Chapter 4 Chapter 3 Baron Tia

A few days later, Ivy read the newspaper and found out that an inexplicable assassination had taken place near Howell's villa that day.The dead man was suspected to be a rich man who started his business in the arms business, but the way of death was rather strange - he was penetrated from the front with a sharp weapon.The police searched intensively for several days, but they still couldn't find the murder weapon. In this era of extremely developed mechanical weapons, it is really strange to use cold weapons to assassinate.In addition, the protection measures of the rich man are simply among the best in London, and the method of using cold weapons is even more difficult and stupid.But in Ivy's view, the murderer is not so difficult to track down.To kill from the front means to kill someone you know.To be able to escape smoothly after the assassination means at least knowing the structure of the person's house and gaining trust.If the government wants to explore the results, it will not be without progress.

It's just that the victim has always been a thorn in the side of the government. This bizarre assassination can only be regarded as a good thing for the government. . Anyway, it has nothing to do with her. Ivy put down the newspaper and took a few mouthfuls of breakfast.Today is the day that his father arranged to meet Baron Tia. When Marquis Mordiet left England, he asked Ai Xian to take Ai Wei to a horse farm in the suburbs, so that he could relax.Since more than a year ago, Ivy has suddenly become very passionate about equestrianism. Although she has not received special training before, Ivy has a very good sense of balance on horseback. When she learns more complicated movements later, her speed is also amazing. Soon, I caught up with many noble ladies who learned equestrianism since childhood.This was praised by her equestrian coach.Sometimes Ai Xian would frown and ask, "Didn't you dare not even touch a horse before?"

Ai Xian is used to going to the racecourse in the morning, so she asked Ai Wei to leave two hours earlier than usual.I got up too early in the morning, and when I arrived at the racecourse, Ivy already felt a little sleepy. I only felt that my eyelids were extremely heavy, and my mind seemed to be filled with paper balls full of words. I couldn't hear anything, and I couldn't think about anything. . "Wei Wei——" Ai Xian's voice rang in my ears, and Ai Wei was shocked suddenly, then straightened her body, and her body accidentally touched the round table in front of her, and the teacup swayed and finally did not fall.The noble ladies around couldn't help laughing slightly, Ai Xian calmly handed the sugar bowl to Ivy, "Don't worry."

Ai Xian concealed Ivy's panic, but it made her even more embarrassed.Guiltyly, she added a spoonful of sugar. "Mr. Ai Xian seems to have been very busy recently. You didn't even attend the earlier dance." The surroundings returned to the earlier tranquility. Mrs. Summers spoke first and asked about Ai Xian's recent situation with a smile.Ai Xian has always been quite popular in the social circles of the upper class. At the age of 27, he is still alone. With his gentle temperament and strong family background, it is hard for a married noble lady not to want to spend more time with him. Say something in anticipation of what "pleasant surprise" will happen.

Ai Xian gently put down the black tea, her ice blue eyes were full of politeness but smeared with a touch of indifference, "There are some business matters in Greece." "Ai Xian always looks very busy, today is really rare." It was Miss Kant who spoke, her bright lip gloss shone ostentatiously, seeing Ai Xian smiling, she didn't intend to answer the conversation.She put down her teacup and brushed her hair casually, "I heard that Baron Tiya will also come to this club today." After saying this, everyone's eyes lit up again.Miss Gray smiled and said, "I heard that Mr. Ai Xian and Baron Tia are also familiar. You and Baron Tia, the two most high-profile bachelors in the London circle, are both elusive and elusive, which is very rare."

Ai Xian took a sip of tea, noncommittal to Gray's evaluation.Gray smiled awkwardly, and then looked at Ivy, "Miss Ivy, I don't know if you have heard of it, Baron Tia is the heir to the title of the tenth generation of the Tia family, and he has a very big business in antique art. .It's just that I haven't been active in the UK for a few years, so there are very few opportunities to see that handsome face." "The 'Rose' Gallery was opened by him." Miss Kant added. Ivy absently stirred the black tea with a small spoon, and nodded in agreement.Seeing that the two brothers and sisters of Mordiet were not interested in Baron Tia, everyone changed the subject and chatted about some gossip about acquaintances. Ivy listened casually, but her thoughts drifted somewhere.Suddenly, her gaze froze, as if something had happened to the training ground not far away, a strong horse was crazily running towards their direction.

