"Boss, I'm sorry! It's the lady who didn't let us follow her!" As if to ease the middle-aged man's anger, the subordinate said hurriedly: "Although we didn't follow her, if nothing else, the lady should have gone to see the man who saved her. Once upon a time, boy."

"Do you still need to talk about this? What a bunch of rubbish. Mr. Li Haiming, how about I asked you to help me investigate the matter of that kid?" The middle-aged man turned to look at the well-dressed, silent man beside him and asked.

"Mr. Du, that boy's life is very regular. Very few people visit where he lives, so I didn't find any useful information." Looking at the big money owner in a red nightgown, the detective looked a little unhappy. The gentleman said calmly: "Although nothing was found, just yesterday, I saw Li Yufan appearing downstairs where the young man lived."

"Li Yufan?" Du Yuming, the father of Du Ruoyao, one of the richest men in Shencheng, frowned. Among the upper class society in Shenzhen City, the name Li Yufan is still somewhat famous. This fame is not because he runs a large company, but because his sister and brother-in-law are Lin from Shenzhen Tiancheng Group. couple.

Du Yuming smoked a cigar and narrowed his eyes with a thoughtful look in his eyes: "If I remember correctly, Li Yufan doesn't seem to have a son, right?"

"No!" Li Haiming said with certainty. Regarding the wealthy people in Shen City, Haiming Detective Agency has conducted detailed investigations and filed them internally. The employees of each firm are already familiar with the information about these rich people. Li Yufan is not young and has several beauties, but he has never had any intention of getting married. Without a wife, there will naturally be no children.

"Why would he go to a place like that?" Du Yuming squinted and blew out a big puff of smoke.

"Boss, could he be his illegitimate son?"

Du Yuming glared hard at the subordinate who spoke: "How can I have an idiot like you under me? Don't say that you are my subordinate in the future, it will embarrass me. With Li Yufan's style, it is useless to have an illegitimate child." To hide it?”

What you say is unintentional, but what you hear is intentional. Before Du Yuming realized anything, Li Haiming on the side had a thought in his heart: "Could it be?"

Li Haiming hadn't spoken yet, but Du Yuming had already understood. The hand holding the cigar stretched out a few fingers to stop Li Haiming from talking.

In the upper class society of Shen City, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lin has always been a big mystery. The couple is a bit overprotective of their children. Everyone knows that Mr. and Mrs. Lin have a child. The number within Tiancheng Company is not a secret, but with this number, there is no way to find out whose number it belongs to. For so many years, the children of Mr. and Mrs. Lin have never appeared in front of the public media. The media is the most gossipy, and there are many people who secretly keep an eye on the couple, but no one has ever discovered that the couple has been with a child who is suspected of being their child.

"Could it be their child?" Du Yuming murmured in his heart. If it was really their child, Du Yuming wouldn't mind if his daughter pestered him all day long. Du Yuming would be even happier if he could conceive a child early. Although nouveau riche like Du Yuming still had some money in Shenzhen, it was far from enough compared with the Lins and his wife.

Du Yuming suddenly felt that this matter must be handled with caution. If it was really the son of the Lin family, this matter would turn from a bad thing into a good thing.

"Listen, you guys, after you get down, investigate that kid carefully, but don't act rashly without my order!"

At dawn, after a day and a night, the long-distance bus finally arrived at the station.

"Hey, miss, wake up, we're at the station!" Lin Junxuan shook Du Ruoyao's shoulders and shouted.

"Well, let me sleep a little longer!" Du Ruoyao curled up and said drowsily. Soon Lin Junxuan felt that the delicate body under his palm stiffened, and an exclamation soon sounded in his ears: "Ah! We're here. ? Where are you arriving so soon?”

Miss Du suddenly opened the quilt, sat up straight, stared at her two big round eyes, and looked around. They were the only two left in the car, and the others had long disappeared. It was cool outside the car window. This was a rundown small town that had just woken up. On the cold street, fallen leaves were picked up by the morning breeze and fluttered on the street...

Lin Junxuan smiled bitterly and shook his head. After one night, although he only knew Miss Du as a eldest lady before, his view of her has changed slightly this time. At least a girl can follow him here alone. In such a remote place, his courage alone was worthy of his admiration.

