Blessed marriage: New wife is not allowed to escape

Chapter 280 Qi's father's rosewood, baby photos 28 years ago
"Qi Rui's father..."

The north courtyard of the Qi family was very quiet. Mu Siyue didn't find any servants along the way. The courtyard was covered with messy weeds and the gate was closed. It seemed that no one had come here for a while.

Looking carefully around, he took out the old key and clicked, and the big lock was opened.

Mu Siyue quickly sneaked in. The key was stolen from the housekeeper. While the housekeeper was taking care of the children, she sneaked into the housekeeper's tent and took the key to the north courtyard. I hope they didn't find out so soon.

"How is this going?"

The layout of the villa in the north courtyard is similar to that in the east courtyard. Mu Siyue just wanted to enter the master bedroom, but stopped when she passed the door of the study.

The study was in a mess, trophies, files, pens, and old calculators were all smashed to pieces on the floor. Mu Siyue frowned and looked around.

"Qi Rui smashed it?" No one would come to the north courtyard except him, "Why did he destroy his father's study... hate?"

Mu Siyue looked at the smashed-up study room, and a strong hatred rose in her heart.

"Qi Rui really hates his father so much?"

He squatted down, touched the messy documents on the floor with his fingers, and there was a thin layer of dust, "It seems that these things have been smashed for at least half a year."

Full of doubts, "Why was he so angry at that time?"

Of course, Mu Siyue has seen Qi Rui angry, but Qi Rui usually controls his emotions, and can scare people away with a cold voice. When he is most dissatisfied, he may drop his phone in anger.

...but there's something manic about being messy like this.

Step out of the study and walk towards the master bedroom next door.

Unscrewing the door, the door lock must have been rusted for a long time. At first glance, it looks very spacious. The big bed, sofa furniture are all covered with white cloth, the windows are tightly locked, and the air is a bit dead and dull.

A bedroom where a dead man once lived.

Mu Siyue had never been in contact with Qi Rui's father, but only knew that his name was Qi Nanyuan, and this dead man's bedroom was not so gloomy to her, so she walked in curiously, her eyes first fell on a photo frame on the bedside table.

"It seems that he is a very nostalgic and family-oriented person."

On the photo frame, old man Qi is very young, and the woman beside him should be his deceased grandmother. Surrounding old man Qi are five daughters and Qi Nanyuan. This is a family portrait.

Looking up at a big wedding photo on the central wall of the big bed in the bedroom, Mo Xiangwan was dressed in a beautiful white gauze and leaned against Qi Nanyuan's chest with a little bird. The two looked very much in love.

Qi Nanyuan looks handsome and elegant, with a calm and friendly smile on his brows, "No wonder Mr. Qi complains all day that Qi Rui doesn't look like his father..."

This bedroom is very tidy and there are not many furnishings. Maybe Qi Nanyuan was buried with him after his death, but Mu Siyue always felt that something was wrong.

She curiously rummaged through the wardrobe, because Qi Rui had complicated feelings for his father, and Mu Siyue wanted to know more about Qi Nanyuan's life before his death.

"what is this?"

There is a dark cabinet under a combined table in the center of the small sofa in the bedroom. Just after pulling out the cabinet, I saw a brick-sized intricately carved rosewood box. The precious rosewood has been around for some time, and the wood is black and shiny, with a small golden lock. , it seems that there is something very important in it.

Mu Siyue looked surprised, and carefully took out the red sandalwood box, staring at the intricate carving patterns, "It's Manzhushahua..."

Seeing the exquisite carving patterns clearly, Mu Siyue's hands trembled unconsciously while holding the red sandalwood box.

It's unlucky!

"What kind of flower can't be carved, but manjusawa..." Manjusawa, also known as the other shore flower, is the flower of the dead!
"What the hell is in here?"

Mu Siyue was even more curious, but there was a golden lock on the precious red sandalwood box, and Mu Siyue didn't dare to force it open, so she turned the box over and looked carefully.

"Why did Qi Nanyuan put this thing here? What's in it..." While muttering, Mu Siyue suddenly gave her a hand.

Looking at the back of the box in shock, someone wrote two words in red ink, Ai'er.

"This..." Mu Siyue felt a chill running down her back.

"Normal people can't write with a red brush, but the bright red characters are written on this precious black rosewood, like a spiritual tablet..."

Mu Siyue was startled, and quickly put the expensive red sandalwood box back to its original position.

But when she lowered her eyes, she saw that there was a yellowed photo at the bottom of the cabinet. She took out the photo, glanced at it, and frowned, "Is this a photo of a newborn baby?"

"Who is this?" Looking at the lower right corner of the yellowed photo, there is a small note where the time of the photo was taken, "The photo taken 28 years ago..."

"This little baby is Qi Rui?"

While Mu Siyue was thinking, there was suddenly the sound of eager footsteps outside the door. The sound of footsteps approached quickly and echoed throughout the corridor... She was shocked suddenly, and she was at a loss as to pack the red sandalwood box.

Looking around, there was already a figure walking in from the door, oops!
"Why did the door of the master bedroom open?" A strange and simple male voice sounded in the room.

