Chapter 378: 20 Years of Horror (Part II)
"Her name is Shi Yingbing, my love, Bing'er, this is Xia Ruobing, your junior sister, she knows Lu Wen as well as you." Mr. Min spoke slowly, as if he were introducing his friend to his lover.
"She also understands Lu Wen?" Xia Ruobing was shocked! She has always believed that Lu Wen is the most authoritative in studying her parents.
"She said that she was a princess of Loulan, and she wanted to find the secret of Loulan......" Mr. Min looked at the ice sculpture beauty lovingly, and gently hugged her into his arms.
"Bing'er, where do I start?" Mr. Min whispered in a consultative tone to ask for the opinion of the ice sculpture beauty, "From that day on, you squatted outside my office like a kitten......
"It was already half past eight in the evening after I had a meeting that day, and the company was already empty, I remembered to go back to the office to get the keys to the house, and at the door of the office, I saw a girl, like a kitten, squatting at the door of my office, holding a large document bag in her hand......" Mr. Min said slowly, his mind drifting back to 23 years ago......
Mr. Min was strange when he saw the girl squatting at the door of the office, she heard footsteps and hurriedly stood up, Mr. Min saw a pair of bright eyes under long eyelashes in the dim corridor light, flashing eagerly.
"Senior Brother Min!" Mr. Min seemed to hear the voice from the heavens, and this sentence drove the irritability caused by the day's meeting out of the clouds.
Mr. Min looked at the sparkling-eyed girl and wondered why she was still crouching at her door after all the work at the company.
"I made an appointment with you a week ago, Loulan! You don't remember? The girl continued eagerly.
Mr. Min only remembered at this time that a tutor had called him a week ago, saying that there was a junior sister named Shi Yingbing who was studying the history of changes in Loulan, hoping that he could give a little help, and Mr. Min heard the tutor's voice - Mr. Min's family is well-off, and he has just graduated and established his own financial trading company with the help of his parents, and there are quite rich profits every year, and not long ago, he just donated a large amount of money to his alma mater as a scholarship for poor students.
Mr. Min knows that research funding is like Tang monk meat, which is a hot spot for various research projects, and only a small part of it is allocated to historical research, because it is difficult to produce economic benefits, and it is difficult for historical researchers to find funding in the society.
Mr. Min had no choice but to politely agree to the tutor and let the little junior sister come to the office to find him in a week, and then he was busy with the company's operation and had long forgotten about it.
Mr. Min brought her into the office, Mr. Min was not too interested in history, his major was finance and trade, and he wondered why this beautiful little junior sister gave up such a promising major and went to study history instead.
"How did you go about researching the history of Loulan's changes?" Mr. Min poured her a cup of tea to warm her up and asked.
"Because I'm the princess of Loulan!" Shi Yingbing's long eyelashes fluttered, and she said with a smile that Mr. Min saw her neat teeth, and her smile was like warm sunshine, dispelling the cold of winter.
Mr. Min smiled, not convinced.
"I'm really the princess of Loulan...... Belch...... I'm trying to prove that I'm the princess of Loulan, so, Senior Brother Min, I need your help. ”
Mr. Min laughed again, he thought this little junior sister was very interesting, so ashamed, why did she think she would help her? In Mr. Min's opinion, all he has to do is to come up with a sum of money to let her go to the Loulan site for a while, and it won't be long before the dry wind of the Northwest Desert will blow her beautiful face, and soon she will get tired of the boring archaeological work, and then find the next interest and forget about the Loulan that disappeared for 2,000 years.
Mr. Min did not believe that such a young girl could have much attainment in this industry, and even doubted how long she could last.
But in this gloomy winter, after a day of meetings, Mr. Min, who felt very tired, was happy to listen to this beautiful and agile little sister talk about why she was Princess Loulan.
"You have ten minutes to convince me to grant you a grant." Mr. Min decided to tease this little junior sister.
For many newcomers, especially little girls, they are often overwhelmed when they hear this sentence, because no one can gain the trust of an investor within ten minutes!
Shi Yingbing took out a copy of a paper that was very vaguely rubbed and handed it to Mr. Min, the vague imprints on it seemed to be words, but Mr. Min didn't recognize it at all.
"The king of Loulan led the people to move west, leaving only one line...... Shi Yingbing said, "This is Lu Wen, the dead script that has disappeared......"
