Chapter 13: To the Great Northwest
Due to the problem of jet lag, at about two o'clock in the afternoon in the UK, Ye Hong was still participating in business entertainment, and his daughter's phone call caught him a little off guard, and he couldn't help but apologize to the person he was talking to, and trotted out of the living room all the way.
Standing outside the door of the living room, Ye Hong also said very firmly, like Zhang Tianye: "Xinxin, this matter, you can't be fooled around, your aunt didn't tell you that your uncle has an acute heart attack, and the two of them will take a plane this afternoon and transfer to the UK for heart bypass surgery, you should come back and take care of it, right?"
"Lao Ye, what are you talking about, my uncle has a heart attack and is going to have surgery"? Ye Xinxin, who asked Ye Hong with a look of disbelief, was standing on the bed in anger just now, but now it was almost more like she was out of strength, paralyzed on the bed, obviously unable to accept such a fact.
"It's okay, just come back early, Dr. Yorkham said, the chance of success is only fifty percent, your uncle's condition is very complicated, and your mother will take the earliest flight tomorrow morning", after speaking, Ye Hong hung up the phone a little tiredly, obviously it was not just Lin Zhengwei who was bothering him.
Ye Xinxin listened to the blind sound of the phone from Ye Hong's side, that is, she hung up the phone in a tangled and complicated way, she had no sleep this night, if it weren't for her uncle's matter, he really didn't want to leave.
It was not yet eight o'clock the next morning, Zhang Tianye knocked on Ye Xinxin's room, but no one opened the door, and the phone was also called several times, and it was always turned off.
Zhang Tianye turned around and found the aunt who was cleaning, and hurriedly asked, "Auntie, do you know"?
While sweeping the floor, the aunt who walked forward sighed and said: "It's been more than half an hour since I walked, and the girl cried while walking, and she took a few glances at your room."
As soon as the sweeping aunt finished speaking, Zhang Tianye ran outside, which made the aunt feel that the young people nowadays are very impetuous, shook her head, pushed the cleaning cart down to the side of the elevator, and waited for the elevator to come up.
Zhang Tianye, who went downstairs, happened to meet Manager Zhang who had just gone to work at the door of the hotel, and was stopped by him, and before he could open his mouth, Manager Zhang said: "Don't chase, the girls have already gone away, this is for you", and took out the car keys and a black and gold card from his pocket.
After stuffing it into Zhang Tianye's hand, Manager Zhang did not stop, but instructed the other staff to prepare for the change of guard, and went up to the office area on the 17th floor, he naturally understood what the car key meant, but looking at the black and gold card in his hand, he was a little ashamed, because he had seen that card before, it was the small vault that Ye Xinxin's father gave her.
The password is Ye Xinxin's birthday, and he always feels ashamed of these two unusually heavy gifts in his hand, but at the moment he doesn't know where to go, so he has to put away his card and car keys and go back to the hotel alone.
After returning to the room, Zhang Tianye packed his luggage, prepared to say goodbye to Ganges City, went to the northwest, looked for Lao Ye Mountain, and wanted to say goodbye to Manager Zhang before leaving, but at this moment, she was receiving a VIP, and just replied to a message on WeChat: "The cost of accommodation, Ye Xinxin has already settled the bill, but asked Zhang Tianye to leave after lunch."
After packing up the backpack, Zhang Tianye went downstairs, handed over the room card to the front desk, and was embarrassed to trouble Manager Zhang, so he drove Ye Xinxin's sports car in the garage and went to Professor Lin's house.
Originally, he wanted to come over and say goodbye to Professor Lin and his wife, and by the way, he would leave the car keys here, and ask Professor Lin to transfer them to Ye Xinxin's mother, but he didn't expect that he didn't even get through the phone, and muttered in his heart that something must have happened.
The only thing Zhang Tianye can contact now is Ye Xinxin's father Ye Hong, he knew that Ye Hong must know something, so he dialed it by the way, Ye Hong answered the phone a little tiredly on the other side of the phone, Zhang Tianye said: "Uncle Ye, when the two of us talked on the phone yesterday afternoon, did you have something to do, didn't tell me."
Ye Hong yawned, obviously he hadn't slept well all night, but said very seriously: "Ono, are you at the door of Professor Lin's house, here's the thing, Professor Lin is afraid that you will be worried, so he specially instructed you not to tell you anything"?
At this time, Zhang Tianye already had the answer in his heart, Ye Hong continued: "My eldest brother suddenly had a heart attack two nights ago, coupled with the accumulation of work in the past few years, his condition is somewhat serious, Ye Xinxin's mother has been transferred to the United Kingdom with them, and now it should be on the plane."
Ye Hong, after speaking, Zhang Tianye knew the cause and effect of the matter, maybe Ye Hong didn't know the cause of Professor Lin's illness, which made him blame himself a little, Zhang Tianye hung up Ye Hong's phone, and thought that he had asked Qi Xin to come and pick up Ye Xinxin this morning, I was afraid that he would have to explain for a long time, so he didn't stay longer, and drove the car to the door of the hotel at one time.
