Jiapingguan Chronicle

Chapter 2296: A Circle Around

"The more I understand, the more I feel like we are a joke, being played around by Master Falian and the Qinglian Sect. All of us are his playthings, chess pieces, and he can manipulate us however he wants." Xue Ruitian sighed, "To be honest, this doesn't feel good, right?"

"That's because we are too kind. Not only us, but also the people in the past were too kind. They were too kind and didn't act ruthlessly to wipe out the roots. If Master Falian's father was really that cruel, he wouldn't have allowed him to live to adulthood."

"Cha'er is right." Shen Haolin nodded, "We are not a joke, we are human, but Master Falian is not a human, so he cannot understand human emotions." He reached out and touched Shen Cha's head, "Don't be sad, we already know who they are. Even if there were no people from the Qinglian Sect instigating behind the scenes, they would not treat you well."

"Haolin is right. They are not good people to begin with. Plus, there are people with bad intentions instigating them. That makes them even worse." Xue Ruitian thought for a moment. "However, they never thought that they would be deceived one day."

"Cheated?" Shen Cha was puzzled. "What were they cheated of?"

"The people from the Qinglian Sect told them that they would reveal the situation between you and Xiaojiu to the Xuanyuan family, making them sad, right?"

"Oh, yes!" Shen Cha immediately understood what Xue Ruitian meant, "But the people of the Qinglian Sect did not keep their promise and did not report the news about Jiu'er and me back to Xijing City, so..."

"Yes!" Xue Ruitian nodded, "But it doesn't matter. After going around in circles, we are finally back to the original track. This is also good, right?"

"Different paths lead to the same destination, and ultimately the same ending." Shen Cha agreed with Xue Ruitian's statement and looked at the notes beside him. "They have both let themselves down and let down the people around them in this life."

"So they really made themselves a joke."

Shen Haolin looked at the two people who had reached an agreement, shook his head helplessly, reached out to pick up the notebook, flipped back two pages, looked at the contents recorded on it, raised his eyebrows slightly, waved at Shen Cha, and clicked on the two pages he was reading.

"Haven't you seen this yet?"

"Where?" Shen Cha leaned over to take a look, then shook her head at Shen Haolin, "Oh, I haven't read this far yet!" She sighed softly and said, "Their notes can be roughly divided into two parts. The front part records the things they experienced in their lives, most of which are their emotions and their views on the people and things around them. The back part is about some of the things they did, almost all of which are their experiences of going to the tombs with the people of the Qinglian Sect. The records are very detailed. But I haven't seen this part yet."

"Yes!" Shen Haolin nodded. "If you had seen it, you would know that the things they secretly took out were worth more than just the box of silver notes and the box of gold."

"That's for sure. When they left the border, they must have taken some of the items with them. The ones they couldn't take away were left here." Seeing Shen Haolin shaking his head, Xue Ruitian also shook his head. Shen Cha was puzzled, "What do you mean by this?"

"Sister, you don't understand how valuable these so-called antiques they secretly took out are." Xue Ruitian poured himself a cup of tea, took two sips, and continued, "Haolin and I have been watching the masters inspect the twenty or so boxes in our front yard these past two days. We also learned how valuable they are. After knowing this, we realized that we are just frogs in the well."

"Yes!" Shen Haolin nodded. "A box of silver bills and a box of gold seem like a lot, but they don't match what they brought out." "Why don't they match?"

Shen Cha took a curious look at the page that Shen Haolin opened. There were probably hundreds of objects densely recorded on it, but these objects were not rare. They were all necklaces, bracelets, earrings, hairpins, jade pendants and the like, which were not worth mentioning.

"They really took a lot of stuff, but they weren't discovered. They shouldn't be worth much, right?"

"If it were new, it would not be worth much, but these are hundreds of years old. They might not have been worth mentioning at the time, but now, many people would still flock to them."

"really?"

Shen Cha has never known much about these accessories. When she was at the border, she hardly wore any jewelry except the jade pendant to prove her identity. She only wore these when she was in Xijing City, and she would wear whatever others gave her. As for the styles and what was popular, she was not very clear and did not want to bother to find out.

"Really?" Xue Ruitian looked at Shen Cha's confused expression and couldn't help but smile, "Do you know how much the set of jewelry that the Queen Mother sent over during the Chinese New Year is worth?"

"I don't know!" Shen Cha shook her head gently, "In my heart, the Queen Mother's feelings are more important."

"Sure enough, I said she knew nothing!" Xue Ruitian glanced at Shen Haolin, "When that set of jewelry was first made, it was worth a thousand gold coins. Plus it's been a while since then, so it must be worth tens of thousands of gold coins."

"That set is probably about thirty or forty years old?" Seeing Xue Ruitian nod, Shen Cha thought for a moment, "Thirty or forty years old jewelry is worth a million dollars, and a hundred years old jewelry..." She looked at the two people, "Wouldn't that be more expensive?"

"Yes!" Xue Ruitian nodded, "But the things that came out of the ancient tombs are still different from these. These things are sold specifically to those who like to collect antiques. They are generally wealthy. In their eyes, things that can be solved with silver or gold are not problems. Take the twenty or so boxes of things in our front yard. The old master has been inspecting and estimating the prices these days. He told us that if these things were converted into silver, they could support the entire Shen family army and the people on the border for at least fifty years."

"At least fifty years?" Shen Cha scratched his ears. "Those things are so valuable? It's incredible!"

"Moreover, the old master said that judging from the state of preservation of these things, they don't seem to have been stolen recently, but..."

"They came out together with these people?" Shen Cha looked at the notebook in Shen Haolin's hand. "In other words, these things they secretly took out came from the same place as those in the front yard?"

"Yes!" Shen Haolin nodded. "So, what we found is just a drop in the ocean. There should be something else in that house that we haven't discovered yet."