Ai Xian also noticed this, he stood up quickly, and said to the noble ladies who hadn't reacted yet: "Please get up and go into the house to take shelter, it seems that Arima has been frightened." The noble ladies quickly reacted, and then got up desperately, scrambling to run into the lounge.Ivy also stood up and looked at the horse.There seemed to be someone on the brown steed. The man hugged the horse's neck tightly, clamped his legs tightly around the horse's belly, his face was so pale that he couldn't even make a sound, let alone have the energy to pull the rein. .

Seeing that Ai Wei was not moving, Ai Xian wanted to reach out and pull her.But she took a quicker step, ran towards the direction where the horse was running, pulled the reins from the hands of the people who let go of the horse to avoid him, jumped on the horse, and rode over to meet the frightened horse. "Ai Wei! Are you crazy?" Ai Xian's voice faded away behind her.He called her by her full name, and it must be no good.But now I can't handle that much anymore.She squeezed the horse's belly tightly and approached the terrified rider even faster. "Relax! Relax!" Ivy yelled loudly, riding her horse forward parallel to it, "Don't pinch its stomach so hard!"

The rider was a young girl, inexperienced, so frightened and overwhelmed that she couldn't respond to Ivy's words at all.Ivy frowned slightly, then turned sideways, reached out and grabbed the horse's rein from the side, and pulled it hard.However, the horse was in a relatively abnormal state, ignoring Ivy's control at all, and struggling to continue running forward.However, there is a solid fence not far ahead, if the girl is accidentally thrown off by a horse... the consequences will be disastrous.Ivy couldn't help feeling a little anxious, she couldn't control the horse, but she didn't want to let go, let this girl fend for herself, what should she do...

When I was in trouble, I seemed to hear the sound of a horse catching up behind me. Maybe it was the training staff of the venue or a certain professional jockey. Ivy looked back expectantly, but saw a man in A neat young man drove over on a horse.If it weren't for the emergency, Ivy would have laughed out loud.The man was wearing a dark three-piece suit, a white shirt, an old-fashioned tie, and a pair of well-polished dark brown leather shoes.The whole person looks meticulous, but now he is riding on a horse, chasing the crazy horse quite heroically. "Let go of the rein, and leave it to me." His English was slightly old-fashioned, and Ivy froze for a moment, then realized it, so she quickly let go and concentrated on stabilizing her horse.Looking back, the young man had already caught up with the crazy horse.But looking back, the high fence was already close at hand, and there was no time to take care of them. Ivy controlled the mount under her crotch, jumped over the fence in a standard and perfect posture, landed steadily, and then quickly made way for the road.Within a few seconds, the frightened horse also jumped over, but continued to rush forward like crazy, but the rider was gone.

