1464: Seller and TV Interviews (Plus)

Du Zhaohui's work efficiency is not high, and he still gives her an answer to this day.

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 lived in San Francisco, and in 1969 he moved to Los Angeles and started a construction business. If it is confirmed that it is Yu The vase at home, I think he has something to do with Xu's disappearance."

"It was this Benfield who sold the vase?"

Jim nodded, "Last year his construction business was sluggish, and he sold this vase as a cash flow, which 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 stolen from Xu Zhongyi?

In 1969, two years after the disappearance of Xu Zhongyi's family, Benfield was living well in San Francisco, why did he suddenly move to Los Angeles.

Los Angeles is not far from San Francisco, and the plane is less than two hours away.

Xia Xiaolan felt that this Benfield deserved further investigation.

"The San Francisco gang you suspected before, did they change anything?"

Jim was a little embarrassed and confirmed that the deceased was not Xu Zhongyi, and his preliminary investigation was overturned. If it wasn't for the fact 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 any 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 Xu took his wife and children to flee San Francisco after killing the man... Xu is a newcomer to the United States, why? 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 perfunctory 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.

Now it has been confirmed that the deceased is another unnamed Asian man, and the police say that the murderer is Xu Zhongyi.

"I will definitely find out the truth of the matter."

Jim is going to go to Los Angeles to find Benfield again. This time, he has the reason to threaten Benfield. The San Francisco police don't know about the vase. If Benfield doesn't tell him the truth, he will only face the police's investigation.

Xia Xiaolan said that she had found the seller of the vase and had already asked the detective to investigate. Grandma Yu was in high spirits:

"Looking at the old things that look like Yu's family in style and patterns, whether it's true or not depends on the imprint."

There are imprints on the things in Yu's family, and Grandma Yu can't confirm it just by looking at the photos.

We have to wait for confirmation from Hong Kong... In fact, both Xia Xiaolan and Grandma Yu are somewhat certain that 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 gives you the opportunity to meet Xu Zhongyi.

Is this Benfield one of the gang members back then?

It shouldn't be, and if it is, Jim must have found it.

Xia Xiaolan also felt that there was a need to do more. The San Francisco police had their own investigations. Even if Xu Zhongyi murdered or not, it would be good for the police to find someone. Jim pursued the truth according to his own ideas, while Grandma Yu was interviewed by San Francisco TV station.

After giving the answer to San Francisco TV, Xia Xiaolan and Grandma Yu had a good discussion about what to say on TV.

"Don't watch Americans talk about humanitarianism all day long. In order to attract attention, the TV station dares to ask any questions. It will definitely ask you about the San Francisco police's suspicion of Uncle Xu's murder and absconding..."

Xia Xiaolan was worried about this.

Grandma Yu waved her hand, "I can't bear this, what son are you looking for?"

I made an appointment with the TV station and the local newspaper, and Grandma Yu showed up after she had packed up properly.

The media in San Francisco was thinking about a poor old Chinese lady in tattered clothes, crying and crying in front of the camera. A few words could make her panic... No, it didn't even require a reporter to speak, seeing The camera, you don't know where to put your hands and feet, right?

Grandma Yu was destined to surprise them!

The old lady's white hair is neatly combed, and at her age and has not maintained it for many years, there is no such thing as beauty.

What's more, Grandma Yu was used to having a straight face all the year round, and the lines on her face looked very serious.

What kind of a fierce old lady, Grandma Yu is a typical representative of the fierce old lady when she shows up!

But she is well behaved.

Not afraid of hands and feet.

She dares to face the camera, speaks English, doesn't need an interpreter at all, sits wherever she is, and has no stage fright at all.

The reporters who had prepared sharp questions were reluctant to speak for a while.

Or what my grandmother said:

"In 1966, my son came to the United States with his wife and their 5-year-old child. In order to settle in the United States, I asked him to take a box of gold and some antiques from China, but when he came to the United States, only I sent a letter back to China. In the letter, I happily told my husband and I that he would definitely be able to obtain American citizenship and would soon return to China to pick up our husband and wife... 20 years later, there is no news of my son, not only does he not have When I returned to China to pick me up, the San Francisco police said that he was a murder suspect who absconded, and this result is not only unacceptable to me, but also my deceased husband will not agree."

Dozens of cameras

It didn't stop.

Coming to America in 1966 with a box of gold?

There are also some valuable Chinese antiques.

This is also a rich man in China!

A wealthy Chinese man tried to settle in the United States. He disappeared for 20 years, and then the plot reversed. He became a murder suspect 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 started reporting a few days ago, but Grandma Yu herself has not been interviewed.

After grandma finished speaking, the reporter asked a question, but his attention was a bit biased:

"Can you be more specific? You said that Xu brought a box of gold to the United States. The concept of a box of gold is too vague. How much does it weigh?"

The reporter obviously wanted to calculate the value of the gold that Xu Zhongyi brought to the United States.

The unit of gold in the United States is neither grams nor two, but "ounces", 1 ounce is about 31 grams, Xia Xiaolan reminded her grandmother in a low voice. Grandma Yu calculated in her heart and said with certainty:

"It's about 320 ounces of gold in U.S. units of measurement."

320 ounces?

Xia Xiaolan took a deep breath. The box full of gold that Xu Zhongyi brought must be 10 kilograms?

The reporters couldn't help but whisper.

In 1966, gold was $35 per ounce. According to Grandma Yu, the gold that Xu Zhongyi brought to the United States was worth tens of thousands of dollars.

That was tens of thousands of dollars 20 years ago. Hell, doesn't that mean that Chinese people are very poor? That's called poverty?

"The Chinese porcelain..."

Gold can be directly converted into money, but antiques have to be bought by buyers, so the gold that Xu Zhongyi took away was for him to spend money in the United States. The real valuables are those antiques. The box of small yellow croaker is valuable - just don't know if the Americans at that time recognized it.