Xia Shao was stunned and looked up at Xu Tianyin.
At this time, Xu Tianyin handed over the invitation letter in his hand, "Extension."
His deep voice came out from his chest. Xia Shao was stunned and didn't reach out to pick it up, "Senior brother?"
"It's okay." As if sensing the worry in Xia Shao's voice, Xu Tianyin shook his head and raised his eyes. His eyes were as usual, but his breathing was a little short, painfully short, but he still reached out to hold her in his arms, patting her back with his big hand to comfort her.
Sun Changde and Fang Li were stunned by this scene, and then they looked at each other and smiled with interest. Fang Li had only been following Xia Shao for a short time, and this scene clearly meant that he didn't want to suffer a loss, so he wanted to take a picture and keep it, and use it to tease Xia Shao in the future. Sun Changde smiled and said: "General Xu, Chairman, what's the extension? Are you talking about the engagement?"
Without waiting for Xia Shao's answer, Sun Changde smiled again and said: "What's the point of delaying this? No matter what, I can't delay your important event! However, this auction summit is an opportunity that cannot be missed. What I mean is, why not two days in advance?" God? Isn’t there still a month left? If we find a good day, Brother Chen and I have already prepared the red envelopes and are waiting to give them away!"
After hearing this, Xia Shao turned around and shook her head, "If there is no suitable good day, this delay will mean the end of the year."
Although Sun Changde came back from the United States, he had followed Xia Shao over the years and knew many things. He is right. It is not difficult for most people to choose a suitable day for wedding. If today is not suitable, there will be a good day in two days. However, Xu Tianyin's horoscopes are extremely rare, and his fate is extremely lonely. There are very few good days in a year that are suitable for him. This year is quite lucky for him. Tang Zongbo calculated three good days from his horoscope. If he missed it in August, he would have to wait for the big day the day before the New Year's Eve at the end of the year.
Xia Shao didn't know Xu Tianyin's horoscope. She once asked her master, but he didn't elaborate. This time she asked her master to count the days, and she also made a small calculation in her mind, thinking about deducing Xu Tianyin's horoscope through these days. But the master was very cunning and only gave her two days. He only said that there was one more day before the summer vacation, which had already passed.
There are only three big days in a year, and Xia Shao can already tell that Xu Tianyin's fate is unusual. From these two days, she can only deduce that he may have a lonely evil spirit in his life. But how serious it is, or whether there are other fates, the amount of information in these two days is still too little, and not much can be deduced. But Tang Zongbo's deduction is not wrong. Since he said there is no suitable day, it must not be possible.
If it hadn't been like this, Xia Shao wouldn't have been so embarrassed when she received the invitation.
Sun Changde and Fang Li were stunned, neither of them knew what was going on.
"It's okay, it's the same at the end of the year." Xu Tianyin spoke again at this time, holding Xia Shao's hand tightly, his eyes fixed, "There is a mission, I must go. You, too, must go."
Xia Shao was slightly startled, but Sun Changde and Fang Li were shocked. They looked at each other, and then looked at Xu Tianyin with admiration in their eyes. That's right, as a soldier, Xu Tianyin had a mountain of military orders. He had to leave immediately if he had a mission, even if he was getting married. As the chairman of Huaxia Group, Xia Shao must fulfill his responsibilities when encountering opportunities that are critical to the development of the group. Otherwise, senior executives and employees will complain.
In this world, in addition to living in emotions, people also live in responsibilities. Even children know how to say "responsibility is heavier than Mount Tai", but how many can actually do it? At least Sun Changde and Fang Li admire Xu Tianyin somewhat. Xia Shao is kind to Sun Changde. If the company encounters a major opportunity, he will definitely choose responsibility. But to be honest, if the wife encounters an emergency and needs to postpone the engagement ceremony, some men may not be able to understand it. Although Xu Tianyin's words are simple, they are enough to move people.
"I'll tell you grandpa. It's okay." Seeing Xia Shao's eyes were red, Xu Tianyin hugged her again and patted her. This was the only way he could comfort her, but it almost made her wet his clothes with tears.
