Xu Bai avoided Lu Yueping's burning eyes very unnaturally, and asked lightly, "Are your feet right?"

Lu Yueping twisted his feet and neck: "It's not all good, but it's not a big problem to walk on flat ground."

Xu Sanduo didn't like Lu Yueping looking at his daughter with this kind of eyes, and interjected seriously: "Third child, have you found someone?"

Lu Yueping took a hard puff of cigarette: "Well, I live in a hotel in the city, and I didn't bring people to the compound, for fear of moths."

Xu Sanduo said: "You think about this very thoughtfully, after all, you are from other provinces, and we don't know what your character is." The first time you cooperate, it's good to be careful, you did the right thing. ”

Lu Yueping didn't answer this again, walked forward and squatted in front of Xu Bai, picked up a bare corn cob, weighed it twice in his hand, and said, "The master has told me everything that has happened in the past few days." Little White Rabbit, did you dump Lu Kun? True or false? ”

In the second half of the words, Lu Yueping's tone contained an obvious smile.

Xu Bai secretly took a breath of cold air, he finally adjusted his mood a little in the past few days, and his heart collapsed because Lu Yueping suddenly mentioned Lu Kun's name.

She raised her head and said angrily: "It's not your turn to dump it, don't even think about it." Break your mind early, and don't waste my time here. ”

With that, she picked up the small plastic basin with many corn kernels and turned around and walked into the house.

Lu Yueping's eyes followed her far away, and it was not until Xu Bai's shadow was out of sight that he turned his gaze to Xu Sanduo, who had an unhappy look in his eyes.

At this time, Xu Sanduo stepped forward and patted Lu Yueping twice on the shoulder: "Third child, when we get through this difficulty, I can give you whatever you want, except for my daughter." Do you understand? ”

Xu Sanduo originally thought that Lu Yueping would be obedient and obedient like any time before, and said in front of him that he would not want to eat swan meat.

But this time, Lu Yueping just smiled, then took off the hand on Xu Sanduo's shoulder, tilted his chin, his lips stopped at an inch of Xu Lao's ear, and his voice was unusually slow and hoarse: "Then if the third child is not rare, he wants your daughter?"

"Even you're starting to threaten me?" Xu Sanduo gritted his teeth and clenched his fists.

Lu Yueping straightened his back, pinched the burned cigarette butt with his fingers, and threw the cigarette butt on the ground.

He said in a deep voice: "Master, you really don't have any sense of humor. It's true that I like Xu Bai, but I won't be with her until I wash my hands and live in peace. But when the dust settles, I, you, and we can all be ordinary people, I will definitely chase her, and no one can stop this! ”

Xu Sanduo was taken aback by these words, and then looked at the upward arc of Lu Yueping's mouth, a greedy desire was emerging.

"Well, this is not mentioned in advance, the sale of cultural relics is a big deal at the moment. After dinner, you make an appointment with the man so that I can see the man. If we can successfully shoot so many things, Uncle Shen will be able to perform surgery, and we will be able to turn over. When Xu Sanduo turned around, he said vicissitudes: "Come into the house, get ready for dinner."

Lu Yueping didn't rush to follow, looked down at the corn cobs that had been broken off on the ground, and kicked a few cobs into the flower bed with his toes.

He raised his hand and touched the stubble he hadn't shaved for two days, rubbed it lightly in his palm, and looked at the small window on the wall behind the flower bed.

It was the kitchen along the way to the compound, and the pear trees that had been planted for three years in front of the window blocked the sunlight.

But if you look closely, you can still see Xu Bai's big watery eyes in the gap between the leaves.

Lu Yueping took a hard breath, and wanted to shout out loud now: Xu Bai, in these days when you are away, the third brother misses you so much, do you know?

At dinner, Xu Sanduo opened all the little Luo Luo under his hand, and the three of them sat on the square wooden table.

Xu Bai dug a spoonful of green beans and corn with a spoon, and said softly: "Dad, if this batch of cultural relics is successfully sold, will you still stay in Hebei?"

Xu Sanduo looked at his daughter: "Why do you ask this?"

Xu Bai said, "I'm worried about you."

Although there were only four words, Xu Sanduo was very happy, he broke one leg of the roast chicken in front of Xu Bai and said, "Good boy, Dad doesn't have to worry about you." It's you, the longer you get, the thinner you get, hurry up and eat more. ”

Xu Bai had a headache in her heart, the more her father was like this, the more she fought in her heart.

As long as people grow up, they have to face a variety of choices. And the reason why a choice is called a choice is because the two options often lead to very different life paths.

Xu Bai's chopsticks were inserted into the chicken thigh, and he picked out a piece of chicken and stuffed it into his mouth.

