"Hello, Miss Lin." The classically dressed waiter bowed to Lin Yuxia and led them into a small pavilion with a beautiful environment upstairs.
"Ms. Shen, do you have any favorite tea or refreshments?"
"I... don't know much about this, just click on it."
"Then let's keep it the same, you go make arrangements." Lin Yuxia dismissed the waiter, pulled out a chair with a smile on her face and asked Shen Mo to take a seat, "Don't use such a formal name, just call me by my name or Yuxia."
Shen Mo stood next to the chair and did not move. Lin Yuxia tilted her head and smiled, pulled out the chair next to Shen Mo and sat down. Shen Mo then took his seat.
"I guess you must have a lot of questions to ask, but let's have a cup of tea and calm down first." Lin Yuxia poured tea for Shen Mo herself, "I hope you can understand that not all questions can be answered by me."
Shen Mo held the tea cup with both hands and did not make any other direct reaction. Feeling the temperature of the tea cup in her hands slowly spreading from her hands, she regained her composure as much as possible.
"Why can I trust you?"
"——This question is difficult to explain, because you can choose not to believe any answer I give." Lin Yuxia took a sip of tea, changed her way, and said:
"Then why don't you believe me?" She looked directly into Shen Mo's dark eyes, her tone changed to that of a passerby with just the right sense of distance, "I believe you must have seen a lot of things tonight that are beyond your common sense, and I The part shown - you should know - even that part is enough for me to do harm to you without having to bear other costs."
"Since I told you that you can trust me, what confidence do you have to ask me, 'How should I trust you?'"
Shen Mo relied on the warmth in his palms to maintain his rationality under the pressure exerted by Lin Yuxia, "Even so, 'having a plan' is always the most basic motivation for a person's actions. Because of this, I cannot Trusting you without knowing anything about the role I play."
"Tell me, it doesn't matter if it's a little longer," Shen Mo mustered up his courage, ignored the black-clad guards who returned to the room, and looked directly at Lin Yuxia, "How should I trust you?"
Lin Yuxia silently raised her tea cup and said slowly: "Your Majesty, you are really a very good person. Although he died young, he did teach you what a 'businessman' should know. You should care more about the results than the results. reason."
"If we must find out the reason for all this... I can only say that it is closely related to your deceased parents."
Seeing that Shen Mo stopped talking and waited for an answer, Lin Yuxia repeatedly thought about what she could say, and said: "Uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Shen, are from Yan Kingdom and Dong Kingdom respectively, and when they came to Longmen, they met and knew each other. , they have experienced, no, it should be said that they have been involved in many incidents, including a reshuffle of the Longmen forces."
"If the balance between the various forces in Longmen is like a water tank with a constant total volume, there will always be people to fill in the eliminated parts. Clear water, muddy water, and muddy water in between. After experiencing the shuffle , the Shen couple have established a foothold in Longmen as closer to middlemen, and they rely on their scholarly qualities and the antique shop inherited from a mysterious predecessor."
"This is not a completely great wealth, but it has a real and critical power that can make them a bargaining chip in the balance. And just when everyone suspects that they will use it to embark on some dirty and extreme roads to realize themselves When it comes to interests, one thing changes everything.”
"The love between the two finally gave birth to its first crystallization."
Lin Yuxia looked at Shen Mo, recalling the shock in her heart when her father told her this story, constructing the vague smiles of the two people in her memory in her mind, and continued to narrate.
"If they were people trapped in this quagmire, they would never have such decisive courage. In order to give their unborn child a truly happy future, the two hid their love, peace, hope and romanticism deeply.
Deep in their hearts, these two resolute investigators and generous scholars made the boldest decision:
"Give up everything you own, for the sake of your children, and return to an ordinary life."
"Those priceless treasures, instruments rumored to have miraculous effects, books containing ancient forbidden knowledge... Countless things of immeasurable value were abandoned one by one for the ordinary happiness of children: some were given to various forces in exchange for protection,
Balancing gains and losses, some were completely destroyed.
"In this way, the originally mysterious antique shop turned into a pawn shop to help the poor. It can be said that all things that have nothing to do with ordinaryness and happiness, and all things that may cause you and your sister to suffer misfortune, have disappeared from their hands.
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"And my father accepted part of these transactions." Lin Yuxia drank all the tea in the cup and said with excitement: "I am willing to use all his names: Rat King, Gray
Lin... and me, as his heir, swear that we respect your parents' personalities and dreams. But because of this, we must be helpless and give up on certain things. This includes-"
She bit her red lips lightly and hesitated several times: "After that accident, your family suffered all kinds of injustices."
Shen Mo trembled violently, tea splashed from the cup, and almost gritted his teeth and said: "Is the death of my family members completely a play planned by others?!"
"No, Miss Shen - it was really an accident." Lin Yuxia's eyes darkened, "All the forces that were grateful for this have thoroughly investigated the accident, including the officer surnamed Wei - he is also your father
Important business partners. But these people are restricted by the conditions of the transactions they made that year, and cannot help or even investigate your situation. As for other cold-blooded people, their transactions have ended before the accident, and they are not responsible for what happened.
To my surprise, you just threw it away like an expired lottery ticket."
"And now that time has come... Longmen's interior is about to undergo a small reshuffle. You are really an outsider who has been involved in countless accidents. As for why I reached out to you..."
Lin Yuxia stretched out her hand and placed her palm on Shen Mo's hand: "The time has come. Some people need to continue completing the deal they made with your father back then."
"What on earth are these transactions?" Shen Mo's voice was choked with sobs and her eyes were red. However, years of lonely life allowed her to persist in not crying in front of others.
"They are all... full of their love and the most important protection for you." Lin Yuxia handed the handkerchief around her waist to Shen Mo's hand, her voice gentle, "I can't reveal their contents. Maybe you will know something about it.
Resentment, but trust me, you will forgive it all when everything is revealed."
"That's all I can give to that question."
Shen Mo closed her eyes and raised her head to prevent tears from flowing out. After being silent for a long time, she asked another question: