Voting is still underway to select the ‘Best Dress Tonight’.
All eyes were focused in the direction of the small stage.
You can also vaguely see the five ghosts mixing in the crowd and joining in the fun.
Chi Zao walked to the door.
Seeing that there weren't many people around, I took the video call.
The phone screen flashed.
The man's familiar face appeared on the phone screen.
"Xiao Zao'er, are you busy?"
Xiao Yu saw at first glance that the background behind her was not within Yunxuanmen.
Although there was no one around, there were still lively sounds such as screaming.
Upon hearing this, Chi Zao moved the camera so that he could see the people in the hall behind him, and said, "I'm not busy. I'm just here with Qian Mingxuan and the others to attend the drag party held by the department."
"Drag party?"
Xiao Yu looked at her intently. For a moment, he asked in a deep voice: "How have you changed?"
Chi Zao: "..."
Didn't you just take off the mask?
Chi Zao was embarrassed, silently picked up the Hundred Ghost Mask, and covered his face, "I'm lazy, I rely on this."
"Similar to your style. But..."
Xiao Yu's deep voice paused and commented: "This mask... is quite ugly."
"Ugly? I think it's okay."
Chi Zao looked at the mask.
I didn't think much of it at first. The focus of ghost masks is horror and weirdness.
There seems to be nothing good about these two.
After Chi Zao finished speaking, his eyes fell on the background behind Xiao Yu, "Still in the company?"
Xiao Yu nodded: "I'll deal with some more problems and then go back to rest."
Chi Zao was used to it.
Xiao Yu doesn't have many friends. In Ningcheng, he only has work.
Unless she is around, there is no entertainment or relaxation at all.
The two of them work without interfering with each other.
But the time we spent together was somewhat shortened.
Since Xiao Yu returned to Ningcheng, the two have not seen each other for nearly a month.
Moreover, it was Xiao Yu who came to Kyoto to look for her every time. Thinking about it this way, her girlfriend seemed to be too passive.
After a pause, Chi Zao said: "If you are free this weekend, I will go to Ningcheng to find you."
"Huh?" Xiao Yu was confused and looked at her intently.
Chi Zao blinked at you and raised his lips slightly, "As a girlfriend, don't you just need to comfort your boyfriend who is alone in an empty room from time to time?"
Xiao Yu understood the meaning of her words and smiled: "Okay, I'll wait for you to come over."
Chi Zao raised his eyebrows slightly and turned the camera to share with him the scene from the costume party.
As a result, as soon as the phone was turned around, Chen Chuchu suddenly appeared and stood on the stage.
Chi Zao: "???"
She was stunned for a moment, and Xiao Yu on the other side of the video noticed it and asked her, "What's wrong?"
"It's nothing... there are a few naughty guys that I need to clean up!"
With that said, he had to turn off the video with Xiao Yu, put on his mask, and walked towards the stage.
…
the other side.
Looking at the phone screen that the call has ended.
Xiao Yu was a little helpless and rubbed his temples.
Suddenly, there was a knock on the door.
Xiao Yu paused, "Come in."
Yan Fei pushed open the door and walked quickly to Xiao Yu, "Sir, we found out some clues about the Lin family and the jade pendant."
"Um?"
Xiao Yu glanced at him and said, "Say."
Yan Fei hurriedly put a piece of information in front of Xiao Yu and said: "The last time I checked, I was sure that the jade pendant you value came from the Lin family. But I don't know how the Lin family got this jade pendant.
, I don’t know why Lin Yaoguo’s family values this jade pendant so much... According to your instructions, I sent out the photo of this jade pendant, especially to Liuchen Village, asking if anyone has seen this jade pendant.
And the true holder of the jade pendant..."
It is not easy to investigate this matter.
Yan Fei himself had wasted a lot of effort.
But who told my father to be so obsessed with this jade pendant? He had to determine the origin of the jade pendant or its previous owners.
He had no choice but to rack his brains to check.
But after all, it all happened during the time of the great-grandfather of the Lin family. That era was very turbulent, and a lot of information could not be verified even if it was obtained.
"Then there was an old man named Xie Fang, who claimed that he had seen this jade pendant when he was very young. The owner of that jade pendant was his relative..."
Xiao Yu frowned slightly, took out the jade pendant, rubbed it carefully with his fingertips, and said in a deep voice: "Continue talking."
"Xie Fang said that he had met a relative named Xie Hongru who owned this jade pendant. He was a distant relative of his and had supported him. After asking again, I found out that this Xie Hongru was also from Liuchen Village."
Yan Fei paused and carefully observed his father's face. He seemed to be quite calm, so he breathed a sigh of relief and thought about what to say next.
Xiao Yu's fingertips paused slightly, and his cold gaze fell on the jade pendant in his hand, "So, this jade pendant belonged to the Xie family?"
Yan Fei continued: "One person cannot be sure. Based on Xie Fang's memory, I went to find an old man who is about the same age as Xie Fang and is still alive today. He is already over eighty and still remembers Xie Hongru... According to them...
In my memory, Xie Hongru was an intellectual back then. He was the only person in the village who had gone to college, and he was a relatively famous teacher in eight villages in ten miles. Unfortunately, later on in the war, for the sake of the country's stability, Xie Hongru left his wife and children behind and led his students to the battlefield.
He defended his family and his country and died on the battlefield..."
"Xie Fang said that the reason why he still remembers it so well is because he once stayed at the Xie Hong Confucian family in order to study. He knew that the Xie Hong Confucian family had been living in poverty since the capitalists went bankrupt. But the jade pendant belonged to Xie Hong Ru.
He wears it all the year round, and Xie Hongru once joked with him with the jade pendant that after the family suffered a disaster, the most valuable thing besides books was the jade pendant. The jade pendant was an ancestral jade pendant passed down by their family to ward off evil spirits. Without the jade pendant, it would be lost.
Xie Fang said that he still remembered that when Xie Hongru abandoned his wife and children and took his students to the battlefield, he only left this jade pendant for his wife... Xie Hongru's wife almost died of anger because of this."
"This is still alive, and Xie Hongru's students also know it. Xie Hongru, in the family tree of Liuchen Village, has his own personal autobiography sealed, because he died for the country, and for many years afterwards, everyone
The villagers take good care of Xie Hongru’s wife and children..."
Xiao Yu frowned: "How did that jade pendant fall into the hands of the Lin family? Have you found out?"
"Master, this is also a strange place. According to Xie Fang's memory, because the whole village is taking care of him, and Xie Hongru's wife is also an intellectual, the life of mother and son is quite stable, and they do not need to rely on others.
Selling family heirloom jade pendants for a living... It seems that something happened later and this jade pendant was lost..."
"lost?"
Xiao Yu was confused: "Since this jade pendant is a family heirloom, how do outsiders know whether it has been lost or not?"
Yan Fei continued to explain: "Because it is a family heirloom, the only relic left by Xie Hongru, after the jade pendant was lost from Xie Hongru's son, Xie Hongru's wife became furious, almost to the point of severing the mother-child relationship with her son..."
If something gets serious, someone will naturally know about it.
Xiao Yu looked at the jade pendant, thinking deeply.
"Another point……"
Yan Fei looked at Xiao Yu, changed the subject, and said in a low voice: "Sir, I asked someone to investigate Xie Hongru's son Xie Kaixuan. I wanted to investigate his relationship with the Lin family, but it turned out that the Xie Lin family, themselves
They are relatives from the same village and the same ancestor but from different branches, and...Xie Kaixuan is actually Miss Chi's...grandfather."