Chapter 798: Written Off

After Li Ye received his grandfather's task, he pondered how to get Lu Jingyao's contact information and finally decided to ask Watching Liu Muhan for help.

"Hello? I'm looking for Watching Liu Muhan, I'm Li Ye."

"Hello, nephew, why did you suddenly think of me?"

"I have a bit of an emergency. I need to contact Lu Jingyao right now. Can you push her phone number to me?"

"Push it to you? How do I push it?" Watching Liu Muhan was stunned and then suddenly asked: "What do you want Lu Jingyao's phone number for? You kid, don't mess around. If Xiaoyu finds out..."

"Fine, fine, fine, fine. If Xiaoyu knows I'm contacting Lu Jingyao, I don't believe you'll go and snitch to Xiaoyu later. Now, quickly give it to me..."

"What kind of attitude is this? Don't you know you should be humble when asking for help? You didn't even call me aunt, do I owe you?"

"..."

Li Ye bickered with Watching Liu Muhan for several minutes before he got Lu Jingyao's contact information.

However, after getting the contact information, Li Ye frowned slightly, not knowing how to communicate with Lu Jingyao.

To be honest, Li Ye really didn't want to deal with Lu Jingyao right now.

But judging by his grandfather's meaning, Section Chief Cao was currently unwilling to issue a wanted notice for Cui Aiguo and Xia Yue. After all, once it reached that level, it really couldn't be covered up.

But if a wanted notice wasn't issued, they had to get precise "intelligence," determine when and how Cui Aiguo and Xia Yue would leave the country, and then ambush them halfway to bring them to justice.

And Li Ye was the intelligence agent responsible for obtaining the "intelligence," while Lu Jingyao was the person most likely to possess the intelligence right now.

But what was the relationship between Li Ye and Lu Jingyao now?

He had just arranged Lu Zixue perfectly a moment ago, and now he was going to Lu Jingyao to ask questions; just thinking about it made his head ache.

"Clatter~"

The door opened, and his little wife Watching Wen Leyu walked in with a full bowl of soup.

"Li Ye, hurry up and drink this hangover soup. You smell like alcohol all over, you even made the baby cry..."

Li Ye hurriedly took the soup bowl and drank it down in one gulp, regardless of the temperature being a bit hot.

And Watching Wen Leyu looked down and saw the phone number Li Ye had copied.

Looking at the header, it was from Britain.

Then Watching Wen Leyu smiled and said: "I said why were you frowning just now? So you're afraid of Lu Jingyao? Is she that scary? It's just asking her a question, why are you frowning?"

Li Ye swallowed the last mouthful of soup and said with a wry smile: "I say wifey, don't mock people like that. I, a seven-foot man, have never been afraid of anyone except you. But how do you think I should ask Lu Jingyao so she's willing to cooperate with us to catch Xia Yue?"

To tell the truth, Lu Jingyao and Cui Aiguo definitely had no friendship, but according to Li Ye's memory, Lu Jingyao and Xia Yue were best friends for many years, so Li Ye felt that Lu Jingyao couldn't possibly "betray" Xia Yue.

If Lu Jingyao just said she didn't know, what could you do to her?

However, Watching Wen Leyu said faintly: "You still don't understand Lu Jingyao. She wants to be a good person more than anyone else right now, so she will absolutely not help criminals."

"If you feel very embarrassed, then I'll go talk to her. Anyway, I just did her a big favor, so it's okay to leverage that favor."

Li Ye asked in surprise: "You did her a big favor? When?"

Watching Wen Leyu smiled and said: "Just a few days ago! I found an expert to help Lu Jingyao's father recover his clarity. Isn't this doing her a big favor?"

"..."

A gentleman has things he will do and things he will not do. Lu Jingyao's father had a colleague relationship with Teacher Ke, so Watching Wen Leyu helped out to return the favor for her mother, but Lu Zixue angered Li Ye, so Watching Wen Leyu gave him a thunderous punishment.

One thing at a time, with a clear conscience.

In the end, it was Li Ye who dialed the phone in Britain.

A woman answered the phone: "Hello?"

The overseas phone call in the eighties was a bit distorted, but Li Ye felt that the person on the other end of the phone was not Lu Jingyao.

"I'm looking for Lu Jingyao, are you Gao Xiaoyan?"

Hearing Li Ye's voice, the person on the other side was clearly stunned for a moment before asking: "Excuse me, who is this?"

