Bind to the collection system, I became a national treasure

"really?!"

Because Bai Xi was too excited and didn't control her voice well, she became the focus of the restaurant even more for a moment, even though she was already quite eye-catching.

Seeing this, Xu Yin just nodded, then looked around and kept silent.

Bai Xi also reacted, waved Xiao Rui over, whispered a few words, and after Xiao Rui nodded and left, Bai Xi personally poured a cup of tea for Xu Yin.

"Boss Xu, have some tea first. We'll talk about this later."

"Okay, everything will be arranged by Miss Bai."

When Xu Yin saw Xiao Rui making a phone call, he was a little nervous at first, but when Bai Xi handed the tea to him, he seemed to understand something and immediately picked up the cup and slowly drank the tea.

About ten minutes later, Xiao Rui finished his call and came over.

"Miss, the conference room upstairs has been reserved. It's available anytime."

Bai Xi nodded, stood up, looked at Xu Yin, and gestured towards the restaurant exit with his left hand: "Boss Xu, let's talk somewhere else?"

Xu Yin also put down the quilt in his hand and bowed slightly: "It is better to obey than to be respectful, Miss Bai, please~"

......

Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong, Executive VIP Lounge.

Bai Xi and Xu Yin sat opposite each other at the reception table, Xiao Rui sat to Bai Xi's left, Hong Xiu and Qing Yi stood behind Bai Xi, and the other bodyguards lined up on both sides of the door. The waiter served them each a cup of fragrant tea, then bowed and left the meeting room.

Seeing the bodyguards at the door close the door to the conference room, leaving only the four of them inside, Bai Xi turned to Xu Yin and said, "Boss Xu, is it okay now?"

Xu Yin smiled and took a sip of tea carelessly. "Miss Bai, you're smart. I do know where what you want is. But..." He paused, raised his head, his eyes full of cunning, "I wonder how much you can offer, Miss Bai?"

Bai Xi also picked up the teacup and took a sip: "Why don't you tell me the price you want, Boss Xu?"

Xu Yin raised a finger when he heard this. Bai Xi took a look and smiled: "One hundred million Hong Kong dollars, no problem."

"Miss Bai, you're joking. One hundred million US dollars."

"According to the auction house's estimate, the upper limit of this Xi Jia plate will not exceed 300 million Hong Kong dollars, but Boss Xu is asking for an exorbitant price." Bai Xi looked at Xu Yin with a half-smile, "Or does Boss Xu think I'm easy to bully?"

"Hey, how dare I? It's just that scarcity makes things valuable, so it's reasonable to raise the price appropriately.

Of course, if Miss Bai can't produce it, then we can just pretend Xu didn't come here today."

"Farewell!"

After Xu Yin finished speaking, he stood up and made a gesture to leave.

Bai Xi knocked on the table, and Hongxiu behind him immediately took a step forward and stood in front of Xu Yin.

"Miss Bai, what does this mean?"

"Boss Xu, don't be in such a hurry to leave. Isn't the price negotiated?" Bai Xi remained seated, holding the teacup and speaking calmly, "I have some information here too, and I'd like to share it with Boss Xu, Xiao Rui."

"Yes."

Xiao Rui, who had been sitting and listening from the side, agreed when he heard it, then clicked a few times on the computer screen and read out the content.

"Xu Yin, whose original name was Tian Dazhuang, was born in 1972 in western Hunan. Three generations of his ancestors were tomb robbers. After his father was imprisoned when he was young, he followed in his footsteps and robbed dozens of large tombs..."

"...around the millennium, he fled the country, and later, with the help of overseas organizations, he was whitewashed and became a returned overseas Chinese..."

As Xiao Rui stated word by word, Xu Yin's originally nonchalant expression gradually turned gloomy.

"...went abroad in May this year to visit the cherry blossoms and appeared in Hong Kong a month later. His purpose is unknown."

"How about it, Boss Xu, is the price negotiable?"

After Xiao Rui finished his last sentence, Bai Xi also slowly followed up with another sentence.

Xu Yin was silent for a moment, then walked back to his original seat, picked up the cup and took a big sip of tea. "Miss Bai, good trick. Yes, I used to be Tian Dazhuang, but everything I did did have its reasons."

"Oh? I'd like to hear more about it." Bai Xi raised his eyebrows and motioned Xu Yin to continue.

According to Xu Yin's narration, he was indeed naive in his childhood. In order to survive, he did a lot of tomb robbing and sold many cultural relics to overseas cultural relic smuggling organizations. This is why overseas organizations later helped him to launder his wealth.

But after he went abroad, he deeply realized his mistakes. In order to prevent himself from being criticized by future generations after his death, he has been working hard in secret over the years, determined to protect the cultural relics of the Xia Kingdom.

Together with several brothers who fled with him, he stole the authentic items from the museum, replaced them with some fakes, and then sent them back to China. The kingfisher phoenix crown that he sold to Bai Xi last time was one of the authentic items he sent back to China.

As for why he went to Sakura in May, it was because he was invited by the seller of Xijia Pan, Fujii Shigeaki.

"He asked you to steal the things he was going to auction?"

Bai Xi was a little puzzled and couldn't help but interrupt Xu Yin's narration.

"Yes, Miss Bai, Fujii Shigeaki is an extreme right-winger. I heard that these three auction houses plan to hold Asia's largest auction exhibition in Hong Kong." Xu Yin nodded, then continued indignantly:

"Fujii came up with this scheme. He sent our national treasures to auction, and then made us watch helplessly as they were lost right on our land. He also took the opportunity to blackmail the three major auction houses. His intentions are truly sinister!"

Although he took on the task just for the sake of courtesy, he actually had no intention of handing the Xi Jia Plate over to Fujii Shigeaki. After all, this was the national treasure of the Xia Kingdom, and it must remain on Xia Kingdom's land!

So he started looking for a suitable buyer when the auction was being prepared, but he never found a suitable one until he saw Bai Xi.

"...That's how it is, Miss Bai. Because of this Xi Jia Plate, we brothers will probably have to hide our identities from now on, and we may even have to spend our entire lives being hunted.

This one hundred million dollars is not only for buying the Xijia Plate, but also for buying the lives of our brothers, so it's really not expensive."

By the end of his speech, Xu Yin's eyes had turned red and he was even about to cry.

Bai Xi was silent for a moment, then gently tapped the table and said, "So, I misunderstood Boss Xu?"

Before Xu Yin could reply, Bai Xi continued, "But I still have a question that I'd like to ask Boss Xu."

"You said you took on this task just for fun and didn't actually intend to hand the Xi Jia Plate over to Fujii Shigeaki, so why didn't you inform the three major banks?

If that doesn't work, you can notify Lu An. That should be pretty easy, right? Now that the Xijia Plate is apparently lost, Fujii wants us to feel remorse and guilt over the loss of a national treasure again. His goal of striking down Poly has been achieved.

Is this what you meant by protecting the cultural relics of Xia Country?"

"Um, well, well, it's because I have a criminal record, and I'm afraid Lu An..."

Bai Xi's questions one after another began to make Xu Yin's forehead sweat. He quickly started to wave his hands to explain, but unexpectedly Bai Xi interrupted him directly.

"Nine truths and one lie, Boss Xu is not honest..."

Bai Xi smiled lightly, and then said something that made Xu Yin's face change drastically.

"Yang Ye, is he your man?"