Seeing Xu Bai coming, Ding Lie took the exclusive elevator in the house to go down to the first floor.

He lightly touched the frame, walked to the gate, and stared at Xu Bai, who was hunched and petting his pet not far away.

Ding Lie said, "It's coming." ”

Xu Bai raised his head when he heard the sound, and patted its head a few more times before he straightened up and said, "Yes." I bought some fruit for Uncle Ding. But when I saw your house, I suddenly felt that my things were a little shabby. ”

Ding Lie said: "It's you who are too polite. If you want me to say, you don't need to prepare fruits, just come alone. Otherwise, inviting you as a guest will not become a disguised gift of fraud? ”

Xu Bai came to him, looked at the exterior wall of the villa with a little embarrassment, shrugged his shoulders and said, "You lied to me about the gift, you won't believe it if you say it, you are so rich." ”

Ding Lie couldn't help but be amused by Xu Bai in the end, the sharpness behind his composure faded, and his smile was more real.

"Please come in." Ding Lie took a bag containing mangoes and lychees from Xu Bai's hand, and behaved quite gentlemanly.

After Xu Bai entered, he couldn't help but say 'wow': "Ding Lie, your house is too luxurious, such a big house is worth cleaning just to die." ”

The post-modern Scandinavian style, unlike the warmer tones of the Chinese style, is cold everywhere. Fortunately, the decorations and curtains jumped in color, which played the role of the finishing touch. What's even more exaggerated is that the sense of science and technology of electrical appliances is very strong, and a transparent sightseeing elevator is installed in the house.

Ding Lie said disapprerovingly: "I don't like too many strangers living at home, so I only hired a housekeeper." But every day a dedicated housekeeping team came to clean me. ”

Xu Bai Nunu mouthed: "Rich makes people jealous." ”

Ding Lie said: "Money is such a thing, I especially want to have it when I don't have it." But once I have too much, it's no longer worth anything to me. ”

Xu Bai said: "If you let others hear this, you will be beaten to death." ”

Ding Lie was stunned for a moment, and then laughed.

Xu Bai walked around the first floor with curiosity, and then was invited by Ding Lie to sit down on the sofa.

Ding Lie asked, "What to drink?" ”

Xu Bai said: "Is there a coke?" ”

Ding Lie frowned, leaned down against the frame and said, "I don't drink carbonated drinks, so I ......" After a pause, he said again: "I have a good UAE date, why don't you let the housekeeper make you a cup of date tea?" ”

This time it was Xu Bai's turn to be stunned.

What kind of thing is the date palm that Ding Lie said, let alone eating, I haven't even heard of it?

Isn't it true that the things that rich people eat are not ordinary 'mortal things'?

Fortunately, Xu Bai was used to being indifferent, and after smiling back, she said generously: "You are the master, you arrange." ”

After Ding Lie explained, he sat down next to Xu Bai and said: "Because of work, I usually work more overtime in the company, and I have a habit of eating late at dinner. He raised his hand to look at his watch: "It's usually around eight o'clock." ”

"It's okay, I'm not hungry." Xu Bai's eyes rolled around again and then asked, "What about Uncle Ding?" ”

Ding Lie said, "You sit here for a while, and I'll call him out." ”

"Okay."

Ding Lie got up and took the sightseeing elevator up.

Xu Bai looked at the electronic display board above, and the number was 3.

In other words, Uncle Ding lives on the third floor.

While waiting, the butler brought the date palm tea.

Xu Bai tasted it, and the taste of domestic jujube was completely different, but it was a bit sweet like persimmon.

Not to mention, it's quite delicious.

In the process of trying the new thing, Ding Lie and his father had already sat in the sightseeing elevator, and the two slowly descended with the elevator.

Xu Bai was drinking tea, and when he saw the elevator landing steadily on the first floor, his beautiful big eyes instantly widened.

Ding Lie stood tall, holding the handle of a wheelchair with both hands.

At the moment when the elevator door opened, Ding Lie pushed the old father who was paralyzed under the wheelchair and walked towards Xu Bai step by step.

Xu Bai stood up unconsciously, wanting to ask something but didn't know how to speak.

At this time, Ding Lie pushed the wheelchair to the side of the sofa and said regretfully: "My father had a cerebral infarction after drinking six years ago, resulting in paralysis in his lower body, and he couldn't take care of himself. ”

Xu Bai glanced at Uncle Ding, who was alive and well in the past, and asked in a daze: "But didn't you say that Uncle Ding still remembers me, so you invited me to come to the house for dinner?" How could he ......"

Ding Lie looked down at his father and said, "After I met you that night, I mentioned your name in front of him and asked him if he remembered you." He couldn't speak, but he winked at me when I asked him, so I thought after all these years, maybe he wanted to see how old you were, so he invited you over on his own. ”

After hearing this, Xu Bai frowned and nodded a few times.

Although Ding Lie used to be very skinny, he was indeed very filial.

So it's not unusual for him to do that.

Xu Bai stepped forward, squatted down by the wheelchair, and said a lot of words to Uncle Ding, but Xu Bai was talking to himself, and Uncle Ding opened his mouth and couldn't say anything at all.

After another moment, the old man closed his eyes tiredly in his wheelchair.

The housekeeper reminded Ding Lie that Ding Lao couldn't sit for a long time, so it was better to send him back to the room.