"I'm Li Ye. I have a bit of an emergency and need to find Lu Jingyao. Can you ask her if it's convenient for her to take my call?"

"Oh, oh, oh, it's Brother Li! I'm Gao Xiaoyan. You wait... don't hang up, I'll go call Jingyao sister..."

"Tap, tap, tap, tap~"

With the sound of slippers stepping on the wooden floor moving away quickly, Li Ye began a long wait.

One minute, two minutes, five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes... Not only did Lu Jingyao not come to answer the phone, but even Gao Xiaoyan didn't come back.

"Sigh~"

Li Ye sighed and hung up the phone.

Such a big knot, how could it be so easy to untie?

However, just over ten minutes after Li Ye hung up the phone, a call came in.

"Hello?"

"Hello?"

"Nephew, you just called Lu Jingyao, why did you hang up halfway?"

"What hang up halfway? She left me hanging for more than twenty minutes, I don't know how much phone bill I wasted..."

"Heh, you don't even look at the time difference. It's evening here, and it's early morning there. Lu Jingyao went to work! As a result, she ran back in a hurry, but you hung up, and she didn't know your home phone number, so she called me to ask about the situation..."

"It's not that I'm saying, nephew, what exactly do you want to talk to Lu Jingyao about? Why did I hear her tone was so anxious? Is it... nephew? Are you listening?"

"..."

Li Ye pursed his lips and said astringently: "You ask me, who do I ask? I'm also puzzled!"

Watching Liu Muhan was stunned for a moment and said sinisterly: "You just keep pretending with me! I'll go find Xiaoyu tomorrow and let her properly tidy you up."

"..."

Li Ye helplessly dialed the number in Britain again, and it took a long time to get through.

And after getting through, the other side answered immediately: "Hello? Who is this?"

Li Ye was silent for two seconds before saying in a deep voice: "I'm Li Ye. I have a bit of an emergency and need to understand..."

Lu Jingyao on the other side was very frank: "I know. If it weren't for a very urgent matter, you wouldn't have taken the initiative to contact me."

"..."

Li Ye paused and asked: "Is Xia Yue going to study over there recently?"

Lu Jingyao was clearly stunned and then asked: "You're so anxious just to ask about Xia Yue?"

Li Ye no longer hid it and said truthfully: "Xia Yue's husband is the son of my grandfather's foster daughter. Back then, it was my grandfather who arranged for him to enter the grain system. A few days ago, he absconded with the money, a full forty thousand yuan. This is all the country's money... I hope you can provide us with accurate clues to stop their criminal behavior..."

Li Ye said a lot, hoping that it was really as Watching Wen Leyu said, although Lu Jingyao chose to live abroad, she was still willing to be a "good person" with a sense of justice.

However, Lu Jingyao's next words surprised Li Ye.

She didn't say anything full of justice, but tentatively asked: "If I help you, can I... pay back some of the debt I owe you?"

"..."

Li Ye really wanted to say "You don't owe me anything," but after thinking about it, he still said: "Yes, if you help me, our debt will be written off."

"Phew~"

Lu Jingyao clearly exhaled and said: "Yesterday, Xia Yue called me and asked me to help her find a channel to remit money overseas. I introduced her to one of my classmates. You know the husband of that classmate of mine."

"..."

Li Ye was stunned and asked: "Are you talking about He Xue?"

Lu Jingyao said: "Yes!"

Li Ye said unexpectedly: "How did you know I knew He Xue's husband?"

Lu Jingyao was silent for a long time before mocking herself: "He Xue told me. She told me her husband was a big shot, and you were an even bigger shot than her husband."

"..."

Lu Jingyao's phone hung up, and Li Ye was still pondering in circles.

【What is going on here?】

In the end, it was Watching Wen Leyu who untied Li Ye's confusion.

"Do you even need to ask? That He Xue is jealous of Lu Jingyao, so she used all kinds of ways to attack her. The fiancé who abandoned Lu Jingyao is now a big shot. Lu Jingyao is so regretful now, and He Xue feels so comfortable in her heart."

Li Ye was stunned and said: "Then why does Lu Jingyao still have contact with He Xue and introduce Xia Yue to find her to remit money?"

Watching Wen Leyu sneered and said: "So, Lu Jingyao is also very insidious now! You have to be careful."

"I... what should I be careful about? I have no contact with her at all, and this time it was out of desperation."

"Hmph~, you are usually as shrewd as a monkey, but in front of Lu Jingyao, you are a silly one."

"..."

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