Chapter 41: Softness

After the auction came out, it was already late.

Bai Yicong had already arranged his accommodation in advance, and he knew that He Manzhou had tossed around for a long day, and he did not make arrangements for other things, but directly entered the rest stage and drove her back to the hotel.

Although, He Manzhou is particularly dissatisfied with this.

She had accumulated a stomach full of words and wanted to ask Bai Yicong, for example, why did she come to this auction today, I don't know if it looks stupid to attend the cocktail party without even having time to change the evening dress, and even the suitcase is stored at the hotel front desk is too hasty? For example, why spend a lot of money to auction that pocket watch, is it just because this object is very decent, or is it cool to spend money?

For another example, why does Bai Yicong behave so intimately.

Obviously, the two of them don't have too deep a friendship, but they have to form an alliance out of desperation, and now it seems that they have been iron porcelain for many years, and they are inseparable confidants, which is really embarrassing for He Manzhou to speak, and he can't help but think about some and not.

Especially in the end, Bai Yicong's gaze from the beautiful cousin was like a poisonous snake coiled on his body, and the snake letter that spit out swept from his hair to his fingernails, wanting to pierce the depths of his soul, making people extremely uncomfortable and nowhere to hide.

He Manzhou said in his heart, and he didn't know why Bai Wanyan was gentle and moving when she looked at others, and she was also generous and decent when she and Bai Yi changed the cup from pushing the cup. It's just that when I look at her, it seems that I owe her millions, so why can Manzhou's sixth sense easily feel that those subtle emotions are all calculations?

Who can bear this?

And Bai someone, the culprit who pulled He Manzhou into such a Shura field, not only spent the whole auction in a good way, but also auctioned the five million pocket watches, and finally the name of "the target of the public" also fell on He Manzhou's head.

The most irritating thing is that when Bai Yicong was talking to that beautiful cousin, he didn't even give him a single glance.

What's the matter, didn't you bring me here, can you be a little more reliable, Boss Bai.

If he hadn't known that Bai Wanyan was Bai Yicong's cousin, He Manzhou would have felt quite uncomfortable in his heart.

No, even if it's a cousin, it's not very comfortable.

These chaotic thoughts swirled in He Manzhou's heart, and for a while she couldn't figure out why she was so angry, it stands to reason that her relationship with Bai Yicong was not up to that point, and she shouldn't be angry with this family. And after recognizing this fact, instead of comforting He Manzhou, it made her even more desperate.

Because Bai Yicong drank alcohol at the cocktail party, he didn't drive by himself, but called a substitute driver.

It's late at night, it's time for everyone to sleep, even the buses and subways have missed the last train and stopped running, the empty road seems very quiet, only the few nocturnal animals occasionally drive by, the sound of the engine is gone, leaving a trail of smoke that is scattered into green smoke hidden in the night.

The windows were only a small gap, and the occasional night breeze blew in, dissipating the faint smell of alcohol that could barely be smelled. He Manzhou turned his head sideways to look at Bai Yicong, the light curtains intertwined with street lamps and car lights were scattered outside the window, reflecting his cold eyes, like a beautiful light, his eyes were clearly full of mystery with unknown meaning, but they were warmer than usual.

It's probably a warm light, which is too easy to give people the illusion of ambiguity.

"Hey, Bai Yicong. He Manzhou whispered.

"Huh?" Bai Yicong replied, with a slightly nasal voice.

Those messy emotions can't be spoken, and he feels that he is not familiar enough to interfere with Bai Yicong's family affairs, and He Manzhou will not ask about Bai Wanyan.

After a few seconds of silence, she spoke in a deliberate tone.

"What clues do you have about the things we want to investigate?"

Bai Yicong didn't understand Miss He's speechlessness, but just turned his head slightly to look at her, indicating that he was listening. And He Manzhou worked hard to organize the language, so that his words sounded polite and polite, and could vaguely express dissatisfaction.

"You make me very flustered like this, last time at your house, we didn't study it, but in the end, we didn't see the reason for those two ancient paintings. After that, you booked a plane ticket directly, and you didn't tell me what you planned to do in the future, I didn't know what you wanted to do, and I didn't have any score...... Let me tell you, I'm putting aside my final paper and going all the way to you, we won't run for nothing, right?"

If the topic was limited to this, presumably Bai would never give any response.

He has always been too lazy to pay attention to the eyes of others, of course, he has the skill of ignoring the attitude of others, and his actions are almost indifferent, coupled with the look of rejecting people thousands of miles away, he usually does not wait for the other party to ask a reason, he will feel embarrassed and silently shut down, and no longer dare to ask anything.

But his gaze at the moment stopped on He Manzhou's face.

The girl's beautiful eyes looked straight at him, saying that she was inquiring, but her attitude was tough and reasonable, and she refused to fall behind at all. The look of being unforgiving and turning her head to ask the teacher for guilt, just like she has always been so unafraid of heaven and earth, her head is full of those quirky ghost ideas, waiting every minute to take the initiative between the lines, and to come up with something beneficial to herself.

But there was a hint of confusion in her eyes.

The imperceptible fragility has always been concealed by the pride in He Manzhou's bones, and she is unwilling to show weakness to others at any time.

She will always be a heartless optimist, and she is also a dynamite bag that explodes at the slightest charge.

It's like she can take care of it by herself no matter how many things she encounters, and she doesn't need the help of people she doesn't want to do, and she doesn't need to feel senseless distressed.