Ding Lie nodded, with a sad expression.

Xu Bai held the already cold date tea, frowned and asked, "I didn't expect Uncle Ding's old age to be like this." ”

Ding Lie lit a cigarette, took a deep breath and said, "Maybe he is like this now, and it is also retribution." ”

"What do you mean?" Xu Bai was taken aback.

Ding Lie tilted his head and said in a warm voice: "My father's antique shop used to secretly trade ghost goods. Oh, and the ghost thing means something that comes out of the tomb. At that time, my mother was very opposed and often argued with him. In the end, because I didn't want to live this kind of fearful life anymore, I found someone to remarry. But he still did not repent, and the business behind him became bigger and bigger, and he became the largest ghost dealer in the three nearby provinces and cities, so he also had a wide range of contacts. Once, when he made a lot of money, he drank a few more drinks when he was happy, and then it was like this. ”

Xu Bai's heart was turbulent.

She looked at Ding Lie and licked her lips: "These things are illegal, aren't you afraid that I will say it?" ”

Ding Lie smiled: "My dad is now a waste, who will embarrass a waster?" Besides, your dad used to place and transfer ghost goods from my warehouse, and I'm sure you won't tell anyone. ”

Xu Bai was stunned.

Didn't you just have auditory hallucinations?

Ding Lie said......

Xu Bai's eyes widened and asked blankly, "You mean that my father also buys and sells ghost goods?" ”

Ding Lie took another puff of cigarette and smiled: "Oh, I seem to have misremembered. There used to be so many people in the store that I couldn't remember who was who. Xu Bai, don't mind. ”

Although Xu Bai breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, Ding Lie's ambiguous words still made her heart turbulent.

If Uncle Ding used to trade ghost goods, and his father had intensive contacts with Uncle Ding. In addition, my father is indeed obsessed with antiques, and after this information was messily pieced together, a nail was inexplicably pierced in Xu Bai's heart.

She raised her eyebrows: "Ding Lie, are you really mistaken?" ”

Ding Lie hooked his lips calmly: "It's a mistake." ”

He slipped the cigarette butt into the ashtray and was silent for a moment.

At this time, Xu Bai said tentatively: "Uncle Ding used to have such a wide range of contacts, there must be many people who sell goods to join Uncle Ding, and rely on him to sell things unknowingly." When he got sick, didn't you think about taking over his business? After all, money comes quickly. ”

Ding Lie said: "I'm not rare. But at that time, after my father's cerebral infarction, some people did want my son to inherit his father's business. Because of my father's network and his offline ghosts, the contact information is only known to the Ding family. Suddenly, there were no sales channels, and those tomb robbers or opportunists suddenly had no smooth and safe sales channels. If something is rotten, it is worthless. So naturally, some people will force me to conform in various ways, so that I can continue the connections and channels that my father has accumulated over the years, and the first layer of implication here is as complicated as the rules of the capital market. ”

Ding Lie's every sentence and every word was as quiet as water.

Wearing glasses and a white shirt, he has a different kind of charm.

Xu Bai became more and more curious when he listened: "How did you force you?" ”

Ding Lie said: "It's nothing more than some indiscriminate methods. At that time, if I had done my dad's business, even if I was forced to sell goods only once, my hands would not be clean. ”

There was obvious sharpness in the warm voice, and Xu Bai suddenly felt creepy.

She opened her mouth, and when she was about to speak, Ding Lie's solemn expression stretched proudly, his black eyebrows were raised, and he showed his neat teeth when he smiled: "I'm sorry, I shouldn't have told you this." ”

"Ding Lie, you shouldn't be a headhunter for ghosts, and secretly manage the ghost elders offline to help people sell goods, right?"

Ding Lie stared at her: "Xu Bai, I run a media company and am a serious businessman, you think too highly of me." ”

Xu Bai exhaled softly.

Thinking about it, if Ding Lie really inherited his father's business, what he said today should not be so frank.

Ding Lie secretly observed Xu Bai's soothing expression, and a trace of dark light was hidden under the lens.

Today, he successfully hinted at the information he wanted to tell Xu Bai from the small talk to her in the most natural way.

I believe that in the near future, Xu Bai will become an important hole card for him.

Xu Bai didn't notice the subtle change in Ding Lie's eyes, and asked more eagerly: "Ding Lie, I remember that there were a batch of cultural relics from the late Eastern Han Dynasty in your warehouse. Among them, there is a stone to ward off evil spirits, and some bronze drinking vessels or something. Do you have an impression of these things? ”

Ding Lie hooked his lips, and said without thinking about it: "I'm not impressed." What's wrong? ”

Xu Bai was a little disappointed.

You must know that she came here today to find out the whereabouts of the missing cultural relics ten years ago.

"Nothing, just ask."

While the two were chatting, the housekeeper told them that they could prepare for dinner.

Ding Lie instructed the housekeeper to go upstairs to take care of his father's diet, and then invited Xu Bai to sit down and personally pulled out the seat for her.

At the long dinner table, the two looked at each other.

Ding Lie's dinner is quite exquisite and stylish in terms of ingredients and plating.

The soft and ambiguous light reflected Ding Lie's face, and once again and again folded a faint light on his lenses.

Xu Bai was in a trance.

The Ding Lie in front of him is no longer the arrogant, happy, and fearless teenager full of marketability.