Sourness

After Qin Zhao left, Mi Yue coaxed Da Mao to play for a while, promising to come back early and bring him some fruit, so Da Mao reluctantly let him go out.

It was another day of being crowded in the crowd and being dizzy from all kinds of noise.

Before Mi Yue came to this place, he thought that the movement of the collection market would reveal clues in a place like Ancient Culture Street, but he forgot that he was an unfamiliar face.

The buyers and sellers in the antique business are all careful and tight-lipped.Even if some gossip really came out, it would only come to an end when it reached them.

They are a group of people who write caution into their bones, and no one will take risks easily.

When Lao Mao called, Mi Yue was sitting in front of a cold drink shop drinking herbal tea.

At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the streets were still crowded with people.

Mi Yue answered the phone and said "Hello" without any strength.

"Miyue?" The old cat's voice sounded very serious, "Where are you?"

Mi Yue was lazy and didn't want to talk to him, "Guess."

The old cat was silent for a while, and asked him tentatively, "Is it in Ancient Culture Street?"

Miyue didn't make a sound.

"I have a piece of news here, I think you might be interested." The old cat paused for a moment, seeing that Mi Yue was still pretending to be dead, couldn't help stabbing him, "There is such a person, with you The institute has something to do with it, before the accident, he went to find Wang Xiaohu..."

Mi Yue was shocked.

He had long guessed that Wang Xiaohu had bribed someone from the research institute, so he knew that something in the research institute had been taken down Lingxi Mountain.

Mi Yue cheered up, "Who is it?!"

After speaking, he immediately became suspicious again. This person was originally with Wang Xiaohu, and it was not surprising that he would know the inside story.But how could it be possible to find out in Binhai City thousands of miles away?

The old cat didn't notice what he was doubting, so he said to himself: "Listen to me first. This man came to Wang Xiaohu to discuss a deal, but Wang Xiaohu is a wealthy landowner, and he doesn't know some things. So the deal was not negotiated. But later, Wang Xiaohu found someone who knows the business to inquire about it, and regretted it. So he chased Binhai City."

Mi Yue stood up suddenly, "Wang Xiaohu also came to Binhai?"

"Correct."

Mi Yue's mind was a little confused, "Have you seen him? What did he say?"

As soon as this sentence came out, Mi Yue realized that she had said something stupid.The old cat is Wang Xiaohu's helper, how could he turn around and send him a message?

"Forget it, pretend I didn't ask." Mi Yue retracted her question before he could speak, "Thank you for telling me this."

The old cat didn't make a sound.

Miyue also felt that there was nothing to talk to him about.Along the way, although the old cat didn't do anything against him, he did make clear his position at the very beginning: he was Wang Xiaohu's helper.

The old cat didn't owe him anything, and from the perspective of a stranger, doing this was considered very affectionate.

"That's it..." Mi Yue was about to hang up the phone, when the person on the other side said "I saw you", and then hung up the phone neatly.

Mi Yue, "..."

Mi Yue quickly realized what the old cat meant by hanging up the phone.

Because he also saw the old cat.

It's just that I haven't seen her for two days, but to be honest, seeing a familiar face in a place full of strangers made Mi Yue feel a little happy.

Although he tried his best to hide this happy feeling.

The old cat wore sunglasses on his forehead, and sat down opposite him carelessly, "Long time no see. Are you okay?"

Mi Yue laughed, thinking that no matter how long it took two days, it would be difficult to count it as "a long time", right?

"What do you want to drink?" Mi Yue shook the drink cup in her hand, "I invite you."

The old cat glanced at the colorful disposable drinking cups in his hand, showing a somewhat disgusted expression, "Forget it. I'm not interested in these. Why do you like drinking these? Little girls like it, right?"

Miyue likes sweets.When buying drinks, he heard the little girl who sells drinks explain to him what is half sugar, three parts sugar, and milk-covered tea jelly, and he ordered a full-sugar grape tea without hesitation.

"I haven't seen it before." Mi Yue answered him honestly, "The last time I went down the mountain was a few years ago. At that time, there were not so many milk tea shops on the street, and there were not so many varieties of food and drink."

The world is changing so fast.

Although he doesn't live in the mountains and is not a cultivator, but once in a while, he can't help feeling that "a day in the mountains is a thousand years in the world".

The old cat sneered, "Old-fashioned."

Mi Yue is not angry either, compared to the people here, he is really quite rustic, he has never even heard of many new tricks.

"You came to find me?"

The old cat nodded, he leaned on the wooden seat, narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the pedestrians coming and going on the street, and asked him casually, "Do you live in the uncle's house you mentioned? "

Miyue nodded.

When he went to Qin's house, the old cat brought him there.Miyue didn't quite understand why he would ask such a question.

