Currently, both of Li Yao's maternal grandfathers are still alive. Her eldest maternal grandfather has three children, two sons and one daughter, all of whom are married. The children include three male cousins and two female cousins.
My second maternal grandfather had two children, a son and a daughter, both of whom are now married. He has three male cousins and one female cousin.
In total, Li Yao has three maternal uncles, two aunts, six male cousins, and three female cousins.
Cui Minghao is the eldest son and grandson of the eldest branch of the family, and is Li Yao's older cousin.
Listing all these relatives was a huge undertaking for Li Yao; there were so many people involved.
During this time, Li Yao also secretly used her mental power to induce hypnosis, and learned that the Cui family was indeed looking for her because they wanted to return to their roots.
The two old men of the Cui family and Grandma Cui had a very close relationship when they were children; they were siblings from the same mother.
If it weren't for the Cultural Revolution, they would have returned to China in the 1960s, following the tradition of the Cui family for generations to select boys to go overseas to learn new technologies and take over the industries there.
However, during the Cultural Revolution, China severed diplomatic ties with overseas countries, and they could not contact the country. They could only ask around and gradually learned some information. They were also afraid that Li Yao, being their only son, would attract too much attention, so they searched for her secretly, which made the process much slower.
It was only in the last year that I gradually learned that there were descendants of the Cui family in the capital. I used money to pull strings and gather information, and that's how I found them.
Li Yao understood the other party's intentions and briefly explained her situation. During this time, Li Yao also used her mental power to inquire about the function of the jade key from Cui Minghao.
Cui Minghao said that before he came, his grandfather had told him that it was his grandmother's dowry, to be passed down to daughters only, not sons. Therefore, after his maternal grandmother got married, his paternal grandmother would pass the key to her maternal grandmother's lineage.
Grandmother came from a large and powerful family. During the war, to protect the family fortune, her dowry was buried in her husband's ancestral land. So if Li Yao has the key, she must keep it safe and find an opportunity to retrieve it.
Li Yao was shocked to hear this. She had thought it might be a treasure, but she never imagined it was her grandmother's dowry.
She inadvertently hypnotized Cui Minghao and found out the location: in Shandong. She decided to go look for it that night.
After erasing the memory of those questions, Li Yao invited Cui Minghao and Cui Minghao to stay for dinner. Learning they were still staying at a hotel, she suggested they move in, saying the three-courtyard house with dozens of rooms would be more than enough for them.
Seeing that Li Yao didn't seem to be feigning politeness, and also wanting to get to know his cousin better, Cui Minghao agreed to move in for a few days starting tomorrow.
That evening, after seeing Cui Minghao off after dinner, Li Yao went back to her room to change into her invisibility cloak, then set her location and opened the [teleportation portal] to go to Lu.
As the eldest son and grandson, Cui Minghao knew the exact location of the ancestral land because the older generation would be buried in the ancestral graves in the future.
So now Li Yao has also managed to get the detailed address.
This is a village, and Li Yao deliberately opened the gate on a nearby mountain.
Then he used his surfboard to teleport through the mountains and used his mental powers to find treasure.
On a hillside, Li Yao discovered a stone wall that resembled a dragon but wasn't quite one. The image seemed both natural and man-made. Li Yao stopped there because it looked like a totem on a key. Using her spiritual power to probe deeper, she indeed discovered a secret chamber.
It's somewhat like a tomb, but instead of coffins, there are various red decorations and carrying boxes.
Li Yao carefully searched the stone wall and finally found a hidden groove where the totem's eye was. She inserted the key, turned it, and sure enough, a mechanism clicked.
Li Yao released a mental energy soundproof barrier, enveloping the entire mountaintop, and then entered the secret chamber's passageway.
She discovered there were more mechanisms inside, so she had to fly the rest of the way until she finally reached the main chamber.
Besides the 180 red-carried dowry chests, there were several secret rooms filled with gold, silver, jade, porcelain, calligraphy, and paintings. Li Yao used her spiritual power to investigate and discovered that many of the items had dragon and phoenix patterns on them, which were very exquisite.
With a wave of her hand, she stored everything into her spatial storage, since it was the safest place.
Then, controlling the dust to wipe away any traces of what had been placed there, Li Yao closed the stone wall, deliberately covered it with dust, and then left quietly.
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