions to be obedient and then hung up the phone. As for Wu Yu, he also had to get on the highway, so he hung up quickly and said he would be there soon.
Without the phone call, the yard became quiet again, with only the disturbing chirping of insects to be heard.
Wu Jin stroked the teacup in his hand and asked slowly, "Su Yun, this Yu Ming is also the murderer who targeted the Wu family, right?"
"Hmm?" Su Yun looked up at him, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Well, I didn't think of it at first, but my uncle just said that the old man never got to see Yu Ming, and then Yu Ming died not long after that, so I started to have doubts."
"Can you tell me in detail about this Yu Ming matter?" Wu Jin asked softly. He knew that most people who did such things would keep it secret, so he would not force it. If Su Yun could not tell, he would send someone to investigate.
Su Yun thought about it. The contract didn't say anything about not telling other people, and there was no confidentiality agreement either. So he went directly to the Wuming Teahouse to find the master, and then heard from the master about the two traitors who had betrayed their sect.
Wu Jin was stunned for a long time after hearing this: "...This is really...all kinds of people gathered in one sect..."
Hearing this, Su Yun smiled and said, "It's normal. With so many people in a sect, there are always one or two beastly scums. What's more, the Jingling Sect has a special way of cultivation, and the qualifications of its disciples are basically mixed. At that time, I simply wanted to check Zhao Tuhu, who attacked Aunt Wu, and then I remembered the matter of the Fu family. The time didn't match, so I checked Yu Ming, and it turned out that he was from the same sect."
To some extent, Yu Ming and Zhao Tuhu can be considered to be from the same master.
Wu Jin's face darkened. "That makes sense. Yu Ming accepted a disciple who has the same skills and experience as me. He can use him to target our family. He just wants to take revenge on Grandpa and our family, and he even started with Auntie!"
This kind of thing is common in the circle, the Wu family has never lied, they have no intention of entering the antique circle, they can't play together, however, Yu Ming always hopes to get in touch with the old man, but the government has ruined his two opportunities.
It’s hard not to wonder if the government knows something and is interfering.
People like Yu Ming are bullies who only bully the weak and fear the strong. They cannot deal with a behemoth like the national government. They know that they will suffer the consequences if they offend a national-level ancestor. But it must be much easier to deal with an ordinary family like the Wu family who do not believe in metaphysics.
Just like Mo Qingtao’s husband, it can be summed up in one sentence “If I can’t deal with others, I can deal with you too”?
The other party has been practicing for many years and has the royal concubine zombie in his hands. He is not easy to deal with. Wu Jin asked Su Yun worriedly: "Su Yun, is this matter difficult to handle? Otherwise, should we ask Jingling Sect to come? They have been looking for so many years, why not invite back the sect leader who drove Yu Ming away?"
"No need," Su Yun chuckled, "Don't be nervous, let them come as masters and apprentices, you can lead them directly to me, who says that only the country can have old babies at the level of the Grandmaster? There is also a kind of Grandmaster, called the Grandmaster who gives food to eat."
"What do you mean?" Wu Jin didn't understand.
Su Yun shouted directly: "Lin Lang!"
The next second, Lin Lang appeared in the yard, holding a few pieces of wood. "Director, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Pulling Lin Lang to the table, Su Yun said directly to Wu Jin: "Look, this is the Heavenly Master of our funeral home. He put on his own robe and can sit at the same table with those old babies. He is the type of person who is blessed by God."
Wu Jin suddenly realized: "No wonder you only take him with you every time you go out... But, Mr. Lin is very old this year?"
Lin Lang looked puzzled: "Long life? I'm only thirty-one this year."
"..." Wu Jin was originally shocked by the hidden talents in the funeral home, but now he was only worried that Su Yun would be tricked to death by him. "Su Yun, you are only 31."
Old baby, old baby, you have to get old first!
Su Yun waved her hand to let Lin Lang continue to work. She smiled and said, "So, being young is a gift from God. Remember what I said about Taoists only cultivating innate energy or acquired energy? Lin Lang is the kind of person who is born with innate energy all over his body, and he is immortal. He has no acquired energy at all but still has innate energy all over his body. His twenty years of cultivation is equivalent to others' two hundred years of cultivation. Sometimes, God is really partial, isn't he?"
