Return to the Road of God

Tao Sifei walked slowly on the quiet path, surrounded by greenery, he could vaguely see an old villa of some age standing not far away, in the shadow of mottled trees, it looked unique, but his mood was out of step So calm and peaceful...

Knocking on the door, the expected person opened the door, Tao Sifei straightened his posture and called out: "Brother Guan."

The man in front of him was exhausted, but he was not surprised by the person coming.

Tao Sifei glanced around. It has been more than [-] years since the reform and opening up, and the capital city, which was demolished and rebuilt after the reform and opening up, has long since lost its original appearance. Nothing has changed, "Why don't you invite me in?" He looked at Guan Linyun.

The other party seemed to be moved by his seemingly nostalgic gaze, turned around and left the door, and the latter followed him in without hesitation.Once inside, Tao Sifei's mood fluctuated even more with the childhood memories that rushed over his face.

As if back to 20 years ago, he was still the mischievous kid who was transported here by Guan Lin to learn painting, and he also walked through the hall one after the other to meet the young artist...

However, the room that was originally filled with paintings is now empty, except for a drawing board covered by a curtain in the center of the studio, and a high stool at a proper distance in front of the drawing board.

The empty room made Tao Sifei uneasy. He wanted to go forward to remove the curtain, but was grabbed by Guan Linyun: "What are you doing?"

"Where are the paintings?" Tao Sifei stared at Guan Linyun and asked, "Where did Xia Xiaochuan's paintings go?"

Guan Linyun looked at him calmly and said, "It's burned."

Tao Sifei shook his head in disbelief: "Impossible, did you hide it?"

Guan Linyun: "Is that why you came here?"

Tao Sifei smiled: "Of course, I still want to catch up with you."

Guan Linyun let go of him, and stood with his hands behind his back: "I didn't expect that when I kindly trained you and let you learn painting from Xiao Chuan, it turned out to be a problem."

A mocking smile appeared on the corner of Tao Sifei's mouth: "Cultivate me kindly? Guan Linyun, ask yourself, are you training me, or are you atoning for the sins of your official family?"

Guan Linyun's eyelids twitched: "Back then..."

Tao Sifei interrupted rudely: "It doesn't make sense to say anything."

Guan Linyun: "..."

Tao Sifei glanced at the empty studio again, and asked, "You say I'm a tiger, so what are you to Xia Xiaochuan?"

"I don't understand what you're talking about," Guan Lin turned around, "I know that you are the one who teamed up with Qin Xing, and you are the one behind the Haina Group, who set off a frenzy of public opinion and made everyone start talking about Xia Xiaochuan, It's also you... If you want to avenge your fathers, then you have already succeeded, but your goal is Xia Xiaochuan's paintings, let me tell you, don't even think about it."

"Uncle Guan, have you misunderstood us..." At this moment, a person suddenly appeared in the depths of the porch, and it was unknown when this person came in.

Guan Linyun glanced at Tao Sifei, and when he saw a smug smile on his face, he understood.

"Sorry, I came in without permission when I saw the door was open," Qin Mengyuan shrugged with a smile, "Uncle Guan, Brother Tao didn't ask you about Xia Xiaochuan's paintings because he wanted to monopolize them." Aggravated, as if implying something.

Guan Linyun: "Then what do you want to do? Publicize your work so that people can continue to discuss it?"

Qin Mengyuan: "Isn't this very good, just for everyone to appreciate Xia Xiaochuan's talent."

Guan Linyun: "You have also investigated a lot, don't you know the family motto of the Xia family?"

Qin Mengyuan smiled and said: "Uncle Guan, what era is it now? Even Qin Shihuang's terracotta warriors and horses have been unearthed. When they were buried with them, they never thought of seeing the sun again! How much significance this has for us in China, don't you?" I know... what's more, you don't have the right to keep Xia Xiaochuan's paintings privately!"

Guan Linyun frowned: "As I said, those paintings are no longer there."

Qin Mengyuan seemed to have heard a joke: "You love Xia Xiaochuan so much, I don't believe you are willing to burn his paintings."

