Yi Xiaoqiu raised his head subconsciously when he heard the sound, and his heart immediately sank.
It's over! Her secret is about to be discovered.
Yi Xiaoqiu stood up hurriedly.
"Why are you here?" Yi Xiaoqiu raised her head and saw Ji Shuyan coming over with her tearful daughter in her arms, her eyes fixed on the housekeeper.
Yi Xiaoqiu's heart skipped a beat, and her mind raced. How could she avoid revealing the secret?
Ji Shuyan looked at the man standing with his daughter-in-law and felt that he looked more and more familiar and weird.
It was the middle of winter, and the man was only wearing two thin pieces of clothing. He looked very familiar. Where had I seen him before?
Ji Shuyan couldn't remember where he had seen this person before.
"My daughter woke up and was crying out for you. Who is this..."
Yi Xiaoqiu laughed dryly and said, "This is my fellow villager..."
The butler only responded to the instructions given by Yi Xiaoqiu. As for others, he had a blank expression on his face. Seeing this, Yi Xiaoqiu became more and more uneasy.
She pulled the housekeeper's arm and said, "I've found this house. Do you know how to decorate it? I have something else to do, so I'll take you there first!"
Yi Xiaoqiu hurriedly pushed the person out.
Fortunately, the housekeeper accepted her instructions and cooperated with Yi Xiaoqiu, and was pulled out of the door. Then, he turned the corner of the door and entered the farm.
It took only a few breaths, and when Ji Shuyan came out holding her daughter, the housekeeper had disappeared.
"You, my fellow villager, are walking quite fast." Ji Shuyan said with an ambiguous tone.
Yi Xiaoqiu took a deep breath, took the child over, and said, "He's wearing too little. Hurry up and put on more clothes."
Ji Shuyan's eyes darkened and he changed the subject.
"When will you renovate this house?"
"It'll just be these next two days. The fellow villager I mentioned earlier knows a lot of people, so it will be settled quickly. My mom will come here to help me take care of the kids and live here."
As Yi Xiaoqiu spoke, she walked to the brick that almost tripped her.
She looked at the brick that was obviously taller than the others and thought of a possibility.
She glanced at Ji Shuyan resentfully.
If this guy hadn't been standing here, she would have used a magnifying glass to see what was going on inside.
I heard that this kind of old house hides a lot of good things, and Yi Xiaoqiu can't wait to see what's inside.
"Let's go!" Yi Xiaoqiu held the child and sighed silently.
"Why don't you dig it up and take a look?" Ji Shuyan suddenly said.
Yi Xiaoqiu looked at him suddenly, "What did you say?"
Ji Shuyan chuckled, "Don't you suspect there's something hidden inside? Just dig it up and see, and you'll know."
"How do you know?" Yi Xiaoqiu was suddenly shocked.
How does Ji Shuyan know everything she is thinking?
"Your expression says it all."
So obvious?
So what did he see just now?
Yi Xiaoqiu was a little nervous.
"I know you almost fell down accidentally just now, and your fellow villager just helped you up. Don't worry, I won't think too much about it." Ji Shuyan emphasized the word "fellow villager" very tightly.
"You know... hehe..." Yi Xiaoqiu laughed dryly.
Ji Shuyan glanced at the particularly guilty expression on Yi Xiaoqiu's face, but his mind was still thinking about the face of that person just now.
There was definitely something strange about that person. The more he thought about it, the more familiar he seemed. In order to find out, he couldn't show any doubt.
Ji Shuyan changed the subject, "There are no tools here. Let's come back after dinner to take a look."
Yi Xiaoqiu nodded.
She had been out for quite some time, and in the blink of an eye it was already noon.
The family of three arrived at the Ji family's old house. Aunt Liu had already prepared lunch and was waiting for them!
After lunch and putting the child to sleep, Yi Xiaoqiu and Ji Shuyan carried their things to the yard on the front street.
After locking the gate, Ji Shuyan turned over the floor tile and dug up the soil underneath.
Yi Xiaoqiu was getting very anxious. She really wanted to take a magnifying glass to see if there was anything at the bottom of it.
The winter soil had frozen, making it difficult to dig, but Ji Shuyan was quite strong, so it wasn't a difficult task for him. After more than ten minutes, a box wrapped in oil paper emerged.
Yi Xiaoqiu was immediately delighted.
Her guess was certainly correct!
There's really something inside!
Ji Shuyan peeled off the oil paper, revealing a wooden box with an exquisite little lock hanging on it.
Yi Xiaoqiu didn't recognize what kind of wood it was made of, but the patterns on the box were extremely delicate and looked valuable.
Ji Shuyan weighed the box in his hand, looked at the lock on it and said, "Wait, see if you can poke it open with wire. It's a pity to break the lock."
Yi Xiaoqiu naturally wouldn't object. It's so interesting to open blind boxes. It would be even more interesting if there were a few more!
Yi Xiaoqiu thought so and scanned the surroundings of the yard.
Suddenly, in an inconspicuous corner of the courtyard, she saw another raised floor tile.
Ji Shuyan followed her gaze and found the floor tile.
The two looked at each other, and Ji Shuyan walked over with a hoe.
If there is something still there, then there are several hidden places in just one yard, so there must be other things hidden in this house.
Yi Xiaoqiu's eyes swept across the main house and the east and west wing rooms again.
"Shu Yan, let me go inside and take a look."
How could Ji Shuyan not understand the meaning behind Yi Xiaoqiu's words?
"If you find anything, tell me and I'll fix it."
Yi Xiaoqiu entered the main house first.
The main house had been emptied out a long time ago. There was nothing inside, it was empty, and there were no protruding tiles on the floor. Just looking at it this way, it was really hard to tell anything.
Yi Xiaoqiu glanced through the window at Ji Shuyan who was digging the soil, quietly took out a magnifying glass, and walked around the room.
Every floor tile, wall, beam, window...
After searching for a long time, Yi Xiaoqiu actually found something.
"What are you looking at with a magnifying glass?" Ji Shuyan's voice sounded from behind her.
Yi Xiaoqiu's heart suddenly tightened. Oh no, she was so engrossed in watching that she forgot the time and even forgot that Ji Shuyan was still outside.
However, she quickly thought of an excuse.
"I'll see what's different between these places and other places. You won't believe it, I actually found a few different places."
Yi Xiaoqiu pointed out the places where he had just looked for 㳔 one by one.
Especially on the south side of the kang, there was actually a box hidden underneath. I don’t know if it had been damaged over the years.
Of course, Yi Xiaoqiu would not say this. She was just talking about the strangeness of these places. As for whether Ji Shuyan believed it or not, that was his business.
At worst, she can dig it secretly next time.
The two of them worked for an entire afternoon before they finished renovating the main house.
In order to avoid arousing Ji Shuyan's suspicion, Yi Xiaoqiu pointed to several places where there was nothing, which prevented Ji Shuyan from suspecting anything.
Ji Shuyan didn't complain even though he dug several big holes in vain. He dug hard for the whole afternoon.
After dark, the two pushed the wooden cart that Yi Xiaoqiu had used to transport vegetables to the Ji family's old house.
On the cart were the wooden boxes that had been dug up in the afternoon. They were packed in sacks and covered with some random things. No one would suspect anything when they saw them.
When entering the gate of Ji's house, Ji Shuyan suddenly said something, which scared Yi Xiaoqiu so much that her face changed instantly.
"I just remembered that you didn't use a magnifying glass?"
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