More than a month ago, Xia Qing was not in China, she was still in the United Kingdom at that time, and she went to study at Oxford University in the United Kingdom about five years ago.

The University of Oxford, located in Oxford, England, is one of the world's top public universities, and one of the oldest English-speaking universities in the world.

One of the most important disciplines in Oxford University is archaeological science, and Xia Qing studied archaeology at Oxford University.

This is her fifth year in the UK, and she is working hard for a postgraduate master's degree in archaeological science, and everything is calm and life is normal, but suddenly one morning a month ago, she received an email in her email.

The email made her a little confused for a while, because there was only one sentence in the email, which was written in Chinese: "He will come to me with something, and please bring him to my room." ”

And this email has not been paid, and she has never seen the address of the email, that is, she has no way of knowing who sent this email to her.

So she only thought that this email was sent to the wrong address, or someone was a prank on her, so in the busyness of the morning, Xia Qing had completely forgotten about this email.

In this way, less than a week later, one morning Xia Qing received a phone call, on the other end of the phone, was a middle-aged man's voice, he told Xia Qing a bad news in a soothing, but with a somewhat sad voice.

His grandfather, Mr. Xia Qiu, had passed away in his own home, and the person in charge of informing her was a lawyer that his grandfather had chosen before his death.

After Xia Qing learned the news, she almost fainted, she found it hard to believe that her grandfather was no longer alive, although the other family's family was old, but she never thought that one day, grandpa would really leave her, just like everyone in the world, in a good life, they never thought that bad luck would suddenly befall their heads.

So she cried on the phone, but she didn't know what to do.

The lawyer comforted her on the phone and told her that in fact, when Mr. Xia left, he should not be in pain, because when they found him, they saw him leaning against the wall in his home, facing the direction of the door, but his face seemed to have a smile, maybe Xia Lao left in his sleep, maybe he was not sad when he left.

Mr. Lawyer's words did not alleviate the pain in Xia Qing's heart, but she tried her best to control her emotions, and then choked up and asked on the phone if her grandfather had left any last words.

Mr. Lawyer told her that when he found Mr. Xia, he had already passed away, so Mr. Xia did not have any last words, but Mr. Lawyer seemed to suddenly remember something, so he told Xia Qing that just a few days before Mr. Xia left, Mr. Xia had personally found him and asked him to send an email to someone, the content of which he couldn't remember very clearly, it seemed to be a sentence, a sentence that was not clear.

This information immediately made Xia Qing break out in a cold sweat, she immediately recalled the strange email, and immediately used the computer to find the email and check it with Mr. Lawyer.

Unexpectedly, that strange email was sent to her by her grandfather asked the lawyer to send it to her.

Although the content of the email was very incomprehensible and even a little strange, Xia Qing looked at the words and cried again.

Mr. Lawyer had to comfort her again, and then she controlled her emotions again and calmed down a little.

Then the lawyer told her not to be overly sad, and to mourn and change, hoping that she could return to China as soon as possible to handle Xia Lao's funeral, as well as matters related to property inheritance.

In fact, Xia Lao did not leave any inheritance during his lifetime, and he did not have much money in his bank account, just because although he had a strange temper and a withdrawn personality, he was a philanthropist who was kind and charitable, so probably his money was used on others, those homeless people who slept on the streets, those orphans who lost their parents, those poor people who were physically disabled, and those lonely old people who had no one to take care of, although he himself was also an old man, but he took on such a responsibility.

So it is safe to say that Xia Lao is a person who deserves to be remembered and respected forever.

However, although Xia Lao did not have any savings, he left a villa, Xia Qing was no stranger to that villa, she knew what kind of villa it was, and she actually had an indescribable feeling for that villa.

Speaking of which, that kind of relationship is too complicated, it includes family affection, strangeness, doubt, pain, sadness, and even anger.

Because she felt that since she had that villa, her grandfather seemed to have become a different person, a withdrawn person, an autistic person, a difficult person, a person who was not understood.

Xia Qing didn't understand, even she herself was not allowed to enter that villa by her grandfather, and even since that villa was given to her grandfather by the state, it was as if she had never entered a second person except for her grandfather.

Xia Qing didn't know what happened to her grandfather, but she had been suspicious of that villa, and it was that villa that changed her grandfather.

Now, her grandfather is gone, leaving her with the villa, and there is a sentence that she can't understand at all, these two unrelated things make the sad Xia Qing even more sad for a while.

In fact, Xia Qing is not Xia Lao's biological granddaughter, after she grew up, Xia Qiu once told her that she was just an orphan adopted by Xia Lao.

More than 20 years ago, a Xia Lao led an archaeological team into the southern Sichuan area to investigate, passing through a remote area of the village, found that the heavy rain caused a mudslide, has buried the entire village, the local traffic is very blocked, can not organize rescue, and Xia Lao their archaeological team is the first batch of people to learn about the disaster, so he immediately gave an order, the archaeological matter is put aside, first rescue the villagers out of the matter, so the archaeological team of more than a dozen people, began to dig out of the quagmire with difficulty.

Although they had tried their best to save people, they finally found that their strength was simply insignificant compared to this natural disaster, and a whole day passed, and they had no way to save anyone, because after the mudslide buried the village, it was as hard as solidified concrete, and it was not possible to dig it by manpower, and there was no mechanical equipment at that time, so they could only look at the roofs that were still exposed on the ground in a daze, and listen to the miserable cries of the survivors. Weakening underground, eventually disappearing, but they have nothing they can do.