"I've arrived at the station, haven't you arrived yet?" Lin Junxuan smiled, picked up his hiking bag, jumped off the bunk neatly, and walked to the car.

"Hey, why did you leave? Wait for me!" Miss Du got down from the bunk in a panic, followed her in a hurry with her backpack...



Chapter 9 Spirit Turtle Peak

It was a bit cold in the morning, and there were very few pedestrians on the road. After coming out of the station, Lin Junxuan walked on the street carrying a hiking bag while looking at this remote town. Because he had been here before when he was a child, but he only had some vague memories, but this town still felt a little strange to him.

Behind, Du Ruoyao dragged a large gift box and followed Lin Junxuan without saying a word. She walked when Lin Junxuan left, and she stopped when Lin Junxuan stopped.

Lin Junxuan ignored her and walked in front alone. The Lin family also has a cousin in Yushan. Three generations ago, the ancestors of the two families were brothers, but they didn't seem to be very harmonious. Mrs. Lin only went home once seven years ago, and there was no contact between the two families this time. Every year, Mrs. Lin would send some annual money to her cousin's house to express her thoughts. The cousins only knew that the Lin family seemed to be doing big business outside, but they didn't know exactly what kind of business they were doing. People in the mountains don’t think so much!

There is still more than a week to worship the ancestors, but Lin Junxuan is not in a hurry. He has not been here for a long time, and Lin Junxuan only knows the place name of the cousin's residence and the cousin's name. As a new arrival, there were many things that he was unfamiliar with. Lin Junxuan decided to find a place to stay first and get to know the situation here before deciding what to do.

The county is not big and not prosperous. Along the way Lin Junxuan walked, there were many cheap hotels on the roadside, but most of them were not very clean, and the people coming and going were a bit mixed, which was not what Lin Junxuan liked. Like any other remote place, the gangsters, hooligans, and scoundrels of Yushan all gathered in this small county town. Lin Junxuan could see the essence of these guys with just one glance. Lin Junxuan is not a very picky person, but even if the small hotel is dirty and messy, it is not a problem. The real problem is that the small hotel is not very quiet.

After asking several people along the way, Lin Junxuan finally found the only hotel in the county on a remote street. The large floor-to-ceiling windows were already covered with dust and no one had cleaned them. Lin Junxuan looked around and then stepped in.

The business of the hotel was very deserted. Behind the Changmu counter, three uniformed waiters were chatting away. When they saw Lin Qingxuan coming in, the three of them perked up, with professional smiles on their faces, and said with a smile: " Welcome, sir, would you like to stay?”

"Yeah," Lin Junxuan nodded.

"Sir, please show your ID card." A waiter smiled.

Lin Junxuan walked to the counter, took off his backpack, took out his ID card and handed it over.

"Shenzhen?" The waitress took the ID card and looked up at Lin Junxuan in surprise: "How did you come to a small county like ours?"

"Promise." Lin Junxuan said simply.

"Oh!" the waiter responded. After Lin Junxuan handed over the deposit, the waiter quickly completed the formalities: "Here, sir, here is your key. The room number is 403."

Lin Junxuan took the key and was about to walk to the hotel when he found Du Ruoyao standing at the door dragging a box, motionless. Under Lin Junxuan's surprised eyes, Du Ruoyao lowered her head and looked coy. Lin Junxuan had never seen such an expression. I have never seen this with Miss Du.

"What's wrong with you?" Lin Junxuan walked over and asked.

"I...I..." Miss Du's voice was like a mosquito, as if she whispered something.

"What exactly do you want to say?" Lin Junxuan frowned.

"Cards cannot be swiped here, and I don't have much cash on me!" Miss Du pointed to a sign posted on the glass door, said quickly, and then lowered her head, her face already covered with red clouds. There is a UnionPay logo on the glass door, but it is just a bar, which obviously means that credit cards cannot be swiped here. It was so embarrassing. Miss Du had never felt so embarrassed. When Lin Junxuan was applying for the room card, she stood aside and watched. The deposit was two hundred, but she only had one hundred and fifty in her pocket, and she still had to eat!

