"What about you?"
Xu Yun smiled. "I’ll grab a cab myself, find a hotel in town, and get so sleep. I haven’t slept all night, and I’m a bit tired."
"Okay, I’ll co find you when I’m done."
After Yu Xuan and Li Jinshu left, Xu Yun waited for a mont before hailing a taxi.
After getting in, Xu Yun said, "Driver, please take to the best hotel you have here. Thanks."
"You got it, man."
The best hotel in a small county town was actually a four-star hotel.
This ca as a bit of a surprise to Xu Yun.
He went ahead and booked the largest, most luxurious suite, which cost 2,300 a night.
When he got to the room, the environnt was quite nice.
But to be honest, from the mont he walked into the hotel until he checked in, he felt that while it had the star rating and the facilities barely t the standard, the staff’s service level just wasn’t up to par.
There was still a noticeable gap compared to hotels in big cities.
He took a shower, sent the address and room number to Li Jinshu, and then crashed into bed.
...
Gong iping was heartbroken by the actions of her husband and son.
But after the two of them caught up to her and persuaded her for a while, she chose to forgive them.
It just goes to show, birds of a feather flock together.
Perhaps the reason Li Jinshu’s character was so incompatible with theirs was that she wasn’t their biological daughter.
After pocketing an easy twenty thousand, they started plotting how to get the car back, all while cursing Li Jinshu.
But when they got back ho, they found their key wouldn’t open the door.
Li Huaiming couldn’t get it open, so Gong iping gave it a try.
When Gong iping failed, Li Yonghua tried.
The three of them took turns, but no matter what, the door wouldn’t open.
Li Yonghua asked, confused, "Don’t tell the lock is broken?"
"How could it be?" Gong iping said. "It was working just fine when we left this morning."
"Then why won’t it suddenly open?"
"Forget it, Mom. I’ll call a locksmith to co take a look."
"I guess that’s our only option."
"What a rotten day."
Gong iping said resentfully, "The car gets snatched, I get slapped across the face, and now even the lock is broken!"
Suddenly, the door of the opposite apartnt opened.
A neighbor ca out and said, "You’re back?"
"Yeah." Li Huaiming gave an awkward smile. "The door’s broken, so we can’t get in. We’re waiting for a locksmith."
"The door isn’t broken. Soone changed the lock cylinder."
The neighbor said kindly, "Before you got back, I saw a few people at your door through my peephole. They were big, burly guys, and one of them even had a tattoo.
They brought a locksmith and had him change your lock cylinder directly."
"!!!" The three of them were dumbfounded.
"Did you guys offend soone?"
Gong iping asked, confused, "Who could we have offended?"
When Li Yonghua heard about the tattoo, he imdiately reacted, saying angrily, "Mom, could it be the sa group of people who took my car this morning?"
"Are you saying your sister sent those people to do this?" Gong iping asked.
"Who else could it be!"
Gong iping said angrily, "So what? She can change it? We can change it right back! Call the locksmith, have him co and change it!"
"Okay."
A short while later, the locksmith arrived. He looked at the familiar door and asked, puzzled, "Didn’t this lock just get changed? You’re changing it again?"
"Change it."
Li Yonghua said, "This ti, install a smart lock for us—one that uses a fingerprint and a passcode, no keys."
"Son, aren’t those locks expensive?"
"They’re a bit pricey, but they’re secure. It won’t be so easy for them to change it again."
"Alright, we’ll do as you say."
Gong iping looked at the locksmith and instructed, "Sir, install a more secure smart lock for us."
"Hold on..."
The locksmith asked with so suspicion, "Is this house really yours?"
"Of course it is."
"Then who were the people who had change the lock cylinder earlier?"
The locksmith replied, "They also said this house was theirs.
I can’t just go around changing locks for anyone. If sothing happens, I can’t afford to take responsibility."
"Bullshit! This house is mine! They’re the liars!"
Li Yonghua said, "If you don’t believe , ask our neighbor. Ask them how long we’ve lived here."
"The house is indeed theirs."
The neighbor kindly testified, "Sir, they’ve been living across from ever since they first moved in."
Seeing that the locksmith was still suspicious,
Gong iping said, "Sir, how about this? You open the door for us, and I’ll go inside and show you the property deed. We have the deed."
"Alright, then."
The locksmith spent so ti getting the door open, then went inside and looked at the property deed they held, and was finally convinced.
He then installed the smart lock, charging them over 1,300 yuan.
After the locksmith left, the family of three spent a long ti cursing Li Jinshu.
After eating, they went out together to a law firm to consult a lawyer.
’They had to get the car back. The title was in his na, Li Yonghua’s, after all.’
Downstairs in their residential complex, so people from a loan company were keeping watch. The mont they saw the family of three leave, they imdiately reported it.
A few monts later, a few n arrived with a locksmith.
It was the sa locksmith as before.
The locksmith once again found himself staring at the door—the one he had *just* installed a smart lock on—and was completely dumbfounded!
’What in the world is going on?!’
"Boss, I really can’t change this one."
The locksmith said, speechless, "This is a smart lock now. It can’t be replaced. Only the owner who set the passcode can open it. Otherwise, your only option is to destroy it with brute force!"
"Fine, we get it."
The n turned around, found so tools, and imdiately began to dismantle it by force.
They didn’t just break the lock; they removed the entire door.
The locksmith standing to the side was completely stunned.
Then they made a call and brought in a door installer to put in a new door.
They then had the locksmith install another smart lock.
It was the exact sa model!
Not only that, but this ti they completely emptied the apartnt, moving everything downstairs and piling it up in the complex.
It made for a huge pile.
They had completely pulled the rug out from under them!
...
That evening, when Gong iping’s family returned to the complex, they saw the pile of belongings at the building entrance. "Is soone moving?" Gong iping asked, puzzled. "Why is everything just left here blocking the path? So inconsiderate."
"Exactly. And property managent isn’t doing anything about it. I’m going to file a complaint tomorrow!"
"Why complain?"
Li Yonghua said, "This is perfect. We can use this as an excuse not to pay this year’s property managent fee."
"Good idea."
Taking the elevator up, the family arrived at their front door, only to find that it looked cleaner and newer than before.
Although they were puzzled, they saw the familiar smart lock, so they reached out and used the fingerprint scanner to open the door.
"BEEP BEEP~" A red indicator light flashed, and the lock’s display showed "Fingerprint recognition failed."
"???"
They tried again.
The fingerprint recognition failed again.
"What’s wrong with this thing?"
Gong iping was instantly annoyed. This lock was brand new; how could it already be failing to recognize her fingerprint?
She reluctantly tried entering the passcode manually.
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