Bai Minhua had no choice but to find her son and sat in the living room of Du Ruo's house, crying.
Ji Bailin and Du Ruo sat opposite her. The brother and sister looked at each other, both speechless.
Ji Bailin helplessly picked up a list and handed it to his mother.
Bai Minhua was stunned for a moment, then reached out to take it in confusion, while her other hand was still wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes.
Ji Yuan gently put his arm around her shoulders, comforting her silently.
"Money is something outside of our body. Your mother and I have never taken it seriously. You two siblings shouldn't take it too seriously either. You can't bring it with you when you're born, and you can't take it with you when you die. It's the relationship that matters most. He's your uncle, so help him if you can."
Seeing that the brother and sister were silent, he sighed and looked down at his wife.
But he found that Bai Minhua's hands were shaking a little. He reached out and took the list with confusion, but didn't see anything unusual. Ji Yuan was a simple person. He grew up in a prosperous environment and never cared much about money.
Not to mention that it was a personal gift from Mr. Chen to Bai Minhua, and he would not be thinking about his wife's things.
Bai Minhua's lips trembled as she asked, "What do you mean by this? Are you after my things? I'm your biological mother. Your uncle is in trouble and asked you two to help him out, yet you're after my things?"
Ji Yuan was speechless.
His mother's train of thought was always so strange. She didn't even think about it. She was also the head of the Ji family, and the Ji family was so small. Would he be short of such a small thing? He still felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. Was this how he was in his mother's mind?
Du Ruo felt nothing in her heart. She was numbed by the blow she suffered from her own mother.
He kindly reminded her, "Ms. Bai, I just bought the items on this list yesterday at the antique market. They're all in great condition. Experts have checked them, and they're all authentic."
Bai Minhua was dumbfounded. What did her daughter mean by this? Why didn't she understand a word? She'd bought a box of genuine goods, but what about her own stuff?
Ji Bailin sighed and said, "Mom, don't you understand? My cheap uncle was imprisoned for making counterfeit goods. Do you understand?"
They're the masters of counterfeiting. Is it normal for them to give you a box of fakes?
Bai Minhua's hand froze, and the silk handkerchief in her hand fell to the ground without her even realizing it.
She seemed to be still in a dream, unaware of what day it was.
Ji Yuan understood a little bit, and he found it incredible.
Mr. Chen showed his deep love for his daughter and invited them all the way here. Could it be that he wanted to give his daughter a box of fake goods? That didn't make sense.
Bai Minhua finally came to her senses and became furious.
"Did you two make this up? You're trying to trick me together? Do you think I'm a three-year-old? Your grandfather has been searching for me for so many years, using various people to get in touch with me. It wasn't until a few days ago that we finally got to know each other as father and daughter. I know you have no feelings for your grandfather, but you can't treat him like this, can you?"
Ji Bailin said, "Mom, hearing is not believing, seeing is believing. Let me show you the things."
Ji Bailin pushed his sister after he finished speaking: "Sister, where are your things? Bring some over to show our mother."
Du Ruo stood up and walked into the study, brought back a few things and put them directly on the coffee table.
"Why don't you take a look for yourself? You can ask Uncle Ji to help you see if mine is a fake."
Bai Minhua stared at the things on the table with her eyes wide open. She was familiar with these things and had looked at them over and over again in the past two days. She looked at Ji Yuan for help, with pleading in her eyes.
Ji Yuan patted his wife's back soothingly and reached out to pick up the antique on the table.
Although he was not familiar with worldly affairs and loved only romance and love all his life, he came from a wealthy family and was able to recognize these things to some extent.
After a while, he frowned and said, "I can't see anything unusual."
Bai Minhua was a little panicked. She hurriedly said to Ji Bailin, "Ah Lin, quickly ask them to go to my room and bring my box of antiques here. Then go find me some antique appraisal experts. Hurry up."
Bai Minhua is anxiously looking for an identification expert, and the village chief is receiving the investigation team.
He was just a small village official, and a small village official in a remote village. Suddenly so many serious and senior officials came, and he was so scared that cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
Someone comforted him and said, "Don't be nervous, we are just here to check the situation. Are there any outsiders contracting the factory here?"
The village chief stammered, "Yes, yes. Several wealthy people have been here."
“What do they mainly do?”
"At the beginning, they hired people from our village to make clay figurines and pots for them. They had their own masters, so they just asked people from our village to help with the rough work."
"And then?"
"Later, they said we couldn't make money, so they stopped us from making clay pots and didn't let us get close to the work. The villagers helped with the rough labor. I don't know what they did."
"I heard that people in your village have sold pottery?"
"You mean clay figurines? We have sold them, yes. One time, some of us went to the county and saw an expert buying those clay figurines. When we got back to the village and told them, everyone was delighted. We thought, 'We can make them, right? We've made them for that big boss before.' We discussed it and decided that since we have nothing else to do, we might as well make clay figurines as a whole. And when we sent them to the county, the expert actually wanted them. We were so happy that we came back and continued making them. But unfortunately, we only made a few carts before he stopped buying them."
Investigation team…………
The members of the investigation team looked at each other in bewilderment. This matter...
"Is there anyone still in the factory now? Can you take us to have a look around?"
"No one's here anymore? I don't know what happened, but they all suddenly went on holiday a few days ago. The outside masters and workers all left, and they all suddenly disappeared. I'll take you to see it."
Everyone walked to the open space at the foot of the mountain and saw a high wall in the distance. The old village chief asked someone to open the big black iron gate, and everyone walked into the factory area.
The factory is very large, with rows of bungalows arranged in an orderly manner. It doesn't look like it was built in a short time.
“How many years has this factory been built?”
"But it's been a while, five or six years? Seven or eight years? That's all."
The things in the factory seemed to have been deliberately destroyed. It was a mess, and no complete artifact was left. From the traces of destruction, only some ceramic fragments could be seen. However, the village chief said that the factory was registered as a ceramic processing factory, so this was normal.
The investigation team returned empty-handed and had to start with Chen Guochang and Shi Lin.
Unfortunately, Yuan Tingchuan's prediction came true. Chen Guochang exposed the Qu family, and the Qu family threw Qu Xin out.
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