After the fiancé was cut off by the county owner

Chapter 24 Relics
Qi's house is in Anpingfang, which is separated from Xingqingfang where Jiang's family is located by Jinshifang.

Aristocrats and court officials lived in Xingqingfang, on the contrary, Anpingfang lived in most of the low-ranking officials' families.

Qi Heming went to Danfeng Academy from Wuzhou to study. After he became an official, he bought a second-class mansion in Anpingfang to settle down. Later, he married a wife and had children here, and lived in this mansion until his death.

When Mrs. Qi returned to Wuzhou, only a pair of old servants, Uncle Wang and his wife, were left here to take care of the house. The house had been vacant for ten years. Fortunately, Uncle Wang and Aunt Wang were loyal, and the house looked undamaged except that it was less popular.

Stepping here again, Mrs. Qi couldn't help sighing, "I haven't been back for a long time, and I feel a little strange!"

Back then, their family of four spent several years of happy time here. Both Qi Tanying and Qi Yukun were born and raised here.

In the past ten years, things have changed.

Compared with Mrs. Qi's sentimental pain, Qi Tanying desperately wanted to go to the warehouse to find the sandalwood box that she had forgotten for a long time.Mrs. Qi handed her the key and asked Uncle Wang to take her and Qi Yukun to the warehouse.

Along the way, Uncle Wang talked about how similar Qi Yukun and Qi Heming looked. Seeing Qi Yukun was like seeing Qi Heming when he was young.

Qi Tanying never felt that her younger brother looked like her father, she only remembered that her father seemed to have grown a beard, which was very different from her younger brother's smooth and delicate face.

Entering the warehouse, an unpleasant smell hits the nostrils.Uncle Wang explained: "Since my wife returned to Wuzhou, no one has entered this warehouse for ten years."

Qi Tanying's eyes fell on those big boxes full of dust. Uncle Wang said that those things were all articles and books that Qi Heming had studied in Danfeng Academy before.Before Mrs. Qi left Beijing, she locked all those things into boxes.

Qi Yukun's eyes lit up when he heard the words, and he hurriedly opened the box to take a closer look.

Qi Tanying is not interested in those things, the purpose of her coming here is to find her sandalwood box.After walking around in the warehouse, I finally found it on the bottom floor of Duobao Pavilion.

A thick layer of dust had accumulated on the box, and Qi Tanying didn't care about staining her dress, so she went out with the box in her arms.

After wiping off the dust, the sandalwood box revealed its original appearance.

This sandalwood box was made by Qi Heming himself for his daughter, and it also has a secret mechanism lock.If you can't find the mechanism lock, you can only break open the box with brute force.

There was a small portrait of a girl engraved on the top of the box. The girl was chubby and wore two buns the size of glutinous rice balls. Qi Tanying recognized at a glance that it was her childhood self.

She stretched out her right hand, pressed her thumb and index finger on the girl's two hair buns respectively, and then pressed it lightly three times. After hearing a click, the box was opened.

To her surprise, after ten years, the gadgets inside turned out to be the same, not getting old at all.

She took out all the things inside one by one, and each one could match her memory.Turning to the end, I found a half-new rattle lying quietly on the bottom of the box.

She vaguely remembered that this rattle seemed to belong to Qi Yukun, and she didn't know when it was put in her box.

It was Mrs. Qi who saw it and said: "Your father also made this with his own hands. Brother Kun likes to bite things when his teeth are teething. There are still many teeth marks on this rattle."

Qi Yukun happened to come out of the warehouse, and after hearing this, he said, "I don't have any memory at all."

Mrs. Qi handed him the rattle, "See for yourself."

Qi Yukun held the rattle in his hand, and a thin figure appeared in his mind, but he couldn't see his face clearly.Qi Heming was still young when he passed away, and the image of his father only existed in his mother's memory of him.

He took the rattle and shook it, and the rattle made a thump-thump-thump sound.Qi Yukun shook it childishly again, and the beads on both sides beat the drum head eagerly, making a non-stop ringing.

"It's too noisy." Qi Tanying snatched the rattle back from him, and was just about to put it into the box, but suddenly found a big hole in one side of the rattle.

She glanced at her younger brother reproachfully, her actions were neither serious nor serious, it was still fine before.

Just about to talk about him, he suddenly felt that something was wrong. It stands to reason that the drumhead of the rattle drum is made of cowhide, and even if it is left for ten years, it will not be damaged so easily.

Qi Tanying gently touched the edge of the crack, it was hard, and when she picked it with her nails, a layer of white debris could be lifted.

Taking a closer look at the hole, there is actually a silk handkerchief inside.

I took it out and saw that the silk handkerchief was white and clean, with only a clump of green bamboo embroidered on the lower right corner, and there were two poems next to it: Where the bamboo is deep and the trees are densely buzzing with insects, the slight coolness is not the wind.

When Mrs. Qi saw the silk handkerchief, her eyes turned red, and Qi Tanying asked her, "Mother, do you recognize this silk handkerchief?"

Mrs. Qi was startled when she saw the silk handkerchief: "I embroidered this silk handkerchief, and your father asked me to add those two poems."

She lightly touched the green bamboo on the silk handkerchief, and sighed: "I have never seen him use the silk handkerchief since it was embroidered. When I asked him, he said it was lost and told me not to mention it again. I didn't expect to find it in the rattle drum." gone."

Qi Tanying guessed: "I must have accidentally got it in when I was making the rattle."

Mrs. Qi shook her head, "Impossible."

She remembered that Qi Heming was making rattles, her son Qi Yukun was just one month old, and when she embroidered the silk handkerchief, Qi Yukun was already two years old.

The mother and daughter didn't struggle with rattles and silk handkerchiefs for a long time. After staying in Qi's house for half a day, the three of them returned to Jiang's house with the things they picked out from the warehouse.

Qi Yukun was going back to the academy the next day, so he selected some books and articles left by Qi Heming, and planned to take them to the academy to read carefully.Qi Tanying also came to help. The siblings had been busy for half a day. When Qi Yukun went to the academy, he had another big suitcase in his luggage.

The day after Qi Yukun returned to the academy, people from Dali Temple came to the door again.This time Wu Han didn't come, and Yan Li was the leader, with two guards in ordinary clothes.

After meeting Mrs. Qi and Qi Tanying, Yan Li directly explained his intention.

"I heard that Mrs. Qi and Miss Qi went to Qi's house in Anpingfang yesterday, and they took a few boxes with them. I wonder if we can have a look at the contents of the boxes."

Mrs. Qi frowned, "Those are my husband's personal belongings."

The implication is that he does not want to let him see.

Yan Li said: "Master Qi is deeply involved in this case, Dali Temple handles the case according to the rules, please cooperate with Mrs. Qi."

"If you don't cooperate, will our mother and I be put in prison?"

Mrs. Qi was a little annoyed, and Yan Li was not as pleasing to the eye as before.

Yan Li quickly explained: "No, we..."

Before he finished speaking, Qi Tanying shook his head slightly at him.

Then he pulled Mrs. Qi aside and said something, and Mrs. Qi's face softened a lot.

Qi Tanying asked people to carry out all Qi Heming's calligraphy and painting articles for Yan Li and his subordinates to check.

During the inspection, she just watched from the sidelines, fearing that they would damage her father's belongings no matter what.Fortunately, Yan Li gave the order, and the guards were careful when checking, and did not damage anything.

But nothing was found either.

Yan Li was a little disappointed, "Are all your father's things here?"

Just as Qi Tanying was about to nod, she suddenly remembered that when Qi Yukun returned to the academy, he took a large box of calligraphy and painting with him.

　The third one is coming!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)