Jiang Tiantian asked Tan Zhilin and A Ku to walk around the neighborhood and familiarize themselves with the environment.
She took Cha Jiuzhang back to the city and visited the old house of the Fan family.
The Fan family's old house is a courtyard located in the southwest of the city center, with a superior location and beautiful surrounding environment.
The three-story building has small gardens in the front and back. However, it is already autumn now, and the leaves of the trees in the garden are beginning to turn yellow.
The courtyard walls and the gate were covered with tattered seals, creating a desolate and bleak feeling.
This was Jiang Tiantian’s first time stepping into this house, and she didn’t expect to see this scene!
The old house had been uninhabited for many years and had become abandoned. When I opened the door, dust blew in my face.
Things were scattered all over the hall and corridor.
Jiang Tiantian looked at the scene in front of her with mixed feelings.
One can imagine what kind of search this place must have gone through back then!
"Come on, let's go upstairs and take a look."
Cha Jiuzhang cleared a path and walked back. Seeing that she was lost in thought, he was afraid that she would be sad, so he reminded her in a gentle voice.
"Okay, let's go." Jiang Tiantian sighed softly, concealed all the complicated emotions in her eyes, and walked inside.
Cha Jiuzhang did a detailed inspection from top to bottom and finally said, "It's not a big problem. There is no problem with the main building and structure of this house. We just need to clean it up and replace some aging equipment."
"Yeah." Jiang Tiantian nodded indifferently.
There was nothing valuable left in the entire house. Jiang Tiantian finally found a photo album in the study on the first floor.
When I opened it, I saw some group photos and individual photos of the Fan family.
"This is your mother." Cha Jiuzhang pointed to a photo of a young girl and said to Jiang Tiantian.
When he was at Jiang's house, he had met Fan Xiaoxiang several times. She was a lively, intelligent and generous woman, and was often inseparable from Jiang Jianhua.
Jiang Tiantian looked at the girl in the photo and felt an indescribable feeling in her heart.
It feels very strange, yet familiar.
"She is so beautiful!" Jiang Tiantian couldn't help but exclaim.
The girl in the photo is wearing a school skirt and has two thick braids hanging down to her chest. There is still childishness between her eyebrows and eyes, but it cannot conceal her outstanding appearance and temperament.
The most important thing is that her smile is so bright, as if spring has just arrived and everything is full of hope.
"Yes, you look 50% like her." Cha Jiuzhang sighed.
It can be said that Jiang Tiantian is really good at growing up, and she has inherited almost all the physical advantages of her biological parents.
Jiang Tiantian looked carefully at the face of the girl in the photo. Her eyes and eyebrows were indeed very similar to her own.
"Yeah." Jiang Tiantian nodded, took out a handkerchief, and carefully wiped the dust off the photo album.
She looked at the girl's carefree and bright smile and suddenly felt distressed.
How could such a beautiful woman experience so many twists and turns in her life?
I just hope that no matter where she is now, she can find peace and happiness.
"Take it back to Dad, it will give him another thought." Jiang Tiantian sighed.
"Okay." Upon hearing this, Cha Jiuzhang gently rubbed Jiang Tiantian's head and said, "Don't be sad. Sometimes no news is actually good news."
"I understand." Jiang Tiantian cheered up and smiled at Cha Jiuzhang, "Maybe one day, she will suddenly come back."
Jiang Tiantian closed the photo album and said, "There's nothing to see here. Let's go."
“After the Fan family’s case is overturned, you can find Brother Qiang and ask him to renovate this place,” Cha Jiuzhang suggested.
"Okay, I'll discuss it with him later." Jiang Tiantian nodded.
Just as the two were about to walk out of the study door.
Xiao Qi reminded Jiang Tiantian in her mind: "Tiantian, there is a basement under the desk."
Jiang Tiantian paused and quickly walked to the desk.
She walked around the desk and said, "Cha Jiuzhang, lift this desk away."
Cha Jiuzhang didn't understand, but he still walked forward, holding the desk with both hands, and moved to the side a distance easily.
The two-meter-long solid wood square table is not light. Even Cha Jiuzhang himself is a little surprised at his own strength.
It seems that it was not his illusion. Recently, his strength has really increased a lot.
But he quickly put this thought aside.
He saw Jiang Tiantian lift up the carpet under the desk, which was so dirty that the original pattern could no longer be seen.
Close to the ground, tapping gently.
After a while, her eyes lit up and she looked up to signal Cha Jiuzhang.
"Pry open this slab."
Cha Jiuzhang was stunned when he heard this, and quickly walked forward, squatted down, and carefully examined the stone slab on the ground.
He also imitated Jiang Tiantian and tapped lightly on several stone slabs.
With only one piece, there is a very subtle difference in the sound.
If he hadn't guessed it beforehand and hadn't paid special attention, he wouldn't have been able to hear it.
Cha Jiuzhang raised his eyes in surprise and glanced at Jiang Tiantian. This woman's five senses were really sharp.
The two began to look for a way to open the stone slab. Finally, Cha Jiuzhang found a very slight bulge in the corner of the stone slab, and he pressed down hard.
Soon, a crack appeared on the stone slab.
They both raised their eyes and looked at each other excitedly.
Cha Jiuzhang carefully removed the stone slab, revealing a stone staircase that was only wide enough for one person to enter and exit.
Jiang Tiantian was anxious and wanted to jump down, but was stopped by Cha Jiuzhang.
"Don't panic."
He searched the room and found a candle. He lit it and placed it in the hole to test it for a while.
Seeing that the candle was not extinguished, he said to Jiang Tiantian: "Wait for me outside, I'll go downstairs and take a look first."
Jiang Tiantian nodded, "Be careful!"
After saying that, she pretended to take out a miniature flashlight from her bag, but actually asked Xiao Qi to order one for her.
After taking it out, she turned on the flashlight and handed it to Cha Jiuzhang, "The candlelight is too dim, use this."
Cha Jiuzhang took a look, nodded, took it, and slowly went downstairs.
After a few seconds, Jiang Tiantian couldn't help but shout inside, "Cha Jiuzhang, are you okay?"
"It's okay, come down."
Soon, an echo came from below.
Jiang Tiantian also followed him down.
After walking up about ten steps along the 45-degree inclined stone stairs and turning a corner, I saw a secret room of about 20 square meters in front of me.
There are many shelves around the secret room, and on the shelves are placed many antiques, calligraphy and paintings, pearls, jade and other items.
There were also five large wooden boxes on the ground.
Cha Jiuzhang turned around and shrugged at Jiang Tiantian, "This should be the Fan family's treasure room."
"Fortunately, these things were hidden deep back then, otherwise they might not have been preserved."
Jiang Tiantian walked over and opened one of the wooden boxes.
Cha Jiuzhang then shone the flashlight into the box.
“Wow~”
Jiang Tiantian couldn't help but exclaim!
The box was filled with neatly stacked gold bars.
She took out one and shook it in her hand. "It's really pure gold~"
Although they had made a fortune suddenly, neither of them showed any excitement or joy on their faces.
"How do we deal with these things?" Cha Jiuzhang asked.
Once such a large number of antique calligraphy and paintings and gold bars flow out, they will definitely attract the attention of interested people.
The Fan family is not suitable to attract attention at the moment.
Jiang Tiantian shrugged, put the gold bars back into the box, then opened the other four boxes and took a look. As expected, they were all full of gold bars.