“Alright! You don’t need to feel embarrassed anymore! Don’t lower your head either—what’s there to be shy about? After all, a person who admits his mistakes and corrects them is still a good comrade, right?” Mu Lin noticed that Xiao Laipi had lowered his head after being scolded, so he softened his tone slightly. He didn’t want to humiliate the young fellow too much, considering their short acquaintance.
“No, Master! Your spittle nearly drenched me like rain! If I hadn’t lowered my head, I wouldn’t have been able to keep my eyes open!” Upon hearing this, Mu Lin almost collapsed onto the ground in shock. So it turned out he had misread the situation again—he had been imagining things again without thinking that this little fellow was, after all, a centuries-old demon who had probably seen it all.
Mu Lin composed himself and said seriously, “Alright! Anyway, you’ve vented enough, and you didn’t really suffer any major losses. It was just a minor injury to your fur, after all!”
Changing the topic, he continued, “By the way, I’d like to ask—are all the main figures of the McGuire family present here? Are there any other distant relatives of the family that you’re particularly close to?”
“Master! All the main figures of the McGuire family are here. But I don’t quite understand what you mean?” Xiao Laipi looked at Mu Lin in confusion.
“Hehe! Nothing much! I just want to change the family’s leader. That way, we eliminate a family that’s currently hostile toward us. Plus, my funds aren’t very abundant. Saving a few hundred million dollars would be a blessing!” Mu Lin explained with a smile.
“Hehe! You probably don’t know that I’m an expert physician. A doctor can heal and save lives, but he can also afflict them with endless illnesses—rendering them blind, deaf, unable to write, or even paralyzed. Wouldn’t it be better if they spent the rest of their lives like living corpses?” Mu Lin continued to explain with a cheerful smile.
However, Xiao Laipi involuntarily shivered. At this moment, he finally realized that his newly acknowledged young master wasn’t a kind-hearted person either. His master’s methods of handling affairs were even more ruthless than his own. It seemed he would have to be extra cautious from now on.
After thinking for a while, Xiao Laipi said to Mu Lin, “Master, I have a few names in mind. Let me tell them to you so you can decide.”
Mu Lin waved his hand, saying, “You can choose the best candidate yourself. Let me give you a general guideline. The person should be a distant relative of the McGuire family, someone who was never valued by the family since childhood, lacked formal education, and currently doesn’t work in any of the McGuire family’s enterprises. Most importantly, this person must be greedy!”
“Master! I understand your first few conditions, but why specifically someone greedy? My previous candidates were relatively kind-hearted. Wouldn’t kinder people be more convenient for us to deal with in the future?” Xiao Laipi was confused by Mu Lin’s intentions.
“A greedy person possesses an extraordinary desire. Just think about it—someone who has been living in poverty and struggling to survive, upon learning that he could suddenly gain a fortune, will immediately try to please the person offering him that wealth. For the sake of obtaining this fortune, he won’t care about minor issues in the present. And the one who grants him this wealth is you! At that point, we can achieve the greatest benefit at the smallest cost.
Once he gains this wealth, he will feel insecure about his new status. He’ll then eliminate anyone who threatens his fortune. At that point, we won’t even need to worry about the current members of the McGuire family—they’ll likely be the ones he fears and wants to get rid of most urgently.
As for those kind-hearted people you mentioned, once they gain this fortune, they’ll feel more responsibility. Their first priority would be to heal the injured, secondly to care for the remaining family members, and thirdly to investigate the truth behind this incident.
Just think—how many clues have we left for them to investigate? We can’t possibly erase every trace. Perhaps they won’t uncover the truth, but if they get close to it, they’ll become our potential enemies.
Hehe, I think I’ve said enough. You should now know which kind of person you should choose,” Mu Lin concluded with a rhetorical question, leaving Xiao Laipi stunned.
At this moment, Xiao Laipi was deeply impressed by Mu Lin’s thorough and detailed analysis. He also felt a chill of fear toward Mu Lin’s ruthless ways of dealing with enemies. He silently reminded himself to be extra cautious in the future—offending his young master would be a disaster he couldn’t possibly handle. Mu Lin’s gentle smile now seemed like a devil’s grin in his eyes.
“Master, now that you’ve explained it like that, I actually do have someone like that in mind. His name is Duke McGuire. He’s the illegitimate son of old man McGuire—his mother was a prostitute who had an affair with the old man and gave birth to him.
At six, after his mother’s death, he was brought into the McGuire family. However, due to his humble origins, he was bullied constantly by young McGuire, his brothers, and cousins.
At fourteen, he ran away from home and started hanging out with street thugs. At eighteen, he became addicted to drugs. When the media exposed this, the McGuire family took him back and forced him into rehab. At twenty-two, he left the McGuire family to make his own way. Now he works as a truck driver.
He’s also known for his sticky fingers—he often steals things from the family members and sells them. So everyone in the family dislikes him. I used to feel sorry for him and often gave him some help. But later, he even tried to steal from me. If I hadn’t taught him a lesson, he might have taken everything I had.” Xiao Laipi quickly reported his chosen candidate after a brief reflection.
“Oh? Can you contact him now? Do you know his current situation?” Mu Lin showed a slight interest after hearing this and casually asked Xiao Laipi.
“Yes! I can contact him. He’s now thirty-eight years old. At thirty, he married a woman who used to dance in a strip club. She originally came for the McGuire family’s reputation. After marriage, they had two daughters. However, last year, his wife, seeing that the McGuire family had never cared for him all these years, abandoned the family out of disgust for his poverty and disappeared without a trace.
Now he’s raising the two children alone. Without U country’s comprehensive welfare system, they might have starved to death long ago. In March this year, he even brought the two children to the McGuire family for help, but no one paid any attention to him. Out of pity for the children, I gave him a piece of jewelry to sell. He also left me his home phone number, so I can still contact him directly.” Xiao Laipi quickly explained everything clearly to Mu Lin.
Mu Lin pondered for a moment, then said to Xiao Laipi, “Alright! That’s the one. Contact him right now!”
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