There is a cute wife at home: Mr. President, please hold on

Zhen Jiabao understood exactly why He Lianquan wanted to talk to his grandfather, but presumably He Lianquan would not tell his grandfather what Zheng He did back then, and he thought of the phone call that Helian Quan had received before. There are also calculations.

Helian Quan's appetite was not great, and Zhen Jiabao had already eaten so many snacks in the kitchen and the old man's study in advance, and the old man was even dissatisfied with the light dishes in front of him, so the lunch of the three of them ended soon, Seeing the seriousness on Helian Quan's face, the old man took the two of them directly to the study, but Zhen Jiabao was obedient and felt that he shouldn't be there so he slipped away early.

"This girl is sensible, right and wrong, but there is nothing that can avoid her in the conversation between me and you. You can tell her not to be so restrained when you have time."

The old man watched Zhen Jiabao run away like a rabbit, and complained to He Lianquan with a smile.

He Lianquan also smiled faintly, but the smile was very shallow and almost non-existent. After closing the study door, he half-knelt down in front of his grandfather.

"Grandpa, in fact, I said I wanted to talk to you about the Zheng family, but I didn't want to talk about who is in the current Zheng family."

He Lianquan deliberated about what was not good for his grandfather to know about this matter, so he made up a story about Zheng He seeing Helian Wei pursuing Zheng Feiran, so he agreed to let the two get married, and went along with the flow to explain that Zheng Feiran was in love with Zheng Feiran. And Lianjia looking for something.

"Although I knew that your parents were not in love with each other, I didn't know that your mother didn't really marry here voluntarily. After all, it was my unbelievable son who killed Scarlet all his life..."

Grandpa has been brooding over what happened to Helian Quan's parents for so many years. Even though Helian Quan's mother has been away for so many years and has been forcing Helian Quan's father not to marry other women, he is considered an old man A little persistence and guilt.

But at this time, hearing about the events of the year and the inside story, the old man's heart was full of mixed feelings, and he didn't even bother to eat the crispy nuts.

"The things that happened back then are over, but I still can't figure out what the Zheng family is doing so hard for. They can even use their own daughter as a bargaining chip in exchange."

The old man was a little confused when he heard Helian Quan's words. After all, he was still a young man when he came to Sicily with the Helian family's large army, so he didn't know enough about the relationship between the family and the Zheng family. .

He Lianquan pondered in response to his aunt's explanation on the phone: "According to the Zheng family's statement, it means that there is something hidden in our house. It was an agreement with the Zheng family when our ancestors came to Sicily. If the family has the idea of ​​emigrating overseas or migrating within the country, they must get that kind of thing.”

He Lianquan was also puzzled when he heard it. After all, he didn't know the relationship between the Helian family and the Zheng family back then, which made the Zheng family willing to leave such an important thing in the hands of the Helian family.

Moreover, the Zheng family's statement is really too far-fetched. Even if that thing has extraordinary significance to the Zheng family, it is just a dead thing that fell into the hands of the Helian family. If you don't have an idea, why send someone over to steal it, while pretending that you are abiding by the rules of the year.

"...I seem to understand what's going on."

The old man grabbed a handful of pine nuts and peeled them carefully in his hands. A thin layer of skin outside the nuts fell on the board and was blown away by the wind. The old man peeled off the white and tender pine nuts one by one and put them on the board. On the one hand, recalling the friendship with the old man of the Zheng family.

"Your grandfather and I were not at odds when we were young. At that time, the Zheng family and the Helian family were not much different in development. At that time, the relationship between the two families was not bad, so your grandfather and I were often called Compare and go."

The old man saved seven or eight pine nuts in the palm of his hand, gathered them into a small pile and poured them into his mouth to eat, then frowned.

"In this way, if he really intends to immigrate, he won't open his mouth to me. After thinking about it, isn't this the only bad idea that can come out? It really is... this old guy."

The grievances from the youth seemed to have reached the point where they still cannot be resolved easily. Grandpa still scoffed at Zheng He when he talked about it. Hearing that he actually made such a stupid move in order not to ask for something from himself, he felt even more stupid.

"Thinking about it now, that should be the case, but now that the Patriarch of the Zheng family is sick in bed, I thought I should tell him what that thing is after all, so that he can fulfill his wish."

It also fulfilled one of my thoughts, He Lianquan added silently in his heart, he was also very curious about the thing that killed his mother to some extent.

The old man understood Helian Quan's meaning, frowned and thought for a few seconds before digging out a past event from the depths of his memory, and then slapped his thigh.

"In this way, this kind of thing should be the box that your great-grandfather left me back then. Your great-grandfather once told me that the box was put here by the Zheng family, and someone will take it back in the future."

The old man pondered carefully, and determined that in all his memories, this was the only thing that could be linked to the Zheng family, but his father didn't tell him that there was a restriction that prevented the Zheng family from immigrating.

"The Zheng family doesn't know what this thing is. If you remember correctly, it should be something like this. Where do you put that thing now?"

Now He Lianquan can't wait to see the true face of that thing, and wants to know why Zheng He gave up his own daughter so cruelly.

The old man thought about it for a while before he said uncertainly: "It should be said that although our Helian family's treasures back then were not as many as they are now, they were not young or old. That box was put together with the antiques from before, so it should be stored in the warehouse now."

The old man was also interested, and immediately took out a set of keys from the cabinet, and asked the old housekeeper to lead him and Helian Quan to the warehouse.

