a kiss to seduce you

Chapter 4

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"Hi." After drinking tea and hearing Pei Zheng's words, Xiao Gui met Xiang Di in the backyard. After thinking about it, she took the initiative to say hello.

Xiang Di raised his head to look at her, but didn't say a word. From Xiao Gui's angle, he could see that he was holding a cigarette between his right fingers.

"Uh... about..." Although Xiao Gui was annoyed by his indifferent reaction, she didn't lose her temper like she did in the study before, "Just now Ah Zheng has roughly explained the cause and effect of the matter to me, I want I apologize to you for the fact that I misunderstood you. However, this does not mean that I will hand over the Yongle Canon in my hands, I think it is two different things."

Xiang Di still didn't answer her, but just looked at her straight.

Xiao Gui continued: "I feel that since you initiated the investigation of the inventory of antiquities, you should also bear part of the responsibility for Professor Yan's death."

According to what Pei Zheng said just now, the director of the Palace Museum is familiar with Xiang Di, and it was Xiang Di's suggestion to make a new book and check the inventory of cultural relics.

Hearing this, Xiang Di extinguished the cigarette between his fingers in an unhurried manner, and put it in a vessel that looked quite old at the side, before opening his mouth slowly.

"I'm just giving a few suggestions!" From the beginning to the end, he really didn't expect that Yan Wanjin would steal the ceremony, let alone that Walter would find him.

"Do you dare to say that you have other intentions?" Xiao Gui didn't believe it.

After deliberation, she found that Professor Yan was just a chess piece manipulated by others, and she was a helper. The purpose was to ask them to find out the authenticity of the fact that the Yongle Canon was stored in the Central Library.

Xiang Di paused for a moment, casually moved away the utensils on the side, and glanced at the cigarette butts on it, "I have nothing to refute if you say that, but he will steal the Yongle Canon, and it is indeed not in my hands." within the calculation range."

"A Zheng said that it was a man named Walter who bought the ceremonial ceremony from Professor Yan, so he might have killed Professor Yan." Xiao Gui thought he was telling the truth.

"Ah Zheng?" Xiang Di raised his eyebrows slightly, "When did you become so familiar?"

"Ah?" Seeing his expression, Xiao Gui froze for a moment, unable to immediately respond to his words.

"It's nothing." Shrugging, Xiang Di tensed his face, not knowing why he should care, isn't it just a name she called Pei Zheng?
Xiao Gui stared at him suspiciously, "It's really nothing?"

"Of course." Xiang Di coughed and cleared his throat, "Walter is a well-known auction company in France, and the name of the person in charge of this company is Walter. In the name of the auction, the collection of the Yongle Grand Ceremony will be carried out at the same time."

"Why?" Xiao Gui blinked.

Why does a Frenchman have an almost crazy interest in Chinese cultural relics?
"what why?"

"Why is this Walter you are talking about interested in Yongle Grand Ceremony?"

Xiang Di's mouth curled up slightly at Xiao Gui's words.

"Are many people interested in the Grand Ceremony?" He asked meaningfully.

"Huh?" Xiao Gui looked at his expression and thought.

"Aren't you one of them?"

"Me?" Xiao Gui pointed at herself with one hand.

"Otherwise, why did you take some of them?" He didn't believe it was just for fun.

"Please, I'm different, okay! I'm just, just..." She was simply fascinated by that period of history, China's sea power, and the world's first long-distance fleet.

"Just what?" Xiang Di narrowed his eyes slightly to look at her.

"I'm just interested in that period of history." Facing his gaze, a whirlwind was forming in Xiao Gui's heart, not because of the spirit of not admitting defeat, but because of his attitude.

His attitude has a strong sense of ridicule, which seems to be very contemptuous.

snort!She is not greedy at all, he has insulted her sacred sense of mission in her love of history.

"Also talk about me, you are not the same, otherwise why would you induce Professor Yan to find the Yongle Canon?"

"I'm different."

"What's the difference?" In her opinion, everyone is the same.

She and him, the one named Walter, and Professor Yan, and even more people who have never met but are very interested in the Yongle Grand Ceremony, are all the same.

"I have a mission." Because of a family secret.

"So do I."

"I'm different from you."

"I don't see any difference." Not afraid of his gaze, she held her head high, "Of course, if you mean the difference between men and women, I admit that I am a woman and you are a man. Biologically we can't be the same."

"You..." Xiang Di's eyes twitched in anger.

