bullyxtreme Chapter 1989: I am the person you are looking for
Chapter 1989: I am the person you are looking for
Lin Ran was very interested in Sui Hou Shi and the identity of Ma Zhen's friend in Hong Kong City.
In addition, there is something about Xu Wei.
Ma Zhen immediately turned the car around and drove directly towards a local high-end hotel.
"To be honest, the mainland has changed a lot in the past two years." Ma Zhen said lightly while driving.
Lin Ran didn't think so.
A year ago, if they wanted to eat out, they would not only need to bring money, but also food stamps.
Due to insufficient productivity, in order to prevent some people from not having enough to eat, the amount of food each person can eat is strictly limited.
Now, they can eat as much as they want as long as they can afford it.
The roads in the capital have also been repaired and are no longer full of potholes like they were the last time I drove.
Life in the mainland has gotten better.
Since it was Ma Zhen's treat, it was definitely not an ordinary hotel.
Lin Ran has never been to this hotel. It can be seen from the decoration outside that it is quite high-end. There are two stone lions placed at the door. The steps extend upward. You have to go to the second floor to enter the hotel.
After arriving at the hotel, Ma Zhen directly booked a small private room so that they could chat more easily.
The food arrived quickly, but they made a tacit choice to drink together first.
"Ha." Ma Zhen drank a bottle of wine in one gulp and breathed a long sigh of relief. "It's still wine from my hometown. It tastes good."
"Wine from home?" Lin Ran was a little surprised.
Ma Zhen was already a little drunk before he started drinking.
Didn't he grow up in Hong Kong City?
Ma Zhen smiled and did not explain, but filled both him and Lin Ran with wine, and then gave Lin Ran a toast.
From being enemies at the beginning to now sitting together drinking, everything feels like a dream.
During the dinner, Ma Zhen seemed very enthusiastic and chatted with him about home affairs.
Lin Ran never found the opportunity to talk directly to him about Hong Kong City, but Ma Zhen took the opportunity.
"Brother Lin, there is actually one thing I haven't understood yet."
Now Ma Zhen speaks like Brother Lin and can shout very smoothly.
Lin Ran also blushed a little and asked, "What's wrong?"
"You said that the antiques industry is an industry that requires a lot of experience, right?"
"Of course." Lin Ran guessed what Ma Zhen wanted to ask. In fact, not only him, but almost everyone who interacted with him would find it strange why Lin Ran looked like he was only in his early 20s and had such a good reputation. His experience is beyond ordinary people.
Even treasure appraisers who are more experienced and older than him often fail to see the problem.
It was naturally impossible for Lin Ran to tell others that the salt he had eaten was probably more than the rice they had eaten.
I just modestly put the credit on Tang Lanxuan.
In front of others, he could say that Zhu Yawen taught him a lot, but Ma Zhen obviously didn't accept this.
In many ways, Ma Zhen looked down on Zhu Yawen, and he didn't know what was going on between the two of them.
Ma Zhen drank all the wine in the glass and said, "Brother Lin, please stop lying to me."
"What is my relationship with Mr. Qin? He is my apprentice. He told me that the reason why Tang Lanxuan accepted you as his apprentice was because you confirmed the fake Tang Sancai in front of him."
Lin Ran was more surprised by what he said before than by what he said next.
He felt that he had heard wrongly and asked again: "You said Mr. Qin is your apprentice?"
Ma Zhen looks like he is 40 years old at most, while Mr. Qin just passed his sixtieth birthday some time ago.
The reverse is more or less the same. It cannot be said that Mr. Qin became a disciple of 40-year-old Ma Zhen when he was 20 years old.
Ma Zhen's eyes were full of loneliness and he said: "Brother Lin, to be honest with you, Zhu Yawen and I are the same age."
"What?" The cup in Lin Ran's hand fell directly onto the table.
Zhu Yawen also looks very young, but definitely not as exaggerated as Ma Zhen!
How does he take care of himself? Moreover, as people age, their physical fitness deteriorates rapidly.
Not only did Ma Zhen show no signs of aging, he was also very good at fighting. Even Guan Yun did not dare to get close to him.
"It's just the two of us today, so I might as well tell you directly." Ma Zhen probably held it in too much during this period.
"Actually, the Qinglong you are looking for is not in the treasure hunt party, but is me."
Lin Ran felt confused for a moment.
He couldn't accept this statement for a while.
The fifth person who was the inheritor of the five secret arts of the Qilin Society and had never been found was actually beside him.
"Does Zhu Yawen know?" Lin Ran asked anxiously.
"Do you think that old fox can't help but know?"
Thinking back carefully about his previous call to Zhu Yawen, he only asked about the whereabouts of Bai Hu, Xuanwu and Suzaku, but not Qinglong.
Lin Ran's mind suddenly became clear.
"Then do you know Xu Wei?"
"Xu Wei?"
Finally, I saw a puzzled expression on Ma Zhen's face.
But this made Lin Ran realize that the situation was serious.
"The White Tiger disappeared in the National Museum, Suzaku was also captured by them, and as for Xuanwu."
"He said some time ago that he had something to do when he went back, and then I didn't see him again." Ma Zhen thought of the fat man he had locked up at home before.
Because the fat man had served him loyally during this period, he did not become suspicious of him.
There is no fear that the fat man will escape privately.
As a result, things were beyond his expectation.
Fatty left a month ago and never came back.
Ma Zhen originally planned to find a time to bring him back and ask him what was going on?
As a result, Lin Ran seemed to know their whereabouts.
Lin Ran didn't look like he was acting. He gritted his teeth and recounted the fact that he was kidnapped by Xu Wei in the hospital some time ago and the other party finally took away Yang Mingwei's secret treasure appraisal skills.
Ma Zhenjiu woke up instantly.
"What? You mean there is another organization looking for the secret of treasure identification?"
"Yes."
Lin Ran told everything he knew about the situation.
It is still unclear what the name of that organization is, but it is known that their power is spread all over China, at least in the mainland, and Qilin will not be able to compete with them.
Moreover, their methods of doing things are very clean and decisive. Anyone who dares not to cooperate will be driven out and killed by them.
Currently, only two inheritors of the secret art of treasure appraisal, Lin Ran and Ma Zhen, have not been discovered.
Half a month had passed, and Lin Ran was not sure whether the other party had found out their whereabouts.
"They want to find out the "Treasure Appraisal Book" and burn it?" Ma Zhen rolled his eyes and seemed to be considering whether to cooperate with them.
"That's what I said, but Xu Wei seems to be just a business person. I'm not sure whether the organizers think so." Lin Ran saw what Ma Zhen was thinking.