Why do you think someone is going to raid your home?
After lying back down on the bed, He Lixuan asked.
Shiyue shook her head: "I don't know either."
Maybe it's an intuition?
Even Shiyue couldn't explain it clearly.
But now, recalling the two times the Revolutionary Committee came to cause trouble, although the reasons were different, the purpose was actually the same: to ransack her home.
At the time, I only felt angry and scared, but now that I think about it, Shiyue feels that something is wrong.
What is in her house that makes those people so obsessed?
This reminded her of two other times when someone tried to climb over her wall.
"Forget it, if you can't figure it out, don't think about it anymore. Go to sleep. Didn't you already take everything from the house? Don't worry about what those people want, just make sure they don't get what they want in the end."
Seeing that his wife still looked uneasy, He Lixuan comforted her.
He Lixuan's words did not comfort Shiyue; instead, they made her think even more.
What do those people really want?
Who are those people?
If things don't change too much, Sun Cheng and his wife will still be guarding the dam!
They should not have the power to instruct the Revolutionary Committee again.
But besides them, who else would hate themselves so much that they would want to tear their house apart?
Shiyue really couldn't think of anything.
Although He Lixuan tried to persuade his wife to go to sleep, he himself was wide awake now.
He put his hands behind his head and his mind started to wander.
As he thought about it, he couldn't help but laugh: "Is it because someone heard that my father-in-law used to own a restaurant, and they think the family is very rich and has hidden gold and silver treasures or something? So this is because of money?"
The more He Lixuan talked about it, the more reliable the idea seemed.
He turned to the side and nudged Shiyue: "Is it possible? When I was in the team, I heard a lot of people say that our family was well-off, and that when you moved here, you brought several mule carts full of stuff."
And then Uncle Shen and the others helped you establish your authority, and you even started receiving money from the commune... maybe that really is the reason.”
Shiyue scoffed, "How many times have I received money from the commune? Besides, even if I had money, who wouldn't take it with them when they move? Why would they leave it for them to dig up?"
As Shiyue spoke, she grew increasingly angry: "If my family had any gold or silver treasures, how come I wouldn't know? They all seem to know more about them than I do..."
At this point, she suddenly stopped talking.
She realized she had overlooked something!
"What? What did you remember?" He Lixuan asked.
Shiyue sat up abruptly!
"No, you really have gold and silver treasures?" He Lixuan was genuinely surprised this time and sat up as well.
But Shiyue was ignoring him.
Shiyue entered the space.
She quickly regained her senses by picking up a small wooden box.
Shiyue showed the wooden box to He Lixuan: "Do you think it might be for this?"
He Lixuan raised an eyebrow, got up himself, turned the light back on, and then examined the box closely.
He Lixuan's mother brought a large dowry.
Although I tried my best to pack light when I returned to China, I still brought back quite a few nice things.
Therefore, in terms of vision, He Lixuan is far superior to Shi Yue.
He's seen too much since he was a child.
He turned the box over and over, then said, "This box is made of Phoebe zhennan wood, but that's just the quality of the wood itself; the workmanship is just average. It doesn't look like something from a good shop. It looks..."
He looked at it carefully again, then pointed to several unsealed sections on the back of the box, revealing the nail heads: "Look, these nails are all crooked. I think this box was nailed by someone else; it's just that the nails were nailed carefully, and the workmanship is not bad."
Shiyue never knew that she could draw such a conclusion just by looking at the box's exterior, and she immediately felt that she had seen hope!
She immediately pointed to the lock and asked, "Can you open this lock? My dad said that my mom left a will before she passed away, saying that this lock can only be turned three times, and after that it will automatically lock and can never be opened again."
But she didn't tell my dad how to open it.
When talking about her parents' past, Shiyue's eyes showed a hint of sadness.
"I thought about it later, and my mom probably never intended for my dad and me to open the box. She probably just wanted us to keep it safe for her and wait for some destined person to take it."
When she spoke of her destined partner, she lowered her head slightly.
His expression revealed a hint of frustration at not being trusted.
He Lixuan patted her head and comforted her, "Don't be angry about this. Not letting you open it doesn't necessarily mean they don't trust you. Think about it, is this box really your mother-in-law's? Is it possible that she's just keeping it for someone else?"
She never met the owner of the box before she passed away, so she could only entrust it to you.
The owner of the box is the one who can truly open it.
He Lixuan's words greatly shocked Shiyue!
This also made her feel anxious.
She said, "Then, who is the owner of this box? We don't know when we'll be back after we get to the island. What if he can't find us?"
He Lixuan remained silent.
After a while, she said, "Then it's just not meant to be. You said your mother is waiting for someone she's destined to be with, and if it's not meant to be, there's nothing anyone can do."
Besides, even your mother didn't live to see her, so who can guarantee we'll?
and……
He Lixuan didn't say it aloud, but he felt in his heart that what was in the box might not necessarily be anything good.
My family has been raided twice in a row; I wonder if it's related to this thing.
If a box has already caused such a mess, and then some so-called "destined person" comes along, things will probably get even more complicated.
Now, for the safety of his family, He Lixuan does not want that so-called "destined person" to appear.
After hearing He Lixuan's words, Shiyue also fell silent.
She stared intently at the box, as if trying to see through it with her gaze to see exactly what was inside.
After a while, she finally made up her mind, pointed to the lock, and said, "Can you open this lock? If you can, let's open it and see. If it's something particularly dangerous, I'll keep it in the little house and never take it out again!"
He Lixuan had already examined the lock carefully, and now, hearing his wife's explanation, he said, "This is a hidden poem lock. You see, there are five lines of text on this lock, so it's also called a five-character hidden poem lock. As long as you know which line of poetry is used, it's easy to open."
He Lixuan's explanation was so logical and reasonable that Shiyue's eyes lit up with surprise.
She shook her husband: "Then open it!"
He Lixuan gave a wry smile: "I've always been most impatient with memorizing poems, and I can barely recite a few."
He pointed to the words on the lock and said, "Besides, the words on this should be in Small Seal script. I don't even recognize the characters, so how would I know which poem it selected or whether I've read it before?"
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