Fortunately, Bai Yicong quickly let her go, and did not continue to talk about these irrelevant questions, but waved his hand to signal He Manzhou to follow, and led her through the huge living room.

"The painting is in the basement, you come with me. ”

He Manzhou nodded, didn't look around, and immediately walked briskly.

At the bevel of the living room is a spiral staircase of solid wood, which leads up to the long corridor with a railing, which leads to several rooms on the second floor, where the walls of the corridor are hung with wooden carved palace lamps, which are only opened at random, and the dim light reflects the paintings on the walls, with the beauty of shadows.

Bai Yicong casually turned on the chandelier on the wall, and the bright crystal illuminated the shadow.

I couldn't see anything from afar before, but when He Manzhou stood next to the stairs and touched it lightly, he found that even this ordinary staircase was a good rosewood, and even people who didn't understand wood could see that this thing was expensive.

"Boss Bai is really generous. ”

In this regard, He Manzhou was dumbfounded, and sighed sincerely when he lamented the inhumanity of someone in Bai.

"Rosewood also needs to use lacquered bread pulp, is this deliberately low-key not to show off your wealth, or is it your old man's unique taste? Seriously, Boss Bai, you are a bit of a tyrannical thing. ”

"What, you still want to teach me how to decorate?"

Bai Yicong raised his eyebrows, a little bit I see what new tricks you mean.

Looking at those deep pool-like eyes, He Manzhou couldn't taste the deep meaning, and only felt that the words that were justified and justified became a little weak.

"Oh...... When I didn't say. ”

There were no lights downstairs, only a black-lacquered door on the staircase.

When the wall lamps on the walls are turned on, warm light shines through the painted lamps, lighting up the darkness around them. Only then did He Manzhou see the exquisite carvings on the black lacquered wood, carved with tangled vines and windward pines, and in the middle was a pair of golden door knockers, which had a bit of the feeling of a secret room unknown to a large family in ancient times.

Needless to say, it is a very tall rosewood.

The basement seemed like no one had been here for a long time, and when I opened the door, I was greeted by the smell of dust, and under the dull yellow light, it was like opening some mysterious dust seal. However, the interior of the room is not at all cramped and dark, and the huge basement covers a considerable area and is well arranged.

As the door opened completely, the scene in the room became clearer.

The overall color of the room is still wood, and there are several checkered cabinets on the walls, which are filled with rare antiques. The white jade flying pendant of the Tang Dynasty, the jade horn cup of the Song Dynasty, the enamel pan claw pattern bowl of the Qing Dynasty, as well as the double carp pattern wall of the green jade and the rui beast of cloisonné, all kinds of porcelain vases and jade enamels are all placed in the cabinet in chronological order, bringing a strong visual impact.

If the Bai family's living room had already given He Manzhou a great shock, then after seeing the inventory in the basement at this moment, she was completely speechless. Just out of her sensitivity to antiquities, she still wanted to look east and west, and at this time, He Manzhou didn't even need to look around, only the illusion that she was visiting and studying at the annual exhibition of a museum.

In a word, it is to be stunned by the huge gap between the rich and the poor.

He Manzhou said in his heart, is the place where Bai Yicong lives home, this is simply a large storage room, a hidden secret treasure house, is this the warehouse of Bai Yulou?

She has always prided herself on being well-informed, and if she hadn't really come to this point, she wouldn't have put on a pretense of never seeing the world. But at this moment, Miss He profoundly realized that the good eyesight that she had been trained by Lao He since she was a child was like a small witch in front of Bai Yicong, and just now Bai Yicong laughed at the small door of the Tianwentang Museum, and he was not joking at all.

It doesn't need to be regarded as the objects sold by Baiyulou, if you talk about the quality and quantity of the exhibits, the Tianwentang Museum can't even compare to a basement of others. Even if He Manzhou is not an angry young man, he can't help but sigh at this moment, she and Bai Yicong are both peers in the antique industry, and they are really more popular than others.

And Bai Yicong obviously didn't know He Manzhou's strange thoughts.

Or even if he knew, he was completely too lazy to take care of the inner drama of a certain drama girl, he crossed the long rosewood carved table across the hall, took out a painting scroll from the standing cabinet, and put it on the table unhurriedly, flirting his eyelids at He Manzhou, and motioned for her to come over.

It is a painting wrapped in navy blue brocade, and the cloth is embroidered with auspicious cloud patterns, and the workmanship is extremely exquisite.

"Jinling Eight Wu Hong's "Nanshan Returns to the Clouds". Bai Yicong untied the scroll and said lightly, "Your father's codex mentions two ancient paintings that echo each other, one is the He family's "Ancient Picture of Shantao Words", and the other is here. ”

It is a landscape painting, the delicate and delicate brushwork on the painting of mountains and rivers, the towering mountains and pines and cypresses are scattered, the halfway up the mountainside is hidden in the sea of clouds, the shadows and shadows are all classical beauty, and a few blank spaces are the stroke of genius.

He Manzhou also got to the point, she took out the painting scroll she had held all the way in her hand and carefully placed it on the table.

"What I have here is "Ancient Pictures of Shantao", can you take a look?"

Under the dim light, two ancient paintings sit side by side.

Bai Yi lowered his eyes slightly, his long eyelashes covering the emotions under his eyes, and he could only see a small piece of beautiful projection projected on his eyelids. He looked very closely, his slender fingers brushing the surface of the painting, as if he were delving into some subtle clue in each subtle stroke.