This time he didn't go in, looked at the time, it was almost time to make an appointment with Qi Xin, so he took out his mobile phone and prepared to dial his mobile phone number, coincidentally, two people happened to come out of the hotel, these two people Zhang Tianye knew, they were the hotel lobby manager and Qi Xin, and they also came in the direction of the car he drove.
When the two of them were about to walk to the front, Qi Xin's mobile phone rang, and after seeing the caller number, he turned around and was about to pick it up, when Zhang Tianye walked down from the car, waved his hand at Qi Xin, and shouted: "Here."
After hearing the voice, Qi Xin turned around and saw that it was Zhang Tianye, so he hung up his mobile phone, and the two walked over head-on, hammered each other's chests fiercely, and hugged each other again.
It can be seen that after the relationship between these two people is very deep, Manager Zhang on the side spit out his hand, saying that he was very helpless, so he was ignored by the two of them, and after hugging, Qi Xin said excitedly: "Let me introduce you to you, this is the owner of Lihua Hotel, and my cousin 'Zhang Lihuahua', you should have known each other for a long time, right?"
Zhang Tianye smiled bitterly in his heart, and at this moment he knew why Qi Xin recommended him to Lihua Hotel when he returned to China, it turned out that there was such a relationship, coupled with Zhang Lihua's warm hospitality, he not only gave Qi Xin a thumbs up, this brother was not in vain.
Originally, Zhang Tianye, Qi Xin, and Ye Xinxin were classmates in the same school and department, and the three of them had the best relationship when they were in school, after graduation, Zhang Tianye and Ye Xinxin chose to study, and Qi Xin chose to return to China for development, he still remembered that on the day of graduation, he helped Qi Xin plan to pursue Ye Xinxin, but the two were beaten hard.
"Okay, everyone is an acquaintance, don't be sensational", Zhang Lihua hammered her cousin very affectionately, and continued: "Xinxin and I have known each other for a long time, her mother and I have business dealings, my cousin has not come to see me once in 800 years, and you guy, I have repeatedly told me to wait for me to finish receiving guests and see you off, but I left in disgrace."
After Zhang Lihua finished speaking, she looked at the two of them angrily, the meaning is obvious, I only came when I asked for something, Ye Xinxin's news is in my hands, whoever wants it depends on your ability.
Qi Xin grabbed Zhang Lihua's arm coquettishly and said, "Sister, you can do it, tell me quickly."
Zhang Lihua didn't eat this at all, shook off Qi Xin's hand, walked back in the direction of the hotel, turned her head and said, "If you two want to know something, come tomorrow."
Zhang Lihua may not know that Zhang Tianye already knows about Ye Xinxin, leaving only Qi Xin, who is at a loss, at a loss for what to do with the ants on the hot pot.
"This is for you", Zhang Tianye looked at Qi Xin who was in a daze, and threw the key over, so frightened that Qi Xin thought something had happened, and then came back to his senses and asked, "What are you doing?"
Zhang Tianye patted him on the shoulder and said: "Ye Xin has left in advance, there is an accident in the family", and Qi Xin, who was a little disappointed: "Oh", indicating that his bamboo basket was empty.
But looking back, fortunately, there was still this good friend of mine, and he hurriedly asked: "Zhang Shao, this car key belongs to Ye Xinxin, you can't leave today, I haven't had time to entertain you in the past two days, I'll be the east tonight!"
When he was in school, Qi Xin was notoriously broad, and he also nicknamed himself "Monkey King", Zhang Tianye knew better than anyone else how many tricks Qi Xin had, if he didn't leave today, he would really drink to death, delaying things, and hurriedly said: "Monkey, come back in two days and get together again, I really have something to do, I want to go on a long trip."
"Come on, I already knew about your little thing, do you really think that I don't know anything, if I hadn't given Ye Xinxin that crazy girl information in the past two years, you would have made such rapid progress in investigating the affairs of the Twelve Dooms and Lao Ye Mountain"? Qi Xin, who saw through Zhang Tianye's lies, looked at him with disdain.
Since the matter has been exposed, Zhang Tianye is not easy to hide, and said seriously: "Monkey, this matter is really very important to me." When he was in school, Qi Xin knew that Zhang Tianye was a meticulous person, and he couldn't move the things he recognized.
"Let's go, I'll take you to the airport, the last flight to Qinghai today was one o'clock in the afternoon, and now it's eleven o'clock", Qi Xin drove into Ye Xinxin's car with some regret, and pulled Zhang Tianye in the direction of the airport, he knew his old friend's temperament, and he didn't say anything, so he had to follow his temper.
Along the way, the car music played all Chinese-style classical songs, which made Zhang Tianye's mood soothe a lot, and he was able to calm down and think about the matter of 'hiding jade in the sea', there are a total of five provinces in the northwest of the country, namely Xinjiang, Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia and Shaanxi.
Although the three places marked on the map may be on the ground where Lao Ye Mountain is located, he still can't deduce the exact location of this hand-drawn map of the Qing Dynasty based on historical materials and maps, so he can only start to Qinghai, which is the most sure, to find clues.