Chapter 318 The shocking secret hidden in the dressing box!
The next morning, before dawn, Qin Jiahuai called Chu Yao and asked her to go to Qinglong Mountain to watch the sunrise.
The young man was full of energy and he was still calm and collected when he reached the top of the mountain.
Looking into the distance, the vast winter earth spreads out beneath your feet. The entire Fengpu City is like small building blocks piled in the distance, and the rising sun also gives the entire city a layer of gold.
Chu Yao held up her phone to take pictures.
Qin Jiahuai didn't look at the scenery, but looked at Chu Yao intently and seriously: "After the New Year, we will both be eighteen years old."
Chu Yao sighed, "Wow, I can go to jail now."
“…” She also wowed!
Qin Jiahuai was really convinced.
Such beautiful scenery, such a great atmosphere, she said this!
After a long while, Qin Jiahuai continued, "Can you sit at sixteen?"
Just as he finished speaking, he suddenly saw a man in a black coat appear in the cemetery not far away, near the direction his future daughter mentioned.
Xu Zhaotang is here!
Originally, Qin Jiahuai planned to wait until he left before going over.
But he was found standing in front of the grave, as if he was saying something, but he didn't start burning it after talking for a long time.
Chu Yao also noticed: "Isn't that Xu Qingyun's father? His back seems to be shaking a little. Is he crying?"
"Let's get closer and listen." Qin Jiahuai grabbed Chu Yao's hand and went to the cemetery.
Soon, the two men hid behind a tombstone.
The monument is a bit weathered and there is a dead tree in front of it blocking it.
The space suddenly became extremely narrow and cramped.
Originally, the two people were separated by a short distance.
But Qin Jiahuai looked at the width of the tombstone and thought it would be too easy to be discovered if he continued like this, so he took Chu Yao into his arms.
Chu Yao opened her eyes wide in shock and met Qin Jiahuai's serious and sharp gaze.
He shook his head slightly and signaled her with his eyes to be quiet.
Chu Yao had no choice but to do this for now.
She didn't know why, even though she was wearing a lot of clothes in winter, she could still feel the steady heartbeat from his chest, beating against her back again and again.
Soon, Xu Zhaotang's voice came, forcibly interrupting the atmosphere here.
“…The Sun family must have some property hidden outside!”
"Mom, you're such a fool! You've married into the Xu family, so you're a member of the Xu family. Why would you commit suicide for your family? It wouldn't have implicated you in the first place!"
"Mom, I'm in the early stages of starting a business and I really need money. If you're still alive, please tell me in a dream where the Sun family's wealth is hidden."
Even a highly educated doctor like him seemed to think that "dreaming" was nonsense.
After he said that, he laughed himself.
Then he took out the dressing-case.
He lit the fire, and soon the dressing-case was ablaze.
Although he had sprinkled gasoline in advance, the dressing box was coated with fire-retardant paint.
I don’t know why the fire-retardant paint of that era was so effective. Although it can burn, it burns very slowly.
He gradually lost patience to wait for all the dressing boxes to burn.
So when he saw that the piece with the suicide note was gone, he left.
He walked away, down the mountain, and gradually faded out of sight.
Qin Jiahuai immediately stood up and went over, picked up a branch, and took the dressing box out of the fire.
Chu Yao also ran over and immediately grabbed a handful of snow from the side and threw it on the dressing box.
The fire was successfully extinguished.
The lid of the dressing box was half burned and the suicide note was no longer visible.
The middle and bottom parts were also completely blackened by the fire.
Qin Jiahuai was a little worried... Now that she's burned like this, can Grandma Chu Yao still be kept as a memory?
Suddenly, Chu Yao leaned over and stretched out her hand in confusion: "What is this?"
Qin Jiahuai was afraid of burning her, so he quickly grabbed her hand and squatted down to take a closer look.
"It seems like there's a layer." Qin Jiahuai reached out and broke off the burnt wood at the bottom.
There was indeed a hidden mezzanine underneath.
The interlayer was also coated with fire-retardant paint, and the things inside were only burned at the corners.
They were afraid that Xu Zhaotang would come back again, so they immediately took the things away and went deep into the pine forest to take a closer look.
Inside the mezzanine, there is a key and a photo.
The black and white photo shows a family.
The man was wearing a military uniform, the woman was wearing a cheongsam, and she was holding a child in her arms.
There was a lot of writing on the back of the photo.
It is written vertically and in traditional Chinese characters. Many of the words seem to be ancient sayings from the older generation, and one word can be translated into a long sentence.
The two of them can still understand the general meaning:
Before the Sun family fell into decline, the head of the Sun family, Chu Yao's grandmother's father, saw that the situation was so turbulent and had already decided to take precautions.
So, the owner of the house put some valuable antique calligraphy and paintings in a box with an ingenious mechanism.
This box can only be opened with a key. If it is forced open, the box will spontaneously combust and the antique calligraphy and paintings inside will be burned.
The owner left the key to himself.
The box was taken away by the eldest son and his family of three, and they moved to the North Garden on Hirisima Island.
In the 1970s, the head of the family was betrayed by the Luan and Xu families, paraded through the streets, and subjected to inhumane humiliation and abuse.
The head of the family knew that he could not escape, so he asked someone to hand the photo and key to his youngest daughter who was married out, Chu Yao's grandmother.
Because the Chu family has a good background, she will definitely not be implicated.
But for some reason, the photo and key fell into the hands of Xu Zhaotang's mother... Maybe the person who delivered the letter recognized the wrong daughter?
The head of the family also left a will, saying that this wealth would be used to help the descendants of the entire Sun family become wealthy after the situation stabilizes.
The right of inheritance is not differentiated between men and women, but the descendants who receive the inheritance must not engage in any illegal or harmful behavior.
If you go to jail, you will have no inheritance rights, except if you are wrongly accused.
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After reading all of this, Chu Yao was left with nothing but fear: "I didn't expect there really was an inheritance! I guess Xu Zhaotang broke into my house that day just to find this! But he knew the key wasn't in my grandmother's hands, but in his own mother's!"
Qin Jiahuai didn't say anything, but looked at the key thoughtfully.
I wonder who is left of the eldest son's lineage on Hiri Island?
It would be fine if they were reasonable relatives.
But what if it is similar to Xu Zhaotang?
If Chu Yao handed the key over, would she be walking into a tiger's mouth?
On Chu Yao's side, only she and her grandmother were left.
The two of them are old and young, and cannot withstand the schemes of their bad relatives.
I'm afraid that if I rashly withdraw the inheritance now, Xu Zhaotang will join forces with the eldest son's family to plot against me.
He conspired to frame Chu Yao and put her in jail, and then killed her grandmother to silence her like he did in the fire.
They can easily divide the money.
But fortunately, he has a cheat.
He could ask his future daughter to tell his future self to first go to Hiri Island to find out who was left in the eldest son's lineage, and then slowly plan how to let Chu Yao and grandmother get the wealth they deserve.
Qin Jiahuai suddenly asked Chu Yao: "Do you trust me?"
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