Chapter 1373: Looking for a needle in a haystack

Ye Chen knew clearly that truly high-return investments were actually no different from gambling.

The risk is high, but once you win the bet, the returns are even greater.

His moderate investment in Hamid now is almost equivalent to the internet companies his mother invested in Silicon Valley when they were just starting out back then.

Investing in them at this time only requires paying a small price. Once they succeed in the future, they can obtain huge returns.

Although Hamid's armed force isn't a company, it's also a project with great development potential. If it succeeds, there will definitely be endless benefits, so he investing a bit more energy and giving him some suggestions and support is also an investment for the future.

Moreover, this investment is nothing more than a Blood-Dispersing Heart-Saving Pill and some strategic experience, while that 100 million US dollars of real money is all sponsored by the Su family.

Once Hamid gets it going, he will at least have a return cycle of several decades in the future.

Thus, Ye Chen didn't explain much more to the two, but said to Su Ruoli, "Ruoli, your identity is still too sensitive now. I can't let you leave freely for the time being. You'll have to be wronged and continue to stay here for this period of time."

Su Ruoli said without hesitation, "Ruoli will follow all of Benefactor's arrangements!"

While speaking, a look of sadness still floated in Su Ruoli's eyes.

Ye Chen saw the sadness in her eyes and remembered that she had been here for quite a long time. If nothing else, she must miss her mother very much.

Moreover, her mother had carried her for ten months and raised her up alone back then. Now that her life or death was unknown, her mother must be very worried.

After thinking about it, Ye Chen said, "Ruoli, you've been out of touch with the outside world for so long, your mother must be very worried about you, right?"

Hearing this, Su Ruoli's expression became extremely dim, and she nodded gently, "I think she must still be looking for me everywhere... She can't believe I'm really dead until she finds my body..."

Ye Chen nodded and said, "How about this: give me your mother's contact information, and I'll have someone bring your mother to Jin Ling. Then you mother and daughter can meet."

Su Ruoli was pleasantly surprised and asked, "Benefactor! You're really letting me meet my mother?!"

Ye Chen nodded, "Of course. However, meeting is one thing, but we still have to ensure that the news of you being alive isn't leaked to others. Only your mother can know, so I can't let you take the initiative to contact your mother."

"Otherwise, if your mother knows you are alive, gets emotional, and can't control herself, and then it's known by others, once the news leaks out and reaches the Japanese, it will be very troublesome."

"With their persistent drive to catch you, they will definitely apply to extradite you back to Japan for trial."

Su Ruoli naturally understood Ye Chen's caution, so she hurriedly said, "Then what is Benefactor's consideration?"

Ye Chen said, "I'll have Old Chen invite your mother over in the name of the Ye family, but I won't tell her about your situation. When she comes, I'll take her directly to see you. What do you think?"

Su Ruoli said with red eyes, "Benefactor, as long as I can see my mother, Ruoli will be satisfied! If it's really inconvenient, even just a phone call is fine..."

Ye Chen smiled, "It's still more controllable to have your mother come to Jin Ling without knowing you are alive. If she has enough time, she can stay here and accompany you for a while. To the outside world, we can claim she came to discuss cooperation with me. After all, I heard that when you had your accident, the He family completely broke with the Su family. Coming to me to discuss cooperation at this time won't arouse suspicion from others."

Su Ruoli nodded and said excitedly, "Thank you, Benefactor! Then I'll leave everything to Benefactor's arrangement!"

Ye Chen looked at Chen Zekai and instructed, "Old Chen, take down Ruoli's mother's contact information in a moment. First, communicate with her in the name of the Ye family to see if she is willing to come over. If she isn't interested in cooperating with me, tell her that the young master of the Ye family wants to chat with her about dealing with the Su family together."

Chen Zekai hurriedly said, "Okay, Young Master, I'll implement this matter later."

Ye Chen turned to look at Su Ruoli and said, "Ruoli, give the contact information to Old Chen, and then go back to your room to rest."

"Okay!"

At this very moment, in Mo City in the Northeast.

This small city is one of the coldest places in all of China.

Even though it is already the end of the first lunar month, the minimum temperature in Mo City still reaches minus seventeen or eighteen degrees, almost like the freezer of a refrigerator.

During the coldest time of the entire winter, the temperature here can reach about minus fifty degrees.

The He family, one of the four great martial arts families in China, is rooted in this county-level city with a population of less than 100,000.

The He family's ancestors were not native to Mo City.

They originated from the Jiaodong Peninsula. During the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, they were a relatively famous martial arts family on the Jiaodong Peninsula, and their ancestors had always made a living by running escort agencies and martial arts schools.

However, the He family members at that time mainly practiced external martial arts, so they were still far from the level of a martial arts family.

It wasn't until the end of the Qing Dynasty, when there was war on the Jiaodong Peninsula, that the He family moved to the Northeast. By coincidence, they obtained a remnant volume of internal martial arts.

The reason it is called a remnant volume is mainly because nearly half of its content had long been lost, and both the boxing techniques and the corresponding mental cultivation methods had many defects.

However, even so, after the entire He family moved to the Northeast, they relied on this incomplete internal martial arts technique to rank among the martial arts families.

Moreover, because the internal martial arts technique the He family obtained was incomplete, the He family members often experienced internal energy disorder and meridian reversal when practicing hard. Once this happened, they would be seriously injured for months at best, or their martial arts would be completely abolished at worst, and many descendants even lost their lives because of this.

Therefore, the He family gradually summarized a response plan, which was to practice this internal martial arts technique in extremely cold places as much as possible. The extremely cold weather helped to better control internal energy, thereby reducing the probability of accidents.

Precisely because of this, the He family moved to Mo City, the coldest place in China, decades ago, and then took root here.

Su Ruoli's childhood and entire adolescence were spent here, and her mother, He Yingxiu, had lived here ever since she lost an arm to save Su Shoudao back then, rarely leaving Mo City.

However, recently, He Yingxiu had spent almost more than half of her time running around outside.

It started when Su Ruoli was just caught in Japan. She heard Su Shoudao say he wanted to save Su Ruoli, so she rushed to Japan to see Su Ruoli and told her to wait at ease to go home.

But she didn't expect that news would immediately spread that Su Ruoli had gone missing and that the Su family had betrayed Su Ruoli.

Since then, He Yingxiu had spent most of her time in Japan looking for Su Ruoli's whereabouts.

Although she knew it was like looking for a needle in a haystack, she still did her best to search for a long time in Tokyo and surrounding areas, and then spent a huge amount of money to hire search and rescue ships to search in Japanese waters, and even went to coastal areas in China to search, but she hadn't found any relevant clues.

She had just returned from the southeast coast the day before yesterday. This time, she had run through several key port cities, but still hadn't heard any news of anyone smuggling ashore.

She knew very well that the longer the time dragged on, the less likely Su Ruoli was to survive.

Thus, she discussed with her father, He Hongsheng, preparing to raise some more funds and go to the coastal areas of the Jiaodong Peninsula to search again, to see if she could find any clues about Su Ruoli...