Yu Ming and Zhao Tuhu would probably be so angry that they would vomit blood when they saw such talent and aptitude. It can't even be compared with the saying "If we have Yu, why have Liang?" Zhou Yu is no worse than Zhuge Liang, he was just born at the wrong time. But Yu Ming and Zhao Tuhu's talents are far inferior to Lin Lang's even if they were born three hundred years earlier.
Therefore, under the premise that God is so unfair and divides people into different levels, Taoist practitioners should cultivate their minds first. If the mind is not calm, no matter how much innate and acquired energy one has, it will be useless. Just like Yu Ming and Zhao Tuhu have been hiding for so many years, in fact, there are many people in the Jingling Sect who are less talented than them, but they can concentrate on practicing, and naturally they can beat them so that they dare not show up until now.
Otherwise, Yu Ming should have come back for revenge long ago after the former leader of Jingling Sect went on a journey. Instead, he has been hiding until now, just because he cannot be defeated by many people. The increase in cultivation does not mean that his ability has become stronger, and the unconventional ways will not last long after all.
Wu Jin didn't know how to answer Su Yun's question. He thought about it carefully and said, "God is indeed partial, but in life, instead of looking at others, it is better to do your own thing. Yu Ming and Zhao Tuhu may have thought too much. Just like doing business, the Wu family is engaged in heavy industry, so they focus on heavy industry. Buying antiques that you like to play with does not mean being greedy and wanting to do antique business. That is putting the cart before the horse."
"It is difficult for people who know their destiny to completely calm down. They calculate their own fate and destiny, and cannot help but hate." Su Yun smiled softly and lowered her eyes to look at the palm of her hand. The lines on it represented her destiny.
"So, Yu Ming hates our family so much that he hopes we all die?" Wu Jin asked after a moment of silence.
Su Yun clenched his fist and nodded slightly: "Maybe, I think, when he went to the old man, he might have wanted to find someone with an excellent fate to protect him, because people with strong and excellent fate can protect others. This is what people often say, the family must choose the strongest heir, this strongest one will not have a bad fate, so he can lead the family to go further."
Wu Jin and Wu Yu are the best examples. Even if Wu Yu is not bad, if Wu Jin is no longer able to do so one day, he can still hold up the Wu family. However, the limit of what he can do is not to regress. He can't be like Wu Jin, who seems to be the mainstay of the Wu family now, and his prestige in the Wu family is approaching that of Wu's father and the old man.
Wu Jin was worried because he didn't know who the murderer was. Now that he knew it was Yu Ming behind the scenes, he felt relieved. He asked, "So that's how it is. Su Yun, what do you think I should do to make him come out? Although we know that Yu Ming is behind this, we are still in a passive position because the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light."
Su Yun thought for a while and said, "Well, I originally thought that this had nothing to do with the Wu family. Maybe someone wanted to overthrow the Wu family and asked Zhao Tuhu to do it. So they planned to wait for the old man to pass away and send him to me. Then I would lure Zhao Tuhu out. Once Zhao Tuhu is captured, it would not be difficult to find Yu Ming, but..."
Although Wu Jin didn't say the rest directly, he understood what Wu Yun meant: "Now that we know that it was Yu Ming who was targeting the Wu family, we certainly can't push everything onto you. Su Yun, just tell us directly, how do you need us to cooperate?"
"No rush, let's analyze Yu Ming's motives first. It's not like Yu Ming would suddenly show up to deal with the Wu family after hiding for so many years... Brother Wu Jin, have you purchased any antiques recently, or have any cooperation in antiques?" Su Yun felt that he should not act rashly. He had to sort out the matter completely before he could make a better bait.
"Antiques? Are you saying that the antiques we bought recently attracted Yu Ming's attention?" Wu Jin thought about it carefully and felt that what Su Yun said made sense.
In order to avoid being hunted down by the Jingling Sect, Yu Ming hid under a false name for thirty years. Now the Jingling Sect has not completely given up the idea of finding him, but they are not pursuing him as closely as before. Once he shows up, they will still try to find a way to get rid of him.