Seeing that it was getting late, I was afraid that after the night passed, no one would be alive, and the old men of these archaeological teams were anxious, but they were at a loss, remembering that they were all in a mess, and in the end everyone could only sit on top of the village swallowed by the mudslide and cry.

In the midst of everyone's crying, Xia Lao suddenly heard that in the forest not far away, there seemed to be someone crying, so he immediately stood up and ran towards the forest, and found that on the soft ground in the forest, there was a baby girl more than a year old crying.

It turned out that when the mudslide hit, a huge wave of air blew the baby girl out of the house that was about to collapse and fell on the soft forest ground, so that the poor baby girl escaped.

However, her parents and family were all killed in that disaster, and in this world, she was left with a lonely little life.

So Xia Lao adopted the baby girl, because she was found in the green bamboo forest, so Xia Lao named her Xia Qing.

Xia Qing was raised by Xia Lao alone, intelligent, and influenced by Xia Lao, she has been very fascinated by archaeological science since she was a child, when she was still in junior high school, she has begun to teach herself Introduction to Archaeology, Field Archaeology, Archaeological Surveying, Archaeological Mapping and other major courses of undergraduate archaeology, so when she graduated from high school, through her own efforts and Xia Lao's recommendation, she actually got a full scholarship for archaeological science at Oxford University in the United Kingdom, and went to study in the United Kingdom.

Who knew that she had been gone for five years, she successfully graduated from Oxford University with a bachelor's degree in archaeological science, and continued to stay at Oxford University to study for a master's degree, in order to save money, she rarely returned to China, but she didn't miss her grandfather, but her grandfather didn't want her to come back, this strange feeling made Xia Qing very painful, she couldn't understand her grandfather's thoughts, and her grandfather rarely communicated with her.

Now, her grandfather is gone, and she has returned to Changsha with all her doubts and sorrows.

She held a simple memorial service for her grandfather, but what she didn't expect was that there were so many people who came to the memorial service, and those people were strangers to her, but the tears on their faces told her that her grandfather was a wonderful person, a respected person.

At the end of the memorial service, she cremated her grandfather, and then divided the ashes into two halves, one half was sprinkled into the sea according to his grandfather's wishes, and the other half was ready for her to take back to the UK.

The lawyer who contacted her before handled the relevant property inheritance for her in the next few days, and the villa has been under her name, and the lawyer is a kind person, and he told her the truth, saying that this villa is very dilapidated, and if she wants to renovate her own residence, I am afraid it will cost a lot of money, so if she does not plan to return to China, it is better to sell this villa, and it should be able to sell it for a good price.

This proposal is actually very practical, but Xia Qing has no intention of selling this villa.

Because this villa seems to have a very special meaning for her, but in fact, even she can't tell what the meaning is, she doesn't like this villa, it can be said that she hates this villa very much, she doesn't even want to go into this villa to see the place where her grandfather lived before his death.

But today, just today, she mustered up the courage to come here, to this villa area called Yuelu Villa, and found this villa.

In front of the villa, she knelt down, weeping, and at a loss, she trembled and opened the door with the key, and walked in, only to find that it was simply unimaginable.

She kept crying, but even the tears dried up, and she still can't understand why her grandfather lives here. Why did his grandfather suffer such a sin? What is the reason for all this?

In life, there are always such and such "whys", but how many people can really answer these "whys", isn't life a confused account?

She was about to leave the place when night was approaching, but just then, she received a phone call.

The call was from the security guard at the door, and she had left her phone number in the security guard's registration book.

The security guard told her that two people came to Xia Lao with things, one claimed to be from Qingshuitang Qibaoxuan, and the other didn't look like a good thing, but they seemed to know the news of Xia Lao's death, so the security guard thought about not delaying any more important things, so he remembered to call her and let him know.

This call was made to Xia Qing, but she suddenly felt a shock in her heart, she even felt dizzy, crazy, and felt that her heart was about to jump out, the reason was very simple, because she suddenly remembered that strange email, remembered the incomprehensible words: "He will come to me with something, and then please bring him to my room." ”

Xia Qing's emotions were almost out of control, but she immediately stabilized her feelings and told the security guards to let the two of them come in and come to her directly.

In this way, the security guard allowed Gao Chao and the fat man to enter the villa area and came to the front of the villa.

But when Xia Qing met with the two of them, Xia Qing didn't have any idea of what would happen next, so she said to Gao Chao that now that her task has been completed, she has brought Gao Chao into the room, and the next thing is to see Gao Chao.

But in fact, Gao Chao knows no more than Xia Qing, he came here completely by coincidence, it was random, he just wanted to find someone to identify the bronze drum, and then he naturally thought of Mr. Xia, and then he inquired about the address and came here, but he didn't want Xia Lao to have traveled west, but Xia Lao didn't find it, but he found Xia Lao's granddaughter in disappointment, and the whole process can be described as a series of accidental events, in which there are no inevitable factors.

But now, when Xia Qing told his story, Gao Chao and the fat man glanced at each other, but it was difficult to understand and believe what was happening here at the moment.