Chapter 578: My Master Came Entirely Out of Respect for Me

Twenty minutes later.

The Su family villa.

Social circles really are divided by class.

Someone like Seeing Qu Tuotuo might date a boyfriend from an ordinary family, but she could never be best friends with a girl from an ordinary family.

Take the simplest example — eating out.

Couples can overlook such things, but friends can't.

Suppose Seeing Qu Tuotuo treats her bestie to a meal, spending a thousand yuan in one sitting.

When the other side returns the treat, even if it's not a thousand, it'd still have to be five hundred, right?

The problem is, even that five hundred is more than a girl from an ordinary family can afford.

And after spending time together long enough, a psychological gap will appear.

No matter how low-key Seeing Qu Tuotuo tries to be, when she goes out she's dressed in light luxury brands — she can't exactly throw on street-stall clothes just to spare the other person's feelings.

And that one outfit of light luxury brands is already beyond what an ordinary family can afford.

When that happens, the two of them standing together makes one look shabby by comparison.

So equality is very important.

For the sake of this equality, people automatically form their own circles.

Stepping into the Su family villa, Yu Dazhang realized the Su Mis' family was no ordinary rich — just look at this residence, and this lavish decor, clearly the home of a great wealthy family.

"How did the robbers contact you?" Lu Zhongxin asked the Su family members.

"The other party called my cell phone," Su Mis' mother answered:

"They said they wanted ten million in cash, gave us three days to prepare, and if we couldn't come up with the money by then, they wouldn't contact us again."

Ten million? Yu Dazhang immediately caught the key point in her words.

That number was a bit subtle.

If it were a transfer, forget ten million — even twenty million would be too little.

But what the other party wanted was cash, which meant the figure of ten million was something they'd decided on after careful deliberation.

Taking the fifth series of renminbi as the standard, a single crisp hundred-yuan note weighs 1.1 grams.

Ten million means a hundred thousand banknotes.

The total weight is 110 kilograms.

An adult male carrying a load alone usually can't handle more than 50 kilograms — exceeding that easily causes muscle and skeletal damage.

And that's for someone in good shape; for an ordinary person, 30 kilograms is pretty much the limit.

Based on this calculation, one can infer the number of kidnappers isn't large — probably four to five people.

Because that number is just right to lift ten million in cash and carry it off, without putting too much strain on themselves.

"Did the other party say anything about how to make the exchange?" Lu Zhongxin asked again.

"No," Su Mis' mother answered:

"They only told us to get the money ready, and said they'd contact us again in three days — nothing else."

Lu Zhongxin thought for a moment, then continued asking:

"Did you set your phone to auto-record calls?"

Every phone has this function, but it has to be turned on manually.

Ordinary people don't have this need — generally, the vast majority who turn this function on do so for work.

For example, police, delivery drivers, courier workers…

Basically, any profession that needs to prove its own innocence has to turn this function on.

"I didn't set it."

Su Mis' mother shook her head, saying with some vexation:

"When I took the call, I was only thinking about my daughter's safety, so I forgot to turn on the recording."

You can also turn it on manually during the call screen, like speakerphone, but the vast majority of people don't have that habit.

Afterward, Lu Zhongxin asked for Su Mis' mother's phone and handed it to a colleague from the technical division.

Throughout this process, Yu Dazhang had been watching from the side — he didn't say a word, just listened quietly.

Seeing Qu Tuotuo finally couldn't hold back, pulled him aside, and said in a low voice:

"You don't seem all that invested in this case."

"Nonsense!" Yu Dazhang grew anxious:

"You're questioning a police officer's professional ethics — to think that I, a man devoted to the public good, should suffer such an insult from you!"