"You know? My little heart was almost frightened. I thought I had made some mistake. But the result was great. It was the policewoman named Liu...yes, Liu Qingshuang, who stopped me on the roadside just because she wanted to
You want to ask me what you have been busy with recently."
Wang Dong looked aggrieved.
Seeing Wang Dong mentioning Liu Qingshuang, Xue Chen hurriedly said: "Don't think so wildly. She and I are just ordinary friends, and we have a good relationship with his brother."
"Haha." Wang Dong curled his lips, "Really? I don't think it's that simple. Do you know what he talked to me about? He talked about you helping her enter the criminal police team, and said that you were alone in the dark.
Two key criminals who fled to Haicheng were brought down in a small alley, and you left very gracefully, giving her the credit and fulfilling her wish. I have always been very grateful to you in my heart. Officer Liu's eyes were shining at that time.
, I think you will agree even if you propose to me..."
"Don't talk nonsense. If she hears your words, you won't get a good harvest. She has a lot of friends in the traffic police team. If she says hello, she will stop you when she sees your car and check you for drunk driving.
Let you blow some air." Xue Chen stopped Wang Dong and continued.
"Okay, okay, I won't talk anymore, let's talk about other people." Wang Dong snorted.
"Others?" Xue Chen's eyelids twitched, "Who?"
"Of course it's my sister Xiaoyan!" Wang Dong looked angry.
"Her? Teacher Qi and I both talked about it. She was just joking at the time. We haven't contacted her for a long time. What does it have to do with her?" Xue Chen asked with a puzzled look on his face.
"That's right, well, I mean, my Xiaoyan is such a good girl, and you have lived together for so long, and you always sent her to school at that time, so that the young male teachers in the school thought she was
I have a boyfriend, but no one is pursuing him. Tell me, do you have to be responsible?" Wang Dong glared and said in a tyrannical tone.
"Damn it, is it my fault? I didn't insist on her living there at that time. Why do I feel so unjust?" Xue Chen looked depressed.
"Unjust? I don't think it's unjust at all? This is just what I know. There may be many more that I don't know!"
Wang Dong's face gradually lost the joking expression and became extremely serious.
"Old Xue, you have changed a lot in the past year. I can't guarantee that I understand you. I don't know what you are thinking. You may have your own considerations, but I think you have to catch one, right? This is for you.
Well, it’s for everyone’s benefit, so as not to hurt some people’s hearts, so you can have a family as soon as possible, right?”
"Okay, okay, I understand, I still have something to do, you come back." Xue Chen stood up, waved his hand, and went downstairs.
After returning to the car, Xue Chen closed his eyes and exhaled, his brows knitted into a knot, and his heart was in an unprecedented mess and was particularly irritable.
After a while, he remembered that Sister Jiang told him yesterday that Andrew had gone to see him, so he took out his phone and called Andrew, and the call was connected quickly.
"Andrew, long time no see. Have you looked for me? Just call me if you need anything."
"Oh, Xue Chen, you're back? That's great. I've looked for you, because I think it's better to talk about important things in person. It's a pity that you're not at home. It's really a pity. Haha, Amanda looked like
I'm disappointed, I look very sad not seeing you." Andrew said with a smile.
Amanda Xue Chen coughed a few times.
"Xue Chen, you have a cough, are you sick?" Andrew asked with concern.
"No, you continue talking." Xue Chen said.
Next, Andrew got down to business. The matter was also very simple. It was related to the salvage business of the Eka Group. Recently, the deep-sea sunken ship salvage department of the Eka Group has focused on another ship. It is a ship that has been investigated for two or three years.
of the shipwreck, and recently there have been new discoveries and breakthroughs, roughly locking the scope of the shipwreck.
That range is small compared to the vast Pacific Ocean, but it is actually very large. If three ships are used to search with radar, it may take more than a year or even two years, and the cost of manpower, fuel, etc. will be millions of dollars.
The most important thing is that it may not be 100% found.
Then, I thought of Xue Chen.
Xue Chen also understood that he wanted his help in searching for the sunken ship on the seabed. He must have successfully pointed out the location of the Oasis sunken ship last time, which gave them a taste of the sweetness, so they found him again this time.
"This time, the salvage target was a Spanish pirate ship five hundred years ago. It plundered a ship of gold, silver and jewelry in South America and North Africa, but it was capsized by the waves. There happened to be other merchant ships passing by at the time. Record
That scene, along with the approximate location of the sunken ship."
Andrew sounded excited.
"The treasures on this sunken ship are even richer than those on the Oasis. According to estimates by our group's internal researchers, the total value may reach US$250 million!"
