Chapter 414 Old Photos from 1871
"What's going on?"
Tang Bushi saw that Ye Xiaomei's face was pale and she looked like she was frightened.
Ye Xiaomei turned around and glanced at Qin Xiaoyi with fear. Qin Xiaoyi was smiling at her with her arms folded. Her smile was particularly harmless.
But for some reason, my scalp just felt tingling.
Ye Xiaomei opened the car door and got into the back seat: "I don't know what kind of connections Qin Xiaoyi has, but she actually joined the biological research team, and it seems that she has quite a lot of power. Look at that middle-aged man, he obeys her orders and is like a small root. So I guess that Qin Xiaoyi's background may be known to everyone in the team."
Tang Buci let out a long breath and said in a slightly tired voice, "It's very possible. However, hasn't their biological research team been studying white snakes? Why are they so interested in black toads?"
Ye Xiaomei gave Tang Bushi a strange look. Didn't he know this better than anyone else?
It's obvious that he's talking without a brain, or to put it bluntly, he's simply absent-minded:
"Don't you know that black toads can attract white snakes?"
Tang Buci finally responded: "Of course I know, but... why did you ask me to go find Old Man Yuan?"
"Because Qin Xiaoyi wants to take all the black toad and the snakes away. However, this is a residential area, not the 615 East Mountain wilderness. They can't just rob them. It just so happens that this toad was buried here by Old Man Yuan. Then they can ask Master Niu to testify. They still have to go through a lot of procedures before they are qualified to take them away."
After Ye Xiaomei finished speaking, Tang Buci nodded silently: "Okay, I'm going to find him now, Ah Man, drive."
Ye Xiaomei got out of the car and felt relieved as she watched Tang Bushi's taillights drive away.
There are two thatched huts, one of which is Master Niu's studio. He is sitting on a stool, leaning against the door frame and taking a nap, looking dazed and tired.
These days, he was either digging holes day and night, which made him unable to sleep. In addition, a group of people from some biological research team suddenly came and either asked him to make hot tea or to borrow his room to cook.
The bags under his eyes were almost hanging down to his nostrils, but when he saw Ye Xiaomei coming over, he was still listless.
"Master, can you lend me a stool?" Ye Xiaomei said as she saw several stools placed in the yard and picked up one.
"Take it." Grandpa Niu waved his hands boredly, raised his head and squinted at the sky, muttering - I don't know when the house can be built.
Ye Xiaomei didn't walk far and sat down beside the homestead, watching Qin Xiaoyi and the others busying themselves.
——Xiaoyi, let’s stay in the county guesthouse tonight. The weather is too cold and the tent is not very windproof.
——Yes, Xiaoyi, now that we have found the black toad, it’s time to have a good meal to celebrate.
——Besides, tomorrow is New Year’s Eve, we can’t celebrate it here.
Qin Xiaoyi smiled and nodded: "Okay, everyone has worked hard these past two days."
Liu Zhihua on the side was also frightened. He had never met anyone from a state-owned enterprise before. He always felt that they were all very high-ranking and not people that an old country foreman like him could afford to offend.
But after hearing this, Liu Zhihua scratched his ears and cheeks. The eleven workers around him were waiting anxiously, and they all lost their composure after hearing this.
"Qin Xiaoyi, I'm afraid you can't take the black toad away for the time being." Ye Xiaomei said this deliberately in order to lure her over.
Qin Xiaoyi looked back and smiled: "What? The file doesn't work?"
As she spoke, Qin Xiaoyi handed the folder in her hand to the middle-aged man, walked over to Ye Xiaomei with a smile, took a stool and sat down. She took off her heavy protective gloves and threw them on the ground a few times.
The stone skin on the surface of the gloves was like she was wearing gloves stuck in cement, and she broke off several pieces:
"In fact, you don't need to mind your own business. When you graduate and are qualified to join the research team, you may have the right to speak."
Ye Xiaomei could sense the pressure in her words, and pretended to be calm while dragging her chin and said:
"It is also clearly stated in the documents that even if personal items have great research value, they must be negotiated with the person concerned and agreed to be donated or purchased before they can be taken away for project research, right?"
Qin Xiaoyi said calmly, "Our superiors attach great importance to this research. At most, we can apply for some funds to support our family."
"How much?" Ye Xiaomei asked as if she was chatting casually.
"I told that Mr. Niu, but he didn't want a penny and told us to take it away quickly, so you can't do anything about it."
Qin Xiaoyi is confident.
"But the black toad does not belong to Master Niu. If you don't believe me, you can ask him."
When Ye Xiaomei said this, Qin Xiaoyi's pupils shrank:
"Whose is that? Don't say it's yours." Qin Xiaoyi added: "Even if it's yours, you just want the money."
As he spoke, Qin Xiaoyi took a look around the village. To be honest, it was too poor.
As the saying goes, poor mountains and bad waters breed unruly people. Ye Xiaomei is nothing more than a lucky grassroots person.
Ye Xiaomei smiled but said nothing.
Qin Xiaoyi restrained her smile and looked at Ye Xiaomei with a frown. For a moment, she couldn't understand what she was saying. Could it be that it wasn't for the money?
Ye Xiaomei still didn't say anything.
They say there are two ways to make someone anxious: one is to get burned, the other is to leave things unsaid.
Seeing that she kept silent when she got to the key point, Qin Xiaoyi quickly tried to test her:
"In fact, I know your situation best. The black toad is of no use to you. Why do you want it?"
Ye Xiaomei looked at Qin Xiaoyi and smiled without saying anything. She knew what she was thinking. She calculated that it would take more than two hours to drive from the county to the village and back.
Qin Xiaoyi's face darkened. She turned around and looked at Daye Niu who stood up and walked over at the door of the hut.
Ye Xiaomei knew it very well. In fact, she didn't expect to meet Qin Xiaoyi when she first arrived here, but at that moment she had a bold idea.
She wanted to know why Qin Xiaoyi or Qin Rong had developed this miraculous method of prolonging life.
If it is for the purpose of curing a genetic disease, then it is obviously not worth mentioning. At most, Qin Rong can adopt a daughter. Besides, the so-called genetic disease may not be what it seems.
Instead, it was just a puppet that Qin Rong gave himself to keep alive.
Thinking of this, Ye Xiaomei thought of herself as the spirit host. If she could find a way to separate the soul of the ancestor snake from Qin Xiaoyi's research plan, then could she, Ye Xiaomei, be herself?
Just as she was thinking, Qin Xiaoyi came over and said, "Ye Xiaomei, who is that old man named Yuan?"
She asked Master Niu, who was also an honest man, so he told her about the black toad buried behind his house.
Hearing Qin Xiaoyi's question, Ye Xiaomei breathed a sigh of relief. She finally couldn't hold it in any longer:
"I have something else to show you, but I don't have it with me. It's a photo from the fifth year of the Tongzhi reign, which is 1871."
A flash of shock crossed Qin Xiaoyi's palm-sized face, and a hint of fear flashed across his eyes:
"1871? You have a photo from 1871? What photo?"
"I got it by accident, but unfortunately, it has something to do with you." Ye Xiaomei looked at Qin Xiaoyi calmly, and seeing that she had lost her calm demeanor, she added:
"However, I am willing to exchange the photo that Black Toad left for me in exchange for yours."
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