hotmtlnovel Chapter 683 Gu Family
Chapter 683 Gu Family
The red box lay quietly in the closet, the dust on its surface almost covering its original color.
Gu Chaoxi bent down and carefully moved the box out.
The accumulated dust was like a bunch of tattered cotton wool, rolling down in a corner of the box.
She took a deep breath and raised her hand to fiddle with the lock on it.
The lock was just hanging down and not locked, so it was simply flipped upwards and the box was opened.
Pei Yan moved forward and lowered his eyes to look at the things in the box. Since the wooden box had been covered, the things inside looked clean.
However, because no one has used it for many years, it looks very old.
There were a pile of envelopes, next to which was a box that looked like a glasses case, and on top was a bracelet.
The bracelet is made of crystal, but because no one has used it for a long time, it seems that it has lost its luster and looks gray.
Gu Chaoxi pursed her lips in silence, raised her hand to take the bracelet out, rubbed it lightly with her fingertips, and saw the original color of the crystal, light pink mixed with white.
It was quite pretty, but after she thought about it carefully, she decided that the bracelet should be insignificant.
So he reached in and took out the envelope.
There were quite a lot of envelopes, a thick stack in my hand, and there looked to be more than thirty of them.
What’s strange is that the signature on the lower right corner of each envelope is Gu Chenyang.
"Did he send you a letter?" Pei Yan picked up the top envelope and frowned slightly.
Gu Zhaoxi shook his head: "No."
At least, in Gu Chaoxi's own impression, Gu Chenyang had never sent her a letter, never.
Even during those years when he often disappeared, he never sent any letters or anything like that to Gu Chaoxi. He would usually tell her when he was about to disappear that he had something to do and would be away for a while.
It was also at that time that she was careless and never thought carefully about what Gu Chenyang was doing.
Pei Yan raised his hand to sweep away the thin dust on it, and looked at the mottled handwriting: "It looks like it's been a long time, or maybe he didn't send it out, and it's all stored here."
This is possible.
Gu Chaoxi picked up a letter and opened the envelope. There was only a piece of writing paper inside.
Unfolding the letter paper, Gu Chenyang's handwriting was visible. The black ink had turned a little gray over time.
She lowered her head and looked at the contents on the letter, her brows slightly furrowed.
Pei Yan smacked his lips: "Do you usually communicate in encrypted form like this?"
What was written on the letter paper were not Chinese characters, but some numbers, numbers with no regular pattern, which seemed to make no sense.
Gu Chaoxi nodded, said nothing, and watched carefully.
This was a little game that Gu Chenyang and her used to play, using numbers to represent a Chinese character, so that the two siblings could communicate in encrypted form.
She had asked before why this was done, and Gu Chenyang said that it was to train her observation skills.
"No, it's just that the games I played before can indeed encrypt communication."
Only the two siblings knew the meaning of the Chinese characters represented by the numbers.
This game was played a long time ago. If Gu Chaoxi didn’t have a good memory, he really wouldn’t be able to remember it.
She read the letters one by one and did not tell Pei Yan what was written on them.
Because almost every letter begins with the same words, "Morning and evening, don't let anyone know the contents of the letter."
She turned her head to look at Pei Yan, and finally swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth.
Since my brother wrote this way, there must be a reason for it.
The letter elaborated a lot about the contents of the inner world. Gu Chaoxi read it with a frown on his face, his thoughts turning over in his mind a thousand times.
There was a sudden rustling sound outside. Gu Chaoxi subconsciously raised his hand to cover the envelope and turned to look towards the door of the room.
The windows of this room have been closed all year round, so you can no longer see inside or outside. Therefore, the only thing you can see directly into the room is the door.
Pei Yan also turned his head to look at the door. The sound was very light, as if someone was tiptoeing in.
After three seconds of silence, Pei Yan stood up from the ground, and Gu Chaoxi quickly put all the envelopes together and put them in the box.
The two walked towards the door together, and the sound got closer.
"Who?" Pei Yan raised his hand in a defensive posture and rushed out of the room.
"Ah!" The person outside was startled and almost fell to the ground.
Gu Chaoxi poked his head out from behind Pei Yan and looked at the person outside who had taken a few steps back. He frowned slightly and said, "Gu Jin? Why are you here?"
The man was looking at Pei Yan with a wary look on his face, and was about to raise the shovel in his hand. But when he saw Gu Chaoxi, he breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's you. I thought this house could still be thieved after so many years of being unoccupied! I was almost scared to death."
"Why are you here?" Gu Chaoxi pulled Pei Yan back and shook his head.
She knew this person and they were from the same family.
"Why can't I be here?" Gu Jin pouted, a little unhappy, fiddling with the shovel in his hand: "This is my home, where else can I be if I'm not here?"
"You know what I'm asking." There was no smile on her face as she stared at Gu Jin.
In his early years, Gu Jin was sent to Haicheng City to go to school, and a house was bought for him there. There was no reason for him to return to this place.
The development here is not good, and most of the people in the village are elderly. What's the point?
What is he, a young man, doing in the village?
Seeing that he couldn’t hide it from Gu Chaoxi, Gu Jin waved his hands helplessly.
"Brother Chenyang asked me to come back two years ago. He said he had some things stored in the house and asked me to guard it and not let anyone else in."
"So, I just keep an eye on it every day. I live on the small hill opposite. If there is anything unusual about the house, I can find it immediately."
"I saw the car outside, so I came here quickly."
After Gu Jin finished explaining, he shrugged helplessly: "As for my living expenses in the village, Brother Chenyang will transfer it to my card every month."
"Never stopped?" Gu Chaoxi realized something was wrong.
Gu Jin continued to nod: "No, although I don't know how he operated before he died, but I still receive 10,000 yuan in my account every month."
This was strange. Gu Chaoxi turned his head to look inside the room and lowered his eyes slightly.
Most of Gu Chenyang’s money was kept in her account. Was the money transferred to Gu Jin in a separate account?
But when I went to cancel his account, the bank didn’t tell me there was another account?
What's more, she only now knew what Gu Chenyang asked Gu Jin to do.
Why couldn't you tell her in advance?
Is there anything else that Gu Chenyang wants to explain in those unread envelopes?
She bit her lip and turned to walk into the room.
Gu Jin raised his hand and wanted to say something, but was looked at by Pei Yan and gave up.
In a moment, Gu Chaoxi came out holding a red box.
"Ayan, let's go."
"By the way, you don't have to guard here anymore. Just go do what you need to do."