Qiu Hu hesitated for a moment, but quickly gathered his thoughts and smiled slightly, "Tell me everything, what's going on?"
"The Colin family went to Mu City and met with the Lin family. The earliest meeting I found was half a year ago. Moreover, they are quite cautious. Our people were discovered as soon as they caught up with them, and it was difficult to get close. As for why they chose to cooperate with the Lin family, which is far away in Mu City, we speculate that the Colin family had cooperated with the Lin family before when they were doing business in China, and it just so happens that both families have great ambitions."
“When we first discovered their dealings, we sent another group to investigate the Colin family locally. They’re a century-old family, a family of doctors. They immigrated to Country B from China a hundred years ago, and in recent years they’ve started researching more advanced drugs and recruited many medical talents.” A-Qian took out the information he had compiled about the Colin family and handed it to Qiu Hu. “The current head of the Colin family is Qiao Ri, who has been in charge of the Colin family’s affairs for 23 years. Moreover, he also has a medical background. It can be said that the Colin family’s pharmaceutical business is all in his hands. And we have found as much information about him as possible. He’s ruthless, but he has foresight.”
Ayi paused briefly. "Continue," Qiu Hu said, feeling that he hadn't gotten to the point yet.
“According to what you said last time, the Lin family met with Qiu Bing, so we’ve been keeping an eye on Qiu Bing. A few days ago, we actually tracked him down. Qiu Bing wasn’t careful enough. Here’s a recording.” Ayi took out a voice recorder.
“This is a recording device that we placed in the private room that Qiu Bing booked in advance.”
Qiu Hu turned on the recorder, and the voices of a man and a woman came through it.
"Qiu Bing, it's been so many days, how's the matter I asked you to handle going?"
"Isn't it because we can't do it? We tried to steal it before, but we were caught. That brat will definitely hide the necklace. We don't even know if the necklace is with her now," Qiu Bing said, trying to justify herself.
"You'd better hurry up, I don't have that much time to waste with you. If you don't get it done, I won't hesitate to expose all your secrets."
At this moment, Qiu Bing's voice became flustered, "I know, I know, I'll take care of it. I'll get you that necklace and the things inside."
"You know that's good. This is your last chance." The man mocked again. "No wonder you can't even hold onto your position in the Qiu family. You really have no ability at all. Let me tell you, even if you have to take it by force, you have to take it for me."
"knew……"
After the recording was played, Qiu Hu couldn't understand what leverage the Lin family had over Qiu Bing. "Have you investigated what Qiu Bing did? Is the Lin family holding a grudge against her?"
"We've investigated, and we haven't found anything from recent years that the Lin family could use as leverage against. As for Qiu Bing's earlier cases, we're still investigating, and we believe we'll have news soon."
"So it seems that the attack I was subjected to last time was Qiu Bing's doing." Qiu Hu had thought it was Lin Ning, but he had wrongly accused someone else.
Aqian was unaware of this and was somewhat worried. "Miss, have you been surrounded?"
"Yes, thankfully, Ning Yizhan showed up in time, otherwise I would have been arrested."
Seeing that she was alright, Ah Qian continued speaking, but after a long pause, she finally spoke, organizing her thoughts, "Miss, what I'm about to say is related to you."
"Hmm, go ahead and say it." Qiu Hu picked up the teacup in front of her, took a small sip, and guessed that what A Qian was going to say was related to her parents.
“When we were investigating the Colin family, we found information about your parents. They seemed to have spent some time in the Colin family’s laboratory, but now they seem to be gone. I followed the clues to find them, but I couldn’t find them. It’s like they just vanished into thin air.”
"What was their purpose in going to the Colin family's laboratory? To research a treatment for him?"
Ah Qian knew who the "he" she was referring to was. "It should be as you said, to research a treatment for your brother. The Colin family has the most advanced and cutting-edge research equipment and talent in the world."
"Use the contents of the necklace as a bargaining chip? But they went back on their word. The Colin family didn't get what they wanted, but they also found out I had it too, and they could still get it from me. Otherwise, I can't understand why they would still try to steal my necklace?"
"Is it what you're thinking, Miss?"
"It seems there really is something very important inside that necklace. Have you found out what it is?"
"From the general contents, we can understand that it should be a prescription for a special medicine, developed by Mr. Qiu Jing, who is your father."
After listening to what Qian said, he laughed to himself again, rhythmically tapping the table with his index finger. "You really know how to cause me trouble. Why are you doing this to me for no reason? Isn't this just setting me up?"
"Should I continue to look for information about them?"
"No need, let's leave it at that for now." They might not even want us to find them; if they're going to show up, they can just do it automatically.
"About your brother..."
"How is Qiu Xi? Yesterday, Fu Shen told me that he knew about Qiu Xi, but I didn't believe him."
"Your brother's whereabouts are unknown, so much so that it's as if he never existed. But we do know that your parents and brother were not together, because your brother never appeared during the time your parents were in the lab."
"Chou Xi is missing? Could it be that he's unable to go out?"
"I don't think so. Your parents had their own accommodations when they were in the lab."
"Does Fu Shen have any connection with the Lin family?"
“We have also conducted an in-depth investigation into the Lin family’s network of relationships. Fu Shen has been working for the Lin family for the past two years. To be precise, he is the head of the Lin family’s eldest branch, Lin Hongjie.”
"Can we trust Fu Shen's words? Does he really know about Qiu Xi?" Qiu Hu narrowed his eyes, wondering if he could trust him this once.
She thought back to her phone call with Lin Ning, wondering if it was related to this matter. "What about Lin Hongsen? What's his relationship with the eldest son's family like?"
"They are currently at loggerheads, and it seems the third branch of the family wants to seize power."
"But the third wife seems interested in the necklace as well." Lin Ning even came to steal it last time.
Qiu Hu's words touched on a blind spot in A Qian's intelligence network, and he boldly guessed, "The third branch of the Lin family has also cooperated with the Colin family?"
"I don't know, you keep looking into it, it's giving me a headache."
"Yes, Miss."
After hearing A-Qian's report, Qiu Hu became even more agitated and said something dismissive, "If I just destroy the necklace myself, won't everything be fine?"
"Miss, your idea is a bit reckless."
"That's called simple and straightforward, it's done in one go. Okay, you can go out now, you can continue your investigation. I need to think about it carefully."
"Okay, Miss, I'll head out now."
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