Although it was her own doing that caused the trouble, Xu Zixi was really scared by someone. She actively kept her distance from him the whole day. Whenever she saw him, she would go around him and didn't even give Yan Yincheng a chance to talk to her. This made Lord Yan extremely depressed.
In the afternoon, the bodyguards and Mama Zhang sorted out all the belongings of the mother and her two children that hadn't been moved from the west of the city and sent them here. For a moment, all kinds of daily necessities, big and small, filled the villa to the brim. It really looked like a proper home.
After confirming that all the things were there, Xu Zixi called Hu Yuankang.
The phone rang only once before it was picked up. From the other end of the phone came Brother Hu's booming voice, "Woo woo woo, Miss! You finally contacted me! These days when you were away, I couldn't eat or sleep well, and I even lost more than 100,000 yuan in stocks..."
Xu Zixi laughed and said, "It's just more than 100,000 yuan. You can earn it back in two days."
Brother Hu said, "Great! My dear Miss! Please, give me some advice quickly and save this poor me!"
"By the way, Brother Hu, I've moved back to the south of the city. Since the duplex apartment in the west of the city is still in your name, if you like, it will still belong to you in the future."
"Okay, got it. Then when shall we go out for a meal and talk about investment... Ah? What? You've moved back?!" Brother Hu was shocked. "You... you've made up with that guy surnamed Yan?! So soon?! Just a trip to Fengcheng and you're back together?"
Judging from Brother Hu's reaction, it was obvious that he was an "old man" who was isolated from the world and never surfed the Internet. As early as the day after the wedding, Xu Zixi had already received the kind "condolences" and "blessings" from Zhou Yaru, Dai Sha and Huang Zhenzhen.
However, it was precisely this trait of Brother Hu that made people find him so cute.
Leaning on the railing and watching Lord Yan playing hide-and-seek with the two kids in the yard, the corners of Xu Zixi's lips couldn't help but curl up:
"Is it fast? Compared with those who make up in just three days, I think I've given him enough of a lesson in the past month or so."
Brother Hu felt as if he'd been shot again. Weren't his parents the kind who would make up within three days after a fight?
"Alright, I see. But Miss, I said I'd give you that house and I will. In case that guy surnamed Yan makes you unhappy again in the future, you'll have a place to go. Hehe, anyway, in Haicheng, with me, Brother Hu, protecting you, you don't have to be afraid of him at all!"
Right now, she actually wanted to move back to the apartment in the west of the city! At least, she could avoid that someone!
Xu Zixi thought indignantly.
"Miss, now that you've made up with that guy surnamed Yan, do you still need me to drive for you?" Brother Hu asked aggrievedly.
Xu Zixi said, "Of course. You're like a living map of Haicheng. I still need you very much."
Brother Hu was extremely happy. "That's good, that's good. Then see you at the usual time tomorrow!"
After ending the conversation with Brother Hu, Xu Zixi put away her phone with a smile. Turning around, she saw Mama Zhang walking out of the room with a laundry basket in her arms, about to take the clothes to be washed. Her eyes casually swept over one of the clothes, and Xu Zixi stopped in her tracks. She said to Mama Zhang:
"Mama Zhang, wait a minute."
Mama Zhang stopped. "Miss?"
Xu Zixi quickly stepped forward, rummaged through the clothes and took out that light yellow coat. She felt around in the two pockets. Her fingertips touched a small object. She took it out and spread it out on her palm.
It was a small piece of paper that she'd crumpled up. When she unfolded it, there was a flamboyant line of words on it.
[This is a welcome gift for you. Please accept it.]
"White Crane" had already been arrested by the police. The police in Fengcheng had also contacted Interpol and planned to raid their organization in Country K according to the clues provided by "White Crane".
Logically speaking, this note was no longer of any use and should have been thrown into the trash can and sent to the landfill for decomposition.
However, this so-called "welcome gift" still bothered Xu Zixi.
At first, she thought that the "welcome gift" that White Crane mentioned referred to the computer that was almost destroyed. But after the people were arrested, "White Crane" and the other two people very cooperatively confessed their crimes, which made the computer loaded with data seem less important.
Could the "welcome gift" be something else?
She should have asked "White Crane" what this note meant when she was interrogating him. It was a pity that she was a bit emotional at that time and missed this good opportunity.
"Miss, is this note something important?" Mama Zhang saw Xu Zixi holding the note in deep thought and couldn't help but ask.
Xu Zixi came back to her senses and said, "It is indeed a bit important."
Mama Zhang heaved a sigh of relief. "Fortunately, you remembered in time. Otherwise, this note would have been destroyed."
Back in her room, Xu Zixi folded the wrinkled note and put it in the jewelry box to keep it.
Sitting in the room, she couldn't help but recall her conversation with "White Crane" in the interrogation room.
Since Xiong Han was the person that "White Crane" had found and had done so many things for them, his death must not have been an accident.
Was he really dead?
Xu Zixi's expression darkened. She walked into the study, turned on the computer and used her own program to search for information about Xiong Han.
All she could find was that he'd died in an accident in Country A. All his traces in Fengcheng had indeed been erased.
It seemed that if she wanted to investigate this person, she had to go to Country A.
She stared at Xiong Han's photo on the screen for a long time before closing the program.
Then, she took this opportunity to calculate the funds she currently had on hand.
The time she'd been in this world wasn't very long, but she'd been working hard to reverse the financial difficulties left by the original Xi and provide the best material living conditions for her kids.
Even before she joined the Pei Group, she'd already had enough money. At present, apart from the liquid funds for daily life, she'd invested all the rest of her money. So far, these funds had multiplied five times. She was now a wealthy person with a fortune of nearly 300 million yuan.
With this amount of money, even if she opened a company in Haicheng, she was sure to make her company well-known in Haicheng within a year. But her ambition wasn't here.
She wanted to resume her old career in this world, restart her pharmaceutical research laboratory, cooperate with major hospitals and develop drugs that might cure Yan Yincheng's rare disease.
However, if she wanted to establish a research laboratory, these funds were far from enough.
To form a top-notch team, she had to recruit as many talents as possible. And the most cutting-edge talents were always in high demand. To attract these people, in addition to high salaries, she also needed attractive research projects.
Of course, she could also ask Yan Yincheng for help and ask him to invest in her and provide all the funds. But even so, the problem would still come back to the starting point -
They didn't have research projects that were attractive enough to top talents.
People all over the world were researching the disease that Yan Yincheng suffered from, but there had been no progress until his death in her previous life. In this life, she was willing to help him, but where should she start?
There was another method that she'd been doing in her previous life. She could set up scholarships in major medical colleges, select and train her own talents from the schools and cultivate this team into a top-notch one.
But that would take too much time.
At this moment, she couldn't help but think of Yan Yincheng's so-called "godfather". Brother Cheng said that there were a lot of materials there. Maybe those materials could give her some ideas.
It seemed that she really had to find a time to go to Country A, not only for the materials but also to further investigate the cause of Xiong Han's death.