"Feng Qianqian was fired?"
Wei Yuan's words filled me with increasing suspicion. I had originally thought that since Feng Qianqian was working as Wei Yuan's assistant, she could secretly use his phone.
Now, hearing from Wei Yuan that she was no longer at UBS, did she secretly duplicate Wei Yuan's WeChat account?!
However, this thought was immediately dismissed by myself.
Feng Qianqian was only fifteen years old, and she came from a remote rural area. She was not even proficient in typing pinyin on the phone. She should not be so scheming as to monitor Wei Yuan's phone.
"Well, originally I didn't plan to let her go. I just scolded her a few times and told her to shut up. Who would have thought that she was so touchy that she ran out crying and never came back."
There was dissatisfaction in Wei Yuan's voice. He had been a wealthy young master who was always pampered since childhood. How could he ever try to comfort others?!
"Aren't you going to look for her?"
I was really speechless about Wei Yuan's lack of responsibility. Didn't he worry about Feng Qianqian, a young girl, running away like this?
"Look for who!"
Mentioning Feng Qianqian obviously put Wei Yuan in a worse mood. He paused for a moment, as if he was a bit embarrassed to admit that he had ever cared about Feng Qianqian. He casually said, "… Humph, I checked the surveillance room. She's still in the UBS building and hasn't gone out."
I suddenly understood.
No wonder Wei Yuan was so angry. The UBS Building was a comprehensive office building. It not only had offices but also various apartments and living facilities. As long as you had money, you could live in the building for a lifetime without going out!
Wei Yuan had checked the access control at the main entrance through the surveillance. Feng Qianqian hadn't gone out. Moreover, when she was working as an assistant, Wei Yuan had given Feng Qianqian a black card to handle his personal life. That card could be swiped without limit…
Wei Yuan thought that Feng Qianqian was just throwing a tantrum like a woman!!
"Wei Yuan, something might have happened to Feng Qianqian."
I voiced my concern. "She just sent me a WeChat message using your phone!"
"Impossible!!"
As Wei Yuan's voice came through, there was a loud crash on the other end of the phone, as if his chair had toppled over. "I was just in a phone conference, and my phone was right there on the table for projection."
I didn't care whether he believed me or not. I took screenshots of the converted text and sent them to him.
After Wei Yuan took a look, he immediately gasped.
"… I, this, this is impossible!!"
I could imagine the look of disbelief on his face. At this time, the voice of another assistant seemed to come from the phone receiver. "Mr. Wei, have you rested well? An important topic is being discussed in the meeting now… The chairman is asking for you."
"I'm not going!"
Wei Yuan lost his temper. He slammed a water cup onto the table with a "bang", then leaned closer to the phone receiver and shouted at me, "Xiao He, do you think that stupid woman is already dead? Otherwise, how could she be hiding in my phone?!"
"Mr. Wei, don't be so willful!"
The assistant tried to persuade Wei Yuan. I didn't say anything else and just hung up the phone.
The phone rang a few more times. Without even thinking, I knew it was Wei Yuan calling back unwillingly. I didn't answer the phone again. Instead, I took my shoulder bag from the chest of drawers against the wall. There were my tools in it. Although I usually only used talismans and soul bottles, the five - emperor coins for divination were also always in my bag.
I randomly took out three five - emperor coins from my pocket and silently divined a hexagram.
Muttering in my heart about Feng Qianqian's current whereabouts, I held the three copper coins in my hands, shook them, and placed them one by one.
Since ancient times, coins have been in circulation among the common people after being minted. They have been contaminated with countless human auras, are full of yang energy, and have infinite spiritual energy. My five - emperor coins were different from those of ordinary masters. Generally, masters who set up divination outside used the five emperors during the prosperous periods of the Qing Dynasty, namely Tongzhi, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, and Daoguang.
The oldest of these coins was only three or four hundred years old. They were relatively large in quantity and relatively easy to find.
The great five - emperor coins I used were Ban Liang, Wu Zhu, Kai Yuan, Song Yuan, and Yong Le, from the five most prosperous periods in China. It was said that A Wen had spent a great deal of time and effort to obtain them.
I never really cared about these tools. There was no difference in using ordinary small five - emperor coins. It was such a hassle… and I heard that it cost a lot of money. It really wasn't worth it!!
But A Wen was very persistent about this. He had his own set of fallacies. Only by being different from others could we show our uniqueness.
Sure enough, since we got the great five - emperor coins, every time I took them out for divination, the clients who invited us would always put more money in the red envelopes afterwards. I also roughly understood the saying "a man depends on his clothes, and a Buddha depends on his golden adornment".
The three copper coins I took out from my shoulder bag were the Han Wu Zhu, the Tang Kai Yuan, and the Ming Yong Le. I placed these three copper coins twice, but the hexagram I got was the great inauspicious hexagram of Shui Shan Jian.
When I divined, my intention was to check on Feng Qianqian's fortune. Now that one of the four great inauspicious hexagrams in the six - line hexagrams appeared, I immediately had a strong sense of foreboding in my heart.
Encountering water in the mountains meant that people were trapped. And the UBS Building was located in the northeast of Beijing. It was very likely that Feng Qianqian was in great danger.
Maybe she also realized that danger was approaching, so she desperately sent me this last distress signal.
However, what she was worried about was Wei Yuan's safety… It seemed that this little girl thought that Wei Yuan was more important than her own life…
Feng Qianqian probably only knew me in Beijing as a master who could resolve the deadlock between her and Wei Yuan. So even if her soul left her body, she still had to use her meager spiritual power to find me through WeChat.
I put away the copper coins and walked out of the room. The sun was already setting in the small quadrangle courtyard. It had only been a little over ten hours since I left!
Should I delay my trip to Lucheng for Wei Yuan and Feng Qianqian?
I couldn't help but look towards Si Jiangchen's study.
The old - fashioned dark green window lattice was half - open. I could see a computer on the ebony desk. Si Jiangchen was sitting upright in the high - backed armchair. He looked so handsome and serious that I could hardly take my eyes off him.
… Forget it. I'd better not disturb his work.
As I was thinking, my phone rang again. When I took it out, it was actually a WeChat video call from Du Wenzhong.
"… Master, what's up?"
He didn't usually contact me. Now he was making a rare call, which really made me feel both surprised and extremely uneasy.
"Xiao He, aren't you coming back today?"
The video was a bit shaky. Du Wenzhong seemed to be talking to me while hurrying on his way.
"I'm at Si Jiangchen's place. If there's something at home, I can go back at any time."
My heart had sunk to the bottom because I saw that the phone video had moved down to A Wen's arm. There was a round animal wrapped in a towel in his arm… the grayish - white spikes. Isn't that Granny Bai?!