CHAPTER 408: CHAPTER 406: THE BLESSED TANUKI LORD OF THE MOUNTAINS

"........"

Lin Ying, full of cautiousness, opened her mouth to the elder sitting on the other side of the video and ventured a guess.

Grandmaster Lin was taken aback by her words, and immediately showed an odd expression, laughing as he said:

"Haha... Grandmaster is like an old tree blooming, but the old man’s energy can’t compare to a young person’s."

"No need for wild thoughts; the young fellow just has never experienced a Mid-Autumn Festival in his homeland, so he wants to experience our Lin Clan’s Mid-Autumn Festival."

"Unfortunately..." Lin Ying’s mouth opened slightly, wanting to explain that this year’s Mid-Autumn banquet at Lin Manor was different from previous ones.

This year, at the Mid-Autumn banquet.....

Lin Ying was preparing to settle accounts with the clan members.

Now Grandmaster Lin suddenly sent over an elder suspected to be born from the blossoming of his iron tree.

If the Mid-Autumn Festival goes well, great, but if not, there will be a chaotic clan skirmish with swords and guns.

"It doesn’t matter, he should arrive in Xia Dong tomorrow night. Keep his matters confidential, don’t make a big deal out of it."

Grandmaster Lin waved his hand, indicating Lin Ying only needed to sneakily bring him in, provide him with funds and a guide, and that she didn’t need to worry about anything else.

After saying this, Grandmaster Lin hung up the phone.

And in less than a moment, Lin Ying’s phone suddenly rang with a WeChat notification sound.

A person named [Lin Qi] sent her a photo and a text message on WeChat.

The young man in the photo, judging by his appearance, should be a mixed-race individual. He had deep-set features, relatively fair skin, with short black hair, and a bright smile, looking about fifteen or sixteen years old, with striking emerald green eyes.

Lin Qi: [You just need to pick him up; you don’t need to bother with anything else, just focus on your power struggle.]

"...Grandmaster seems to be 93 this year, he would have been about 70 a decade ago."

Looking at the young man in the photo, Lin Ying’s expression showed a subtle change.

Although she didn’t want to speculate in that direction, the young man in the photo really resembled Grandmaster.

The nose, eyebrows, eyes, were all identical.

No wonder it couldn’t be publicized...

Grandmaster in his seventies ventured into the blossom field, producing a half-foreigner grand-uncle for the young Lin generation.

This news for the Lin Clan was no less than a tactical nuke exploding at home.

Foreigner blood, though not taboo.

However.

Foreigner blood is unacceptable in the clan.

A family bound by blood ties, how could they accept a foreigner’s blood, it’s unthinkable.

It’s not prejudice, but in more than 200 years of Lin history, there really was an incident of foreign relatives usurping the nest.

Almost putting a Jesus statue and foreigner painting on the ancestral altar for the Lin Clan to worship and burn incense to.

Therefore.

Seeing the WeChat photo, Lin Ying’s eyes widened in disbelief.

Although Grandmaster’s character wasn’t like Li Wenkang’s, completely wanting foreigners dead.

But he always harbored precautions against foreigners, and now he produced a mingling mixed-breed?

"Lin... Lin Shu, go inform the business team, saying the Lin Clan has an urgent matter needing my return."

"As for my meetings, have them attend or cancel all, book me a ticket back to Xia Dong."

Lin Ying turned off her phone’s screen, rubbed her slightly aching forehead, and called out towards the door.

Having a foreign mixed-breed granduncle was more troublesome for Lin Ying than the internal strife of the Lin family in Xia Country.

However chaotic the Xia Country Lin might be, they were a part of the pot, other Lin would stop funding, Lin Ying closes the investment department, Xia Country Lin could immediately calm down.

But as the Lin Clan’s patriarch.

Grandmaster produced a foreign illegitimate child.

This concerns the Lin Clan’s legitimacy.

Not knowing was fine, but now knowing, Lin Ying suddenly felt like she was sitting on pins and needles, as if the ancestral spirits were poking at her back, urging her to quickly notify the other Lin leaders, saying that Grandmaster had an old blossom producing a granduncle for the clan.

"Just hope....."

"He doesn’t have any intention to seize power, the maternal family has no influence, right!"

Lin Ying leaned against the chair, murmuring, speculating about Grandmaster’s intentions.

In her heart, she was having an internal struggle, hoping the foreign granduncle she would soon meet had a softer personality.

Otherwise.

For the overall interests of the clan.

A runaway concrete mixer, or a white fox suddenly leaping from the greenery, there would always be something to match any greedy intentions from the foreign granduncle.

Or Lord Fuli driving a hundred-ton king crushing over.

...

"Dang——"

"Dang——"

Beside the wide valley streams of the Qinling Mountain Range.

Agricultural Research Institute students completed grouping to assist their teachers in driving geological survey probes into the ground.

Ah Qing’s hammer swung with a fierce vigor.

Just like Lord Fuli.

"Ah Qing... your phone’s out of signal again!"

Ansheng lay on a rock by the stream, half-immersed in the refreshing flow, resisting the hot weather.

Ah Qing’s phone, placed on the rock, was covered by a parasol for the little fox’s entertainment.

But the video playing in front of him had been stuck for half an hour, showing not even a single signal bar left.

In the sweltering summer, even though the stream spring’s temperature was cool, it couldn’t surpass the chill in Lord Fuli’s heart.

"Ah Qing, what did the little fox say?"

Mo Yiqing, installing the ultrasonic pulse device, heard the little fox’s faint sound of distress, and seeing him acting faint on the stream, like a floating corpse, couldn’t help but find it amusing and asked Ah Qing.

"He said he had no signal, and the big fox in the video got stuck halfway through pooping, making him uncomfortable." Ah Qing said with a helpless face.

"Pfft..." Mo Yiqing laughed out loud at that.

She knew Ah Qing switched from an old Android phone to a newer one for shooting 4K short videos and live streaming cameras.

But now, in a remote mountain area, it was normal for her streaming phone to have no signal.

"You go check on him! I can handle the detector installation here alone. Take the little fox and the spectrometer to the forest edge for soil testing." Mo Yiqing said with a smile to Ah Qing.

Collecting wild mountain delicacies for lunch required completing observation activities and mastering equipment usage first.

It was just past nine o’clock, and it would be at least another half-hour before finishing all courses and moving to free activities.

They had calculated, just inserting the probe to install the ultrasonic pulse device.

The Lingren and the like were still up in the trees, installing surveillance cameras.

"Alright then! I’ll first complete the soil analysis."

Ah Qing thought for a moment, picked up the metal case with the portable spectrometer, and walked towards the little fox.

"Xiao An, let’s go! I’ll take you to pick chestnuts and August melons!"

Ah Qing spoke to the little fox.

"Or should we catch a fish first?" Ansheng turned away from the tail, slightly exerting force, pulling out his tail from the stream.

A wobbling giant salamander opened its mouth wide, fiercely biting onto Lord Fuli’s tail tip.

"Gwa?"

The giant salamander, lifted out of the water by Ansheng, with a wise look in its eyes, stared at the human and fox, mouth tightly gripping Lord Fuli’s tail, making a sound similar to a frog.

"A wild giant salamander... seems like a national protected animal, doesn’t it?"

"No worries, I’m also a national protected animal, later I’ll give it a smack....."

"Hey!? Can... can you do that?"