It is said to be a warehouse, but in fact it can already be called a small museum. All kinds of exquisite and luxurious antiques are arranged in a patchwork order, and are carefully covered by glass covers, giving birth to an awe-inspiring and inviolable look. The appearance of ice and snow seems to shatter when touched.

The warehouse area is quite large. Fortunately, the old man still vaguely remembers when and what year the box was put into the warehouse, so it didn't take long to find it under the guidance of the old housekeeper.

The box that is said to be very meaningful to the Zheng family doesn’t even look as bright as the old man’s usual box of nuts. It’s just an ordinary black gold box with a strange faint red line drawn on it. shape.

It looks like a totem or some kind of sign, because the pigment used is dark red, so it looks very vague and dull against the black paint, and it is easy to be ignored if it is not carefully identified under the light.

But it so happened that He Lianquan saw the pattern at a glance, and then his mind went blank for two seconds, and his whole body seemed to have been pressed for two or three seconds. It seemed that something flashed in front of him, But I reached out and couldn't catch it.

"Master, what's the matter with you, Master?"

The old butler's voice pulled Helianquan back from his thoughts, and Helianquan realized that his palms were soaked in just two or three seconds, and his body was also full of exhaustion.

This feeling was so confusing that Helian Quan didn't have time to pay attention to the worried words of the old housekeeper and his grandfather, and took two steps forward to try to touch the pattern on the box.

I don't know if it was Helianquan's illusion, but he always felt that the pattern seemed to carry a part of his childhood memories. Helianquan closed his eyes and tried to recall the picture that flashed before his eyes in the two or three seconds of empty space, as if it was true. It is the appearance of this totem.

"Master, otherwise, let's go back to the study and take this box with us. Let's sit down and talk slowly."

Both the old housekeeper and the old man were frightened by He Lianquan's performance, He Lianquan calmed down, took a deep breath for a while to suppress the boiling heartbeat, and then gave a wry smile.

"Let's go."

After returning to the study, Helian Quan couldn't wait to hold the box in his hand and take a closer look at it. The patterns painted on the box were very complicated, and with Helian Quan's well-informed eyes, he couldn't tell what it represented. mean.

But He Lianquan just inexplicably believed that this pattern was definitely not a work of random graffiti. After asking his grandfather and getting a negative answer, He Lianquan had to leave this pattern behind for the time being.

The key to unlock this box has been hanging on the keychain of the old man, because the Zheng family and the Helian family have unilaterally cut off all ties since the death of Helianquan's mother, so the old man simply didn't think that they could do it for so many years. Come and pick up the box that has been refrigerated in the warehouse for so many years.

He Lianquan stuffed the key into the delicate little lock hanging on the box, and opened the lock with a slight twist, then opened the box lightly, and found that the person lying inside was not what he had imagined. The so-called heirlooms of the Zheng family in the book are not the signing documents with the Helian family.

Instead, they were piles of yellowed and brittle paper, which should be mimeographed paper. Judging from the texture and fragility of those papers, they must have been at least nearly a hundred years old.

He Lianquan carefully picked up the first piece of paper and looked at it carefully in his hand. After so many years, the handwriting on it was somewhat difficult to read. Only when He Lianquan got closer could he vaguely see that it was written on the underground mineral research report.

What is this?
He Lianquan became even more excited, held the piece of paper in his hand and looked at it carefully, even breathing lightly and slowly, for fear that any breath that got too urgent would blow the fragile piece of paper away.

This first piece of paper was obviously used as the cover of the research report. Apart from the large characters of the research report, there were two signatures in different handwriting, one surnamed Helian and the other surnamed Zheng.

It seems that this box contains the relics of a project that the Helian family and the Zheng family did together. The names of the two people, Helian Quan and He Lianquan, are also familiar. the owner of the house.

And in the lower right corner of the cover, there is a mark that is exactly the same as the totem on the box with a pen. Now it seems that this should be a special pattern representing this research. He Lianquan gently put down the piece of paper, Looking up cautiously at the old man who has been ignorant for so many years, I don't know what to say.

"What's in it that makes you look so strange."

The old man looked at He Lianquan's strange expression on his own face, and thought that the box contained the IOUs that the Zheng family borrowed money from the Helian family back then.

If this is the case, then it makes sense, no wonder the Zheng family must send someone over to steal the things.

The old man, who didn't think things too complicated at all, blew his beard and stared at him, feeling deeply that the old man of the Zheng family was a thief.

"Grandpa, this is an underground energy inspection report. I am afraid that the two companies were working together to study this."

He Lianquan handed the piece of paper to the old man, and the old man quickly put on reading glasses and held the paper in front of his eyes for a closer look. Although the old man has been out of the world for so many years, after all, it is for the Helian family to gain a firm foothold in Sicily The characters, with a little thought, can understand the cause and effect.

"Back then, the Helian family and the Zheng family were indeed very close for a while. Although I was not very old back then, I could vaguely recall that there had been some kind of cooperation. I really didn't expect that they would be so big back then."

The old man put the piece of paper aside, and the old god said: "I think the content behind this may be that the research was unsuccessful or the funds were lacking, which made it impossible for the cooperation to continue... It should be that the research cannot be supported That’s why the agreement between the two families is probably for the purpose of resuming this research one day, but I don’t know why Zheng He and I don’t know about it.”