Chapter 136

"What was his background?"

An Yi was sipping tea. Hearing this, he readily agreed. "That's easy. News this big? My friend works in the same trade as us. He's bound to know."

For years, An Yi and his brother An Xin had made antique reproductions. Xi'an was a tourist city with plenty of foreigners, and they happened to meet a business partner there. The man admired An Yi's craftsmanship and had a source of buyers, so he acted as a go-between, buying An Yi's high-quality reproductions and shipping them abroad to sell.

And even as reproductions, they fetched a good price.

Otherwise, the brothers wouldn't have been living so comfortably.

An Yi asked around, then came back with an answer the next day.

"Joseph looked into it. The seller was a Chinese American, supposedly a well-known antique collector in the United States."

A Chinese American? Gu Jinshui had a hunch it was him.

He leaned forward. "What's his name? Where's he from?"

"No one knows his real name. All I found out is that his English name is Hank."

Seeing Gu Jinshui's tense expression, An Yi grew curious. "Why? Does he have something to do with your family?"

Gu Jinshui tapped his fingers on the table. He had known An Yi and his brother for years and trusted them, so he told them the whole story.

Once he heard it, An Yi was indignant too. He slammed the table. "That bastard! You ought to catch him and make him pay!"

"Exactly what I think."

Gu Jinshui drummed his fingers on the table in frustration. "But he's so far away. It won't be easy to confirm whether Hank is Lin Dahai."

An Yi rubbed his chin. "Gu, if you don't mind coming with us, we've got a shipment going to Joseph