Xu Qingqing sighed that Gu Anrou really knew how to pick a place.
This church was located halfway up the mountain. Apart from those who came for the service, no one would notice it at all.
Xu Qingqing lay in the bushes, carefully observing the situation outside the church. Since 7:30 p.m., low - key cars had been driving up the mountain one after another.
Without exception, all the people who got out of the cars were foreigners. They were excitedly talking about the items to be auctioned later.
Since Xu Qingqing had lived abroad and was proficient in four languages, she could understand the languages that the foreigners switched between smoothly.
"I've been looking forward to this auction of the Song Dynasty cultural relics for a long time. I'll finally be able to buy them this time!"
"You're right! After I buy these cultural relics, I'll put them on display in my museum."
"They're so stupid. They have such wonderful cultural relics but don't keep them for themselves. Instead, they want to auction them off."
"Oh, Andrew, this suits us just fine. Since they don't cherish them properly, we'll help them cherish them."
Hearing the unrestrained chatting and laughing of these foreigners, Xu Qingqing was so angry that her face contorted.
Damn Gu Anrou! For her own selfish desires, she was making their countrymen look so disgraceful!
If she didn't disrupt Gu Anrou's auction and let others know the true face of the Gu family, she wouldn't be a Xu!
When it was almost 8 o'clock, more and more people showed up. Xu Qingqing found an opportunity and managed to sneak in.
Unexpectedly, she bumped into Gu Anrou, who was dressed flamboyantly and checking the invitation letters personally at the church entrance.
Facing a foreigner who babbled on and on, Gu Anrou was completely confused and her English replies were completely off - the - mark.
The foreigner repeated himself several times, but Gu Anrou still didn't understand what he meant. The foreigner began to get impatient and gradually roared.
Although Xu Qingqing didn't approve of Gu Anrou's actions, Gu Anrou was still her fellow countryman. She couldn't just watch Gu Anrou being scolded without understanding.
Xu Qingqing stepped forward and translated, "He's Italian and he's speaking Italian. It's normal that you don't understand."
"He's asking if the painting 'Thousand - Li Farewell Picture' is among the cultural relics to be auctioned this time."
Xu Qingqing didn't know what the 'Thousand - Li Farewell Picture' was, but the system quickly identified it.
The 'Thousand - Li Farewell Picture' was a painting by the Song Dynasty painter Liu Heng, depicting thousands of people seeing off the White Queen. It praised the White Queen for her benevolence and her broad - mindedness towards the world.
After Liu Heng finished painting the 'Thousand - Li Farewell Picture', it was also included in the White Queen's burial items and had been buried underground with the White Queen ever since.
Then, the system kindly showed a picture of the 'Thousand - Li Farewell Picture'. In the picture, a woman was lying in a coffin, and thousands of people were kowtowing and bowing behind.
After seeing this picture, Xu Qingqing suddenly remembered that the mural she had repaired in the ancient tomb last time had the same content!
What was going on? Why was the content of the mural being stolen and auctioned!
After getting the translation, Gu Anrou nodded repeatedly, her tone full of pride. "The 'Thousand - Li Farewell Picture' is our highlight auction item."
The foreigner didn't understand what Gu Anrou was saying and cast a confused look at Xu Qingqing.
Gu Anrou smiled at Xu Qingqing. "Could you please translate it for him?"
Xu Qingqing translated it into Italian and told the man. After getting a positive answer, the Italian man walked in satisfied.
"Thank you so much. I'm so lucky you translated for me." Gu Anrou let out a sigh of relief when she saw the man go in and thanked Xu Qingqing.
This thin - built young man had long hair covering his eyes and still wore a mask even after entering the venue. From his figure, she could see the shadow of Xu Qingqing.
Xu Qingqing, however, was completely preoccupied with the 'Thousand - Li Farewell Picture' and simply said, "You're welcome."
After saying that, Xu Qingqing walked out and called Professor Zhou.
Professor Zhou had just got off work and answered the phone. "Hello, Qingqing. What do you want to talk to me about?"
"Professor Zhou, was the owner of the tomb where you asked me to repair the mural last time the White Queen?"
Hearing Xu Qingqing's question, Professor Zhou answered affirmatively, "Yes!"
"Among the burial items, were any stolen by tomb robbers?"
Hearing Xu Qingqing mention this, Professor Zhou's face turned serious and he slowly admitted, "Actually, we weren't the first ones to discover the White Queen's tomb. Before we found it, a group of tomb robbers had already dug a tunnel and taken out a large number of cultural relics."
"In order not to attract public attention and to catch those tomb robbers, this matter wasn't made public."
"Where did you hear about this?"
Hearing Professor Zhou's affirmative answer, Xu Qingqing was sure that Gu Anrou was colluding with tomb robbers. So she just told the truth.
"To be honest, I sneaked into an auction tonight that's only for foreigners. I found that the 'Thousand - Li Farewell Picture' and other cultural relics are going to be auctioned."
Hearing that those cultural relics were going to be auctioned off, Professor Zhou's heart ached.
"What? An auction! Those are treasures that can't be bought no matter how much money you spend. How could they be sold to foreigners!"
"Where's that auction? Tell me. I'll go there right away..."
As Xu Qingqing had expected, after Professor Zhou heard about the auction, he was completely out of sorts and lost his elegant demeanor.
Xu Qingqing quickly said to him, "Teacher Zhou, please calm down first. To avoid alerting the enemy, I'll first observe the situation carefully. I'll send you the address when the time is right."
"I'll never let those cultural relics fall into the hands of foreigners."
"Okay." Professor Zhou trusted Xu Qingqing from the bottom of his heart. "I'll go and contact some people right away."
"Okay."
Xu Qingqing hung up the phone. When she turned around, she found that a staff member in a work uniform had been staring at her.
The staff member felt Xu Qingqing's gaze and quickly walked away. He ran into a room and told Gu Anrou.
"General Manager Gu, you guessed right. That kid really went out to make a phone call, but I didn't hear what he said."
At this moment, Gu Anrou completely forgot that Xu Qingqing had helped her out just now. She coldly gave an order.
"Have someone keep an eye on him all the time."
Her intuition was never wrong. She had sensed a dangerous aura from this young man.
When Xu Qingqing queued up to enter again, she met Gu Anrou once more. There was no smile on Gu Anrou's face. Instead, there was a bit more coldness.
"Hello, please show me your invitation letter."
Xu Qingqing showed her invitation letter. Gu Anrou carefully compared the name on it. "Your name is Jerry, right? Are you French?"
"Yes." Xu Qingqing nodded.
Gu Anrou deliberately made things difficult. "If you're French, why can you speak Chinese and Italian?"
Although she didn't understand Italian, Xu Qingqing spoke it very proficiently, not like someone who only knew a few words.
"I'm a Chinese - French. I've learned Italian." Xu Qingqing said with a smile.