She chewed slowly, and when she was done, she sighed vigorously and said with a serious face, "Dad, I have the right to know something." If you want me to feel at ease and understand you completely, you have to explain everything to me, otherwise the reunion of our father and daughter will be meaningless. If you love me, tell me everything. ”

Xu Sanduo looked at Lu Yueping, who was silent at the dinner table, his eyes were locked on Xu Bai, and then at his daughter, he struggled in his heart, and finally spoke after being silent for a while: "Child, what do you want me to explain?"

Xu Baixue said in Lu Kun's tone when he interrogated Cheng Jinge: "I asked one by one, and you said one by one." Okay, Daddy? ”

Xu Sanduo lifted the white cloth, took two steamed buns from the steamed bread frame, broke a slit, and buried his head in the vegetable plug and gnawed on it, until there was a promised 'um' sound in his nose, Xu Bai took a breath and held it in his chest.

Xu Bai asked: "Who killed that auctioneer thirty years ago?"

As soon as these words came out, Lu Yueping also gasped.

Who would have thought that Xu Bai's first question would be so exciting.

Xu Sanduo choked on a mouthful of steamed buns in his throat, he beat his chest repeatedly, Lu Yueping handed him a glass of water, Xu Sanduo drank it in one breath before finally gasping evenly.

He choked up for a while before he said in a deep voice: "Hu Jian, it was Hu Jian who did it."

Xu Bai was taken aback, this was a completely unfamiliar name.

In the five-member group that year, one was Xu Sanduo, one was Uncle Shen, one was his aunt and grandmother, and the other was Liang Zhongyi.

In other words, this Hu Jian is the fifth person.

Xu Bai's heart was pounding, and she couldn't help leaning forward: "Is he what Dad said, the person who paid for your medical expenses to Dad and later died in the mudslide?"

Xu Sanduo nodded: "It's him."

Speaking of this, Xu Sanduo subconsciously glanced at Lu Yueping.

Because it was that mudslide that changed the fate of Lu Yueping's life.

Xu Sanduo clearly saw that Lu Yueping's masseter muscles burst out when he heard the three words of the mudslide, and after this subtle little action, he quickly became normal.

Xu Bai asked, "What did this person do before?"

"That's what he used to do."

"Digging for treasure?"

"Well, digging for treasure." Xu Sanduo took a breath: "But before I met us, my luck was not very good, and then I married my daughter-in-law and quit and opened a small restaurant." Fu Zhiyao was in that small restaurant when he revealed the loophole of the cultural relics to a few of us at that time. At that time, your uncle and grandmother, Liang Zhongyi, and Uncle Shen were all eating in that restaurant. Hu Jian's son was a student of Uncle Shen when he was in junior high school, and then the kid went to high school, and Uncle Shen was a frequent visitor, so he often took us to that restaurant to eat. Fu Zhiyao is also a frequent customer of that restaurant, so we have met with Fu Zhiyao a lot of times when we come and go, and we will often talk a few words. ”

Xu Bai immediately understood why Fu Zhiyao didn't say the name of the fifth person, because there were five people in the exposed images that year, but he really revealed only four people, so where could he say the name of the fifth person.

Xu Bai's heart beat faster, and she frowned and said, "Then what is it that makes you greedy?" Is it simply heartbeat, just for money? ”

Xu San was anxious for a while, and hurriedly waved his hand: "Not all."

Xu Bai held his breath and waited for his father's next words.

At the dinner table, Lu Yueping had long lost interest in eating, lit a cigarette, his eyes were foggy, after all, Lu Yueping only knew a rough idea in the past few years, but he didn't know the specific details at all.

The white smoke condensed in a thick layer under the light, constantly floating upward.

After a short while, Xu Sanduo said: "After Fu Zhiyao left that day, Uncle Shen asked Hu Jian how his son's grades were in high school, but Hu Jian cried and said that his son suddenly became a fool because of a high fever. Hu Jian said that doctors in China said that his son was no different from cerebral palsy, unless he went abroad, but Hu Jian said that he had already been in debt after only a month of sending his child abroad. Lao Shen used to be the child's junior high school English teacher, and he had seen the child's appearance when he was smart, and only when he asked did he know that the child was stupid. So Uncle Shen was very sad when he heard it, but he was only an English teacher and his financial ability was limited...... And at that time, your uncle and grandmother and Liang Zhongyi also encountered a low point in their lives because of economic problems, so we were later instigated by Hu Jianyi, and several people simply ...... together"

Xu Sanduo sighed deeply, didn't say anything more, and slapped his palm to his head.

After Xu Bai heard this, his head buzzed: "But Dad, you have been keeping the two batches of cultural relics thirty years ago and ten years ago." Since it was not sold, how did your aunt and grandmother and you get the money to make a fortune? ”

Xu Sanduo sneered at this time: "It's still because of Hu Jian, and several of us have been cheated by him." It was also after transporting the cultural relics that we learned that Hu Jian's son was not stupid at all, and his health was fine, let alone going abroad for treatment. That kid was a gang of hooligans outside the school, and he was taken badly, and he followed them to the other place to mix in society, and it was a long time to leave, so Uncle Shen didn't see him, so he believed it. And then ...... Ay. We followed Hu Jian a second time. ”

When Xu Bai and Lu Yueping heard this, they were so shocked that their jaws were about to drop.

