Chapter 54: with translation of chapter title

54 His family owes me a debt; I will go demand gold as dowry.

After the gathering ended, Xie Shiyu and Tushan Jiu returned to the old residence.

On the way, Tushan Jiu proactively told Xie Shiyu that the murderer of Lu Ze Yuan's grandfather was none other than Lu Ze Yuan's own father.

Xie Shiyu was also somewhat surprised.

However, after thinking a bit, he heard that Lu Ze Yuan's father, Lu Cheng, had been unambitious since childhood, only fond of wine and women.

Old Master Lu knew his line was essentially wasted, so he chose Lu Ze Yuan's mother, a woman whose talent had been suppressed by her background, as a daughter-in-law, hoping to restrain Lu Cheng.

But it was clearly ineffective.

Later, Lu Ze Yuan's mother, beautiful but ill-fated, contracted acute leukemia and passed away.

Although Lu Cheng holds the title of CEO in the company, everyone knows he actually has no real authority; it's merely nominal.

All company decisions must go through Old Master Lu as chairman; Lu Cheng's signature is invalid, and he is not allowed to interfere in any project matters.

This made Lu Cheng a negative example when other families educated their children, turning him into a laughingstock.

After so many years, there must be unknown conflicts within the Lu family.

Accumulated over time into resentment and hatred, which led to this tragedy.

Xie Shiyu sighed, 'I don't know if Lu Ze Yuan can bear this.'

Tushan Jiu looked out the window; under the streetlights, the elongated tree shadows fled backward at high speed, alternating between light and dark.

In the light is shadow, under the lamp is darkness; she lowered her gaze, no longer looking outside, and whispered, 'He can do it; life's necessary passage, after which comes sudden clarity, like rebirth.'

These past two days, Tushan Jiu had nothing to do, idly playing chess with Old Master Xie at home, or else teaching them Tai Chi to pass the time.

Oh right, there's also beating the dog.

But she didn't go today, because after several days of daily beatings, she had thoroughly subdued that Erlang God of the underworld.

According to Tushan Jiu's demands, everything was rectified.

The clandestine affairs were also ceased; the gang was completely disbanded, and they began to engage in legitimate business.

In response, Gou Sheng expressed great satisfaction, and moreover belittled the Tushan disciple, saying he had been buried in the sand by Tushan Jiu's granddaughter.

At noon, she received a message from Bai Yu saying he would return to Nan Cheng tomorrow and wanted to treat her, his lifesaver, to a meal, and also introduce her to a business opportunity.

Tushan Jiu agreed.

It's common for old clients to introduce new ones, and she is accustomed to it.

These two days, Xie Shiyu has also been busy.

However, he is not busy with Xie Clan affairs; he is accompanying Lu Ze Yuan.

Lu Cheng took advantage of Old Master Lu's illness to transfer most of the company's funds to overseas accounts, causing the funding chain for Lu Corporation's new projects to break, creating a huge loophole.

Old Master Lu also fell ill and was hospitalized from anger upon learning that his own son intended to poison him.

However, for now everything remains within controllable limits.

These are what the Lu family's fate entails, unavoidable, but with Xie Shiyu and Qi Chen present, the Lu family merely staggers a bit and will not fall.

Lu Cheng fled, leaving Han Linran alone.

She wanted to cling to the Lu family shamelessly, but she had no qualifications to do so.

Thus she was expelled from the Lu family with a clean break.

On the day she was driven out, coincidentally, she was still wearing that white rose cheongsam.

Lu Ze Yuan has renewed his spirits, and with the help of Xie Shiyu and Qi Chen, the Lu family will surely regain its glory in due time.

During this period, Tushan Jiu had Xie Jingting call Wang Xin (the guy who pretended to be a ghost that day) and told him to come to her to collect the debt.

After the deal was settled, she told Wang Xin to go back and tell his father to invest all his available funds into this new Lu family project to fill the funding gap.

Given time, the Wang family can surely reap overflowing profits from this project and achieve mutual benefit with the Lu family.

They will both reach even greater heights.

After lunch, Tushan Jiu suddenly remembered something: she was originally not supposed to collect a dowry, so how did she forget?

So, being idle, she opened the drawer, took out her white leather little account book, and casually flipped open a page.

In Nan Cheng, the Xiao family, Xiao Yingwei, is a gold dealer.

Ten years ago, while collecting a debt, she divined the future ten-year trend of the gold industry.

Then, relying on that divination prophecy, she sold the gold at the right moment and eventually established the independent gold jewelry brand Xiao Dafu.

In just ten years, the Xiao Dafu brand had stores nationwide and counters in major malls, ranking among the top ten gold jewelry brands of the Great Xia.

This client is the second great-uncle of Tushan Jiu, Tushan Liang.

'Hmm, not bad; gold should also be part of the dowry, so let's go knock on the Xiao family's door today.'

Before heading out, Tushan Jiu sensed the Xiao family's exact location and their recent situation.

Had she not sensed it, it would have been fine, but upon sensing, Tushan Jiu furrowed her brows.

It turns out that Xiao Yingwei's long-lost cousin is actually him!

Tushan Jiu clicked her tongue lightly, 'Indeed, coincidences make strange bedfellows.'

She closed the account book and put it back in the drawer.

Tushan Jiu took a nap.

After about an hour, her noon break ended, and then she gathered her things and prepared to go out.

Their debt-collecting profession has always been 'unsolicited arrivals'.

There's no way around it; due to the nature of the work, the timing of collections is truly uncertain.

The Xiao family's ten-year gold trend prophecy made ten years ago has come to pass; it is exactly ten years as of March this half-year.

Only then can the transaction be considered formally completed.

Moreover, when collecting debts, they know that debt collectors' whereabouts are unpredictable; you only need to pay them when they appear, as for when they will show up, that's uncertain, but being prepared at all times is certainly correct.

The Xiao family and the Xie family's old residence are completely in two opposite directions.

Xie Shiyu specially arranged a car and driver for Tushan Jiu.

Considering the nature of her work, he hired two drivers to work in shifts.

Moreover, the birth charts of these two drivers were ones Tushan Jiu had examined and deemed suitable before keeping them.

After getting in the car, Tushan Jiu told the driver the address; upon receiving it, the driver started the car and drove out of the old residence.

On the way, Xie Shiyu sent Tushan Jiu a message asking if she had gotten up and saying he wanted to take her out on a date that evening.

Tushan Jiu asked him what time.

Upon her asking, Xie Shiyu replied with: 【Are you out running errands?】

Tushan Jiu replied: 【Yeah, I'm going to the Xiao family; they owe me money, I'm going to collect gold as my dowry!】

At this moment, in the top-floor CEO office of the Xie Clan.

Lu Ze Yuan and Qi Chen, seeing Xie Shiyu across the sofa with his head down looking at his phone, his mouth about to split to his temples, were speechless.

"Brother, what are you laughing at over there?" Lu Ze Yuan tapped his finger on the coffee table, "You said Director Wang suddenly came to find me, saying he wanted to join with funds into the project—how did he know about our Lu family......"

Xie Shiyu replied to Tushan Jiu's message, telling her he would be finishing soon and to stop messaging him, as he would go pick her up.

After putting down his phone, he then lifted his head and saw both of them looking at him.

He wiped off his smile and asked, "Huh? What were you just saying?"

Lu Ze Yuan, Qi Chen: "......"