Chapter 317 Something is wrong
"Xiao Lin?"
Before she could let her thoughts wander, Lin Siqiao heard Ambassador Liao calling her name, and she quickly said something.
"Sorry, I was distracted just now. Ambassador Liao, what are you talking about?"
Ambassador Liao waved his hand. He had nothing to do, but when he looked up, he saw the girl looking down in deep thought.
When he heard Lin Siqiao say that he was distracted, he immediately changed his mind.
"Xiao Lin, Shao Bin and the others are going to the antique shop later, you should come with them."
These were saved by President Xie with his life, and letting them return to China was also President Xie's last wish.
Ambassador Liao plans to take the things back and return home on the delegation's special plane tomorrow.
"good."
Lin Siqiao already had some doubts in his mind, and since he had nothing to do in the afternoon, he thought it would be a good idea to go and take a look, so he nodded in agreement.
President Xie handed the key to Lin Siqiao and told her the address.
"Nancy Sman block?"
Lin Siqiao was stunned. This neighborhood was located in the southeast of London City. It was a well-known poor area and the public security was quite poor.
Why did President Xie open an antique shop here?
But after thinking about it, Lin Siqiao seemed to understand.
President Xie probably never thought about how many items the antique shop would sell from the beginning. He had only one goal from beginning to end, and that was - to collect antiques!
And the more mixed the place is, the more gossip you will get.
No wonder he was able to find out information about the animal heads that had disappeared for nearly a hundred years.
The antique shop was not located on the street, so Lin Siqiao and his friends wandered around the neighborhood for a long time before they found it in a winding alley.
The person in charge of the store was an old Chinese man. When Lin Siqiao came in, he was sitting inside in a daze.
"Welcome light..."
Before Lin Zi opened his mouth, the old man paused, and then his eyes turned red.
This antique shop was registered under his name, and no one knew that the boss behind the scenes was President Xie. Over the years, President Xie only brought a friend here before the accident.
After the accident, he suppressed his grief and did not ask for any news.
It was not until yesterday that President Xie’s friend came over and told him about the situation.
I also told him President Xie's decision.
Seeing the old man's tearful eyes, Lin Siqiao felt bad too.
She really admired this generation. From them, Lin Siqiao finally understood what righteousness for the country and family meant, and what it meant to keep a promise.
"Uncle, we are from the Chinese Embassy in the UK. We came here to pick up something today." Lin Siqiao went straight to the point.
"I know. I know."
After wiping his tears, the old man took out a lamp from the drawer and a booklet and handed them to Lin Siqiao.
"The place you are looking for is in the room inside. The information is registered here."
After saying that, the old man stood up and said, "I'll go guard outside. Please feel free to ask for help if you need any."
Lin Siqiao nodded slightly, "Thank you for your help, old man."
"It's okay, it's okay." The old man walked out the door, wiping away tears.
After Shao Bin closed the door, he ordered two soldiers to guard it while they went to the room inside.
According to the letter, the entrance to the secret passage is located in the heating fireplace. The fireplace is not very big and can only accommodate one person.
After Shao Bin pried open the wall behind him, a curved iron door suddenly appeared.
Several people went down the secret ladder. The further they went, the more empty the place seemed.
The house in this secret passage seems to be quite old. Although it is underground, the waterproofing and ventilation are very good.
There was no bad smell in the secret passage, but instead there was a faint scent of sandalwood.
There are three rooms downstairs, and each room is filled with a lot of small-leaf red sandalwood furniture.
These pieces of furniture themselves are priceless antiques, not to mention the items displayed inside.
Lin Siqiao had seen many antiques and treasures in the Friendship Store, but they were incomparable to those here.
On the innermost shelf, Lin Siqiao finally saw the legendary 12 zodiac animal heads.
To be honest, Lin Siqiao was not amazed when he saw it.
Perhaps it’s because of the lighting in the room, these animal heads look dark, especially with the jade seal and Buddha head placed underneath them... the contrast is too obvious.
But it's normal. The reason why this thing has become a hot commodity among collectors in later generations is largely due to history.
It is more of a symbolic meaning.
Just talking about the craftsmanship of this thing, it's really not that outstanding.
This is also what Lin Siqiao found strange just now.
"Instructor Shao, if you were asked to choose one thing from here to take away, which one would you choose?" Lin Siqiao suddenly asked.
Shao Bin was confused by her question, frowning and looking like he was kidding.
Lin Siqiao was not joking. In her opinion, Shao Bin was a typical straight man.
Shao Bin's aesthetics, to a large extent, represents a group of people.
Of course, it was not just him. Lin Siqiao also looked at the other soldiers and asked, "If you were asked to choose, which one would you choose?"
These people didn't think too much about it and answered honestly.
Everyone chose what they wanted, except for one animal head.
"Don't you like this?" Lin Siqiao asked.
“It’s not that I don’t like it.”
The soldier closest to Lin Siqiao scratched his hair and said.
"If you didn't say this thing was the 12 Chinese zodiac animals from the Old Summer Palace, no one would even look at it if you put it on the street."
Lin Siqiao raised the corners of his lips. Yes, that's right.
Here's the problem.
For a native Chinese, I am not very interested in this thing.
But that group of people killed so many people just for these things?
The key is that the prices of these things in later generations are not outrageously expensive.
It seems that the most expensive one is only tens of millions, which is not expensive compared to those collectibles that cost hundreds of millions.
If it wasn't for this, why did they come to Chairman Xie again and again and even proposed to acquire the company?
etc!
Lin Siqiao suddenly remembered something, "Ambassador Liao just said that the other party wants to buy the antiques under Chairman Xie's name?"
"yes."
After getting a definite answer, Lin Siqiao's heart began to pound wildly.
In other words, those people never made it clear from the beginning to the end that they wanted to purchase these animal heads.
But why does President Xie think that the other party must be coming for this?
After thinking about it carefully, Lin Siqiao felt that this was most likely a misunderstanding.
First, the retired veteran found President Xie and proposed to cancel the transaction.
Then the gang came again.
From President Xie's perspective, he is likely to have preconceived ideas about what happened before.
What if these two were independent events?
Thinking of this, Lin Siqiao finally realized that the murderer's target might not be these animal heads.
This reminds me of the story of Xie’s youngest son.
Lin Siqiao quickly opened the booklet given by the old man and took a look. This contained all the cultural relics that the antique shop had acquired over the years.
These are registered with different numbers and the information is recorded very completely.
According to the numbers, Lin Siqiao found out one by one the antiques that he had collected from the antique shop in the past two years.
"Is there something wrong with these antiques?"
Like Ambassador Liao, Shao Bin subconsciously felt that something was going to happen whenever he saw Lin Siqiao frowning and not speaking.
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