At that moment, Shiyue's heart jumped into her throat!
If she weren't afraid of startling the old lady, she would have loved to scream a few times!
Fu Yunfang was also very happy to open the lock.
She proudly handed the box back to Shiyue, saying, "Opened."
"It's open! It's open! Thank you, Mom! Thank you so much!" Shiyue said excitedly.
She simply didn't know how to express the excitement in her heart at that moment, and even wanted to hug Fu Yunfang and spin her around twice!
Of course, she quickly put away this devilish idea and simply pulled a handful of candy from her pocket and stuffed it into Fu Yunfang's hand.
He even unwrapped one of the lobster candies and put it into Fu Yunfang's mouth.
Although Fu Yunfang was sometimes confused, she was always a very kind and gentle old woman.
Once his mind cleared up a bit, he knew he should save the best food for the younger generation.
For example, she would often secretly save the bird eggs she cooked for Jiajia, and then put them into Jiajia's mouth when Jiajia came.
There are no chickens raised on Whale Island now, so eggs have become a rare commodity.
If a few children manage to find some bird eggs in the mountains, they will run to Shiyue and exchange the eggs for candy.
The two sisters-in-law kept these bird eggs to supplement the nutrition of the elderly in their family.
Not to mention Shiyue and the others, even Jiajia isn't qualified to eat it.
When a piece of candy was suddenly stuffed into her mouth, Fu Yunfang was first taken aback, and then immediately tried to return the candy to Shiyue.
He kept repeating, "You eat, you eat."
Shiyue was too excited at this moment, and she was also eager to see what was written in the box.
Not wanting to argue with her mother-in-law about this candy any longer, she simply peeled off a piece and put it in her own mouth.
Then she put the nine-linked rings back into her mother-in-law's hand and coaxed, "Mom, you keep playing, let me see the box, okay?"
Fu Yunfang's attention was immediately drawn to the nine-linked rings.
Shiyue finally opened the wooden box.
Upon opening it, the first thing that caught Shiyue's eye was half a jade bracelet.
Perhaps because it was well preserved, the jade bracelet looked brand new even after being in the box for so many years, and even the cracks on it were still very obvious.
It was a jade bracelet made of mutton fat jade, with excellent quality, pure white, but it was broken, which is a real pity.
Beneath the jade bracelet lay a thick stack of letters and a pile of account pages that looked like they had been torn from an account book.
Shiyue first looked at the account pages, and then she discovered—
I can't understand it myself.
Although the ledger used Chinese accounting methods, apart from the numbers, everything else, including the goods, was in English!
After looking at it for a long time, Shiyue could only come to one conclusion: the handwriting was really beautiful.
That's all I can tell.
She set the ledger aside and opened an unsealed letter.
Upon opening the letter, Shiyue couldn't help but feel a twitch between her brows after reading only a few words!
She was so startled that she stood up abruptly.
Shiyue glanced at her mother-in-law, who was engrossed in playing beside her, and remained silent.
She ran quickly outside and shouted to the neighbor in the yard, "Jiajia, Jiajia, come out for a second!"
Jiajia, who was playing cat's cradle with her mother inside, heard the call and ran out immediately.
Before she could speak, Shiyue said to her, "Go to the experts' building right now and call your uncle back. Tell him I need to see him urgently!"
Jiajia agreed, stopped playing with the rope, and ran towards the playground.
Hearing the noise, Liang Yueming ran out and asked, "Shiyue, is something wrong? Why did you call Lixuan back now?"
Shiyue said, "Sister-in-law, come and keep Mom company for a while. I suddenly remembered that there's an urgent matter at home, and I have to go back. You can just bring Mom over to my place later. I'll go back first."
Seeing that Shiyue's expression was not right, Liang Yueming did not dare to ask any more questions. She agreed and came out of her own courtyard to her parents-in-law's side.
Shiyue hurriedly put the wooden box back into the bag, then left the nine-linked rings with her mother-in-law, and took the bag home.
She had just arrived home when He Lixuan came back with Jiajia.
As soon as he entered, without even wiping his sweat, he asked, "The box is open?"
"Okay." Shiyue nodded and handed the box over.
He Lixuan opened the box, but instead of looking at the half jade bracelet, he looked at the account pages first.
Clearly, he recognized those words, and he raised an eyebrow after looking at them.
"What does this say?" Shiyue asked.
"Weapons. These are the names of the weapons listed here. These ledgers contain records of weapon purchases."
really.
Shiyue thought to herself.
It turned out to be pretty much what I thought.
She pointed to the letter she had been reading earlier and said, "Take a look at this."
He Lixuan opened the letter, his expression similar to Shi Yue's earlier, both showing deep shock.
He subconsciously looked over at Shiyue.
“If I’m not mistaken, my grandfather was probably also an underground worker,” Shiyue said.
He Lixuan nodded.
He continued reading the letter.
This letter was written by Shiyue's maternal grandfather, Song Bohan, to a friend surnamed Gu, who was probably also his superior.
Song Bohan said that he discovered he was being followed when he went out today, which gave him a very bad feeling.
He moved all the radios and supplies he had hidden at home, and entrusted his wife to take the account books and some documents that had to be handed over back to Shangshui.
If his premonition is wrong, he will bring his wife and children back once he is sure they are safe, and his old friend will never see the letter.
If an old friend receives a letter, it means that he has met with misfortune.
He asked his old friend to pass on the documents he had submitted to his superiors, and also asked his old friend to take care of his children.
In addition, Song Bohan mentioned two names in the letter, saying that he had solid evidence that these two people had betrayed him.
He will take action to eliminate them. But if he fails to accomplish this task, please, my old friend, find a way to eradicate these two scourges.
“Zhao Junsheng, Zhuang Wenquan,” He Lixuan read out the two names.
He looked at Shiyue: "Do you recognize these two names? Has your mother ever mentioned them?"
"No." Shiyue shook her head: "My mother has never told me about her past."
All I know is that she fled to the restaurant where my dad worked, and then fainted from hunger. My dad rescued her, and afterwards they got married.
I used to think my mom was the daughter of a landlord, and that she was afraid to mention it because of her family's bad social class.
From this letter and those account pages, Shiyue knew that her maternal grandfather's family was not some small landlords, but a legitimate underground party member.
Like Uncle Shen and Uncle Lü, they are all good people who have made contributions to the country!
This feeling stirred Shiyue's heart!
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