[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-inheritance-of-two-trillion":3,"chapter-inheritance-of-two-trillion-inheritance-of-two-trillion-chapter-973":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Inheritance of Two Trillion",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1292127,1714,"Chapter 973 - 973 973 Uncle The Bad Guy","inheritance-of-two-trillion-chapter-973",973,"\u003Cp>973: Chapter 973: Uncle, The Bad Guy?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>973: Chapter 973: Uncle, The Bad Guy?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The driver, upon seeing that Bai Xiaosheng had not yet closed the car door, continued his phone call while looking at him and flashed him a smile, signaling him to close the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Xiaosheng looked normal, returned the smile, closed the car door, and prepared to leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if this uncle was speaking about Zhao Beiqing, the very Affairs Officer Zhao Beiqing that Zhang Tianze had mentioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So what.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just a minor coincidence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Xiaosheng did not take it seriously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, just as the car was about to leave, Bai Xiaosheng suddenly heard two sentences.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These two sentences startled him!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What, you caught his assistant, a woman?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hubang Village, number 34, that place?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Okay, I’ll be right there!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Afterwards, the car drove off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Xiaosheng stood there, stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Throughout the ride, he had noticed that the driver seemed unsettled, deeply preoccupied.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had even guessed that the uncle was making some difficult decisions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So it was this!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kidnapping!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And it was a girl, an assistant to the Affairs Officer Zhao Beiqing!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Someone from the corporation!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Xiaosheng’s eyes hardened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In that case, he couldn’t just ignore this matter!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Xiaosheng felt that he should go and have a look first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With Lei Ying accompanying him, even if it really was a kidnapping, the two of them could certainly handle it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s wrong, Xiaosheng, why are you zoning out?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’m about to find a car,” Lin Weiwei said as she came over with her phone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just now, did you hear what that uncle said?” Bai Xiaosheng asked her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I heard it, yeah, but it was in a dialect; I couldn’t understand a single word,” Lin Weiwei looked at Bai Xiaosheng’s expression, curious, “What happened?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Ying also looked at Bai Xiaosheng, wondering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I could understand that dialect!” Bai Xiaosheng told them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Weiwei and Lei Ying showed no reaction, unsurprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over the past year, they had seen it many times.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Xiaosheng could understand many languages, various local dialects, and even several foreign languages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having heard it so often, Lin Weiwei and Lei Ying were no longer initially shocked, but rather took it as usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So what about it?” Lin Weiwei asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I heard something shocking!” Bai Xiaosheng lowered his voice and briefed them on the situation in a few words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, Lin Weiwei and Lei Ying were truly surprised and couldn’t help but look at each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Can’t be,” Lin Weiwei said incredulously, “That uncle seemed like a decent man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A kidnapper… I can’t believe it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“There’s no evil on him; either he’s deeply secretive, or even I misjudged,” Lei Ying frowned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Usually, Lei Ying sensed the violent and vile types even before Bai Xiaosheng did.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time, he felt nothing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No need to guess anymore, let’s just go and see, then everything will be clear!” Bai Xiaosheng said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hubang Village, number 34!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Got it, I’m finding a car now!” Lin Weiwei quickly operated her phone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is it easy to get a cab here?” Bai Xiaosheng asked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m going to the roadside to flag one down now, should be easier than the place we were just at,” Lei Ying said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As they spoke, they realized Lin Weiwei was looking at them with a strange expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s wrong, Weiwei?” Bai Xiaosheng asked, puzzled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No need to look for a car anymore!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Weiwei picked up her phone and showed them a map marker on the screen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Five hundred meters from here!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hubang Village, an urban village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The city of Linshen was continuously expanding its boundaries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In all directions, north, south, east, and west, thriving commercial belts and circles were springing up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But amidst the prosperity, there were places where the lights dimmed at night—urban villages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hard to demolish, too costly to tear down, they managed to survive in the torrent of urbanization.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Hubang Village, there were few locals; most of the places were rented to wanderers, a mix of all sorts of people.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this very moment, Bai Xiaosheng and his two companions were walking through it, asking around, looking for No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>34 Hubang Village.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No need to look anymore!” Bai Xiaosheng suddenly raised his voice and pointed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the end of the street they were walking on, behind a large tree, there was a car parked, its license plate faintly discernible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The numbers were incredibly unique, almost like a road sign, very clear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Found it!” Lin Weiwei’s eyes lit up as she clicked her tongue in amazement, “If the uncle drove this car to commit a crime, he’d be caught in minutes.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It wasn’t him who took action,” Bai Xiaosheng said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’re also unclear about the full story.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Come on, let’s go check it out!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>34 Hubang Village was an old-style courtyard house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A small entrance and large wooden doors.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bricks, stones, and wood all bore the marks of weathering, appearing somewhat aged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Around here, there were no elderly people walking around or resting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was indeed very quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Great place!” Lei Ying couldn’t help but praise as he walked over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The environment?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The architecture?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Neither Bai Xiaosheng nor Lin Weiwei thought so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They both believed Lei Ying said this solely because—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a great place to take action!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The three approached and saw the wooden door was tightly shut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through the crack of the door, they could see a wooden bolt inserted inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll knock!” Lin Weiwei volunteered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among them, she was a girl; knocking on the door, posing as someone from the community service or a delivery service, the other party would be more likely to open the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As soon as the door opened, no one could stop them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It won’t open, they’re not fools,” Bai Xiaosheng muttered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Let’s think of something else!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Leave this kind of thing to the professionals,” Lei Ying smiled and pulled out his set of keys.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On it were keys and some little gadgets he had made himself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This bolt isn’t like modern locks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once it’s properly inserted inside, it’s hard to move, and the gap in the wooden door is too small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It might be difficult…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Weiwei hadn’t finished speaking when she saw Lei Ying push the door open and then look back at her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What were you saying?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lin Weiwei, “…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The courtyard was small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was filled with discarded clutter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hall facing the gate was cleaner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the center of the courtyard, near the gate, there was a chair.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A man was sitting on the chair, looking rather frail and weak, wearing glasses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the bespectacled man was frowning, occasionally looking back at the inner room, then straining his ears to listen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The distance from the room was quite far, so he couldn’t hear anything.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His only job was to watch the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it wasn’t until Bai Xiaosheng and Lei Ying entered that he realized, and he stood up suddenly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By then, Lin Weiwei had already bolted the door from the inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who are you?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>How did you get in here!” the bespectacled man was startled, his first words not quiet, but he quickly lowered his tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The matters here, if heard by outsiders, would be ruined!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In his panic, he noticed the baseball bat next to the chair and immediately picked it up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, his posture was rather effeminate, holding the bat with both hands and hugging it in his chest, lacking any semblance of an offensive or defensive stance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bai Xiaosheng and his companions found it genuinely amusing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If all kidnappers were like this, matters would be much simpler.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Comparing their presences, it was hard to tell who the real bad guys were.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To avoid startling him further and alarming the people inside, Bai Xiaosheng had no choice but to speak softly and politely inquire—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Excuse me, are you also a kidnapper?”\u003C\u002Fp>",1314,"2026-06-05T17:42:48.184Z",1,"novelbin.me","aafb1f0846aa7c9d85920bfab4f97c397c511a697b271cd520df8f4db85bab9f","inheritance-of-two-trillion-chapter-974","inheritance-of-two-trillion-chapter-972",2500,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Finheritance-of-two-trillion-cover.jpg"]