Rebirth 81: Being forced into marriage by my sister’s best friend at the beginning

Chapter 2758: The curator asks to accompany him

Lin Ran just smiled and said nothing, and Ke Yu still thought he could give away family heirlooms.

"Miss Ke, I still have some work to do, so I won't make trouble with you. Let's see you tomorrow." Lin Ran couldn't stand Ke Yu's chatter in the office.

"Oh." Ke Yu looked unhappy, but still agreed.

Just when I walked to the door of the office, I suddenly remembered something.

He turned around and stared straight at the jade carving on the corner of the table.

He murmured: "Is it my imagination? It's so similar..."

Her voice was very thin, but Lin Ran still heard her.

He glanced at the jade sculpture suddenly and called out to Ke Yu before she was about to close the door and leave.

"What?" Ke Yu pushed the door open again and saw Lin Ran walking up to her and staring at her with his head lowered, making her look away nervously, but then she felt a little rude and mustered up her courage. Looking up at Lin Ran, "What do you want to say?"

"What did you mean just now?" Lin Ran was full of doubts.

Ke Yu definitely looked at the jade snake statue and said those words just now.

Ke Yu flashed a look of disappointment and replied: "Are you talking about the jade carving? My grandfather also has a similar jade carving on his desk, placed in a similar position."

"Did you have it a long time ago?" Lin Ran asked.

"No, I think I got it at the end of last year. Grandpa likes it."

"That's why I felt a little strange when I saw the jade sculpture just now. It's so ugly. What's there to like about it?"

Lin Ran estimated the time and felt that everything was a bit too coincidental.

"When did your family's business problems arise? Is it around this time?"

Ke Yu thought for a moment, with a surprised expression on his face.

"You mean that the jade sculpture brought misfortune to our family?" Ke Yu found it difficult to accept this statement. After all, she had always received materialistic higher education.

As the daughter of the Ke family, she showed no interest in antiques. Instead, she was obsessed with creative subjects such as painting and jewelry design.

In fact, I feel a little disdainful towards traditional affairs.

But after Lin Ran reminded her, she suddenly felt that it was a coincidence.

In fact, Lin Ran also has one of these jade snake statues in his home collection room. Liu Jingfeng gave it to him when he just came back from the Holy Tower. With the one in his hand and the one belonging to Mr. Ke, there are already three.

The shapes are all similar, and they probably don't come from the same tomb.

What's the connection here?

Lin Ran was very interested in the jade carvings that Keyu mentioned and planned to see them during dinner tomorrow.

As for gifts, Lin Ran went to a nearby antique store and bought a purple clay pot from the Qing Dynasty. It was not expensive, but it represented the purple energy coming from the east and longevity as compared to Nanshan. It was a beautiful blessing and more suitable for gift giving.

Lin Ran went to the museum to see how the teacher was doing.

When he arrived at the museum, Tang Lanxuan had just finished a meeting. He looked much better since he stopped driving.

Seeing Lin Ran coming to visit, Tang Lanxuan invited him to sit down in the office.

"Lin Ran, your method is really good. I haven't seen hallucinations recently." Tang Lanxuan said, "Am I not suitable for driving?"

"Teacher, everything I want to do next may be a bit mysterious, so you can listen selectively." Lin Ran sighed and said, "Aren't you always looking for that piece of ancient jade? I have already found it."

"Found it? Where is it!" Tang Lanxuan looked very excited. Since the last time he saw Gu Yu, he has been brooding about not seeing her again.

This is what worries him the most right now.

Lin Ran said: "Actually, that piece of jade is in the trunk of your car. If I guess correctly, you drove the guests back that day."

Tang Lanxuan nodded. Just as he was about to ask Lin Ran what was going on, he suddenly remembered the hallucination he had seen before.

"You mean! I will see hallucinations because of that piece of jade?"

Seeing Lin Ran nodding, Tang Lanxuan suddenly felt that his brain was not full.

How could a piece of jade cause hallucinations, and it wasn't a slide projector?

Tang Lanxuan was able to hold the position of museum director and knew a lot of folk rumors. He also did a lot of investigations and found that most of the rumors were processed layer by layer and finally evolved into what people heard.

For example, the Great Immortal, whose cry is somewhat similar to a woman's cry, has been misunderstood as a female ghost who died in vain in the mountains and forests.

But it was different when this sentence came from Lin Ran's mouth.

"Teacher, don't worry, just listen to me."

Lin Ran told everything about what he had encountered in the ancient tomb, except that he and Liu Jingfeng came back from there.

Tang Lanxuan's eyes widened: "What are you talking about, you have traveled through time in the ancient tomb? Are you sure it's not an illusion?"

"It's better to call it a VR game than an illusion." Lin Ran said, suddenly remembering that there was no concept of games in this era, and said, "It's just that the things in the illusion will interact with us."

"Illusions affect us, and everything we do changes them."

"So teacher, you said you bumped into someone at first. From the details you described, it doesn't look like you bumped into a normal person."

"It must have been from that time that you were officially haunted by hallucinations."

"And the root of all this lies in the ancient jade hidden in the trunk of your car."

Lin Ran said that he actually didn't expect Tang Lanxuan to agree with his statement, but it was just too exaggerated.

Tang Lanxuan leaned on the chair and looked at the ceiling.

He, who has been receiving higher education, obviously finds it difficult to accept this statement.

However, he still chose to believe Lin Ran.

"Lin Ran, is there a way to solve this matter? As long as I don't touch the jade, I'll be fine, right?" Tang Lanxuan asked.

He deeply felt that his students' abilities had exceeded his own.

And not just in antique circles.

"It's hard to say." Lin Ran looked extremely serious. "Once you are entangled in this kind of curse, if you don't solve it from the root, I'm afraid it won't work."

"So I must go to the place where the ancient jade was dug out. The solution to the problem lies in the ancient tomb."

Lin Ran said, "Teacher, just leave this matter to me. I just want to ask you one thing."

"I'm going to Jinling in a while. Please help me cover it up again. I don't want my parents to worry."

Lin Ran looked at Tang Lanxuan seriously.

Because there were too many people involved in this incident, this ancient tomb brought him a far stronger sense of crisis than Mount Yamato.

"This matter is easy to handle, but..." Tang Lanxuan sighed, "Lin Ran, can I go with you?"

In the past, Lin Ran would definitely refuse.

But things are different now. As the saying goes, the person who untied the bell must tie the bell.

As the center of the curse, Tang Lanxuan might have to go there in person.

"Okay, but there is a big difference between ancient tombs and real society. Teacher Tang... please listen to our arrangements when the time comes."

"And it's very dangerous, so you have to be mentally prepared."