Chapter 416 - Chapter 416: Miss Bai, who has no particular background, 163 (Second Update)_1

Chapter 416: Miss Bai, who has no particular background, 163 (Second Update)_1

The old man looked much older than Ji Heng, with silver hair and a black hat; he must have just arrived in Xiangcheng, still holding a thick coat in his hands.

Ji Heng squinted his eyes, looking at the old man’s face, and finally found him in the somewhat blurry memories.

“Butler Lou.”

He spoke.

Behind him, Mrs. Liu, seeing that Ji Heng had a visitor, put down her needle and stood up uneasily, “Uncle Ji, you’re busy here, so I’ll go home and cook.”

Once she left, Ji Heng stepped aside to let the two in.

Butler Lou silently observed the entire courtyard.

Ever since he heard about Ji Heng, he had been tirelessly searching for him, aware that Ji Heng might be living poorly, but he hadn’t expected it to be this bad.

This dilapidated scene… was nothing like he had imagined.

Ji Heng poured a cup of tea for the two and invited them to sit at the stone table, then picked up his smoking pipe, “What do you want from me?”

Back at Yunxiao Hotel, Ji Heng had anticipated that they might come looking for him.

He hadn’t expected that they would find his address in such a short amount of time.

Upon hearing this, Butler Lou looked up, pondered for a long while, and said, “Do you intend to let your descendants stay here forever?”

Ji Heng was also Mu Heng.

He lit his cigarette, glanced at Butler Lou, he wasn’t born in these times, his mother was a concubine of the Mu Family, and he was the illegitimate eldest young master of the Mu Family.

Hearing Butler Lou’s words, he fell silent.

Ji Mulan had escaped Xiangcheng for this very reason, while Ji Shaojun and Ji Shaorong had never gone against Ji Heng’s wishes, always staying in Xiangcheng dutifully.

After a while, Ji Heng spoke, “What’s happened to the Mu Family?”

Butler Lou wasn’t surprised by his sharpness and slowly said, “Sixteen years ago, there was an experiment lab under the snow mountain, and the Mu Family had the fortune to join, so the second young master sent the core members, but… the mountain collapsed.”

Ji Heng was taken aback; he hadn’t inquired about the Mu Family for many years and had thought it was still the same, “None returned?”

“Yes,” Butler Lou said with a rueful smile, “It seems… only one person miraculously survived after being buried for three days.”

As for who it was, that was a secret beyond their clearance.

“I have two sons and a daughter,” Ji Heng said quietly, slowly lighting his tobacco, taking a deep drag, “If… you can protect them, then go and contact them.”

“You can rest assured about this matter, I will arrange everything, you needn’t say more,” Butler Lou said, afraid that Ji Heng still harbored some grudges, after all, he had even changed his last name, but he hadn’t expected him to agree so readily and decisively.

**

At night, in a private dining room.

Shen Qing followed nervously behind Ji Shaojun, “Who are we going to meet exactly?”

“I don’t know,” Ji Shaojun, with a drawing board under his arm and some paint on his clothes, frowned, “Let’s talk inside.”

Upstairs, through a half-open window, someone watched them.

“Is this the eldest young master’s son?” The burly man beside Butler Lou frowned as he looked at Ji Shaojun and Shen Qing.

The eldest young master was from a reputed family, but his son looked so…

Especially that lady…

She was quite different compared to the young masters and young ladies back at home.

“Yes,” Butler Lou sighed, “Xiaojie, we can’t help it, the old master is not well now, he only has this one brother, and he hasn’t touched any of the eldest young master’s assets over so many years, even without this incident, that wealth should be managed by the eldest young master.”

He had anticipated that with Ji Heng never having left Xiangcheng for half his life, even if his descendants could develop further, how far could they really go?

“But he studied painting, how will he manage to find someone to manage these assets?” Xiaojie lowered his head, counting the names, “The others left are Ji Shaorong, Ji Mulan, and Ren Wanxuan, Bai Lian…”

There wasn’t a single person with the surname Mu.

After he finished all the names, these two sons and a daughter, none were into scientific research, he looked at Butler Lou, “Should we consider other people?”

If not painting, then it was designing.

Not to mention scientific research; even finance was beyond them.

The butler inwardly despaired, “Let’s start by teaching Ji Shaojun how to handle the eldest young master’s assets.”

He remembered when Ji Heng left Jiangjing, Ji Shaojun should have had some memories; his understanding would definitely be different from the others, but, the person he married…

“There’s also a granddaughter and a granddaughter-in-law,” Xiaojie spoke up.

Hearing they were girls, Butler Lou waved his hand dismissively, not concerned, as from the very start, he hadn’t even checked up on Bai Lian and the others.

Among the entire Mu Family, there wasn’t a single precedent of a female in scientific research.