Zhen Jiabao understood what Helian Quan wanted to talk to his grandfather for, but presumably Helian Quan would not tell his grandfather what Zheng He did back then, and he thought of the phone call He received before.

Helian Quan's appetite is not very good, Zhen Jiabao has already eaten so many small snacks in the kitchen and the old man's study in advance, and the old man is even more dissatisfied with the light dishes in front of him, so the lunch of the three of them ended quickly, and the old man saw Helian Quan's heavy and serious face and took the two directly to the study, but Zhen Jiabao was obedient and felt that he should not be present, so he slipped away early.

"This girl is sensible and sensible, but what can avoid her in the conversation between me and you, and you can tell her not to be so restrained when you have time."

The old man watched Zhen Jiabao run away like a rabbit, laughing and complaining to Helian Quan.

Helian Quan also smiled faintly, but the smile was very shallow and almost nothing, and after closing the study door, he half-knelt down in front of his grandfather.

"Grandpa, in fact, I said that I wanted to talk to you about the Zheng family, but I didn't want to talk about who the Zheng family is now."

Helian Quan thought about what was wrong with his grandfather in this matter, so he made up a story that Zheng He saw Helian Wei pursuing Zheng Feiran, so he promised to let the two get married, and pushed the boat down the river to explain what Zheng Feiran was looking for with the Lian family.

"Although I knew that your parents were not in love, I didn't know that your mother didn't really marry here voluntarily, and it was my uncompetitive son who hurt the scarlet for a lifetime......

Grandpa has been haunted by what Helian Quan's parents have experienced for so many years, even if Helian Quan's mother has been gone for so many years, she has been forcing Helian Quan's father not to marry other women into the door, which can be regarded as a little persistence and guilt of the old man.

At this time, when he heard the events of the original year and the inside story, the old man's heart was mixed, and he was too lazy to eat even the crispy nuts.

"The things of the year have passed, but I still can't figure out what the Zheng family is working so hard for, and even can use their own daughter as a bargaining chip in exchange."

The old man was also a little confused when he heard Helian Quan's words, after all, when the old man came to Sicily with the Helian family's army, he was still a young man, so he didn't know enough about the connection between the family and the Zheng family.

Helian Quan echoed his aunt's explanation on the phone and muttered: "According to the Zheng family, it means that there is something hidden in our house, which is an agreement between the ancestors and the Zheng family when they came to Sicily, and if the Zheng family has the idea of emigrating overseas or moving in China, they must get that kind of thing." ”

Helian Quan was also puzzled when he heard it, after all, he didn't know what the relationship between the Helian family and the Zheng family was back then, so that the Zheng family would be willing to put something of such great significance in the hands of the Helian family.

And the Zheng family's statement is really too far-fetched, even if that thing has extraordinary significance to the Zheng family, after all, it is just a dead thing that fell into the hands of the Helian family, they want to emigrate or migrate, so why do they need to send someone over to steal it, while pretending to be very obedient to the rules of the year.

“…… I seem to understand pretty much what's going on. ”

The old man grabbed a handful of pine nuts and peeled them carefully in his hand, and the thin skin on the outside of the nuts fell on the chessboard and was blown away by the wind.

"I didn't quite match your grandfather when I was young, and the development of the Zheng family and the Helian family was not much different at that time, and the relationship between the two families was not bad at that time, so my grandfather and I were often compared to each other."

The old man saved seven or eight pine nuts in the palm of his hand, gathered them into a small pile, poured them into his mouth and ate them, and then frowned.

"In this way, if he really wants to emigrate, it is not good to open his mouth to me and think about it

Isn't this the only thing that can come up with this bad idea, is it really ...... This old guy. ”

The grievances of his youth seem to have reached the point where there is still no way to resolve them easily, and grandpa still scoffs at Zheng He when he talks about it, and he thinks he is stupid when he hears that he actually makes such a stupid move in order not to ask for something from himself.

"Now that I think about it, it should be like this, but now that the master of the Zheng family is sick in bed, I think I should tell him what that thing is, so that he can fulfill his thoughts."

It also fulfilled one of my thoughts, Helian Quan silently added in his heart, and he was also curious about something that killed his mother in some way.

The old man heard what Helian Quan meant, frowned and thought for a few seconds before turning over a past event from the depths of his memory, and then slapped his thigh.

"In this way, this thing should be the box that your great-grandfather left me back then, and your great-grandfather once told me that the box was put here by the Zheng family, and someone will take it back in the future."

The old man pondered carefully and determined that in all his memories, there was only this one thing that could be linked to the Zheng family, but his father did not tell him that there were still constraints that made the Zheng family unable to immigrate.

"The Zheng family doesn't know what this thing is, if you're not mistaken, it should be this thing, where are you putting that thing now?"

Helian Quan is now a little impatient to see the true face of that thing, and wants to know what Zheng He was so ruthless about giving up his biological daughter back then.

The old man thought for a while before he said uncertainly: "If you want to say that although there were not as many treasures of our Helian family back then, they were not old or young, and that box and the previous antiques were put together, and now they should be put in the warehouse." ”

The old man was also interested, and immediately took out a set of keys from the cabinet, and asked the old housekeeper to lead him and Helian Quan to the treasury together.

