The courtyard houses she had bought before have all been restored, and apart from regular maintenance, she no longer takes care of them.
Chen Ruxue had no plans to repair the five courtyard houses facing the street that she later bought. She would probably rent them out to others or keep them for herself to open a shop, so there was no need to make them so good.
That night, Chen Ruxue went to Bing'er's room.
"Bing'er, you're here, you've settled in. Now it's time for you to tell me about your story!"
"Okay, sit down and I'll talk."
Bing'er was quite straightforward and didn't show any reluctance to talk.
"Then I'll tell you from the beginning!"
Bing'er seemed to be lost in memories at this moment...
"My last name is Lu. My great-grandfather, grandfather, and my father were all proficient in mechanical design and had helped many wealthy families build them.
In addition to mechanisms, my great-grandfather was also good at building hidden spaces to hide things, such as secret rooms.
At that time, many wealthy families paid a lot of money to ask my great-grandfather to build secret rooms, and our family also earned a lot of money from his craft.
But it was also because of this that our family was brought to ruin!"
When she said this, Bing'er's eyes turned red.
"That was more than 20 years ago. My great-grandfather had already passed away by then. My grandfather only learned less than 30% of his craft, and my father even less.
That year, I had just turned three years old when a man suddenly came to our house. As soon as he arrived, he pulled my dad to establish a relationship with him and called him brother.
Gradually, my father also regarded him as a good brother.
But it was this so-called good brother who got my father drunk in the winter of that year and coaxed him into painting a picture.
It was because of this painting that my grandparents and my mother lost their lives.”
"What kind of painting is that? Why did he die?" Chen Ruxue became even more curious after hearing this.
"Actually, it's not really a painting. It's more of a treasure map, a map based on the treasure chamber designed and built by my great-grandfather."
"Treasure map? Why another treasure map!" Chen Ruxue couldn't help but interrupt.
The truth is that she has been obsessed with the treasure map for the past few years.
"You have a treasure map too?"
"Uh! That's not important. Just keep talking."
“In fact, the treasure map my father drew back then only showed the mechanism outside the secret room. He didn’t even draw the situation inside the secret room.
It’s not that my dad is so smart, but he’s just stupid and he really didn’t remember it.
But after that person got the picture my father drew, he began to use threats and inducements to coerce my father into taking him treasure hunting.
Of course my father didn't want to do that, and he kept persuading the man to give up. Later, the man left my house angrily.
We thought that man had given up, but that night he set fire to our entire family, wanting to burn them to death, just because he didn't want anyone else who knew the secret to survive.
My father and I were lucky enough to escape that night, but my grandparents and mother didn't make it and were burned to death that night."
"So after you escaped, you didn't go looking for that person?"
"I went there, but that person's house was deserted!"
"Later, my father took me on a relentless search for that man. Finally, there was no other choice but for my father to bring me to Ming County."
"Why did you come to Ming County?"
"Because my father thought that person would definitely come to the family where the treasure was hidden. He wanted to wait and see, waiting for that person to come to him on his own initiative."
"Wait, why do we have to go to Ming County? Could it be that the family is in Ming County?"
"You're right. My father made inquiries from many sources and finally got a piece of information. That is, one of the two families who buried the treasure moved to Ming County.
My father was right, but he didn't expect that by then, the head of the family had passed away, leaving only a housekeeper and a teenage child."
"Wait, wait, the family you're talking about couldn't be named Bai!
The other family you are talking about is not named Jiang, right?
Is it really such a coincidence? This is too much of a coincidence! "
Bing'er suddenly raised her eyes and looked at Chen Ruxue, and the next moment she reached out to grab Chen Ruxue's neck.
Chen Ruxue was no pushover. How could she let her do as she pleased? She slapped Bing'er's arm and pushed her to the side.
"Just talk, don't use your hands. You are no match for me!"
Bing'er rubbed her arm which was numb from being slapped, glaring angrily.
"How did you know that? What else do you know? Who are you?"
"I can only answer you that we are not enemies anyway!
Don't dawdle, it's so late, finish your talk quickly, you still need to go to bed!
Forget it, I'll ask and you answer, it'll be faster this way!"
"Let me ask you, what exactly happened in the Bai family's house in Ming County back then? How did Mr. Chen, the housekeeper of the Bai family, disappear?
What's the name of the bad guy who killed your family?"
Bing'er looked at Chen Ruxue in surprise, "How did you know?"
"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and speak!"
“It was four years later when my father brought me to Ming County.
At that time, Mr. Bai had passed away, and Butler Chen lived with Bai's grandson.
It was also one night in the summer of that year. My father was half asleep in the middle of the night when he heard cries for help coming from the Bai family’s house.
My father didn't wake up and quietly slipped to the Bai family by himself. As a result, he saw the man from that year leading a group of people to beat and kick the housekeeper Chen and force him to take them to hunt for treasure.
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