Seeing that he was angry, she smiled, "I'm fine. Anyhow, it's impossible for you to get those books from me, because the things are not on me, and I'm absolutely I won't tell you where I hid things."

Speaking of this, Xiao Gui's heart suddenly trembled.

If it is true what Xiang Di and Pei Zheng said, if Walter's people can find her, will they also find her sister Xiaomei?

This made her very uneasy.

"Whatever you want!" Xiang Di was at a disadvantage for the first time, and was so angry that he simply shook his head and left.

Xiao Gui stuck out her tongue towards his tall and strong back, "Hmph, that's not graceful enough."

Even though she said that, she felt a strange feeling in her heart...

no!She can't think wildly, she has to deal with one thing first——

How should she give her sister Xiaomei a message?

She has to think about it.

In the depths of a forest shrouded in darkness, a Gothic white bungalow stands coldly.

Under the moonlight, a figure walked out of the dense forest. After walking a few steps, the man stopped at the junction of the driveway and the flower garden, bent down, and reached out to pick up a white object from the ground.

"You are so naughty, do you know how long I have been looking for you in the woods?"

The person who spoke was a woman. She hugged the cat and said, then turned and walked towards the white bungalow.

"Let's go, let's go into the house as soon as possible. He promised me that if there is moonlight tonight, he will accompany me to ride a horse in the woods." Said, the woman quickened her pace, and soon came to the white bungalow.

There were two tall men in black suits standing at the entrance. Seeing her coming, the man standing on the right opened the door for her. The woman nodded slightly towards them and continued to walk in with the cat in her arms.

After entering the house, the woman turned a few corners and came to the door of the study.

She raised her hand and was about to knock on the door, but the door was pulled open from the inside.

A very tall white man also wearing a black suit stood behind the door.

"Tony." The woman smiled politely at him.

Tony nodded his chin slightly at her.

"Found the cat?" A deep voice came from behind Tony.

The woman's eyes skipped over to Tony, and soon found the owner of the voice, who was sitting on the single sofa.

At this time, she realized that not only he and Tony were the only ones in the room, but there were also four men sitting on the other side of the sofa.

"Sorry, I didn't know you had guests." The woman said shyly.

"Do I have any guests?" The man suddenly stood up from the sofa.

"Walter!" The four men screamed together.

"Tony, see off." With a wave of his hand, he has come to the side of the woman, wrapped her waist tightly with one hand, and pulled her into his arms, "Tell your kitten, if it comes again next time, Run outside, be careful, I will give it directly to..."

With a glint in his eyes, he wiped his free hand on his neck, the meaning couldn't be more obvious.

"I believe you won't." The woman smiled and glanced at the man, then lowered her head and stroked the cat.

"Walter, what we just talked about is not over yet?" Seeing that they were completely ignored, the four men spoke together again.

"Tony, if seeing off guests feels polite, I don't mind at all if you find someone to throw them out directly." The man said, his eyes still fixed on the woman.

"Walter, how dare you treat us like this!" the four men shouted in unison.

"Please." At this time, Tony had come to them, making it clear that he wanted to see off the guests.

"You..." The four were so angry that they couldn't speak, they could only stare at Tony, "Walter, don't be too shy, we will go back and ask the old man to make the decision, you still have to report to him, don't If you want to monopolize the Yongle Grand Ceremony, don't even think about it!"

"Throw them out." The man said calmly.

"Yes." Tony didn't dare to neglect, "Go away!" He took out his gun and pointed at the four of them.

"You dare to point a gun at us?"

With a click, Tony pulled the gun from his hand to make sure the bullet was loaded.

"Okay, let's go, Walter, you just wait to report to the old gentleman!" At a critical moment, life is still more important than respect, the four men dropped their words and flung their sleeves away.

Tony followed immediately to make sure they had really left.

"Tony." Before he left, the man called him.

"Yes." Tony stopped and turned around quickly. "Does the master have any orders?"

"Continue to investigate that matter, find out who the escaped woman contacted, find out who the man who helped her is, and...send someone to Yan Wanjin's residence, and search again."

"Yes." Tony took the order and retreated respectfully.

It was quiet again in the study room, except for the occasional meowing of cats.

"It's moonlight tonight, come with me to go horse racing in the woods, okay?" After a while, the woman raised her face and said.

"Okay." He kissed her dotingly, bent slightly, leaned over and hugged her, "As long as you like, I will accompany you, let's go on horseback."

