Baird Lane flicked his thin lips back, “Meaning, after paying them, I’ll step in and warn them, that way they won’t come to the door asking for money in the future.”
“So.” Christine White nodded her head in understanding, then added, “But forget about giving money.”
“What?” Baird Lane raised an eyebrow.
Christine White smiled a little embarrassed, “It was because I gave them money without any bottom line before that I fed their appetite, making them think that if they asked me for it, they would definitely get it, but now I realize how wrong I was before.”
“So you won’t give it away afterward?” Baird Lane said.
Christine White gave a soft hmmm.
Baird Lane lowered his voice, “You have the right idea, but it’s hard to do, are you sure you can do it?”
Christine White paused, and after a couple seconds, nodded a little less confidently, “I suppose I could.”
To be honest, even though she said that, she really wasn’t sure she could do it completely.
There may be some nonsensical reasons for wanting money that she can refuse, but if something does happen to The White Family, she may not be able to do anything about it.
“I knew it.” Baird Lane propped his head up on one hand, “They’ve been relying on you for so many years, and they’re not going to take kindly to you suddenly deciding to stop paying them, so there are some things that are going to have to be done slowly.”
“I know, but I really won’t give more than a million dollars for Mick’s marriage this time.” Christine White clenched her palms and said with a firm face.
Baird Lane chucked a piece of meat into her bowl, “Do what you want, and if anything goes wrong, call me and I’ll help you.”
“Uh, thanks.” Christine White was sincerely grateful.
Baird Lane lifted his chin and said no more.
Christine White took a bite of the fish in her bowl and swallowed it before something else suddenly occurred to her, “Right!”
Baird Lane was startled by her flurry of activity, “What’s wrong again?”
“I almost forgot, I saw Hugh Dong this afternoon.”
Upon hearing the name, Baird Lane’s grip on his chopsticks tightened violently and his expression sank coldly, “You spoke?”
“Uh-huh. …” Hearing the coldness in his tone, Christine White scowled.
Baird Lane’s thin lips pursed into a straight line, “Said what?”
“Not much, just curious as to how I got back, after all he was the one who drove me to the station when I first left, and secondly he said some very strange things to me that I thought were very wrong.” Christine White looked very serious as she spoke.
Baird Lane narrowed his eyes, “What’s the wrong word?”
“It was when he asked me if I had reconciled with you and said that I should not regret it later.” Christine White replied, “It sounded like he was saying I shouldn’t regret it if I reconnect with you, but I always felt like it meant something else, but I couldn’t tell you what exactly.”
Hearing this, Baird Lane mused for a moment, “I see.”
“You know what it means?” Christine White looked at him with rounded eyes in surprise.
Baird Lane shook his head lightly, “No, I mean, I’ll look into this Hugh Dong guy.”
“But didn’t you investigate him before, and you didn’t find out anything other than that he was a little off, so didn’t you end up calling it quits, and now you’re going to investigate?” Christine White said.
Baird Lane pinched the bridge of his nose, “As you said, you felt that something wasn’t right about his statement, I felt that way when I heard it so I’m going to re-check it out, plus where did you meet him?”
“It’s at the station near headquarters, and he said he was dropping his father off at the airport and coming back.”
“Wait. His father?” Baird Lane looked slightly altered.
Christine White looked at him like that and was a little curious, “Yeah, that’s what he said, what’s wrong with that?”
Baird Lane did not answer immediately, but pondered for a while before speaking in a deep voice, “Hugh Dong’s father, Owen Dong, settled abroad more than twenty years ago, back then he left very suddenly, and no one knew why he left, and the most unthinkable thing is that he had said he would not come back in this life, but now he suddenly came back now.”
There must be something wrong here.
“Twenty years ago?” Christine White’s voice grew louder in surprise, “Twenty years ago, you probably don’t even remember, and how do you know that?”
“That’s what Grandpa told me, when I inherited The Lane Family, Grandpa told me a lot of secrets about the other groups.” Baird Lane replied simply.
Christine White drifted off, “It’s all about knowing your enemy.”
“Pretty much.” Baird Lane nodded.
Christine White stroked her chin in thought, “Listening to you, then Hugh Dong’s father’s sudden return obviously has an ulterior motive?”
“It should be, or it doesn’t explain why he came back and didn’t give the slightest hint of what was going on.” Baird Lane picked up.
Christine White bit her lip, “So what he’s up to, could it have something to do with you and The Lane Family?”
“How?” Baird Lane looked at her.
Christine White scratched her head, “I’m not sure, it’s just my intuition that tells me so, and I suddenly remembered a sentence Hugh Dong said in the afternoon, he said that he was passing by The Lane Family Group headquarters after dropping off his father and coming back, but the airport is in the north The Lane Family Group headquarters is in the south ah, and he’s going to return to Dong’s how could he go around so far.”
At that, Baird Lane’s eyes twinkled a few times, “Give me all your guesses.”
“Oh.” Christine White knew that he had listened, and hurriedly answered, then added, “Usually after dropping off a friend or family member, they would choose the nearest road to go back, unless there is a traffic jam to take the long way around, but the airport side is an eight-lane road, and there has never been a traffic jam, so instead of saying that it was a fluke, it would be better to say that he intentionally passed by The Lane Family headquarters then.”
“What you say makes no sense.” Baird Lane was mentally surprised that she could connect the dots so well.
But this speculation of hers reminded him.
Hugh Dong’s words to her and the deliberate long detour past The Lane Family headquarters.
These two together, it can already be guessed that Hugh Dong holds an abnormal attitude towards The Lane Family, so he has to find out.
“So what are you going to do about it?” Christine White asked Baird Lane.
Baird Lane held his forehead, “First, have someone look into Hugh Dong and figure out if he has malicious intentions towards The Lane Family or not, otherwise, we’ll talk about it later.”
“So.” Christine White nodded, “Then be careful.”
“You’re concerned about me?” Baird Lane looked at her with a smirk.
Her eyes flashed sheepishly, “Well, let’s eat, the food’s getting cold.”
After saying that, she grabbed the chopsticks on the table and quickly shaved two mouthfuls of rice into her mouth.
Baird Lane shook his head somewhat helplessly when he saw her avoiding answering, but he didn’t necessarily want her to answer, and went on eating his meal as well.
After the meal, Baird Lane went to the bathroom to take a shower while Christine White cleaned up the kitchen.
The kitchen had just been cleaned up when the cell phone in her pocket suddenly rang, and when she took it out, she had a bit of a headache.
The call was from Mick White, and as for the purpose of the call, she didn’t have to think about it.
And she made it clear yesterday that she wouldn’t pay him and didn’t have any money to give him.
Thinking about it, Christine White hung up the phone unceremoniously.
But Mick White was undeterred and soon called again.
Christine White heard the cell phone in her pocket ringing like a death wish, ringing her heart irritated, no longer able to hold back, took out the phone vigorously scratched the answer button, “Hello?”
She sounded a little cold.
On the other end of the phone, although Mick White was dissatisfied with her attitude, but once he thought of the purpose of the call, he had to endure it, licking his face and smiling fawningly, “Sis, have you eaten yet?”
Sister?
Christine White jumped her eyebrows with an odd expression.
He called her sister?