After Song Yining and her parents had fallen asleep that night, she rode her bicycle (Shen Jiashun's) to that villa again.
The night was quiet, and the stars in the sky illuminated the dark night. The courtyard had a gloomy and chilly feel to it.
As the wind blew through the courtyard, faint sobbing could be heard. Song Yining, who had been there once before, was now very calm.
Two mice were released. Song Yining named the mouse with a tuft of white fur on its back "Little White" and the gray one "Little Gray".
Song Yining looked at the two little cuties and said, "Help me find out if there are any other basements or hiding places in this yard."
There needs to be something inside. I've already been to two places; you guys can ask your friends to see if there's anywhere else we haven't found.
"Come on, I'll be waiting for you nearby. I'll give you some food and look forward to your good news."
After Song Yining finished speaking, she took out some food and gave it to the mice, telling them to take some food to find their friends.
Song Yining wasn't idle either; she took a flashlight and searched around to see if she had left any traces.
Half an hour later, the two mice returned happily. Seeing how happy they were, Song Yining knew they had really found it.
Xiao Bai said anxiously, "We found out that in the courtyard behind the small lake, there is a tunnel under the kang room in the west wing, and something is hidden inside."
After they finished speaking, the two mice and Song Yining followed the moonlight in the yard and found the house behind the small lake.
There was indeed a small kang (heated brick bed) inside the room. The two mice climbed onto the kang and looked around.
Unable to find the entrance to the tunnel, Song Yining discovered a hidden partition behind the kang (a heated brick bed).
Song Yining used a wooden stick to pry open the partition, and a dark entrance appeared in front of them.
Song Yining was waiting for the air inside to circulate, but the white mouse said he would go in first to check what was going on, and they would go in if it was safe to do so.
A few minutes later, the white mouse came out and said, "There are no traps inside at all."
Song Yining and the two rats went into the tunnel. The tunnel continued downwards, and after walking about three meters down, they reached the bottom of the tunnel.
It was cool and dry inside. Song Yining shone his flashlight into the tunnel, which was about forty square meters in size.
Inside were boxes of various sizes, with a faint smell of Chinese medicine. A thin layer of dust covered the boxes.
Song Yining opened one of the boxes, which contained some traditional Chinese medicines, including Angong Niuhuang Wan, Suhexiang Wan, and other precious medicinal materials.
There were two large boxes, which Song Yining accepted without hesitation.
These are all very valuable to Song Yining, as these medicinal herbs are hard to come by given the crackdown on them in recent years.
Although it has been stored here for a long time, it is sealed with beeswax and preserved here, so the medicinal effect is not affected at all.
In another box, they found precious medicinal herbs such as ginseng, deer antler, and lingzhi mushrooms, each as thick as a finger.
After looking through several boxes, Song Yining became numb. She opened each box to check before putting them away one by one.
Several boxes of medical books were found in other boxes. Song Yining looked at these medical books and found that they were books on health care and conditioning.
These should be medical books originally used by the Shen family for their own treatments, or perhaps someone in the family knew about them.
Since they all belong to Song Yining now, she accepted all of these boxes.
When Song Yining opened the last few boxes, she found they contained books from the last ten years or so, with Shen Zhi's name written on them.
Song Yining deduced that these were Shen Zhi's personal belongings, consisting entirely of Chinese and foreign books.
Song Yining saw that they were all people she didn't recognize, so she thought, "Well, they're all here, I might as well accept them all!"
Suddenly discovering a quaint little box in the corner, Song Yining was curious as to why this little box was there.
It didn't seem to have been left there intentionally; driven by curiosity, he still opened the unlocked small box.
When the box was opened, there were more than a dozen letters inside, addressed to Yining's daughter.
Song Yining found it strange that Yining wasn't her own name.
With curiosity in mind, Song Yining took out the books by Shen Zhi that she had just received from her space and compared them with the handwriting.
They were all in the same font. Song Yining didn't want to open them at first, but curiosity got the better of her, and she opened the first letter anyway.
Dear daughter: Hello, this is the first time we've communicated in this way. When you read these letters, you should be fifteen years old.
I'm sorry we're recognizing each other in this way. It's because when your mother was pregnant with you, our family discovered that many people were coveting our Shen family's assets.
Even though your grandfather and his family donated a lot, some people still didn't believe it. Although your grandfather and his family took some with them when they passed away, they still hid some of it.
These were all saved for you before you were born; this is their way of showing their love for you.
When we realized there were many people around us, we contacted the organization.
Your mother and I have been studying physics for many years, which is very much needed for the country's development.
In the end, we had no choice but to make a difficult decision: we discovered that your aunt, now Han Ping, was conspiring with Shen Peng to seize our family's property.
We decided to play along and observe their actions from the shadows.
On the day your mother gave birth to you, he hired someone to kill your mother so he could take her place as the head of the Shen family.
Because they are twins, it's difficult for people who aren't familiar with them to realize they aren't the same person.
We let them succeed, and secretly moved your mother away, placing her there in a place with someone of similar size to your mother.
She also wore special makeup on her face, making her look very much like your mother and unrecognizable.
The body was cremated on its own when no one claimed it. Everyone thought your mother was gone, but actually, she had recovered enough in this courtyard and then secretly went to the Northwest.
You've had someone watching over you since you were born, and your aunt even secretly let you stay at the hospital entrance.
He held his newborn daughter and told me that before he gave birth, a wandering Taoist priest told him that he had to be raised by someone else, otherwise she would not grow up properly. He said that the red spots on her face were a sign of the problem.
I readily agreed. Han Ping thought she had done a very thorough job, but in fact we had been observing him all along.
I discovered that you were taken to my current adoptive mother's home and told that you were being raised.
Your father is very happy. Your adoptive parents' grandfather was your grandfather's childhood playmate. Although we don't visit each other, we often correspond in private.
When they took you back that day, I went to the countryside to tell your grandfather what had happened. Your grandfather was very happy about your arrival.
As you probably know, your grandfather was skilled in traditional Chinese medicine, and he was instrumental in our family's safe escape.
You just knew your grandfather would happen to come to the city that afternoon by sheer coincidence.
The red spots on your face are unique to people in the Shen family who have had extraordinary encounters. This has not appeared in several generations, but I never expected it to appear on you.
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