"And then?" Mr. Min was a little confused, this sentence did not match the preface, and there was no more corroboration.
"Then I'm going to prove that I'm the one who was left behind, I said that I was the princess of Loulan......" Shi Yingbing smiled, her smart smile shocked Mr. Min's heart, and then she put out more information, which can be described as fragmented, but Shi Yingbing's enthusiasm touched Mr. Min.
"I listened to her for three hours, didn't take a sip of water, and forgot about dinner." Mr. Min said slowly.
"You...... Fund her? Xia Ruobing asked cautiously.
"She touched me, maybe when I saw her crouching like a kitten in my office doorway, she moved me...... I promised to fund her ......"
"This?" Xia Ruobing took a step forward and pointed to the badge on her collar.
Mr. Min gently stroked the badge, tears blurring his eyes.
"This is our token of love, I fell in love with her......"
Mr. Min gradually unfolded this dusty memory for 20 years, and in the following days, Mr. Min slowly fell in love with this girl, she exuded an irresistible aura on Mr. Min, every time he saw her warm smile, her focused look, Mr. Min fell in love with her irrepressibly. From the beginning of the funder, slowly turned into her boyfriend and partner, looking for clues about Loulan in the vast historical documents with her, and even leaving the company, chasing Loulan's secrets with her, the relationship between the two became more and more stable. On a warm spring day, Mr. Min finally opened his mouth to woo her, and she shyly agreed, because it was spring, and it was a good time for the goddess of spring to come to the earth, so they used Persephone as a testimony of their feelings, and Mr. Min specially made two badges of the goddess of spring, pinned to their necklines......
"How did she know about Lu Wen?" Xia Ruobing has a question.
"She was a student of your parents, and she found a record in the genealogy that she was a descendant of Loulan, and because of this, she gave up economics and turned to the study of Loulan...... Unfortunately, it was not completed. Mr. Min said.
This shocked Xia Ruobing even more, she carefully recalled that her parents had taken many students, most of them were boys, but she did have a very beautiful young lady who did research on Loulan with her parents, but at that time Xia Ruobing was still young, and she could only vaguely remember seeing her a few times, and she had called her senior sister, and then she had not seen her, Xia Ruobing looked at this ice sculpture beauty carefully, and gradually corresponded to the vague image in her memory.
"You've been here? How did you end up here? Xia Ruobing asked.
"Bing'er and your parents' research was funded by me, they found clues to the migration of the Loulan royal family, Bing'er thought that her ancestors migrated to the west from here, and she also joked that after she found her ancestors, she had to ask why they were left behind...... Maybe she's already asked by this time......" Mr. Min continued in a low voice.
Xia Ruobing's parents found another clue to the migration of the Loulan people, that is, the Coffin Mountain, and when they set off for the Coffin Mountain, Mr. Min and Shi Yingbing also came to this mountain range, tracing the footprints of the Loulan royal family.
And then ...... Got an accident? Xia Ruobing probably guessed something.
Mr. Min closed his eyes in pain! The scene from the past came to mind......
In order to ensure safety, Mr. Min invested a lot of money and invited the best alpine exploration experts in the world at that time to set off in the most suitable summer for climbing, he thought that his preparation was foolproof, he planned to propose to Shi Yingbing at that special time when he climbed to the top of the peak of the dead and found the treasure of Loulan, at first everything went according to plan, they successfully climbed over the ice hill and climbed to the mouth of the gourd, only one step away from the cave where the treasure of Loulan was said to be hidden, but a sudden avalanche destroyed everything! Mr. Min and Shi Yingbing were knocked down the valley by an avalanche, and the expedition team was completely annihilated, and Shi Yingbing broke two ribs when he fell down the valley......
Mr. Min's lips trembled, and it was the most painful memory for him.
"You...... You left her behind? Xia Ruobing felt a chill down her spine, in the mountains, injury is equal to death, and the living have almost no way to save her, although it is morally despicable to abandon the wounded for self-protection, it is the only choice.
"Nope! I didn't leave her, I didn't! Mr. Min shouted angrily, and the roar shook the snowflakes on the top several pieces, Xia Ruobing felt that the cold ice around him was trembling with fear from Mr. Min's anger!
"Nope! I didn't leave her, I didn't ......," Mr. Min repeated in a low, choked voice.