Looking around, the horse that the young man was riding on was already empty. Ivy reined in the rein hard, rode the horse around the fence and returned to the place where she let go of the rein just now.The man hugged the young girl rider who was too scared to move, and rolled on the ground.He made a decisive decision and threw the girl off the horse!Just now the horse's speed was very fast, he was covering the girl with his whole body, if he didn't pay attention to the protection movements, he might have fallen hard.Ivy breathed a sigh of relief, quickly jumped off the horse, and walked to them in three steps at a time. "Is it okay?" She asked with some concern. The man didn't answer, and was silent for a moment, then let go of the girl in his arms, and straightened up.Ivy can finally see his face clearly, with short light brown hair, fair skin, dark walnut eyes, deep-set eye sockets and a straight nose.An extremely strong sense of familiarity in her heart made her take a few steps back nervously. At that moment, doubts, fears, joys, fears, and questions intertwined and swirled into her mind, like tiny electric currents, eroding her nerves and making her scalp numb slightly.A name came to his lips, but he couldn't make a sound, just like that, it was condensed in his throat like it had dried up. The man stood up and adjusted his clothes a little bit, but the moment his eyes touched Ivy, he was slightly stunned.There was a confused expression on the fair face, and the dark walnut-colored eyes narrowed slightly, looking at Ivy. But it seemed to be gazing at an extremely far place through her. I don't know how long it took, his eyes returned to Ivy's face, and then he showed a clear smile, like the winter sun, subtle and warm.He walked a few steps in front of Ivy, gently held her hand, and gently printed a kiss on the back of the white hand, "I'm sorry for being rude to Miss Ivy. It doesn't matter anymore, please don't worry. " Ai Wei froze there, momentarily at a loss for words because of his inexplicable tone and way of speaking, and didn't know how to react. At this moment, Ai Xian's voice sounded from the back of her head. "Ai Wei, you...Winter?" After seeing the man, Ai Xianben's angry voice suddenly turned to surprise.He took out his pocket watch, glanced at it, then raised his head again, stretched out his hand in a hurry, and held it firmly, "Why did you arrive so early!" Winter smiled, "We haven't seen each other for a long time, I hope I can be as punctual as possible in the long-lost meeting." Then he bowed slightly to the rider who was limp on the ground, "Let's put the lady in place first, and then I will change Clothes, so that I can be on time for your lunch appointment with Miss Ivy." While nodding to Ai Xian, he turned around and was about to leave.But Ivy took a sudden step forward, grabbing the hem of his clothes in an extremely impolite manner, her water-blue eyes looked into his pupils without hesitation, as if looking for clues of her existence in his memory. who are you? why are you here Why do you look much older than you think? Questions hovered in her mind, she couldn't take her eyes off Wen Te's face, and Wen Te looked back at her quietly.There was no surprise, no rebuke, no unhappiness, just looked at her lightly, her hesitant figure was reflected in the deep walnut-colored eyes, and she was alone. "Okay, Ivy, don't delay Wente's affairs." Ai Xian patted Ivy on the shoulder, and only then did she realize her impoliteness.However, there are still countless questions in her heart that she wants to ask, but under Ai Xian's serious eyes, all of these are temporarily retracted abruptly. The staff not far away were rushing over, and the noble ladies who had been hiding in the room to watch the excitement also came out one by one.Winter walked slowly back to the club to change clothes, but Ivy couldn't take her eyes off him no matter what.Until Ai Xian lit a cigar and said calmly in her ear: "When it's time for dinner, just ask any questions you have." Only then did she barely retract her gaze, and followed Ai Xian to the club building. There are many ways to determine a person's general background.The more direct ones are to watch his clothes, listen to his diction and grammar, and his small living habits.Wen Te and Ai Xian, who had already put on another neat suit, chatted leisurely about topics like "quattrocento" while drinking Perrier mineral water.Wen Te spoke happily, his English was standard and fluent, with an accent and style of speech very similar to Ai Xian's, and even his voice was somewhat similar.Ivy stood aside and watched quietly for a while.Wen Te is about the same age as Ai Xian. When he speaks, he will have a slight smile on his lips, revealing his white and neat teeth.If Ai Xian feels like the moon hanging in the night sky, cold and bright, Wen Te feels like the sun in the morning in winter, warm but far away. In short, the two sat together, and their natural temperament seemed to brighten up the surroundings.And she seemed to be isolated from the two of them, as if she couldn't get in a word.After the first dish was served, Wen Te turned around and started talking to Ivy who had been silent all the time: "I have never met Miss Ivy, I didn't expect your equestrian skills to be amazing!" Winter specially emphasized the words "never met", and Ivy couldn't help but feel a little frustrated, thinking that maybe he was really just an irrelevant person, and she was a little dissatisfied with her rude behavior just now.But before she could figure out how to apologize, Wen Te continued, his deep walnut-colored eyes were filled with soft