Bai Yajing watched them leave with a smile, knowing that all they would find in the future would be mud and stones.
Good luck to Granny Liu and Old Man Liu!
Once the person left, she found the craftsmen again to continue the restoration.
They went to the guesthouse and brought the old man and the two little ones back.
Grandpa Bai has recently been taking the two little ones on visits around the world. This is to introduce his future heirs to outsiders and, incidentally, to rebuild his network of relationships.
He will have to stay in Shanghai to handle his family's business affairs.
Baiyuan has already demolished the previous walls and the additions at the back, and the next step is restoration. The main courtyard is already habitable.
Several days passed, and neither Granny Liu nor her husband showed up again.
Bai Yajing wasn't going to let the person behind the scenes, who was secretly buying and selling antiques and calligraphy and paintings through the Bai family's house, get away with it.
Now that we've already used that person to deal with Granny Liu's family, it's time to deal with him.
He immediately called Xiao Che back.
"That's exactly right. We don't know where those antique paintings and calligraphy they buy and sell end up. I'm afraid they'll be sold overseas!"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Che was so angry that the veins on his forehead were bulging.
“They’re all livestock! Judging from the ledgers you’ve obtained, 90% of them were sold overseas!”
These things in China are only valuable to people with a particular passion for them; to everyone else, they're nothing! They're not even worth a few bites of food!
Where would so many people come from to spend that money to buy it?
Bai Yajing remained silent; this was her thought after receiving the ledger.
"This matter also falls under the jurisdiction of your Ministry of State Security, right? Send someone over to handle it as soon as possible."
Xiao Che has already started making arrangements.
"I'll bring people over there. Just pretend you know nothing and don't alert them. We'll investigate once we get there."
"good!"
"By the way, how's everything at home? Is Liu Liu settling in well? What about Xiao Yanqing?"
When Xiao Che heard her ask about her family, his expression softened. "Everything is fine. Liu Liu has made friends at school."
The third brother is doing well in everything except missing you.
"Hehehe, that's good."
After hanging up the phone, Bai Yajing considered her task on this side complete.
She still had about ten days of vacation left, and planned to wait until Xiao Che arrived before going back.
Outside the window, the early summer sunset painted the entire city orange-red, and the shadow of the old locust tree in the courtyard was stretched very long.
"Mom, there's a phone call from home. Grandpa says it's urgent." Da Bao poked his head in, holding a comic book.
Bai Yajing frowned and quickly went to the main courtyard to answer the phone.
Mr. Xiao rarely calls unless it's something urgent.
She picked up the receiver, and Xiao's father's voice, trembling with excitement, came from the other end.
"Ya Jing! The college entrance exam is about to resume!! This is inside information!"
Bai Yajing's hand trembled violently, and the receiver almost slipped from her hand.
She instinctively gripped the phone cord, her knuckles turning white from the force. "Dad, what...what did you say?"
"The National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao) is about to resume! The central government has decided to reinstate the Gaokao!"
Mr. Xiao's voice was filled with barely suppressed excitement, "Ya Jing, you can take the college entrance exam now! A real college!"
Bai Yajing felt dizzy and had to hold onto the wall to keep her balance.
Ten years have passed, a full ten years. That summer, she received her high school diploma, the Cultural Revolution broke out, and the college entrance examination system was abolished.
She remembered that day when she and her classmates watched helplessly as the Red Guards burned the school library to ashes, and the textbooks turned into black butterfly-like fragments in the fire.
The hope in the eyes of the teachers and principal gradually faded away...
"Child? Ya Jing, are you still listening?" Xiao's father's voice pulled her back to reality.
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