The old cat asked him another irrelevant question, "The grandson of your uncle's family, do you know which auction house he is in?"

Mi Yue took a look at him, and vaguely felt that his tone of mentioning Qin Zhao was not quite right.

"what happened?"

"Is it called Time Auction House?"

Mi Yue shook her head, "I don't remember that name. What's wrong?"

The old cat withdrew its gaze, raised its handsome thick eyebrows slightly, with a trace of uncertain doubts, "Wang Xiaohu went to find an acquaintance from Time Auction House."

Mi Yue's heart skipped a beat, "You think he's got his idea on my uncle?"

"Not sure." The old cat shook his head, "I think Wang Xiaohu's attitude doesn't look like he is tempted by something himself, but he seems to be forced to show his head after being pushed out by someone. He is not very happy. look."

"I've also heard people say that he is keen on collecting ancient coins, gold and silver jewelry." In Mi Yue's impression, Wang Xiaohu is a local rich man with some bad money, but his education level and appreciation level are not high , and never heard that he is interested in collections related to Yindu Danqing.

The old cat laughed, "You can just call him a bumpkin."

Mi Yue thought to herself, should I say it directly, it is obvious that he is.

"I'm just skeptical." The old cat brought the topic back, and looked at him with some hesitation, "I heard that the thing lost in your research institute is a musical instrument? What kind of musical instrument is it? Is it very valuable?"

"You just found out?" Mi Yue glanced at him sideways, "Wang Xiaohu said it?"

The old cat shook his head, "It's not difficult to inquire about this kind of thing. Didn't you report it to the police? I heard from the people in the police station."

Mi Yue is dubious about his statement.

People in the police station still gossip about this kind of gossip with irrelevant people?

Mi Yue was puzzled for a while, and then felt that the statement "lost a musical instrument" was indeed very similar to a layman's description.If Wang Xiaohu told him, he probably wouldn't even mention the name of the instrument.

An inner ghost from the research institute contacted him. Wang Xiaohu should know the name "Xishan Phoenix Piano".

Mi Yue asked him, "Did Wang Xiaohu come after the two of us? Or did he come to Binhai by chance because he was looking for Time Auction House?"

He felt that it seemed superfluous for Wang Xiaohu to make this trip by himself when Lao Mao had already been entrusted.

Unless the person he entrusted made him hard to trust.

This question is really difficult for the old cat to answer.He thought for a moment, then asked Mi Yue, "How did you come to Binhai?"

He felt that Miyueman Street was looking for someone, not as if he was chasing someone, but as if he had this location as a clue, so he came here specially to check.

Mi Yue was taken aback by his question, "Of course... I asked on the way."

"Who did you ask?" The old cat raised his eyebrows, his eyes showed some suspicion, "This person told you that the stolen musical instrument was sent to Binhai? Is this person reliable?"

Miyue thought of those two big, naughty cats in the night, and said uncertainly, "Should...probably."

"What do you mean should be?" The old cat felt that his answer seemed unreliable, "What if the guide is with the person who stole your things?"

The person who took the instrument guessed that there would be someone chasing after him. Isn't it normal to deliberately set up a trap for the chasing soldiers?The old cat didn't understand why Mi Yue had so much trust in the guides.

Mi Yue was stared at by him with caring eyes for the mentally handicapped, a little overwhelmed, so she had to forcefully explain, lest the old cat really think him as mentally handicapped.

"Actually, I planned to visit both the cities of Binhai and Yuntai." Mi Yue's voice subconsciously weakened, "Since there is news, no matter whether it is true or not, I have to go to Binhai first. trip."

The old cat felt that this explanation was more understandable.If Mi Yue was really able to be fooled into going astray by just anyone, then he really had to doubt this person's IQ.

The old cat said with a pensive expression, and frowned, "I followed you to Binhai, and I haven't found out anything about it. It stands to reason that Wang Xiaohu doesn't have to come here at this time... unless there is something to do, you have to He can't do it himself."

Mi Yue, "..."

Mi Yue didn't have a deep understanding of Wang Xiaohu, so it was impossible to analyze his behavior pattern from this angle.

And...he began to think that the topic of Wang Xiaohu might be just a cover.

The old cat was testing him.

And after going through such a trial and error, Mi Yue began to feel that her IQ was really not enough.

The old cat seemed to have stolen some information from him, but he still couldn't see through the old cat's intentions.

On the one hand, Mi Yue felt that what he said about being indebted to Wang Xiaohu seemed to be true, but on the other hand, he also felt that the old cat had taken the initiative to find him, and it always seemed a bit malicious.

Not sure if this person is good or bad, and there is no way to drive him away.Miyue struggled with herself for a while, and then some things broke down.

He thought, if this person is willing to follow, let him follow.It wasn't in his hands anyway.He was single and had no money, so he really had nothing to plot against.

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