The two of them immediately stepped forward and greeted him warmly: "Hello, Grandpa Lu."
Mr. Lu smiled faintly at the two of them, then set his sights on Zhan Beiyao, "You are Zhan Jun's grandson, right? You look exactly like your grandfather when he was young."
"Grandpa Lu."
Zhan Beiyao bowed to the sixty-year-old man in front of him and said, "I'm sorry to have invited you all the way here. I hope Grandpa Lu doesn't mind."
"Mr. Zhan, you specially invited me here this time because of your grandfather's matter, right?" Mr. Lu smiled amiably.
"Yes."
Zhan Beiyao didn't hide anything: "Grandpa Lu, I want to know something about my grandfather forty years ago."
Mr. Lu was a little curious: "Why do you want to know about your grandfather's past?"
Zhan Beiyao replied, "Grandpa Lu, do you know Li Xinyu?"
When Mr. Lu heard the name, he frowned slightly. "I know, this Li Xinyu was Lucas's girlfriend. Lucas and Li Xinyu were about to get married. But then, for some unknown reason, Li Xinyu suddenly passed away, and Lucas went abroad. I haven't seen him since then."
At this point, he sighed again: "It's such a pity. Your grandfather and Lucas used to have a very good relationship. When they were in the military academy, the two would fight for each other. But ever since Lucas got a girlfriend like Li Xinyu, the relationship between your grandfather and Lucas has gradually faded."
"Is the reason why their relationship faded because of Li Xinyu?" Zhan Beiyao asked quickly.
"Yeah! I think that girl named Li Xinyu is not a good person."
Old Master Lu sighed again. "Ever since Lucas and Li Xinyu got together, he's become like a demon, unable to distinguish right from wrong. Li Xinyu is also very pretentious. She always pretends to be weak in front of Lucas. What's even worse is that she wants Lucas to sell the ancestral home. That's the only thing Lucas's mother left him!"
"Grandpa Lu, what happened next?" Ran Xia couldn't help but ask.
"Later, for unknown reasons, Li Xinyu suddenly passed away. Lucas then left the country and never contacted us again. I once asked Zhan Jun about the situation, but he wouldn't talk about it. I always felt there was something else going on."
"That's right, Grandpa Lu!"
Ran Xia nodded. "There's definitely something else going on. When Li Xinyu was with my master, she actually had another boyfriend, and her mother had passed away a long time ago. But she kept lying to my master, saying her mother was seriously ill and needed a lot of money. She was actually trying to use the money to marry her boyfriend."
"Your master is Lucas, right?"
Mr. Lu looked at Ran Xia and said with some regret, "In fact, we all thought that Li Xinyu's motives were impure at the beginning, but your master Lucas was deeply in love with Li Xinyu. In his eyes, Li Xinyu was the kindest and most gentle woman in the world. We tried to persuade him several times, but found that he was getting deeper and deeper into it, so we stopped caring about it."
"Grandpa Lu, did you leave any evidence to prove that Li Xinyu was pretending to be weak?" Zhan Beiyao asked quickly.
Mr. Lu thought for a moment and shook his head. "As for evidence, I don't have any after all these years. But I think you can go to the nightclub where Li Xinyu used to work and look for it. Maybe you can find some evidence there."
Ran Xia frowned slightly: "Grandpa Lu, I've already done some research. That nightclub disappeared more than 20 years ago, and even the land was developed into a commercial building."
"Oh, I remember now!"
Mr. Lu suddenly said, "I happened to be there when Lucas rescued Li Xinyu in the nightclub. After the incident was resolved, the nightclub manager gave me a business card. I remember the manager's name seemed to be Zhang Tao. Yes, Zhang Tao. Judging from the time, Zhang Tao should be about the same age as me."
"Grandpa Lu, please wait a moment." Zhan Beiyao nodded respectfully after hearing this: "I will send someone to investigate immediately."
Then, he took out his phone and called Tan Ya: "Help me find a man named Zhang Tao in Jiangcheng, between 60 and 75 years old. Give me the information of all people named Zhang Tao within half an hour."
Mr. Lu looked at Ran Xia and said, "Little girl, how has your master Lucas been doing these years? Has he started a family?"
Ran Xia shook her head. "Master has always been upset about what happened forty years ago. In Master's mind, Li Xinyu is the best woman he has ever met in his life, so he has never gotten married."
"That's such a shame."
Hearing this, Mr. Lu sighed helplessly: "At our age, if we can't experience the feeling of having children and grandchildren, it would be too lonely and uncomfortable."
Ran Xia also agreed with what Grandpa Lu said: "Grandpa Lu, you are right. My master may have been too lonely, so he adopted us."
"By the way, I heard that your master and Zhan Jun have had no contact since Li Xinyu passed away. What's going on?" Grandpa Lu asked.
"Because..." Ran Xia finally told the truth: "My master said that it was Grandpa Zhan who killed Li Xinyu."
"How is this possible?" Mr. Lu's eyes widened in surprise. "How could Zhan Jun kill Li Xinyu?"
"Now my master is too obsessed with this matter. He wants to avenge Li Xinyu, so I must find out the truth of this matter and resolve the knot between my master and Grandpa Zhan." Ran Xia replied.
Old Master Lu was a little worried. "Little girl, listen to my advice. Don't investigate this matter any further. Your master has missed Li Xinyu for so many years. If he saw the cruel truth, how could he bear it?"
"But Master has also hated Grandpa Zhan for forty years." Ran Xia frowned and said, "I can't let Grandpa Zhan bear the crime of killing Li Xinyu forever."
Half an hour later, Qin Ya gave Zhan Beiyao a complete list.
There are a total of 1,680 people named Zhang Tao in Jiangcheng. If we shorten their age to between 60 and 75 years old, there are 420 of them. Excluding women, there are 306 left.
Zhan Beiyao used his computer to retrieve all the photos of the 306 people named Zhang Tao and gave them to Mr. Lu to sort out. "Grandpa Lu, please take a look and see if any of these photos are the Zhang Tao you know."
Mr. Lu told him: "The reason why I was impressed by the man named Zhang Tao at that time was because he had a very obvious scar on the lower right corner of his mouth."
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