He Manzhou followed and passed his gaze, but he was confused, and pretended to be mysterious.

She said in her heart, just staring at such big eyes, what kind of fame can be seen, and the ghost knows where the connection between the two paintings is.

"Are these two paintings fakes?" He Manzhou held back for a long time, and began to have nothing to say.

"Yes. Bai Yicong nodded.

"My dad determined the coordinates through these two ancient paintings at the beginning?" He Manzhou didn't care whether Bai Yicong was willing to take care of her or not, and continued to knock on the side.

"Yes. Bai Yicong still cherishes words like gold.

Seeing Boss Bai jumping out word by word, and the words were about to make him talk to death, Miss He fell silent. But she really didn't give up, and she still wanted to struggle for a moment in her dying struggle, so she tried to organize the language, and continued to ask.

"That'...... Do you know any clues?"

But how could Boss Wang Bai disappoint her?

Bai Yicong raised his eyebrows, and his cold gaze barely showed any emotion.

"No clues. ”

He Manzhou: "......."

Okay, I'm defeated.

Bai Yicong's answer was too concise and to the point, it had reached the point where the hearer couldn't take it and the seeer was embarrassed, if He Manzhou didn't know that he didn't need to deliberately hide it, he would definitely think that this was cold violence and wanted her to leave.

A few short words of dialogue were followed by a long silence. He Manzhou said that he got up early today and cut six generals through five levels along the way, and he had to fight wits and courage after being wronged, and finally saw Boss Bai himself.

The tension brought about by being alone with Bai Yi was almost ingrained in her.

This is not only the consideration and observation of the new partner, nor is it the need to pay more attention to self-protection before the real purpose of the other party is determined, but the instinctive resistance to this hidden man.

But what is directly proportional to resistance is a sense of trust born of desperation.

He Manzhou had to admit that the current situation was here, and under the rapidly changing situation, except for Bai Yicong, she really didn't know who else she could choose to trust.

The basement was very quiet, and the faint musty smell of long-lost sunlight filled the air, mixed with the smell of an unknown spice, and the wisps of it burrowed into the nose. Although he couldn't distinguish the type of fragrance, he was also a master of antiquities restoration and maintenance, and He Manzhou knew that this was an incense used to prevent calligraphy and painting from being eaten by insects.

Neither of them spoke, and each other's breathing could be heard in the wind passing through the hall.

Bai Yicong looked at the two ancient paintings on the table with an indifferent expression, his eyebrows were inadvertently furrowed, and his expression looked a little serious, as if he was trying his best to recall something, but others couldn't guess what he was thinking.

However, He Manzhou's gaze crossed the two ancient paintings and fell on Bai Yicong's body.

Unlike the first encounter in the parlor last time, her identity has changed slightly, and she finally has the opportunity to observe Bai Yicong carefully. The man's angular features are sharp, pale lips are pursed into a line, the top two buttons of the shirt are left unbuttoned, and the slightly raised jaw can be seen as well as the sexy neckline and Adam's apple.

This man is really mysterious, but he really doesn't have to be picky about his skin.

He Manzhou was silent for a few seconds, thinking truthfully.

Although she knows that some things may not be the right time to ask now, being too anxious will only cause more cracks in the cooperative relationship that she and Bai Yicong have just established. But when it comes to Lao He, He Manzhou doesn't have much patience, she desperately wants to know the answer.

"Bai Yicong, I won't ask you if you have it, so let's be honest, if you want to ask me, I'll try to tell you everything. After a short hesitation, He Manzhou pondered his tone and said, "So, in exchange, can you tell me first why you found my father at that time?"

This time, Bai Yi never avoided the question, but turned his head slightly and looked at He Manzhou.

"Want to hear the truth?"

"Otherwise, I'm still playing with you, do you guess I'll guess everyone?" He Manzhou muttered in a low voice, "Boss Bai, you can just give me a happy word, we have cooperated, and I also brought you the painting, since the purpose is the same, don't engage in those twists and turns, I look tired." ”

In this regard, Bai Yicong didn't seem to hear the girl's hidden dissatisfaction, and said lightly.

"I don't remember. ”

"What?" He Manzhou glanced at Bai Yicong in great surprise, and didn't say anything for a long time.

She had expected many answers before this, but she didn't expect Bai Yicong to give such an answer.

For a moment, she was so angry that she wanted to laugh, and she didn't know whether to sigh or worry about Bai Yi's attitude of refusing to cooperate. I just think this person is really interesting, even if it's prevarication, find a suitable excuse, I don't remember who I'm fooling, is it hard to think that this is filming a Korean drama, and he also wrote, directed, and acted in it?

Facing the girl's suspicious gaze, Bai Yicong showed a little patience and continued.

"I was there on the expedition when your father disappeared, and we had an accident in the cave, after which I ended up in a fishing village, and I woke up and didn't remember anything about it. I tried to investigate, but it didn't work. It wasn't until last month that I dreamed about the cave again that I found the clue again and determined that the person who saved me was your father. ”

"Was it my dad who saved you?"

He Manzhou recalled Bai Yicong and Dong Nan's attitude towards her in the last few times, and he could be regarded as smacking out some clues.

It turns out that behind this is really Bai Yicong's debt, or a big debt of human affection.

"That'...... What's the matter with the cave you're talking about?"

"I don't know, or rather, I'm not sure. I'll look it up, though. Bai Yicong's voice was flat, but his tone was very firm, "These are related to the Bai family's family affairs, and they must be investigated, and as for the favor I owe to your father, I should also give you an explanation." ”