The capital has a history of more than 3,000 years of city construction and more than 800 years of capital construction. It is one of the four ancient capitals of China and a civilized ancient capital. It has gone through the baptism of countless dynasties, leaving behind ancient, vicissitudes and mysterious colors.
Today, the day is changing rapidly. After continuous efforts and innovation, a solemn, generous, magnificent, and bright night image of the capital has gradually been formed and displayed in front of people, and has been affirmed and welcomed by the general public...
Sitting in the taxi, looking at the night sky that was like fiery trees and silver flowers passing by outside, Ye Chenfeng sighed a little. Although it was not the first time he came to the capital, compared with the capital four hundred years ago, except for those ancient buildings,
You can see the original appearance, but other places have completely changed, and there is no trace of the original appearance. Those ancient buildings with no remaining value have been ruthlessly demolished and replaced by skyscrapers that reach into the sky...
Following Mei Xueru's instructions, the taxi driver followed Li Taiyu's car to a courtyard-style residential area called "Chenxi Home" in Chaoyang District. Mei Xueru's house was on the eighth floor of one of the unit buildings.**
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Along the way, the five of them didn't speak much. Li Taiyu looked a little cold, Mei Xueru frowned slightly, and seemed to be in a bad mood, with no desire to chat. Ye Chenfeng was not the kind of person to talk when he had nothing to say.
I just occasionally heard Mad Wolf chatting with Qiu Qianren...
Taking the elevator to the eighth floor, Mei Xueru took out the key and opened the door, inviting Ye Chenfeng and the others to go in. Li Taiyu also made a gentle gesture of invitation.
The house has five bedrooms, two living rooms, one kitchen, two bathrooms, and two balconies. It has all the necessary furniture. Although the decoration is not luxurious, it is elegant, leisurely, and pleasing to the eye. It is decorated lightly but not too much, with simple and elegant luxury.
Ancient Chinese paintings make the atmosphere seem gentle, well-coordinated and full of emotion.
"Mr. Li, Mrs. Li, you are back." A middle-aged woman about forty-five years old came out of one of the rooms, holding a child's toy in her hand. She must be the nanny of Mei Xueru's family.
"Sister Liu, you have worked hard these days." Mei Xueru said.
"Mrs. Li is polite, that's what you should be doing..."
"Mom," a childish voice came from the room, and then a little boy with a pink face and jade ran out jumping up and down. He was also holding a concave man in his hand. He was about five years old, with beautiful features, red lips and white teeth, a round face, and a tall height.
The bridge of his nose and his rosy face were shining brightly, like a ripe apple, and his big, juicy black grape-like eyes seemed to have many little question marks hidden inside. He was a very cute and innocent little boy.
"Xiaoxuan, have you missed your mother these days?" Mei Xueru knelt down and fondly touched Xiaoxuan's little head. The glory of motherhood was reflected in every move.
"I miss my mother every day, especially at night." Although Xiaoxuan's tone is a bit delicate, her words are clear and her words are spoken in a clear and round tone.
"Tell mom if you were naughty and if you listened to auntie." Mei Xueru said softly.
Xiaoxuan suddenly fell silent, and after murmuring twice he said aggrievedly: "I didn't listen to auntie last night and cried for a long time..."
"Didn't Mom tell you that my Xiaoxuan is a man and can't cry? Why are you still crying?"
"Xiaoxuan saw her mother last night, but her mother didn't want Xiaoxuan and left Xiaoxuan alone, so I cried." Xiaoxuan looked at Mei Xueru with his watery eyes filled with grievances and said.
Mei Xueru adjusted Xiaoxuan's clothes with regret and said softly: "Xiaoxuan, you dreamed about your mother again. Your mother told you not to take the things in your dreams seriously. They are all lies. Your mother will not let you down."
It’s from Xia Xiaoxuan, you know.”
"Well..." Xiaoxuan nodded vigorously.
Ye Chenfeng originally thought that there was something wrong with Mei Xueru's son Xiaoxuan's health. Now it seems that everything is normal. At least Ye Chenfeng can't see anything wrong with his body from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine. His heartbeat is normal and his breathing is long and long.
, very regular, the clear pupils reveal the light of intelligence, the limbs are normal, sensitive and active, even more normal than ordinary people, he is a little boy that everyone loves.
"Come on, Xiaoxuan, call me uncle." Mei Xueru pointed at Ye Chenfeng and said.
But I saw Xiaoxuan tilting his little head, looking at Ye Chenfeng with innocence, then shaking his head and saying: "I won't call him uncle..."
"Xiao Xuan..." Mei Xueru said to Xiao Xuan angrily.
Ye Chenfeng couldn't help but knelt down and gently patted Xiaoxuan's pink face and said, "If you don't call me uncle, then why do you call me uncle?"
"I call you brother."
"Why did you call me brother?" Ye Chenfeng was a little curious about what the child was thinking.
"Because when you call me uncle, you are an adult. Children must obey adults. I don't want..." Xiaoxuan said confidently.