Now he has rashly appeared to target the Wu family and even went to find Aunt Wu. It seems that he has been provoked by the Wu family again.
Su Yun nodded slightly: "Yes, from the description of Jinglingmen, I feel that this person is very conceited. At the same time, he is also aware of his own shortcomings. Such a person will not act casually if he is not sure. Now he may still not be able to guarantee that his cultivation is above everyone in Jinglingmen, but he still took action. This can only mean that the Wu family did something that made him unhappy."
There was only one conflict between the Wu family and Yu Ming - Wu's father failed to successfully introduce him to the old man.
Wu Jin opened his bills for the past three months, and after a while hesitantly said, "Except for the old man, no one in our family likes antiques. However, three months ago, Wu Yu suddenly started to bid for antiques at Qingyun Villa. They were all beautiful small pieces of jewelry. They were not particularly expensive, but they were beautiful, the kind that girls would like."
Given Wu Yu's unreliability, he actually has very little liquid funds on hand. In order to prevent him from impulsively squandering all the family fortune, as long as Wu's father, Wu's mother and Wu Jin hold the financial power, even if Wu Yu is tricked into gambling, he will only get the money when he loses it and it is impossible for him to get more money.
In addition to not giving more money, a copy of any large cash flow receipt from Wu Yu would be sent to the Wu family's company. This was the rule set when Wu Yu's card was issued, but it did not apply to his own cards and slush funds.
As an adult, Wu Yu felt it was inappropriate to ask for money from his family. He usually used his own money and only used the card given by his family when he ran out of money.
Three months ago, Wu Yu bought several antique pieces of jewelry at Qingyun Villa, which exceeded the amount in his own piggy bank. He began to use the card given to him by the Wu family. Wu Jin had warned him several times that money should not be spent in this way, unless he was giving it to his girlfriend, but Wu Yu said no.
Since it's not for my wife, it would be a waste to spend so much money on some antique jewelry that I can't use. To put it bluntly, it's like being taken advantage of.
Wu Jin sent a few screenshots of the receipts to Su Yun and said, "That's about it. I don't know if he made any other purchases of smaller amounts. He makes quite a bit of money, and he has to use the card his family gave him to spend. That means he has less than three million left."
Hearing this, Su Yun raised his eyebrows: "No wonder when I met him again at Qingyun Villa, he looked so disappointed when I asked him to open a few presidential suites for me to prove himself. I thought he was afraid to open such a large amount because his family was holding his card. I didn't expect that he really had no money."
He has no money but still dares to argue with Su Yun and snatch Ding Lan ruler. He also lacks the love and beating from his parents.
"If your reunion was during the days when Su Yun was sent abroad, he was indeed out of money, and I took him back not only for the superficial reason you guessed at Qingyun Villa, but also because he bought too much, some of which I thought were completely unnecessary." As he spoke, Wu Jin pointed to one of the receipts, on which was written seven bodhi beads.
Bodhi beads are so difficult to fake that you may not trust them even if they are directly unearthed from a cemetery, let alone those sold at auctions. They don't appreciate in value, so whoever buys them will be cheated.
This kind of thing has a certain hype value, but it is too difficult to determine its identity and specific origin as an antique. The good ones are all in the National Museum. Where can you easily find a good and real Bodhi beads outside?
Su Yun felt bad when he saw this. This money was wasted. "Seven pills. Did he buy them to honor the old man? Didn't the old man beat him?"
Wu Jin's emotions were still stable. "No, he didn't give any of the things he bought to us. He gave them to Su Yun... the one with the grass radical Yun, and gave them to Su Yun and some of her best friends. There are seven bodhi beads, and it seems that each of them has one."
"..." Su Yun hesitated, and many unpleasant words finally turned into one sentence, "Look at the bright side, although Wu Yu spent a lot of money, he gained... happiness!"
"Are you sure?" Wu Jin asked calmly.
Su Yun raised his hands to cover his face, not letting him see the corners of his mouth that were about to swell: "That's right... Love makes people blind, it's normal."
Wu Jin sneered, "Really? No wonder you're so blind."
[End of this chapter]
Su Yun: Wu Yu, please be more careful (lighting a cigarette.jpg)
Wu Yu: Dim sum? What kind of dim sum? :-D
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