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Chapter 1464: : Interview with seller and TV station (plus)
Chapter 1464: : Interview with seller and TV station (plus)
Chapter 1464: : Interview with seller and TV station (plus)
Du Zhaohui's efficiency is not high, and he still gives her an answer.
She couldn't answer Jim's question:
"Wait, it should be soon, have you found the seller?"
Jim handed Xia Xiaolan a piece of paper: "Benfield, now living in Los Angeles, is a construction businessman. Before 1969, he had lived in San Francisco. He moved to Los Angeles in 1969 and became a builder. The vase at home, I think he is related to the case of Xus disappearance."
"This Benfield sold the vase?"
Jim nodded, "Last year his construction business was sluggish and he sold this vase as a capital turnover. This is what I found, but he insisted that he bought the vase by accident from the flea market."
It was not sold by Xu Zhongyi, nor was it snatched from Xu Zhongyi?
In 1969, two years after Xu Zhongyi's family disappeared, Benfield lived well in San Francisco. Why did he suddenly move to Los Angeles?
Los Angeles is not far from San Francisco, less than two hours by plane.
Xia Xiaolan thinks this Benfield is worthy of further investigation.
"The San Francisco gangs you suspected before, did they change?"
Jim was a little embarrassed and confirmed that the deceased was not Xu Zhongyi, and his preliminary investigation was overturned. Had it not been found that the seller of the vase was Benfield, he would be embarrassed to come to see Xia Xiaolan.
"My informant in San Francisco did not provide more clues. I still insist that the disappearance of the Xu family is related to the local gang in San Francisco. The police now suspect that it was Xu who fled San Francisco with his wife and children after the murder... Xu Ke was a newcomer to the United States. Will he deal with the clues so cleanly and escape? He is not a professional killer."
Xia Xiaolan pondered: "I hope your inference is correct. I don't trust the San Francisco police 100%. They handled this case very perfunctorily back then!"
Racial discrimination has not disappeared until 30 years later, and the Chinese in the 1980s will not be respected in the United States.
When the deceased was identified as Xu Zhongyi, they did not want to investigate.
It is now confirmed that the deceased was another unnamed Asian male, and the police also said that the murderer was Xu Zhongyi.
"I will find out the truth of the matter."
Jim is going to go to Los Angeles to find Benfield again. This time he has the handle to threaten Benfield. The San Francisco police still don't know about the vase. If Benfield doesn't tell him the truth, he will have to face police investigation.
Xia Xiaolan said that she had found the seller of the vase and had already asked the detective to check it. Grandma Yu was very energetic:
"Look at the styles and patterns of Yujia's old things, whether they are, or not, depends on the imprint."
Yu's things are imprinted, and Grandma Yu can't confirm it just by looking at the photos.
I have to wait for confirmation from Hong Kong... In fact, Xia Xiaolan and Grandma Yu are somewhat certain. This vase is one of the antiques that Xu Zhongyi brought to the United States.
What a coincidence, the seller happened to live in San Francisco before 1969!
Living in San Francisco has the opportunity to meet Xu Zhongyi.
Is this Benfield one of the gang members?
Probably not, if yes, Jim must have found it.
Xia Xiaolan also felt that he had to do more than one plan. The San Francisco police had its own investigation. Even if Xu Zhongyi had killed someone, it would be good for the police to find someone. Jim pursued the truth according to his own thoughts, and Grandma Yu was interviewed by San Francisco TV. The multi-pronged approach will definitely yield something!
After giving the San Francisco TV a reply, Xia Xiaolan and Grandma Yu had a good discussion about what they said on TV.
"Don't watch Americans talk about humanitarianism all day long. In order to attract attention, TV stations dare to ask any questions. They will definitely ask the San Francisco police about the suspicious uncle Xu's murder and absconding...."
Xia Xiaolan was worried about this.
Grandma Yu waved her hand, "I can't bear this, so what son should I look for?"
Arrange a time with the TV station and the local newspaper, and Grandma Yu will show up after she has cleaned up properly.
The media on San Franciscos side is replenishing a poorly dressed, poorly dressed Chinese old lady, crying and crying to the camera. A few words can panic her asking... No, even without the reporter opening and seeing The camera, you don't know where to put your hands and feet, right?
Grandma Yu is destined to surprise them!
The old lady's white hair was combed intact, and she hadn't been maintained for many years at her age, and there was no beauty.
What's more, grandma is used to her face all the year round, and the lines on her face look very serious.
What kind of a fierce old lady is? Grandma Yu is a typical representative of the fierce old lady when she shows up!
But she has a good manner.
Fearless.
She dares to face the camera and speaks English. She doesn't need an interpreter at all. She sits wherever she is, without stage fright at all.
The reporter who was prepared for sharp questions was too afraid to speak for a while.
Or what Grandma Yu said herself:
"In 1966, my son brought his wife and their 5-year-old child to the United States. In order to settle in the United States, I asked him to take away a box of gold and some Chinese antiques, but he arrived in the United States. I sent a letter back to China. The letter told me and my husband very happily that he will definitely be able to obtain American status and will soon return to China to pick up our husband and wife... Twenty years have passed. My son has no news, not only When I returned to China to pick me up, the San Francisco police said that he was a suspected murderer who had absconded. Not only I could not accept this result, but my husband, who had passed away, would not agree."
The camera never stopped as soon as it was turned on.
Came to the U.S. with a box of gold in 1966?
There are also some valuable Chinese antiques.
This is also a rich man in China!
A wealthy man from China tried to settle in the United States. First, he disappeared for 20 years. The plot was reversed and he became a suspected murderer considered by the San Francisco police. This story has great news value.
There are a large number of Chinese living in San Francisco. This news TV station has already started reporting a few days ago, but it has not interviewed Grandma Yu herself.
It was equal to the grandmother's completion that a reporter asked a question, but his attention was a bit biased:
"Can you be more specific? You said Xu brought a box of gold to the United States. The concept of a box of gold is too vague. How specific is it?"
This reporter obviously wanted to calculate the value of the gold Xu Zhongyi brought to the United States.
The unit of gold in the United States is neither grams nor two, but "ounces." One ounce is approximately 31g. Xia Xiaolan reminded her grandma in a low voice. Grandma Yu calculated something in her heart and said with certainty:
"According to the U.S. unit of measurement, there are probably 320 ounces of gold bars."
320 ounces?
Xia Xiaolan took a deep breath. The box full of gold that Xu Zhongyi brought was 10 kilograms?
The reporters couldn't help but whisper.
In 1966, gold was $35 per ounce. According to Grandma Yu, the value of gold that Xu Zhongyi brought to the United States was tens of thousands of dollars.
That was tens of thousands of dollars 20 years ago. Damn it, doesn't it mean that Chinese people are very poor? This is called poverty?
"The porcelain of Huaguo..."
Gold can be directly exchanged for money, but antiques have to pick buyers, so the gold that Xu Zhongyi took away was to make him spend money in the United States. The real valuables are those antiques. In the eyes of grandma, everything is more than one. The box of small yellow croaker is valuable-I just don't know if the Americans recognized it.