light, and his tone was very friendly without any dissatisfaction, "I am Wen Te, Wen Te Tia .I inherited the title of Baron from my father, so some people call me Baron Tia." Ivy paused, and her water blue eyes looked at him again.Winter continued to smile, "Don't you think I am very British? In the previous generations of ancestors, a certain baron married a lady of Israeli descent..." Ivy shook her head quickly, bowing slightly to express her apology . He is Baron Tiya, no wonder he has the innate aristocratic temperament.Ivy's tense mood relaxed at that moment.Sure enough, Winter was not who she thought.Different ages, different life backgrounds.Baron Tiya's every move, the pronunciation of every word, and the degree of familiarity with Ai Xian are the strongest evidence.He is just a person who has nothing to do with that era. Even if there is a little connection, at most he looks like Andrea, but it is just a small remnant of the real existence of that time and space... I can't tell whether it is a sigh of relief or Disappointed, Ivy tilted her head, and when she raised her head again, her water-blue eyes were already filled with a moist smile. "The name of Baron Tiya has also been known for a long time." This sentence is inevitably a bit false. Ivy's understanding of Baron Tiya is just from the seemingly inadvertent introduction of the Marquis of Mordiet.Baron Tia is one of the few nobles with relatively strong strength in the UK today, and he was knighted by George II in the eighteenth century.The baron is at the end of the five ranks of nobility, and it is also the rank with the largest number of nobles.The king has no right to increase or seize the title of title at will.The first generation Baron Tiya was awarded the title in the 18th century, which shows that he must have made some outstanding contributions to the king at that time, and was promoted to this title by ordinary nobles and even commoners. However, since being proclaimed, the Tiya family has always been keen on the trading of antiques and cultural products. After hundreds of years of accumulation, they have achieved a considerable business and almost monopolized the high-end antique market.Aristocrats with both titles and solid economic strength are very rare nowadays.So the Marquis of Mordiet admired the Tiya family quite a lot. Another point is that although there are abundant funds, the Tiya family has always been passed down from generation to generation, and the successor to the title of baron in the past is the eldest son and only son of the family.In this way, with no collateral, no relatives, and no disputes, the title and huge assets of the Tiya family have been inherited cleanly, and will not be encountered by the Marquis of Mordiet or many other nobles. Troubled by complex family disputes. It makes sense for those noble ladies to list Baron Tia and Ai Xian as the two most valuable single nobles in the London social circle. In order to express her respect, Ivy emphasized the title of "Sir" in front of his name when addressing him.Baron Tiya burst into a smile. He glanced at Ai Xian and said to Ai Wei: "You can call me Wen Te. With the relationship between me and Ai Xian, Miss Ai Wei is completely welcome." Immediately afterwards, he began to concentrate on communicating with Ai Xian about artworks and collections.Ivy was a little bored and couldn't get in any words, so she just sat aside and listened quietly to Baron Tia and Ai Xian's conversation. "The transaction of collectibles is a pleasant thing." Winter's tone suddenly rose due to the change of the topic, "I have traveled around the world in recent years, and I have collected a lot of excellent items." "You are an expert in this field. After all, the Tiya family started to do related work a long time ago." Ai Xian said familiarly, "In the 19th century, the Tiya family was the leader in the trade of Egyptian cultural relics. precursor." Winter nodded with a smile, "I also saw the name of the Marquis of Mordiet in the transaction records passed down by my ancestors at home. When it was quite popular to dissect mummies, I bought a few from home. Marquis of Mordiet Are you interested in these too?" "My father's generation may not be interested in those." Ai Xian smiled politely, but there was no smile in his eyes. In the 19th century, dissection of mummies was very popular among British aristocrats, and this weird hobby became a temporary trend.It was not until several tragedies occurred that the popularity slowly faded away.Ivy couldn't help but concentrate. Did the Mordiet family dissect a mummy?She had never heard of such a thing. At that moment, there seemed to be a lot of clueless clues in my mind, stuffed in chaotically and abruptly, entangled and entangled together.The Mordiet family dissected the mummy many years ago. Tissy, who has worked at home for decades, once got the Eye of Horus. Her brother is inexplicably similar to Jari three thousand years ago. It is like the reincarnation of people in that era, and she herself...has many entanglements with that ancient world.What is the connection between all this?Is all this just a coincidence?Ivy couldn't help holding the tablecloth in front of her with some force. At this moment, Winter suddenly asked something related to Ivy: "I heard that Miss Ivy also knows a lot about Egypt?" Ai Xian's knife hit the edge of the plate with a crisp sound.Such a mistake has never happened to him.Seeing that his complexion became very bad, he put down the tableware, took a sip of water, and then said with a smile: "No, no, Sister She is not interested in that kind of ancient things." Winter looked at