Raise me, I'm super sweet

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This time the mission only told the approximate location, indicating that the person who asked for help did not want to reveal his privacy.This is a common thing for some rich people.

Du Heng got into Qi Fanchen's car, leaned on the back seat and said boredly: "Although I also think this task is boring, but it's nearby anyway, so it doesn't matter if you go and have a look."

"Will pets get sick if they bite people?" Cang Luan asked.

"No." Qi Fanchen said, "All pets have been vaccinated, even if they bite people, they will not be infected with rabies."

Cang Luan tilted his head to look at his profile.

The three of them came out of the earl's mansion, and quickly arrived at the silver moonlight residential area opposite the golf course according to the navigation.This is indeed a wealthy area, very different from the previous Mufu Village. The single-family villas occupy a very large area, and each building is very far apart. It only took Qi Fanchen a few minutes to drive to the door.

As soon as he reached the gate, Qi Fanchen saw a man standing at the gate.He waved his hand this way, and Qi Fanchen lowered the car window.

"Are you people who suppress evil?" The man looked over forty and asked politely while bending over.

"Yes." Qi Fanchen nodded.

"Okay, I'm afraid I will trouble some of you to walk with me." The man said politely, "It's not far from here."

"Okay." Qi Fanchen parked the car outside according to his request, and the three got out of the car.

"Thank you very much for coming so late." The man walked in front and said softly, "I am the master's housekeeper, you can call me Lao Liu."

"I want to ask what kind of pet your master has?" Du Heng began to go through the process.

"It's Teddy." Lao Liu said, "Miss took it home to raise it when she was a child. She has raised it for more than ten years and has always been very obedient. I don't know what happened. Since the day before yesterday, Doudou has been following me It's exciting, jumping up and down."

"Are you scared?" Qi Fanchen asked, having never had a pet.

"After the young master and miss moved out, Aunt Lin and I have been taking care of grandpa at home. There are only three people in the house. During this time, the master has not invited any guests."

"Who did you bite?" Cang Luan asked.

"Aunt Lin." Lao Liu said, "Aunt Lin took Doudou out for a walk every afternoon, but Doudou suddenly bit Aunt Lin yesterday afternoon, and the master immediately put Doudou in a cage when he found out."

The three were silent for a while.

Du Heng finally broke the silence: "Then why are you calling us here?"

"Although Doudou was locked in a cage, she has been shouting since last night until today. The master invited a veterinarian to come over, and the doctor said that there is nothing wrong with it." Lao Liu said, "Also, the master said that there are some strange things at home."

"What's so strange?" Du Heng asked, "Why hasn't this been mentioned?"

"Because you won't know until you get home." Old Liu quickened his pace, "Gentlemen, let's hurry up."

Du Heng glanced at Qi Fanchen suspiciously, but saw that the other party kept his head down, not giving him a chance to communicate at all.

Although Lao Liu said that the door was not far from his home, they still walked for nearly 10 minutes before arriving.Bypassing a tree-lined path, Old Liu led them into a garden.

Entering from the garden, they walked for about 5 minutes before they walked out of the garden and saw the gate of the villa hidden in the green plants.

Lao Liu had already called the master when he was in the garden, and there was an old man with gray hair standing at the gate waiting for them.As soon as he saw someone coming, he immediately greeted him.

Although he is old, he is well-groomed, wearing a suit, but with a slightly panicked expression on his face: "You are finally here, what are your names?"

After some introductions, Qi Fanchen learned that this old gentleman is Ye Suzheng, a retired old entrepreneur who has a hobby that rich people have, collecting.What was not mentioned in the mission was precisely because it involved his collection.

"In addition to paintings and brushes, I also like to collect some handicrafts." The old man led them in and said, "I basically go to see it every day. When I woke up this morning, I found that the location of some things had changed. "

"Did you touch it while cleaning?" Qi Fanchen asked.

"No one enters the master's collection room." Lao Liu explained.

"Is there monitoring in the collection room?" Du Heng asked.

"Yes, yes." The old man wrinkled his face, "It's just that the surveillance system broke down a few days ago, so I forgot to tell Lao Liu to change it."

"Could it be a thief?" Du Heng asked again.

