As soon as she entered the house, Su Mianmian closed the door and entered the space.
She went to her bedroom, found the iron box where the family used to keep their money, and took out one of the keys.
Then she found the wooden box that Wen Cheng had also sent. Her heartbeat suddenly quickened and her breathing became unconsciously nervous.
She took the small key and reached out to unlock the wooden box.
After the wooden box was opened, Su Mianmian looked inside. Hmm? Really, it was gold bars? There were about ten of them!
Su Mianmian was confused. According to her mother's logic, there should be something else inside.
She thought about it and took out the gold bars one by one, feeling around like in the novels to see if there was any mechanism or something.
No, is it really just gold?
Su Mianmian was thinking, when suddenly she saw a small protruding round button in the corner.
She reached out and touched it, then pressed it lightly. With a "click", a small drawer popped out from the side of the wooden box.
Su Mianmian reached out and took out a note and a key.
Su Mianmian looked at the key carefully and felt that it was familiar.
She took the key that had just opened the wooden box and found that the two keys looked exactly the same, except that the new key was larger.
Su Mianmian ignored it and took out the small note to read it.
It says:
If the gold bars are not enough, go to Shanghai to find Wen Bo. Your grandfather has already contacted him.
Su Mianmian frowned.
Is it that simple?
This doesn't make sense. They came all this way just to deliver a wooden box of gold bars?
This shouldn't be the case. Grandpa left so much gold, silver and treasures to my mother. How could my uncle not know about it?
The more Su Mianmian thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong. It seemed that she had to secretly go to the cowshed to get the things.
Thinking of this, she put the things away, and then those more than ten pieces of paper left the space.
Su Mianmian found a small package and put the things in it. She went out to look for Su Qingqing.
Su Qingqing was chatting and laughing with the willow catkins.
"Mianmian, where have you been?" Su Qingqing asked when she saw Su Mianmian coming in.
"I'm going to pack my things. I want to go for a walk in the back mountains. It's so boring. I won't be able to go there when I'm pregnant."
Su frowned slightly, something was wrong.
"No, you can't go. You're pregnant! Just be quiet."
Su Mianmian looked at her deeply, then left the room.
Su Qingqing understood and pretended to be anxious as she chased after him. When she reached the door, she suddenly thought of something and shouted to Liu Xu:
"Xuxu, let me talk to you later. I'm in a hurry to catch up with this disobedient thing!"
After saying that, she walked out the door.
Su Qingqing followed Su Mianmian into her room and looked at her seriously, "What happened?"
Su Mianmian told what had just happened.
"I just looked at the wooden box my uncle sent me and found something wrong. I have to go to the cowshed again."
Su Qingqing looked embarrassed, "But will we be discovered if we go there in broad daylight?"
Su Mianmian shook her head. She had thought about this question before.
"The Lantern Festival is coming soon, and every household is busy. No one is going to the back mountain."
"But..." Su Qingqing still felt something was wrong.
Su Mianmian: "Then I'll carry a backpack and pay more attention to my surroundings. I have a feeling there's something important in that wooden box, and I want to find out as soon as possible."
Seeing that she couldn't persuade her, Su Qingqing had to agree.
"Okay, I'll cover you at home! You must be careful and stay safe."
Su Mianmian nodded, found a backpack, put the things she had just taken out into the backpack, said something to Su Qingqing, and went out with the backpack on her back.
Su Qingqing returned to the room she had just been in.
Liu Xu looked worried. "What's going on? Comrade Xiao Su is pregnant. Will it be dangerous to go up the mountain?"
Su Qing snorted softly, "Doesn't she know her own worth? I didn't let her go, so she went to her own house to pack her things."
"That's good."
…
"Let me see the gold."
Wen Yuexian read the note and handed it to Su Mianmian.
Seeing this, Su Mianmian quickly took out the gold from the backpack and handed it to Wen Yuexian.
Wen Yuexian took the gold in her hand and looked at it one by one until she saw the last one.
There were three words written on it. Wen Yuexian's eyes widened, "Mianmian, you said you found the note where there was a round button?"
Su Mianmian nodded. It was indeed a round button with a raised shape, but it was quite small and could not be seen without careful observation.
Upon hearing this, Wen Yuexian handed the gold to Su Xinzhang.
"Isn't this description exactly the same as the wooden box I had when I was a child? Look at these three words again, what do you think of?"
Su Xinzhang frowned and continued, "You mean, Big Brother packed the things according to your wooden box? According to what Mianmian said, the small drawer at the beginning was just a decoy. It really is these three words."
Wen Yuexian said excitedly, "Hmm, did you forget? My wooden box has a small compartment. I need to press the button three times and then turn it to the left three times to reveal the compartment?"
After hearing her say this, Su Xinzhang also remembered, "You used a wooden box to store candies at that time." There was a smile in his tone.
Speaking of this, Su Xinzhang remembered that his wife loved eating candy when she was a child and could never control herself.
Later, the eldest brother thought of an idea and put the candy in a wooden box for her.
Then his wife was so stupid that she didn't know how to open it, so she could only stare at the wooden box and hold it in her arms when she slept at night.
Wen Yuexian glanced at Su Xinzhang with a reproachful look, then handed the gold bar to Su Mianmian.
"Mianmian, try it as I say."
Su Mianmian nodded, getting the answer, and she picked up the backpack and went home.
…
After arriving home, Su Mianmian didn't rush to tinker with the wooden box, but chatted with Su Qingqing and the others.
At noon, Liu Xu rushed to cook. After everyone had eaten, Su Mianmian, Su Qingqing and Xiao Ayan went back to their room for a nap.
In the afternoon, Su Mianmian woke up and saw Su Qingqing and Xiao Ayan were still sleeping, so she decisively entered the space.
She took out the wooden box again and tried to operate the button using her mother's method. Sure enough, with a "click", a small rectangular baffle popped out of the wooden box.
Inside was a folded letter.
Su Mianmian took out the letter and opened it.
It's still Uncle Wen's handwriting.
It says:
My good friend is a firearms researcher in a military region, and I met him as a foreign student.
After returning to China, he went to the military region and we have been in contact ever since.
Until one day, he suddenly came to me, gave me a drawing and asked me to keep it, and then he disappeared. A few days later, I learned of his death, and then I realized that this drawing was not simple.
Later, a group of people came to our house and tried to get the blueprint from us. We had no choice but to move away and leave our things in a yard in Shanghai.
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