Especially in front of Bai Yicong, at first He Manzhou took an aggressive Xingshi to ask for guilt, and then hid the temptations and calculations of you and me, such emotions gradually reconciled after she decided to cooperate with Bai Yicong, but in retrospect, even when he was the most confused, He Manzhou did not say a word of pleading.

The more reckless a person is, the more distressing the rare fragility becomes, so that that little bit of helplessness falls into Bai Yicong's eyes, and those trivial changes in his expression are all captured, which inexplicably makes his heart move.

It's like touching something unintentionally, and after peeling off the layers of wrapping, the girl's heart is soft.

Just like a little hedgehog who is accustomed to using sharp thorns to protect himself, after calming down those fangs and claws, the belly of the little hedgehog is the cutestest.

For a moment, Bai Yi saw a rare delicacy and innocence in He Manzhou's body.

He Manzhou didn't know about the undercurrent waves inside the Bai family tonight, she was clearly the center of everything, but she didn't know about it. After all, He Manzhou is just a little girl who doesn't know how to be a good girl after her father disappeared.

Such emotions permeated Bai Yicong's heart, and he had not yet realized the so-called special case.

After all, this girl is only a few sides with him, and this relationship is protected, used, responsible, and even filled by natural coincidences, and even because He Sheng and the treasure of the relict king have to be investigated, and with a bit of haste to catch the ducks on the shelves, it seems that it is a last resort.

Although Bai Yicong knows He Manzhou very well, knows her school major, blood type constellation, hobbies, her previous life experience, the awards she has won, the exhibitions she has held, she has studied art for several years, and has presided over several auction exhibitions...... Under the detailed information, many details that He Manzhou may not remember himself, Bai Yicong knows all about them.

However, this is only from the information.

It wasn't until the previous few meetings that Bai Yicong got to know this girl little by little, her joys and sorrows, her pride and strength, her eccentricity and her mouth full of crooked heresies...... Sometimes, it's indescribably cute.

Thinking like this, Bai Yicong's heart rarely warmed up.

After a few seconds of silence, he lowered his voice and continued.

"Don't rush to ask this, I'll tell you tomorrow. ”

"Can you please stop being perfunctory to me. He Manzhou said with some dissatisfaction.

"It's not perfunctory," Bai Yicong talked about things on a matter-by-case basis, and had a lot of ability to turn heart-warming words into boiled water, but no matter how boiled water was, it was also a thunderclap in He Manzhou's heart, "I'm comforting you." ”

He Manzhou: "......"

It was too strange for these words to come out of Bai Yicong's mouth.

So much so that He Manzhou was stunned, and stubbornly put the words on his lips, "Do you know what it means to comfort people, there is no good word, comfort a big-headed ghost, such a straight man speaks, the skills of comforting people are learned from the physical education teacher" swallowed back, touched his lips up and down, and was stunned without speaking.

And at this time, Bai Yi never quietly continued to mend the knife.

"So, be nice. ”

It's like a spell with a peculiar bonus, after this sentence was said, He Manzhou really quieted down, but the messy thoughts were more complicated. She turned her head sideways to look at Bai Yicong, trying to catch something from his expression, and muttered even more in her heart.

This 10,000-year-old ice cube doesn't look like a type that can talk softly......

So what does his comfort mean?

The road was silent, and the two of them had their own thoughts.

The dim night covered a lot of things, Bai Yicong's thoughts He Manzhou couldn't see through it at all, and the thousands of threads in her heart went around and around, and finally wrapped out thousands of knots, and she couldn't figure out any clue at all.

The traffic in Wucheng is far more worry-free than that of Z City, and it is unimpeded along the way, and it is rare to experience the pleasure of driving the car, so that it is only ten minutes of driving, and it will soon arrive at the destination. Bai Yicong has the most basic understanding of the little girl's psychological quality and endurance, and knows the truth that you can't force people too hard.

After completing the check-in procedures, he was very considerate and did not embarrass He Manzhou anymore, but just instructed.

"Rest well, I'm next door to you, there's something knocking on the door. ”

He Manzhou didn't say anything, but just took the room card handed by Bai Yicong.

In fact, at this time, if you want to continue to ask, you can always come up with a few innocuous witticisms, and then launch a diffuse mind to explore the reasons behind it. But after an unbelievable day, He Manzhou was a little tired after all, and the root cause of her tiredness was that she was really a little confused about the change in attitude.

The abnormality of the auction is to play that one, what about the sudden care and care?

And when Bai saw the frowning brows of the little girl opposite, he easily saw through her brain, and said again: "Sleep well tonight, don't worry about it." ”

For Bai Yicong's rare and pleasant face, He Manzhou felt very fresh.

She said in her heart, this is almost an explanation, it turns out that the unkind Boss Bai also knows how to care about people?

"Hey, do you care about me?"

When this sentence blurted out, He Manzhou felt a little embarrassed.

What, it's good to think about this kind of thing in your heart, why do you ask it?

Seeing the girl's expression of annoyance before she finished speaking, Bai Yi's cold eyes flashed a faint playfulness, as if he thought He Manzhou's reaction was funny, even though he knew that it was an unnecessary conversation, Bai Yicong continued to talk.

His low, nice voice was teasing, but there was no denial.

"It's pretty smart at this time. ”

He Manzhou originally just hung his head, but now even the tips of his ears were a little red, and he didn't know if it was because of his straightforward heart or the catalytic reaction caused by Bai Yicong's words, so that he couldn't hide his emotions for the whole night.

Come on..... What the hell is going on.

I suspect someone is flirting with me, and I have proof.