Chapter 583: Dream Collection
"Really? Looks like I've got the book right. Ma Yuan touched his chin and laughed.
I left the bookstore with the book, got in the car, I put the book in the passenger seat, and couldn't help but want to pick it up and read it, but considering that from this angle, the guy should be able to see that I was reading, plus he had reminded me to go back and read it again, so it was not too late for me to go back to the hotel and read it carefully.
When I arrived at the hotel, I first consulted with the professional Zhao Heizi about what the three official books were.
Dream Collection, this is a very cultural name.
The whole book is a comic book written with ink paintings.,It's quite rare.,The author is unknown.,His way of drawing is quite interesting.,With a kind of childlike fun.。
Each story is about 6 pages long, without any text, it is all up to the imagination of the reader, and the content is not profound, easy to understand.
The first few works are quite life-like, for example, one of the stories is that a scholar is playing with catching crickets without paying attention to reading, and finally his book is accidentally taken away by a cat.
The next few stories are also related to this scholar, judging from the scholar's dress, it should be a character in the Ming and Qing dynasties, so I judge that he should not be a modern author, at least a person from the early and late Republic of China.
Hehe, this Ma Yuan made me reminisce about the time I read various comic book villain books in my childhood.
Continuing to look behind, there are also other characters, including farmers, merchants, and women, their clothes are indeed people from the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the scholar has also appeared many times later, and he should be the protagonist of the whole book.
Although these stories are very ordinary, they are things that will happen in life, but they look quite interesting and not boring at all, especially when the author sketches each character, animal, and plant, he takes special care and brings them to life, one by one, and does not follow the artistic skills of the imaginary masters.
It's just that I've read most of the book, and I still haven't noticed any valuable clues, so I patiently continue to look down seriously, and it is already approaching evening.
Zhao Heizi called me to go down to the restaurant to eat, I answered and said that I would be there soon, and I was about to close the book, but I casually turned to the back page.
My eyes caught a glimpse of a black cat on the screen, and I immediately turned the page, and it was the black cat that attracted me, because it also had a pair of emerald eyes, just like the black cat.
I held my breath and looked at this story seriously, this story took 10 pages, which is the longest story in the book, and there are many characters and scenes in it, so I need to seriously connect them with each other.
It took about 10 minutes for me to finally sort out the story.
Probably the boy of the master's family suddenly disappeared one day, and they searched everywhere but could not find it, so they thought that the child must have died by accident, so they held a simple funeral for the child, but in the evening, they found the black cat squatting on the offering table.
The black cat must have barked at them, conveying some information, and since there was no text on the picture, I could only guess.
The family found out, and the man caught and killed the black cat, and saved their son's soul from the black cat's body, and their son was resurrected.
Although the expressive power of ink painting is limited, I still rely on my imagination and guess to judge that this story is roughly like this.
My heart moved, this should be the message that Ma Yuan wanted to convey to me, killing that black cat could save Qian Siming's soul from its body.
But if you want to kill the black cat, it is estimated that Wang Haitang will not agree.
I put down the book and rubbed my temples, lost in a tangled state of mind.
The phone rang again, and I suddenly remembered that I had just promised Zhao Heizi to go down to eat immediately, which delayed for another ten or twenty minutes.
I hurriedly replied to him, grabbed my phone and hurried out of the office.
I told Zhao Heizi what I had just discovered, and he also had deep doubts about my entanglement.
"Could this be a trap deliberately set for you by that old thief of Ma Yuan, he clearly knows that your relationship with Wang Haitang is particularly stiff now, and he wants to give you such a hint to kill that black cat and save Qian Siming's soul, doesn't this make you completely break with Wang Haitang? Also, if this can't save Qian Siming's soul, but will harm him, how will it end? ”
"Yes, I'm thinking about it with these doubts, but now I can't find any other way for the time being, and besides, I just connected the two things of the black cat and Qian Siming's soul."
We fell into silence, and after a long time, I put down my chopsticks and coughed, "That's it, during this time, I'll go and find other feasible ways to see how things will change, not to mention that if I immediately follow the tips in the book and kill the black cat, it is likely that I will really be led by Ma Yuan's nose, and in the end, no problem will be solved, I really broke with Wang Haitang completely, she is very fragile now, and I dare not touch it easily." ”
Next.