Xiao Gui escaped from Xiang Di's residence, firstly because she had to find a way to contact her sister Xiaomei, and secondly because she couldn't believe that Professor Yan, who was obsessed with archeology, would actually steal and sell antiquities, so she decided to go to Professor Yan's residence was thoroughly searched to see if he could find any clues.

At 45:[-] in the morning, Xiao Gui arrived at her destination.She stood up straight and looked directly at the three-story building in front of her in the night.

A few years ago, after Professor Yan and his wife divorced, they lived alone, and their only son had already lived in the United States for many years because of his education. Therefore, the house should be unoccupied now.

Heaving a sigh of relief, she walked towards the building and came to the front of the house. Relying on the memory of delivering reports to the professor's residence several times, she quickly found the key of the house in a recess under the electric bell.

"Huh, it's okay." Taking out the key, Xiao Gui breathed a sigh of relief.

After scanning the surrounding area once again to make sure that there was no one around, she inserted the key into the door hole and opened the door with a click.

After pulling out the key, she took a deep breath again, and after praying to God in her heart, she gently pushed the door open a gap, slipped in, and then gently closed and locked the door.

"I don't know if my thoughts are right..." She murmured, looking into the room, and what greeted her was darkness.

Xiao Gui didn't dare to turn on the light, so she opened her backpack and found the piggy-shaped flashlight that had been hanging on the phone as a charm, and used it as a lighting tool.

"Where would the professor keep it if there was a private possession?" she said, and began to wander around the room.

She wandered from the living room to the bedroom, from the bedroom to the study, from the study to the kitchen, and finally to the bathroom.

She began to feel a little uneasy. How long would it take if she had to search the entire house to prove her hypothesis?

"It's terrible." She breathed out, and she was stunned at the junction of the bathroom and the bedroom, "Think about it, Long Xiaogui, think about Professor Ping'an Yan's habits..."

After thinking about it, Xiao Gui raised her foot and kicked the cabinet by the wall impatiently.

"Ah!" The cabinet was as motionless as a mountain, but she frowned and screamed in pain.

But in the next second, she immediately forgot the pain because she remembered something, and just stared blankly at the flowerpot on the cabinet that shook a few times, and the flowers in the flowerpot that had long withered due to lack of care.

"That's right! Professor Yan often said that he likes to stay in the sun room on the third floor, looking at the flowers and plants while making research reports."

bingo!

Xiao Gui was so happy that she almost jumped up, and quickly turned around and ran upstairs.

"Where could it be?" Xiao Gui wandered among the potted plants when she came to the sun room on the third floor.

Inadvertently, she noticed a rose planted in an abandoned car tire in the corner.

Different from those other potted plants, this rose blooms very delicately in the dark, and the sweet fragrance can be smelled from a distance.

As if bewitched, Xiao Gui approached Rose, and a conversation with Professor Yan flashed through her mind——

= "What did you say your name was?"

"Long Xiaogui, the dragon flying in the sky, the Xiao under the bamboo with the word You, and finally the rose." =
Xiao Gui vaguely remembered that Professor Yan said that he liked roses very much, perhaps because of the word rose in her name. Since then, Professor Yan has been deeply impressed by her, and takes special care of her on weekdays.

"Rose." Xiao Gui came to the rose and squatted down. The dark red rose looked especially gorgeous in the night, like a woman with a bright smile, bewitching people's hearts.

Xiao Gui's heart was pounding, and she felt that her hands were trembling disobediently.

"Let's see, are you the professor's favorite?" As she spoke, she removed the discarded tire containing the rose, revealing the second layer of tires, and suddenly discovered——

A paper bag that was sealed and covered with several layers of film was stuffed in the inner gap of the tire!
Xiao Gui felt her heart beating more violently, she stretched out her trembling hand, took out the paper bag sealed by the film, then eagerly tore off the film, and opened the paper bag.

Sure enough, it contained a volume of Yongle Canon.

"I love you Rose!" she shouted excitedly, covering her mouth quickly, but it was too late, her voice had already spread throughout the house.

At this time, a voice came from downstairs——

"There seems to be someone upstairs!"

"You three go up and have a look."

Hearing this, Xiao Gui was so frightened that her heart almost jumped out of her mouth. In a hurry, she hurriedly stuffed the book of Yongle Canon into her clothes, and then looked downstairs, only to see that the door on the first floor had been pried open at some point , which proved that the conversation just now came from the intruder.

As the footsteps downstairs got closer and closer, Xiao Gui's heart beat faster and faster. Looking down again, she began to seriously evaluate the possibility of jumping off the building to escape——

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