It is said to be a warehouse, but in fact, it can already be called a small museum, and all kinds of exquisite and luxurious antiques are placed together in a staggered manner, carefully covered by a glass cover, and it gives birth to an awe-inspiring and inoffensive posture of ice and snow, as if it will shatter at the touch of it.

The area of the warehouse is quite large, but fortunately, the old man still vaguely remembers when the box was put into the warehouse, so it didn't take long to find it under the guidance of the old housekeeper.

The box, which was said to be very meaningful to the Zheng family, did not even look as bright as the box where the old man usually put nuts, it was just an ordinary black gold-painted box, on which a strange shape was faintly drawn with thin red lines.

Like a totem or some kind of symbol, because the paint used is dark red, it looks very blurry and dull against the black paint, and it is easy to ignore if you don't distinguish it carefully under the light.

But it happened that Helian Quan saw the pattern at a glance, and then his mind went blank for two seconds, and the whole person seemed to have been pressed for two or three seconds, and there seemed to be something flashing in front of him, but he couldn't catch it when he reached out to grab it.

"Young Master, what's wrong with you, Young Master?"

The old butler's voice dragged Helian Quan's thoughts back, and Helian Quan realized that his palms were already soaked in just two or three seconds, and his body was full of tiredness.

This feeling was so confusing that Helian Quan didn't have time to pay attention to the worried words of the old housekeeper and his grandfather, and took two steps forward and stretched out his hand to try to touch the pattern on the box.

I don't know if it's Helian Quan's illusion, he always feels that the pattern seems to carry part of the memory of his childhood, Helian Quan closed his eyes and tried to recall the picture that flashed in front of his eyes within two or three seconds of this emptiness, as if there was indeed the appearance of this totem.

"Young master, otherwise, let's go back to the study first, bring this box over, let's sit down and talk slowly."

Both the old butler and the old man were given by Helian Quan's performance

Frightened, Helian Quan relieved himself, took a deep breath for a while to lower the boiling heartbeat rate, and then smiled bitterly.

"Let's go."

After returning to the study, Helian Quan almost couldn't wait to hold the box in his hand and take a closer look, the patterns on the box were very complicated, and Helian Quan's well-informed eyes could not see what it meant.

But Helian Quan inexplicably believed that this pattern was definitely not a work under casual graffiti, and after asking his grandfather and getting a negative answer, Helian Quan had to leave this pattern behind for the time being.

The opening key of this box has always been hanging on the old man's keychain, because since Helian Quan's mother died, the Zheng family has unilaterally severed all relations with the Helian family, so the old man simply didn't think that they could come to take this box for so many years, and let this box be refrigerated in the warehouse for so many years.

Helian Quan stuffed the key into the delicate little lock hanging on the box, opened the lock with a slight twist, and then opened the box lightly, and found that what was lying inside was not the so-called Zheng family heirloom and the like that he imagined, let alone the signing document with Helian family.

Rather, it is a pile of yellowed and brittle paper, which should be mimeographed paper, and judging by the texture and fragility of those papers, it has been at least nearly a hundred years old.

Helian Quan carefully picked up the first piece of paper and looked at it in his hand, the handwriting on it was a little illegible after so many years, and Helian Quan could only vaguely see that it was an underground mineral research report when he got closer.

What is this?

Helian Quan was even more excited, holding this piece of paper in his hand and looking at it carefully, even breathing lightly and slowly, for fear that any breath would blow away the fragile piece of paper.

This first piece of paper was obviously used as the cover of the research report, and in addition to the large characters of the research report, it was the signature of two different handwritings, one surnamed Helian and the other surnamed Zheng.

It seems that this box contains the remains of a project that Helian family and Zheng family did together, and the names of those two people are also familiar to Helian Quan, who are the respective fathers of his grandfather and Zheng He, that is, the heads of the two families back then.

And in the lower right corner of this cover, there is also a mark drawn with a pen that is exactly the same as the totem on the box, and now it seems that this should be a special pattern representing this research, Helian Quan put down the paper lightly, looked up cautiously at the old man who had not known for so many years, and did not know what to say.

"What's in it that makes you look so weird."

The old man looked at Helian Quan's strange face, and thought to himself that this box would not contain the IOU that the Zheng family borrowed money from Helian's family back then.

If that's the case, then it makes sense, no wonder the Zheng family must send someone over to steal things.

The old man, who didn't think about things in a complicated way, blew his beard and glared at him, deeply feeling the chicken thief of the old man of the Zheng family.

"Grandpa, this is an underground energy inspection report, I'm afraid that the two families were working together to study this back then."

Helian Quan handed the paper to the old man, and the old man hurriedly put on reading glasses and held the paper in front of him to look at it carefully, although the old man has stopped asking about the world for so many years, but after all, he is the person who made Helian family completely gain a foothold in Sicily, and after a little thought, he understood the cause and effect.

"Back then, the Helian family and the Zheng family were indeed very good for a while, although I was not very old at the time, but I could vaguely remember that there seemed to be some cooperation, I really didn't expect it to be so big back then."

The old man put the piece of paper aside, and the old god said, "I think the content behind this may be that the research is not successful or there is a lack of funds, so there is no way to continue the cooperation...... That shouldn't be able to support this research, so this agreement between the two families may be to restart this research one day, but I don't know why Zheng He and I don't know about it. ”

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