In the afternoon, I was patrolling the hotel when Elin' Long called.
"Brother Hang, something happened." Ai Ling'long's voice trembled a little.
My heart jerked up, "Don't worry, talk slowly, what's going on." ”
Ai Ling swallowed hard and swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and said what had happened in a trembling voice.
Yesterday, they made an appointment with the contractor Maverick, who was in charge of decoration and cleaning, and came to settle the fee at four o'clock in the afternoon, but they waited until half past five, and they didn't see Maverick coming.
Later, they went to the studio to ask the others, and one of the colleagues said that the calf came out at three o'clock today, because his car was driven out by another colleague to run errands, so it was not clear whether he was taking a taxi or a bus.
Until this morning, Maverick has not contacted anyone, and the phone has been turned off.
So, the calf may be missing.
"Brother Xuan, I'm so worried, what if something happens to him, after all, he left the studio to settle the expenses with us, so we can't get out of the relationship, and our conscience will be tormented." Ai Ling'Long said sadly.
My heart is heavy, they chose to open on that day, sooner or later something will happen, I didn't expect someone to happen so soon.
"Don't worry, I'll come over later......"
"Ai Ling'long, who are you calling? You have to go around saying a little thing, you really can't hold your breath! Liu Ziyu's angry voice rang on the other end of the phone, and soon they began to argue.
I was embarrassed to hold the phone, it should be Liu Ziyu who found out that Ai Ling'Long called me, so he was angry and stopped her from continuing, obviously, Liu Ziyu didn't want me to know about it.
"Brother Han, I'm sorry, I'll not talk about it yet." Ai Ling'Long hurriedly put down this sentence and hung up the phone.
I called Zhu Chen and asked him if he had received a report, Zhu Chen asked the police in charge to check, and it was true that he had received a report of disappearance in the morning, but the case was withdrawn after only an hour, saying that the person had been found, and the person who reported the case was Ai Ling'long.
Obviously, Ai Ling'Long was very flustered, so she went to the police, but Liu Ziyu didn't want more people to know about this matter, she might have firmly believed that the calf would definitely contact them, or she wanted to find the calf in her own way.
I thought I'd call me when they calmed down for a while, but I didn't contact me again until the evening.
I thought about it and called her, and as soon as the phone was connected, I heard a very noisy voice over there, probably a group of people chatting over there.
I can't help but feel a little uncomfortable, they are still in the mood to come to the party for supper, is there already news of the missing person?
"Brother Xuan, what's the matter?" Xue Xiaxia's voice was extremely unnatural, it should be that Liu Ziyu and other friends were sitting next to her.
"I just wanted to ask you if that calf has contacted you?"
"Oh, I contacted him, his mobile phone was stolen on the bus before, and he never had time to replace the card, plus his ID card was also lost, so it took a long time for him to get a temporary ID card, and he made up the card, and it's okay now."
Her voice was particularly evident in her weakness, that she was lying, or that she was forced to lie.
"I don't know the real situation on your side, but I want to warn you that some things are better solved as soon as possible, and if you delay it, you should know what it means to have a long night."
"I ...... Brother Xuan, it's really okay, I really didn't lie to you, thank you for always thinking about this matter, wait until tomorrow I'll ask you to have a meal, or another day, there should be some things to do tomorrow. ”
In just a few words of exchange, she originally said that she was going to invite me to dinner, but she made a change, and Liu Ziyu, who should be sitting next to her, gave her a look and signaled her not to say that.
I felt a little cold in my heart, I hung up the phone after a few perfunctory words, they were going to tear the originally small opening a little bit.
My first impression of this Liu Ziyu is that she is relatively sophisticated, but this sophistication now reveals her meanness and stubbornness little by little.
I called Zhu Chen again and asked him to ask the police to check the details of this calf first, Ai Ling'Long and Liu Ziyu chose to deal with the disappearance of the calf coldly, but I can't sit idly by.
I'm going to go to Maverick's studio tomorrow and learn a little more about him from his colleagues.
It was not early at this time, but it was only more than half an hour before Zhu Chen called back, and the police on duty had already sorted out the details of the calf.
I was immediately in awe, I really praised the people's police, such dedication and super high work efficiency are too impressive.