Chapter 7: Inferences After a Meal (1)
Entering the room, Zhang Tianye saw photos of himself when he was a child, as well as a photo with the little girl, and the bed was full of childhood toys, including Transformers, and small racing cars.......
made his childhood memories a little clearer, but it was not only Zhang Tianye who sighed, but also Ye Xinxin, seeing the Barbie doll on the bed, the girl who touched the scene walked to the bed, sat on the bed, and began to fiddle with the doll to comb her hair as when she was a child, this scene happened to be reflected in Zhang Tianye's mind, and it felt very familiar in the dark, as if he had thought of something, and couldn't help but shout: "It turns out that you are Ye Lan"!
Ye Xinxin on the side was still concentrating on combing the doll's hair, and said without caring about Zhang Tianye's expression: "You just know, later my parents divorced, and my father took me to the UK, at that time, I called my uncle every day, and I didn't know where you were in the UK for a long time, but the sea of people was vast, the UK was so big, I was young at that time, I didn't have money, I didn't know the road, I couldn't find you, and I didn't dare Lao Ye to say", these words came out of her mouth lightly.
After Ye Xinxin finished combing the doll's hair, she stood up, tidied up her clothes, and continued to recall: "When I grew up, my uncle told me that you were going to take the Cambridge University entrance examination, and it happened that my goal was also Cambridge at that time, and I hoped that I could become an excellent archaeologist like my uncle, so I signed up by the way, in order to leave you some excitement, I didn't tell you the truth, otherwise how dare I leave you at my house for the night."
After Ye Xinxin finished speaking innocently, she spread her hands and put on a very casual look, clearly saying, you didn't ask me, I can't blame me for this, it can only show that you are stupid, you can't let me be a girl with a cheeky face and tell you, but you finally know why I call Professor Lin uncle, I can't imagine that I am stupid.
It turned out that his good friend who had lived abroad for eight years was the tomboy when he was a child, and then thinking about the time he spent with Ye Xinxin in the past few years, although he was always bullied by her, he also took care of himself, and suddenly Zhang Tianzhi's heart was warm, and he had an indescribable emotion for Ye Xinxin in his heart, and that feeling was very mysterious!
He looked at Ye Xinxin as if he was in a daze, and he had a feeling that he had never had before, his eyes always stayed on her, at first Ye Xinxin still looked at Zhang Tianye with an innocent face, but no girl can be stared at for a long time by this kind of loving eyes.
Ye Xinxin, who is usually crazy and eclectic, began to blush slightly on her face at this time, and avoided Zhang Tianye's eyes in a little panic, lowered her head embarrassedly, and said vaguely: "I'll go see how dinner went, you can see for yourself", after Ye Xinxin left the room like a heavy load, Zhang Tianye noticed his gaffe.
Out of the bedroom, Ye Xinxin walked into the bathroom quickly, locked the door, and leaned against the wall of the bathroom alone, her heart was pounding, and she couldn't tell herself at the moment what she felt about Zhang Tianye.
But she remembers that when she was a child, her parents quarreled every day, and she was scared to shrink in the corner, and she was born with a strong temper and no child was willing to play with her, so she often thought of her little follower Zhang Tianye.
Li Hongmin, who had prepared the dishes and chopsticks in the kitchen, didn't see the two of them come out for a long time, so he shouted loudly to them, "Amano, Xinxin, it's time to eat, are you all hungry?"
After his wife shouted like this, Zhang Tianye came back to his senses, put down the doll that Ye Xinxin had just combed his hair in his hand, closed the bedroom door, walked to the dining table and sat next to Professor Lin, and chatted with Professor Lin about what he had seen and heard over the years.
Ye Xinxin, who came out of the bathroom, didn't dare to look at Zhang Tianye with her eyes, she could feel the sudden meaning in Zhang Tianye's eyes, so she had to walk into the kitchen silently and help her aunt serve food to the table.
After Li Hongmin saw Ye Xinxin walk in, she pushed her out without saying a word, telling her that the kitchen was full of smoke, don't smoke it to the skin, the words were full of motherly love, and she was pushed out of the kitchen, and it was not easy to refuse, Ye Xinxin had to obediently go to the dining table, listening to Zhang Tianye's chat with her uncle boringly, fortunately, Li Hongmin was busy in the kitchen with the last dish, otherwise Ye Xinxin really felt that sitting with Zhang Tianye was a special awkwardness.
Zhang Tianye's eyes were always on Professor Lin, and he was not embarrassed to look at Ye Xinxin for fear of embarrassment, so after more than ten minutes, Li Hongmin brought the last dish from the kitchen, and the chicken stewed mushrooms came to the table.
Ye Xinxin watched her aunt finish her work and go to the table, she naturally had more confidence in her heart, and slowly recovered her usual high-flying and domineering character, relying on her aunt to pick up the dishes, because there was a class the next day, Professor Lin did not advocate drinking, and the four of them began to eat the meal with a smile.
