Chapter 312 Black Water
"Stop!"
Xu Youyou anxiously asked the driver to stop the car.
But things seemed to be deliberately going against her. She stopped and the young man pointed at by the system got into a sports car.
A moment later, the sound of a sports car rumbling down the street was heard and disappeared at the end of the street. The car that Xu Youyou was riding in couldn't catch up with the other car at all.
The driver was confused for a moment and asked, "Ms. Xu, do you want me to chase the sports car?"
The road they were on was in a relatively remote area of the city, and the sports car was going very fast, so it would take some time to catch up.
Xu Fang on the side said softly: "Boss, I have taken a picture of his license plate number and will contact someone to check his personal information immediately."
Xu Youyou nodded slightly. She didn't have time to do this just now, but fortunately Xu Fang was well trained now.
Liu Xiangyi on the side acted admiringly and even opened the memo on his mobile phone to record his studies on the spot.
It wasn't the first time that Lu Jingyao had seen Xu Youyou's strange behavior. Seeing how anxious she was, he said, "This young man looks familiar. I'll ask Assistant Liu to check it out."
Xu Youyou looked at him gratefully, but also felt a little guilty that she had been hiding something about the system.
Lu Jingyao chuckled and said, "Don't worry, I won't force you if you don't want to say it."
Xu Youyou forced a smile and felt more and more guilty. After all, she would probably keep the secret of the system from Lu Jingyao for the rest of her life.
Assistant Liu acted faster than Xu Fang, or rather, Lu Jingyao's network of contacts was wider.
"That young man is the grandson of the Kuromizu family. The Kuromizu family is a chaebol family similar to the Yasuda family, but unlike the Yasuda family, the Yasuda family is now headed by an old man, while the Kuromizu family is now headed by a son-in-law."
Listening to Assistant Liu's explanation, Xu Youyou couldn't help but open her eyes wide: "Can a son-in-law be the head of the family?"
Assistant Liu said: "This country has always had a tradition of adopting a son-in-law. If there is no male heir, but only a female heir, the head of the family will be more inclined to find an excellent son-in-law for his daughter. After a year of marriage, he will adopt the son-in-law as his own son and let him change his surname. In the end, he will train the son-in-law to become the heir of the family."
Xu Youyou still felt that this system was a bit too naive. After all, there were many stories in China about ungrateful sons-in-law who wiped out the entire family, and there were many cases of three generations returning to the clan.
"This country has formed a very mature system for adopting a son-in-law. Once a son-in-law changes his surname, it is very difficult to change it back. The children born also all take the woman's surname. Even if someone wants to do the three-generation ancestral family thing, he cannot withstand the pressure of public opinion." Assistant Liu explained.
Xu Youyou raised her eyebrows and said, "It seems that the son-in-law of the Blackwater family is now running the family business very successfully?"
Assistant Liu nodded and said, "This son-in-law is indeed a capable man. The Blackwater family has risen to a higher level under his leadership. Twenty years ago, the Blackwater family could not be compared with the Yasuda family."
Xu Youyou felt that Assistant Liu was not an outsider, so she asked him without hiding anything: "Then do you know if there is any big news about the Blackwater family recently?"
Assistant Liu did not hide anything from Xu Youyou and said, "There is indeed big news recently. The son-in-law is old and has reached retirement age. He has only one son, but his son and daughter-in-law all died in a car accident. Fortunately, his son and daughter-in-law have five children, three boys and two girls. Now the Blackwater family is facing a transfer of power and has to choose a new head of the family."
Xu Youyou raised an eyebrow: "He himself was born as a son-in-law, which is enough to show the success of the son-in-law system. Why do they still have to choose the heir from among their grandchildren? Why not just find an excellent grandson-in-law?"
Assistant Liu said: "In addition to the son-in-law system, the chaebols here usually have a single-son inheritance system. The family property is only given to one child, and the other children usually only get a few scraps."
It was the first time Xu Youyou heard of this. After all, in China, rich people might favor sons over daughters, but they would never put all their eggs in one basket. In other words, it was a bit like the ancient Chinese system of primogeniture, where the eldest son only got the lion's share, and the other sons got smaller shares.
"How much does the scraps usually cost?" Xu Youyou asked curiously.
"In the more ruthless case, the heir gets 99% and the rest is divided among the others. It's unpredictable." Assistant Liu said patiently.
Xu Youyou came to her senses immediately. Money is a very tempting thing. No one could stand to watch so much money fall into the hands of one person. Naturally, the pig brain would be beaten into a dog brain.
"Is the Heishui family going to be in chaos?" Xu Youyou asked.
Assistant Liu said softly, "Now, the five grandchildren are unwilling to give in to each other and are unwilling to be the one to divide the scraps. The granddaughter took the initiative to express her willingness to marry into the family, and the grandsons are not willing to be outdone and are trying their best to prove themselves."
Xu Youyou asked: "What about the little grandson we saw?"
Assistant Liu said, "The little grandson's name is Heishui Huiqi. He loves sports cars and beautiful women. His behavior seems unruly, but he graduated from a prestigious university and worked honestly for the group after graduation. His grandfather thinks highly of him, but he is too young, only 24 years old, so I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to compete with his brothers and sisters."
Xu Youyou said: "Then tell me about his brother and sister."
"The eldest grandson is ordinary, and his talent is not as good as the youngest brother, but he is loved by his grandmother and now holds an important position in the group. Compared with his older brothers, the second grandson is not loved by his grandfather or grandmother, but his wife is the daughter of the Yasuda family, so he has strong external support."
"There are two granddaughters. The eldest granddaughter is very capable, but because of her female identity, she is suppressed in the group. The second granddaughter does not have the strong career ambition like her elder sister, but she is very popular among the wives. Both granddaughters, without exception, have found very good husbands. Their husbands are now also adopted grandchildren of the Blackwater family."
Xu Youyou listened to Assistant Liu's introduction and felt that the battle between the heirs of the Blackwater family was truly like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, each showing their magical powers.
Assistant Liu continued, "However, judging from what the Blackwater Family's Patriarch is saying now, this battle for succession has dragged on for too long, and I estimate that this period of time will soon be over."
When Xu Youyou heard this, she had a vague guess in her mind that maybe her mission this time would be involved in the dispute over the heir to the Heishui family.
She had just come up with this thought, and following the golden pointer of the system today, she circled around Tokyo for a long time, but the final target of the mission was not the young man she met yesterday.
But a beautiful woman of thirty years old.
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