Chapter 382 Contact Mr. Xu
When they arrived at the inner room, Qi Xu sent all the servants away and asked her softly.
"Grandma, do we have any relatives in the government? Has he interfered with our Lin family's business? If so, who is that person and what position is he in now?"
The matter has been exposed, and Grandma Lin no longer hides it. She reveals the relationship between Mr. Xu San and the Lin family and tells Qi Xu the truth.
"The Lin family had three branches. Youqian's great-grandfather's third brother married into the Xu family as a son-in-law in order to gain resources and help the family."
"The Xu family has been in politics for generations, and all their relatives are government officials. Due to national policy, they only had one daughter. Your great-uncle is a man of talent and good character. After he came into the family, he was highly regarded by his father-in-law and mother-in-law, who supported him in his political career."
"Because you are marrying into the family, all descendants of your great-uncle's lineage will change their surnames to Lin and Xu."
"After your great-uncle passed away, the family is now run by his third son, Xu Hong, who is also Grandpa Youqian's cousin. Because he is the third child, we in the Lin family privately call him Master Xu San."
"After decades of experience in officialdom, he is now a ministerial-level official. His status is very high and very sensitive."
"So, for the past twenty years, in order not to affect his career, our Lin family has rarely interacted with the Xu family. Aside from a phone call when necessary, we almost never meet in person."
"I haven't seen Xu Hong in over twenty years. He's almost seventy now."
"Officialdom is full of ups and downs, and the political world is unpredictable. I wonder if he has grown old? Does he have white hair like me?"
When talking about the past, Grandma Lin was filled with sadness.
Although the third branch was separated, the blood ties still exist, and Lin Youqian's grandfather's generation should have had private interactions.
It was just because of his status in the officialdom that he didn't show much friendship on the surface.
Qi Xu guessed that perhaps decades ago, the Xu family must have provided a lot of help to the Lin family in private, and revealed some information about the country's new policies and urban construction and development plans.
Otherwise, in the era when the real estate industry was booming, it would have been impossible for the Lin family to be the first in everything, obtain the best locations and resources in advance, develop rapidly at a mythical speed, become the leading wealthy family in Kyoto, and firmly sit on the position of the leading commercial overlord in the north.
Now, once the relationship between the two families is discovered and made public, the higher Mr. Xu's official position, the more disadvantageous it will be for Lin Youqian and Shanglin Group.
"Grandma, can you contact Mr. Xu San? This matter has implicated others, and I want to speak to him."
Grandma Lin walked into the secret room tremblingly, opened the precious mahogany box that came with her dowry, and took out a small yellowed notebook from it.
Turning to the first page, there was a photo of a handsome man in a Zhongshan suit, about twenty years old.
Grandma's dry fingers touched the photo again and again, reluctant to let go.
"This is your grandfather, Lin Hezhou. He's a very caring and talented man. Qiqi, look, wasn't he very handsome when he was young?"
Qiqi took a look and found him to be quite handsome indeed. Lin Youqian's good looks were also a bit like his grandfather's when he was young.
Qi Xu was extremely anxious, but he couldn't urge her, so he could only agree with her.
"Grandpa is indeed very handsome, and grandma must have been very beautiful when she was young. Next year during the Qingming Festival, Youqian and I will visit grandpa's grave and pay our respects to him."
"Grandma, please tell me quickly, how can I contact Mr. Xu Sanye?"
Grandma gave her a shy look.
"What's the hurry? Let me take one more look at your grandpa. What's wrong?"
How could Qi Xu not be anxious?
Now we have to race against time. If the higher-ups have already traced the case back to Mr. Xu Sanye, it will be difficult to contact him.
"Grandma, first tell me Third Master's contact information, then you can hold Grandpa's photo and look at it however you want."
"When I have time, I'll use AI to make a real-life video for you, and I'll even let you talk to your grandpa."
When Grandma Lin heard this, her cloudy eyes immediately brightened up, and her face was filled with infinite longing and expectation.
"Really? Can you make the old man come back to life and talk to me?"
"Grandma, I don't have any magic to bring Grandpa back to life. I use AI technology to generate dynamic character videos using his photos, making him look like a real person."
Grandma Lin didn't understand what AI was. She kept asking and pestered Qi Xu to make it for her on the spot.
Qi Xu really regretted being so rude and talking about AI with an eighty-year-old lady.
Now, not only did I not get the phone number, but I was also pestered by my grandma and couldn't get away from her.
"Grandma, please tell me Third Master's contact information, or I won't revive Grandpa for you!"
"I'll give you three seconds. I'm counting down now. Three, two, one! If you delay any longer, Grandpa will be scared to death!"
Qi Xu really couldn't explain it to his grandmother, so he simply used metaphysics to fool her, which turned out to be more effective.
Sure enough, the older generation would rather believe in ghosts and gods than science.
Grandma quickly took out a yellowed piece of paper from the bottom shelf of the drawer.
"This is your Third Master's number. Call him quickly. After you're done, take me to see the old man."
When Grandma Lin said this, Qi Xu felt a chill on her back. She bowed in a direction where no one was around, silently apologizing in her heart.
Grandpa, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bring you out to scare anyone. If you're still here, please bless the Lin family and help them through this difficult time.
After Qi Xu got the number, he couldn't wait to dial the number.
As she expected, no one answered.
I repeated it twice and the same thing happened.
It seemed that either the Third Master was in dire straits and couldn't answer the phone, or he hated the Lin family's backstabbing and didn't want to have any contact with them anymore.
In order to find out the situation of Mr. Xu Sanye, Qi Xu sent a picture.
A woman with a pointed chin and monkey-like face was chopping wood with a ferocious expression. Beside her lay a pale-faced scholar, reading leisurely.
In the bushes behind him, there was a tiger hiding, staring intently at him.
No matter how finely the wood under the woman's feet was chopped, no matter how high the sawdust flew.
The scholar's clothes are always as white as clouds, spotless, and seem out of place with the dilapidated house in the picture.
About ten minutes later, the other party called.
"Hello, who is this?"
Mr. Xu Sanye's tone was cold, his voice was heavy, and he was a little impatient.
Qi Xu didn't know what was going on over there, whether there were any inspection team members around him, or whether the phone was controlled, so he pretended to speak.
"Hello sir, your takeaway has arrived, but the security guard won't let you into your complex. Can you come out and get it?"
"I'm at the entrance of your community, next to the second tree."
As soon as she mentioned the second tree, the other party understood immediately and confirmed her identity.
Two trees form a forest. Her voice sounds very young. She must be Lin Youqian's trouble-making young wife.
Seeing that she acted cautiously and intelligently, and that the meaning expressed in the picture seemed to have a solution, I agreed to meet her.
"It's so late, you're already 80 minutes overdue. I don't want it. I've already eaten at Yongfu Restaurant."
Qi Xu understood immediately. The meeting place was Yongfu Restaurant, and the time limit was 80 minutes.
She continued to pretend to be a delivery girl and apologized.
"I'm sorry, sir. I'm a new driver and not familiar with the road conditions, so I exceeded the time limit. You can cancel the order, but please don't give me a bad review. Please!"
This conversation seems very realistic, and even if it was monitored, no clues could be heard.
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