"It's impossible for thieves to break in." Lao Liu said, "Our entire yard has a security system, and there are surveillance cameras outside, showing that no one came in last night."

"That's really strange." Du Heng touched his chin.

The old man took them to see Doudou first.This villa is very big, even Doudou has his own room, bigger than Qi Fanchen's living room.

Doudou was locked in a big dog cage. Before they entered the room, they heard a dog barking. When they walked in, Doudou seemed to be stimulated, barking very frantically, and even stretched out his paw on the cage Scratching and clawing, making harsh noises.

"This is Teddy?" Du Heng almost thought he was wrong.

"I was going to ask someone to cut its fur yesterday." Lao Liu said with a sorry face, "I didn't give it a bath last night, and its hair was a little messy."

Qi Fanchen felt that Cang Luan was standing behind him, and secretly grabbed his sleeve.

"The food is the same as before, and I don't know why I suddenly went crazy." The old man sighed helplessly, "I don't know if I am getting old or have menopause?"

"..." Qi Fanchen thought about it and said, "Could it be that it found out what happened last night, and that's why it went crazy?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone inevitably thought of Aunt Lin.

"No." The old man quickly denied, "Aunt Lin has been taking care of me and my two children here for more than 20 years, and with Doudou for more than ten years."

"Don't talk about Aunt Lin." Lao Liu looked at his master, "Today, the master wanted to take it out, but he was almost bitten by it. I really don't know anyone."

"Is Aunt Lin's injury okay?" Cang Luan asked while hiding behind Qi Fanchen.

"It's okay, I bit the skin and it will be fine in a few days." Old Liu replied.

"Would you mind taking us to your collection room?" Du Heng turned his head and asked the old man.

The old man obviously hesitated, but he thought that this matter was really weird, so he could only compromise: "Please follow me."

The second floor is full of bedrooms, and the old man's collection room is on the third floor.Several people followed up the stairs, Cang Luan looked at the hollow spiral staircase, and suddenly leaned into Qi Fanchen's ear, and whispered to him in a voice that only the two of them could hear: "I also have this kind of staircase in my room."

"Really." Qi Fanchen didn't look at him, but lowered his head to pay attention to his feet, and replied, "As expected of our prince."

Cang Luan laughed.

There are some paintings hanging on the corridor leading to the collection room, Qi Fanchen managed to recognize the names of a few paintings, thinking that this old man really likes elegance.

The old man pressed his fingerprint to open the door, and Qi Fanchen saw the interior of the collection room.As he said, there are three huge transparent glass cabinets in the room, and the cabinets are filled with large and small sculptures and handicrafts of various materials, which are dazzling and dazzling.

Old Liu didn't follow in. Du Heng was the last one to come in. After reading it, he sighed: "There are so many things."

"This is only a small part." The old man said with some complacency, "It's not particularly valuable."

"What changed its position?" Qi Fanchen looked around.

"Not these." The old man went to the window and there was a wooden cabinet, which was locked.After fingerprinting, the cabinet door opened.

There is a sculpture about half a meter high and [-] meters high inside. It looks very familiar. It is a miniature version of the stone carving of birds and phoenixes in Huale Square. Even the posture of each bird is carved exactly the same. .

"You donated this... the stone sculpture in Huale Square?" Du Heng obviously recognized it.

"That's right." When the old man said this, his expression was a little lonely. "She left early, and the square was named after her."

Qi Fanchen carefully looked at this sculpture from a distance of two meters, and felt that this sculpture was more delicate than the stone sculptures on the square.But after watching for a while, he always had a weird feeling.

"Excuse me, what did you use to carve this?" Cang Luan behind Qi Fanchen asked.

"This is a bone carving, carved out of animal bones." The old man said, "I bought this at an auction house seven or eight years ago. The 900 million yuan at that time is not cheap now."

"Why did this stone sculpture change its position?" Du Heng leaned forward to look, "The position of the dust underneath has not changed."

"It's not this stone sculpture." The old man was a little timid, "It's this cabinet."

Several people in the room fell silent.

"Usually the cabinet is against the wall, that's it." The old man pointed to the east wall. "Looking at it this morning, there is about a centimeter between the cabinet and the wall."

Qi Fanchen went around to look behind the cabinet, and sure enough, he saw a gap.

