Qilin Jue [Tomb Raiders Notes]

A slightly cold breeze hits, taking away a trace of residual heat in the air.The city, which has just experienced a heavy rain, is returning to its fast pace, full of mortal noise.

However, the sky that had cleared up not long ago was gradually surrounded by thick clouds floating from the sky, gradually covering up the last bit of blue, as if some kind of imprisonment could not be escaped.The light above the clouds could not penetrate, and the haze fell again, indicating that another autumn rain was coming.

A black car was parked outside the Crescent Hotel.

"Be careful on the road." Xie Yuchen looked at the sky, and then told Huo Xiuxiu in the car.

"Understood." Huo Xiuxiu smiled, "It looks like it's going to rain again, go in quickly."

"Yeah." Beckoning, Xie Yuchen signaled the driver to drive.

The engine started and the black car drove out smoothly.

After watching the car disappear into the distance, Xie Yuchen was about to turn around and walk into the store when his cell phone rang suddenly.

He took out his mobile phone, pressed answer, and walked towards the store at the same time, "How is things going?"

……

After hanging up the phone, Xie Yuchen walked to a seat by the window and sat down.

The tea on the table had grown as cold as the air outside.

Watching the store gradually become lively, the day's business started as usual.

Xie Yuchen was used to sitting in a corner by himself, observing everything around him.

When one is alone, the mind can calm down, which allows oneself to see everything calmly.

However, Xie Yuchen lost his mind this time.What is surging in my heart is all the emotions in recent days.

Thinking of the ups and downs of his state of mind since Zhang Qiling's arrival.

Thinking that everything was moving in an unknown direction, Xie Yuchen suddenly felt a deep sense of powerlessness in his heart, a sense of powerlessness and pain that everything deviated from what he thought.

As the head of a family, for the purpose, he can be a patient hunter, using all his thoughts to catch his prey step by step.But this method seems so feeble when used emotionally.

That sentence is true, the person who gets stuck first is doomed to be the loser.

Xie Yuchen understood from the beginning.

I thought that I finally had the opportunity to be close to Zhang Qiling, to fill the gap that had been left for such a long time, to stay by his side, let him notice me, and then pay attention to me in my heart.

However, accidents always catch people off guard, and the development of things is always unexpected.

I thought that I was the only one who had such taboo thoughts, but I didn't think that I was not the only one who fell into it.

Perhaps everything got out of control when they knew that Black Glasses and Wu Xie had the same feelings for Zhang Qiling, and in this vortex, there were destined to be no extra winners.

Not long ago, Xie Yuchen's heart had been tugging since Zhang Qiling went out suddenly.At that time, my first reaction was to follow, but if it wasn't for the consideration that Huo Xiuxiu was still in the store, Xie Yuchen would have followed out at that time, but the most important reason was that besides Wu Xie, the black glasses also followed.

Leaving Wu Xie's feelings for Zhang Qiling aside, just knowing the relationship between Zhang Qiling and the black glasses, Xie Yuchen understood that no matter how much he thought about it, no matter how much he thought about it, he had no chance to step in.

Zhang Qiling's attitude towards him is always so flat, but there seems to be a kind of tacit understanding between him and the black glasses that has been settled for a long time, a tacit understanding that he can't get in, it is a barrier that keeps him from approaching.

"Master Hua, Master Hua?"

A voice interrupted Yuchen's thoughts.

After calming down, Xie Yuchen looked at the buddy who came over and said, "What's the matter."

"Your friend is back," replied the man.

Hearing this, Xie Yuchen hurriedly looked towards the door of the store, first Hei glasses and Wu Xie came in through the door, and finally Zhang Qiling.

Xie Yuchen breathed a sigh of relief, then got up and walked over, keeping his gaze on the blue figure behind him.

"Are you okay?"

Xie Yuchen looked at the black glasses and Wu Xie, and then turned his gaze back to Zhang Qiling. Seeing his Wulan eyes looking back at him, he couldn't help smiling at him, and then lowered his eyelids slightly.The whole look is indescribably tender.

The other two were completely ignored for a moment.

"It's okay, don't worry." Wu Xie didn't seem to pay attention, and answered the question about Yuchen.

The black glasses pursed their lips straight, and turned their heads expressionlessly.

"That's good," Xie Yuchen smiled, and didn't plan to ask any more questions, and then walked to the cubicle on the side, "Come here, I have something to tell you."

"Eh? What's the matter?" Wu Xie asked suspiciously, and followed.Black Glasses and Zhang Qiling walked behind.

The compartment is a stepped compartment built of carved mahogany, with simple decoration. Generally, restaurants will have opera shows at night. If someone likes to listen to operas quietly, they will book a compartment to listen to operas alone.And from the compartment you can clearly see the entire tall wooden platform.

……

There was a cauldron stove in the corner, and a faint white smoke emitted, filled with an elegant and refreshing tea fragrance.

