Chapter 884 Evidence
All three heads bumped into each other, but none of them flinched. Daji paused for a moment, and then two little heads popped over him and looked inside, occupying all the space in an instant.
Manbao blinked, letting her eyes adjust to the darkness, and then she saw a bundle underneath. She and Bai Shan shouted at the same time, "There's something underneath."
The two little heads bumped into each other again, and this time it was a bit hard. The two had to retreat. After looking at each other, Manbao took action first. He rolled up his sleeves and reached in to grab it, but found that he couldn't reach it.
She stepped out silently and looked at Bai Shan.
Bai Shan was so happy that he wanted to take over, but Daji stopped him and said, "Let me do it. Young Master and Miss Man are almost the same height."
Bai Shan: ...
The two of them finally moved and gave their seat to Daji.
Daji took a look inside, reached out and picked up the thing.
A bundle wrapped in fine cloth. The cloth was very gray and old, but still intact. Daji quickly opened it, revealing a pile of things.
There were several pieces of gold and silver, a package wrapped in oil paper, a big box and a small box.
Daji felt that the small box was very familiar, so he opened it first. He saw a seal lying quietly inside. His heart was beating fast, and he picked it up to show Bai Shan, "Young Master, please take a look."
Bai Shan looked at the bottom of the seal, his pupils shrank and he said, "It's an official seal, yes, it's the official seal of Shu County!"
Manbao had also opened another box, which contained some gold and silver, two notebooks, and a stack of documents.
Manbao flipped open a notebook and was stunned for a long time before he realized, "This is my uncle's household registration book, no, it's my father's household registration book. He registered in Shangzhou."
The other book was the book of her mother, Xia.
Bai Shan put down the official seal and went to look for other things in the box. "These are land deeds and house deeds. They are from Shangzhou. They should be from your mother's side."
Bai Shan gave everything to Manbao, and then went to look at the remaining package.
It was a large package wrapped in black oil paper. Bai Shan took it and tried to open it, but Daji held it down.
Bai Shan looked up at him, and Daji lowered his head and said, "Master, the old lady said that after you get the things, you must take them back first."
"Can't I see?"
Daji lowered his head and said nothing.
Bai Shan pursed his lips and said, "It has come to this. What else can you hide from me? Can I still get away with it completely?"
He said, "I know everything I should know and everything I shouldn't know."
Daji still held the package and said, "It will be the same when we get home."
Manbao was always impatient, and she couldn't wait any longer, so she pushed Daji and said, "I found the things, and they were hidden by my father. I want to see them!"
Daji had been pushed but didn't move at all, but when he heard this, he sat back, as if he had been pushed down by her.
Manbao and Baishan: ...
The two of them looked at Daji speechlessly, then went to take the package of oil paper. When they opened it, they saw that it was full of various books, papers and letters.
Bai Shan didn't open the letter, but looked at the papers first, "What is this?"
Manbao leaned forward to take a look, tilted his head and said, "It looks like a land deed, but it doesn't look like one."
Daji had no choice but to go up and take a look before saying, "It's the land deed left in the county government office. It must have been torn off."
The two of them didn't understand, so they looked through other books and papers, but they found that they couldn't understand most of the things in them. They did know that one was an account book and the other was a list, but it didn't say what the account book was, and it didn't say what the list was.
The two of them felt a headache after reading them, so they cast evil eyes on the letters.
Bai Shan reached out to take it, but Daji firmly held his hand and said, "Master, you really can't look at this, at least not now. You have to wait until County Magistrate Tang has reviewed it."
Manbao thought of the storybook they were reading and finally agreed with Daji. He nodded repeatedly and said, "Yes, it seems that the chief promoter must read it first, but we can look at the cover."
But they soon discovered that they didn't recognize any of the names on the covers. Bai Shan threw the letters in his hand one by one and said, "Mr. Yichen, I don't know him. Why are most of the letters addressed to Mr. Yichen? Who is Yichen?"
Daji shook his head, he didn’t know him either.
"To Bai Ziqi..." Bai Shan was about to throw the letter away, but halfway through, he realized what was happening and immediately picked it up and said happily, "I know this person. He's my father. Can I read it now?"
Manbao was happy, "Take it apart quickly."
Without waiting for Daji's reaction, Bai Shan opened the envelope and took out the letter inside. "Dear parents, please allow me to report that I am a country bumpkin..."
"You call my father 'parents', but you're from Shu County. How can you write like that and still call yourself a country bumpkin?"
Manbao noticed something was wrong and pointed at the blurred words and said, "It looks like he scratched it accidentally. Did he write with his left hand?"
Bai Shan quickly scanned the letter and found that it was a letter of denunciation, accusing the King of Yizhou of privately raising guards and embezzling the river engineering funds allocated by the court to support the soldiers.
Bai Shan went straight to look at the signature and found only four words: "Countryside Farmer".
Bai Shan almost crumpled the letter. "This person must be someone close to the King of Yizhou, a country bumpkin. He can write so well, and he uses his left hand..."
Bai Shan paused, then looked at Man Bao and said, "Do you think it could be Master Guan? We haven't seen anyone come to our village in the past two days. Could it be that Master Guan didn't tell the King of Yizhou about us?"
Manbao was lost in thought, staring at the other letters and becoming restless again.
"You guys are here! We were screaming our throats out over there, but you didn't respond." Bai Erlang and Zhou Silang supported each other as they walked over. Seeing the three of them squatting on the ground, they couldn't help but shout loudly, complaining, "When did you get here? Why didn't you tell us?"
Bai Shan and Man Bao quickly piled up the letters and opened documents, stuffed a ball of oil paper into Daji's hand, and stood up and waved to Bai Erlang and Zhou Silang, "We came here looking for something. We can't gather together to look for something. We have to separate, okay?"
Bai Erlang had already seen the object on the ground and exclaimed, "You found it? What's inside?"
Manbao didn't mind showing him her parents' things, so she generously opened the box and said, "These are my father's... my uncle and aunt's books, as well as money, and the deeds to the land and house."
Zhou Silang ran over, but he fell because the ground was slippery. Manbao felt the pain, but he didn't care at all. He got up and ran over without even a slap. He picked up the book and read it, using the limited words he knew to identify them. After a long time, he finally understood them all. He cried and laughed and said, "Yes, yes, this is my uncle's book. There's a pass on the back. My uncle said he had to take it to the escort agency to pick up something."
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