"Hahaha... little slick one." Ye Chenfeng laughed and couldn't help teasing: "But if you call me uncle, I will buy you your favorite toy as a gift. If you call me brother, there will be nothing.
, now do you want to call me uncle or brother?" After Ye Chenfeng finished speaking, he touched the back of Xiaoxuan's head seemingly casually, and then slowly slid down the back of his neck...
Xiaoxuan said without thinking: "I don't want toys, so I'll call you brother."
"One Leaf Knows Autumn. It's rare to be able to stick to your own ideas in front of the one you love at such a young age. Okay, Xiaoxuan, I will recognize you as my younger brother, haha..." Ye Chenfeng felt great in his heart.
smiled.
Mei Xueru smiled, thinking it was Ye Chenfeng joking, and didn't care. Afterwards, she invited Ye Chenfeng and the other two people to sit down and served them a cup of tea one by one. Li Taiyu didn't say much from beginning to end, and just watched coldly.
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"Professor Mei, where is your guqin? Can you take it out and take a look now?" Although Ye Chenfeng's tone was calm, he was very excited in his heart. After all, this is a legendary artifact. His master, the old man Qi Jue, has been looking for it all his life.
The whereabouts of the things that were not found are now found by him, and they are probably right in front of him. How can Ye Chenfeng not be excited? What's more, Ye Chenfeng is also eager to know how powerful and how the ancient relics are.
If you possess it, you will have access to all the ancient artifacts in the world.
"It's in the living room over there. Come and take a look with me." Mei Xueru nodded and said, then got up and walked through the gallery to another smaller living room. She was looking forward to it to see if her piano was the best.
It’s really ancient relics. If it is, can he pluck it, can he pluck it out and produce the sound of nature...
"Okay." At this moment, even though Ye Chenfeng didn't attach much importance to external objects, when he was about to see the thing he dreamed of, his heartbeat was beating so hard and his blood was speeding up that he almost couldn't control himself.
The other living room is decorated with a very classical charm. It looks like an ink landscape painting. In the middle not far from the balcony, there is a piano stand with a seven-string guqin on it. Although the guqin is exquisitely made,
, but Ye Chenfeng could tell at a glance that this was a modern product and definitely not an ancient relic. It was most likely used by Mei Xueru herself.
The most eye-catching one is the golden screen in the middle of the living room. That screen looks extremely elegant. The four air doors are covered with gold foil as thin as paper pages, and the four scenes from "The Peony Pavilion" are engraved on them one by one. The entire
The screen can be freely extended and closed. It was designed based on the ancient woodcuts on the old "Gongchipu" and was then handed over to craftsmen for carving.
There are some landscape trees and bamboos on both sides of the living room, and there are potted plants with blooming flowers on the balcony. The whole living room exudes an elegant charm. Sitting here, my mood suddenly becomes elegant and comfortable, as if I am in the Painted Boat Tea House on the shore of the West Lake, with infinite scenery...
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Ye Chenfeng believed that the decoration of this living room must have been requested by Mei Xueru herself. Most people without this state of mind would not be able to build such an artistic house. However, where are the ancient relics? Ye Chenfeng walked in and looked around.
, I looked around the entire living room, but except for the modern lyre on the stand, there was no second lyre in the living room, not even a rectangular thing. Thinking of this, I looked at God with some confusion.
Mei Xueru was shocked and Ye Chenfeng's heart skipped a beat, he couldn't...
But after Mei Xueru hurriedly searched the entire living room, she suddenly said to Li Taiyu: "Taiyu, where is the guqin?"
Li Taiyu shook his head and said, "I don't know. Isn't it always there? Why is it missing?"
"It has been here for so many years, why did it suddenly disappear at the critical moment?" Mei Xueru thought for a moment and shouted outside: "Sister Liu, have any strangers come to the house recently?"
"Stranger? No, what's wrong, Mrs. Li?" Sister Liu came in and said.
"The guqin that has been kept here is missing. Was it still there when you were cleaning it these days?"
Sister Liu thought for a while and said, "I haven't noticed it in the past two days, but I seemed to have seen it there a few days ago. How could it be missing? There haven't been any guests at home these days."
"What's going on? Was it stolen a few days ago?" Mei Xueru murmured to herself.
"I guess it was stolen. Didn't you say a few days ago that the guqin was probably an antique? I guess someone was coveting it, so it was stolen. Otherwise, it had been kept here for so many years, and it was suspected to be an antique and disappeared.
It's obvious that someone who knew that the guqin was an antique stole it." Li Taiyu said with a hint of suspicion.
"Yes, that should be the case." Ye Chenfeng nodded with deep sympathy, sighing sadly to himself, feeling empty and filled with sadness...
All good things are hard to come by, and it is obvious that the artifact was obtained by those who knew about it first.
But who did it?
After thinking about it, Ye Chenfeng couldn't help but look at Li Taiyu. It seemed that he was also an insider, and he seemed to be very repulsive to Professor Mei's friends. If he wanted to take out the guqin, it would undoubtedly be the most convenient. In addition, the door
The key is not broken, but the guqin seems to have disappeared out of thin air. Various signs indicate that Li Taiyu is the most suspicious.dd