"There was no earthquake here, how could the cabinet move for no reason." The old man was puzzled, "No one can come in here except me."

"How long have you kept this thing at home?" Du Heng asked, "Did anything strange happen after you took it back?"

"I bought it and put it here." Speaking of this, the old man was a little proud, "Don't talk about strange things, after getting this thing, my daughter also found a good family, and my son inherited the family business smoothly, and the family went smoothly. "

"That's strange." Du Heng didn't know much about this kind of thing, so he asked, "How's the Feng Shui here?"

"Our house has been seen by others." The old man seemed to hear the funny words, "Feng Shui is good."

"The monitoring here should be changed." Qi Fanchen said, "If it's true, there may be strange things happening tonight."

"Old Liu!" The old man heard the words and called the butler, "Go and change the monitor!"

After coming down from the third floor, Aunt Lin had already served them tea, Qi Fanchen told the old man that they had to discuss something, and the old man took them into the meeting room.

"I suddenly felt that I was a bit redundant here." Du Heng leaned on the soft sofa and exhaled, "Do you want to call the children over?"

"This matter may not be as simple as we thought." Qi Fanchen frowned and stared at the tea on the small table, and said, "That stone sculpture, I always feel a little weird."

"I don't know if I'm overthinking." Cangluan said hesitantly, "From the first strange thing we encountered, it was inseparable from the mermaid. Those children ate the youth bead in Uncle Fifth's mouth." the puppet pearls, the crocodile silk on those four people today."

"So you suspect that the bone carving is also?" Qi Fanchen looked at him calmly.

"Isn't it? Actually, it's very easy to prove." Cang Luan frowned, "But if there are really merman behind these things, the bone carvings this time don't look like it. No matter how capable the merman is, they can't do it out of thin air in a closed room."

Du Heng was quiet for a while, then said: "I don't know the inside story, but I don't know if you have noticed that we have been heading west."

Qi Fanchen looked up at him.

"In addition to your mission in Mufu Village, you are getting farther and farther away from the sea." Du Heng said.

"Cang Luan." Qi Fanchen called him suddenly, "I remember you said that you couldn't enter the cave at the bottom of Tinghu Lake without the guidance of a shark."

Cangluan was called by his name for the first time, but he didn't react, he was stunned for two seconds before nodding: "That's right."

"Jiji is also a part of it." Qi Fanchen said affirmatively, "At that time, it said that because that place was too cloudy, it went upstream. But now we are getting farther and farther away from Mufu Village."

"You mean to lure us away on purpose?" Cang Luan asked.

"Just guessing." Qi Fanchen said.

"Hmm..." Cangluan looked at Du Heng, then back to Qi Fanchen, hesitated for a moment, and finally said, "Actually, Jiji went upstream not just because of the dark atmosphere in that place."

"What?" Qi Fanchen was a little surprised, "Didn't you say that?"

"I said it." Cangluan said, looking into the eyes of the two, "I didn't say it at the time, because I was afraid you would think too much, but now this reason may affect your thinking, so I need to tell you."

Qi Fanchen looked at him and nodded, "Say it."

"The most important reason why it goes upstream is you." Cang Luan said.

Du Heng couldn't help interjecting: "I'm sorry, I have a lot of research on monsters. If I heard correctly, the Jiji you mentioned is a kind of monster."

"That's right." Cang Luan nodded.

"You told me that monsters fell in love with humans?" Du Heng looked at Qi Fanchen in surprise, "He?"

"Can't monsters fall in love with people?" Hearing this, Cang Luan retorted, "Don't forget, as a mermaid, I am also a monster in the eyes of you humans."

"Ah." Du Heng suddenly realized, and nodded, "Then it can be explained."

After Qi Fanchen listened for a while, he felt as if he was out of it again. He looked at Cang Luan puzzled, and asked, "Are you in love with human beings too?"

There was silence in the air.

Du Heng saw that Cang Luan didn't know how to explain it, so he simply acted like a good old man: "Should I call those brats over? This seems a bit evil."

Qi Fanchen didn't listen to his words, he just stared at Cang Luan, trying to read the answer from his expression.

But Cang Luan didn't dare to look at him, and chatted with Du Heng: "Call me and ask."

Qi Fanchen lowered his eyes and began to think about whether he was a human being or not.

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