When this sentence was spoken, He Manzhou had been observing Bai Yicong's reaction.

For some reason, He Manzhou actually felt as if he was very relieved. Bai Yi never spoke, let alone responded to anything, just sat there and drank tea without making a sound. He raised his hand to pick up the cup of tea that had been awakened, and his thin pale lips were pursed into a line, and he tasted it unhurriedly.

The clear yellow tea soup reflects the green jade tea cup, and a few tender green tea leaves float on it.

Bai Yi's slender fingers are distinct, and even the ordinary action of holding the cup seems to be more calm and chic when he makes it.

The room is very quiet, probably because of the good sound insulation, even the sound of the wind is cut out, the noisy voices downstairs are not real, only the sound of boiling water echoes, the sunlight shines through the transparent glass windows, and the solid wood carved window lattices stretch the shadows long, casting irregular shapes of light and shadow on the floor.

He Manzhou lowered his gaze slightly and did not speak again.

With the attitude that it is easy to fall behind if she is impatient, she would rather show that silence is golden at this time, rather than show eagerness too early in front of Bai Yicong, so as not to reveal her flusteredness. This green jade teacup jade is warm and delicate, and there are delicate carvings on the inner wall, and the pattern is a smooth landscape and a vigorous and powerful calligraphy, which should be an object in the Kangxi period, and the estimate is at least six figures.

...... It seems that what he said just now was really right, and Bai Yicong went too far.

Of course, he saw He Manzhou's small movements, the girl's unique coquettishness and confusion looked very cute under the deliberate cover-up, behind her self-thought that the water was not leaking, in fact, the micro-expressions and small movements had already leaked her thoughts.

But He Manzhou didn't know about it, and he tried his best to maintain his home position, as if a tug-of-war accompanied by distraction could give the negotiation at this moment some kind of mysterious bonus.

Bai Yi has seen all kinds of people, he has encountered beauty without knowing it, lonely and self-admiring women, and he has also dealt with egoists who are full of calculations between their words and faces. But it is really the first time that Bai Yicong has seen a character like He Manzhou, who is cute and cute, and perfectly combines the attributes of being smart and agile and confused and out of line.

For a while, he didn't know if this girl was too simple or too direct.

Is this Lao He's daughter?

Bai Yicong thought that it was really different from the gentle and strict man in the dream.

With a thoughtful gaze at Shangbai, He Manzhou was a little inexplicable, and said in his heart that there was something wrong with what he said just now, was it not serious and solemn enough, why did Boss Bai directly enter the mode of thinking about life, what kind of routine is this, is the world of the strong?

But what He Manzhou didn't know was that Bai Yicong knew far more about her than she expected.

After returning from the fishing village, Bai Yixian wanted to investigate what happened during the time of his disappearance. But as if that memory had been forcibly erased, he couldn't remember where he had been, who had saved him, and there was a huge mystery behind it, and he couldn't figure it out.

After returning to Z City, Bai Yi never investigated where he went at that time, and of course asked someone he could trust. As his most trusted subordinate, Bai Yicong will never hide anything from Dong Nan.

But this time it was an exception.

Dong Nan only knew that his boss arranged for him to book a ticket to Wucheng during that time, how long this business trip was expected, and where the next stop was, Dong Nan didn't know, and what was very contrary was that this trip was strictly confidential to the Bai family.

Due to the complicated situation of the Bai family, after taking over the affairs of the Bai family, Bai Yicong's itinerary was almost public.

It's not that he deliberately informs the Bai family, but that the elders headed by Bai Mubai's second master can't find out about his whereabouts twenty-four hours a day, find out what he did inappropriately, make a big fuss, and pull him down from the pinnacle of power.

Bai also never minded this.

Whether it is self-confidence or conceit, he never minds the small actions behind Bai Mu, and is even willing to cover up the water and soil with soldiers, frustrating Bai Mu's temptation little by little, and fundamentally making him realize the powerlessness of some certain fixed situations.

is the so-called murder and punishment, wanting to control a person is so, and wanting to control a family is even more so.

People are not sages, they want to do everything without leakage, and they don't leave a little handle for others, which is nothing more than to let themselves walk on thin ice at every step and lead themselves to a dead end. Therefore, Bai Yicong simply did the opposite, and did everything casually, no matter what the elders of the Bai family would think, and he would not take their thoughts to heart.

Just like the entire Bai family and Bai Yicong's closest cousin Liu Mu commented.

"I said, Master Bai, I always thought that I was working against my parents, I should eat, drink, and play, if I want to play at midnight, if I want to be in the midnight bureau, if I want to be in the social bureau, I will be in the social bureau, and I don't listen to anyone's advice. But when I compare it to you, this is definitely a small thing...... I don't know if you've noticed, the second uncle's face at the last family gathering, tsk, I'm afraid that he will flip the table on the spot. ”

"He didn't dare. ”

At that time, Bai Yicong's tone was very light, but his attitude was almost determined, his eyebrows were lowered, his thin lips were slightly hooked, and he seemed to be smiling with contempt, but he was reluctant to say more, which had a bit of a meaning of sitting on the wall.

Behind the seemingly unmindful is actually an absolute desire to control.

Bai Yicong's pride and self-confidence have always been like this, he bet that he would not encounter something that could not be solved, so he had the courage and courage to do so. It was precisely this kind of sword that made him stabilize the stalemate of the Bai family. In the past few years since he took over as the head of the Bai family, he has extinguished the arrogance of those elders little by little with almost iron-fisted means, and completely held the power and resources in his own hands.

At first, with the intention of cultivating a puppet, Bai Yicong obeyed the instructions, and Bai Mu, who was content to be the regent who listened to the government behind his back, was the one who made the most wrong calculations.

