Bai Yicong's words hit the nail on the head, allowing He Manzhou to quickly calm down from the brink of losing control of his emotions.

He Manzhou said in his heart, I doubt that you shouldn't be? But with the attitude of reaching out and not hitting the smiling person, even if she really thinks so in her heart, she also tries her best to behave with a good attitude, and her clear eyes are fixed on Bai Yicong, smiling harmlessly, kindly, and brightly.

"Where are you talking about, I just want to know the whereabouts of my father. ”

"It's okay, I can understand and don't mind, you can admit it directly. ”

Bai Yicong automatically ignored He Manzhou's obvious lies, dismantled the stage lightly, and continued, "Before investigating me, can you show me this notebook?"

He Manzhou: "......"

Please, can you be a little more cooperative? I'm embarrassed that you're like this.

And aren't you asking if it's okay, what does it mean to just do it, friend?

Although he used an inquiring tone, Bai Yicong didn't mean to ask, and after saying hello, he picked up the codex pushed by He Manzhou from the tea case, and his movements did not hesitate a little. He Manzhou didn't even have time to stop it, and the hand that wanted to stop it was only halfway up, so he put it back beside him, and had to watch Bai Yicong open the title page and flip through it unhurriedly.

He looked at it very carefully, and did not miss a single word written by He Sheng,

The mystery behind the two fake landscape paintings, and the many details of the trip in Wucheng, are openly displayed in front of Bai Yicong, explaining the part of the doubt that he can't figure out, and also bringing a bigger mystery.

The dreams that had plagued him for a long time, those speculations and doubts, were confirmed.

The man who was traveling with him was called Lao He.

Lao He, He Sheng.

He Manzhou.

All the broken clues finally began to connect, the tightly sealed door in the memory opened a gap, and the clueless fragments in the dream were intermittently spliced together, and after the nightmare, it seemed that there was a dense black fog that could not be dispersed, diffusing from the depths of the memory, covering Bai Yicong's reason.

The huge living room was very quiet, as if there was a strange voice echoing in Bai Yicong's ears.

"Do you think you can hide from these things?"

After a year, the invisible hands of fate stretched out from the void again, tearing Bai Yicong into the abyss, even if the memory instinctively protected him, so that he no longer delved into the beginning and end of the forgetting behind it, the curse labeled "fate" was still entangled, leaving no breathing space.

Many things cannot have a beginning and no end.

.......

At this moment, He Manzhou sat opposite Bai Yicong, looking at his lowered eyebrows and increasingly heavy face, he couldn't help but begin to fall into deep reflection.

In the long silence, she finally calmed down, and felt bitterly that the reaction to her words and deeds just now was a little too high, so that the current development of the situation gradually became uncontrollable, and she was completely led by Bai Yicong's nose.

It's too reckless.

Today was originally to test Bai Yicong's tone, but now he didn't ask for any useful information, but told everyone about Lao He's situation, and even the codex that could have been called top secret was in Bai Yicong's hands.

Obviously, with this evidence, it is more deterrent, how can you show it to him directly?

If it weren't for the fear that continuing to do those liberating behaviors would make her look even more unreliable, she really wanted to slap her head hard: "What are you thinking, can you use your brains!"

After a while, Bai Yi closed the codex and put it aside, raised his eyes and looked straight over.

"The person in the note is me. ”

Hearing this, He Manzhou was slightly stunned.

She said in her heart, what kind of operation is Bai Yicong, obviously a few minutes ago, he was still denying it, why did he admit it so happily now, didn't he feel like a slap in the face?

"How did this note come about?" Bai Yicong's tone was light.

"What?" He Manzhou asked.

"Note, you said this was your father's codex, he left it for you?"

He Manzhou nodded inexplicably, reacted quickly, and shook his head quickly.

"Didn't you understand?" Looking at He Manzhou's confused appearance, Bai Yicong glanced at it and said succinctly, "You just said that your father has been missing for more than a year, since there is evidence, why is the investigation only starting now?"

"I only got this note yesterday......" He Manzhou explained, and his tone paused.

At this time, she can choose not to tell the truth, and prevaricate these things in a few words, after all, when the other party does not know the details, the more she says, the easier it is to make mistakes. She can also choose to confess to Bai Yicong, and take the first step to deliver trust and goodwill. As one of the parties back then, maybe it was not a bad thing to tell Bai Yi from these clues, and he could quickly gain the same trust, all of which depended on He Manzhou's choice.

For some reason, He Manzhou chose the second option almost instinctively.

completely forgot that he was still suspicious of Bai Yicong not long ago, and suspected that he might be an accomplice in Lao He's disappearance.

"The Tianwentang Museum is conducting an annual inspection, and yesterday I found this codex in the blue and white cloud dragon beast ear bottle, and I also think this matter is incredible...... It's strange, he's been missing for a year, and the codex that I couldn't find for three feet suddenly appeared, and I didn't figure out why this note was in a vase. ”

"Okay, I got it. ”

Bai Yicong responded simply, followed by a longer silence.

