The first top lady

G country.

Shang Ce visited all the museums in Yayue these days, and also went to the GIA confidential museum at night. He found that even Luo Gong was sending people to look for the three paintings.

"Seventh sister, the painting is definitely not in Luo Palace. GIA has sent at least five people to the country as undercover agents, and they are also trying to find out the whereabouts of the painting. Tell Song about it." Shang Ce said to Song Yixuan on the other side of the ocean.

Outside, he usually called "Song Bingxian" "Song".

Before he could finish the call, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a beggar sitting on the side of the road. He was dishevelled and drawing something on a yellowed white cloth. He looked very familiar. "Wait a minute, Seventh Sister..."

Shang Ce hurriedly exited the call interface, opened the phone album, found the photo taken at Cheng Xuexian's house, and used two fingers to zoom in on the "Su Wu Shepherding Sheep" in the background and compared it with the painting the beggar was concentrating on.

The half-painted talisman is exactly the same as the one held by Su Wu in the photo. This is actually the same painting of "Su Wu Shepherding Sheep".

Shang Ce stood by and looked at the beggar. He had black hair, black beard and black eyes, so he might be his compatriot.

He squatted over, handed the photos in his hand to the beggar, and asked, "Hello, have you seen these two paintings?"

The beggar's clothes were tattered, and his bare arms and hands were covered in dirt. Once you got close, you could smell a bad odor.

Shang Ce didn't move, just stared at the beggar, waiting for his reaction.

The beggar slowly raised the brush in his hand, and a drop of ink fell down, spreading on the white cloth. He glanced at the screen of his mobile phone, continued to dip the ink, and replied in a hoarse voice: "Not two paintings, but three."

Shang Ce was surprised when he heard this. "You know?" His expression suddenly became serious, and he asked in a low voice, "Do you know Academician Cheng Xuexian?"

The beggar paused his hand dipping in ink, raised his eyelids and looked at Shang Ce. His messy hair hung disorderly in front of his cheeks, and his two dark eyes stared at Shang Ce.

After a while, probably confirming that the person in front of him was not a threat, the beggar said expressionlessly: "You are from H country."

"Yes." Shang Ce said bluntly, "You too."

The beggar put down the brush in his hand and said, "Let's find a safe place to talk."

"Okay." Shang Ce stood up and watched the beggar slowly pack up his things.

A patched denim bag contained all the beggar's belongings. The beggar picked up the inkstone, splashed the ink into the middle of the road, turned around and threw the inkstone into the bag.

After a few "ding-dang-dang" sounds, the inkstone slid under the cloth bag, which should have contained pots, pans, and utensils.

"Let's go." The beggar grabbed the mouth of the bag, threw the big cloth bag over his shoulder, and walked forward grunting.

About ten minutes later, the beggar followed Shang Ce to a villa in the center of Yayo City.

He stood at the door, looked around at the government buildings, and asked worriedly, "Is it safe here?"

Shang Ce stood inside the door and said to him, "Haven't you heard that it's darkest under the lamp?"

As an undercover agent, he lived openly in the residential area of ​​G country's government officials and even discussed major events of G country with those officials. He was no longer an outsider.

Only in the eyes of those people.

The beggar was skeptical, but he still went in. He stood in the middle of the living room with a big cloth bag on his back, but did not sit down.

Neat layout, exquisite owner, and he was just a sloppy and dirty beggar.

"The restroom is on the left." Shang Ce saw what he was thinking and didn't ask him to sit down politely. "I can wait for you to clean up, and then we can talk."

How could it be possible that our compatriots who are stranded in a foreign country are beggars from the beginning?

"Thank you." The beggar didn't hesitate and walked straight to the bathroom with his cloth bag on his back.

The person who appeared in front of Shang Ce again was a clean and literary young man.

"I said, you are not the person in the photo."

The man who took the photo with Cheng Xuexian was strong, with dark skin, a square face and a wide forehead, while the beggar standing in front of him had a long and thin face and very fair skin without any dirt.

"My name is Yuan Jiashu, thank you for your hospitality." His voice was still hoarse, which was inconsistent with his thin appearance.

"Shang Ce." Shang Ce said, and gestured for Yuan Jiashu to sit down.

Yuan Jiashu said: "I know what you want to know, but how can you make me believe you?"

Shang Ce chuckled, "You're already here."

If he didn't believe it, how could Yuan Jiashu risk his life to come here?

"Yes." A trace of loneliness flashed in Yuan Jiashu's eyes. He has been wandering alone in Yayue for many years, without any goals, without any methods, and unable to do anything.

Until he met Shang Ce today, as if he had finally grasped hope, he looked at Shang Ce and said persistently and seriously: "I don't need anything, but can you find those three paintings?"

He wandered aimlessly in a foreign country for so long just because he wanted to find the three paintings he had lost.

He doesn't need saving!

But his country cannot be left without someone to save it.