Guan Linyun looked at Qin Mengyuan: "If I don't have the right, then who do you think has the right?"

Qin Mengyuan: "National laws stipulate that if the works of a deceased artist are not inherited by his children or spouse, they should be handed over to the state for management and preservation by the government."

Following Qin Mengyuan's gaze, he saw a few more people coming out from the depths of the hall. Except for two suits and leather shoes, the others looked like bodyguards.

Qin Mengyuan said: "Uncle Guan, let me introduce you. This man in a gray suit is the deputy director of the Administration for Cultural Relics, Uncle Zhao." He paused and introduced another person, "The one next to him It’s Mr. Wang, a gold medal lawyer from Dongcheng Law Firm, who is very familiar with inheritance laws related to art and antiques. Don’t worry, if you have any evidence to prove that you have the right to manage Xia Xiaochuan’s paintings, just tell us, if you do Offended, I apologize to you."

They obviously came prepared. Guan Linyun looked at Tao Sifei with a blue face, but Tao Sifei didn't look at him, but looked at Lawyer Wang and asked, "Lawyer Wang, I found some children who might be Xia Xiaochuan's children. Is there any way to prove whether they are descendants of the Xia family?"

Lawyer Wang: "The most authoritative thing is to do a DNA test."

Tao Sifei: "But Xia Xiaochuan has passed away."

"It doesn't matter. I heard that this is Mr. Xia's former residence." Lawyer Wang looked at Guan Linyun and said, "As long as his hair, fingernails, or blood can be found here—I heard from Mr. Tao that he I once vomited blood when I was painting, if the blood-stained painting is still there, it would be great."

Guan Lin trembled with luck: "Xia Xiaochuan has no children!"

"Oh?" Tao Sifei gestured, and suddenly two people appeared behind the bodyguards, they were the Bai family siblings who had just rushed over from the airport, "But how did I hear that these two children are Xia Xiaochuan and Bai Ziyi Born?"

Guan Linyun looked at Bai Qing and Bai Mu in surprise, and asked Tao Sifei, "Who did you listen to?"

Tao Sifei shrugged: "Of course those reporters."

Guan Linyun scolded angrily: "It's just nonsense!"

Tao Sifei ignored his fury, and instead asked Bai Qing and Bai Mu: "You must be very curious, maybe you are already doubting your own life experience?"

Bai Qing nodded her head with a small white face.

Tao Sifei continued: "However, the Bai family has been hiding the existence of you and 'Bai Changqing'. Do you know why?"

Bai Qing didn't answer, her small body tensed up nervously, but her eyes were fixed on Guan Linyun, refusing to relax at all: "Uncle Guan, if you know, can you tell us what's going on."

Guan Linyun asked with a straight face: "Why did you two come back to China suddenly? Doesn't your family know about it?"

Bai Qing shook her head: "They don't say anything, and they keep this matter secret, but we have almost guessed the truth, so what's the point of keeping it a secret?"

"The truth?" Guan Linyun snorted coldly, "Whoever told you is the truth?"

Bai Qing's eyes widened, and a gleam of light flashed in them: "Then..."

Guan Linyun frowned: "This matter has nothing to do with you, you two don't think too much, go back quickly."

Tao Sifei immediately said: "He is lying, and he is also hiding it from you!"

Bai Qing also had an expression of disbelief.

Guan Linyun sighed deeply, looking a little tired, but what right did he have to talk about it?He is not the Bai family!

At this moment, an old voice came from the inner room: "Lin Yun..."

Everyone's eyes focused on that direction, only to see an old man with white hair slowly sliding out from there in a wheelchair, and said tremblingly: "What's the point of telling them? If you don't tell them, they will Find other ways to find out."

"Guan Tenglong...!" Tao Sifei glared at the old man in the wheelchair, and called out his name by name, his heart was churning.

Even though he is almost sixty years old, those eyes still look like those of ferocious beasts, making people want to escape involuntarily... How can such a person be kind?The ancestors of the Tao family were destroyed in the hands of this old monster!

