3. The Mystery Key
Back at home, Shen Ye put the box and gold on the table, looking at this and that, and there were more and more problems in his mind.
It turns out that the puzzle in the fairy tale book has meaning, and the riddle "playing a little money" actually refers to these two pieces of gold, but his father looked poor when he was alive, not like a rich man at all, and he is his only son, if there is money, why use this method to hide?
He began to realize that his father was not as simple as he seemed, and that he must be a man with a story.
Suddenly, he noticed a thin slit on the edge of the box, he fumbled for a while, and opened it with a force, and the box turned out to have a mezzanine. There are two envelopes inside, one of which reads: Wu'er Shen Ye Shu.
His eyes widened, was this a letter that his father had left for him?
He reads:
Leaves:
When you read this letter, you must have solved the riddle. It's not that I want to play tricks, I've accumulated some wealth in my life, but I'm conflicted, I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse to leave you. My life experience tells me that wealth has nothing to do with happiness, and that having more money may harm you, but it is better to live an ordinary life. But after all, it is my life's work, you are my heir, and I am unwilling not to leave it to you. Besides, people's fates are different, I can't grasp it well, but you can't grasp it either?
The fact that you can solve this riddle shows that you have good mind and luck, which gives me some confidence, so I am happy to play this game with you. Of course, if you don't want to play, it doesn't matter, this bit of gold is my gift, and it is better to sell it to improve my life.
Children, we must remember that no matter how much money you have, it is something outside the body, and the most important thing in life is peace and joy in your heart. I am ashamed of you for my father's life, and I don't want you to get ahead, but I ask you to live a happy life in peace. Then I should also be blind under the nine springs.
Father: Shen Zhongqi
Unique
There is no date on the letter, and it is estimated that it was written by my father before his death. Although it was only a few words, Shen Ye couldn't help but think of his father's kindness and kindness when he was alive, and his eyes were a little wet.
He opened another envelope and saw another puzzle:
Iron lost in half
It's a lot of fun
I love Nini
Life
(for a small penny)
"What strange riddle?" Shen Ye thought for a long time and didn't have a clue, but he was sure that this riddle was definitely made by his father, because his father had said that his mother's Ye Yun's nickname was Nini.
He suddenly noticed that there was something on the edge of the box, and he picked it with a toothpick, and there was a square key sandwiched between the flannel cloth, like a small cross, and the pattern on the front end was very special, like the pattern used to open the lock.
"What's this?" He looked at it again and again for a long time and had no clue, and there were many problems in his mind, and after a long time, he fell asleep leaning on the head of the bed in a daze.
I don't know how long he slept, he was woken up by a knock on the door, got up and saw that the gold box was still on the table, and hurriedly put the quilt into the quilt and went to open the door.
Standing outside the door was the chubby landlady, who said angrily: "Classmate Shen, your rent is due this month." β
Shen Ye thought about it, he was chased by Zhao Xu's gang last night, and the money his goods were still sandwiched in the stall for a long time, not to mention that the money was not enough to pay the rent.
"Lady, I'm still a little tight right now, look ......"
"What am I looking at?" She said angrily: "You still owe it last month, listen, I'll give you three more days at most, otherwise you will leave." After saying that, he twisted his chubby ass and walked away.
Shen Ye let out a long breath, where would he go to get money at this time and a half? Finally, his gaze stopped at the gold box. He didn't want to sell it, he wanted to find out where it came from, but he was about to sleep on the flyover, and he remembered that his father's letter said that it was to improve his life.
With this in mind, he took a gold brick in his pocket, and carefully hid the other box under the bed and went out.
He is in a large first-tier city, the trading market is active, there is a regular gold exchange not far from his home, after he entered, he asked the staff of the gold exchange to help him identify.
"It's a 2.5 kilogram piece of raw gold. The condition is not bad. After the staff appraised it, he said, "Are you going to sell it?" β
"Yes. How much can it sell? β
"The current market price is 267,000 yuan per kilogram, deducting commissions and personal taxes, which is about 240,000 yuan, if you sell it, I will give you this number." He writes down a number.
"630,000!" He tried his best to pretend that nothing was happening, but his fingers were already tightened, which was no less than an astronomical amount for him to calculate his living expenses in a few dollars and cents a day. He gritted his teeth: "I'll sell!" β
The transaction was very smooth, the other party transferred money successfully within a few minutes after submitting the account, looking at the numbers in the card and thinking that he was still penniless in the morning, he had a feeling of dreaming, and he didn't know that this was reality until he took out the banknote from the ATM.
He took two thousand yuan, and the first thing he did was to pay the rent quickly, and he was really afraid of the landlady who was more tigress than a tigress. However, as soon as the money was handed over, he only had a few dozen dollars left, but now that he had money in the card, he didn't panic.
"It's a good feeling to be rich." He rejoiced and strode towards the school.