On the way back to Xu's house, Xia Shao was silent all the way. In the ten years since her rebirth, everything she has done has been for this life without regret. In this life, I don’t want to waste it, and I don’t want to leave any regrets. But after all, I still felt guilty for the man beside me who was driving seriously.
Naturally, Xia Shao couldn't let Xu Tianyin tell the old man about this matter. If she wanted to speak, it was her turn. Therefore, she planned to speak first when she entered the Xu family's door. If the old man was strange, just blame her.
But unexpectedly, before entering the living room of the Xu family, I heard the sound of a teacup falling to the ground in the distance, followed by Xu Kangguo's angry voice.
"Asshole! That's too much!"
Xia Shao was stunned for a moment, then he and Xu Tianyin quickly walked in.
There was no one else in the living room except the guard, and the tea cups were broken on the floor. The guard was advising the old man to pay attention to his health. When he looked up and saw Xia Shao and Xu Tianyin coming back, the guard gave Xia Shao a complicated look. Xia Shao met the guard's complicated eyes, a little suspicious. At this time, Xu Tianyin asked: "Grandpa, what happened?"
Xu Kangguo turned around and sat down with a serious face. When Xia Shao saw that there were broken glass and slag in front of the old man's feet, he turned back to find something to clean up. The guard saw it and hurriedly took it over. Xu Kangguo said at this time: "Girl, sit down!"
Xia Shao had no choice but to hand the things to the guard and sat down with Xu Tianyin.
"Old man, I just heard you say that bullying is too much. Who can bully you?" Xia Shao asked even though she thought the guard was looking at him strangely. Today, there are really few people who can make Xu Kangguo say this.
"Who else can there be? Those foreign devils!" Xu Kangguo slapped the table and said angrily, "A robber's face! That's too much!"
Xia Shao raised his eyebrows when he heard this. It seemed to be a state matter. Regarding state affairs, the old man does not talk about everything. Whatever he said, it must be sayable. Xia Shao knew that the old man intended to train her to take on some affairs of the Xu family in the future, so she usually came to visit the old man, and he often talked to her about political matters. Usually, she would listen quietly and wait for the old man to finish talking and let her express her opinion before she expressed her opinion.
But Xia Shao didn't expect that after Xu Kangguo angrily rebuked the foreign devils, he looked at her and asked: "Your Huaxia Group started in the antique industry. Do you know the British Lattice Auction House? They will hold the World Auction Summit next month. Your group has received Are you invited?"
Xia Shao was slightly startled. The old man suddenly asked about this matter. Is there any connection
"I just received the invitation letter in the afternoon, and I just came from the company. There is something I have to tell you, about the engagement..."
"Needless to say, you have to go to this summit! The country needs your help." Xu Kangguo waved his hand and looked at Xia Shao solemnly, but when he saw his grandson, the old man's eyes dimmed and he sighed silently, but he finally stood up. , said to the stunned Xu Tianyin and Xia Shao, "You two, come to the study with me."
The study has always been the place where the Xu family holds meetings. Coming here shows that things are very serious. Xia Shao had already heard that something was unusual, so when she got to the study, she asked, "Old man, what is going on?"
Xia Shao stopped her usual smile when joking and bickering with Xu Kangguo, and became serious. After all, according to Xu Kangguo, the country actually needs the help of Huaxia Group for something? As the chairman, Xia Shao naturally wanted to know what was going on.
"Now that you have received the invitation letter, you should already know that at this World Auction Summit, the British Lattice Auction House plans to hold a three-day Western antique auction event. However, according to the news we have received in China, not only will the auction be held There are Western antiques and a mural of a national treasure that was once plundered from China.”
"Dunhuang murals?" When Xia Shao mentioned the murals, he first thought of the Dunhuang and Loulan cultural relics that had been severely robbed a hundred years ago. But Xia Shao didn't expect that Ladis Auction House would actually auction these cultural relics publicly. This kind of national treasure-level cultural relics, especially those plundered from other countries, cannot be hidden by ordinary people's logical thinking. Putting them out for auction is really the best thinking. However, Xia Shao was not surprised. In the previous life, a famous auction house in France even approved the public auction of the beasts plundered from the Old Summer Palace. The behavior was shameless and outrageous. Come to think of it, British Ladis also dared to take pictures of the Dunhuang murals.
