The foreign man nodded slightly at us, but his face remained expressionless. I don’t know if there was something wrong with his facial muscles or if he was used to pretending to be cool.
Lin Keer introduced us: "This is Peter. Peter is a well-known private detective in the United States. The CIA sometimes asks him to cooperate. It is my honor to invite him to China this time."
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After Lin Ke'er finished speaking, he turned to look at Peter. A smile finally appeared on Peter's face. He suddenly stretched out a hand, put it around Lin Ke'er's waist, and actually touched Lin Ke'er's waist in front of me and Jianjian.
A kiss on the forehead.
Although I heard that Americans are very open-minded, this guy suddenly came to us in front of us, which still made us a little uncomfortable. I couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, so I quickly changed the topic and said: "Ms. Lin, this guy listens
Do you need to understand Chinese?"
As soon as I finished speaking, Peter replied: "My grandfather is Chinese, and I have been able to speak Chinese since I was a child. Don't worry, there will be no barriers to communication between us."
I didn't expect Peter to speak Chinese so fluently. I couldn't help but be a little surprised. I was stunned for a moment and asked Peter: "Mr. Peter, since you understand Chinese, can you understand Yin Yang Xuan Technique?"
Peter shrugged, smiled and shook his head.
I asked again: "Then do you know the Qimen Dunjia Technique?"
"What?" Peter turned to look at Lin Ke'er with a confused look on his face.
It seems that this Peter is a complete layman in Yin Yang Feng Shui. I was just about to ask him how he planned to solve the case. Lin Keer said from the side: "Peter doesn't understand Yin Yang Feng Shui at all, so he can't help you in this regard."
, he is only responsible for solving the case, as for the important task of solving the mystery, it is up to you to complete it."
"Damn it, if we solve all the mysteries, what else do we need from him?" Jian Bian said bluntly.
Lin Keer smiled slightly and said: "In short, I trust Peter. Now he is one of us. If you have any questions about the case, you can discuss it with him!"
Jianjian said angrily: "He can't even understand the yin and yang of Feng Shui. How can we discuss it with him?"
Peter was choked so hard that his face turned blue and white, and he seemed a little angry.
I quickly poked Jianjian on the waist to signal him to stop talking, then smiled at Lin Keer and said: "Miss Lin, you are the boss, you have the final say on this matter! If there is nothing else,
Let’s leave first.”
After saying that, I winked at Jianjian, and the two of them were about to leave. Unexpectedly, as soon as we turned around, Lin Keer stopped us again: "Wait a minute!"
I turned around and asked, "What else can Miss Lin do?"
Lin Ke'er didn't answer me immediately. She walked to the desk nearby, opened the drawer, took out a receipt from it, and walked towards us.
She walked up to us and handed the receipt over. I took it and saw that it was a cash check for five hundred thousand!
Lin Keer said: "I said last night that as long as you are willing to help me, I will not give you a penny less in reward. To show my sincerity, I will give you the money now. After the case is cleared, I will
I’ll give you five hundred thousand.”
I looked at the check in my hand. It was half a million, which was almost a lot higher than our total operating income in the past six months. It was indeed very attractive, but for some reason, I had mixed feelings in my heart, some of which were unpleasant.
, it feels like Lin Keer is giving us alms.
Jianjian grabbed the check from my hand and put it into her satchel with great joy. I was a little helpless and forced out a smile. I cupped my hand at Lin Keer and said lightly: "Thank you, Miss Lin."
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Lin Ke'er originally wanted to keep us together for dinner, but I said that I had other things to do, and pulled Jianjian out of her office.
On the way home, Jianjian asked me: "Brother, what do you think Lin Keer means by looking for that foreigner?"
"I don't know what she means. Anyway, that foreigner doesn't understand Yin and Yang Feng Shui. We check ours, and he checks his, so we don't interfere with each other!"
"By the way, brother! Do you think the relationship between the foreigner and Lin Ke'er was unusual!?"
I glared at Jianjian: "Why are you such a gossip? It's none of my business what relationship they have!"
"Why doesn't it matter? I'm still planning to pursue her!" Jianjian turned to look out the window and muttered softly.
I couldn't help being surprised: "What!? You want to pursue Lin Ke'er?"
By the way, this guy, Jianjian, is completely opposite to me in terms of having girlfriends. During my four years of college, I didn’t have a single girlfriend, while he had no less than ten girlfriends, but none of them lasted very long, and the longest one wasn’t even there.
It's been more than three months, but I didn't expect that he would now fall in love with Lin Ke'er. I don't know if it was just a joke or serious.
I asked: "Are you kidding me?"
Jianjian looked at me and said, "I seem to be joking!"
"Do you really want to chase her?"
"What? Do you think she is not worthy of me?"