It was just half past six after dinner, and after Ye Xinxin helped her aunt clean up the dining table, Zhang Tianye made a color to her, which meant that it was time to move on to the next topic.
Mrs. Li Hongmin naturally understands what happens after dinner, but she has never participated in Professor Lin's work, and it just so happens that people have more problems when they are older, so they have developed a good habit over the years, that is, after dinner, they want to go to the square to dance for a while.
Before leaving, Li Hongmin took out two keys from the drawer of the coffee table in the living room, handed them to Zhang Tianye and Ye Xinxin respectively, and told them that they were going to go for a walk in the square at night, so they asked Lin Zhengwei to chat with them, she has always been so easy-going in front of the two children, in the heart, Zhang Tianye and Ye Xinxin can feel the long-lost maternal love, and the two sent Li Hongmin out of the door.
After his wife Li Hongmin got on the elevator, Zhang Tianye grabbed Ye Xinxin's sleeve, after what happened all day today, the relationship between the two began to become delicate, and when he spoke, he lost the sense of freedom he used to have, and before he could speak, Ye Xinxin pulled Zhang Tianye's hand away and entered the room alone.
took out the information of the twelve people from the backpack and handed it to his uncle Lin Zhengwei, although Zhang Tianye, who came in closely, did not speak, but he knew that Ye Xinxin understood what he meant, and also took out a map from the backpack and handed it to Professor Lin.
After taking the materials in the hands of the two, Professor Lin took them into his study, put on his glasses, and looked at them seriously, during which the two did not say a word, just quietly waited for Professor Lin to express his views.
About half an hour later, when Professor Lin took off his glasses and asked Zhang Tianye how he had obtained this hand-drawn map from the Qing Dynasty, he found that on the unfolded map, three points were marked in the northwest direction, which was obviously the inferred location of Lao Ye Mountain.
Zhang Tianye truthfully told Professor Lin the situation, this hand-drawn map was found in the library of Cambridge University, and he had no way to bring this map out at that time, so he had to hand-draw one all night.
After clarifying the origin of this hand-drawn map, Professor Lin breathed a sigh of relief, and did not discuss with the two of them at the location of Lao Ye Mountain, but pulled the topic back to the famous "Twelve Disasters" incident in history.
Zhang Tianye knew in his heart that the reason why he knew this allusion was told to him by his father, and Ye Xinxin also knew this allusion, I am afraid that Professor Lin told him, but the two always found a fatal loophole in this allusion in the process of research.
After Professor Lin talked about the allusion of "Twelve Misfortunes" again, Ye Xinxin still couldn't bear it, and took the lead in pointing out the loophole of this allusion: "Uncle, Zhang Tianye and I found out when we inferred that it was a top-secret matter when this archaeological team went to Lao Ye Mountain, why did it cause a sensation in history"?
Although the families of the twelve archaeological team members were frightened that year, except for William Jack and Hilson's wife, one went crazy and one fell to his death, the families of the other ten archaeological team members were just frightened.
For Ye Xinxin's point-to-point question, Professor Lin looked at Zhang Tianye very meaningfully, and wanted to know what his inference was, in the eyes of the older generation, doing scholarship is a very rigorous thing, if there is no definite answer, these two eccentric young people will not rashly return to China to seek their own help, and the questions of young people are best answered by young people.
Zhang Tianye couldn't help but give a thumbs up to Professor Lin's old calculations, took out a few photos from his backpack, and handed them to the two of them, these photos were taken by the same person, and the same name "Li Zhiyuan" was marked in the lower right corner of the photo.
When the two were still passing each other to watch the photos, Zhang Tianye began his inference, in fact, I also discussed this matter with Ye Xin, it is not difficult to explain, there are two reasons.
The first possibility is that although the news was blocked by Li Zhiyuan, the county commander at the time, but after the full-scale war of aggression against China began, the country was in turmoil, and many wealthy eunuchs fled abroad, especially at that time, many missionaries and organizations in various names came to China and did the thing of chicken and dog thieves.
The second possibility is that there must still be people alive in this twelve-person archaeological team, or that there was another force that entered Lao Ye Mountain at that time, and some people came out of it alive, and the behind-the-scenes supporters of this archaeological team wanted to hide this matter, but the other group of forces wanted to make a storm in the city.
No matter what kind of speculation, the final result is not what the people behind the scenes of this archaeological team want to see, now that the news has been known, they will play a good show, and poison the family of the archaeological team to add to the authenticity of the matter, integrity and troubled times, the great powers do not have more energy to pay attention to this matter, so there will be an allusion to today's "twelve dooms", borrowing the hands of others, paving the way for themselves!
I'm afraid that the fake news that there is a treasure in Lao Ye Mountain was also released by them, but what they want most may be the legendary stone that killed He Asan in the story of Lao Ye Mountain, as for what this stone is, I can't be sure yet.