"As soon as we got the news, the country made stern representations to the UK, asking to stop the auction and claim back the money. But the other side's attitude was not only tough, but also shameless! It's simply gangster logic!" When Xu Kangguo said this, he couldn't help but get angry again. He slapped the table and laughed angrily, "The other party claims that the Dunhuang murals are a world heritage and were lost by the great British archaeologist Stein during the archaeological excavations. They are willing to help us return the lost murals through the auction platform!"
When Xia Shao heard this, his face darkened and he also smiled.
What a platform to help the lost murals return through auction! What this means is that people can buy it back with money!
What a great British archaeologist Stein! Indeed, Stein has an extremely high status in Western academic circles and has indeed made contributions to the study of Central Asian culture. But the source of his contribution is really unfair!
According to historical records, he came to China at the beginning of the last century and took away 1,500 ancient manuscripts, clay sculptures, murals, wood panel paintings, wood carvings, buildings, coins, slips, and pottery for the first time in the Hotan area. Many pieces! Returning for the second time, he excavated the ruins of ancient Loulan and defrauded a large number of cultural relics in Dunhuang. Moreover, a very important purpose of his coming this time was to steal the Dunhuang murals, but in the end he did not dare to do so because there were too many Buddhists. He said he didn't dare to take action, but he still lost a lot of things in the end, especially when he came back for the third time and revisited Niya, the Loulan ruins, and Dunhuang, and once again took away a large number of cultural relics. It was really shameless. And every time this person plundered cultural relics and left, he would write so-called investigation books and use the stolen cultural relics to achieve his research results. This made him famous in Europe and eventually became a "scholar, explorer, archaeologist and geographer". The greatest man who is a scholar”!
Ridiculous!
According to statistics, Stein plundered more than 10,000 cultural relics from Dunhuang twice! Among them, part of the murals was eventually lost, and part of these murals was eventually damaged on the way back, and part of it was lost.
In fact, it was not just Stein. Throughout World War II, the Eight-Power Allied Forces looted an astonishing number of cultural relics, of which the British Museum was the most!
The British Museum is considered to have the largest and best collection of Chinese cultural relics. At that time, part of the cultural relics robbed by the British army from the Old Summer Palace were dedicated to the then Queen Victoria, and the other part was auctioned. The Old Summer Palace cultural relics dedicated to the Queen are now stored in the British Museum. The Chinese cultural relics collected in the museum include bronzes, ceramics, calligraphy and paintings, jades, sculptures, etc. There are more than 30,000 pieces, many of which are treasures and orphans. Priceless treasure! For example, Gu Kaizhi's "Pictures of Admonitions of Women's History" by Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Su Shi's "Pictures of Ink Bamboo", etc. The British Library also contains more than 60,000 rare Chinese ancient books and documents, including the 45 volumes of "Yongle Dadian".
Not only the United Kingdom, but also France, the United States, Japan and other countries, museums also have tens of thousands of plundered cultural relics on display. This is a period of national humiliation, and it is also one of the reasons why Xia Shao hopes to open Huaxia Auction Company and Fu Ruixiang overseas. She has always wanted to bring back some national treasures that have been lost abroad.
After hearing what Xu Kangguo said today, Xia Shao was so angry that she laughed, "Robbing someone's things and asking them to buy them back is really the logic of a gangster!"
"These foreign devils! The bad habits of plundering during the colonial period have not changed!" Xu Kangguo said angrily.
Xia Shao stood up, "Old man, I understand. Leave this matter to me. Don't worry, I will definitely bring the mural back!"
"You? No, no, no." Unexpectedly, Xu Kangguo waved his hand, "Do you think the country wants your Huaxia Auction Company to come forward to acquire the murals? Who dares to come up with such a bad idea? My old man is the first to disagree. ! These cultural relics originally belonged to us, and they should be returned! Buying? Buying is acknowledging that these things are theirs, and you are not allowed to give money to those foreign devils!"
