Chapter 1328: Chapter 1326: Mr. Lin's purpose in 1325

Tan Rou said helplessly, “Are you still thinking about the tour guide? He just misspoke. Don’t keep harping on that mistake; it’s not conducive to friendly trade relations between the two countries.”

Zhuang Liu asked, “Is the state also involved in this?” If so, that would be a bigger problem.

Tan Rou shook her head. “No, it’s just our company that has signed a contract with Prince Laka. It hasn’t escalated to a national level. If it had, I would definitely have been more cautious in my selection.”

Zhuang Liu nodded, “Still, we need to be careful. After all, we don’t know much about Country J or what their market is like.”

“Mr. Lin seems to know a lot about their market. He discussed many things with me, and I had Hang Wei do some investigation. It turns out the aspects he mentioned are indeed beneficial for us. If we penetrate the market in Country J, it will only be beneficial for us; there’s no downside,” Tan Rou explained.

Zhuang Liu, looking at Prince Laka who was still boasting about his friend, asked very puzzled, “Why would Mr. Lin want to help us, though? Let me rephrase that, what is Mr. Lin’s motive? Does he want us to profit, or does he want Country J to profit?”

“Mr. Lin told me he is just a translator in Country J and doesn’t have much power, plus he isn’t a citizen there, so he will eventually return to his own country,” Tan Rou also didn’t understand Mr. Lin’s intentions; she could only guess, “Maybe he wants to promote trade between the two countries.”

Zhuang Liu felt this reason wasn’t convincing enough; he thought Mr. Lin’s level of ideological awareness hadn’t reached that height.

“Is that really it?” Zhuang Liu was still puzzled.

But Tan Rou smiled and said, “Whatever his motive is, we’ll find out sooner or later. But I think he has no malicious intent, and he’s probably not a corporate spy.”

Zhuang Liu reminded her, “Often, the people who seem the safest are the most dangerous. You must be very vigilant when dealing with Mr. Lin, lest he finds a loophole and steals TR’s secrets.”

Tan Rou tapped her own head and said confidently, “TR’s top secrets are all up here in my brain. Unless he can open up my head and look inside, there’s no way he can get to them.”

Just then, Prince Laka came over again, “What are you talking about? Why don’t you include me every time you talk? Lin too, both of you, it’s really too much!”

Zhuang Liu looked at the naive prince and suddenly had an idea.

He started to get chummy with Prince Laka, “Prince Laka, how did you meet Mr. Lin?”

Prince Laka said, “Lin and I were university classmates, then Lin knew many languages, so my dad spent a lot of money to hire him as my translator.”

Tan Rou felt that Prince Laka’s statement differed slightly from Lin’s. Lin had said that Prince Laka’s father had someone kidnap him to make him a translator, and only later agreed to pay him a large sum of money. But Prince Laka simply said it was his father who spent a lot of money to bring Lin over as a translator. So who was lying? Or were both telling the truth?

Tan Rou asked with a smile, “How did your father hire Lin as your translator? Lin doesn’t strike me as someone in need of money.”

Prince Laka thought for a moment and said, “When I arrived at the residence, Lin was already there. The Guard Commander told me he was the translator my father arranged for me, and whenever I couldn’t speak, I could just find him to translate for me. Hmm… That’s about it.”

Tan Rou and Zhuang Liu exchanged glances, then she whispered, “The way Lin described it and the way Prince Laka described it are a bit different. Lin said he was kidnapped at school, and after hearing the offer, he thought it was good and accepted the job. If I guess right, the person actually paying Lin’s salary must be Prince Laka’s father, the supreme ruler of Country J.”

You don’t ask, you don’t get scared. They didn’t know much about the prince of Country J, but many people were familiar with the King of Country J, a very powerful ruler; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to sustain his country for so many years.

If Lin was really acting on orders from the King of Country J, then the deal between Tan Rou and Prince Laka needed to be reconsidered.

Only, Lin wasn’t from Country J; why would he want to work for the King of Country J? This was a question worth considering.