The process of finding Thomas was a bit tortuous and difficult, and it took a lot of trouble to find it.

"Master, Thomas, I don't want to come back to the city to see you. Say that if you don't go to him, he won't tell the truth. Amu came to report the situation to Gu Dongning, "It is estimated that he was afraid of revealing his identity and was targeted and arrested by Simon." Now our men are guarding him, and he can't run away. ”

"Prepare the car." If Thomas doesn't come, Gu Dongning can only go over to meet him in person, and at this critical moment, he won't mind lowering his profile and running.

"Dong Ning-" Bai Yiru heard that he had found Thomas, so he asked Xiao Jiu to push himself over quickly and stop Gu Dong Ning, who was about to leave, "Let's go together." ”

"The road conditions are not good, and you will suffer if you go with them." Gu Dongning felt sorry for Bai Yiru, so he didn't plan to take her with him in the first place.

"But I want to go, because of me, and I want to hear what Thomas has to say." Bai Yiru is very persistent, the road conditions are not good, in order to know the truth that she has worked so hard to find, she can persevere.

"Then let's bring our family doctor with us." Gu Dongning understood Bai Yiru's thoughts, so he had to compromise and ordered someone to find a family doctor and Damei, and follow them to take care of Bai Yiru.

Ning Ke and Gu Zhenghao had just come back from outside, and their son and daughter-in-law wanted to meet Thomas and asked to go together.

"Then you guys, I'll take care of the children at home." Master Gu sent away his chess friends, and after entering the hall, he said reasonably.

"Grandpa, thank you for your hard work." Bai Yiru was worried that the whole family was gone, and no one took care of the children, so Master Gu volunteered to take Gu Qixi and Gu Jiayi, which was of course the best.

"Go ahead. Go ahead. Go and go back. Stay safe on the road. "As soon as Master Gu heard Bai Yiru say thank you to him and care about him recently, he was a little unnatural, because most of the things he had done to his granddaughter-in-law in his heart before, and there were always some things that he couldn't let go.

The group set off in a hurry and arrived at the mountain forest where Thomas was.

The most dangerous place is the safest place, this mountain forest is not far from the city of Düsseldorf, but not many people except hunters have set foot on it, and Thomas is stationed in a cave, the location is very hidden, even if you pass by the cave, if you don't look carefully, you will not be discovered.

Gu Dongning also relied on some guesses provided by Ben, and according to Thomas's hobby of hunting, he determined several locations, mobilized manpower and material resources such as police dogs, and spent a lot of money to find Thomas.

Simon didn't put much effort into finding Thomas, considering that his wife and children were in his own hands, and he was not afraid that he would talk nonsense, otherwise the lives of more than a dozen people would end in his own hands, and Thomas's family would be cut down.

But his carelessness gave Gu Dongning a desperate way to survive.

In the cave, there is a small pile of firewood, there are no flames, only some sparks that are about to burn out, which are used to light and keep warm.

Thomas sat on a raised and slightly flattened stone, looking at the comer, but his face was expressionless and he did not move.

"You want to see me, I'm here, you can say what you want." Gu Dongning got straight to the point, Thomas wanted to see him by name, how could there be no conditions to discuss.

"I have two requests, but both are simple and you can definitely do it." Thomas is also very direct and does not beat around the bush, "I sue sù qiē, you have to ensure that my family of more than a dozen people can come back from Simon unharmed." ”

Gu Dongning didn't speak, and his eyes motioned for Thomas to continue to say another request.

"When the matter is over, you must promise me to release my son and not retaliate against our whole family, especially my son, for what my son did before. Of course, I can also assure you that a dozen or so members of our family will never do anything to hurt anyone in the Hoffman family again. ”

"What guarantees?" Gu Dongning listened to Thomas's conditions, but it was not that he couldn't agree, but the trouble was eliminated.

"I lost an arm to myself." Thomas blurted out, not hesitating at all.

"Left arm." Gu Dongning bargained.

"......" Thomas was stunned, and secretly said that Gu Dongning was really ruthless enough, he was left-handed, he played good marksmanship with his left hand, and he didn't say anything about bows and arrows, and the other party just wanted his left hand, which was the same as breaking the right hand of ordinary people, which completely made him unable to adapt to life.

"I only need your left arm, otherwise there is no negotiation, you know, even if you don't say it, I will always have a way to get you to speak." Gu Dongning's king-like momentum made him high, sacred and unattainable, and inexplicably made people afraid and timid.

Thomas knew what Gu Dongning meant, so the other party took the same route as Simon, and took the dozen or so people to control himself and Ben. And he also believes that Gu Dongning definitely has the ability to snatch the people of the Thomas family from Simon's hands, but it just takes some time and energy.

"Yes. Left arm, I'll bet on you. He didn't dare to hesitate too much, so he could only nod his head in agreement.

"You have to come with me until the matter is settled." Gu Dongning waited for Thomas to finish the conditions before he began to say the conditions, "Keep my left arm, and when I release Ben, give it to me in front of him." Otherwise, Ben would have thought that he had taken it by force, not by Thomas, and that would have created a new feud.

