This was a blind spot. Xia Yu thought for a moment before answering, “She will become my girlfriend.”
Upon hearing this, Yin Shulan’s eyes widened. She stared at Xia Yu in disbelief, never expecting that this ghost who wanted to possess a woman’s body would have such a peculiar orientation.
“It’s just research,” Xia Yu continued persuading Yin Shulan.
“No way,” Yin Shulan still refused. Not only did she say no, but she shook her head to show her determination.
Xia Yu rubbed his forehead and sighed.
Since persuasion wouldn’t work, he would have to try temptation from another angle.
“Don’t think I don’t know that if I resist, you can’t do anything to me!” Yin Shulan had successfully kicked Xia Yu out before and felt confident in her experience.
“I don’t intend to do anything to you. Otherwise, I could just hire a few people to throw you into a sack, and that would solve everything,” Xia Yu made his final attempt at persuasion.
“I won’t do it.” Yin Shulan’s mind flashed with numerous ghost stories, all about protagonists who fell into irreversible situations after naively trusting ghosts.
“I’ll come back,” Xia Yu said, turned around, and walked outside.
In the courtyard outside, An Siyao, who was occupying Xia Yu’s body, was examining the vegetables in the yard.
She squatted down, wanting to sketch the vegetables. It was the first time she had seen vegetables growing in soil.
The driver standing by the door initially maintained a composed and focused demeanor but gradually began to look around restlessly and lost in thought as time passed.
He glanced at Xia Siyao, puzzled about why Mr. Xia was squatting there looking at vegetables. Hadn’t he ever seen vegetables before?
He analyzed carefully, thought calmly, and suddenly realized, concluding that this was a cover to observe the soil and structure of the yard under the guise of examining vegetables.
Otherwise, how could Mr. Xia, a normally composed individual, look at vegetables with such curiosity!
No wonder he’s Mr. Xia.
The driver felt admiration rise in his heart.
At this moment, the villa door opened, and An Siyu walked out.
“Let’s go,” An Siyu said, ending the body exchange and returning to his own body.
Standing up from the vegetable patch, he followed An Siyao.
The group left the villa, rode back to the town on a three-wheeled motorcycle, and checked into a local inn.
The inn was old, after all, it was only a remote town, though it was relatively clean.
Xia Yu sat on the bed in the room, thinking about strategies, and called the driver.
A minute later, the driver appeared before him.
“Mr. Xia, please give me your orders,” the driver said seriously.
“Do you understand the local dialect?” Xia Yu asked.
“I can understand roughly, but not completely,” the driver replied.
That was enough. There wouldn’t be any problem with communication.
Xia Yu said, “Then I have a task for you. Go and find out what the current situation is with Yin Shulan’s family.”
Xia Yu told the driver where Yin Shulan’s relatives lived. These were relatives he had visited while possessing Yin Shulan’s body.
The driver noted down the locations, marveling at Xia Yu’s professionalism, having even prepared relative information in advance.
“If you don’t understand, ask more questions,” Xia Yu reminded him.
“Yes,” the driver respectfully left the room.
Thinking about what Xia Yu had said about the dialect, the driver recalled something.
Previously, when Mr. Xia was at Yin’s house, he had spoken in the local dialect. Local dialects are extremely difficult to learn. Generally speaking, even someone who has worked locally for several years might not master it. Yet Mr. Xia had even prepared himself for such a detail.
No wonder Mr. Xia had become the top assistant to the young lady.
Reflecting on this, the driver returned to his room, took out some cash, and went out to begin his investigation.
With money paving the way, by late at night, the driver had gathered all the information.
He typed the information into a document in his room and handed it to Xia Yu.
Xia Yu carefully read the document.
According to information from neighbors and relatives, Yin Shulan suddenly became wealthy last summer vacation and also started acting strangely.
Xia Yu skipped this part since it was during the time he had possessed her, and moved on to the following sections.
Later in the documents, it said that Yin Shulan had left the village with her daughter and granddaughter, but when she returned, both her daughter and granddaughter were gone, and she had become even wealthier. The first thing she did upon returning to the village was to build a large villa.
According to insiders, Yin Shulan had sold her daughter and granddaughter to a coal mine owner.
“…”
Xia Yu skipped this page.
Yin Shulan wasn’t satisfied with just building a villa. On her birthday in November, she hosted a grand banquet with fifty tables. She even generously gave each of her three sons a house as a gift for attending her birthday celebration.
Xia Yu flipped past this page too, sighing that Yin Shulan really knew how to show off her wealth.
The fourth and final page mainly discussed Yin Shulan’s relatives.
Among the three sons, the youngest continued living his life normally. The second and eldest sons, however, revolved around their mother. Neighbors said that since the two sons’ wives weren’t arguing, the mother must have given them many good things.
In addition, the eldest son’s brother-in-law and a nephew from Yin Shulan’s side also stayed close to Yin Shulan.
In all this information, Xia Yu couldn’t find any breakthroughs, so he put the file aside.
“Do you know where Yin Shulan’s money is?” Xia Yu asked the driver.
Yin Shulan’s main desire was money. Previously, Xia Yu had used money to tempt her. Although Yin Shulan was now rich, Xia Yu believed she would either soon run out of money or eventually lose it.
Although Yin Shulan was shrewd, she was still an old-fashioned elderly woman. Xia Yu believed that among her relatives, there must be someone trying to swindle her money. Even if they didn’t, professional scammers would come knocking once they heard about her wealth.
“I don’t know about that, but I have heard that Yin Shulan’s nephew hasn’t been seen for a while,” the driver said.
“Which nephew?” Xia Yu asked.
The driver told Xia Yu all the information he had about that nephew.
After listening, Xia Yu was surprised to find out that this was actually someone familiar.
Although he had never met the nephew, Xia Yu had heard about him before. He was the one who asked his parents for money, claiming he had found a cheap house in Yaoguang and needed to buy it quickly.
“Good. You can go now,” Xia Yu told the driver.
Then, he called Yu Ningmeng and asked her to help investigate the nephew.
When Xia Yu woke up the next day, Yu Ningmeng’s investigation results had also arrived.
The nephew had opened a company in Yaoguang under Yin Shulan’s name, operating numerous loss-making businesses, losing hundreds of thousands a day.
“He’s probably transferring assets secretly,” Yu Ningmeng told Xia Yu over the phone.
“How much do you think he has transferred?” Xia Yu asked. This would help him estimate how much money Yin Shulan still had.
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