"Bah, why don't you pee and take photos, so she doesn't deserve you? She matches you, just like flowers match cow dung!"
"Hehe! Wouldn't that be a perfect match?"
"Just go ahead!" When I said this, I glanced at Jianjian and said, "Whether you are joking or serious, I advise you very seriously, you'd better not mess with this woman!"
"Why?"
"Because I think this woman Lin Ke'er is a bit unusual!"
"Of course it's unusual. The woman I'm attracted to can be an ordinary woman! Which one is not as beautiful as a beauty." Jianjian thought I was praising Lin Ke'er's beauty.
I glared at him: "What are you talking about? I'm not talking about her appearance."
"What does that mean?" Jianjian was slightly startled.
"Think about it, Lin Ke'er said she didn't know anything about Feng Shui Yin Yang Mystery, but she seemed very calm in the Lin family's old house. Even when the giant centipede appeared, she didn't behave abnormally.
Panicked, even at the critical moment when the giant centipede sprayed poisonous mist, she also knew how to use a mist repellent to disperse the poisonous mist. If it were an ordinary woman, she would have been scared to death. How could she have imagined so much." I said.
said.
Jianjian said disapprovingly: "Maybe she is already very courageous! Didn't she say that she has practiced rock climbing before? How can she practice rock climbing without first practicing her courage!"
"Practicing rock climbing may indeed make her more courageous than the average person, but I think she may not be as simple as we think!"
"Then what kind of person do you think she will be?" Jianjian asked.
I shook my head and said: "It's not clear yet. In short, we shouldn't believe everything she says. We also have to be careful about the foreigner she found. We'd better..."
Before I could finish my words, Jianjian interrupted me with a smile: "Brother, are you suspecting that she is also related to the cult? Hey, I think you have been manipulated by the cult members to the point where you are already a little confused!
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"Anyway, I think it's better to be cautious about this matter. After all, this case may involve people from the cult. Before the investigation is clear, we'd better not trust others easily, not to mention that we have only known Lin Ke'er for less than two years.
Fourteen hours. Who knows if her identity is fabricated?"
"You mean that her identity as a descendant of the Lin family was actually forged? This is impossible! Lin Ke'er looks almost exactly the same as Lin Xin in the oil painting. If she was not from the Lin family, how could she look like that?
Looks like it!" Jianjian argued.
"...Maybe she had plastic surgery..."
"Holy crap, the more you talk, the more outrageous you are!"
"Anyway, people in cults are full of tricks and we can't trust others easily!"
"Then let me ask you, if she is really a member of a cult, why did she come to us for help!? There are many people in the cult who know the magic of yin and yang, and there are even people who are proficient in Qimen Dunjia. There is no need at all.
We need help from outsiders, not to mention that we have issues with people in the cult."
Hearing what Bianjian said, I thought it was right. If Lin Keer was a member of a cult, there was really no need for her to involve us. But even if she was not a member of a cult, I still felt in my heart that she was investigating this case.
Her real purpose is not just to fulfill her grandfather's last wish. As for what her real purpose is, I can't figure it out for the moment, so I can only take it one step at a time.
Jianjian and I found a restaurant to have something to eat. When we got home, we found that Wen Qingshan hadn't come back yet. We tried calling his number again, but we still couldn't get through. This made me a little puzzled. Wen Qingshan's mobile phone is 24/7.
The phone is usually on when I'm young, and I don't know what happened today, but I didn't think much about it. Wen Qingshan is not an ordinary person after all, and I thought that nothing would happen to him.
Waiting until night, Fatty Niu also came back from Guyuan Pavilion, but there was still no news from Wen Qingshan, and the phone still couldn't be reached. The three of us all felt that something was not right. Thinking that I had fallen into the hands of someone from a cult, I
I couldn't help but feel a little bit in my heart. Could it be that Wen Qingshan also encountered someone from the cult?
I felt that the situation was serious, so I discussed it with Jianjian and Niu Fatty and decided to call the police.
I picked up my cell phone and dialed 110. Unexpectedly, the police said that the case could not be filed until Wen Qingshan had been missing for 48 hours. Now that Wen Qingshan had been "missing" for only ten hours, the case could not be accepted.
The three of us waited anxiously for more than three hours. Until about ten o'clock in the evening, Wen Qingshan still hadn't come back. The three of us were about to go out to look for it when there was a sudden sound of braking outside the door, followed by a sudden sound.
There was a loud "bang" and the whole ground shook, as if there was a car accident.
The three of us immediately ran out the door and were surprised when we saw a Toyota SUV with its emergency lights flashing. The left side of the front of the car hit the courtyard wall, and the exterior bricks of the courtyard wall collapsed.
A large area and many green bricks fell on the hood. If the off-road vehicle had not been equipped with a solid bumper, the entire vehicle would have been deformed long ago.