Du Ruoyao usually has whatever she wants, most of which are given by her father with money, and some she wants to buy. Miss Du can use one card to buy them in all major shopping malls. In Shenzhen, there were basically no restrictions on her use of credit cards. Who would have thought that this hotel didn't accept credit cards.

"Miss, where is the nearest ATM here?" Lin Junxuan turned to the waiter behind the counter and asked.

"There is an Agricultural Bank of China ATM not far from here, but it broke early and the bank has not repaired it. Others are relatively far away," the waiter replied.

Lin Junxuan frowned and looked at Du Ruoyao. Miss Du looked at him eagerly, the begging in her eyes was self-evident.

"Get her a card too!" Lin Junxuan returned to the counter, took out five hundred from his back, handed two hundred to the counter, and handed three hundred to Du Ruoyao. This time he withdrew a total of two thousand, and now he had used almost eight hundred.

"No way, you want me to live in a room with a girl? How unsafe is that? I'm not familiar with the place here?" Du Ruoyao did not accept the money handed over by Lin Junxuan. She said this She was telling the truth. Being able to follow her all the way here was basically close to the maximum limit for her. Although she is extremely strong, she is still just a girl, and she can be scared in such a strange place.

Lin Junxuan raised his eyebrows: "You don't want to live with me, do you?"

"Well, we can live in a double suite!" Du Ruoyao said, "Please!"

"This is impossible!" Lin Junxuan rejected her flatly.

"Yes, yes! Our hotel is not that strict. I think you are also acquaintances. Although it is not allowed by the rules, it can still be done." As soon as Lin Junxuan finished speaking, three waiters behind the counter jumped in enthusiastically. . The three of them had been idle for a long time, and there were never many people in the hotel. In the eyes of the three of them, the boy and girl in front of them, the handsome boy and the pretty girl, were obviously a young couple. Although they didn't get together, it was probably just a small quarrel.

Lin Junxuan frowned. Just when Du Ruoyao thought Lin Junxuan would refuse, she heard an unexpected voice: "Okay!"

"Really!" Du Ruoyao looked at Lin Junxuan in surprise, unable to believe her ears.

"Yeah!" Lin Junxuan's answer once again made the counter attendants confirm that this was a young couple who were having some trouble. After returning the key, Lin Junxuan got a new double suite.

"Let's go!" Taking the big box from Du Ruoyao's hand, the two of them walked upstairs along the stairs. When a waitress came towards her, Du Ruoyao greeted her with a sweet smile: "Sister, what's the most fun place here?"

"Haha!" The waitress who was about 20 years old said with a smile: "This must be your first time here. If you want to have fun, of course you have to go to a big city. There is nothing interesting in small towns."

Seeing Du Ruoyao's disappointed look, the waiter continued, "Go out from here, turn left, and go straight ahead. Turn left at the crossroads and go straight ahead. There is a forest. Deep in the forest is a mountain called Linggui Peak. There is an ancient temple on the peak. You may be interested. By the way, there is an ancient stele in the temple. It is said that it was carved during the Qianlong period. If you have time, you may want to go and have a look."

"Linggui Peak!" Hearing this name, Lin Junxuan suddenly stopped and a familiar feeling came over him. Some originally vague memories suddenly became clear - he had been to Linggui Peak before! When he was young, he had been to the ancient temple on the mountain with his mother.

Shaking his head, Lin Junxuan came to his senses and found that the waiter had left long ago. Du Ruoyao was looking at him with a strange look. Lin Junxuan did not explain and walked straight ahead.

After a while, the two of them opened the door to the room. Lin Junxuan threw his backpack on the bed and said, "I'm going to go out for a while."

"Wait, I'm going too!" Seeing Lin Junxuan go out as soon as he came in, Du Ruoyao quickly threw away her backpack and followed him out.

"Master, go to Linggui Peak!" There were more and more pedestrians on the street, and the car door was opened. Lin Junxuan got in and said to the driver in front of him.

"Okay!" the driver responded.

"Linggui Peak? I want to go too!" Miss Du screamed, opened the car door and got in. Ten minutes later, he stopped in a place with lush trees.

"Just go down this road. The road below is steep and cars can't get in. You just stay here!" The driver turned to the two of them.

Lin Junxuan didn't say anything and paid the fare readily. The two people walked down the rugged stone path. There is an incense stall every other section on the stone path. Some lay people in their forties are selling incense on the mountainside. They stop everyone they meet and ask if they want incense.

