Gu Xiaoqian probably also felt that Chu Tianyi's emotion was not pretending, thought for a while, and then asked, "Didn't your grandfather tell you about the past?" Or something about his youth? ”

Chu Tianyi shook his head a little disappointed.

Gu Xiaoqian showed a look of sympathy, frowned and fell silent, and nodded for a long time, "Okay, I believe you for the time being." It seems that your grandfather really didn't tell you anything. But I'm sure the secret box must be in your Chu family, I hope you can help me find it. I can't say anything else, I can only tell you that this secret box is extremely important, and you must find it! ”

Chu Tianyi was not in the mood to entangle these inexplicable things with this strange girl at this moment, he just wanted to send her away quickly, so he opened his mouth and promised, "Okay, I will." ”

Gu Xiaoqian nodded and walked towards the door. Just as she was about to go out, she suddenly turned her head to look at Chu Tianyi and said, "I hope you don't play tricks, I will keep an eye on you!" As she spoke, she raised her two fingers, pointed to her eyes, and then pointed at Chu Tianyi.

Looking at Gu Xiaoqian who was leaving, Chu Tianyi couldn't help but rub his head.

At night, Chu Tianyi tossed and turned, unable to sleep. As soon as you close your glasses, you can see grandpa's voice and smile. After lying down for a long time, Chu Tianyi looked at the time, and it was already one o'clock in the morning. He sat up, ready to get some water to drink.

Suddenly, he heard a strange movement outside. Chu Tianyi thought it was the wind at first, but after thinking about it again, he felt that something was not right, and he immediately became alert.

The house layout of the ancestral house is three rooms in the south and three rooms in the north, and the courtyard is in the middle. The north room is a hall and a bedroom. The south room is a kitchen and storage room. At this time, Chu Tianyi lived in the bedroom east of the north room.

Thinking back to the direction where the voice came from just now, Chu Tianyi judged that it came from the storage room in the south room.

Chu Tianyi put on his clothes and slowly opened the door and walked in the direction of the storage room. As he passed by the kitchen, he took the tongs from the wall in his hand.

Walking to the door of the storage room, Chu Tianyi took a deep breath and pushed the door open suddenly, but by the moonlight, he found that there was no one inside.

Chu Tianyi was not at ease, so he went in again to inspect it, but still did not find anything abnormal. He shook his head slightly, probably because he was too tired these days.

Chu Tianyi put back the fire tongs and returned to the bedroom, but when he walked into the door, he didn't know that in the dark corner of the courtyard, a pair of eyes were looking at him......

Early the next morning, Chu Tianyi took a car back to the city.

In front of his grandfather's antique shop, Chu Tianyi stood for a long time. In his heart, he still hasn't accepted the reality of his grandfather's death, and for a while he doesn't know how to face everything his grandfather left behind before his death.

Chu Tianyi looked up at a plaque hanging above the lintel of the antique shop, and the three big characters on it, "Xuyu Zhai", were still from his grandfather's handwriting.

At this time, a white-haired old man walked out of the store next door, and when he raised his eyes, he saw a person standing in a daze not far away, he was slightly stunned, and immediately blurted out: "Tianyi!" You're back! ”

Chu Tianyi came back to his senses, followed the prestige, and tears immediately flowed: "Uncle Tao, my grandfather ......" Halfway through the words, he couldn't say any more, and the suppressed sadness in his heart broke out again.

Uncle Tao's eyes turned red as soon as he walked over quickly, and stretched out his hand to hug Chu Tianyi with some trembling, "Good boy doesn't cry!" Don't cry! Come, first go to the uncle's house and sit down. ”

Uncle Tao has been their old neighbor for many years, and he opened a bun shop next to the antique shop, the same age as Chu Tianyi's grandfather, and the two brothers have been friends for many years.

Chu Tianyi sat down in Uncle Tao's shop, it was not a meal at this time, and there were no customers in the steamed bun shop.

Uncle Tao poured a glass of water for Chu Tianyi and sighed, "That day, I wanted to go to your grandfather to play chess, but as soon as I entered the door, I saw him fall to the ground, I quickly called 120, but, but, I didn't expect that the person still couldn't be saved." ”

Chu Tianyi wiped his tears, "Grandpa left too suddenly, I didn't even have time to see his old man for the last time." ”

The two of them talked about Chu Tianyi's grandfather, and they couldn't stop sighing.