"Auction?" Wu Xie looked at Xie Yuchen, his eyes widened in surprise.

"That's right, it will be tomorrow night." Xie Yuchen said, "This is an instruction from the upper management of the Xie family. Many leaders will come here tomorrow night. This auction will be held internally and will not be made public."

"Speaking of which, the last time I came here was at an auction, and I didn't expect to meet you as a boy." Wu Xie smiled.

"Hehe, that's right, but I didn't manage this restaurant back then, and I was just a junior who followed the seniors," Xie Yuchen said with a smile, "and everything was different at that time, the so-called, the world is impermanent Well."

"That's right." When it comes to the past, Wu Xie feels nostalgic.Sighing, he suddenly thought of something, looked up at Xie Yuchen and said, "What are all the auctions?"

Xie Yuchen's expression sank slightly, "The auction items..."

"What happened?" Wu Xie asked.

Xie Yuchen frowned slightly, as if he was trying to express himself clearly. After a long time, he said, "It's very complicated. The auctioneer of the auction is an overseas organization. In recent years, they have focused on domestic development. How clear. Although the structure is different from that of the Old Nine Gates, the means and purpose of doing things are the same. They had a short-term trade in goods with the Xie family, and the first contact between the two parties was more than 20 years ago. At that time, the relationship between the two parties was quite good. , because it was originally a matter of mutual interests, and there have been no disputes. But at that time, Xie’s family was in a special time period. During this time period... something happened, and everything was kept strictly confidential. I don't know much about the previous generation, but after I took over the Xie family, I got to know some of them..."

Speaking of this, Xie Yuchen paused, and then continued: "The Xie family has been looking for something a long time ago, and I don't even know what it is, because all the senior members of the Xie family who knew the inside story have passed away one after another. It is mentioned in the chronology of the cabinet that all the secrets of that thing were recorded on an ancient painting. At that time, Xie Jia had been working hard to find the clues recorded in the painting. During his constant search, he found one of the things mentioned in the painting. The essential thing, this thing, is the necessary condition to find the final thing. But what is unexpected is that this painting was suddenly lost in the turmoil of the old nine gates."

Black Glasses suddenly asked: "If I remember correctly, the old nine clans hadn't developed independently more than 20 years ago, and they were still in constant contact with each other, so, do the other families of the old nine clans know what the Xie family did at that time? "

Xie Yuchen shook his head and said, "I also said that Xie's family was in a special period at that time, and they didn't have close contact with Lao Jiumen."

"Then it seems that even the old nine sects who support and supervise each other have their own secrets." The black glasses raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, "20 years ago, when Lafayette Zhang led the old nine sects, Let's not talk about the actions of the Xie family. The Xie family also participated in everything that happened during this period, including that incident..." The black glasses pretended to casually glance at Zhang Qiling, who seemed to be out of the way, "So, the Xie family performed alone. A secret operation, is it more or less related to it? Or, is it related to the old nine-door incident at that time? After all, that incident caused such a big sensation later on."

Xie Yuchen fell silent, his expression fluctuating, and he said after a long time: "I don't know a lot about those. But there is always a key to solve all mysteries."

The black glasses raised his hand to support the sunglasses, but he didn't say anything else.

Wu Xie, on the other hand, didn't care about that, and asked Xie Yuchen, "Is there any record of the content of that painting?"

"There is no record, and there is no explanation of the age of the ancient paintings." Speaking of this, Xie Yuchen stopped, looked at Wu Xie, the black glasses, and Zhang Qiling who had been silent, and said seriously, "You should Understand, what I really want to say is that the overseas organization had a conflict with the Xie family before the turmoil of the Old Nine Gates, and it was related to that ancient painting. After that, the organization suddenly disappeared, and then the painting and found The only clues to it also disappeared. And the auctioneer of this auction, that is, the organization, included in the list given the things that the Xie family found back then."

After speaking, the compartment fell silent for a while.Even the black glasses are a little absorbed in thinking.

"You mean," Wu Xie said slowly, "the sudden disappearance of the ancient paintings may have been done by that organization?"

"I can't rule out this possibility." Xie Yuchen said, "It's not unreasonable to arrange this auction here. The upper echelons of the Xie family also want to find out the truth of the year. Moreover, this generation of the family has basically changed people. That organization may think that we I don’t know what happened back then, and I want to gain a foothold in Beijing by interacting with Xie’s family. The upper management saw this and asked me to make arrangements.” After a pause, Xie Yuchen hesitated, “So, if that’s the case, maybe tomorrow night There will be conflicts with each other, so you have to be careful."

"What is the identity of the leader of that organization?" The black glasses rarely asked seriously.

"This is also a tricky point," Xie Yuchen frowned. "The other party is very cautious. And I don't know if it's the former leader."

The author has something to say:

I let Xie Yuchen and the others like the little brother from the very beginning, and develop their relationship directly from the beginning, otherwise, if I explain it from the previous acquaintance, it would be too slow for the plot.