"Okay. But it has to be kept secret, and Simon can't be known. Thomas nodded and followed Gu Dongning, but it was safe, otherwise he would be found by Simon, which would be even more trouble.

Gu Dongning nodded, and the agreement between the two was negotiated.

"Ah Qi, let Yiru and them in." He commanded Ah Qi.

Ah Qi went out in response to the call and invited Bai Yiru and Ning Keyan to go with Gu Zhenghao.

came to talk to Thomas about the conditions, and he would talk about some things that were too cruel, so Gu Dongning did not bring Bai Yiru and them together, but he himself and Ah Qi came to negotiate the conditions first.

"Dong Ning, did he say it? How so? As soon as Bai Yiru came in, she asked Gu Dongning anxiously.

"Don't worry, you didn't come, how could I possibly let him say." Gu Dongning stroked Bai Yiru's cheek, he had just come in under the pretext of determining whether it was safe or not.

"Let's talk about it now." Bai Yiru couldn't wait to look at Thomas, "Hurry up and tell us everything you know." ”

Thomas nodded and began to tell a long story.

"Before talking about Hu Wanyun, let me first talk about the Schultz family. Before Simon took over as patriarch, it was his father Karl who took care of him for more than ten years. Karl's patriarchal power was taken from his younger brother Leon. Leon is Hu Wanyun's husband, the two have a good relationship, and gave birth to a daughter, named Anja, but Hu Wanyun died in childbirth, leaving Anja to be taken care of by Leon. Leon is busy with his career and depressed because of the loss of his wife, and he rarely has time to take care of his daughter, Hu Wanyun's friend Wu Meilan also raised Anja for about a month. ”

"Just a month or so?" Ning Keyan asked suspiciously, holding the seal left by Wu Meilan in her hand, secretly thinking that that anja was herself?

"Hmm. In about a month, Wu Meilan was going to sketch before participating in the painting competition, so she sent Anja back to Leon. Thomas pointed to the seal in Ning Keyan's hand, "This is a good thing that Leon found back then, and gave it to Hu Wanyun, and Hu Wanyun made two seals and gave one to Wu Meilan." ”

"Oh." Ning nodded his head, but fortunately his guess was wrong.

"Then where did Anja go? Why doesn't everyone know about her deposit? Bai Yiru asked Thomas.

Because his wife had a difficult birth to a son, Leon never made it public, he had a daughter, and he was in no mood to pay attention to this. I said that he loves Hu Wanyun very much, and when his wife died, he was like losing his spiritual support, and he was depressed and depressed every day. Thomas said in detail, "Leon was very sad, and a few days after his wife's death, as the patriarch, he left Schultz's patriarchate to Anja, and there was a clause in the will that the Schultz family could only be inherited to Anja and Anja's children and grandchildren. Simon's father, Carl, didn't get a penny, and he was already jealous, and after seeing this will, he went against Leon everywhere and tried to steal the patriarch's position. ”

Bai Yiru frowned, the big family is not good at all, everyone wants to compete for family property and power, and they do not hesitate to sacrifice their feelings and relatives.

The mood was complicated, so that she grabbed Gu Dongning's hand harder and harder.

Gu Dongning felt the change in Bai Yiru's feelings, lowered his head and patted her shoulder gently, giving her silent comfort and strength.

Thomas continues.

Not long after, Leon, who missed his wife, became depressed and could no longer manage the family business, and Carl took the opportunity to seize real power and temporarily control the entire family. Leon found out that Carl's ambitions were growing and he was trying to drive him and Anja out of the family, and even killed them, and when Anja was three months old, he decided to let me, as a secretary, send Anja back to China to escape. It didn't take long for Leon to die of illness, and the family was completely controlled by Carl. ”

"And where did you send Anja? Is it H City? To whom? Bai Yiru felt that her heart was about to mention her throat, and the speculation in her heart made her feel a little frightened.

"Not delivered to H City. At that time, the traffic was not very developed, and for safety, I took some small routes that Anja had been taking, but while at sea, I was still caught by Karl's men. To protect the baby, I hid anja behind some cargo boxes and told them that the baby had accidentally fallen into the sea. ”

These experiences that Thomas said were all when he was dedicated to serving Leon, and it was this incident that became a turning point that made him betray Leon and become Carl's right-hand man.

"I was taken away by Carl's people, and the child was naturally left alone, I don't know if it was lost or dead. Later, I was forced by Carl to become one of his subordinates, and he arranged for me to go to Anja to determine her life and death. But there were very few contact methods at that time, so it was very difficult to find someone, and I never found Anja's whereabouts. "What's going on with Ben? You're Carl's subordinate, how did your son become a private detective? Gu Dongning asked, with his understanding of Carl and Simon, they would never let Ben go, but would cultivate them from an early age, so as to tie up Thomas, and let Thomas tie Ben, so that both father and son could serve them.