When Bai Yuqiu died, Bai was never in his early twenties, and he had no experience in running the Bai family's huge business, and the successive changes in the family were also a big blow to the young people with a young heart. In a panic, it is inevitable that the bottom line will be very low and you will have to rely on others.

Back then, Bai Mu intended to support Bai Yicong, and it was precisely because of this consideration.

But Bai Yicong thought completely differently from him.

It's probably that Bai Yan has a little less wrist, and Bai Yuqiu has a little more restraint, compared to them, one of them is an excellent businessman, the other is a paranoid scholar, but they are not the controllers who can manage a family well. And Bai Yicong's strength and decisiveness are appropriate.

When Bai Mu realized that this nephew was not Liu Adou at the mercy of others, but a dragon lurking in the abyss, and his frost-carved eyes were full of inviolable majesty, it was already too late. Even if he was unwilling, Bai Mu had to admit that Bai Yicong's growth speed was uncontrollable by him, and he was unwilling to be ordered by his juniors, but it was almost impossible to bring down Bai Yicong.

Now, if there is not enough time, Bai Mu can't stir up any wind and waves at all.

Therefore, in the dock city incident, Bai Yicong's uncharacteristic cover-up is unusual.

With Bai Yicong's pride, he never disdains to play tricks on trivial matters, and all means are straightforward schemes. It was the thunder that was naked and pressed on the opponent's head, whether it was forced to succumb to the compromise of the result, or whether it chose to resist and bear the consequences of breaking the muscles and bones, it was all on the bright side, forcing the opponent to make a choice.

In short, Bai Yicong's style of doing things is the same as himself, a cold and sharp sword, without a box or a sheath, strong and decisive, not knowing how to be flexible, and being overwhelmingly strong and dangerous before making a move. As for the choices he gave, there is no choice when you dig deeper, and there is a lot of "choose whatever, bear the consequences, whether you live or die, please take care of yourself", it doesn't matter about the back and forth temptations between each other, and those meaningless battles.

Therefore, he must not have been afraid of the attitude of the Bai family, so he concealed his trip to Wucheng.

The only possibility is that the real purpose of his trip to Dock City back then cannot be known to others. The inference is limited to this, but Bai Ye never remembered anything, and as for why he instructed Dong Nan to keep the Bai family strictly secret during this trip, it has also become a mystery.

The only clue left was the amulet embroidered with "Xiaozhou" that Bai Yicong held tightly in his hand.

Intuition told him that this was the only key to open that dusty memory, but looking at the entire Z City, there were countless people with the word Zhou in their names, and Bai Yinever even knew whether this person named "Xiaozhou" was male or female, and what other characteristics there were, just relying on such clues to find something was tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.

All clues have been interrupted at this point, and even if Bai wants to investigate, there is no way to investigate.

Bai Yicong originally thought that these things would not be resolved......

But gradually, those memories gradually woke up in the dream.

Accompanied by an unbearable headache, those fragmentary experiences are like monsters that are unwilling to be frozen, roaring out of prison, with the truth that is about to come out, eroding Bai Yicong's mind. The buried truth became a nightmare that refused to let him go, haunting and tormenting him, but leaving him no way out.

The scattered fragments of the dream continued to leak through the cracks, and every time he tried to grasp something, he was entangled in the fog and dragged into the deeper darkness, and there was no light in sight.

Until a month ago, the dream became more and more profound.

Bai Yicong remembered that terrible rainy night, the pouring rain in the mountains and forests filled with the smell of rotten grass blades, the eerie echoes of the eerie and terrifying caves, the totems and twisted Sanskrit words on the stone walls obscured by dead branches and moss. The pair of blue eyes that slowly opened revealed the fear that went straight to the depths of her soul, the black shadows whistling like thousands of horses behind her, the guards in armor and the shields and spears in their hands, and at the end of the majesty was an overwhelming and terrifying aura.

Originating from a legendary curse, the mysterious treasure of the Relic King......

Finally, he remembered the man's name.

Lao He.

He said, "Son, don't tell anyone about the things here, and don't investigate them again." Also, tell my daughter, I'm sorry.....

It was also from that time that Bai Yicong linked the two keywords "Lao He" and "Xiaozhou".

At first, it was just an aimless collection of clues, but it wasn't until I found the Tianwentang Museum that I finally had an eyebrow. A year ago, He Sheng, the old director of the museum, resigned from his job at Z University and handed over the Tianwentang private museum to his daughter He Manzhou and his beloved apprentice Shen Chuanyuan, and walked chicly and simply.

The timeline is too coincidental.

If he did not go abroad to recuperate, but disappeared for no reason...... Then everything makes sense.

But these things are just Bai Yicong's speculation, and they have not been confirmed, after all, after digging deeper, these are He Manzhou's family affairs, and before there is enough evidence, Bai Yi's life is never good to alarm. If she wasn't the man's daughter, bothering would just be leaking things that shouldn't have been known to too many people, and not only would it not make any use of the details of the trip to Dock City, but it would also have the opposite effect.

Even if He Manzhou is really his daughter, until he can't be sure whether the things behind him are safe, Bai Yixian will never rashly pull He Manzhou into the water.

Although he really wanted to investigate the truth of the year, but-

Compared with the abrupt and reckless interruption, he cared more about Lao He's last entrustment.

If it is confirmed that He Manzhou is that person's daughter, Bai Yicong will only protect her as much as possible, secretly plan the way forward for her, help the business of the Tianwentang Museum, and return all that favor to her. As for Lao He's life and death, Bai Yicong will check it himself, and He Manzhou doesn't need to know about the beginning and end of Wucheng.

This is Bai Yi's always been so strong, unreasonable and non-negotiable.

But he never thought that He Manzhou would take the initiative to come to the door.