Xia Shao smiled after hearing this, "When did I say I wanted to spend money? I still feel bad for buying things from robbers with my money! I can think of a way to bring them back. But..." Xia Shao pondered slightly. , said, "However, even if I can successfully bring it back, I will just keep silent and won't have much effect by then. This kind of thing will happen again next time."
When Xu Kangguo heard this, he nodded and looked at Xia Shao with admiration, "That's right. This is what the country is considering. If it can be brought back successfully this time, it will be of great significance. However, the country does not promote non-governmental organizations or Individuals purchase cultural relics to return them. We want the other party to send them back! It will shock the world! Only if the other party sends them back, from the international perspective, can they acknowledge the history of aggression on their behalf, which is very important."
Xia Shao smiled and nodded, then she also had a way - just use some means.
"Today, we have decided to have the Ministry of Foreign Affairs issue a statement in two days, asking the other party to hand over our cultural relics to the British Ministry of Culture for safekeeping, and the two countries will resolve the matter through diplomatic channels. However, these foreign devils will definitely not obediently comply." Xu Kangguo said.
"Then what do you mean?" Xia Shao raised her eyebrows.
Xu Kangguo then looked at Xu Tianyin. When he looked at his grandson, the old man's eyes suddenly turned from the anger just now to guilt. He sighed and said: "It has been decided from above. Let Tianyin and the dispatched special operations team handle this matter. However, because it is a secret operation, their identities cannot be exposed, so we decided to let them hide in the ranks of the Huaxia Auction Company as a cover and wait for opportunities to act."
Xia Shao was stunned after hearing this. After a long time of commotion, the mission of Huaxia Group was just a cover. It was the agents who actually performed the mission
Xia Shao looked at Xu Tianyin with a strange look in her eyes and a bitter smile. Not for anything else, just because when the two of them were in the company just now, Xu Tianyin said that he had to obey a mission. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be true, and he had a mission just after he came back!
This is really... It seems that their marriage is really not possible this time.
"Okay, I'll go." Xu Tianyin nodded simply, turned to look at Xia Shao, and pulled his tightly pressed lips slightly in a short arc during the drive back. The man's eyes also became clearer after the rain, showing that his mood was somewhat healed.
Of course what cured him was that he could go abroad with her, even if he was on a mission, which was better than not being able to see her in the military zone. Moreover, this time I can work with her, two people working together.
Apart from fighting, this is the first time Xia Shao and Xu Tianyin have cooperated on this kind of matter. To be honest, Xia Shao felt like a blessing in disguise. Although it was inappropriate, that was exactly how she felt. She had always wanted to know what his job was like abroad, and this was an opportunity to provide him with cover. Besides, she should be able to help too.
"Alas! The engagement between you two has to be postponed..." Xu Kangguo sighed heavily. No one expects his grandson to have a family more than he does. This incident really caught him off guard. Otherwise, after practicing in politics for so many years and with his Qi-nurturing skills, he has seen the faces of these foreign devils once or twice. How could he be so unprepared? So sulky? Because of this, the plan this time was all his.
"Hmph! Let these foreign devils have a taste of what it means to fight without weary of deceit! Let them not even cry!" Xu Kangguo snorted.
Xia Shao joked, "It would be better to postpone it. I just have time to write an engagement application report for you."
Xu Kangguo was stunned. He immediately knew that what he said that day had been betrayed by his daughter. His old face turned red instantly, he coughed and changed the subject and said: "Tianyin, you stay in the study. I will inform you about the content of this mission."
The content of the mission is confidential. Although Xia Shao's Huaxia Auction Company needs to cover for Xu Tianyin and others, she is not from that department, so of course she cannot know what the specific mission is.
Because she understood, and because Xia Shao didn't say anything, she smiled after hearing the old man's words, turned around and left the study.
Thank you for your blessings. I have been very busy these days, but I have seen all your blessings. Thank you!
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