"You don't have to stare at me." Guan Tenglong glanced at Tao Sifei and said, "In those days, either you died or I died. Survival is a human instinct. If you want to blame, you can only blame fate."

Tao Sifei: "..."

Only Bai Qing, who was present, called out politely: "Grandpa Guan..."

"Hey..." Hearing this greeting, the old man instantly let go of his murderous intent, and waved to Bai Qing with a smile, "Come here, let Grandpa take a look."

Bai Qing liked to play at Guan Hongze's house since she was a child. Guan Tenglong didn't have a daughter, let alone a granddaughter, so she loved Bai Qing very much, and Bai Qing didn't guard against him. In her impression, Guan Tenglong was just a kind-hearted grandfather.

Guan Tenglong took Bai Qing's hand and said, "Good girl, don't be afraid, your father, your mother, and your brother are all true."

Everyone: "..." What does the old man mean, does he dare to love Bai Mu as a fake?

Bai Qing pursed her lips, shaking her eyes uneasily, but then, the scene that made her most afraid happened.

Guan Tenglong slowly shifted his gaze to Bai Mu, and said calmly, "Why did the Bai family hide the existence of 'Bai Changqing' from the two of them? It's because of him!"

The old man smiled lightly, with a hint of disdain in his eyes: "Because his existence is the evidence of our collusion in the competition for the Xia family's collection of paintings." Evidence that Changqing 'betrayed' Xia Xiaochuan."

Everyone was stunned, Bai Mu beside him seemed indifferent, but his trembling fingers betrayed his true emotions at the moment, Bai Qing couldn't help asking: "Grandpa Guan, what's going on?"

"It all started when the boy from the Bai family brought Xia Xiaochuan back to China," the old man said quietly, "When Xia Xiaochuan returned to China, it was actually a sensation because the Xia family was very famous, there were successors to the Xia family, and everyone in the world Very promising. But the relationship between him and Bai Changqing is hidden from everyone, after all, in that era, homosexuality was almost a crime..." Guan Tenglong said here, with disgust on his face, as if It expresses the public's attitude towards homosexuality at that time.

"Back then, the person surnamed Mu was still in power in the country. When the other party heard that Xia Xiaochuan was in Beijing, he also came to ask him to teach Miss Mu's painting. Yes. In order to ease the relationship, the boy from the Bai family went there in person instead of him. The dramatic thing is that the girl from the Mu family immediately fell in love with Bai Changqing, who was ten years older than her, and she insisted on marrying him... Back then, the Mu family was equal to the emperor, and many famous families wished to marry their family, but Mr. Bai was unwilling. But his reluctance did not mean that the Bai family was unwilling. Bai Junru repeated persuasion, but nothing mattered. As a result, I began to think about breaking up the two of them..."

Guan Tenglong paused and coughed twice. Seeing this, Guan Linyun immediately went indoors to get a teacup, filled it with hot water, and stuffed it into the old man's hand before continuing.

"At that time, Xia Zidan suddenly came to the door and said that the Xia family's collection of paintings has not been burned, and she hopes that Xia Xiaochuan can go back and inherit..." Guan Tenglong took a sip of tea, "However, Xia Zidan has one condition, she I want to bring Xia Xiaochuan and Song Xi together."

Someone didn't understand and asked, "Who is Song Xi?"

Only Qin Mengyuan was present to investigate this matter, so he immediately picked it up, explaining: "She is the niece of Xia Xiaochuan's mother, Song Yue, and also Xia Xiaochuan's cousin."

Lawyer Wang said "huh" and said, "Since they are cousins, why do you want to bring them together? After liberation, the "Marriage Law" stipulated that close relatives are not allowed to marry."

Qin Mengyuan shrugged and said he didn't know.

Guan Tenglong snorted and said, "What are close relatives and not close relatives? Why would a family like the Xia family, which is independent from the legal system, care about these things? Instead, they think that marriages between close relatives can inherit the good genes in the family Come down... because Xia Ziqin and Song Yue are also cousins."