Stealing the Pen: Kirin's Primordial Lotus

Huba and his two companions asked the waiter standing nearby to take down the painting, put it on the sandalwood table, and looked at the painting carefully with a magnifying glass.

"Old Hu!"

"Old Hu, what do you think? Is it true?"

Hubayi was looking at it bit by bit with a magnifying glass. Wang Kaixuan and Yang Xueli, who were waiting on the side, were also waiting anxiously.

As soon as Huba put down the magnifying glass, he supported the sandalwood table with both hands and stared at the painting on the table. People who didn't know the truth would think that the woman in the painting was the man's lover.

Yang Xueli and Wang Kaixuan looked at it for a long time, unable to recover.

"Old Hu, you are still watching! Give me a definite answer!"

Wang Kaixuan was scratching his head and looking at Hubayi who didn't respond.

"Old Hu!" Yang Xueli gently pushed Huba.

Hubayi finally came to his senses.

"The painting is real. It is indeed an old thing, and it is not too recent." Huba looked at the painting on the table, paused, and continued: "This painting can be said to be from the same era as the Queen of Jingjue."

Wang Kaixuan and Yang Xueli were looking at the table and suddenly came across a painting of the Queen's contemporary.

"In other words, the owner of this painting may have observed the Queen of Jingjue up close?"

"Correct."

When Wang Kaixuan heard this, he rolled up the painting and held it in his arms, "What are we waiting for? Let's take this painting and ask the young master where it came from. Then we can go find the person who sold the painting, and the curse on us will be lifted, right?"

The three of them took the painting and returned to their original room under the guidance of the waiter.

"Have you three made your choice?" Hua Yu was still sitting in her seat as she had brought them in before, the only difference was that the young master was no longer in the room.

"Master Hua, we have made our choice. We just want this painting and a message."

"Oh?" Hua Yu raised her eyebrows and looked at the three people with serious expressions, "Just this painting and a message?"

"Yes. We just want the painting and any information about it."

"News about the painting?"

Hua Yu glanced at the scroll held in Wang Kaixuan's arms.

"What kind of painting is that? Let me see it, maybe I'll know something."

At Hu Bayi's signal, Wang Kaixuan unfolded the scroll and showed Hua Yu the painting in his hand.

"It's a very familiar portrait, but maybe it's been a while since I got this painting, so I can't remember it clearly."

Yang Xueli looked a little excited, with veins bulging on her hands as she gripped the armrests of the chair.

"Mr. Hua, please think about it carefully. This painting is very important to us."

Hua Yu pretended to be in deep thought for a moment, then clenched his right fist and knocked on the palm of his left hand. "I remember now. This painting was brought here by a man. He said he lived at the foot of Kunlun Mountain. He said something bad happened at home, so he took out this painting passed down from his ancestors, hoping it would solve the family's problems."

"Kunlun Mountains?"

"Yes, Kunlun Mountain. What happened to Mr. Hu?"

"Nothing, I just thought this place sounded familiar. Please continue."

"That person said that he would come to redeem the painting after his family affairs were resolved. However, I haven't heard from his subordinates yet. I guess his family affairs have not been resolved yet! Or maybe he is gone."

"Then may I ask Mr. Hua, when was this painting brought here?"

"When?" Hua Yu looked at the three of them with a half-smile, and the three of them felt a little scared being looked at like that.

"It's been about ten years!"

"I'm not sure. I just heard Uncle Qin and the others say that this happened more than ten years ago. If we really want to calculate when it happened, it can probably be traced back to a hundred years ago!"

"A hundred years ago? The bones are all rotten, this!" Wang Kaixuan was shocked when he heard the time.

"Thank you Mr. Hua for letting me know."

"Fatty, it's not like we haven't received any news. At least we know that this painting came from a village over in Kunlun Mountain."

As soon as Huba got the answer he wanted, he planned to leave.

"Mr. Hu, this painting is a gift from me to you! It's not a gift for meeting you."

Hua Yu waved her hand behind her and a waiter came out from the door carrying a mahogany tray.

When the waiter came closer, Huba and the other two saw that the mahogany tray was covered with a red cloth.

"This is?"

"This is a welcome gift from me to you. You can open it and take a look. I think it should be very suitable for you."

Huba and his two companions walked forward, lifted the red cloth, and saw on the tray a fine-quality mutton-fat jade pendant.

When Huba picked up the jade pendant, he found that it was made of exactly three pieces, with carvings on it. When put together, it formed a pattern, and when separated, it also formed a pattern of its own.

"This is too valuable!" Yang Xueli looked at the jade pendant, and then looked at Hua Yu who was sitting at the upper seat and drinking tea calmly.

As soon as Hubayi gave Yang Xueli a look, she understood that Hubayi did not want the jade pendant. After all, if someone is too nice to you for no reason, he is either a traitor or a thief.

"This is not a valuable item, and isn't this jade pendant very suitable for your professions?"

"Together we live, apart we die?"

At this time, even the nervous Wang Kaixuan felt something was wrong. He quietly reached into his pocket, but before he could take it out, he felt something hard pressing against his waist.

"Don't move, the thing in my hand doesn't have eyes."

Huba turned around and glanced at the smiling man standing behind Wang Kaixuan, holding something against him.

"Mr. Hu, you don't have to panic. If I really wanted to do something to you, I would have done it right in the desert. Why wait until now?"

Hua Yu leaned sideways on the chair calmly, with one hand on the armrest and the other supporting her chin, smiling at Huba and others who were looking like they were facing a great enemy below.