Chapter 544: Discovery in the Graveyard
The next day.
Gu Xiaoxi went to the Public Security Bureau to handle the formalities early in the morning, and Lu Jiansen sent the old man Gu's body for cremation.
At 10:30 in the morning, Gu Xiaoxi, her father, Lu Jiansen, and Yu Chengshuang took the old man Gu's ashes to the neighboring Lincheng.
After arriving at the place, Yu Chengshuang waited at the foot of the mountain where the grave was located, while Gu Xiaoxi and Lu Jiansen went to the village where the deceased Gu Zesheng lived and found the village chief.
Originally Gu Xiaoxi thought they would have to spend some time talking, but unexpectedly, after the village chief heard their purpose, he sighed and started talking immediately.
"Our village sold him the cemetery. He was a poor man. He said his brother, also named Gu Zesheng, was washed away by a flood. Even if he recognized the wrong person, he wanted to be buried there after he died. Our villagers discussed it and agreed..."
Gu Xiaoxi looked at the village chief suspiciously. It turned out that old man Gu had made up a story and played the family card to buy the burial site here.
"I'll take you to the cemetery! If you need help, I can also find a few villagers to help you." The village chief believed that the dead were the most important, so he was willing to take them up the mountain himself.
Gu Xiaoxi said hurriedly: "We brought people here today, so we won't bother you for help. Just show us the way."
"Okay, I'll take you there." The village chief immediately closed the door and took Gu Xiaoxi and the others up the mountain.
About half an hour later, Gu Xiaoxi saw the burial site chosen by Old Man Gu.
The land was not big, but it was surrounded by a circle of cypress trees more than one meter tall, providing a solid shade.
There are only two tombstones within the area of the cypress tree. One is the tombstone of "Gu Zesheng" and the other yellow tombstone has no name on it, which is obviously an empty tomb.
However, the grass on the empty side of the cemetery has grown quite tall, and it is obvious that no one has been here for a long time.
Gu Xiaoxi thanked the village chief and let him go back first.
Yu Chengshuang took out two engineering robots, quickly pulled out the grass on the grave, and started digging downwards.
After digging for a few minutes, Yu Chengshuang discovered that the robot had found something.
When I took it out, I found it was a large wooden box made of dark wood.
Gu Xiaoxi was not too surprised when he saw the box, but rather had a feeling that it was expected.
She felt the box and found no danger, then quickly opened the antique bronze lock on the box.
To her surprise, what came into view were a large number of exquisitely crafted gold ornaments, neatly arranged.
Lu Jiansen was also shocked, not because there was something buried here, but because of the amount of it.
Not long after, Yu Chengshuang dug out another dark wooden box of the same size.
The things in this box are no longer gold ornaments, but jade ornaments, and there are even a few exquisite jade ruyi in it.
Yu Chengshuang took a quick look and then ordered the engineering robot to dig every corner of the cemetery.
Finally, he found four palm-sized golden nanmu boxes from the four corners of the cemetery.
Gu Xiaoxi originally thought that the box contained gold, silver, jewelry, and the like, but he was shocked when he opened it.
Because the first golden nanmu box actually contained some letters.
These letters were all sent by Xie Zhu to Old Man Gu.
From the preservation of these letters, we can see that Old Man Gu was truly affectionate towards Xie Zhu.
The second box contained a long lock of hair that was obviously a woman's.
There was a seal tied to the rope that bound her long hair, on which was written Xie Zhu's name and date of birth.
I have to say that Old Man Gu really loves Xie Zhu deeply.
When he looked at the third golden nanmu box, Gu Xiaoxi was surprised again.
Because there were actually two jade pendants inside, and the shapes of the jade pendants were exactly the same as the space jade pendants she and Lu Jiansen had.
However, she heaved a sigh of relief after using the identification technique to sense it a little.
This jade pendant was a replica made ten years ago and is not an old jade pendant.
When Lu Jiansen saw the two jade pendants, his mind became particularly complicated. "Old man Gu prepared fake jade pendants. Maybe he wanted to fool someone."
Gu Xiaoxi nodded, "It's possible, let's take a look at this."
As she spoke, she opened the last golden nanmu box.
What is more surprising is that the box also contains a jade pendant, a piece of high-quality white mutton-fat jade.
When he picked it up and took a look, he was surprised to find a seal script version of the word "Xu" engraved on the front of the jade pendant.
Obviously, this is something from my grandmother Xu's family.
"Sister Xiaoxi, we've searched the cemetery three times. There's nothing else within 20 meters underground. Do we want to bury the urn now?" Yu Chengshuang asked.
"Yes. Let's bury it!" Gu Xiaoxi nodded slightly.
However, when the engineering robot placed the urn into the grave, Gu Yimin, who had been silent all along, suddenly sighed, and then buried the box containing Xie Zhu's hair together with Old Man Gu's urn.
Gu Xiaoxi took a look and said nothing. He took out a carving knife and carved the words "Gu Pingsheng's Tomb" on the empty tombstone.
Twenty minutes later, Gu Xiaoxi brought his father down the mountain first, while Lu Jiansen packed up the boxes and followed them down the mountain.
On the way back to Huaicheng, Gu Xiaoxi opened the letters from Old Man Gu and Xie Zhu and read them carefully.
The frequency of correspondence between Old Man Gu and Xie Zhu was not very high, about once a year.
Although the letters were not dated, the first one was probably written when Xie Zhu first arrived in Kyoto.
In the letter, Xie Zhu said that Xie Jing's injury had improved. Mrs. Xie, Nie Shumin, was not very satisfied with her and often said that she was clumsy. When no one was around, she would often be sarcastic to her. Xie Zhu said she missed him very much.
From this we can see that when Xie Zhu first went to Kyoto, she had a pretty good relationship with Old Man Gu.
But starting from the second letter, Xie Zhu's mentality should have changed a little.
Xie Zhu wrote two pages for the first letter and only half a page for the second one.
Xie Zhu said that she met Gu Zesheng and told him that he was together with Nie Shumin. She was very sad and wanted to go home. She also said that she missed old man Gu very much.
In the third letter, Xie Zhu only wrote a few lines, saying that she had sent money to Old Man Gu and asked him to take good care of himself and raise the children well.
In the next few letters, Xie Zhu only said a few words, and basically only wrote once after sending the money.
It was not until Gu Xiaoxi and Lu Jiansen got married that the number of words in the letters Xie Zhu sent suddenly increased.
Xie Zhu said in the letter: "The Lu family is very famous in Kyoto. Lu Jiansen is the favorite grandson of the old man of the Lu family and the son that Commander Lu values the most. If you can't stop Xiaoxi from coming to Kyoto, then you must contact them less. I have also sent Xie Ru back to Shanghai. Xie Ru and Yilan look too much alike. Don't let her see Xie Ru..."
In the two-page letter, Xie Zhu emphasized that Gu Xiaoxi must not be allowed to go to Kyoto and must not be allowed to contact anyone from the Xie family. Her words were somewhat flustered.
Afterwards, Old Man Gu probably asked Xie Zhu for the poison. Xie Zhu implicitly said in the letter that she had asked someone to send him the Chinese medicine he wanted for treatment, and asked him to pick it up at the old place.
Although Xie Zhu did not specify where the old place was in the letter, a light bulb went off in Gu Xiaoxi's mind, and he inexplicably thought of the toilet that Old Man Gu visited every day.