"That's really a huge fortune." Xue Chen replied.
"Yeah, Xue Chen, how about it? Are you willing to help me with this? Of course, I won't treat my friends badly. Even if we can't find the sunken ship, our group will give you a salary of 50,000 US dollars per day.
I know that this money is nothing to you, but this is the maximum value I can get. Some guys in the Eka Group are always too short-sighted and too stingy."
Fifty thousand US dollars a day, this figure is indeed nothing to Xue Chen now. From the time he got the ancient jade to now, he already has a billion-dollar industry, and his average daily income is several million.
"Of course, if you really find it, you can take away 20% of the total salvage value!"
"Twenty percent?" Xue Chen said softly. He did not reply directly, but simply asked for some information, thought about it for a while, and finally agreed.
"Oh, this is great!" Andrew smiled happily.
"However, I just came back from overseas and want to rest for a few days." He didn't want to get off the plane and board the ship again.
"No problem, the group dispatch will also take a few days. I will contact you again." Andrew said hurriedly.
Just when Xue Chen was about to hang up the phone, Andrew said again: "Oh, Amanda is right next to me. She said she is looking forward to meeting you again. Friend, what on earth did you do to my assistant?"
, she never said she was looking forward to seeing me."
"Ahem, goodbye." Xue Chen hung up the phone and put away the phone. When the words Wang Dong said to him flashed out of his head again, he reached out and rubbed his head vigorously.
After more people knew that Xue Chen came back, his mobile phone became busy and he kept receiving some calls. Most of them were simple greetings, talking about finding time to drink tea together and appreciate the newly acquired antiques together.
One of the calls was a bit special. It was from someone who claimed to be from the office of the Chinese Wuyue Collectors Association. He was invited to join the association and become a member. He also said that he hoped that he would go to the office in Yang'an City to complete the application some other day.
.
Wuyue Collectors Association? Xue Chen seems to have heard someone mention it, but he doesn’t have a deep memory, nor is he interested in recalling it in depth, because he has never been interested in various associations. People have mentioned to him many times about handling Haicheng collection.
Artists Association, Calligraphy and Painting Association, and various cultural and antique associations in Yunzhou Province.
But he has been too lazy to waste time on those things, and it doesn't feel very interesting. Even if he doesn't become a member, wouldn't he still be able to sit and drink tea and chat with the members of the association?
Xue Chen basically turned down those invitations. There was nothing he could do about it. If he had agreed, he would have to rush around appraising antiques for other people almost every day, and he would be exhausted to death.
But when he received Ning Xuanxuan's call, he didn't dare to refuse. When he found out that he was coming back, he asked him to have dinner with him that night.
The two met at the door of the restaurant. Ning Xuanxuan, who was dressed casually, was less mature and charming and more playful. She came closer and said with a smile: "I remember you were accompanying someone to attend a party in Xiangjiang.
An auction?”
"Yes." Xue Chen nodded.
The two people walked towards the restaurant.
"Does it take so long to participate in the auction? And I checked the time online. It should have ended a few days ago. What are you doing in the remaining days?" Ning Xuanxuan looked over and asked.
Xue Chen touched his nose and said, "Of course something is wrong."
"Is something wrong? What's the matter?" Ning Xuanxuan continued to ask.
"Well, it's not a big deal." Xue Chen said vaguely.
The two of them went up to the second floor together, walked into the small private room, and sat down.
"It doesn't matter, I just like to hear some trivial things, tell me, I like to hear them very much." Ning Xuanxuan said with a smile, the corners of her lips were slightly raised, and her clear eyes were looking at Xue Chen.
Looking at the smiling Sister Xuan sitting in front of him, Xue Chen thought about his trip again and felt inexplicably weak, as if he had done something wrong. But after thinking about it carefully, he realized
It seemed like he had done nothing wrong, which made him feel a little confused.
"If you really want to hear it, then I'll make an agreement with you." Xue Chen breathed a long sigh of relief, "I left after attending the auction in Xiangjiang and went to the United States..."
"Going to the United States? Why? Antiques?" Ning Xuanxuan asked confused.
"No, something more precious than antiques is a mountain, a mountain that weighs on my heart." Xue Chen's eyes were serious. In the past, the Kemeang family was like a heavy mountain in his heart, and he would be cautious in everything he did.
, walking on thin ice, worried that one day this big mountain will come down heavily.
After this trip, the mountain was finally removed in his heart. Now he no longer needs to worry about the Kemeang family. It is as if the dark clouds have been cleared from the sky, light and clear. (To be continued)