"How could that be?" The old man narrowed his eyes at Gu Nianzhi. His gaze lingered on her curvy lips as he said, "… Since you're from New York, there's no way you don't know that the college girls there love to look for Sugar.
Daddy, right? "
Gu Nianzhi was instantly furious. This was an insult to her.
But on the surface, he had to pretend to be interested and said, "Some of my classmates are looking for her. I also know of a website that specifically asks them to look for Sugar.
Daddy's … "
The old man smiled and slowly stood up. "Think about it. If you're interested, you can come to New York's Central Park to find me at any time."
He placed an English business card in front of Gu Nianzhi and didn't rush her. It was obvious that he was playing hard to get.
Gu Nianzhi looked down at the name card and quickly tried to figure out what this person meant.
Gu Nianzhi didn't think she was so beautiful that a person he met for the first time would suggest taking care of her.
However, this person didn't seem like he was joking.
Gu Nianzhi reached out and picked up the business card. She looked up and smiled. "I'll think about it."
Her beauty was originally dynamic and delicate. It was especially moving when she spoke.
However, when she looked up and smiled, it was like spring had returned to the earth and everything had come back to life. Her eyes were filled with the radiance of spring and were dazzlingly beautiful.
The old man's eyes darkened. He seemed to have thought of something and nodded at Gu Nianzhi. "Think about it. I'm tired and need to rest. You can help yourself. The furniture here is not bad, and the garden outside is not bad. You can take any pictures. "
Gu Nianzhi agreed with a smile. "Thank you."
She asked again, "May I ask your name? How should I address you? "
The man didn't turn around. He stopped in his tracks and said dryly, "My surname is Xu. You can call me Mr. Xu."
Gu Nianzhi replied, "Thank you, Mr. Xu."
"Okay." The man responded and went to the stairs.
After the man went upstairs, Huo Shaoheng came out of the bathroom. He was still carefree and careless. He kicked the sofa Gu Nianzhi was sitting on. "Grace, are you coming? I'm hungry. I want to eat. "
Gu Nianzhi smiled and got up. "Let's go then. I want to eat too."
She walked out with Huo Shaoheng.
The old man, who was already in the bedroom upstairs, pushed aside a painting on the wall and opened a hidden safe on the wall behind the painting. He took out a yellowed photograph and examined it carefully.
The photo was taken on film decades ago, and with the passage of time, the clarity was very low.
But even if it started to blur, one could still make out the pretty and lively smiling face of the young girl sitting between the two elegant men and women.
The way she smiled was so similar to the girl downstairs who claimed to be from New York …
The old man's eyes flashed.
He put the photo back in the safe and put the painting back in front of him.
He went to the window and saw the two young men, who said they were from New York, crossing the front yard on their way out.
The old man picked up the phone and said to the young servant who was seeing the guests off, "Please come back. I have an old photo from decades ago. The little girl in the photo looks a bit like that girl. They should be interested. Ask them if they want to see it."
The young servant was a bit surprised, but she still did as she was told.
She called out to Gu Nianzhi and Huo Shaoheng and said with a smile, "Please wait. Our master said he has an old photo from decades ago. The little girl in the photo looks a bit like you. Are you interested? Do you want to see it? "
"An old photo from decades ago?!" Gu Nianzhi's eyes suddenly lit up.
There was finally a photo!
There was also a little girl who looked a bit like Gu Nianzhi. Gu Nianzhi's intuition told her that the photo was related to Qin Huichang's family.
Huo Shaoheng felt a bit uncomfortable with the old man and didn't want to go back to see the photo.
However, Gu Nianzhi was very stubborn. She squeezed Huo Shaoheng's hand and said to the young servant, "You go back first. I'll discuss it with my companion. He's in a hurry to go back for dinner."
"Okay." The young servant saw that the two of them didn't know what was good for them and actually didn't listen to her master. She was a bit disdainful of them but still appeared very polite on the surface. She turned around and went back to the main room.
Gu Nianzhi saw that the person had gone far away and whispered to Huo Shaoheng, "Go take a look. Maybe there's a major breakthrough?"
Huo Shaoheng stared at her and said indifferently, "I saw him touch your hand in the living room."
Gu Nianzhi's face suddenly turned red and she whispered, "I was beating him at his own game. He said Sugar.
He asked me if I wanted to find someone to help pay for the tuition … I was pretending to be confused with him … "
Huo Shaoheng stroked her hair and said helplessly, "You can't beat him at his own game. We don't know how to do such a thing. This kind of method is the worst, and it usually doesn't make up for the loss. "
Gu Nianzhi pushed his hand away and said sullenly, "I won't find Sugar.
But I must see the photo. After investigating for so long, this is the first time I've had the chance to see an old photo related to Qin Huichang's family. "
The photo must have Qin Suwen's appearance before the car accident.
Huo Shaoheng watched Gu Nianzhi turn around and leave the main room, so he had no choice but to follow her.