This is really a deep pit, one person pits one person, it's just a serial sinkhole.

Xu Bai raised his forehead: "In other words, it was actually Hu Jian, who had done this business before, who had crooked thoughts first, and coaxed Uncle Shen to say that his son was stupid and needed a lot of money." Then Dad, you and Uncle Shen are friends again, and Uncle Grandma and Liang Zhongyi are also short of money, and then you ......"

After a few snaps, Xu Bai slapped his head hard, and his whole face turned white into paper.

Lu Yueping, who was on the side, had already finished smoking a whole cigarette, he extinguished the cigarette butt, and said coldly: "So thirty years ago, master, you should have found out that Hu Jian was lying shortly after you stole the cultural relics." Isn't it? ”

"That's true. A year later, Uncle Shen and I saw the child, who didn't mix well and had one of his legs cut off. But the real reason for not selling the cultural relics was that about five days after the cultural relics were moved, Liang Zhongyi happened to hear that Fu Zhiyao was a relative of an archaeologist. At that time, we were all very weird in our hearts, and that feeling was ......" Xu Sanduo waved his hand: "That feeling is too weird to explain." We all vaguely felt that as long as the cultural relics were sold, several of us would be finished, so no one dared to touch those things for a while, so we found a place to bury them first. ”

Lu Yueping spewed out a sarcastic smile on the tip of his nose: "I said master, why don't you sell cultural relics all the time, it turns out that it's because of this."

Xu Sanduo said: "Lao San, I didn't want to steal all the cultural relics ten years ago, but Hu Jian said that he wanted to try the reaction of the Cultural Relics Bureau, because the batch of things ten years ago happened to be the same as those of the Eastern Han Dynasty thirty years ago, so we want to find out what is wrong with the cultural relics of thirty years ago and see how the relevant newspapers will write them."

At this time, Lu Yueping raised his lips: "As a result, master, you didn't expect that the time ten years ago was the same as the one thirty years ago, and there was no splash."

"yes. What you don't know or you don't know anything. Xu Sanduo sighed endlessly: "Hu Jian has taught me a lot over the years, and after that one thirty years ago, it should have been two or three months apart, and we found small tombs that had not been explored by the archaeological team." That time, things were divided equally, and your uncle and grandmother sold some and made a fortune, and since then they have been on the right path. Liang Zhongyi is a gambler, and he lost all his money after a while. In the five-member group that year, Uncle Shen and I were still together in the end. In the span of thirty years, Uncle Shen and I have gone to the dark, excavated more and more cultural relics, and the stones on our backs have become heavier and heavier. If you're not careful, you can't turn back. ”

Xu Bai's eyes were moist: "Therefore, the cultural relics assigned by my uncle and grandmother have nothing to do with those two tombs." But the second time Hu Jian took you to dig treasure together, my uncle and grandmother were not greedy, although they got several pieces, but she sold two pieces and stopped, is it Dad? ”

"She knows better than I think. Just because she is not too greedy, she has the most stable life in this life. Now dead, no worries are gone. Xu Sanduo stroked his face with his hand, wiped away the crystal tears on his eyelashes, and then smiled at Xu Bai: "Don't say it, you two hurry up and eat the food, you see that the food is cold."

Xu Sanduo buried himself in eating, and all of Xu Bai's doubts were solved.

At the dinner table later, no one spoke again.

The bread that was chewed in and the roast chicken that was swallowed seemed to have no taste at all.

After the meal, Lu Yueping helped Xu Sanduo make an appointment to meet the ghosts in other provinces.

The time was set for twelve o'clock at midnight.

Around eight o'clock, Xu Sanduo went into the house to take a nap and prepare for tonight's meeting.

Xu Bai was lying in her room, drinking two cans of beer in a row, and her eyes were red and swollen from crying, like two big peaches.

When the wine jar was put down, the door was suddenly opened with a key.

Xu Bai looked at the door and saw Lu Yueping, whose hair was wet after taking a shower.

He closed the door, leaned against the door, and looked at Xu Bai with a smile.

Xu Bai asked him coldly, "What are you doing in my room?"

"Your room?" Lu Yueping smiled, and the key turned twice around his fingers: "Didn't your father tell you that this house was left for me before?"

"You get out." Xu Bai pointed to the door: "A man with a little quality will not be as rude as you."

When Lu Yueping heard this, he wanted to laugh even more: "Little White Rabbit, don't keep mentioning any qualities to the third brother, I seem to be a person with that thing?"