Shen Tangzhi finally joined the conversation, but as soon as she spoke, she poured a basin of cold water on me: "Jiguang, I suggest you save some effort, we won't change the scheduled plan - we did spend nearly three months to personally investigate some things, and the conclusions we have reached, I think you understand very well." It's not a whim, it's not playing with you, it's a lot of time to think and argue, it's our own choice, it's a responsible decision for everyone – including you. ”

"I think I've made it very clear, I'm taking advantage of your fears! He told you that something bad was going to happen, and then something bad did happen - a woman pretending to be Yu Wei appeared and stole my blood jade, right? But have you ever thought that maybe it was because of your reluctance that this scam was realized? After all, if Lao Dao and I had seen this diary and that black and white photo beforehand, it would be impossible for us not to be suspicious of this 'Yu Wei' who suddenly appeared! ”

"So, you're accusing me?"

"That's not what I meant."

"And what do you mean?"

"Unreasonable—is this what you women do?"

"What happened to that dream you had after you suddenly fainted?"

K's prophecy came true – but so what? What does this mean? As long as we stick together, don't waste our energy on useless quarrels, as long as you tell me the truth about the clues I need, we can definitely find the truth - we can do it ourselves, we don't need it, why should we be bothered by that sneak. At the mercy of the hidden K?! ”

"Because I need to be responsible for everyone."

"I don't need you to be responsible."

The corners of Shen Tangzhi's mouth twitched: "It seems that your man's tricks are just unreasonable...... My mother once told me that a man, no matter what age he is, is never a minor in mental age, and it seems that my mother was right. ”

I let out a long breath and spread my hands in surrender, "Well, it seems that neither of us can convince the other. ”

Shen Tangzhi shrugged his shoulders angrily, and let out a vague "um-hum" sound from his mouth.

"Then at least tell me first, who is the author of this notebook?"

The notebook was signed on it, but it had been destroyed, and the small piece of paper was completely gone.

"You'll have to read all the contents of the journal before I can tell you."

"Instructions from that damn K again?"

"If you understand it that way, there's no problem."

I looked at Shen Tangzhi angrily, and she gave me a calm gaze in return, which made my "angry gaze" seem rather powerless, and I had to withdraw my gaze and deal with the notebook with the cowhide cover that I had been holding in my hand instead.

But I wasn't angry enough to lose my mind, and I cautiously turned the next page of the notebook.

[Diary No. 4]

19##年#月16? Day, cloudy weather?

I don't know how long I slept, but in my sleep, I had two intermittent dreams.

The first dream was the first time I met Xixin.

In my dream, I sat in a carriage rather drowsily, and the carriage moved slowly in the night.

But my consciousness was actually very clear, and I saw the decorations in the carriage as I remembered—and I knew that I had returned to that day in my dreams.

The reason for the carriage to slow down was because there was thunder outside, and the torrential rain was like a note, although Beiping City was once the root of the imperial city at the emperor's feet, but the mud brought by the torrential rain would cover the puddles, and if the speeding carriage encountered these "traps", it would bring unknown dangers.

I was drunk because I was drunk, because I followed Mr. Xu and Dr. Hedin to attend an archaeological report meeting held at Peking University in cooperation with Beijing Normal University, and after the meeting, we held a dinner, and everyone frequently advised me, Mr. Xu's important assistant, to drink, so that I was too drunk, and Mr. Xu arranged for a carriage to take me back to the hotel first.

At the same time as the seminar, we also held a small exhibition of cultural relics in the auditorium provided by Peking University, which was a great success, both the exhibition and the presentation.

Basically all the important people in the archaeological and scientific circles of Beiping were present, and many foreign archaeologists and adventurers came all the way to see the dinosaur fossils we obtained from the vicinity of Santai in Fukang County, Xinjiang, which was the first dinosaur fossil to be found in Asia.

Of course, they were also very concerned about Dr. Heding's latest progress in the archaeology of the ancient kingdom of Loulan, and Mr. Xu announced another major news - we have discovered infinite iron ore in Lufushen Mountain in Maoming'an, Inner Mongolia, and Mr. Xu's original words were "or will become the Han Yeping in northern China", which caused everyone to marvel.

The jolt of the carriage made me feel a little drunk in my chest, so I opened the curtain with my finger - and it was at this moment that I saw a girl in a white evening dress lying on the street in front of the road, as if in urgent need of help.

I quickly told the groom to take hold of the reins, and the carriage came to a stop beside the girl, and got out of the car in the rain and helped her into the carriage.

She was wearing a very thin white evening dress, completely soaked and clinging to her skin, almost transparent, and I quickly took off my suit and draped it over the girl's body, so that she would not lose her honor in front of me.

Then I looked at the girl, and I could see that she had her head crossed, but the rainstorm had disrupted her black hair, and her sideburns were clinging, and she looked like a beautiful court maid in an ancient lady's picture, and her delicate and classical beauty was very well matched, and her cold and pitiful appearance made me stunned for a while—and later, she made fun of me more than once, saying that my eyes at that time were quite "tiger and wolf", which made her a little frightened.

When I explained my identity to her, she was surprised that she was a student of Mr. Liang Siyong and a classmate of Mr. Wu Jinding!

Mr. Liang Siyong is the second son of Liang Qichao, and he is also the first scholar in China to receive formal training in Western archaeology.

Mr. Wu Jinding is the most important initiator and host of the discovery and excavation of Anyang "Yin Ruins", you must know that the discovery of Yin Ruins, filled the cultural relics gap in the history of the Shang Dynasty in China, and directly advanced the history of China's "confirmable" by hundreds of years!

And her name is Luo Xixin, she was originally with her brother Luo Xiche to participate in our dinosaur fossil exhibition, but because she doesn't like to socialize, so she left at the beginning of the dinner, but she didn't expect a sudden rainstorm, when she was hiding from the rain, she stepped on the puddle on the road by mistake and sprained her foot, which is so embarrassing.

Although we were all pioneers of the new education, it was embarrassing to help her confirm that her sprained ankle was not a big deal, and we were both red-faced.

On the way home, she told me that she and her brother Xiche had participated in the excavation of Yinxu, and I excitedly asked her about the excavation of Yinxu, and she also asked me about the progress of the northwest investigation.

On top of that, we talked a lot about history and archaeology – perhaps because we were so engrossed in chatting that we felt like time had flown by the time the driver told us that we had arrived at our destination......

At that time, there were several girls' schools in Beiping, but women who received professional higher education were still rare, and I found that Xixin did not have a beautiful skin, she really liked archaeology, and she spent no less hard work on it than me, because her knowledge reserve was extremely detailed, and she had very professional practical experience, in some aspects, even more than me.

This is also the reason why when I followed Mr. Xu to the northwest again, I recommended her and Xi Che as the team leaders.

And, I think, it was that night of chance that the love in my heart began to sprout, and finally one day after that, it grew into a towering tree.