The old man hid behind the thin lattice antique window upstairs and watched everything silently.
Seeing that they had turned around, the old man took out a remade photo and put it in an envelope. He rang the bell for another male servant and said, "Give this photo to them and tell them that this is a remake. The original photo is on the table in the small living room on the first floor, the small table in the middle of the room."
The male servant agreed and took the envelope with the photo downstairs.
The old man also went downstairs and went to the small living room to put his things down. Then, he came out and left through the back door.
Gu Nianzhi and Huo Shaoheng had just walked in.
The male servant handed them the envelope with the remade photo and said, "This is for you from our master."
Gu Nianzhi took it and opened the envelope. She took out a photo that was obviously a remade photo. The photo was very old and very blurry.
It could be seen that the original photo was old, so the remade photo was even more blurry.
But it could also be seen that this was a family photo of three.
It had the characteristics of that era.
Sitting in front of her own small Western-style building, the hostess had a high table beside her, and there was a pot of flowers on the high table.
Sitting between the hostess and the hostess was a little girl with two braids. Her face was very small, and the clarity of the photo was too low, so it was almost impossible to see her face clearly.
However, the hostess and the hostess could still see their faces clearly. She could vaguely make out their handsome and elegant appearance. Judging from their age, they should be in their early thirties.
It was exactly the same as the photo of Qin Huichang and his wife that Gu Nianzhi and Huo Shaoheng had collected!
They had found the photo from the university information of Qin Huichang and his wife when they had entered the workforce, but it was a one-inch square registration photo.
Gu Nianzhi was excited and quickly asked, "Do you have the original photo? This seems to be a remake, right? "
The male servant was very impressed with his master's ingenuity and quickly said, "Yes, it's in the room over there. Our master treasures this photo very much, so the original can't be shown to just anyone. "
Gu Nianzhi nodded in understanding and quickly walked over.
Huo Shaoheng's emotions were very complicated.
He hadn't expected this old man to really have an old photo of Qin Huichang's family.
What did this mean?
This meant that this person's relationship with Qin Huichang's family wasn't ordinary …
Compared to the two colleagues and neighbors in front of him, he should know more.
However, Huo Shaoheng instinctively didn't like that person's behavior.
How could Qin Huichang and his wife be best friends with this kind of person?
Huo Shaoheng was a little puzzled and followed Gu Nianzhi into the small meeting room next to them.
The meeting room was indeed very small and full of furniture. It filled the already small space to the brim, and there was almost no place to stand.
There were antique curtains hanging in front of the window, and antique palace lanterns hung at the four corners of the roof.
There was no natural light shining in the room, and the palace lanterns were dim, illuminating everything in the room. It was as if she had walked into the dust of history.
Gu Nianzhi looked straight ahead and went straight to the small table in the middle of the small meeting room.
There was a doll standing on the table. It was wearing a pink and purple misty princess dress, with thick bangs, long and thin eyes, a face like a silver plate, and a plump figure. It looked like a little girl walking out of an ancient painting. It was not a common western doll, but a doll with ancient characteristics of the Empire.
There was also an envelope in front of the doll, exactly the same as the one the male servant had brought.
The original film must be inside.
Gu Nianzhi's heart pounded.
She had seen that doll before. It was almost identical to the doll she was hugging in the photo on her 11th birthday.
Later, Huo Shaoheng and the others made a batch of replicas based on the doll in the photo, intending to comfort the 12-year-old Gu Nianzhi's frightened emotions.
Gu Nianzhi had always liked these dolls. They used to be the best memories of her youth because she thought they represented her forgotten childhood.
Later, she discovered that the doll's facial features and demeanor were somewhat similar to Wen Shouyi's, so she didn't like them anymore.
But why would a doll like this appear here?
Could it also have something to do with her maternal grandparents and biological mother?
Did the envelope in front of the doll contain the original film?
She was finally going to see her mother's childhood photo …
Huo Shaoheng followed her in and quickly glanced around.
Suddenly, his gaze froze, and he stood still.
He was about to tell Gu Nianzhi not to move, but Gu Nianzhi was so excited that she had already reached out for the envelope in front of the doll on the table.
The envelope was actually stuck together with the doll.
Gu Nianzhi instinctively tightened her grip on the doll and yanked it up. She wanted to pick up the doll and the letter together.
The doll and letter were both pulled up by her, but at that moment, she seemed to have triggered some kind of mechanism.
She heard a rumbling sound, and felt the ground beneath her feet disappear. The floor she was standing on suddenly staggered to both sides, revealing a hole in the ground below. She didn't have time to scream before she fell in.
Huo Shaoheng only had half a second to think.
The door behind him was closing automatically, and the loose floor in front of him was also closing automatically.
In a flash, Huo Shaoheng directly pounced towards the loose floor and jumped down after Gu Nianzhi before it closed again.
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