Ivy again, with some doubts in his dark walnut eyes.Ai Wei hurriedly echoed Ai Xian and said, "I just read it a little bit when I was studying the history of economics, but I really don't know much about things like history and archeology." In order not to worry Ai Xian and say what she didn't want to say, Ai Wei lowered her head a little, her thick eyelashes blocking her water-blue eyes.Baron Tia on the side was still smiling quietly, and he slowly tore open a piece of bread, "Ah, that's pretty good, actually, archaeology is really hard." Ivy agreed, and then turned her gaze, trying to divert her attention. Out of the corner of her eye, she suddenly saw a very classic big ring on Winter's hand.The dark gold ring body seems to have a history of a hundred years, and the fine carvings firmly hold a ruby ​​as deep as blood, quietly absorbing the sunlight falling from the window, and you can feel a faint feeling between the light and shadow. breath. Red—that touch of red was really familiar to her.It seemed that when she was falling into endless scarlet, when her wrist was about to be burned by a broken gold bracelet, it brought her faint hope and endless despair, once The culprit who threw her into the vortex of time and space again... However, the Eye of Horus had already been liquefied by Tissy. The first half of the bottle kept her soul and saved her life; the second half of the bottle was kept by Tissy. After letting Ivy drink it, she returned to him again.She drank the last drop of the bright red liquid, and since then, the Eye of Horus has disappeared from this world.The only possibility for her to return to him... disappeared without a trace. Unless there is another possibility. Unless the Eye of Horus in Tissy's hand was brought back from modern times to ancient times by Ivy herself.Then, there should be a real Eye of Horus in that era—an Egyptian secret treasure that has not been liquefied and sealed by the key of the four secret treasures.If, if there is such a one-in-a-million possibility—that Ramses gathered the keys of the four major secret treasures and took out the Eye of Horus, then maybe the one standing in front of his eyes is the real Dong! In this case... Her eye sockets suddenly blurred, and a surge of ecstasy flooded her mind, making her almost unable to breathe.Not because she still has a chance to go back to the past, not because she saw Dong again.It's just because that person, that person still remembers her in his heart and really cares about her. "This ring is the symbol of Baron Tia's title." The polite and gentle voice slowly cut into her thoughts, causing her to raise her head from her contemplation, but just in time to see Wen Te's faint smile, "It's been worn by every generation of barons, so it might look a bit old and out of place." Ivy was stunned for a while, her eyes dangled in her eye sockets as if she couldn't focus, then she nodded quickly as if she just remembered something, then shook her head again, looked away awkwardly, and whispered something :"excuse me." It sounds like... two completely unrelated things.Ivy is a little depressed, but if you have a chance, please ask in private.Ivy thought so without giving up. "Ivy likes rubies, so I took a second look at them. I'm really sorry." Ai Xian said this lightly, and then changed the topic when she signaled for someone to change dishes, "It's autumn again, soon Then you can go fishing for salmon." The dining table quickly restored the previous harmonious atmosphere, Ai Xian obviously changed the subject, and everyone did not continue the previous conversation. After the meal, because Ivy had to rush back to her residence in the city, she had to say goodbye to Wen Te in a hurry.Winter got up quickly, took Ivy's hand politely, and kissed the back of her hand in a very old way. "If there is a chance, I would like to meet Miss Ivy again." Wen Te said politely, and Ivy carefully looked at Wen Te's always smiling face, but nothing could be seen in the deep walnut-colored eyes.He bowed slightly, then walked back to the dining table and sat down quietly.She glanced at Ai Xian carefully again, he was slowly sipping his after-dinner coffee, his icy blue eyes looked at the racetrack outside the window lightly, and did not pay attention to this place. Shouldn't it be just being polite?Ivy thought for a while, and then replied: "Well, I also have some questions about artworks and cultural relics, and I want to ask Baron Tia, for example-the Eye of Horus." She spoke slowly, careful not to miss any change in Winter's eyes.However, to her disappointment, she did not find any clues.Ivy sighed, so she had to bid farewell to Baron Tiya for the time being, followed Ai Xian out of the club, and got into the dark brown car that had been quietly waiting outside. Retracting into the car, Ivy gently stroked the faint red marks on her left hand, thinking about how to verify the relationship between Baron Tiya and Dong when we meet again next time.And at this moment, Ai Xian who was beside him suddenly told the driver an unfamiliar address.Ivy raised her head and looked at him puzzled. Ai Xian paused, dropped the partition between the driver and the back seat, and explained, "Weiwei, I know you want to see Tissy." After a short shock, Ivy only felt her heart beating wildly.But she didn't dare to move, she just clenched her hands and listened nervously to Ai Xian who continued, "Although father is so unwilling, I don't want you to doubt my original intention...I will take you Go see her. No matter what questions you have, you can ask her yourself. But, you must bury everything you heard in your heart forever."