"I was reluctant to rebel, Carl wanted to kill Ben, and my wife forced me to rebel so that I could leave my son's life alive. I had no choice but to agree, so I asked Karl that no matter what my son did in the future, he could not let him work for the Schultz family. "Thomas is a family man, and in the face of such a threat, one is his wife and the other is his son, so he can only choose a compromise to protect his wife and children." Ben opened a private detective agency, Carl left the family to Simon, and Simon hired my son to find Anja for him at a high price. ”

"Why did Carl and Simon have to find Anja? Now that they have taken control of the Schultz family, and Anja no longer knows life or death, wouldn't it be better? With Thomas's narration, the truth was immediately revealed, and Bai Yiru's mood became more and more complicated, and her frowning brows never stretched.

Because Leon, in order to protect the interests of himself and his daughter, wrote two copies of the will, one of which was left in the court, and this one could not be taken out unless Anja herself or her descendants had the right to take it out. Carl and Simon can't find Anja, so they fear that one day her descendants will come back and take away the family property, which is an invisible time bomb, so they will seek out Anja and her children, intending to kill them all to prevent future trouble. ”

"Then I...... Is it Anja's daughter? Bai Yiru asked cautiously.

"Yes. Ben searched for a long time, and finally found Anja's whereabouts, but unfortunately she is no longer alive, so the target is you. When I first met Ben, he approached you to save you, and when we drank water together, he took your cup and did an appraisal. ”

"It must have been the first time I met him at school." Bai Yiru, who was in a more complicated mood, recalled it well, turned back to Gu Dongning and said, "That day in the classroom, Ben said that he was a new foreign teacher, I was very surprised, the two talked in the classroom for a while, and he poured water. ”

"If I had realized something then, there wouldn't have been so much danger. I thought it was the second uncle who was making trouble. Gu Dongning hugged Bai Yiru distressedly, he didn't expect her identity to be so unusual.

"It's not your fault." Bai Yiru squeezed Gu Dongning's hand and didn't let go, she smiled reluctantly, the shock in her heart was too great, she couldn't accept it a little.

Born as an ugly duckling, he suddenly became a white swan one day, and anyone would feel like a dream, and they would be caught off guard and difficult to adapt.

Bai Yiru felt this way at the moment, she even felt a little dazed, she didn't know what kind of changes would happen in her life next, and whether she had the ability to face and bear these changes.

Thomas didn't care what Gu Dongning said to Bai Yiru, he continued: "After finding Bai Yiru, we learned that Anja didn't die that year, she was picked up by the Zheng couple in H City, and the couple had no children, so they raised Anja and renamed her Zheng Peipei. ”

"Zheng Peipei?!" Gu Zhenghao, who had not made a sound, exclaimed, but felt that he had reacted too violently, so he immediately smiled, concealed his feelings, and asked Thomas as calmly as possible, "I mean, why did you change such a name, it's too ordinary." ”

"Can your focus be normal?" Ning Keyan glanced at Gu Zhenghao angrily, a name, he also had to make a fuss.

"I don't mean to say that such a common name, so who would have thought that her daughter was related to the Schultz family. So......" Gu Zhenghao explained with some strong words.

"Alright. All right. You'd better listen to you Thomas continue. "I'd rather interrupt Gu Zhenghao, no one has the time to listen to him say something inappropriate at this time.

Gu Zhenghao was just waiting for Ning Keyan's words, and he was glad that everyone didn't find his abnormality.

You continue. Let's talk about what happened next. "Rather order Thomas.

"Zheng Peipei's adoptive parents are still in good condition at home, and they only picked up their daughter when they traveled abroad. But later, the Zheng family's business went wrong and gradually declined, and Zheng Peipei had no choice but to go out as a singer to make money and support the family. Thomas said.

"My mom met my dad when she was a singer. At that time, my grandmother and grandfather had passed away, and my mother gave all her savings to my father and let him open a KTV. Bai Yiru followed Thomas's words and said to herself, "But he was sentenced to my mother, gave birth to a child with Zhao Yali outside, and wanted to come back to divorce my mother." My mother disagreed, saying that I was still young, so I kept dragging it, and when I was more than three years old, my mother was not there, and he took Zhao Yali's mother and son home. ”

"That's true." Thomas nodded, and then said, "Bai Lixing is indeed not good to Zheng Peipei, because it is said that Zheng Peipei had children out of wedlock before, and Bai Lixing would not have married her if he hadn't taken a fancy to her money." ”

"Having a child out of wedlock? How is this possible! Don't talk nonsense if you don't have proof! Bai Yiru raised her voice to blame Thomas, Zhao Yali always said that Zheng Peipei didn't know how to check and had an affair with others, and she gave birth to a child, she just thought that the other party framed and scandalized her mother, and now Thomas also said that it is said that her mother gave birth to a child, how can she not be angry.

"I have to explain a few words about this rumor, but I'm not talking nonsense." Thomas tried his best to clear up his relationship, so he took the trouble to explain, "Some people say that Zheng Peipei had a child with her, and the child died not long after. Some people say that she was just pregnant and did not give birth......"