The moment the man stepped into the room, Mu Siyue lifted the white cloth on the small sofa at the back, quickly hid herself, and held her breath nervously.

God, I pray that the other party will not come in again, otherwise he will definitely find something strange.

"The white cloth on the sofa in the bedroom seems to be shaking..." Another voice was curious, and walked straight towards Mu Siyue.

Mu Siyue panicked in her heart, shit, I've seen that man's expression from so far away...

What to do now, damn it, there are no servants in this North Court, how could it be so unlucky!

I just jumped out to explain, but no matter how I explain it, Mr. Qi and Qi Rui will be very dissatisfied if I break into the North Court without permission.

Just as Mu Siyue was thinking wildly, another older male servant reached out and grabbed another curious young man, "Don't go in, this is the bedroom where our master lived in before his death, we can't enter at will."

Looking around, in this spacious and luxurious bedroom, all the furniture is covered with white cloth. Because the windows have been closed tightly for many years, the air is full of dust, and there is also a dull and gloomy silence.

"...The white cloth over there really fluttered just now." The young man seemed to be a little afraid of the dead man's room, he retreated unconsciously, but his eyes were still fixed on Mu Siyue's direction.

"How about, let's talk to the housekeeper, and the downstairs door was unlocked when we came in, if someone comes in with malicious intentions to steal things..."

"Don't say that!" The older man snapped at him.

"That may be because you read it wrong. I don't see anything else." The male servant didn't dare to look directly at him, and he casually perfunctory.

"Xiao Chen, if you want to work properly in the Qi family, then don't worry about the affairs of the North Courtyard, especially Young Master Rui. Don't mention it to him. If you're at least dismissed, you'll have to be beaten and thrown out... North I have encountered the downstairs door of the courtyard unlocked several times, before Rui Shao often came over and did not close the door."

Hearing the elder's lesson, the other party asked curiously in a low voice, "Then the study next door is so messy, is it Mr. Rui? I thought it was a thief."

"Come on, ordinary people from our Qi family can't get in, even if they steal it, they won't come to the north courtyard..."

As he said that, the male servant turned around and looked towards the study, muttering, "Shao Rui came over on the night of the Lantern Festival this year and thundered and smashed the master's study in a rage. In the past, Shao Rui and the master had a very good relationship, but who knows what happened? As for the matter, I dare not say a word about it... In short, the North Courtyard is special as if it doesn't know anything."

Finally, the two glanced at the gloomy room, and quickly locked the door.

Mu Siyue lifted the white cloth, got out of the small sofa, and let out a long breath, "Fortunately, they were too timid to come in..."

But when his eyes fell on this locked dead man's bedroom, his heart still couldn't help shivering.

Get out now!

Because the layout of the villa in the north courtyard is the same as the layout of the east courtyard where she lives now, Mu Siyue is quite familiar with it. She directly opened the big glass door and walked to the balcony, carefully climbing the water pipes on the wall, and following the water pipes slide down.

Seeing that there was no one around, he immediately ran away.

"Why do you look like a thief, what is that in your hand?"

Just as Mu Siyue hurried back to the east courtyard with a look on her face, she happened to meet Mo Xiangwan in the lobby of the east courtyard.

When Mo Xiangwan asked about the things in her hands, Mu Siyue suddenly came back to her senses. The yellowed photo on her right hand was almost crumpled by her, "No, it's nothing." Forced to laugh.

"There are no rules at all. It would be impolite for servants to see you like this..." Mo Xiangwan gave her a lesson, as if he didn't want to chat with her, turned around and left.

"I was too nervous to bring this photo out just now..." Seeing Mo Xiangwan leave, Mu Siyue raised her head and looked in the direction of the North Courtyard, feeling a chill in her heart, "Just pretend you don't know, I don't want to go back That gloomy place."

Mu Siyue heard what the male servant said just now. He said that Qi Rui went to Qi Nanyuan's study on the night of Lantern Festival this year and was furious. He lowered his eyes and looked at the baby photo from 28 years ago in his hand again, feeling a little blocked for no reason.

"This year's Lantern Festival..." she murmured as she walked, and suddenly stopped, her face was shocked, "This year's Lantern Festival is the fifteenth day, the night when I gave birth prematurely!"

"Qi Rui, I want to ask you..."

Mu Siyue thought about it all afternoon, and finally couldn't hold it back anymore, and decided to call him to find out.

"I'm in a meeting, I won't go home for dinner tonight..." Qi Rui didn't give her a chance to speak, as if he was very busy, he hung up her phone.

Mu Siyue was used to him being so busy and ignoring herself, she sat cross-legged on the bed, suddenly her face became serious, she pursed her lips tightly, quickly grabbed her bag, and hid this old photo.

This matter cannot be mentioned to Qi Rui for the time being, he has always been sensitive to his father's affairs, maybe he can ask old man Qi about the red sandalwood box and this photo...

But things backfired, the next day Mu Siyue went back to the company sullenly, last night she impliedly asked Mr. Qi about Qi Nanyuan, but there was no clue.

Perhaps even Mr. Qi didn't know that there was a red sandalwood box engraved with strange manjus and sandalwoods that had been hidden in the master bedroom of the North Courtyard.

What is inside the rosewood box?

(End of this chapter)