Near noon, Uncle Tao's bun shop began to have diners, Chu Tianyi got up to say goodbye, and when he was about to go out, Uncle Tao stopped him, "Tianyi," he took out a key from his pocket, "After your grandfather was sent to the hospital, I was worried about losing things in the store, so I asked people to lock the door, this is the key, you take it." ”

"Thank you, uncle!" Chu Tianyi nodded and walked out.

Pushing open the door of the store, everything is so familiar, everything has been sorted out by the grandfather in an orderly manner, but it is already a person. Seeing the scene in front of him, Chu Tianyi's heart felt a burst of sadness.

Grandpa Chu Tianyi's antique shop is actually a pattern of front shop and back residence, and there is a small courtyard between the two. Chu Tianyi walked towards the bedroom in the back, and when he passed the courtyard, he accidentally found a lot of black powder floating on the ground.

Chu Tianyi looked around, and found a brazier in the corner of the courtyard, which contained a lot of burned ashes, and the black powder he saw just now was blown out from here.

Chu Tianyi squatted down curiously to check, seeing that the shape of the ashes should be some burned paper. Chu Tianyi frowned, and secretly thought, according to Uncle Tao, after Grandpa's accident, no one has come in here, so who burned these things? Could it be that grandpa burned it before the accident? So what did he burn? And why burn it?

It stands to reason that it is reasonable for ordinary people to burn some private documents involving money passwords and other private documents in order to avoid leakage. However, combined with the pinholes in his grandfather's palm, coupled with these details, although he couldn't tell the reason, he always felt that something was wrong.

Chu Tianyi casually picked up the wooden stick next to the brazier and turned over the ashes inside, but he didn't expect to find a corner of unburned paper at the bottom of the ashes, it seems that this is the corner of a certain photo, the photo is black and white, obviously the age of the photo is relatively old.

Chu Tianyi stretched out his hand and put it in front of his eyes to take a closer look, because there was only a small part of the photo left, he couldn't clearly distinguish the content of the photo, from the image on this corner, he could only roughly see that there were rocks exposed in a corner of the land, and mountains and the sky in the distance.

I don't know if this is a landscape photo or a person photography, Chu Tianyi searched his memory, but he didn't remember seeing similar photos. He thought about it for a moment and pocketed the picture.

Chu Tianyi got up and walked into the hall at the back, where a sandbag was still hanging. I recall that when I practiced boxing here, my grandfather often sat next to him, smiling and watching. On the right is Grandpa's bedroom, Chu Tianyi walked in slowly, he sat on the bed gently, sat for a long time, just sat quietly, motionless......

It wasn't until the sun set in the west that Chu Tianyi heard someone in the store outside, "Tianyi! ”

Hearing that this was Uncle Tao's voice, Chu Tianyi got up and walked to the front, and Uncle Tao handed him a cage of steamed buns, "I guess you don't have the heart to cook on fire now, so let's eat some steamed buns." ”

Chu Tianyi nodded and thanked him movingly, Uncle Tao patted him on the shoulder, and the old man had the heart to comfort Chu Tianyi, but in the end he didn't speak, waved his hand and turned around to leave.

Chu Tianyi looked at Uncle Tao's back and suddenly remembered something, "Uncle Tao, you wait." ”

Uncle Tao turned around, "What's wrong Tianyi?" ”

Chu Tianyi pondered for a moment and asked, "Uncle Tao, has anyone ever been here in the past few days when my grandfather has been away?" ”

Uncle Tao thought for a moment and shook his head, "The day your grandfather was sent to the hospital, I locked the door, the key was with me, and others couldn't get in." What's wrong with Tianyi? Is there something wrong? ”

Chu Tianyi was worried that Uncle Tao would misunderstand, so he hurriedly waved his hand, "No, no, I'm just asking, after all, my grandfather left suddenly, and I'm worried that he won't have anything to deal with." ”

Uncle Tao nodded, and suddenly said, "Hey, by the way, when you said that, I remembered, just last night, when I was about to close the store, I saw a person standing in front of your store." ”