In class today, he had no mind at all, thinking about the riddle on the note in the box, what does it mean to "lose half of the iron, full of fun"? After thinking about it, he thought he should start with that key.
He remembered that there was an old locksmith with a key at the school gate, who was said to have been a locksmith for decades, and he went to this old man with the attitude of giving it a try.
"Master, I heard that you are an experienced old craftsman, I would like to ask you to take a look at this key."
The locksmith stopped the key he was dispensing, took it to his hand and looked at it, "This is the key to the safe." β
"Why do you say that?"
"You see, the pattern on it is actually a special code, that is, it has to cooperate with the password to unlock, the first to produce this kind of key is a foreign company called the Golden Samurai safe, from its shape has been many years. You see, there's also the Golden Samurai logo here. β
Shen Ye looked down, and sure enough, there was a small samurai logo holding a shield at the bottom. Then he asked, "Do you know where it locked?" β
"How do I know that? However, this kind of key should be specially made, judging from the grinding on the top, it is mass-produced, and there should be uniform specifications on the appearance, so the key of the bank safe is more likely. It's just that the products of the Golden Samurai are global, and it is difficult to say which bank it is. β
"Thank you."
After Shen Ye left the locksmith, he was thinking about whether it could really be the bank key when he suddenly heard the owner of a small store next to him shouting: "Hey, what kind of flower is this?" He asked, pointing to a beautiful pot of flowers next door.
The neighbor said, "I don't know it either, but I bought it back just because it was beautiful." β
"You take a picture and check it on the Internet."
"yes, I'm going to look it up later."
The speaker was unintentional, Shen Ye patted his head when he heard it, "Why did you forget that this is the Internet era." β
He immediately rushed home, took a photo of the key, and asked on the Internet: "Does anyone know which bank's safe key this is?" β
The information of the Internet era is incredible, within a few minutes, a netizen who claimed to be a bank staff replied to him, "I don't know which one is specific, but it must be the depositor safe key, this type of key is no longer produced, and the current locks are electromagnetic locks with electricity, unless it is a relatively old foreign bank that still uses this key." β
"Thank you." Shen Ye gave him all the reward points for answering the questions.
The scope has narrowed down again - foreign banks, he searched the Internet for the current foreign banks in China, but the number is not small, and maybe the key belongs to a foreign bank? When I think about it, I feel like I'm looking for a needle in a haystack.
He searched on the Internet for a long time and his stomach growled, only to remember that he hadn't eaten at noon, so he came to eat a fast food outside the school, he ate and ate, and accidentally glanced across the street, and suddenly he stopped, and his eyes straightened.
Opposite is a foreign bank, "Jinyue Bank" from the United States.
"Jin, Yue. Half of the iron is lost, isn't it next to the gold? Isn't it joy to be very happy? Jin Yue, oops, it's Jin Yue! He happily slapped the table, startling the rest of the diners.
He hurriedly took out his mobile phone and searched the encyclopedia knowledge of Jinyue Bank, only to know that Jinyue was one of the earliest foreign banks to enter the country, and at the beginning because of the maximum margin of 1.9 billion US dollars to the government became the headline news in the industry, during the financial tsunami of 2oo9 to 2o1o, due to the impact of market turmoil, almost withdrew from the Chinese market, but then got the financial support of unknown sources to persevere, and is now a leader in domestic and foreign banks.
Coincidentally, Jinyue Bank, located opposite Orange Star College, is the headquarters of the general affairs agency in China and the office of the Bank of China.
He was so excited that he didn't eat and walked to the bank, and when he entered the bank, he became uneasy, after all, he had never opened a depositor's safe in the bank.
He consulted with the front desk lady, "Miss, I have a key to the safe that my father left me, but he has passed away, and I want to know how to use it." β
"Please show me the key."
After handing over the key, he asked the lady and said, "This kind of key belongs to the key of our VIP customer locker, please come with me." β
She took him to the counter to fill out a detailed form, checked his identity with his father in detail through the guΓ² network, and finally said after several steps: "You can now enter the depositor's room." β
After two rounds of security checks, the staff took him to the basement storage room, where there were nearly 300 safes for storing depositors' valuables, and one was found according to the number on the key.
"You can pick the lock now, please note that you can stay here for a maximum of ten minutes." After speaking, the staff left first, saying that they would not peep into the privacy of customers.
But when Shen Ye stretched out the key to the safe, he was immediately dumbfounded, because an eight-digit password had to be entered on it.
"Oops." He scratched his head, what was the password? He was in a hurry, seeing that the time was passing minute by minute, and he only had ten minutes.
He thought of the last two sentences of the puzzle: I love Nini for the rest of my life.
"Could it be a homonym?" He gritted his teeth, "No matter, let's treat a dead horse as a live horse doctor." β
"I love Nini for the rest of my lifeβ52oo, 1314."
He pressed the eight digits, and with a click, the safe was truly open.
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