He sat at a somewhat backlit angle, and the sunlight shining in through the window reflected behind him, so that his silhouette was completely shrouded in light and shadow, like an inky silhouette, sharp and mysterious. The drooping forehead hair covered Bai Yicong's emotions from the bottom of his eyes, and the cold and sharp face hid the micro-expression well, without revealing the slightest thought, and no one knew what he was thinking.

He Manzhou looked at Bai Yicong, and suddenly felt that he seemed to be a person who came out of the haze.

He was covered in mist, his soul was dark with mystery, and his eyes were ice and snow that would not melt all year round. His indifference is revealed in his bones, and it is precisely because he is defensive against anyone that he has lived as an island.

How could Lao He want to cooperate with such a person? Or in other words, is Bai Yicong really willing to cooperate with others?

But before He Manzhou could come up with a reason, Bai Yi hooked her thoughts from a deep voice.

"What do you want to do?

He Manzhou was stunned when he was asked, and for a while he couldn't figure out what he meant by innocence, but he just handed over his inquiring gaze, as if he was silently saying - "What do you mean by this"?

During the short meeting, Bai Yicong had a preliminary understanding of the girl's ability to understand, and he didn't expect her to be able to produce any useful information through brain supplementation, so he simply said it more clearly.

"What are you going to do with this codex, and your father's business?"

"Of course I'm going to investigate," He Manzhou understood this time, and immediately replied without thinking, "That's my dad, can I ignore him, even if there is only a little hope, I have to investigate." ”

"You see the contents of the Codex, the priestess's suit, the mysterious treasure...... It's complicated behind the scenes, are you sure you can look into it, or are you ready to take on it? According to the note, your father doesn't want you to look into this, and for protection or other reasons, you don't need to wade into the muddy waters. ”

Bai Yicong's words were neither light nor serious, which made He Manzhou silent for a short time.

Before coming to Bai Yulou, she had imagined all kinds of situations she would experience today, those obscure rumors and her reasonable inferences from Bai Yicong, no matter how you look at this Bai boss, he is not a fuel-efficient lamp, to put it bluntly, He Manzhou can't even tell whether he is a friend or an enemy.

After all, all kinds of clues are integrated, and no matter how you look at it, it is difficult for him to pick himself clean.

He Manzhou knew that whether it was ability, scheming or wrist, he and Bai Yi had never been of the same magnitude, and if he hadn't been really cornered, he wouldn't have come to visit so abruptly. As for Bai Yicong's words at this moment, her first reaction was that people were prevaricating her.

But even though he knew that this was prevarication, He Manzhou continued to speak.

"Lao He is my most important person, I am no big or small with him, and the days always pass very fast. Seriously, I never thought he would go missing. A year has passed, and I still can't ...... I can't accept this. Now that I finally have a clue, I have to look into whatever I encounter if I investigate...... No matter what happened to me before, no matter how much trouble I had, Lao He never gave up on me, so no matter how dangerous it was, I couldn't give up on him. ”

He Manzhou sighed lowly, and the mist of tea filled her look.

"You may not believe it when you say it, but I always feel that Lao He is not dead...... It's just that he is trapped in a place that no one knows about, and no one can find him, and they can't save him. Time drags us to give up, as if this can whitewash the peace, disguise it as if nothing happened. But no, the good person is gone, how can it be treated as if it never happened, Lao He is waiting for me to save him, if I don't even want him, there will really be no one to save him. ”

He Manzhou's voice was very light, but with rare caution.

Bai Yicong made the final confirmation, his eyes stopped on the girl's face for a few seconds, and he saw all her subtle emotions thoroughly before he took it back lightly.

"Okay, I'll help you. ”

"What...... What?"

The topic just now was a bit heavy, He Manzhou said what he thought in his heart, and the sadness in the end note had not yet dissipated, and he was forced into disbelief by Bai Yicong's words.

She looked directly at the man opposite, his tone was flat, and his expression was even more flat, as he should be. So much so that He Manzhou began to doubt his ears, if it wasn't a problem with his comprehension, then it must be Bai Yicong's mental problem, this person is too fickle, is it a dual personality?

Just now, I still had the attitude of asking three questions, and I couldn't wait to sweep He Manzhou out of the house immediately, why has it become "will help you" now.

Hey guys, is this a roller coaster?

"I'll help you, is there a problem. As if seeing He Manzhou's doubts, Bai Yicong repeated Fang Cai's words again, "You want to investigate He Sheng's whereabouts, and I'm the same, the purpose is the same, you can cooperate, I'm happy to help you - what, don't you need?"

For this kind of good thing sent to the door, of course, there is no reason to refuse, even if you doubt it, it is an afterthought, He Manzhou quickly nodded, and staged a limit to change his face.

"No, no ......"

She quickly put away the confusion in her eyes, and her big eyes smiled vividly, as if it was not her who had almost quarreled with Bai Yicong just now.

"Boss Bai, I knew that you were kind-hearted and a person who could achieve great things. I was just thinking that we were in the same antique circle, and if we didn't have a chance, we would have a chance to work together. Who knew that when we hit it off at first sight, good things would come like this - to say, people are full of fate, and this is better than choosing a day. ”