He was excited, but when Zhao Yu was about to open the box, he still hesitated deeply. He almost inevitably remembered the nightmare that happened when he opened the metal box that Tao Xiang buried under the grave. Such a scene.
Every time he thought about this, he would feel the hair on his head stand on end and feel uneasy. It took a long time after the incident before he gradually got better.
So, this time...will we make the same mistake again
Don't forget, the last time I found the head in the treasure chest, the "Kun" hexagram was also drawn. This time I see the "Kun" hexagram again, will it be...
Who knows, Zhao Yu hesitated, but Cui Lizhu was different. Although she was also one of the people involved when she saw the head, her reaction at the moment was completely different from Zhao Yu. After carrying the box over, she almost reached out to pull the zipper of the suitcase without hesitation.
"Well... you..."
Zhao Yu wanted to dissuade her, but Cui Lizhu moved very quickly. With the sound of a thorn, the ancient suitcase was opened by her.
The next second, the two of them saw clearly what was in the box at the same time.
"Oh, no, right?" Seeing the things inside, Zhao Yu couldn't help but exclaimed, "This... what are these?"
He never expected that there were neither scary nor dazzling things inside, but... instead there were some books that seemed to be old for a long time, and some sundries that had been dusty for many years.
"These... these..." Unexpectedly, Cui Lizhu's reaction was different from Zhao Yu. She reached out and grabbed a mutilated rag doll and murmured, "This... should be a toy I used when I was a child. I still have some vague memories of it." Here! This..." She picked up another pencil case, "This is the one I used when I was in school. I couldn't bear to throw it away. Once it gets old, my dad can repair it and make it like new. He... He actually gave it to me. I’m keeping it!”
While she was talking, she took out a very ordinary photo album and flipped through it.
oh…
Zhao Yu first looked at the stone pier and hammer next to him, and then recalled Cui Lizhu's reaction before, and finally realized something: "Oh... little girl! You are playing with your boss! You... you already knew it. , what’s in this box?”
Seeing that Cui Lizhu was noncommittal, Zhao Yu smacked his forehead depressedly and cursed: "Okay, you smart guy, you have been making trouble for a long time, and you are treating me as a free coolie!"
"Hehe..." Cui Lizhu smiled evilly at Zhao Yu, but the next second, she was staring at the photos in the album in rapt attention.
Zhao Yu glanced over, but saw that the ones at the front were all old photos, some of them in black and white, and they were quite old.
"I guess..." Cui Lizhu pointed to a group photo and said, "These... should be my father's brothers and sisters, right? Look, isn't this one... Li Fei?"
After being reminded, Zhao Yu suddenly became interested and hurriedly sat down with Cui Lizhu to watch attentively. But the person Cui Lizhu pointed to turned out to be Li Fei, the murderer of the headless female corpse case.
At that time, Li Fei and Tao Xiang were very young. There were two other smaller men and women beside them. Through identification, Zhao Yu quickly recognized that the man and woman were Cui Lizhu's biological mother, Du Manting, and her biological father, Cui Fangyu.
"They are all thieves, and they actually took pictures!" Cui Lizhu stroked the photos, filled with infinite emotion in her heart, "Aren't they all shady?"
"Look, the background is in a photo studio!" Zhao Yu pointed at the photo and analyzed it. "Look at their smiles, they are smiling so happily! I think this may be their brothers secretly secretly It’s taken!”
Cui Lizhu nodded and flipped back, and Du Manting's personal photo appeared in the album.
"My mother is so beautiful!" Cui Lizhu exclaimed, "No wonder, my father has missed her all his life and will never forget her until his death!"
"But..." Zhao Yu said, "You look nothing like your mother! I just follow your father a little bit..."
"That's a very poor statement. Does it mean I'm ugly?"
Cui Lizhu pouted her little mouth and turned back. Finally, a little girl appeared in the photo, and that little girl was undoubtedly Cui Lizhu when she was a child.
"These photos... I have only seen some of them!" Cui Lizhu recalled, "Unexpectedly, my father kept them all. Now it looks like... ugh... "
The old photos touched on the sad things again, and tears fell from the corners of Cui Lizhu's eyes again.
"Well..." Zhao Yu wanted to comfort her, but suddenly felt something was wrong, and hurriedly frowned and asked, "Lizhu, what did your dad... tell you at that time?"
"Huh?" Cui Lizhu recovered from her memories and asked, "What do you mean? Why do you ask that?"
"Impossible..." Zhao Yu pointed to the box, "Tao Xiang spent so much effort to bury the box in this hidden place, maybe... maybe it's for these photos, right?"
"Hmm..." Cui Lizhu bit her lip and said angrily, "Great detective, do you get crazy when you don't have a case to do? Why do you think everything is suspicious
"My dad buried things here just to bury a precious memory for me! Look..." As she said, she put down the photo album and started to pull out other things in the box, "Well, they are all books and..." You tell me, the things that belonged to me when I was a child. My father even confessed to murders, can there be any secrets in them?"
"No... no..." Zhao Yu also reached out to look through the books and said with deep doubts, "I always feel that something is wrong! Lizhu, think about it again. When you lift this box, Did your dad really say nothing more? Well...and...this...what kind of books are these?"
Zhao Yu asked questions, but found that these books were different from normal books. Some were notebooks, some were manuscripts, and some were even the vertical printing books of the old generation. He flipped through a few pages. In addition to traditional Chinese characters, there were also many exquisite illustrations on them, like industrial production diagrams.
"Well..." Cui Lizhu looked at it and said, "These... should be the secrets left by the grand master of thieves, right!?"
"What?" Zhao Yu was stunned, "This thing also contains ancestral secrets? Isn't it too weird?"
"I don't know the specifics," Cui Lizhu said while flipping through the book. "When I was a kid, my dad mentioned it to me, but I wasn't very interested. Think about it, technology is changing with each passing day and progressing so fast. If you want to become a A qualified thief must keep pace with the times. What's the point of studying these ancient books? The locks in ancient times are different from modern ones!"
"Yes... but..." Zhao Yu pulled out another notebook and said, "Look at this one, it's full of useful information!"
Cui Lizhu took it over and took a look, and sure enough she saw that the notebook was densely filled with text symbols, including mathematics, physics, chemistry, and even some biological knowledge. However, all this knowledge has one purpose, that is, the ultimate goal is to improve theft technology!
"This..." Cui Lizhu was stunned when she saw it, "These should be my dad's notes. This guy... is really hardworking!"
"Did you see, you can become the number one scholar in any profession! No matter which profession you are in, you have to work hard to become the number one scholar!" Zhao Yu sighed, "I feel that your father does not regard these things as real wealth. I want to pass it on to you and let you inherit it, right?”
"Don't... don't be kidding, brother, I have changed my ways! I made it clear to my dad when he was sober," Cui Lizhu shook her head vigorously, "He also wanted to thank you personally for helping me change my ways! But... um … but… "
"But what?" Zhao Yu asked hurriedly when he saw that Cui Lizhu looked wrong.
"But... when you said that, I really remembered something!" Cui Lizhu said in surprise, "Didn't you just ask me what my father said about this box? Now that I think about it, it seems... He did seem to want to tell me something, but unfortunately, he was already dying at the time and couldn't remember it before he finished speaking. At that time, he kept his mouth open, as if he was very anxious...
"Could it be that..." Cui Lizhu said, looking at the box again, "could it be that... there is really something important in it?"
(End of chapter)