Shang Ce seemed to see a calmness bordering on madness in those sincere eyes, which was a deep patriotic heart that could not be extinguished no matter where one was.

Shang Ce said: "We are looking for these three paintings."

"How many people do you have? Are you reliable? Can you all be trusted? Can you find us?" Yuan Jiashu said anxiously.

Shang Ce hesitated whether to tell him his true identity, "Do you want to return home?"

"No!" Yuan Jiashu shook his head and said firmly: "I can't go back. The painting may still be in Country G. I can't go back yet!"

"My people are very reliable!" Shang Ce looked at him and said, "Just like you."

They are all loyal and patriotic people.

They are all people who sacrificed their lives to defend their country.

Yuan Jiashu has been isolated for too long. He may not believe in 711, but he definitely believes in himself.

"Ok, I trust you."

Shang Ce inadvertently tapped the screen of 703 and continued to listen to Yuan Jiashu's account of what happened before Cheng Xuexian was murdered.

"Academician Cheng and I are friends in painting. Although he is the same age as my father, he has a very young mentality. We often exchange painting experiences. He does not act like an elder. We often quarrel and fight because of disagreements, but we are still good friends.

Later, when Country G heard that Academician Cheng was going to return to China to build missiles, they put him under house arrest. This was Country G's first move against Country H. As a country H, although I did not have Academician Cheng's ability, I tried my best and maybe I could rescue Academician Cheng. However, I did not succeed. I was detained in the Country G police station for half a year.

After I got out, I didn't dare to contact Academician Cheng easily. Suddenly one day, a square-faced man came to me and said his name was Min Yong and he was a friend of Academician Cheng. He asked me to pack up and prepare to return home, and said it was Academician Cheng's request. I followed him over the wall and entered Academician Cheng's house with doubts.

That day, he was still smiling and more optimistic than me. He pointed to three boxes on the ground and asked me to choose. I chose the box on the far left, which contained three paintings.

Shang Ce asked, "Is it the "Su Wu Shepherding Sheep"?

"Yes." Yuan Jiashu nodded, "That is his favorite painting."

Shang Ce asked: "Why are the three paintings put together?"

"Because..." Yuan Jiashu said helplessly, "He wants to play a trick on me."

The business strategy is puzzled.

I was more curious about Cheng Xuexian.

"Those three paintings could be one real and two fake, or two real and one fake. But if you want to find the information he left behind, you don't know whether to look for it in the real one or in the fake one." Thinking of Cheng Xuexian's smug look after playing a prank, Yuan Jiashu couldn't help scratching his head with both hands, "He just wanted to see you guys being ecstatic and at a loss after getting three paintings at once."

Shang Ce said: "He is a very interesting person."

If one can find joy in adversity, he is more than just an optimistic person.

"Alas!" Yuan Jiashu was just a person who was teased, and he didn't think it was interesting. "At that time, I put the painting and my luggage together. In order to prevent it from being seized by customs, Min Yong and I contacted a cargo ship and planned to smuggle back to China. But Country G seemed to know Academician Cheng's plan and sent troops to search all the ships in the port. Min Yong and I saw that the situation was not good, so we did not get on the ship and fled separately with our things.

In the following week, Yayo mobilized almost all police forces to arrest Min Yong and me. Academician Cheng had been killed. I learned the news, but I couldn't see him for the last time. The only thing I could do was to bring the things back to China.

Just when the G country police were conducting a carpet search near my hiding place, I met a man, Bo Ji. "

"Patriotic entrepreneur, Bo Ji." Shang Ce had met Bo Ji in Country G.

Bo Ji is the head of the Yan'an Bo family and the founder of Xinjiyuan Company. He often buys cultural relics lost overseas and donates them to the country free of charge. Song Bingxian personally awarded him the medal of "Patriotic Entrepreneur".

Yuan Jiashu continued, "Yes. I could only trust him, so I handed the three paintings to him and begged him to bring them back to China. Then I took the rest of my luggage back to Academician Cheng's residence. The people from the embassy were there, but if they wanted to check my things, they had to have the people from Luo Palace check them first. I knew they were looking for the paintings, and if they didn't find them, they would definitely send people to keep an eye on me.

I was originally planning to be sent back to China by the embassy, ​​but Bo Ji sent someone to find me that day and told me that I only managed to take out one painting, and the other two paintings were still stranded in Country G. It turned out that Luo Gong had seized all the paintings that had been taken out of the country in order to find the three paintings. In order to avoid the three paintings appearing together and being too conspicuous, Bo Ji decided to take them back in batches. He left the other two paintings in a manor, intending to contact someone to bring them out after the storm died down.

I was worried, so I didn't return home. I found the manor according to the address Bo Ji said. But when I arrived, Luo Gong's people were already inside. In order to find out whether the two paintings fell into Luo Gong's hands, I wandered in Yayue for seven years. "