After buying some incense, the two of them walked forward for a few minutes and saw a newly built red-manufactured temple hidden in the forest. There were many workers busy around the new temple. Lin Junxuan asked one of the migrant workers for the way out. The migrant worker pointed to the hilltop opposite, covered with ancient cypresses and pines, and told them that that was Linggui Peak.

Between the two mountains, there is a forest path paved with small stones. There is some moss growing on the edge of the path, which is obviously old. Along the way, more and more people gradually came to visit, all of whom were pilgrims who had made their vows. Further forward, on both sides of a spacious stone path, there is a row of fortune tellers sitting, all of them have immortal beards and longevity, and they look like masters of Taoism.

"Miss, your face is rosy and your cheeks are as red as peach. It's the perfect time for marriage. Come on, let me show you. I'm sure you don't need money!" The two of them had just approached, and one of them said in dress. Convinced, the fortune teller with slightly white temples waved to Du Ruoyao from a distance.

Du Ruoyao was originally following Lin Junxuan. When she heard what the fortune teller said, her face lit up with joy. She squatted in front of the fortune teller's booth and stretched out her palm: "Really? Then tell me the fortune teller!"

The old Taoist priest looked like an immortal, but when Lin Junxuan accidentally took a look, he caught a glimpse of a Nokia mobile phone exposed from the Taoist priest's open Taoist uniform, and shook his head secretly. But he didn't point it out and let Du Ruoyao stretch out her palms and chat with the fortune teller enthusiastically.

Linggui Temple is right above your head. You can turn a corner along the stone path to reach the entrance of the temple. Leaving Du Ruoyao at the fortune-telling stall, Lin Junxuan walked towards the top of the mountain. Seeing familiar scenes in front of him, Lin Junxuan finally confirmed that he had been here before.

Linggui Peak stands facing the river, with steep cliffs on one side and vast forests on the other. Linggui Temple stands on the top of the mountain. From a distance, a thick scent of incense came from the air. The plumes of incense shot up into the sky. An endless stream of pilgrims continue to shuttle through the mountain gate.

In the mountain gate corridor, Lin Junxuan saw one of the main goals of this trip, the 'Qianlong Ancient Monument'. This is a ruined monument, surrounded by smoke and fire. There were many pilgrims passing by, but no one paid attention to this ancient monument. Everyone went directly to the big Bodhisattva in the temple.

Standing in front of the remaining monument, Lin Junxuan stretched out his palm to touch the dust on the surface of the monument and read the inscription. This is a monument. The inscription records that this ancient temple was built in the 20th year of Qianlong's reign. Because of the quietness in the mountains, it was favored by literati. Later, some traveling monks saw the beautiful scenery here and simply settled down here. It became a real temple. In the following years, there were fires here three times in five years. The temple was rebuilt many times, the monks in the mountain also left, and the literati stopped coming here, so it gradually declined.

The inscription is written in official script and the content is very simple. No wonder the later monks in the temple left the ruined stele covered with dust and ignored it. This ancient monument does not record any famous people, nor does it record any special events. Generally speaking, it has no value. It is estimated that even the thieves who steal the monument will not be interested in it.

The temple was full of Bodhisattvas. Lin Junxuan walked around the temple for a while. Seeing that Du Ruoyao hadn't come up yet, he wanted to go down and see her. Coming out of the mountain gate and turning a corner, Lin Junxuan saw Du Ruoyao sitting next to the fortune teller talking happily.

"Jun Xuan, come here quickly. The stories this gentleman tells are so interesting!" Du Ruoyao had sharp eyes. Even though she was chatting with the fortune teller, she spotted Lin Junxuan in time.

"Telling stories?" Lin Junxuan was shocked, how could fortune telling be linked to telling stories. Walking to the two of them, Lin Junxuan listened to a few words and couldn't help but feel funny in his heart. This Miss Du was obviously here to tell fortunes. I don’t know how she got involved with this fortune teller, but she actually got involved in some strange things that were spread in these mountain villages.

Lin Junxuan moved a short chair and sat down next to the two of them. The old Taoist priest didn't care that there was another person next to him and continued to talk enthusiastically.